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cjl
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| Happy birthday, Gustav! Born 154 years ago, July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911. |
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cjl
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Happy birthday Gustav! Born 155 years ago today, July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911.
Go listen to some Mahler today in celebration.
(and it is Doc Severinsen's birthday, too)
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| I thought Mahler was dead. |
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Don Herman rev2
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Just got my complete Mahler Project set from SFSO! On sale (20%) from the SFSO website...
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cjl
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| delano wrote: | | I thought Mahler was dead. |
Quite true! Nothing gets by you ... 
Nothing wrong with celebrating the day of his birth. I'm pushing for a federal holiday like Washington, Lincoln, King, &c. |
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Don Herman rev2
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Guess I'd better listen to those recordings quick before they decompose...
(Someone was gonna' say it!)
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LaTrompeta
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| Ah, I didn't know it was his birthday, but I did listen to some Mahler. Parts of Symphony No. 2 & 8 |
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cjl
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Mahler was born 162 years ago today, July 7, 1860.
Happy birthday, Gustav!
Listen to some Mahler today.
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Halflip
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I thought Mahler was dead.
(It's deja vu all over again! BTW, Yogi Berra's birthday was on May 12th.)
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Subtropical and Subpar
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The back half of Mahler's symphonies, 5 through 10, are in my humble opinion the absolute high-water mark for symphonic music. Each one is utter perfection.
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Halflip
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All I know is, if I were producing a Mahler biopic, I'd cast Christopher Walken to play him (on looks alone).
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cheiden
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| cjl wrote: | Mahler was born 162 years ago today, July 7, 1860.
Happy birthday, Gustav!
Listen to some Mahler today.
-- Joe |
A few weeks I saw my first performance of Mahler. It was his 4th being done by the Pacific Symphony in Southern California. It was awesome.
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cjl
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| cheiden wrote: | | A few weeks I saw my first performance of Mahler. It was his 4th being done by the Pacific Symphony in Southern California. It was awesome. |
I think the 4th was the first one that I saw performed live, 40 years ago. A great way to start!
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cheiden
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| cjl wrote: | | cheiden wrote: | | A few weeks I saw my first performance of Mahler. It was his 4th being done by the Pacific Symphony in Southern California. It was awesome. |
I think the 4th was the first one that I saw performed live, 40 years ago. A great way to start!
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Made me want to work on my French horn chops! 
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cjl
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| cheiden wrote: | | Made me want to work on my French horn chops! |
Check out the Fritz Reiner/Chicago Symphony Living Stereo recording from 1958. The 2nd movement sounds like a horn concerto practically with how hot the horn is mic'ed. It is Philip Farkas on horn so it sounds fantastic!
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| cjl wrote: | | cheiden wrote: | | Made me want to work on my French horn chops! |
Check out the Fritz Reiner/Chicago Symphony Living Stereo recording from 1958. The 2nd movement sounds like a horn concerto practically with how hot the horn is mic'ed. It is Philip Farkas on horn so it sounds fantastic!
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I think it was Kaylet Torrez of the Pacific Symphony that was doing all the heavy lifting.
https://www.pacificsymphony.org/the_performers/meet_the_musicians/musician/kaylet-torrez
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