Illustration of Gustav Mahler for "How to Listen" series by Mark Swed. Credit: Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) The last Sunday of June, Michael Tilson Thomas ...

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Gustav Mahler scored his monumental Eighth Symphony — the “Symphony of a Thousand” — for an immense orchestra with organ, extra percussion and mandolin, an off-stage band, three choirs, eight vocal ...

Like Melville's great white whale, the Eighth Symphony of Mahler continues to bedevil and elude Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. This is the big one -- the most massive and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is always an event, even when the ‘Symphony of ...

Death loomed. Darwin bludgeoned nature, Einstein assaulted physics and Nietzsche killed God. Trapped by time, a gaunt man sat in the south of the Habsburg Empire, unaware of the coming continental ...

No piece in the classical canon creates a sense of occasion like Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, of which the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the first of three performances on Friday. The frequency with ...

This week’s performances of the biggest symphony Mahler ever wrote are being “dedicated to the many thousands of people who contributed to both the creation of Benaroya Hall and its monumental impact ...

When Leonard Bernstein died last October, the most important project he left unfinished was his second recording of the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. The project was for Deutsche Grammophon ...