http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/05/why-mahler/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/05/why-mahler/comment-page-1/#comment-26040 Eva Arnott Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:56:25 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=22559#comment-26040 I just heard and excellent performance of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony by the BSO. What makes Lebrecht say it denies church dogma on the afterlife. The lines of the final chorus: “I shall fly upwards to that light to which no eye has penetrated! I shall die so as to live” sound quite orthodox to me.

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