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 ...

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 ...

When Gustav Mahler stepped down from the podium one evening in 1895 after conducting the first full performance of his Second Symphony, the Berlin audience was hostile, and the critics fumed about ...

I've never aspired to climb Mount Everest, but I can imagine the nervous anticipation of the climber who stands looking upward at the task ahead. Regardless of preparation, training, desire or zeal, ...

Though Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were as dissimilar as it is possible to imagine, they had a singular commonality: the power to create work of extraordinary radiance. Mozart’s Piano ...

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 ...

The Music Center has not lit Walt Disney Concert Hall in yellow and blue, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, as has become a practice with concert halls in many cities, including Washington, D.C., and ...

In a bare office room in the City, one of London’s best musicians is telling me of his struggle with testicular cancer. Gareth Davies, principal flute of the LSO, was given the dread diagnosis in the ...

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 ...

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