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A Stylish Journey Across Austria

Ariston Anderson | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Bentley Grand Tour, Luxury Collection, Bentley, Salzburg, Austria, Starwood-Hotels-Luxury-Collection, Vienna, Life Ball, Classical Music, Mahler, Musikverein, Fuschl, Slidepollajax, Travel News

This was one of Mahler's favorite locales. He often came to dine straight from the opera, still in coat and tails. Guests mistook him for a waiter.

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Berliners Give U.S. Audience Goosebumps

AP | By RONALD BLUM | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Video, Mahler, Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle, Mahler Second Symphony, Simon Rattle Berlin Philharmonic, Bruckner Ninth Symphony, Bruckner, Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Carnegie Hall, Culture News

NEW YORK -- When 12-year-old Simon Rattle heard Mahler's Second Symphony live for the first time, he concluded he wanted to be a conductor. Forty-fiv...

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An Orchestra Worth A Thousand Pictures

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Video, Mahler, Mahler Project Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gustav Mahler, Time Lapse Walt Disney Concert Hall, Mahler Project, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Culture News

Forty-eight hours of sequential photos, 1,000 musicians and the production of one of the largest classical choral productions in history seems like a ...

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Haiku Reviews: 'Hair', Cirque du Soleil and Some Electric Cellos

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Mahler, Walt Disney Hall, Peter Frank, Andrea Zittel, Hair the Musical, Lisette Model, George Heymont, Classical Music, Eric Doeringer, Burgoyne Diller, Video, Art, Laurence Vittes, April Gornik, Abstract Art, Doug Ohlson, Melissa Meyer, Robert Therrien, Cirque Du Soleil, Clinton Hill, Handel Streams of Pleasure, Johannes Brahms, Theatre, David Mamet, Fay Ray, Haiku Reviews, Gustavo Dudamel, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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PHOTOS: Top 10 Artists' Muses and Mistresses

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Dada, Allen, Artist Inspiration, Alma Schindler, Mahler, Kate Moss, Godard, Auguste Rodin, Mistress, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Keaton, Picasso, Queen of Montparnasse, Models, Muses and Mistresses, Artist Mistress, 1920s, Manet, Sedgwick, Moss, Muse, Women, Anna Karina, Artist Muse, Pop Art, Warhol, Freud, Kiki De Montparnasse, Olympia, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Edie Sedgwick, Rodin, Man Ray, Inspiration, Art History, Sex, Marie-Therese Walter, Annie Hall, Jean Luc Godard, Top 10, Lucian Freud, The Factory, Femme Fatale, Artist Models, Sexy, Arts News

The old saying tells us that "Behind every great man there is a great woman," but oftentimes artists keep their beauties right where they can see them...

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Orchestra Breaks Wagner Taboo In Germany

AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Mahler, Nazi, Holocaust, Opera, Music, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Barenboim, Bayreuth, Classical Music, Jerusalem, Germany, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, International Relations, Israel, Mendelssohn, Arts News

BERLIN — An Israeli orchestra on Tuesday broke a taboo as it played the music of Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in Germany. ...

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Israeli Orchestra To Break Wagner Taboo In Germany

AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Mahler, Holocaust, Nazi, Opera, Music, Barenboim, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Bayreuth, Classical Music, Jerusalem, Germany, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, International Relations, Israel, Mendelssohn, Arts News

BERLIN — An Israeli orchestra is set to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germa...

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What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Masters Apprentices, A View to a Kill, Sting, Nusrat Fateh, Global Zero, Gary Burton, Sinead O'Connor, Doug Martsch, Geoff Emmerick, Alan Parsons, Queen Noor, Nike, Chick Corea, Yes, Jonathan Elias, Simon Le Bon, Chaplin, Keith Jarrett, Alan Freed, Desmund Tutu, Steve Swallow, Daniel Lanois, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, 9 1/2 Weeks, Bach, Mahler, Sonic Youth, Pat Metheny, The Police, Andy Warhol, Michael Jordan, Robert Downey Jr., Herbie Hancock, Keith Haring, Duke Ellington, Alien, Jimmy Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Joni Mitchell, John Taylor, Stravinsky, Linda Manzer, Children of the Corn, Paul Simon, David GIlmour, Lady GaGa, Bud Powell, Nels Cline, Grace Jones, Miles Davis, The Beatles, John Barry, Yahoo, Lyle Mays, Charlie Chaplin, Carly Simon, Yo La Tengo, Ralph Bakshi, Duran Duran, Debussey, Salif Keita, Mtv, Mick Ronson, Prayer Cycle, Jon Anderson, Brian Blade, The Doors, Randy Newman, Alanis Morrisette, Ali Khan, Stephen Malkmus, Wes Montgomery, Gorbachov, Entertainment News

Pat Metheny's new album is titled What's It All About, which is based off a line from the song "Alfie." Since this is an unusual approach for Pat Metheny, he tracked him down to talk about it.

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From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nea, The Commodores, Daniel Radcliffe, Funkadelic, Spider-Man, Josh Groban, The Kennedy Center, Keith Jarret, Miles Davis, Billy Joel, Jochem Van Der Saag, Otis Redding, Alexa Ray Joel, Ellis Marsalis, Shostakovich, David Foster, Delfeayo Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis, Brahms, Charlie Parker, James Brown, Parliament, Branford Marsalis, New York Philharmonic, Frankie Trumbauer, Ornette Coleman, Led Zeppelin, Peter Cincotti, Mahler, December Boys, Humberto Gatica, Donald Harrison, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Montreal Jazz Festival, Sidney Bechet, Pink Floyd, Teo Macero, American Idol, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Prokofiev, Sting, Entertainment News

Legendary jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis has been accumulating a series of honors, with the upcoming NEA's Jazz Masters Award being one of the most prestigious yet.

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CultureZohn: The Carnegie Hall Youthquake

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Programs with the YouTube Orchestra, Dudamel and Lang Lang make it seem as if this classic hall is shedding its restraints.

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Dudamel Begins New Era at L.A. Philharmonic

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Van Cliburn, Philharmonic, Mahler, Lenny Bernstein, 60 Minutes, Disney Hall, Gustavo Dudamel, City Noir, Entertainment News

On Thursday, Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new podium chief, bedazzled an elite crowd, sold to the walls and thronged with celebrities.

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Music and Memory: Listening to 9/11

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music, 9/11 Anniversary, Bruckner, Mahler, Alan Gilbert, New York City, New York News

Friends who know how much I like to program my day with music in this way frequently ask me what I listen to on 9/11, but it's not easy to answer.

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