2/4 What The Universe Tells Me (GREAT Documentary on Mahler's 3rd Symphony)
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2011
- This is one of the best documentaries I've seen about any piece of music or composer.
Amazon's official review reads: "What the Universe Tells Me is probably the deepest, most painstakingly detailed but also approachable attempt to decipher the inner dynamics of a complex work of art ever entrusted to any recording medium". Bold statement, but I certainly agree with it.
I'm not trying to rip anyone by posting this. On the contrary, I try to promote this work and I really encourage anyone to buy this DVD. With the DVD you'll also get an hour long extras on various subjects ("The artist as a prophet" concept, the premiere, Mahler's relationship with the public, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, The Youth's Magic Horn songs) and the full performance of the 3rd that is featured in the documentary.
By the way, the same director (Jason Starr) is preparing a similar documentary about Mahler's 2nd symphony, called "The resurrection of Gustav Mahler" 
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As usual Mahler shows some of the sharpest contradictions possible in nature -- ecstasy and despair, childlike innocence and philosophical depth, intimacy and distance... and it still makes sense.
Best and shortest description I read on Mahler. :thumbs-up:
mahler truly embraced all of life as an artist
Mahler lives!!
And so his time has come...
Just so all viewers are clear on this: the interpretations you hear, by various "experts", are just that: personal, subjective interpretations, not necessarily even slightly connected with what might have been going through Mahler's mind when he wrote this piece.
I love this symphony with a passion that's impossible to explain, but for me the airy-fairy pseudo-psychological crap-laden descriptions and travelogue images in this documentary hinder, rather then help, an audience's enjoyment of the piece. It is interesting to know details of Mahler's life, but these details might have only the most tenuous relationship, or even no relationship at all, with the music. We CANNOT know what Mahler really "meant", what he was thinking or feeling. It is rather for us as individuals to bring our own experience, education, and artistic temperament to the listening of this piece.
But we non-experts are as prone to making our own pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-psychological, pseudo-musicological, and pseudo-scientific assessments of so massive, and yet so human, a work as this masterpiece.
Mahler means exactly what we hear in his music -- if we like it. Such is his genius. In that he is no different from such a composer influential upon him as Haydn or (paradoxically) the 19th-century composer who composed least like him, Frederic Chopin. I can hear the influence of Chopin upon Mahler here, if through the Wunderhorn Lieder.
4:40 to 4:47 . God spoke through Mahler in this passage . just a wow moment
I think Teilhard de Chardin would have liked this Symphony- at least the idea underlying it.