Previous posts for July 7th are here: Gustav Mahler (2019), Doc Severinsen (2020), Gian Carlo Menotti (2021), and Gustav Mahler (2022)
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was one of European music's greatest composers and conductors.
It’s Been a Long, Long Time
If Mahler is what you prefer
There are things that you’ll have to defer;
You’ll always be late,
But appointments can wait,
When your concept of time is a blur.
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Worldmind
"The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything." - Mahler
For Mahler, each work was a world
Where spiritual life was unfurled,
Revealing a psyche,
Neurotic and spike,
Where mysteries jostled and swirled.
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Promotional Literature
A bankrupt Mahlerian scholar
Who led a life living in squalor,
Observed, “What a pity!
My tenure committee
Is partial to Bruckner, not Mahler!”
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