For the weary insurance salesman, Mahler’s music was simply too loud. Though Kafka possessed acute hearing, he did not have an “ear for music.” ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...

After four years of waiting, the Copley Symphony Hall has been remade to enhance the San Diego Symphony sound, its musicians, and their audience response as the Jacobs Music Center. Vacated by ...

The Redwood Symphony is going big, performing Gustav Mahler's "Resurrection" symphony in a Feb. 16 concert that will includes ...

Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature. Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and Verdi – ...

County Symphony continues its 77th season with a community collaboration as the Symphony presents its annual concert on the campus of Goshen College. Mahler No. 2, The Resurrection, at 4 p.m. Sunday ...

In 1897, after months of intrigue and negotiation, during which Mahler converted to the Roman Catholic faith, he was installed as the Music Director of the Vienna Opera House. This was arguably ...

Nicholas Collon conducts the BBC Singers and Aurora Orchestra in performances of Fauré's Requiem and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb.

The orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances ...

The third movement is a funeral march that begins with a variation of the old nursery song, Frère Jacques. Mahler lost several of his siblings at a very early age, Delgado said, "so he takes you ...