The Marriage: Joseph Horowitz in conversation with Lillian Dabney and Dave Beck

Classical KING FM and Folio: The Seattle Atheneaum invite you to join Folio Librarian Lillian Dabney, and  host of Classical KING’s late morning show Dave Beck for a conversation with cultural historian Joseph Horowitz, author of the recently published novel The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York.

 Horowitz writes "My first novel tells the story of Gustav and Alma Mahler in New York City (1907-1911). Every Mahler biography known to me is written through European eyes and recapitulates Mahler's own ignorance of the New World — of the teeming musical life of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Marriage is partly conceived as a corrective. It is in fact the first book-length treatment of Mahler in New York ever written."

...Mahler was a great personality and, when circumstances permitted, a great man. He arrived in America weakened and fatigued. His energy and idealism were aroused by the New World, but fitfully .…