by Kenneth Woods | Feb 2, 2007 | A view from the podium, Haydn, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Any regular reader of this blog will have realized that I, like many people, like the music of Gustav Mahler. A lot…. It has occurred to me this week, however, that I could make the perverse case that, much as I am totally thrilled to be doing Das Lied von der...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 1, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler, News and Reviews
This is just a quick reminder to any readers in the Pacific Northwest this weekend that the Rose City Chamber Orchestra will be performing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in the Schoenberg reduction on Saturday, Feb 3 at 7 PM at the Colonial Heights Presbyterian...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 30, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler
After months of worry, possible repertoire changes, concern about personnel and budgets, travel problems, back problems, general irritability….. when Ken is flipping through his score 20 minutes before the first rehearsal and gradually, all around him, players...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 27, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler
Mahler/Schoenberg • The Song of the Earth Das Lied von der Erde (” The Song of the Earth “) is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler . Laid out in six separate movements, each of them an independent...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 18, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler
If this is your first visit to this thread, you may wish to start from the first song of the cycle, which you can read about and listen to here. One of the recurring literary themes of Kindertotenlieder is the notion of haunting. Wenn dein Mutterlein is the poem that...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler
Finally, on to the emotional heart of the cycle, “Wenn dein Mutterlein.” If the text of the second song is the most intense, the music of this song is probably the most overtly funereal. Mahler even marks the tempo as schwer (heavy) and dumpf (dull or muffled). If...
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