Deryk Barker replies to me:

>>...  Mahler's lieder, however, are better than his symphonies to
>>introduce his sound world.
>
>You're not the first to say this, but I must disagree.  I know many people
>(my younger self included) who simply did not like vocal music, period.
>Lieder are not going to get these people into Mahler.

2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th.  symphonies neither....Those boys will loose a lot
of Mahler, then.

>>...the fourth, sixth and tenth symphonies are contained in it.  (Hey,
>>don't spit on me, I began to hear Mahler through his symphonies too!).
>
>I would never spit on you, but I still think it's piffle.

I hope so!.  It's just an expression, translated literally from spanish.

Pablo Massa
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