Keeping Score

Copland and the American Sound
Explore what brought Copland to write music that gave Americans a sense of identity.

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Publicly condemned, Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony saved his life. Was there a hidden meaning?

Gustav Mahler: Legacy
Part two of Keeping Score: Mahler explores the composer’s creative growth from the 1890s to his death.

Gustav Mahler: Origins
In part one of Keeping Score: Mahler, MTT journeys to rural Bohemia to find the roots of the composer’s symphonic world.