Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler

The Embrace Everything podcast series is an exploration and celebration of the music of Gustav Mahler. Throughout his life Mahler insisted that music had to, literally, embrace everything. This makes his compositions unusually rich in what they offer both audience and musicians. It’s often delightfully quirky one moment and then deeply tragic the next. Mahler did not shy away from introducing the most low-brow, commonplace musical tune alongside the most radiantly sublime words in all of spiritual literature. Gustav Mahler meant what he said: music has to embrace everything.

Each season of the series explores a different Mahler symphony. The series will include more than 100 interviews with leading conductors, music scholars, and orchestral musicians—all of whom have extensive first-hand experience with the music, offering an abundance of insights into just what makes Mahler’s music so unique. Additionally, comments from Mahler and his contemporaries are read by actors throughout the programs. Each episode explores how Mahler drew not just from the world of music but from the other arts, from the world of nature, and from life itself. 

If you’ve enjoyed the series, we hope you’ll consider a tax-deductible contribution to ensure we can achieve our goal of producing a season for all the Mahler symphonies.  We have three suggested ongoing contribution levels:

 

Monthly update from producer & host Aaron Cohen that includes:
-News about podcast releases and special episodes, plus advance audio of new episodes.  
-Production progress report about new season and audio excerpt of work in progress.  
-Recommendations and links to new Mahler recordings.  
-Reviews of latest Mahler performances.  
-Monthly Mahler documentary recommendation.  
-Latest details about partnerships and appearances

-Quarterly “Sneak Peaks” with producer & host Aaron Cohen.  Aaron discusses progress on the new season, plays extended clips from the episodes in progress, and takes your questions. 

-Monthly update from Aaron Cohen (see Wunderhorn Level above).

-Individual 30-minute zoom conversation with producer & host Aaron Cohen

-Quarterly “Sneak Peaks” with Aaron Cohen.  (see Heavenly Life Level above) 

-Monthly update from Aaron Cohen (see Wunderhorn Level above).

 

For more specifics, see the Support page of the Embrace Everything website.