The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the ...

When Gustav Mahler said a symphony "must be like the world. It must embrace everything," I suppose he meant embracing accordions, too. Gustav Mahler's sprawling Ninth Symphony is a 90-minute journey ...

In the early nineteen-seventies, at the age of twenty-three, Ute Mahler began to photograph daily life in Lehnitz, in what was then East Germany, where she grew up. Lehnitz is just north of Berlin, a ...

On April 18, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra presented their season finale concert of Gustav Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, “Resurrection.” The orchestra was led by Benjamin Zander featured soprano Miah ...

At 98 minutes or so, Gustav Mahler’s six-movement Third Symphony (1896) is not only his longest, but the longest symphony in the standard repertory. With philosophical and metaphysical ambitions to ...

Rick Mahler didn’t have a great career. He was a pretty ordinary pitcher, and he played on some bad teams that probably didn’t help matters much. His numbers – 96 wins, 111 losses and a career ERA of ...

KALISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC — I slept very well in the house where Gustav Mahler was born, waking in the morning to the bright sound of chirping birds in the trees outside my window. Once a shop and ...

Leonard Bernstein wrote an influential article for the magazine High Fidelity in 1967 titled “Mahler: His Time Has Come,” which he later revised and published in his collection “Findings” (1982). It ...