The Hamburg Ballet makes sense of Mahler with Third Symphony.
by Jena Cutie
Gustav Mahler's symphonies, less classical than romantic and avant-garde, are unique for their emotional complexity. Suggestively mournful, triumphant, brutal, fanciful, and riddled with stylistic contradictions, they'd remained unexplored by choreographers for years, despite their postwar popularity, because people supposed it'd take a miracle to make sense of them.…[ Read more ]