Some months before beginning his six-week Mahler Project in 2012, a 30-year-old Gustavo Dudamel said he was studying like crazy. Just before the first concert on Jan. 13 that year, he said ...
From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...
Give Mahler a cheery nursery-rhyme ditty and he’ll turn it into the bleakest of gallows marches. Don’t believe us? Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony.