Mike Leghorn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Interesting subject: "Mahler's most perfect symphonies".  Dave [Lampson]
>chose 1, 5, 6, 7, 9.

The word "perfect" is completely inapplicable to any of the Mahler
symphonies which are messy mercurial and patched together because human
experience is messy and mercurial and patched together.

Bernard Chasan