MahlerFest XI will feature the 105-member MahlerFest orchestra conducted by its founder, Robert Olson, performing Das Lied von der Erde, to close MahlerFest Cycle One. Soloists will be mezzo-soprano (alto) Julie Simson, professor of voice at CU’s College of Music, and Jon Garrison, well known operatic and concert tenor. Ms. Simson has sung with the MahlerFest on three previous occasions, with Opera Colorado, and has had numerous other engagements. Mr. Garrison has sung roles at the Metropolitan Opera and also with many other US and European opera companies; he has also sung many concert roles with first-rank orchestras.
After the intermission, Maestro Olson will conduct Mahler’s triumphal First Symphony to open MahlerFest Cycle Two. We will perform the seldom-heard Hamburg five-movement version performed by Mahler in 1893, including the controversial Blumine movement. This early version, to our best knowledge, has been played in the USA only on the east coast, and has been recorded only once in the authentic Hamburg version (alas, now out of print). There are other recordings of the First which include the Blumine movement but these recordings have been hybrids, i.e., the other four movements are played in the later revised versions.
The concerts will be preceded by a lecture by our good MahlerFest friend, Gerald Fox, President, Gustav Mahler Society of New York (previously known as the New York Mahlerites).
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| Julie Simson | Robert Olson | Jon Garrison |