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
- Click HERE for concert information and musician bios
- Click HERE to visit the Boulder Public Library Concert Series website
- 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