Gustav Mahler

Guest vocalist does Sembrich proud at Glens Falls

GLENS FALLS — With help from a fine vocal soloist, the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra paid tribute to “The Queen of the Opera and the Composers She Knew” at Glens Falls High School on Sunday afternoon. The “Queen” was Polish...

Jan 31, 2009: Da Camera: Songs of the Earth at Cullen Theater at Wortham Center

Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (chamber version) Zhou Long The Farewell for pipa, erhu and chamber orchestra Gustav Mahler Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde (chamber version) Susanne Mentzer, mezzo-soprano; Da...

Dec 2, 2008: Music Lecture - Conducting Mahler at The Morgan Library and Museum

A Conversation with Lorin Maazel and Gilbert Kaplan. To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first performance in America of Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 2, Resurrection, Lorin Maazel, Music Director, New York...

Blair School of Music Honors Elliott Carter At Age 100

We've heard for decades that Modernism has played itself out, and even the cutely paradoxical term "postmodern" feels pretty threadbare by now. In the hustle to get Modernity either safely enshrined in the Western canon or...

2008 Dialogs– "human images"

November 26 - December 2, 2008] A lively narration on 20th century music featuring films and live music by influential composers Moving images of music – and the people behind the music The second part of the "Dialogs“ program...

Misfits, mystics and mafiosi

Review by Melissa McClements The Little Book By Selden Edwards FT Bookshop price: £9.59 Rumi: The Fire of Love By Nahal Tajadod Translated by Robert Bononno Duckworth £16.99, 317 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 Never, Never By...