Avery Fisher Hall
65th St & Columbus Ave
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Alan Gilbert
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2010 (7:30pm)
Thursday Sep 30, 2010 (7:30pm)
Friday Oct 1, 2010 (8pm)
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- Price
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$32.00 - 112.00
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“During his lifetime Gustav Mahler was known as a conductor rather than a composer. However, a gift for interpreting Wagner and Mozart wasn't enough for Viennese audiences, whose anti-Semitism forced him into resigning from the State Opera in 1907. Two years later he became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, where he stayed until his death in 1911. Thanks to NYP music directors such as Mitropoulos, Bernstein, and Boulez, Mahler's music is standard repertory. Known as the Tragic, the Sixth Symphony is a bitter work that nevertheless contains a third movement of unbearable tenderness: you can feel the wind Mahler recreates in the strings. Alan Gilbert should have no problem capturing this 90-minute life journey of pain and pleasure.”
Patricia Contino, Flavorpill
Note:
The Open Rehearsal for this concert is on Wednesday, September 29, at 9:45am. Tickets are $18.
Mahler’s Sixth Symphony—a tour de force for virtuoso orchestra—speaks a powerful language never heard before that time (though its psychological effect could be compared to Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique Symphony”). Entwined in its tragedy are passages of great beauty and calm… the violins’ soaring “Alma theme” in the first movement—a portrait of the composer’s wife—and the sound of distant cowbells as if from alpine pastures. But in the last movement, listen for the hammer blows of fate, “the last of which fells [the hero] like the stroke of an axe,” Mahler said.
- New York Philharmonic
