Gustav Mahler was an artist of gigantic ambitions, and Jens Malte Fischer's biography, available in English a decade after it was first published in Germany, is on a comparable scale. At 766 pages, it ...
During the last 25 years or so, most musicians would say Leonard Bernstein, who started a Mahler binge in the 1960s and has shown no signs of letting up. But close on his heels has been Henry-Louis de ...
Composers take up a great deal more shelf space than authors. The latest edition of Hermann Abert on Mozart runs to 1500 pages, much the same length as David Cairns on Berlioz, David Brown on ...
On Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis, by Stuart Feder. For Mahler, the customer was always wrong. He likewise squelched her youthful composing ambitions: “The role of composer falls to me—yours is that ...
Faber has bought the rights to a title on the life and works of composer Gustav Mahler. Belinda Matthews, editorial director at Faber, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jonny Geller at Curtis ...
Conductor Robert Olson founded Colorado MahlerFest on a shoestring budget in 1987. The annual tribute to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler grew over the ensuing 28 years, drawing volunteer musicians ...
In Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical “Company,” Elaine Stritch raspily sang a toast to the trendy “ladies who lunch,” who fill their days with a “matinee, a Pinter play, perhaps a piece of Mahler’s.” ...