In Search of Lost Time: Memory and Mahler's Broken Pastoral

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. PART I. CONTEXT AND IDEOLOGIES
5. Whose Gustav Mahler? Reception, Interpretation, and History 1
6. Mahler's Theater: The Performative and the Political in Central Europe, 1890-1910 55
7. Mahler's Jewish Parable 87
8. A Soldier's Sweetheart's Mother's Tale? Mahler's Gendered Musical Discourse 111
9. The Aesthetics of Mass Culture: Mahler's Eighth Symphony and Its Legacy 127
10. PART II. ANALYSIS AND AESTHETICS
11. Musical Lyricism as Self-Exploration: Reflections on Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" 159
12. " . . . the heart-wrenching sound of farewell": Mahler, Riickert, and the Kindertotenlieder 173
13. In Search of Lost Time: Memory and Mahler's Broken Pastoral 185
14. Aspects of Mahler's Late Style 199
15. PART III. MAHLER'S AMERICAN DEBUT
16. Mahler's American Debut: The Reception of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, 1904-1906 227
17. The American Premiere of Mahler's Fifth Symphony 239
18. Boston Symphony Orchestra 240
19. East Coast Tour 253
20. PART IV. MAHLER'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE GRITIGS
21. Mahler's German-Language Critics 267
22. Mahler as Conductor 272
23. The First Symphony 283
24. The Fifth Symphony 298
25. The Seventh Symphony 316
26. Das Lied von der Erde 332
27. Obituaries 344
28. The Mahler Amsterdam Festival, 1920 357
29. Index 381
30. Notes on the Contributors 391