Tag Archives: GUstav Mahler

Mahler at 100: a medical history

January 30, 2017

Salvatore Mangione Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   The year 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Gustav Mahler, the man who, more than anyone else, heralded the advent of a new musical century. Mahler died from subacute bacterial endocarditis, which, while relatively unknown in 1911, has claimed the lives of many famous people and […]

The art of loss

January 23, 2017

Florence Gelo Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   All Alone, 2006, Deena Gu (Courtesy of the artist), watercolor on silk, 40 x 32 in. Three works by artist Deena Gu, All Alone, Blue and Blue, and Resurrection are examples of non-representational paintings in which an artist’s emotional journey was embodied in paint. All Alone greets me with the […]