“Why have you lived? Why have you suffered? Is it all some huge, awful joke? We have to answer these questions somehow if we are to go on living – indeed, even if we are only to go on dying!” These are the questions Mahler said were posed in the first movement of his Symphony No. 2, questions that he promised would be answered in the finale.
–John Henken, Los Angeles Philharmonic, ‘About the Piece’
The full symphony is available on YouTube here, courtesy of the Netherlands’ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Quin Finnegan has more on Mahler (and Percy!) here.
Thank you, that is fantastic … and “Botrytis is safe in small doses” is the best category ever.
I read the Percy passage again, it was lovely. Thanks.
What a clip, what a piece, what a venue. I didn’t think people did such things any more. Thanks Angelico.
Thank you, gentlemen. Very gratified to know this piece and this performance spoke to you, as well.
The finale makes me ache with the hope ‘that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ’!
Happy Easter, lads and lass.
By the way, I’m sort of blogging (and lawdy, podcasting) at a different site– http://www.waterwalkingtime.wordpress.com
Pshaw! Mahler was a piker – that LaRocca-Lickona hookup is where the real action is.
JOB
It must have been epic.
….and HE’S BACK!
Oh. Wait.
Nope, never mind – there will be no WRKP in Cincinnati reunion after all…
It’s just a rerun.
A good rerun, I should add!
But just a rerun.
Heh.
JOB