MAHLER, GUSTAV (1860 - 1911) – The musical titans of the past all possessed the facility to tap into the eternal. I use the past tense without hesitation: Mahler was possibly the last of the truly great composers. His successors are incapable of greatness, not because of personal shortcomings (though all too often contemporary composers are querulous and pre-occupied their own celebrity and political stance) but an absence of inspiration. Just as the skies have been polluted but excessive light from the planet, our spirits have been dimmed by external stimuli.

 

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