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Originally Posted by AudioNut
The most remarkable story about Mahler's Second Symphony is that of Gilbert Kaplan - an economist and owner/publisher of The Institutional Investor - who loved this gorgeous piece of music so much - that he learned to conduct, and hired muisicians and a hall,so that he might conduct the symphony . . . .and bought Mahler's original manuscript
I guess that after Mr. Kaplan sold The Institutional Investor for $72,000,000, he had a little left over to jump-start his conducting career.
See: Gilbert Kaplan: Desperately seeking Mahler | The Economist
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Gilbert Kaplan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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That's right, Julian. I've heard about him and I can see how he got obsessed with Mahler's 2nd. Somehow Mr. Kaplan got good enough to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra doing the Resurrection and have the performance recorded by DG on an SACD. In that sense he's peers with Karajan, Bernstein, Abbado, Solti, etc. That's saying something.
Unfortunately I don't have millions to learn how to conduct and hire my own orchestra, chorus and soloists, so I'll just stick with buying CDs for now.
