Southfield Concert postponed

Elizabeth Bishop had her share of achievements and disappointments. I think her life was quite full, but she said to her friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell: “When you write my epitaph, you must say I was the loneliest person who ever lived.”

Michael Marcus writes to us from the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam and tries to answer the questions: Why Mahler? And why Mahler now?

Remembering my mother on Mother's Day.