MahlerFest 38*
Defiance, Protest, Resistance, & Remembrance
May 14-18, 2025

More masterclasses, social events, and other activities to be announced.

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Donor Event: Recital and Cocktail Party with Tallā Rouge
Saturday, May 10, 7 PM
Academy University Hill

Photo by Glenn Ross

Opening Night: Death Takes a Vacation
Wednesday, May 14, 7:30 PM
Mountain View United Methodist Church

ULLMANN | Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung (The Emperor from Atlantis or the Disobedience of Death)

Songs of Protest and Resistance
Thursday, May 15, 3 PM
Canyon Theater at the Boulder Public Library

MAHLER | “Revelge” (Reveille)
SAWYERS | Songs of Loss and Regret
MAHLER | “Der Tamboursg’sell” (The Drummer Boy)
MAHLER | “Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen” (Where the Fair Trumpets Sound)
SCHUBERT | “Kriegers Ahnung” (Warrior’s Foreboding)
SHOSTAKOVICH |  “Réponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople”
(Response of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Sultan of Constantinople) from Symphony No. 14
MAHLER | “Lob des hohen Verstandes” (Praise of Lofty Intellect)
Spirituals and protest songs TBD

Chamber Music
Friday, May 16, 7 PM
Roots Music Project

SCHULHOFF | String Sextet
SHOSTAKOVICH | String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108
More TBD

Phot by Mark Bobb

Return to Liederland: Mahler, Metal, & Metaphysics
Friday, May 16, 9 PM
Roots Music Project

Including excerpts from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, and Das Lied von der Erde

MahlerFest 38 Symposium
Saturday, May 17, Time TBD
Academy Mapleton Hill

Speakers to include Michael Hass, Jeremy Barham, and Marilyn McCoy

Celebrating Peace
Saturday, May 17, 7:30 PM
Macky Auditorium

MAHLER | Totenfeier
PRITCHARD | Seven Halts on the Somme, Concerto for Trumpet and Strings
KORNGOLD | Symphony in F-sharp, Op. 40

MahlerFest Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, Conductor
Daniel Kelly, trumpet

Photo by Mark Bobb

Mahler 6
Sunday, May 18, 3:30 PM
Macky Auditorium

MARTINU | Memorial to Lidice
STILL | Dismal Swamp
MAHLER | Symphony No. 6 in A-minor

MahlerFest Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, Conductor
TBA, piano

*All details subject to change