Although Berg followed Schoenberg in abandoning conventional tonal harmony and, later, in adopting twelve-tone compositions, his works reverberate with echoes of Wagner, Strauss, and, especially, Mahler, whom Berg worshipped to the point of stealing a baton form the maestro's dressing room.
The fate of the damned involves little more than petty nuisances (cold coffee), monotony (blowing bubbles for all eternity), irritation (a maestro in a room full of banjo players), rich irony (dogs carrying mailbags and picking up after themselves) and, of course, heat ("Hot enough for ya?" says one of the damned to another, with the caption, "Nerds in hell").
Mr. Gachechiladze entered his cell — a room in Maestro's headquarters the size of a small studio apartment — on Jan . 20 and he has left only once, to give a public concert in Tbilisi.
With a series of recent gigs in London, several thousand single sales and a new album in the pipeline, this eagerly-anticipated performance comes complete with appearances by the Tokyoblu DJ collective, while Edinburgh's answer to Soulwax, FutureB, join Ulster's Niall McKervey and three-deck maestro Little Grooves in the room next door.
My coach Óscar Tabárez, "El Maestro", was in a bad way in the dressing room.
But the star is Ryan Gosling, excellent in the role of Stephen Meyers, Morris's smart and idealistic press aide, working the room like a young maestro.
When the maestro is 20 minutes away from the rehearsal room, it is already hot.
Their next stop was a basement rehearsal room where Sixten Ehrling, the Swedish maestro was conducting an orchestra reading of "Gianni Schicchi".
You wonder what the miniature maestro himself, sitting backstage tonight in some green room at NBC's Rockefeller Plaza studios, feels as he watches on a TV.
With his new show, Maestro, Hodgson is appearing once again in the Voodoo Rooms, which is barely even a performance venue at all.
