The Mahler Hour

The Mahler Hour – a monthly streaming event that brings you the personalities, places, and projects happening right now in the Mahler community around the world.

We explore the composer, the thinker, the humanist Gustav Mahler not only in his life and works but also in how his legacy still informs essential aspects of the human experience and how we can turn that experience into a force for the good in today’s world.

Morten Solvik, Host and Producer
Francisco Bricio, Technical Producer
Monica Anguiano, Executive Coordinator
Marco Ayala, Community Manager

Mostly aired live the first Saturday of every month, September – April + May 18 and July 7.

Mahler’s Endings

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Lew Smoley, President, The Gustav Mahler Society New York
Lawrence F. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Pennsylvania

Every May we shift the normal Saturday timeslot of The Mahler Hour to commemorate Mahler’s passing on May ...
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Resurrection

Thursday, July 7th, 2022

Alejandra Urrutia, Conductor and Violinist
Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation

Every July we shift the normal Saturday timeslot of The Mahler Hour to commemorate Mahler’s birthday on July 7, 1860. On July 2022 the broadcast ...
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Oksana Lyniv and Ukraine

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Oksana Lyniv, Conductor, General Music Director, Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Alexandra Saitseva, Director, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Dmytro Cherepov, Violinist, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation

The tragedy unfolding in Ukraine demands ...
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Natalie Bauer-Lechner: Mahler’s Confidante

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Sybille Werner
Stephen Hefling
Beate Thalberg

Natalie Bauer-Lechner is remembered in the Mahler world as a close family friend for a period of almost 10 years who kept a detailed journal documenting her conversations with the great composer ...
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Four Perspectives on Mahler’s Second

Saturday, February 12th, 2022

Aaron Cohen, producer of Embrace Everything.
Marilyn McCoy, musical and historical advisor.
Jason Starr, producer and director of Mahler’s symphonies films.
Alexander Vivero, pianist.
Lawrence F. Bernstein.

Mahler’s Second Symphony is a work that continues to fascinate audiences, performers, and ...
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Alma and Gustav’s Letters

Saturday, January 22nd, 2022

Stephen McClatchie - Musicologist, Professor, Huron University College
Brian McMillan - Director, Music Library, University of Western Ontario
Francisco Bricio – Vice Chairman, Mahler Foundation

Personal letters are a window into the private lives and thoughts of ...
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An Around-the-World Performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony

Saturday, November 6th, 2021

Mark Strachan, founder of the Choir of the Earth
John Warner, Founder and Conductor of Orchestra for the Earth
Brenda Pruitt, Chorister
Ellie Blamires, Flutist
Arturo Gómez Poulat, Executive Director of Sociedad Mahler

Imagine Mahler’s Eighth Symphony performed by musicians around ...
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Exploring the World of Wunderhorn

Saturday, October 16th, 2021

Renate Stark-Voit
Thomas Hampson

This show will be dedicated to Mahler’s enchanting songs from the folk poetry collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn, we will explore why Mahler loved these texts, where they came from and what they inspired ...
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Meet the Mahler Foundation

Saturday, September 4, 2021

Mahler's Foundation Board

We kick off the second season of live webcasts with an inside look at Mahler Foundation: what we do, who is involved, and what drives our mission. Meet the members of the Board, ...
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Live from Steinbach!

July 7th, 2021

Steinbach am Attersee

This special edition of The Mahler Hour kicks off our second season of the show and celebrates Mahler’s 161st birthday! We will be streaming live from Steinbach am Attersee, where Mahler finished his Second ...
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I Remember Alma

April 10th, 2021

Marina Mahler, Alma’s granddaughter
Nuria Nono Schoenberg, daughter of Arnold Schoenberg
Paul Lester, Alma’s godson
Walter Arlen, composer and music journalist, another member of the Austrian ex-patriate community in California.

This edition of The Mahler Hour starts a new series of ...
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Friends, Festivals, and the Future

May 18th, 2021

Simon Reinink, Director of Het Concertgebouw and the Amsterdam Gustav Mahler Festival;
Monique Veaute, Director of the Spoleto Festival and her plans for a program in the spirit of The Song of the Earth;
Maestro Long Yu, Chairman ...
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Mahler in Spoleto

March 6th, 2021

Guy Robertson - Curator and Co-Director
Rachael Allen - Poet
James Cave - Composer
Brian O. Kepher - Conductor and Composer

This edition of The Mahler Hour will focus on “Mahler in Spoleto,” more specifically the Mahler & LeWitt Studios, ...
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What do we know about Mahler?

February 6, 2021

Srimal Weerasinghe and Vidhurinda Samareweera - Gustav Mahler Society of Colombo
Anna Stoll Knecht - Musicologist and author
Stephen Hefling - Co-Editor New Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Gustav Mahler
Stephen McClatchie - Editor The Mahler Family Letters.

Mahler in the Public Eye

January 9, 2021

Albrecht Schultze - Gustav Mahler Vereinigung in Hamburg
Alexander Meraviglia-Crivelli - Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
Dame Eveline Nikkels

We will explore how Mahler is presented and perceived by the broader public. An introduction to the Gustav Mahler Vereinigung in ...
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Iberoamerica

December 5th, 2020

Enrique Diemecke - Honorary President of the Sociedad Mahler
Francisco Bricio - Executive President of the Sociedad Mahler
Samuel Romo - Vice President of the Sociedad Mahler
Alejandra Urrutia - Conductor in Chile for the Gran Concierto por la Hermandad

The Song of the Earth Project

November 7, 2020