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2020 Virtual Colorado MahlerFest 
May 13 to 17, 2020
*All videos available at 3:30 PM in the Mountain Time Zone and available indefinitely except where noted

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Wednesday, May 13

Welcome

Kenneth Woods

Welcome and Introduction – Kenneth Woods

Personal Message – The Honorable John Hickenlooper

Symposium

Mahler in Isolation

Philip Sawyers and Mahler

Mahler in Our Own Times

Schubert’s Final Piano Sonata

Envisioning Mahler Gallery

Korevaar and Schubert

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960

Ken and Ethan Shave

Thursday, May 14

Das Lied von der Erde

Stacey Rishoi – mezzo soprano

From MahlerFest XXXXI (2018)

Lieder Recital

MICHELLE DeYOUNG SINGS MAHLER Three Songs from Rückert-Lieder and Des Knaben Wunderhorn

ERIC McELROY The Fetch: Songs of the Uncanny

PHILIP SAWYERS Songs of Loss and Regret

MANUEL de FALLA Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (“Seven Spanish Folksongs”) 

Friday, May 15

Mahler and More 

Gustav Mahler

Hommage to Kandinsky

Kandinsky’s Composition IV inspired one of the main musical themes in Sawyers’ Hommage to Kandinsky

SAWYERS Hommage to Kandinsky

Saturday, May 16

Of Love, Death and Beyond

*Available for 24 hours only

STARR Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

Opera Online

WAGNER Die Walküre: Act I, arranged by Francis Griffin

Sunday, May 17

Mahler’s Second Symphony 

*Available for 24 hours only

MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C-minor

*All programming subject to change