Re: Mahler/smahler

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

To which I retort--
Horsemanure!
There are at least half a dozen treatis on the subject of Mahler's Jewish 
themes and phraselogy in his lieder---specifically Der Kindertotenlieder.
I'm not saying that he wasn't spiritual, just that he had a desire to be 
published and performed and at the time, being"Jewish" would have been a 
"detriment" to him.
Trudi the G

>From: "robert wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Mahler
>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 09:26:07 -0400
>
>Today's New York Times Arts & Leisure section, p.27-28, has an article
>by Nancy Raabe, "Mahler's Testament To the Abiding Unity of God and
>Nature."   Raabe writes that Mahler's conversion from Judaism to
>Christianity was one more of faith than of political convenience.  And
>that his Third Symphony  "may harbor the strongest musical statement
>of the composer's allegiance to the Christian faith: more, even than
>in the last movement of the Second Symphony."
>
>Bob
>
>
>


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