{"id":9368,"date":"2018-10-22T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:46:12","slug":"fascistic-mahler-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/22\/fascistic-mahler-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascistic Mahler Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pilotonline.com\/entertainment\/article_fc494171-90c5-5767-8780-16b91696a541.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Virginian-Pilot<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>A concert-goer rustled a bag of gum during a Mahler symphony. A &#8220;violent attack&#8221; ensued.<\/h1>\n<p>By Isaac Stanley-Becker<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjz2TvC2TT4\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is said to represent the composer&#8217;s love letter to his new bride. And, like love, the Adagietto transports those who receive it &#8211; its atmospheric notes offering release from the grim foreboding and frenetic outbursts of the earlier movements of Gustav Mahler&#8217;s 5th Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>But worldly concerns have a way of intruding: an iPhone light, a candy wrapper, one too many trips to the restroom.<\/p>\n<p>The rustling of a gum wrapper at a performance of the symphony last week in the Swedish city of Malmo brought a section of the audience back down to earth, and brought several concertgoers to blows. Mahler&#8217;s late Romantic epic became the occasion for an epic clash over candy.<\/p>\n<p>As Andris Nelsons, an eminent Latvian conductor, coaxed the quiet notes from the string section of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a woman in the balcony rustled a bag of gum, the Sydsvenskan newspaper reported. A young man sitting next to her glared a few times and then lost his patience. He snatched the bag from her and threw it onto the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told the daily newspaper published in southern Sweden that the woman sat stoically through the rest of the Adagietto, which typically lasts about 10 minutes (&#8220;very slow,&#8221; Mahler instructed in the score), and the vigorous and triumphant finale. The symphony, composed in 1901 and 1902, has been described as a &#8220;large-scale journey,&#8221; similar to climbing Mount Everest. Leonard Bernstein conducted the Adagietto at the funeral services for Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>But as the concert hall vibrated with the final, resounding notes, and as applause rang out, she exacted her revenge&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/pilotonline.com\/entertainment\/article_fc494171-90c5-5767-8780-16b91696a541.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Virginian-Pilot<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Virginian-Pilot A concert-goer rustled a bag of gum during a Mahler symphony. A &#8220;violent attack&#8221; ensued. By Isaac Stanley-Becker It is said to represent the composer&#8217;s love letter to his new bride. And, like love, the Adagietto transports those who receive it &#8211; its atmospheric notes offering release from the grim foreboding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}