MahlerFest XXXVI – Rise Again
May 17-21, 2023
On the final pages of his epic Second Symphony, the choir triumphantly sing “Rise again! You shall rise again!”
MahlerFest XXXVI celebrates humanity’s capacity for resilience and renewal in a festival week that culminates with Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 2 and Thea Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising. Festival audiences will embark on a journey beginning on May 17, with our performance of Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre, a work that Mahler idolized and that encapsulates a hero’s embrace of a doomed love. We will transport ourselves back in time at our Liederabend (Evening of Song), a unique re-creation of a 1905 concert of Mahler’s orchestral songs that he conducted in Vienna. Our symposium will showcase brilliant scholars, providing context and counterpoint that will add richness to your experience of the week’s diverse musical offerings. Mahler’s profound influence on the next generation is celebrated with performances of the String Sextet by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who Mahler mentored as a child prodigy, and the U.S. premiere of the Fourth Symphony of Hans Gál, who as a young music student would watch Mahler’s weekly rehearsals at the Vienna Opera and who would later teach Thea Musgrave.
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Social dinners and other activities will be added as they are scheduled. As of March 9, 2023, this calendar includes
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"Opera and More: Wagner and Gál" Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | 7:30 PM | $5-50 Kenneth Woods & Peter Davison
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"Donor Event: Backstage at Macky" Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 10:30 AM & 11:30 AM | FREE FOR DONORS Macky
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"Solo Journeys” Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 3 PM | $5-20 Chamber Music at the Church Mountain View United Methodist
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Film: Ken Russell's Mahler (1974) Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 7 PM | $5-10 The Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Arts
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CANCELED Unfortunately, we have had to cancel this event. For the reasons mentioned below, we feel strongly that this type
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"Generation Next - Mahler's Musical Heirs" Friday, May 19, 2023 | 7:30 PM | $5-30 Chamber Music at the Church
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"Authors and Editors - The MahlerFest XXXVI Symposium” Saturday May 20, 2023 | 9 AM to 4:30 PM | FREE
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"Mahler's Liederabend" Saturday, May 20, 2023 | 7:30 PM | $5-55 Re-creation of January 29, 1905 Concert in Vienna Macky
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"Mahler and Musgrave” Sunday, May 21, 2023 | 3:30 PM | $5-70 Kenneth Woods will give a pre-concert discussion at
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For information about the Symposium on Saturday, May 20, click here. "Violin Masterclass with Caroline Chin" Monday, May 15,
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Below is a list of all of the open rehearsals for MahlerFest XXXVI, Rise Again, May 17-21, 2023. You are welcome
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One of the things that makes MahlerFest so special is the community we build when Mahlerites come together. Many of
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Click on the logos in the map for more information about each location. The Academy 970 Aurora Avenue, Boulder,
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 5 PM | Private Garden in Northeast Boulder | $150 Join us for
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All programming and artists subject to change.
