From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...
A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen and the landscape painter Emil Schindler. She hoped to make her way as a ...
The program featured Richard Strauss’ “Vier Letztes Lieder” (“Four Last Songs”) and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major, with English soprano Claire Booth as the soloist.
An all-day marathon of youth orchestras from around L.A. proves to be a highlight of the L.A. Phil's Mahler Grooves festival, ...
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 season will include two particularly ambitious programs, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Gustav Mahler’s gigantic Eighth Symphony, the “Symphony of a Thousand.” ...
Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that, given the BPYO’s extraordinary talent level and their supposedly youthful ...
At a time when folks could use a little shot of optimism, there was much of it in the air before concert time at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall on Friday night. On the Minnesota Orchestra’s program was ...
In a program conducted by Thomas Søndergård and featuring soprano Julia Bullock, the orchestra delivered a ravishing evening of imagery and dynamism.
Donald Runnicles on Gustav Mahler ahead of the BBC SSO's opening concerts. Hearing Mahler’s symphonies for the first time, when I was a student in Edinburgh, I felt as if I could reach out and ...