COMING OF AGE WITH THE MAHLER SYMPHONIES
We’re not the world leaders in music education, but we’ve evolved rather incredibly in concert maturity. Between the two world wars Grandma would proudly attend the afternoon musicale concerts at a Washington, DC club and rave about the Pilgrim’s Chorus or the Strauss waltz she had heard. It was virtually the only classical music in the nation’s capital apart from the symphony with its mediocre conductor, playing in a huge hall. One of the musicians later reported that at the…