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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.
Hugh Wolff, Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras, conducts the NEC Symphony.
Before Wolff and the orchestra take the stage, singers Nedelka Prescod and Tomás Cruz and the NEC Jazz Orchestra will introduce new arrangements of four songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Ken Schaphorst, NEC's Director of Jazz Studies. These will be sung in English using Schaphorst's own translations. Later in the evening, songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn will be heard in their traditional arrangements, with the NEC Symphony under Hugh Wolff's direction.
Mahler/Schaphorst songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn premiere with Nedelka Prescod and Tomás Cruz and the NEC Jazz Orchestra
"Where Trumpets Blow" ("Wo die schönen Tompeten blasen") duet
"Reveille" ("Revelge") instrumental
"The Drummer Boy" ("Der Tamboursg'sell'") Cruz
"Eternal Light" ("Urlicht") Prescod
Read Ken Schaphorst's notes on how he wrote this suite.
Ken Schaphorst conducts the NEC Jazz Orchestra in an all-Schaphorst program on December 1.
Mahler songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Rückert Lieder with the NEC Symphony
from Rückert Lieder:
"Ich atmet' einen linden Duft" and "Liebst du um Schönheit" with Hae Ji Chang
from Des Knaben Wunderhorn:
"Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt" with Leroy Davis
"Verlorne Müh'!" with Laura Soto-Bayomi and Leroy Davis
"Revelge" with Thomas Suber
"Wo die schönen Tompeten blasen" with Laura Soto-Bayomi
Stookey Mahl/er/werk U.S. premiere
Read about this at Nathaniel Stookey's publisher, Chester Novello.
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (as retouched by Mahler)
Read a summary of David Pickett's research on "Mahler's Retuschen."
Read Katarina Markovic's note on Des Knaben Wunderhorn and find other Mahler program notes.
Read Ellen Pfeifer's notes on Mahl/er/werk and Mahler's Beethoven retouching.
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VIRGIL THOMSON