Hi Yoel, ... Is there another MahlerFest that i don't know about? ... Thanks for the compliments. I wish i had more time to hang out here more. If there's...
... Thank you, Monz for bringing this matter to our attention. Since I have been dragging out my various recordings of Titan, I just noticed (never did before)...
Thus spake Malvenuto (Malvenuto.Cellini@...): ... Was that the Phoenixa issue? I have the later in-house HMV reissue, which doesn't even mention the...
Deryk Barker
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Feb 3, 2008 7:43 pm
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Before 1960 Mahler was neither here nor there: under-recognised and all but forgotten. Now he's everywhere. Our CD racks bulge with multiple copies of all his...
... How can you strip Mahler of meaning? Overfamiliarity might tend to dull the edges, but I'll you any money that right now some 14 or 15-year old is...
Deryk Barker
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Feb 4, 2008 9:43 pm
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Wow, who wrote this? Bus drivers humming Mahler? I look in CD stores, I see the same recordings there week after week. I don't hear Mahler on top 40 stations....
... I usually end up in trouble when I say anything. I rarely find myself in agreement with Paul on most any matter. I-- well, before these Mahler lists (for...
... I believe that I wrote something to that effect on another list where we are both members, a list that is actually not a discussion list. Rather than...
First of all thank you for expressing these points so eloquently ... I feel very much in the same way.. In this day and age it seems we are over-dosing on his...
... mainstreamed commodity: familiar, normalised, uncontroversial. The cost of popularity is that Mahler has been stripped of meaning and turned into an...
... But is this restricted to Mahler? Sounds like the 'spirit' of the times. --...
Deryk Barker
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Feb 5, 2008 5:09 pm
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Well I am glad some of these comments sparked some debate and reflection ... I don't know if you have ever opened a rare or out of print book dug out from the...
"perhaps German, socialist thinking of the lowest order" I'm trying to interpret that as not racist and I am having a hard time. ... [Non-text portions of this...
... Sorry, but the Victoria Symphony have performed Schnittke. This discounts him from being considered obscure...:-) ... I'm afraid it does, somewhat. --...
Deryk Barker
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Feb 5, 2008 11:42 pm
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... Am I recalling correctly that it was Schnittke who took upon himself to complete what we have of Mahler's St.quartet and then ended up simply making his...
... oh, why, that's because it is. flat out anti-German racism. oh, wait... no -- is it just anti-anti-liberalism?? or just denoting a flavor? how come anytime...
In a message dated 2/6/2008 5:54:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, mahler@yahoogroups.com writes: No composer of that time would *ever* have said: No... don't...
Here allow me to comment on your remarks in brackets: But that's not the same as bemoaning the availability of DVDs and CDs. And even different from more...
Did anyone see these 2 pieces by Anne Midgette? She's headed for a pulitzer for her recent Post classical reviews. The Concertgebouw, on a Human Scale ...
"how come anytime mentions a nationality and a negative sentiment in the same sentence it's called racism" That's because it's racism. Stereotyping is racism;...
Hello David, What are you referring to? I do not see any racist remark in my few words about Schnittke. I did not see any racism in the previous post you ...
Bad placement on my part. It wasn't anything you wrote. It was someone who referred to "german" something or other in a way that was difficult to interpret...
... time. That shouldn't be too hard, seeing that neither "German" nor "socialist" is a race. Of course, the comment could have been nationalistic and...
... what is Phoenixa? There is an EMI 1991 CD (Copyright EMI, Ltd. 1991). Oh, yea, the innocuous notes are EMI Phoenixa. The notes by Ingrid Grimes (1991) are...
... someone who ... -- Apparently I am the racist for mentioning something to be - I quote - "'German' or something". Actually David, I find your notion that...
I think your point and critique is a larger one of marketing, of the perceived conflict between popular (=trite) and revered (=rare)... a problem with the...
In a message dated 2/7/2008 5:48:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... OTOH, consider this -- one can be led to classical music (and to other "high art" forms) out...
Quite civil indeed! First of all thank you for your insight and observations the exhcange of views.. They all make sense to me and have opened some avenues of...
To everyone out there: I was wondering if anyone has obtained the historical Boulez's and the BPO performance ( On his 8Oth birthday) of GM's II symphony...
... Are you sure it's with the BPO? In any case, the M2 concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin from last year's Mahler-cycle is going to be on "arte"...
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