Throughout his lifetime, Mahler had been dancing with death. 馬勒的一生都在與死亡共舞。
He revived the works of Mahler and Nielsen and programmed such contemporary music,even if he,a dedicated tonalist,was uncomfortable with it. 他把馬勒和尼爾森的作品重新搬上舞台,同時編排了當代音樂曲目,儘管他這個對音調極其講究的音樂家但對當代音樂並不喜歡。