Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies
Constantin Floros Mahler’s 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler’s musical techniques.
Alma Mahler, or, The Art of Being Loved
Francoise Giroud In Alma Mahler, Francoise Giroud provides a spirited portrait of one of Europe’s great femme fatales, ranging from her childhood (she was raised on a steady diet of Nietzche) to her heyday as a leading figure in Europe’s art scene, to her later life as an exile in California and New York. We […]
Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz
Richard Newman Alma Rosé’s tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was the leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, her uncle was Gustav Mahler) to her death at Auschwitz, first came to public attention through the 1980 film Playing for Time. As the leader of the only […]
Being Gustav Mahler
Frederic Chaslin Gustav Mahler died in 1911. At least that is what Cornelius Franz, conductor at the Vienna Opera, believed. What is his surprise then when he feels a being quivering within him who speaks to him, evokes the wandering Jew, insinuates himself into his gestures, and colonizes his mind, with the avowed aim […]
Bruckner-Mahler-Schoenberg
Dika Newlin The idea of this book originally came to me during my years of study with Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. At that time I was first introduced to the most ‘radical’ works of Schoenberg-works virtually unknown in this country so far as public performances are concerned. I felt the need for a historical […]
Ara Guzelimian
Ara Guzelimian is Artistic and Executive Director of the Ojai Festival in California. The appointment culminates many years of association with the festival, including tenures as director of the Ojai Talks at the Festival and as Artistic Director 1992-97. Mr. Guzelimian served as Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School in New York City from […]