International Gustav Mahler Society Gold Medal
MahlerFest was bestowed the IGMS Mahler Gold Medal as part of the IGMS 50th anniversary celebration. Created to recognize major artists, arts organizations, and scholars for their outstanding contributions to all things Mahler, the medals have been awarded 39 times since the IGMS founding in 1955. The other 2005 honorees were the New York Philharmonic and the Gustav Mahler Committee of Toblach/Dobbiaco.
MahlerFest was bestowed the IGMS Mahler Gold Medal as part of the IGMS 50th anniversary celebration. Created to recognize major artists, arts organizations, and scholars for their outstanding contributions to all things Mahler, the medals have been awarded 39 times since the IGMS founding in 1955. The other 2005 honorees were the New York Philharmonic and the Gustav Mahler Committee of Toblach/Dobbiaco.
On the back of the medal, the words "Meine Zeit
Wird Noch Kommen" means "My time will yet come", an
acknowledgement by Mahler that the world he lived
in was not yet ready to understand his music.
MahlerFest's Founder and Artistic Director Robert
Olson and Board President Stan Ruttenberg accepting
the award on behalf of the Colorado MahlerFest,
September 20, 2005, Vienna. Left to right: Dr.
Rainer Bischof (President of IGMS), baritone Thomas
Hampson (1999 medal recipient), Robert Olson, Stan
Ruttenberg, Dr. Rheinhold Kubik (Vice-President of
IGMS), Karl Weinberger (Director of the Jewish
Museum).
Past winners include the Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. Recipients who have participated in Colorado MahlerFest include scholars Donald Mitchell and Edward R. Reilly, and baritone Thomas Hampson.
Past winners include the Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. Recipients who have participated in Colorado MahlerFest include scholars Donald Mitchell and Edward R. Reilly, and baritone Thomas Hampson.
