Mahler News

When Deborah Borda, president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, talks about her orchestra's 10-day concert tour to Venezuela that begins Friday, she uses two pointed descriptive terms.

Pianist Natasha Paremski will be the guest soloist with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra on Saturday.

Columbus, Ohio, officially celebrates its bicentennial on Valentine's Day, but the birthday party starts this weekend.

OK, so your current season will climax with an appearance at Carnegie Hall . Whaddaya got for an encore? For the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, no less is required than multiple concert recordings, visits by artists ranging from Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell to jazz greats Charlie Haden and Wayne Shorter, and a double concerto for violin and double bass ... (more)

The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, which will commemorate its 50th anniversary this year, is excited to present programs fit for the occasion, led by principal conductor Sylvain Cambreling, resident conductor Tatsuya Shimono and other illustrious guest conductors.

After sating itself with super-sized helpings of Gustav Mahler this winter, the Los Angeles Philharmonic won't be curbing its appetite for large-scale undertakings next year.

Yannick Nezet-Seguin's doesn't take over the mantel of chief conductor until later this year, but he has been already putting his stamp of the Philadelphia Orchestra in the months leading up to it.

You may have needed a shoehorn to fit another instrumentalist on the stage of Helzberg Hall Friday night.

One of the odder aspects of dance-going in our time is the box office evidence of public affection for ancient monuments - for those three-act monoliths that our national ballet adopted and adapted from imperial St Petersburg.

Set your DVRs: Hot off a Mahler cycle in LA, Gustavo Dudamel will be on the Sesame Street episode airing this coming Monday.

Since Beethoven, Ninth Symphonies have been both a cause of joy&#151and dread. In the wake of Beethoven's No.

Luciano Berio 's relationship with the music of the past was complex and productive.

Composer Gustav Mahler is remembered for his nine symphonies and equally for his famous song cycles, including Das Lied von der Erde , RA1 4ckert Lieder, Kindertotenlieder , Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen .

The digital revolution was supposed to do away with a lot of fusty old relics. First compact discs took their toll on the long-playing vinyl record; then iPods and digital downloads began doing the same to CDs.

When the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra documented their preparation for Mahler Symphony No.

Pierre Boulez leads The Cleveland Orchestra in concerts featuring works by Stravinsky on February 16, 17, and 18 at Severance Hall Pierre Boulez conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall concerts featuring Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Symphony of Psalms , the latter with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.

"Gustav Mahler is the composer of contradictions and paradoxes. He is the composer of ambiguities, contrasts, complexities and cognitive dissonance." This weekend, the RPO will present its second Mahler Symphony of the 2011-2012 Season with a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.

Death. The final frontier. Composers have not been scared to confront it . From Mahler to Wagner, from Mozart to FaurA©, they have conjured up visions of the beyond, and the results are anything but morbid.

Beethoven lived with bipolar. So did Mahler, Schumann, Handel, and no end of composers and songwriters and musicians.

Pierre Boulez leads The Cleveland Orchestra in concerts featuring Mahler's Symphony No.