{"id":1799,"date":"2020-04-13T11:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2020-04-13T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T15:01:17","slug":"the-eighth-mahler-and-the-world-in-1910-by-stepehen-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1800\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1800 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sj-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sj-187x300.jpg 187w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sj.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Barry Forshaw writes:<\/em> There was a time when the composer Mahler was something of a specialist taste, admired by the cognoscenti but whose music was much neglected since his death, despite such advocates as Bruno Walter. How times have changed! Mahler&#8217;s name is now a guarantee of box office success in concert halls, and his own, much-quoted dictum, &#8216;My time will come&#8217;, has proved prescient. There have been many books on the composer (with important contributions by Deryk Cooke and Michael Kennedy), but Steven Johnson&#8217;s new volume is unique, concentrating on the composer&#8217;s mighty Eighth Symphony (the &#8216;Symphony of a Thousand&#8217;), setting the piece and Mahler&#8217;s work in general within the context of the world and society he lived in. This is a book written with both passion and scholarship that will send listeners to the composer afresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Forshaw writes: There was a time when the composer Mahler was something of a specialist taste, admired by the cognoscenti but whose music was much neglected since his death, despite such advocates as Bruno Walter. How times have changed! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-classical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}