Trailer: R Strauss.An Alpine Symphony. Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra. Kenneth Woods, conductor

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Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64 (1915)

May 18, 2024
Macky Auditorium
From MahlerFest 37, May 15-19, 2024
Kenneth Woods, Artistic Director
Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra

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Mahler and Strauss were were a bit like Abbott and Castello, Mozart and Haydn, or Ali and Foreman. They were mirrors which reflected each other and rivals who encouraged one another. Their greatness and their achievement is, in part, measured against the other. They both went out of their way to champion each other’s works. Strauss helped facilitate the first performance of Mahler’s second symphony. This was the most difficult project of Mahler’s life to get off the ground and it would not have happened without Strauss’s help. Mahler conducted the premieres of Strauss operas and tone poems, exporting that repertoire throughout the world.

When Mahler died in 1911, Strauss began working in earnest on An Alpine Symphony. This work became his memorial to Mahler. The simple story of the climber who ascends and descends is much more than simply a pictorial description of a day’s hike. It is a metaphor about life and death. It is a wonderful evocation of a friend, of the struggle we all face in life, of that feeling of what it takes to get to a summit in life, and that terrible feeling of knowing once you’re there that you can’t stay. Eventually, we all have to descend back into the darkness.

See the full Program Book here, program notes for this performance begin on page 18 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oV3R...

Audio engineered by Jonathan Galle.
Video captured and edited by Owen Zhou.
Audio mastered by Timothy Burton.

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