@schubert , what is your take on "The Rest is Noise" by Alex Ross??!!
I bought it on the whim because of the obnoxious title, got all pumped up to hate it. Ended up reading thru the night! Love the part where he compares PF to Mahler...!!!??? WTF!!??
My point is, we all gravitate to Classical sooner or later, thats just how it is. Me struggling with Mahler is my own personal problem, unlike some suggestions on this Forum re Americana singers/songwriters I get a feeling that me "not getting it" is a problem with me, not Mahler. The fact that Bernstein in his "Infinite variety..." split us into 2 categories by our ability to comprehend Mahler bothers me a Lot!!
To fall in love with Bruch or Elgar violin concertos is easy, all you have to do is to listen (with Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mendelssohn you do not even need a push!) but how do you "evolve" into Mahler? Or you do not?
Bruckner, King Crimson, and Klaus Schulze are in constant rotation on my stereo, in those rare moments when Family is not in the house (I love my fav tunes served Loud!)
Methinks I can give some pointers towards Faulkner and William Golding readers, you should not get into them until you spent some time with J-P Sartr, Dostoyevsky, maybe Edgar Poe or Bradbury. But what would be the "steps" towards Mahler???
I bought it on the whim because of the obnoxious title, got all pumped up to hate it. Ended up reading thru the night! Love the part where he compares PF to Mahler...!!!??? WTF!!??
My point is, we all gravitate to Classical sooner or later, thats just how it is. Me struggling with Mahler is my own personal problem, unlike some suggestions on this Forum re Americana singers/songwriters I get a feeling that me "not getting it" is a problem with me, not Mahler. The fact that Bernstein in his "Infinite variety..." split us into 2 categories by our ability to comprehend Mahler bothers me a Lot!!
To fall in love with Bruch or Elgar violin concertos is easy, all you have to do is to listen (with Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mendelssohn you do not even need a push!) but how do you "evolve" into Mahler? Or you do not?
Bruckner, King Crimson, and Klaus Schulze are in constant rotation on my stereo, in those rare moments when Family is not in the house (I love my fav tunes served Loud!)
Methinks I can give some pointers towards Faulkner and William Golding readers, you should not get into them until you spent some time with J-P Sartr, Dostoyevsky, maybe Edgar Poe or Bradbury. But what would be the "steps" towards Mahler???