Opening Weekend Mahler's Second "Resurrection"
Saturday September 27, 2008 8:00PM
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Suzanna Guzman, Mezzo soprano
Rachele Gilmore, Soprano
Bluffton University Chorus,
Heidelberg Concert Choir,
Ohio Northern University Chorus,
Description:
A concert experience unlike any other. The Toledo Symphony performs with 350 performers - its largest force!
“There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.”
-Gustav Mahler
From the music of the funeral bier, composed in the wake of a doomed love affair, to the music of resurrection and spiritual affirmation, every note of Mahler’s Second Symphony courses with the awareness of death, the possibility of the afterlife, and the vitality of what it means to be truly human.
Celebrate the sixty-fifth birthday of the Toledo Symphony with Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, a triumphant paean to the power of the human spirit. Principal Conductor Stefan Sanderling and charismatic vocal soloists Rachele Gilmore and Suzanna Guzman are joined by the choruses of Bowling Green State University, Heidelberg College, Ohio Northern University and Bluffton University for this exceptional performance.
Points of interest:
· However, the musical germ for the Second Symphony predates even the First. Mahler was initially more well-known as a conductor than as a composer. The composer Carl Maria von Weber’s grandson had approached Mahler to complete and present an opera conceived by his late grandfather. During the course of this work, Mahler fell in love with the young von Weber’s wife, Marion. After the successful premiere, Mahler gathered as many of the flowers as he could, arranged them on his bed, and laid down amongst them, imagining himself upon his funeral bier.
Performances honor the memory of Ellie Seifried.
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