How To Use Mahler In A Sentence
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The singer evinced one bad habit in the Mahler group, a tendency to scoop into opening phrases.
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It sounds very presumptuous to say I wish to purify Mahler, but I do think, in a sense, that Mahler now has to be purified of all these non-musical preconceptions that have become attached to him.
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Where once every conductor with a record contract had to have a Beethoven and Brahms symphonic cycle, today it seems you're nothing without your complete Bruckner and Mahler.
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Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it.
Great Big Bites
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The same woman waited until the delicately poised last chords of Mahler's slow movement to get up and leave.
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No orchestra has a greater Mahler pedigree than the Concertgebouw, beginning in the early 20th century under Willem Mengelberg, and continuing under successive music directors – Van Beinum, Haitink, Chailly – right up to the present day.
Mahler: Symphony No 3 – review
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Richard Strauss and Mahler largely get dumped, at least as far as musical cribs go, and Bloch gets to fight it out with Debussy alone.
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He first conducted the Montreal Symphony in 1999 with a rendering of Mahler's Ninth, regarded as the finest ever heard in this city.
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Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death.
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Alma Mahler heard in it ‘the arhythmical play of little children’.
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Of the Mahler, he said, I think that one of my strengths is this postromantic German repertoire - which is one of the strengths of the orchestra. . .
Phillies Zone
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Its "longish denouement" is "corny and contrived, but we seize on it with relief - as we seize on the Mahleresque romanticism of Gabriel Yared's score.
GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul.
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On the lieder disc there are songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Strauss, plus Mahler's complete Kindertotenlieder.
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Eschenbach repeatedly slips into small but irritating mannerisms, such as a ritard and brief pause before this or that emphatic chord -- a disruption of flow that Mahler, a brilliant conductor, was perfectly capable of writing into the score had he wanted it.
As Mahler's death centenary nears, an outpouring of recordings pays tribute
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Mahler performing at the piano solo is going to do things differently than Mengelberg leading an orchestra, but there are approaches to the same material that are going to remain roughly constant, regardless of media.
Mengelberg's Mahler
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Zander is known as a devotee of Gustav Mahler and is currently recording the composer's complete works with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, according to his website.
Boston.com Top Stories
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In Mahler's time the word 'klezmer' wasn't used, they'd have just called it something like 'Yiddish racket'.
BBC Blog Network
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(Some of Rosen's own prose owes much of its own perdurability to its essayistic qualities, that is, to its partisanship and unfairness: one example might be Rosen's dislike of Mahler.)
Adoring Adorno
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How much of it is authentically Mahler?
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These are elements that we find in the Mahler lieder also.
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Mahler sang his praises, and Puccini said he had twice as much talent as he needed.
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And then there's the symphony's scherzo, which is based on a separate piece Mahler wrote using an excerpt about St. Anthony of Padua from the German folk poems "Des Knaben Wunderhorn".
Chicagoist
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Here, Mahler plays down the grotesqueries of the song so that the movement comes across as suave, with a slightly uneasy thread running through.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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To imitate the musical speech of children, Mahler uses a pentatonic interspersed melodic.
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Bernstein conducted Mahler like no other conductor
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But before the last movement of the symphony, a solo for soprano, Mahler's musical realisation of a child's view of heaven, he discreetly opens his score.
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Just how Mahler's music accomplishes this feat is another question that Mr. Lebrecht's book explores, along with the details of Mahler's life and the author's own deep, personal engagement with the composer's music.
A Fierce Enthusiasm
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Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius all used tonality and key centres to powerful ends, and the blaze of A major must have meant a great deal to Messiaen.
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My only thought about the march so far is that it's not a march in the direct Mahlerian sense.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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For its time, the sound is fairly astringent - like Mahler in a sullen mood.
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Second, it's a very complex world, and it becomes a correlative of Mahler's psychological complexity.
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In a really great Mahler performance, players and conductors collaborate - everybody works to maximum capacity.
