Keeping Score: Mahler Origins

Synopsis

Focusing on Mahler's birth, conflicted childhood and early influences in the backwoods of Bohemia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, through his student days in Vienna and early song-writing to his emerging triumph as a conductor in concert halls all over Europe. The premiere of his own First Symphony in Budapest in 1888 shocked the contemporary audience, but this ground-breaking work, Tilson Thomas explains, contains many of the seeds of everything else that Mahler composed.

CAST

David Kennard

Director

Joan Saffa

Director

Michael Tilson Thomas

Narrator

David Kennard

Director

Joan Saffa

Director

Michael Tilson Thomas

Narrator