Colorado MahlerFest XIII

Lecture, Panel Discussion and Mahler Video

Saturday Afternoon 15 January 2000
Discussions and Videos
Theater at Old Main
CU Campus, Boulder

1:30 PM.

Richard Oldberg, 31 years playing Assistant Principal and Third Horn (the second most important horn part), will reminisce about the Mahler Thirds he has played under such conductors as Jean Martinon, Lames Levine (several times), George Solti, Zuban Mehta, Edo de Waart, Claudio Abbado, Christoph von Eschenbach, and Leif Segerstam. Richard is Principal Horn of the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra, and also the Boulder Philharmonic. He also plays in the Colorado Symphony when they need extra players. He played the Second Symphony in Japan under Seiji Ozawa in a famous concert memorializing the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

2:30 PM.

Richard will join with Jerry Fox, President, Gustav Mahler Society of New York, and Stan Ruttenberg to discuss the ups and downs of many recordings of the Mahler Third. Stan Ruttenberg will have available as a handout his personal survey of many recordings.

3:45 PM, or so, after a break.

Jason Starr, documentary moviemaker from New York, will present a video of some of his new work on assembling a documentary on the Mahler Third. This will include some scenes from the Attersee region in the Salzburg mountains, where Mahler composed most of the Third in the summers of 1895/6, and interviews with some leading Mahler authorities. If time permits, we will also show excerpts from a film by the Austrian film maker Wolgang Losowsky, showing some of the scenery around the Attersee with music from the Third played by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Raphael Kubelik, conductor. Kubelik's recording is, by the way, recommended by Stan Ruttenberg as a very good performance, at a budget price.

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