MahlerFest XXIX is getting underway – May 16 – 22, 2016!
Here’s the list of events for the entire festival week: films, lectures, concerts, and more! Evening orchestra rehearsals are open to the public during the week, except Wednesday, at Macky Auditorium on the CU Boulder campus.
- Monday, May 16, 6:30pm, Boulder Library: Film
- “Of Love, Death and Beyond – Exploring Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
- A film by Jason Starr
- Open to the Public
- Wednesday, May 18, 7:30pm, The Academy Chapel: Concert
- Mahler – Rückert-Lieder
- Schubert – Nacht und Träume and An den Mond, D. 296
- Brahms – Die Mainacht
- Strauss – Die Nacht and Winternacht
- Schönberg –Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (String Sextet version)
- Open to the public
- Thursday, May 19, 1:30pm, Boulder Library: Master Class
- The Conducting Fellows, Maestro Woods, Kurt Schwertsik and Mahler specialists.
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4 – Chamber version (Stein)
- Open to the public
- Friday, May 20, 2:00pm, Boedecker Theater: Film
- “7” – A ballet set to Mahler’s Symphony No. 7
- Video Interview with choreographer Martin Schläpfer
- Saturday, May 21: Symposium, open to the public
- Morning Session – 9:00am – C-199 – Imig Building, University of Colorado
- Stephen Hefling, Case Western Reserve University
- “‘Was kost’ die Welt?’ Mahler’s Enigmatic Seventh
- Peter Davison, Artistic Consultant to The Bridgewater Hall , Manchester, UK
- “The Seventh Symphony as a Bridge between the despairing conclusion of the Sixth and the spiritual optimism of the Eighth”
- Kenneth Woods, Artistic Director and Conductor, MahlerFest
- “A Conductor’s Perspective of the Seventh Symphony”
- Lunch – Atrium Lobby, ATLAS building, University of Colorado ($15)
- Afternoon Session – 1:00pm C-199 – Imig Building, University of Colorado
- Anna Stoll-Knecht, University of Oxford (Jesus College), Oxford, UK
- ” A Reinterpretation of the Finale of the Seventh Symphony”
- Kurt Schwertsik, Composer, Vienna, Austria
- “The Impossibility of Avoiding Mahler as a Viennese”
- Cory Oldweiler, Author, Boulder, CO
- Roundtable moderated by Dr. Marilyn McCoy, Columbia University
- Saturday, May 21, 7:30 pm, Macky Auditorium: Concert
- Sunday, May 22, 3:30 pm, Macky Auditorium: Concert
- Schwertsik: Nachtmusiken, Op. 104
- Mahler: Symphony No. 7
- Maestro Kenneth Woods conducting the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
- Pre-concert Lecture by Kenneth Woods at 6:30pm on Saturday and 2:30pm on Sunday
- Tickets available online at mahlerfest.org and at the box office
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