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Setting the photograph down Mahler scribbled a few notes on a nearby steno pad.
Looking For Olivia
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Frederick Wilhelm Basilus von Ramdohr, Über mahlerei und Bildhauerarbeit in Rom für Liebhaber des Schönen in der Kunst, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1787), 174 – 76.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Mahler regretted that, apart from his own work, little interest had been shown by 20th century mathematicians in the study of arithmetical properties of decimal expansions.
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Cardus persuaded Sir John Barbirolli that he could be an ideal Mahler interpreter.
Mahler’s mass following
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Debussy stands with Mussorgsky, Mahler, Reger, and Strauss among the great progenitors of Modernism.
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Lebrecht offers excellent broadbrush readings of the 10 symphonies, gives a full (at times too full) account of Mahler's career as a conductor – if he had never composed a note, his place in musical history would have been secure for this alone – and explores his unsettled private life as the child of a loveless marriage whose own young wife Alma then cuckolded him.
Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
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(Soundbite of song, "Symphony No. 8") MONTAGNE: It's Gustav Mahler - sure puts to music the notion of overindulgence, which is where we begin this year's post Thanksgiving chat with music commentator Miles Hoffman.
Slimming Down the Classics
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Famous for his slow tempos and his cultivation of a titanic, monumental style, he was a superlative interpreter of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mahler.
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Set to the strains of Mahler, this 1993 film takes place in a city whose streets are rarely penetrated by sunlight.
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In the competition for most doleful, Larson himself mentions the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and several funeral marches and dirgelike hymns such as "Nearer My God to Thee.
Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda
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Previous owners of various manuscripts in the collection include French pianist Alfred Cortot; cellist August Franchomme, a friend of Chopin's; Alma Mahler, the composer's widow; and Russian choreographer and ballet dancer Léonide Massine.
Scores of Scores, From Mozart to Ravel
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Let's remember, though, that he forced himself onto the podium and proceeded to galvanise the orchestra into a rehearsal of Mahler's 5th that rendered all thoughts of his weakness otiose.
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It is well known in the inner sanctum of the region's music circles that Mr Sharkey is a big fan of the grand and tuneful works of Gustav Mahler.
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Mr. Mahler knew Dr. DeVilliers to be a specialist who regularly gave medical reports to lawyers.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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For most of the last century musicians, conductors and scholars have tussled over the best way to deal with the sketches Mahler left behind when he died in 1910.
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From his study came the sound of Mahler, playing at full volume.
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Mahler had completed his first three symphonies, and Mascagni and Leoncavallo were creating new orchestral colours in their verismo operas.
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This music sings with the burning passion and intensity of human emotion that is quintessentially Mahler.
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The Fifth Symphony is one of a series of works of a beauty of which evokes the haunting adagios of Mahler.
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Previously Mahler's letters to his wife Alma have been available only in her ruthlessly expurgated version.
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In the second to last bar of ‘Purgatorio’, Mahler wrote a chord B E-G plus an accent.
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As a composer, Mahler, undoubtedly one of the most original artists of his time, was an intellectual and a powerful ideologist.
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The mood of enforced jollity is simply inappropriate for the Mahler Fifth.
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Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
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In lieu of the Mahler, Eschenbach offered Mozart's Symphony No. 34, the last of his Salzburg symphonies -- familiar and fresh and not heard often from an orchestra that was rather underfed in the Mozart department under Leonard Slatkin.
Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously
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Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer.
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From his study came the sound of Mahler, playing at full volume.
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This is an aspect that sometimes I miss in Mahler performances and it matters greatly, because Mahler's music is sometimes tonally anchored and sometimes tonally disorientated.
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Gustav Mahler wrote Symphony No.1 at age 24, much younger than Beethoven in starting symphonic composition.
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His Mahler Tenth is still viable as a recommendable choice, as are his accounts of Shostakovich symphonies.
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The singer evinced one bad habit in the Mahler group, a tendency to scoop into opening phrases.
