MahlerFest XXXI
Monday, May 14 – Sunday, May 20, 2018
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
May 14 – Monday
May 15 – Tuesday
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Folk Chamber Music – Canyon Theater – Main Boulder Public Library
Part of the library’s 3rd Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series
Colorado MahlerFest Festival musicians Jesse Jones and Craig Butterfield
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This is a free event
May 16 – Wednesday
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Richard Strauss – Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
John McCabe – “Pilgrim” for String Sextet
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Daniel Silver (Clarinet)
Jorja Fleezanis (Violin I) – Karen Bentley Pollick (Violin II)
Erika Eckert (Viola I) – Lauren Spaulding (Viola II)
Parry Karp (Violoncello I)
Andrew Brown (Violoncello II in the Strauss)
Kenneth Woods (Violoncello II in the McCabe)
May 17 – Thursday
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (chamber version by Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn, 1983)
Click HERE to read about the 2018 MahlerFest Conducting Fellowship and the three conducting fellows.
This is a free event
May 18 – Friday
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Alexander Zemlinsky – Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Johannes Brahms – Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99
Jesse Jones – Phantasma for Solo Cello (2011)
George Enescu – Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 25
Karen Bentley Pollick (Violin)
Parry Karp (Violoncello)
Jennifer Hayghe (Piano)
This is a free event
4:45pm – 5:30pm – Group Dinner – Taj (Indian Buffet) – 2630 W Baseline Rd, Boulder, CO
May 19 – Saturday
Stephen E. Hefling – Case Western Reserve University (Emeritus)
“’The most personal thing I have yet created’: Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ”
Ofer Ben-Amots – Chair, Department of Music – Colorado College
“Time Formation in Mahler’s Compositional Technique”
Kenneth Woods – Artistic Director and Conductor, Colorado MahlerFest
“Conducting Mahler and Sibelius”
Jack Sheinbaum – Lamont School of Music – University of Denver
“Suspension, Fulfillment, and Fin de Siècle Orchestral Timbre in Das Lied von der Erde ”
David Auerbach – President, Colorado MahlerFest
“Sibelius and His Seventh Symphony”
Juha V. Mäkikalli – Honorary Consul of Finland, Colorado
“Sibelius and His Importance to the Finnish People – Historical and Modern”
Panel Discussion
Presentation Order subject to change.
This is a free event – Lunch: $15.00 (tickets available at the symposium)
6:30pm – Pre-concert Lecture and
7:30pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 20 – Sunday
10:00am – 11:30 am – Group Brunch – Chautauqua Dining Hall – Baseline Rd & 9th St, Boulder
2:30pm – Pre-concert Lecture and
3:30pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
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