{"id":4358,"date":"2010-04-07T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:19:03","slug":"itching-for-mahler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/07\/itching-for-mahler\/","title":{"rendered":"itching for mahler"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2512\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gustav_mahler.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2512\" title=\"gustav_mahler\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gustav_mahler.jpg?resize=580%2C588\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustav Mahler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week our music director is in Boston filling in for an ailing James Levine, and he&#8217;s conducting Mahler&#8217;s mighty Seventh Symphony. (Which will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/995\">streamed live on the internet<\/a> at 7:00 p.m. EDT on April 10, 2010 &#8211; look for the &#8220;Listen Live&#8221; box on the left side of the site).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very jealous.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also anxiously awaiting the OSO&#8217;s symphony of the season, this year it being the Symphony No. 1 &#8220;Titan&#8221;.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a tasty bit of virtuoso playing from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/bCwSbAjp_dw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>and here is the La Scala Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel doing the finale from Mahler&#8217;s First Symphony:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/RrwDr67taZ4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our music director is in Boston filling in for an ailing James Levine, and he&#8217;s conducting Mahler&#8217;s mighty Seventh Symphony. (Which will be streamed live on the internet at 7:00 p.m. EDT on April 10, 2010 &#8211; look for the &#8220;Listen Live&#8221; box on the left side of the site). I&#8217;m very jealous.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1045,138,2],"tags":[461],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-music","category-summer-festivals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-boston-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-18i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":934,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/19\/a-few-old-school-mahlers-9th-recordings\/","url_meta":{"origin":4358,"position":0},"title":"A few old-school Mahler&#8217;s 9th recordings","author":"Jeffrey Work","date":"April 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm pleased to welcome as my first guest blogger Jeffrey Work, principal trumpet of the Oregon Symphony. 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