Gustav Mahler

“Mahler is very extravagant. Mahler is in your face. Mahler is really too much!”–Arved AshbyToo much of a good thing is wonderful. Just ask Arved Ashby,…

Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler is one of the longest symphonies in the standard repertoire. There may be a few longer ones out there, but this "hymn to…

April 22 is Earth Day and a time when I'm more inclined to reflect on how interconnected the natural world and all life really is. I'm not referring…

At a time when we have become immune to shock and where hyperbole rules, Marin Alsop argues that Mahler's Sixth Symphony provides the perfect soundtrack.

When Late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completed his First Symphony in 1888, he called it "Titan," thinking of it as a large five-movement…

It isn’t every day that one has a chance to work with a giant. Learning of the death Tuesday of Pierre Boulez brought back memories of the living legend…

On November 10, 1909 in New York City, Gustav Mahler sat down at a harpsichord and led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of his own arrangement…

I tend to think of certain orchestras as "Mahler orchestras." The New York Philharmonic is one such orchestra because Gustav Mahler himself was its music…

I was recently reading "The Face on Your Plate" by Jeffrey Mousaieff Masson, who has written eloquently about the emotional lives of animals in other…

If you Listen to Symphony at 7 on weekday evenings on WOSU-89.7, you know there's a lot of Gustav Mahler going on. This past week (July, 7) marked the…