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...Cate Blanchett really worked hard on this — Mahler 5 isn’t easy to conduct — but what is her figure? Is she an anti-hero?”...
...The first night features two pieces from Bruckner and Berg; the second celebrates Paul Hindemith and Richard Strauss; the third is Mahler’s Symphony No 9. March 1, 2 and 3....
...Tár is a virtuoso piece written and directed by Todd Field that showcases the actress as Lydia Tár, a complicated music conductor who, approaching 50 and preparing a seminal performance of Mahler’s Fifth...
...I listen to it and imagine I’m in a movie: I’ll be doing the most mundane thing, like buying some frozen peas, while listening to Mahler....
...I enjoyed a late-arriving cameo from William Burroughs, commanding a London dinner table with “the slow, canny, rural drawl of a screwball professor and the intonations of WC Fields”....
...What a shame that the concert’s final work, Mahler’s First Symphony, failed similarly to capture their imagination....
...His PhD supervisor was the philosopher Bernard Williams, an atheist from whom he learnt the importance of “openness to otherness”. Sacks was the first person in his family to go to university....
...The familiarity of the soundtracks of Star Wars, Superman and the first three Harry Potter films make Williams instantly accessible to a much wider audience than the John Adams and Mahler pieces the orchestra...
...On her playlist: Gustav Mahler, George Gershwin and Spanish songwriter and singer Julio Iglesias....
...Sandwiched between the Mahlers came the extended finale of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, lovingly conducted by Thomas — far and away the highlight of the night — and a 15-minute composition by John Williams...
...MacCarthy has written biographies of William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee, leaders of the British Arts and Crafts movement....
...MacCarthy is especially skilled at teasing out the connections between an artist or writer’s emotional life and their work; in Gropius’s case it was a turbulent relationship with Alma Mahler, herself the...
...His personal journey is both an encouragement to others and a searching of the soul, as he seeks to explain why he finds Mozart “the most difficult composer” and Mahler “a thrilling journey”....
...As the piece unfolded through Viennese waltz and Mahler-esque slabs of brass, oompah bands and Turkish laments, the point was made....
...And Lenny said, ‘Why do you think I conduct Mahler?’...
...By far the better concert was the first one, in which Daniel Harding conducted Mahler’s Symphony No.6....
...Directed by South African artist William Kentridge, it is alive at every level — as words, as music, as art, as drama. There are many levels at work in Berg’s opera, too....
..., black-clad Lucid Dream, St Vitus dance as choreography, all spasms and twitches, blithely mismatched with Mahler....
...Mozart, Mahler and The Beatles have all been grist to her mill and now it is Shakespeare’s turn with Golden Hours (As You Like It), which began a two-night run at Sadler’s Wells on Tuesday....
...Weiss’s latest double bill sets a British comedy (The Tempest) and a French tragedy (Phaedra) to Mahler symphonies....
...Arrangements of three Mahler songs, notably, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (with sopranos spotlighted) were absolutely luminous....
...But there are tiers below: printed music by such people as William Byrd, the 16th-century English composer, remains accessible, says Cox....
...In fact, even after Shostakovich’s allusions to Mahler and outright pilfering from Rossini’s William Tell, it was Penderecki’s songs that still made the biggest impression....
...William Trevor is my biggest influence. Others include Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, VS Pritchett and the Russians – Chekhov, Tolstoy and Turgenev. Where do you write best?...
...That’s because, like the early Venetians’ spatial ideas or Beethoven and Mahler with their offstage wind solos, she has always used space in a way that appeals to an audience’s imagination....
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