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MahlerFest in the News

• • “Musgrave and Mahler” – Guy Rickards, Klassisk Musikk, November 28, 2024 (the link will open in Norwegian but there is an English option in the address bar)

  • “Mahler: Symphony 2 (Colorado MahlerFest)” – John Quinn, MusicWebInternational.com, August 15, 2024

  • “‘Mahlerei’ -As Inspired by Zero Mostel” – Joseph Horowitz, Unanswered Question (An Arts Journal blog), August 12, 2024

  • “On the Record – MahlerFest XXXII: Joshua DeVane Sings Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kenneth Woods Conducts Symphony No. 1” – Review by Richard Whitehouse on Arcana.fm, July 22, 2024

  • “On Record – MahlerFest XXXVI: Kenneth Woods Conducts ‘Resurrection’ Symphony & Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising” – Review by Richard Whitehouse on Arcana.fm, July 19, 2024

  • “Colorado MahlerFest XXXVI (CD Review)” – Karl Nehring, Classical Candor, June 26, 2024

  • “Woods Builds Biggest MahlerFest Around Smallest Symphony” – Kelly Dean Hansen, Freelance Classical Music Writer, June 5, 2024

  • “Why Colorado MahlerFest Matters” – Joseph Horowitz, Unanswered Question (an Arts Journal blog), May 24, 2024

  • “MahlerFest 2024 Explores Connections” – Peter Alexander, Sharps and Flatirons Blog, May 14, 2024

  • “MahlerFest” – Grantee Profile for the Boulder Arts Commission/City of Boulder, Emi Smith, May 14, 2024

  • “Moving Mountains” – Kelly Dean Hansen, Boulder Weekly COVER ARTICLE, May 8, 2024

  • “Embracing Everything with Colorado MahlerFest” – Emma Mantooth, SCFD Newsletter and website, May 2, 2024

  • “Online Concert – April Fredrick, Stacey Rishoi, Brennen Guillory, Gustav Andreassen, Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra / Kenneth Woods: Mahler’s Liederabend” – Richard Whitehouse, Arcana.FM, January 8, 2024

  • “Talking Heads: Kenneth Woods – Ten Years After…” – Richard Whitehouse, Arcana.FM, October 11, 2023

  • “MahlerFest XXXV (CD Review)” – Karl Nehring, Classical Candor, August 23, 2023

  • “The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York” – Peter Davison, Corymbus blog (Peter Davison reviewing Joseph Horowitz’s book after they met at the MahlerFest 36 Symposium), June 6, 2023

  • “Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection,” Boulder Chorale, Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra, Kenneth Woods (Conductor), Macky Auditorium” – David Woodward, review published in The Wayfarer, the newsletter of The Gustav Mahler Society of the United Kingdom

  • “MahlerFest ‘Rises’ with Five Landmark Concerts” – Kelly Dean Hansen, freelance music writer, June 4, 2023

  • “Boulder’s 36th (!) Mahlerfest — A Communal Labor of Love” – Joseph Horowitz, Unanswered Question (an Arts Journal blog), May 23, 2023

  • “Celebrating Mahler: How Colorado Became Home to the Longest-Running Festival for One of the World’s Greatest Composers” – Henry Carnell, 5280.com, May 17, 2023

  • “MahlerFest Will ‘Rise Again’ with 36th Season” – Peter Alexander, Sharps and Flatirons blog, May 16, 2023

  • “Review: Mahler: Symphony 5 (Colorado Mahlerfest)” – Lee Denham, MusicWeb International, May 14, 2023

  • “An Interview with Kenneth Woods on his new recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony” – Lee Denham, MusicWeb International, May 12, 2023

  • “MahlerFest Rises Again, Celebrating the Composer’s Second Symphony” – Ella Cobb, Boulder Daily Camera, May 11, 2023 (behind a paywall)

  • “Worth the Wait: Expanded Colorado MahlerFest culminates with large-scale Second Symphony, three years later than planned” – Kelly Dean hansen, Boulder Weekly, May 11, 2023

  • “MahlerFest XXXIV: Sawyers: Symphony No. 5; Mahler Symphony No. 5 (CD review)” – Karl W. Nehring, September, 2022

  • “Awe-inspiring Third Symphony Crowns Most Ambitious MahlerFestal” – Kelly Dean Hansen, May 31, 2022

  • “MahlerFest Rolls Out 35th Year with Symphony No. 3, a Love Letter to Nature” – Adam Goldstein, Daily Camera, May 19, 2022

  • “MahlerFest Includes Works by Bartók, Casella, Guest Composer Christopher Gunning” – by Peter Alexander, Sharps and Flatirons, May 16, 2022

  • “Colorado MahlerFest Announces it’s 35th Season – What Mahler Tells Me” – Press Release, April 20, 2022

