The San Francisco Symphony’s DVD Keeping Score: Mahler—Origins and Legacy has been awarded Germany’s German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik), one of twelve annual awards given by the jury this year. The two-hour documentary on composer Gustav Mahler, hosted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, explores Mahler’s early life and music and his creative growth during his career; the DVD also includes a complete performance by the SFS of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”). The Keeping Score: Mahler series completes the SFS’s ten-year exploration of Mahler’s music, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2011. In announcing the award, Lothar Prox, chairman of the German Record Critics’ Award Association, said, “We know of no other major educational project in the arts since Lenny Bernstein’s legendary television programs with the New York Philharmonic that has achieved comparable success.”
Posted July 21, 2011
