The final concert of the Santa Barbara Symphony season was a tour de force for the orchestra’s horns. David Bazemore In the period since his rediscovery in the 1950s, the symphonies of Gustav Mahler ...

For too many conductors, Mahler's symphonies have become an excuse for self-indulgence, a perfect opportunity to demonstrate that you can slug it out emotionally with the best of them. The music to ...

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Mahler’s Third Symphony this past March were notable for myriad reasons. They demonstrated, as well as anything last season, that the orchestra has ...

When Virginia Symphony trombonist Scott McElroy was leaving for the holidays, a fellow musician said to him, “I know what you’ll be doing over the break.” It was an easy guess that McElroy would be ...

Jahja Ling led the San Diego Symphony’s first performance of Mahler’s seventh symphony in 2014, more than a century after the orchestra was founded. He called it “the most modern of all Mahler ...

With the crash of the opening notes from the first movement of the Siam Philharmonic's performance of Mahler's Symphony No.2, it was evident we were in for a gigantic 85-minute ride. Traversing ...