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 ...
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.” ...