Archive for April 2013

Mahler Symphony #4: Your Inner Mahler

As I end the 2012-2013 Peoria Symphony Orchestra season, I enter into the dreamy, Freudian world of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, perfect for the coming Spring.  It is one of his most performed, most enjoyed, and most commented on symphonies. Some call it innocent, some sardonic, some say it is paradoxical, bittersweet, and yet childlike. It was…

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