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Gustav Mahler

Horn player trumpeting some 'serious fun'

The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.'' Presented by Tigertail Productions, the Dutch native's trio, Fugimundi, hits Miami Beach's Byron Carlyle Theater on Friday night -- the second stop on the...

Phantoms of the San Francisco Opera

Ghostly visions abound in San Francisco Opera’s last two productions, namely Erich Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt and The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Stewart Wallace. Both stories deal with the loss of a loved one and the age-old human...

Concert offers comfort in uneasy times

By Chris Kocher • Press & Sun-Bulletin • October 2, 2008 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky started writing his Symphony No. 4 during a very turbulent year in his life: 1887 left him short on cash, running from a bad marriage, depressed...

Arts world laments loss of Bernadette Greevy

By Pat O'Kelly Tuesday September 30 2008 ONE of the country's most revered artists, Bernadette Greevy's last public performance took place at the annual Service of Remembrance at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham some weeks...

Digest: A New Life Cut Short [Reading]

If you remember (as I do) or are not long removed from your reiterated adolescence—known, in America, as your undergraduate years—you will recall all manner of silly affectations, excessive tastes, and dramatic postures,...

Tuning up for Symphony season

Sep. 21--This week, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra launches one of its most diverse seasons in years. In addition to performances at Powell Symphony Hall, concerts will be held at at venues ranging from the Pulitzer...

Moments of Mahler magic, but a disappointing big picture

ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN From Friday's Globe and Mail ORCHESTRA At Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Wednesday Ambition can seem a puny word in relation to Gustav Mahler. The stage of Roy Thomson Hall was jammed with players...

Symphony tackles Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand," minus a few hundred

Gustav Mahler didn't much care for the moniker "Symphony of a Thousand." He called it a "Barnum & Bailey" nickname for his monumental Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, a gimmick created by an agent who booked the piece's...

First Sunday Music - Celebrating Music in Religion

Celebrating Music in Religion Some History Several types of Christian chant, which is often called plainsong, developed during the first 1000 years of the Christian era. A repertory called Ambrosian chant developed at...

Acclaimed Baritone Thomas Hampson to Open Mondavi Center Season

Thomas Hampson, "the leading American baritone" (Gramophone), will perform a program of American songs by composers including Stephen Foster, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland as well as lieder by Franz Schubert and Franz...

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