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The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Thursday 03rd of December 2009

The appealing Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager is in New York to prepare for her overdue return to the Metropolitan Opera .

Gao Kogong, Green Hills and Clouds Dismounting, I offer my friend a cup of wine, I ask what place he is headed to.

The Sixth Symphony is often mentioned to be Mahler's most classical, invariably followed by the qualification: "If only in structure". It's an important qualification, because although cast in the sonata-form of the classical symphony , the symphony has nothing else in common with the classical predecessors.

The argument about whether Mahler's No 10 Symphony should be granted full equality with the other nine ought to be old hat now.

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Tanglewood in 2010 will be well supplied with variety in both the classical and popular fields: The Boston Symphony Orchestra season ranges from generous portions of opera and Mahler to the return of James Taylor and a day- night doubleheader, featuring twin debuts by Berkshire folk singer Arlo Guthrie and Broadway star Audra McDonald.

I've always found the Fourth Symphony of Mahler to have a similar - if not quite as pronounced - problem as Beethoven's Fourth: its two neighbors are too famous and too overbearing.

Sunday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Ticket info: $15 for adults, $7.50 for students and seniors; Children free.

One doesn't have to look far to find connections among the composers Berlioz, Wagner, and Mahler, featured in the concert performed by the West Virginia Symphony Friday night at the Clay Center.

Today begins the "International" of the three Gustav Mahler Symphony Cycles that Classical WETA plays as part of Mahler Month.

Read my review today on the Washington Post Web site: Charles T. Downey, BSO goes pretty with cozy standards Washington Post , November 8, 2009 Susanna Phillips, soprano If anything, the program offered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Friday night at Meyerhoff Hall was too pretty, too easy on the ears.

L'Apres-midi , performed at the Laban Centre as part of Dance Umbrella , is a serious, quite highbrow piece of European dance theatre that doesn't resort to crowd-pleasing or spectacle in order to keep the audience focused.

HereA is the second part of an introduction and discussion of all Mahler symphonies which will take place all through November, Classical WETA's Mahler-Month. The first part was published separately, earlier this year, and can be read here .

Johannes Brahms had just finished his Third Symphony and not yet embarked on his Fourth when Mahler sat down in 1884 to begin composing his First Symphony, not then already called - or thought of as - a "First Symphony". It took Mahler four years to bring the first, revised version to a close.

CITY HALLS, GLASGOW ***** THE focus of Friday's concert by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra may have been on Peter Maxwell Davies' Symphony No 4, but that was just one riveting component in a brilliantly-conceived programme.

So much has changed around Lincoln Center since the '80s and '90s when I regularly travelled to New York from Hong Kong on business.

The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra is pulling a Stevie Nicks this weekend during its season-opener concert.

After a massive local advertising and SchA nberg*-disinhibition campaign, it wasn't a problem to sell out the 2500 seat Philharmonic Hall for the Bavarian Radio Symphony's performance of Die Gurrelieder , after all.

Note: Free Times editor Dan Cook is in New York City as part of an NEA fellowship program in arts journalism.