Category: Class Notes

Composer Title Soloist(s) Conductor Orchestra Class One Gustav Mahler Symphony 4 (excerpts) Leonard Bernstein NY Philharmonic Gustav Mahler Das Klagende Lied (e...

1860: Mahler is born 1875-80: Studies in Vienna 1880: Das Klagende Lied 1880: First conducting job in Bad Hall 1881-82: Conductor in Laibach 1882-83: Conductor ...

Those in RED will be heard in this class. Date Song Title Song Cycle 1880 Im Lenz 1880 Winterlied 1880 Maitanz im Grünen 1883 Frülingsmorgen 1883 Erinnerung 188...

In 1960 Leonard Bernstein said he doubted anyone in his Carnegie Hall audience had ever heard of Gustav Mahler. Bernstein would go on to be a leading advocate f...

Mahler’s world: late 19th century Europe,Mahler’s contemporaries The Mahler revival of the 1960s: Leonard Bernstein and Michael Gielen Mahler the conductor: his...

Mahler’s place in history German Romanticism: Mahler’s psychological world German Lieder (songs) Mahler’s Rückert Lieder Mahler’s near-death experience Mahler i...

This bibliography contains references for material directly quoted in the courseware presented in class. It also includes references for some of the other books...

The War Begins The war for the Greater Middle East can be said to have been prompted by a near-hysterical over reaction to a geologist’s report stating th...

Agriculture, Nations, and Nation States We will begin with a discussion of Hydraulic Civilizations who discovered how to use knowledge of seasonal weather and i...

Countries and the Forces of History This course nominally is concerned with the period beginning in 1980. That is, from the Iranian Hostage Crisis (November 197...