Keeping Score: Gustav Mahler: Origins and Legacy ( Joan Saffa David Kennard, 2011) VOSI
From the sounds outside his bedroom window a kind of sonic goulash of military marches, ethnic dance bands, church bells, ritual prayer, and nature itself Gustav Mahler created an entire universe of emotion in music. In an astonishingly productive twentyfive years, he fashioned ten symphonies and 45 songs of cosmic scale, great beauty, and jarring emotional twists and turns. And he did it in the brief moments he could spare from his day job as one of Europes preeminent conductors. In Gustav Mahler: Origins and Legacy, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the provincial AustroHungarian city of Mahlers childhood, and bears witness to his grand achievements, great sorrows, and daring musical explorations into the depths of the human soul. Join MTT and the San Francisco Symphony as they trace Mahlers rise as a young conductor, and show how his stormy inner life inspired new and evermore heartbreaking heights of creativity.
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