Tag Archives: Musicology

MahlerVision

Check out our YouTube channel! We release videos from each festival and have a playlist of educational videos and lectures. Here is the video of Mahler’s Second Symphony from May, 21, 2023.  

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Welcome

Join Our Mailing List!Colorado MahlerFest News and ReviewsClick the pic to read all about itMahlerFest “Rises” with Five Landmark ConcertsMahlerFest XXXVI (2023) Review by Kelly Dean Hansen “The luminous, celestial final strains of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony enveloped the crowd at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium on the afternoon of Sunday, May 21 in a moment of […]

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MahlerFest XXXII

If you reach this page, please visit the newest version here! MahlerFest XXXII Wednesday, May 15 – Sunday, May 19, 2019 This year’s featured work: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major Please check back often to view our evolving plans! Chamber Concerts and recitals Symposium with leading Mahler scholars Open Rehearsals And more May 15 […]

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Guest Profile – Donald Fraser

Donald Fraser British born, now a permanent US resident, British Academy Award winning Donald Fraser lives and works from his home outside of Chicago. Donald entered the Royal College of Music at age seventeen to study composing and conducting. His principal tutors were Sir Adrian Boult, Humphrey Searle and Alexander Goehr. He also studied with […]

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Guest Profile – Jerry Bruck

Jerry Bruck Since arriving in New York in 1961—as performances of Mahler’s music in America began to gain a foothold at last—Jerry Bruck has cemented a reputation as a recording engineer specializing in classical music. Along the way he worked at radio stations in St. Louis and New York as a broadcast engineer, and became […]

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Works Performed

Works Performed at the Colorado MahlerFest Original Works and Orchestrations by Gustav Mahler Year(s) of performance shown following title. Blumine 2006, 2019 (world premiere of new Critical Edition by Breitkopf & Härtel) Das klagende Lied (two-part version) 1991 Das klagende Lied (original three-part version) 2008 Das Lied von der Erde 1998, 2007, 2018 Das Lied von der Erde […]

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Stan Ruttenberg

Stan Ruttenberg  March 12, 1926 – February 12, 2017 Longtime Boulder resident Stan Ruttenberg died Sunday, February 12, 2017 at Balfour Senior Living in Louisville. He was 90.. Stan was born on Mar 12, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Edward Ruttenberg and Goldene (Moss) Ruttenberg, where the extended family was living after prior generations […]

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Guest Profile – Frans Bouwman

Frans Bouwman When the young Frans Bouwman heard the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony in his father’s 78 rpm recording by the Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, it led to a lifelong passion for the music of Mahler. At the age of 14, Bouwman started piano lessons and five years later […]

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Past Symposium Speakers

Speakers at MahlerFest Symposia David Auerbach Robert Bailey Leah Batstone Ofer Ben-Amots Wes Blomster Louise Bloomfield Frans Bouwman Jane K. Brown Jerry Bruck Steven Bruns Salvatore Calomino Jonathan Carr Alessandra Comini Peter Davison Henry-Louis de La Grange Louis Ekstein Stuart Feder Susan Filler Gerald Fox Peter Franklin Donald Fraser April Fredrick Marc Fulgham Jeffrey Ganz […]

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Guest Profile – Stephen Hefling

Stephen E. Hefling received the A. B. in music from Harvard and the Ph. D. from Yale, with a dissertation examining Mahler’s “Todtenfeier” movement from the dual perspectives of programmatic influence and compositional process as documented in Mahler’s surviving sketches and drafts. Currently Professor Emeritus of Music at Case Western Reserve University, he has also […]

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Guest Profile – Anna Stoll-Knecht

Anna Stoll Knecht Currently a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (Jesus College), Anna Stoll Knecht conducts research on Mahler’s interpretation of Wagner, both as a conductor and as a composer. Her publications include a monograph on Mahler’s Seventh Symphony (Oxford University Press, Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation, forthcoming); book […]

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Guest Profile: Kurt Schwertsik- Composer

Colorado MahlerFest was honored to have both Kurt and Christa Schwertsik as distinguished guests at MahlerFest XXIX. Kurt was the visiting composer and presented at the symposium, worked with the three composition fellows and the orchestra, and attended two performances of his Nachtmusiken given by Kenneth Woods and the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra. To commemorate Kurt’s […]

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The Complete Mahler

Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra 1988 – 2015 MahlerFest is pleased to make available a compilation of the “best of Colorado MahlerFest” from 20 years of recorded performances on one small thumb drive!* “The Complete Mahler” includes one performance of each Mahler work performed live over the years by the Colorado MahlerFest orchestra, led by Maestro Emeritus […]

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Traveling to Boulder

  Boulder, Colorado, home of the Colorado MahlerFest, is located 25 miles northwest of Denver, situated at the foot of the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Mahler himself couldn’t have asked for more inspirational scenery! And in fact, there is a mountain nearby named after Mahler. Read the story here.   Sign up for our e-newsletter here. […]

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