Your last concert was to see who and when?

Minneapolis had a real concert last Friday I attended .
MN Orch. playing the Barber Cello Concerto which is a VERY hard piece but was well played and interesting.
Followed by Mahler 2nd which is , IMO, perhaps the most over rated work extant.Well played though.

I'm looking forward to upcoming BSO performing Mahler 3rd Symphony. It's a draining piece but one of my favorites in that there is so much that goes on. Mahler 2nd....OK but not the same.

Mahler said " My time will come" .
It did in the 60's when art became some clown throwing globs of paint on canvas, drug fueled noise was accorded musical status etc etc etc.
The problem with Mahler is there is FAR too much going on and it all is focused on him and his monster ego.
In short, a boring navel gazer .

saw aerosmith at the oracle openworld private party last night. They sounded fantastic.

Mahler 3rd is a lot of things but drug fueled noise isn't one of them. Its perhaps the greatest singular work in the classical repertoire. That's a common assessment, not just mine. It's a grand journey from start to finish and has it all, perhaps more than many can handle in one big serving.

Ego is a common ingredient in a lot of great work. Some may just manage it better than others.

IMHO of course.