words for mahlerites

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

"He did the journey for all of us; And that's why people need his music, because he did this journey. It's a spiritual journey. An inner journey. It's a journey that if you live your life fully you must make it... Who makes it ? Who takes time?...."
Marina Mahler

There are people who understand him. A lot of people, and even some he helps to live,as he helped me so much to live; a great number of people, and for me it's a sort of proof that there is something ...above humanity.
Henry Louis De La Grange

(From "Sur les pas de Mahler",a documentary by Alain Duault and Stephane Ghez)

[barry guerrero]

Thanks for sharing. I like De La Grange's words.

[john haueisen]

I think this is something most of us here at the Board appreciate in common about Mahler.

He made a journey beyond the usual perimeters of music, into an almost spiritual realm, daring to confront the inexorability of death, appreciate the lessons of life, and struggle to come to terms with life and its doppelganger: death.  Henry Louis puts it so succinctly:  "a sort of proof that there is something...above humanity."   

[mahler09]

A book I have said something along the same lines, in that "...he appeals only to a certain kind of sensibility- but does so very strongly."

[mick5hussey]

His music fall out of the Heaven.I love his 9th Symphony.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

My heaven is tomorrow. I'll attend my first live M4. Hallelujah!!

[Roffe]

Enjoy the heaven's delights, Mathilde!

I truly hope that the concert is super and that you will "Geniessen die himmlichen Freuden".
Always remember that "Cecilia mit ihren Verwandten sind treffliche Hofmusikanten!"

Roffe

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

My report after the second concert this evening.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

On May 18th, I've been watching a documentary about Mahler on TV. Some conductors were speaking of Mahler's music . Jonathan Nott said something I think a lot of us can feel :

"the more time you spend with this music ,whether it's as a performer or a listener, you ender by being a different being. No question about it for me; And you discover more about yourself in this music."

[john haueisen]

Absolutely!--that's why so many of us never tire of hearing his works.  Each new performance can open our eyes to another facet or perspective that we may not have noticed earlier.
--John Haueisen

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

 I think Mahler's music changes our vision of the world. it's difficult to express with words but when you look at the world through Mahler's music, it becomes more beautiful ,more poetic, more mysterious.