DESCOBRINDO MAHLER

Big bang theory: discovering Mahler Music The Guardian:
"Big bang theory: discovering MahlerHow did Mahler go from being a byword for excess to the composer every orchestra wants to perform? On the 150th anniversary of his birth, Tom Service explores the passions that powered his musicBuzz up!
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I didn't like Mahler when I first heard his music. Actually, that's an understatement. I remember staring up at the American conductor Neeme Järvi from my seat in Glasgow's City Halls, and in an exquisite torture of boredom and frustration, offering up a 12-year-old's prayer to make him and the Scottish National Orchestra stop the appalling racket of the First Symphony."