MahlerFest XXXV Symposium
Saturday, May 21, 2022 | 9 AM – 4 PM | FREE
Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder

We will eat lunch in the church multi-purpose room. Sandwiches from Deadalus (formerly Cured), including a vegetarian option, will be available to purchase.

Peter Franklin

9 AM | Mahler’s Nietzsche: Philosophical Resonances in the Early Symphonies | Leah Batstone – Musicologist specializing in the intersections of art music, philosophy, and politics in fin-de-siècle Austria and 20th-century Ukraine

10:15 AM | “Now all is darkness” – Self-will and missed connections in Bluebeard’s Castle | April Fredrick – Soprano; opera, concert and recording artist

11:30 AM | Mirroring the world? What a sentimental trombone, a distant posthorn, and The Bird of the Night tell us about a symphony | Peter Franklin – Emeritus Fellow, St Catherine’s College and author of several books on Mahler

12:30 PM | Lunch – on your own or eat at the venue with the speakers, link coming soon to preorder

1:45 PM | Interpreting Mahler’s 3rd Symphony | Kenneth Woods – Colorado MahlerFest Artistic Director

3 PM | Mahler’s 3rd Symphony – insights on the first critical edition from the editor’s desk | Nick Pfefferkorn – Breitkopf and Härtel, Managing Partner and Publishing Director

What to Expect

Mountain View United Methodist is a beautiful building located in the Frasier Meadows neighborhood. There is plenty of free parking in the lot on the west side of the building and the surrounding surface streets. The main doors are on the west side of the building just south of the sanctuary (and north of the school wing). You’ll enter there and make your way through a spacious lobby to the sanctuary. The church holds about 250 people with chairs on the main floor and pews in the balcony.

The symposium is a casual affair. Each talk will be about an hour with a short break between them. Lunch will be available for a small fee providing you the opportunity to mingle with other Mahlerites and a chance to chat with the symposium speakers.