Mahler Symphony No. 2, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today we explore the two middle movements of Mahler's 2nd symphony. These movements were meant as intermezzi, and are both memories in their own way. The first is a nostalgic, wistful, and extraordinarily simple(for Mahler) Austrian Landler. The second is a bitterly cynical and ironic retelling of a story from Mahler's favorite collection of folk poetry, Des Knaben Wunderhorn(The Boy's Magic Horn). These are the movements listeners sometimes struggle with the most, so let's uncover their secrets together!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm a |
| 0:02.0 | a musical music podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes to Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Joshua Wilerstein, I'm a conductor and I'm the |
| 0:13.4 | artistic director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lozan Switzerland. This |
| 0:17.0 | podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just |
| 0:21.4 | getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music. |
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| 0:50.0 | So I just wanted to give you a little bit of an update on how the classical music world is looking. |
| 0:56.4 | There are some signs that there might be some concerts starting up in Austria for a small audience |
| 1:02.4 | and doing the idea that it's been floating around of two concerts in one evening within one hour break to clean the hall and have people walk in and out safely. |
| 1:11.0 | That does seem to be a model that a lot of halls are embracing. That doesn't |
| 1:17.6 | mean yet I think that orchestras can perform full orchestras because there's just no way to keep people that far apart and there isn't |
| 1:24.6 | the testing capacity to make sure everybody's testing negative right before the |
| 1:28.1 | concert starts. So that's going to be a long way off but there is some hope out |
| 1:32.4 | there. On the other hand, I was hoping |
| 1:35.8 | actually to say something about all of these studies that are coming out about the dangers |
| 1:40.6 | of especially woodwind plane, and there have been just roller coasters of information |
| 1:49.6 | about whether something is dangerous or whether something is not dangerous. I feel like in a way it's like the debates |
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