A First Glance into Mahler

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He's more than a bunch of symphonies and songs. Even those are not what you think. And although the music stopped with his death in 1911—100 years later, his time is now. During four months of concerts, jam sessions, conversation, and film, free your mind about what Mahler really means.

As part of the Conservatory's ongoing Mahler celebration, Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensemble Activities, conducts Um Mitternacht ("At Midnight"), one of the five Rückert-Lieder by Gustav Mahler with baritone Michael Meraw.

Peltz also begins a season-long survey of music by Giovanni Gabrieli, returns to works of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and brings back conductor/jazz historian Gunther Schuller to recreate performances from the Duke Ellington and Stan Kenton big bands.

Beethoven Octet in E-flat, Op. 103
Gabrieli Canzone II, Sonata XIII from Sacrae Sinfoniae
Mahler Um Mitternacht
Zwilich Ceremonies

with guest conductor Gunther Schuller:
Ellington Koko, Delta Serenade, Cottontail
Matthews arr. I'm Beginning to See the Light
Foster Shiny Stockings
Wetzel Intermission Riff

Read Charles Peltz's note on Um Mitternacht, and find other Mahler program notes.

The Gabrieli Project

In anticipation of the 400th anniversary of the death of composer Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555–1612), members of the New England Conservatory community are joining forces to create and disseminate performing editions for modern instruments of some key Gabrieli early editions. The eight works that launch The Gabrieli Project will be performed on this season's NEC Wind Ensemble concerts. Participating in this project are NEC Wind Ensemble director Charles Peltz; Anne Hallmark and Rebecca Cypess of the Music History & Musicology faculty; composer Kathryn Salfelder '09; and baroque trumpeter Paul Perfetti '84, who performs with Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, and Handel and Haydn Society.