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Mahler's Body

Seesaw wrote 3 days ago: By David Schiff in The Nation Saturated with lachrymose melodies, dirgelike rhythms and the ghastly, … more →

Tags: Music, Art

How do non-musicians hear music? Fourth movement

davidpickett wrote 3 days ago: EMI have issued a new recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic orche … more →

Tags: Music, Listening to Music, La Grange, Ninth Symphony, Simon Rattle, toblach

our bodies are weak

pensum wrote 3 days ago: Infirma nostri corporis (article on Mahler) … more →

Tags: Music, Alma Mahler, GROPIUS, Klimt

How do non-musicians hear music? Third movement

davidpickett wrote 1 week ago: Daniel Barenboim talks about Gustav Mahler The conductor Daniel Barenboim has given an interview abo … more →

Tags: Music, Listening to Music, Beethoven, Bruno Walter, daniel barenboim, Futwängler, giulini, Klemperer, Mengelberg

Mahler's "version" of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony2 comments

davidpickett wrote 2 weeks ago: Hans Schliessmann: Mahler Conducting in Vienna I have spent a lot of time over the past ten years pr … more →

Tags: Music, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Arnold Schönberg, Beethoven, IGMG, International Gustav Mahler Society, Ninth Symphony, Retuschen

Links We Like: Beethoven for Breakfast

fttintern wrote 2 weeks ago: Good and Good for You: It’s Beethoven’s 5th Symphony – in Japanese?! Watch th … more →

Tags: Great Links, Zuhal Sultran, National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, NYOI, Shanghia Taro Dance Company, asagohan, Universal Edition, Georgia Stitt, absolute pitch

How do non-musicians hear music? First movement

davidpickett wrote 3 weeks ago: The hut in Toblach in which Gustav Mahler composed his Ninth Symphony A long time ago, before I real … more →

Tags: Music, Listening to Music, Symphony No. 9, Martin Buber, Reading Music

"My time will come"

davidpickett wrote 4 weeks ago: Gustav Mahler 1898 “My time will come!” This is an often-quoted remark of the composer G … more →

Tags: Music, My Time Will Come, Beethoven, Ferdinand Pfohl, Mahler's Seventh Symphony, Richard Strauss

Mahler and Symphony No.6

Tel wrote 1 month ago: Classical Music Lounge Dateline May 27, 1906. Gustav Mahler conducts the first performance of his Sy … more →

Tags: Orchestral, symphonies, Mahler, Mahler Symphony No. 6

The Joffrey's gender studies.1 comment

trailerpilot wrote 1 month ago: With an engaging, young new director at the helm, a giant showpiece facility just opened downtown, a … more →

Tags: Reviews, Joffrey Ballet, Gerald Arpino, Jiri Kylian, william forsythe, christopher wheeldon, Vaslav Nijinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Michael Smith

Goethe's Faust and The Beatles' Abbey Road4 comments

stockyturtle wrote 1 month ago: This is a topic first introduced to me by one of my college professors in a Gustav Mahler seminar. … more →

Tags: Album Review, CURIOSITIES, Music, musings, Philosophy, Quote, Recommendations, writing, Abbey Road

An Earth Day tribute to Kathleen Ferrier1 comment

drammapermusica wrote 2 months ago: Kathleen Ferrier In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd is also the birthday of the great Englis … more →

Tags: Kathleen Ferrier, Das Lied von der Erde, Bruno Walter

The Ninth Symphony

pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The Ninth Symphony is the last work, that Mahler has finished. Like „Das Lied von der Erde”, M … more →

Tags: wonderings, Das Lied von der Erde, Kindertotenlieder, the ninth symphony

The Eighth Symphony

pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The Eight Symphony , also called „Die Symphonie der Tausend”, reckons with four-part double ch … more →

Tags: wonderings, Die Symphonie der Tausend, Goethe's Faust II, Hrabanus Maurus of Mainz, The Eighth Symphony

The Seventh Symphony

pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The Seventh brings the liberation from the mental agony of the Sixth Symphony. Here, no struggles we … more →

Tags: wonderings, The Seventh Symphony

The Sixth Symphony

pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The programmatic content of this symphony can be described as the struggle for existence of the want … more →

Tags: wonderings, Alma Schindler, The Sixth Symphony

The Fourth Symphony

pica10 wrote 3 months ago: Initially, the first movement was called „Die Welt als ewige Jetztzeit” and is so a pendant to … more →

Tags: wonderings, The Fourth Symphony, Die Welt als ewige Jetztzeit, Freund Hein spielt auf, Sehr zufahrend, wie eine Fiedel

The Third Symphony

pica10 wrote 3 months ago: In 1895/96, Mahler composed the symphony in D Minor with alto solo, women’s and boys’ ch … more →

Tags: wonderings, The Third Symphony, Friedrich Nietzsche, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Also Sprach Zarathustra

Gammelt nytt4 comments

steinskog wrote 3 months ago: [Som jeg tidligere har skrevet om flere ganger hender det at jeg skriver musikkommentarer i Bergens … more →

Tags: Musikk, Adaptasjoner, Medier, Jewishness, Bergen, Humaniora, sound, konsert, geir jenssen


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