Alex Gallafent

Alex Gallafent

Alex Gallafent is the New York-based correspondent for The World. His reporting has taken him to Swaziland, Turkey, Chile, and India, among other places.

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Mahler’s Songs on the Death of Children

December 21, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Gustav Mahler. (Photo: Moritz Nähr/Wikipedia)

Gustav Mahler. (Photo: Moritz Nähr/Wikipedia)

One week after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary school, The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at the structures of grief and–in particular–Gustav Mahler’s song cycle, Kindertotenlieder.


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One comment for “Mahler’s Songs on the Death of Children”

  • http://twitter.com/510mlc Melissa Crockett

    Really beautiful, and haunting. Kindertotenlieder seems to really capture the mood for the past week. Such sadness.