Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 8 PM

This concert is part of the International Festival of Orchestras II series.

Tickets from $20 - $124

Program

“A symphony,” said Mahler, “must be like the world—it must contain everything.” And this one seems to. According to Mahler’s own private summary, it starts in the earth, as summer awakens life. Moving step by step, it ascends through plant and animal life, through night and morning, and then ends with God.

Program Details

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with Benjamin Sosland, The Juilliard School.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, Chief Conductor
Jill Grove, Mezzo-Soprano
New York Choral Artists
Joseph Flummerfelt, Chorus Director
The American Boychoir
Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Music Director

MAHLER

Symphony No. 3

Mahler: The Symphonies in Sequence

Gustav Mahler once famously declared, “the symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.” In this introduction to Mahler’s symphonies, trace his lifelong creative path from the exuberant Romanticism of his First Symphony to the haunted music of his last.

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