MahlerFest XIII will feature Mahler's song Ablösung in Sommer
and the mighty Symphony No. 3 Mahler composed this symphony in the
impressive mountain region of the Salzkammergut, in a little composing hut on
the shores of the Attersee, a beautiful mountain lake ringed by mountains and
high cliffs. He told Bruno Walter, who had come to visit, "Don't bother to
look, I have composed it all." This symphony, Mahler's longest, is his
Pastoral Symphony, analogous to Beethoven's Sixth. Mahler used
thematic material from the song Ablösung in Sommer as the basis
for the Third movement; a poem by Nietsche, as the text for the fourth movement.
A song for contralto and orchestra is the fourth movement. A Wunderhorn
text, Es sungen drei Engel eine sußen Gesang, provides the text
for the fifth movement for contralto, children's and women's chorus. The Sixth
movement is a long and gentle paean to human and divine love, the main theme
of which may have been the inspiration for the popular song I'll Be Seeing
You in All the Old Familiar Places.
Saturday, January 15, Lecture at 6:45 PM, Concert at 8:00 PM
Sunday, January 16, Lecture at 2:15 PM, Concert at 3:30 PM
Macky Auditorium, CU Campus, Boulder
The MahlerFest Orchestra
Robert Olson, conductor
Lucille Beer, contralto
The Colorado Children's Chorale
Women of the Boulder Chorale and Colorado Symphony Chorus
Orchestral Song
Ablösung in Sommer
Lucille Beer, contralto
Symphony No. 3
I. Kräftig Entscheiden - Pan awakes, Summer marches in
II. Tempo di Menuetto - What the flowers in the Meadow tell me
III. Comodo - scherzando - What the animals in the forest tell me
IV. Sehr langsam Misterioso - What humanity tells me
V. Lustig in tempo und keck im Ausdruck - What the angels tell me
VI. Langsam, Ruhevoll, Empfunden - What love tells me
Each concert will be preceed by a lecture on the history of the work
and its musical content by our good MahlerFest friend Jerry Fox, President,
Gustav Mahler Society of New York.