Mahler Foundation is delighted to welcome you back to another edition of The Mahler Hour! This time we celebrate the composer’s birthday with a very special visit to his birthplace, a new podcast series, our first Mahler Society profile, and, of course, a toast.

Join us as we wish Gustav a very happy birthday from around the world on Facebook Live on July 7th at:

09:00 Mexico
10:00 New York
15: 00 London
16:00 Vienna
22:00 Shanghai

Check your local time here: t.ly/p8OA

The Embrace Everything series is an exploration and celebration of the music of Gustav Mahler. Each season explores a different Mahler symphony and includes interviews with leading conductors, music scholars and musicians. Additionally, Mahler’s own words and those of his contemporaries will be read by actors. 

Season 1 focuses on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major (1888), taking listeners back to the work’s origins in the street songs, folk tunes and bugle calls of Mahler’s childhood. Guests include conductors Kent Nagano and Michael Tilson Thomas; principal musicians of the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; and scholars from Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

This is the first of four parts, all of them being released on July 7th.

Written, produced and hosted by Aaron Cohen