MahlerFest XXX
Dedicated to the Memory of Stan Ruttenberg
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10
(Cooke III performance version)
and
Edward Elgar (arr. D. Matthews): String Quartet in e, op.83
arranged for string orchestra (2010)
(U.S. Premiere)
Monday, May 15 – Sunday, May 21, 2017
For a printable schedule, please click here
May 15 – Monday
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 16 – Tuesday
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 17 – Wednesday
7:30pm – Chamber Concert – Dairy Center for the Arts
- Reserved Seats are $20.00 ($10.00 for students) and are available from the Dairy Box Office.
- Click HERE for complete details and the biographies of the performers.
G. Kurtág – Signs, Games, Messages (Jelek, Játékok és Üzenetek)
D. Matthews – Romanza for Violin and Piano, Op. 119a
G. Mahler / A. Schnittke – Quartet for Piano and Strings (fragments)
— Intermission —
F. Schubert – Quintet for Strings in C, D. 956, Op. posth. 163
James Stern – Violin (Mahler/Schnittke, Kurtág, Schubert) ♦
Karen Bentley Pollick – Violin (Schubert)
David Yang – Viola (Mahler/Schnittke, Kurtág, Schubert) ♦
Kenneth Woods – Cello (Kurtág, Mahler/Schnittke, Schubert) ♦
Jennifer Hayghe – Piano (Mahler/Schnittke)
Eliana Razzino Yang – Cello (Schubert)
♦ member of the Ensemble Epomeo String Trio
May 18 – Thursday
1:30pm – 3:30pm – Conducting Master Class – Boulder Public Library
Canyon Theater – Free – Open Seating- Chamber Version of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
- Featuring the three conducting Fellows, Maestro Kenneth Woods, and composer David Matthews
- For details, please click HERE
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 19 – Friday
2:00pm – Film – Ken Russell’s Mahler – Boedecker Theater, Dairy Center
- For details about the film, click HERE
5:00pm – 6:30 pm – Group Dinner – Taj Restaurant – 2630 W Baseline Rd
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Dress Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 20 – Saturday
8:30am – 12:15pm – Symposium (morning session) – Room C199, Imig Building, CU Campus
- Free – Open Seating
- Frans Bouwman
- “Transcribing Mahler 10: what does it show?”
- David Matthews
- “Mahler’s 10th Symphony – Restored to Life”
- Kenneth Woods
- “A Conductor’s view of Mahler’s 10th”
- Jerry Bruck (assisted by Louise Bloomfield)
- “In Search of Mahler: A Personal Recollection”
12:15pm – 1:15pm – Lunch – Atrium, Atlas Building, CU Campus
1:15pm – 3:30pm – Symposium (afternoon session) – Room 102, Atlas Building, CU Campus
- Panel Discussion – David Matthews, Donald Fraser, Frans Bouwman, Kenneth Woods
- Film: For the Love of Mahler – The Inspired Life of Henry-Louis de La Grange, a film by Jason Starr
Presented In Memory of Henry-Louis de La Grange
6:30pm – Pre-concert Lecture and
7:30pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
- Edward Elgar (arr. David Matthews): String Quartet in e, opus 83– arranged for string orchestra (2010)
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Cooke III performance version)
- Maestro Kenneth Woods conducting the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
- The concert will last just over two hours (including an intermission).
May 21 – Sunday
10:00am – 11:30 am – Group Brunch – Turley’s – NE Corner of Pearl Street and 28th Street (US. 36)
2:30pm – Pre-concert Lecture and
3:30pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
- Edward Elgar (arr. David Matthews): String Quartet in e, opus 83– arranged for string orchestra (2010)
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Cooke III performance version)
- Maestro Kenneth Woods conducting the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
- The concert will last just over two hours (including an intermission).