This is lame, but my first thought is the bass solo in Mahler's 1st.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope, blood, Turandot] Reference

There's movement everywhere, which Mahler translates into music that soars and flies ever upwards in different levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

No fewer debts recall Mahler, as though Shostakovich were grinning at that composer's Ninth Symphony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The Mahler is a set of four songs that I will be playing, among many other things, with another friend, a tenor (high male voice).    From Wordnik.com.  [knitting neels] Reference

His approach is about feeling and aesthetics, rather than about technology and architecture; his Mahler was anything but clinical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously] Reference

Czechs have little or no idea that people such as Mahler, Freud, automobile giant Ferdinand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference

Mahler's massive work (note to those unfamiliar with his music: "Mahler" and "massive" are redundant) is subtitled "Resurrection.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicagoist] Reference

Douglas, his Mahler is my favorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

MONTAGNE: ... than the Mahler that we started with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slimming Down the Classics] Reference

It's every Mahler symphony to me is a it's really an adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

This year marks a hundred years since Mahler first performed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Years Of Mahler's 'Symphony Of A Thousand'] Reference

For Mahler, the moment signified the arrival of man in the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lang/LPO/Jurowski] Reference

You know, conducting, when Mahler did it, suddenly took on a leadership role.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

And it's also paying tribute to - his idol at this time, of course, was Mahler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

He may carve the reed a little thinner for Mozart, a little thicker for Mahler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference

SIMON: And I should mention, we left this piece out, that Mahler died in 1911.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

Orfe, who is only 14, produced a virtuoso piece clearly influenced by Mahler and Strauss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasies For An Orchestra] Reference

GREENBERG: I think for Mahler his symphonies were his operas, his all-inclusive artworks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Operatic Punch in Mahler's Symphonies] Reference

Féry employed his optical method of estimating the temperature, Mahler a process devised by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference

CONAN: In fact, that Mahler piece we began the program with, that's a pretty funny piece, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Quasthoff: A Mighty 'Voice' Soars] Reference

"To know Mahler is, ultimately, to know ourselves," he writes in his overwrought introduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs] Reference

John Adams will be here and I'm going to do fearful symmetries and then Mahler "Fifth Symphony.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bela Bartok: Finding a Voice Through Folk Music] Reference

And the meaning of this is Mahler is saying, yes, the enormous design and power of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Years Of Mahler's 'Symphony Of A Thousand'] Reference

(Soundbite of music) GREENBERG: So, you know, you just don't tempt certain things and Mahler did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Operatic Punch in Mahler's Symphonies] Reference

And every time I conduct a Mahler symphony, at the end I feel that my life has been changed somehow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

And the contrast between what Mahler does and the original does somehow give extra meaning to this music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Music with Tuneful 'Leftovers'] Reference

Ms. ALSOP: Well, the Seventh Symphony, for me, is every single Mahler symphony, I should say, is an adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

It was so well received, they started to issue a series of their Mahler performances that is now nearing completion.    From Wordnik.com.  [City By City, A Night At The Symphony] Reference

Also, the "Third Symphony" is a major full scale work, you know, it was compared at the time to the works of Mahler, even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copland: Early Music From America's Composer] Reference

Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, 42, returns to the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday with a program of Mahler and Bruch.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARTISTS SPEAK: Interview With Violinist Joshua Bell] Reference

And there's a beautiful pastoral melody that Mahler created for these words, which by the way, were of his own creation as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Operatic Punch in Mahler's Symphonies] Reference

As my great mentor and teacher Leonard Bernstein said, Mahler was the prophet of the 20th century, and I really think that's true.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

The chance to watch the musicians close up added immediacy, especially in the Mahler, which had more urgency than in the Albert Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC Proms 65 and 66 Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle] Reference

Ms. ALSOP: Well, you know, Mahler felt that Beethoven was his almost, you know, to use the lingo of the time, archetypal father figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference

So Mahler tried to avoid this fatalistic experience and instead of writing a ninth symphony at the time, he wrote "Das Lied von der Erde.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference