From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...

This was arguably the most prestigious job in the music world, at the end of the 19th century. MTT is discovered in a lavish suite at the Bristol Hotel, where Mahler stayed for his first few ...

Mahler must have felt like D.H. Lawrence, who said, "Give me mystery and let the world live again for me." His religion was the imperishable struggle of life, indivisibly mingled with a passionate ...

Nicolas Mahler is a gifted humourist and a master of the quick sketch: his protagonists’ stories unravel ad absurdum against banal and Kafkaesque backdrops full of comedy reeking of oppression and ...