"The Refuge" for April 2, 2025
The Midweek Edition
Racing Towards Entropy
A pitfall of framing great works as "classics" is that their most obvious features tend to get progressively emphasized, resulting in massively distorted interpretations. The celebrated Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony is just one of many notable victims. At the symphony's premiere, Mahler conducted it in seven and a h…
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