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How many performers does it take to pull off Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, popularly and dauntingly known as the “Symphony of a Thousand”? The answer isn’t as obvious as it appears. For the Los ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On September 25, 2012, Deutsche Grammophon releases Mahler 8 Symphony of a ...

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will close its 50th anniversary season and Andreas Delfs' last performance with the MSO with one of the giants of all symphonies -- Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8. The ...

When the BSO performs the piece with the TFC and the boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School this weekend, the total number of performers will be around 300 “It is the greatest thing I have done thus far, ...

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus. On Sept. 12, 1910, Gustav Mahler introduced Symphony No. 8 -- a massive, hulking work featuring an enormous double chorus and the ...

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A compact disc is such a tiny thing, and Mahler's Eighth Symphony, better known as the Symphony of a Thousand, is so very big: There's something almost absurd about listening to it in a living room.

The magnificence of the horns. That was the foremost impression of Thursday night’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at Benaroya Hall by the Seattle Symphony. Close after that came brash, brassy ...