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On this day in 1967 the Marc Chagall production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte was unveiled at the Met, featuring the debut of soprano Lucia Popp as the Queen of the Night.
2022-07-04 14:09:29
Gustav Mahler, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: July 4, 2022. Mahler. Gustav Mahler was born this week, on July 7th of 1860. We freely admit that for us Mahler remains one of the most important and beloved composers and that he has been so for a long time. This is rather unusual, as other composers of genius (and there were many in the last several hundred years) drift in and out, becoming more important and then receding somewhat as tastes change and other music periods come to the fore (take, for example, the overwhelmingly Romantic piano repertoire of the mid-20th century, now being performed sparingly). To think of it, this is unusual for a composer who wrote just nine full symphonies, part of a tenth, a symphony/song cycle (Das Lied von der Erde), and several other song cycles – that’s practically it. All of Mahler’s music could be played in less than 20 […]
2022-07-04 14:06:44
Gustav Mahler, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: July 4, 2022. Mahler. Gustav Mahler was born this week, on July 7th of 1860. We freely admit that for us Mahler remains one of the most important and beloved composers and that he has been so for a long time. This is rather unusual, as other composers of genius (and there were many in the last several hundred years) drift in and out, becoming more important and then receding somewhat as tastes change and other music periods come to the fore (take, for example, the overwhelmingly Romantic piano repertoire of the mid-20th century, now being performed sparingly). To think of it, this is unusual for a composer who wrote just nine full symphonies, part of a tenth, a symphony/song cycle (Das Lied von der Erde), and several other song cycles – that’s practically it. All of Mahler’s music could be played in less than 20 […]
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