After reading about Leonard Bernstein’s much-prized bumper sticker — courtesy of Jonathan Cott’s new book “Dinner With Lenny” — it was quite a thrill to discover that the “Mahler Grooves” slogan is doing good business on the Internet. I’m definitely going to place an order. (There are mugs too!) As for how the slogan was created in the first place, Alex Ross explained all in his The Rest Is Noise blog.
And here’s Bernstein’s grooved-up score of the Sixth Symphony.