A Tale of Two Mahlers

[pmartel]

Okay, SO, with the recent hooha over the cell phone disruption at the NY Phil performance of Mahler's 9th, I decided to check it out.

I'll be honest, I love Mahler and discovered Mahler when I was in Grade 9 high school with Solti's performance of Mahler's 8th. THEN I discovered Mahler's 2nd Symphony with Leopold Stokowski conducting on RCA.

The second Mahler 9th is online with the Concertgebow of Amsterdam with Bernard Haitink.

Having heard bits of the NY Phil 9th, Alan Gilbert is quite a force with the NY Phil and pulls off a truly sublime ending DESPITE the innocuous cell phone and oddly didn't reallly detract and the engineers did a good editing job.

That said, the Concertgebow version has it's own qualities, but will listen more in detail on my night off.

The 9th symphony of Mahler, I think, is a statement about how the music at the time was changing. The final movement of this symphony is truly sublime and and really does, at least to me, make a statement

[cloughie]

A Tale of Two Mahlers.

[scottycelt]

A Tale of Two Mahlers.

Ones quite enough, thank you ...

[Bryn]

Ones quite enough, thank you ...

And that would be Alma, I suppose.

[Roehre]

And that would be Alma, I suppose.

Or Otto, or Ernst

[ahinton]

One Mahler is indeed enough, as long as it is Gustav! That said, "Mahler's" in the thread title should, of course, read "Mahlers" which, I submit, is rather more to the point.

[Flay]

One Mahler is indeed enough, as long as it is Gustav! That said, "Mahler's" in the thread title should, of course, read "Mahlers" which, I submit, is rather more to the point.

I disagree. It refers to two performances of Mahler, hence the possessive is correct.

[cloughie]

I disagree. It refers to two performances of Mahler, hence the possessive is correct.

I would settle for Mahlers'. Maybe a heading of " A Two Mahlers' tale ", which would accommodate a plural and a possessive.

[Flay]

No, there's just the one Mahler

[cloughie]

No, there's just the one Mahler

No, there are as many Mahlers as you want there to be.

[Flosshilde]

I wonder if pmartel will bother to post again?

[amateur51]

I wonder if pmartel will bother to post again?

it's a thought!

[Petrushka]

I wonder if pmartel will bother to post again?

That's what I thought as well. It doesn't seem to concern some on here that certain forum members have drifted away and is it any wonder when a simple punctuation error is greeted by hoots of derision and the musical content of the post entirely ignored?

It's also disappointing to see so many threads on Platform 3 at the expense of the rest but that is, perhaps, a debate for another day. Happy to have Platform 3, happier still to have more posts on the rest and happiest of all if new/occasional posters are made a good deal more welcome.

Just my thoughts.

[Mr Pee]

That's what I thought as well. It doesn't seem to concern some on here that certain forum members have drifted away and is it any wonder when a simple punctuation error is greeted by hoots of derision and the musical content of the post entirely ignored?


Just my thoughts.

Couldn't agree more. Not much of a welcome for a new poster, was it?

[Richard Tarleton]

Couldn't agree more. Not much of a welcome for a new poster, was it?

Indeed, and by another new(ish) poster , of little over a month's standing.

Take no notice, pmartel.