BPO Classics Series
MAHLER & MAHLER
Friday, November 7 at 10:30 AM
Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 PM
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Andrea Bickford, soprano
A. MAHLER / | Lieder 1. Die stille Stadt Andrea Bickford, soprano | |
INTERMISSION | ||
G. MAHLER | Symphony No. 1 in D major I. Langsam, schleppend | |
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See below for Lieder text and English translations by Andrea Bickford.
After Saturday’s performance, join members of the orchestra on Kleinhans’ Lower Level for Musician’s Nightcap.
By JoAnn Falletta, Music Director
Alma Schindler was hailed as the most beautiful young woman in Vienna, but she was also an aspiring composer who was writing songs and hoping to forge a compositional career. Gustav Mahler, 20 years her senior, was hailed as a musical star—a great conductor and a composer with startlingly original ideas. After a fiery courtship, they married, but Mahler extracted a promise that there would only be one composer in their home (him). Years later, he would repent of that decision, but it was too late for Alma. Luckily we still have Alma's early songs, and you will hear a collection of those tonight, followed by Gustav's first symphony—a groundbreaking step in the music world, and possibly the greatest first symphony ever written.
By Chaz Stuart
Click here for Lieder text and English translations by Andrea Bickford.