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Even more so was the Vienna Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez doing Berg's "Lulu-Suite" and Mahler's "Das Klagende Lied"; though their fortissimo passages were even surpassed in volume by the three Tchaikovsky/Shakespeare pieces performed by the youthful Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela, conducted by their guru, Gustavo Dudamel.
Salzburg's Summer of Shadows and Shakespeare
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It influenced lieder composers like Franz Schubert and Karl Loewe, poets Wilhelm M ü ller and Heinrich Heine, and culminated, if you will, with Mahler.
Parsing Mahler's Poetic Songs
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GREENBERG: I think for Mahler his symphonies were his operas, his all-inclusive artworks.
The Operatic Punch in Mahler's Symphonies
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Mengelberg sat in the audience in Amsterdam in 1904 to hear Mahler conduct the symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra twice in the same concert.
Mengelberg's Mahler
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Mahler wrote nothing but music and letters: no essay, memoir, treatise or manifesto.
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The course of Mahler's development - despite all his personal eccentricities - contains a rational core.
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You know you exceeded the Mahler limit?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is perhaps the most programmatic of Mahler's symphonies.
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Rochberg's finale, which he calls an alternation between scherzos and serenades, introduces another borrowed style, this time Mahler in rapturous D major starting just over two minutes into the movement.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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And then there's the symphony's scherzo, which is based on a separate piece Mahler wrote using an excerpt about St. Anthony of Padua from the German folk poems "Des Knaben Wunderhorn".
Chicagoist
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Jake Montagnino, 12, a slight seventh-grader at Mark Twain Junior High on Coney Island, cited Mahler's Eighth among his favorite pieces, as well as Bernstein's Mass and "Lord of the Rings," in which, he said matter-of-factly, he'll be singing a solo at the end.
Raising Their Voices as One
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So is it any different when a short Leroy Anderson piece that parodies or tries to pay homage to a dance form like the saraband, is that any different, really, than Mozart and would poke fun at the form, or Brahms, or Schubert, or Mahler?
Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature
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I'm wearing my soho t-shirt, coffee on my mahler coasters (really) pluleezze!
Wanderers Gemütsruhe
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Mr. Mahler: The barberry would be all right, but I prefer the Juneberry and the mulberry and the dogwood, because they come up a little higher.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
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Only three maestros in history - Mahler, Boulez and Bernstein - have achieved commensurate recognition as composers, and all three were composers before they began to conduct.
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Nobody had been left indifferent to the lordly distinction with which the American had guided his orchestra and the soloists through what will probably make history as one of Levine's finest Mahler performances, ever.
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Mengelberg had been a close friend and associate of Mahler's; he had been present at the premiere of this symphony; the two conductors for conducting was for what Mahler was chiefly known during his lifetime worked on the score together, adding timing marks, annotations and fine detailed notes throughout.
Archive 2008-06-01
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I once heard Mahler's Resurrection Symphony on a vertical Alpine train as a thunderstorm crashed all around.
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Cecil playing his favourite tune: the adagietto from Mahler's 5th on a scratchy old vinyl LP of a performance of the Columbia Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
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Davies punctuates his collage of exquisitely selected archival footage and a few contemporary scenes shot in crisp digital photography with a sound track of extraordinary aptness and variety: Handel, Benny Goodman, Brahms, Salvador Bacarisse, the Spinners, Mahler, Peggy Lee.
Intimate History
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Now, don't get me wrong, the Bustabo / Mengelberg thing is nice, but when you consider the popularity of some other records like that Kondrashin Mahler 7th from Amsterdam, it's hard to square the issued stuff with the popular stuff.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The first movement contains some absolutely magnificent fugato writing; the third is as beautiful as anything written in Mahler's lineage, without what Franz Schmidt called Mahler's ‘cheap novel’ effects.
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There was a bust of Mahler on his desk.
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The second movement is wilful and could irritate but the coarse-grained double bass solo at the start of the third movement shows Mitropoulos never prettifies Mahler.
