Mahler's Ninth

Sunday, May 17, 3:30 PM
Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant Street, Boulder

2:30 PM | Pre-concert talk on Bernstein and Mahler 9 with Kenneth Woods and Joseph Horowitz

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Mahler was unaware that he would not live past the age of 50 when he composed Symphony No. 9. Many have espoused that every bar is filled with a sense of foreboding and despair, but Mahler's dualism is ever-present. When he's happy, he's sad. When he's tragic, he's hopeful. We open the concert with Brinton Smith performing Elgar's Cello Concerto, the visionary work which saw Elgar exploring a more intimate and compact, musical language following the cataclysm of World War I.

ELGAR | Cello Concerto – Sponsored by Joan Cleland
MAHLER | Symphony No. 9 in D major

MahlerFest Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, Conductor
Brinton Smith, Cello