STEINBACH AM ATTERSEE, Austria — The innkeeper passed me the key. He seemed to know why I had come. I was, I confess, slightly less certain myself. On one level, visiting Gustav Mahler’s summer ...

Yet Dudamel's stats can still be staggering. He told me recently he was 11 when he played his first Mahler symphony and 16 when he took the podium to conduct Mahler. "My first big piece was Mahler's ...

Conductor Ivan Fischer, center, mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter, left, and soprano Christiane Karg, acknowledge the audience's applause after performing Mahler's Symphony nr. 2 with the Budapest ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. That’s the question in the title of British critic, commentator and ...

The 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth last month (July 7, 1860) and 100th anniversary of his death next year (May 18, 1911) are prompting musicians to celebrate with performances and symposia. Every ...

“Mahler is very extravagant. Mahler is in your face. Mahler is really too much!”–Arved Ashby Too much of a good thing is wonderful. Just ask Arved Ashby, professor of music and chair of the Department ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith Playing Mahler for charity seems to be a slowly growing phenomenon. In 2006 Neeme Jarvi conducted members of the New York ...

Composer Marc Neikrug watches a rehearsal for the Philadelphia debut of his chamber opera ‘’A Song by Mahler’’ at the Kimmel Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The singer chastises their paramour for loving for ...

Some composers, like the late great Richard Wagner, draw hisses from their contemporaries but plaudits from posterity. Others, because of their immediate appeal or the complete lack of it, rouse no ...

AMSTERDAM – When Klaus Mäkelä climbed the Concertgebouw podium and turned to the audience at the orchestra’s third Gustav Mahler Festival in 105 years, the conductor could see the writing on the wall.