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The symphonic character of Gustav Mahler's music gave me the freedom to create a drama out of the music rather than retell a pre-written story.
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But before the last movement of the symphony, a solo for soprano, Mahler's musical realisation of a child's view of heaven, he discreetly opens his score.
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Alexexander Lazarev conducts the orchestra in performances of works by MacMillan, Shostakovich and Mahler.
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It would be a prodigious feat of memory indeed if, 28 years after the death of the composer and 35 years after Mahler's performance of the 4th in Amsterdam, when the younger conductor did his work with the composer on the symphony, Mengelberg could remember Mahler's interpretation well enough to affect a reasonable facsimile of Mahler's performance.
Archive 2008-06-01
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No conductor did more to bring Mahler into the symphonic mainstream, and none did more to consolidate this orchestra's special relationship to Mahler's music.
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Portable radios played music: Britney Spears, Mahler, the latest sensation from Tashkent.
CHAMELEON
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Rafael Kubelik, on the other hand, felt the affinities with Mahler's Bohemian origins.
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Even Mozart and Mahler were accepted abroad before they were grudgingly then ecstatically received at home.
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In the case of "Tree," almost every scene is scored with a piece from Brahms, Mahler, Berlioz, or my favorite selection which Malick used in his "New World" Smetana's haunting "Moldau.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Spiritual Reflections On 'The Tree Of Life'
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Listening one's way through Mahler is not unlike reading Proust, though without the self-reflexive epiphany at the end.
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You know you exceeded the Mahler limit?
Times, Sunday Times
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If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use fitting for most things that pass for political dialog these days: Ignoration of the Elench -- and anglicized version of ignoratio elenchi, which is the logical fallacy of refuting an argument that was not made or is irrelevant to its professed purpose.
Signal to noise
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The Fifth Symphony is one of a series of works of a beauty of which evokes the haunting adagios of Mahler.
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Christmas saw the release of Mr. Hampson's superb recording of Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" "The Youth's Magic Horn", a series of enchanting lieder with orchestral accompaniment — Mahler also wrote a version with piano — based on folk verses collected by the early 19th-century German poets Clemens Brentano and Ludwig Achim von Arnim.
Parsing Mahler's Poetic Songs
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I would only point out that by this time twenty-eight years had passed since Mahler's death and Mengelberg, a conductor known for a very expressive style, must have developed his interpretation in those years however much it may have been influenced by Mahler to start with.
Archive 2008-06-01
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One is dazzled by the beauty of an orchestration which is light and pliant, and capable of expressing delicate shades of feeling; and this struck me the more after the solid massiveness of Mahler's orchestration, which is like heavy unleavened bread.
Musicians of To-Day
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If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use fitting for most things that pass for political dialog these days: Ignoration of the Elench -- and anglicized version of ignoratio elenchi, which is the logical fallacy of refuting an argument that was not made or is irrelevant to its professed purpose.
Signal to noise
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I love Mahler but the adagio from the 5th symphony is used ad nauseum and sentimentally, almost in a Max Steiner Warner.
GreenCine Daily: Visconti @ 100.
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Mahler used the term “ambitendency” in describing the push-pull of the urgent and competing needs for closeness and autonomy that characterize the rapprochement period.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
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A credential-laden custodian of the Tudor repertory, Donald Mahler, was entrusted with the staging so that nothing would be lost in the translation.
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It was entirely otherwise with Mahler, who was as impressive in life as in his works.
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Rather, through his pleonastic use of quietness, Mahler seems here to score a parody of sentimentality.
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Roni Mahler, guesting as the Countess, is diamantine as A Dragon Lady, all knowing, all seeing, reeking with impatience over insubordination.
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Younger artists include Han-Na Chang on violoncello, who will perform works by Elgar and Mahler.
Top Acts Rock Istanbul's Summer
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Thanks to my predecessors, and I acknowledge the presence of Dr Mahler, health has unquestionably risen to a higher place on the international development agenda.
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Mahler's own imaginative orchestration was heard in the same concert.
