MahlerFest XXIX is sponsoring a film festival this April at the Boedecker Theater in the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. The festival features two showings of Jason Starr’s “Everywhere and Forever – Mahler’s Song of the Earth”. The film explores the events in Mahler’s life surrounding his composing Das Lied von der Erde, one […]
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After twenty-eight years as Artistic Director of the music festival he founded, Maestro Robert Olson will relinquish the baton at the end of the upcoming MahlerFest XXVIII, in May, 2015, with a farewell performance of Mahler’s last completed work, his Symphony No. 9 in D. Since 1988, MahlerFest has been dedicated to the life, music, […]
Robert Olson prepares the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra for the festival week Main Events, two performances of Mahler’s 6th Symphony and Mahler’s 5 Ruckert Lieder. May 17 and 18, 2014. For more information visit mahlerfest.org. Follow us on Twitter @co_mahlerfest
“My Sixth will present riddles that are approachable only by a generation which has absorbed and digested my first five.” – Gustav Mahler writing to biographer Richard Specht, c. 1904 We don’t really know what Mahler was referring to, but the audience is presented with a plethora of persistent riddles when contemplating and experiencing the […]
What began as an idea born on the shores of Lake Dillon one day 28 years ago has blossomed into something no one could have possibly predicted. The most frequently asked question I heard during the first ten year cycle was “what will you do when you’ve completed the cycle?”, and I always answered “we’ll […]
At a “CU Presents” concert on May 1st at 7:30, MahlerFest soloist Julie Simson and Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson will be performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in d, Op. 125. Also on the program is the Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80. Details at http://www.cupresents.org/events/beethovens-ninth-symphony
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