KBAQ Book of the Month for June

KBAQ's Randy Kinkel reviews "The Life of Mahler" by Peter Franklin, a well-written and comprehensive introductory biography;  A new look from a different angle that succeeds in separating myth from fact.  As a leading European conductor and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) became the subject of much criticism during his lifetime. Going behind the facade of "misunderstood hero, " Peter Franklin's illuminating biography shows Mahler as a profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, but a dictatorial conductor and husband.