  • “In concert – Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra / Kenneth Woods – MahlerFest XXXIV: Sawyers & Mahler Fifth Symphonies” – By Richard Whitehouse, Arcana.FM, December 15, 2021

  • “Macky Reopens Grandly with MahlerFest” – by Kelly Dean Hansen, September 7, 2021

  • “34th  MahlerFest Ends with Splendid Festival Concert” – By Peter Alexander, SharpsandFlatirons.com, August 29, 2021

  • “2021 MahlerFest Features Hike, Concerts, Decadence and Debauchery’” – By Peter Alexander, Boulder Weekly, August 19, 2021

  • “MahlerFest’s post-pandemic return includes Mount Mahler escapade, free Bandshell concert and more” – by Kalene McCort, Daily Camera, August 18, 2021

  • “Colorado MahlerFest Announces MahlerFest XXXIV – The Return” – Press Release, July 2, 2021

  • “2020 Virtual MahlerFest To Feature Acclaimed Pianist David Korevaar May 13“ – Broadway World, May 11, 2020

  • “Colorado MahlerFest Will Be Virtual, May 13- 17″ – By Peter Alexander, SharpsandFlatirons.com, May 6, 2020

  • “Colorado MahlerFest Announces 2020 Virtual Colorado MahlerFest May 13 to 17, 2020” – Press Release, May 5, 2020

  • “Colorado MahlerFest Joins List of Cancellations” – By Peter Alexander, SharpsandFlatirons.com, April 8, 2020

  • “Colorado MahlerFest Cancels MahlerFest XXXIII – ‘Visions and Visionaries’” – Press Release, April 6, 2020

  • MahlerFest Festival Artist “David Korevaar Named Distinguished Professor” – CU-Boulder announcement, September 13, 2019

  • MahlerFest included in“6 Inviting Places In Colorado To Experience The Performing Arts”

  • “Beyers, Devane, Korevaar Standout Performers at MahlerFest XXXII” – by Kelly Dean Hansen

  • “MahlerFest XXXII offers two orchestra concerts in expanded schedule”  – by Peter Alexander, Boulder Weekly, May 16, 2019

  • “31 Things to do in Boulder in May 2019” – All Things Boulder, April 29, 2019

  • “7 creative classical concerts that shake up Colorado’s music season” – Denver Post’s The Know, April 29, 2019

  • “Kenneth Woods Helms Fourth Season as Artistic Director of Colorado MahlerFest” – MusicCO International, April 18, 2019

  • “Why I’m Conducting the Unofficial Mahler First” – Slipped Disc, April 13, 2019

  • “Colorado MahlerFest to Present World Premiere of New Critical Edition of Mahler’s First Symphony“ – MahlerFest Blog

  • “Grace Notes: Brief News Items From the Classical Music Scene in Boulder” – Sharps and Flatirons article by Peter Alexander, August 20, 2018

• • “Colorado MahlerFest Announces Continued Growth and Investment Including Hiring an Executive Director” – Colorado MahlerFest press release, July 17, 2018

• • Sunday, May 21, 2018 – The Boulder Daily Camera – MahlerFest XXXI Orchestra Concert Review by Kelly Dean Hansen

• • Friday May 11, 2018 – The Boulder Daily Camera – MahlerFest XXXI Preview Article by Kelly Dean Hansen

• • Monday, October 19, 2017 – MahlerFest announces the dates for MahlerFest XXXIII – May 9 through May 17, 2020 (click to see all future dates).

• • Monday, October 2, 2017 – The Guardian – Obituary for Donald Mitchell, Mahler scholar

• • Sunday, May 21, 2017 – The Boulder Daily Camera – MahlerFest XXX Orchestra Concert Review by Kelly Dean Hansen

• • The Boulder City Council Declares May 21, 2017 as MahlerFest Day – The Official Declaration.

• • MahlerFest Announces the 2017 Class of Mahler Conducting Fellows

• • Obituary for Stanley Ruttenberg, President and President Emeritus of the Colorado MahlerFest.

• • February 13, 2017 – The Gustav Mahler Stichting Nederland announces the near-term availability of a new facsimile package consisting of the particell and orchestral score of the Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde.

• • Sunday, May 22, 2016 – The Boulder Daily Camera – MahlerFest XXIX Orchestra Concert Review by Kelly Dean Hansen

• • Saturday, May 21, 2016 – Interview with Kenneth Woods – Sharps and Flatirons – Peter Alexander

• • Sunday, May 15, 2016 – The Boulder Daily Camera – Kelly Dean Hansen

• • Thursday, May 12 – Colorado Public Radio – Colorado Matters – Brad Turner – Nathan Heffel

• • Monday, May 02, 2016, The Classical Source- “Kenneth Woods takes the reins of the Colorado MahlerFest”

  • Monday, May 18, 2015, 2016- Norman Lebrecht Slipped Disc – The Colorado MahlerFest in and around the city of Boulder is one of the boldest musical initiatives of modern times.”