Mahler

Faust's Utopia

Paul Guest | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Entertainment
Paul Guest

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust is one of the central myths of the Western world.

Should We Applaud Between Movements?

Paul Guest | Posted 03.12.2012 | Home
Paul Guest

Every summer I sit amazed and delighted at the BBC Proms audience who so enthusiastically, and yet often politely, applaud between movements while I so often sneakily snigger at the woman, a being of the utmost conventional practice, sitting in front who would always shake her hear in utter disapproval at the vulgarity of such a concept.

Thoughts on Interpretation

Paul Guest | Posted 19.04.2012 | Home
Paul Guest

An interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of another's artistic or creative work: an elucidation: An interpretation of Mahler's 2nd Symphony, for example.