“Re-Imagining Mahler” — A Colorado Mahlerfest Live-Stream this Saturday

“Re-Imagining Mahler – and Why His Brief New York Philharmonic Tenure Was Truly a ‘Failure’” is the topic of my talk at this Saturday’s Colorado Mahlerfest Symposium in Boulder. I’ll also address creative fiction as a vital tool for the cultural historian.

I’ll be joined (from Vienna) by Thomas Hampson – who has recorded another excerpt from my new novel The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York (which among other things explains the nature of Mahler’s “failure”). 

The Symposium will be live-streamed here.

You can see the day’s line-up of talks here (I’m 10:15 to 11:45 am Mountain Time).

You can listen to Tom read the beginning of my chapter one — the Mahlers being greeted by Heinrich Conried, the Metropolitan Opera’s bumbling manager — here: