The Orchestra Now Presents
Mahler’s Third Symphony
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Leon Botstein conductor
Stephanie Blythe mezzo-soprano
Bard Conservatory Preparatory Chorus
Bard College Chamber Singers
Members of Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program
James Bagwell choral director
Mahler
Symphony No. 3
For the fourth year in a row, TŌN opens the season with a Mahler symphony. The Third is the composer’s longest work, a deeply personal and all-encompassing masterpiece that stands as a towering monument to nature and humankind’s place within it. Mahler described the symphony as having a “steady intensification of feeling, from the indistinct, unyielding, elemental existences (of the forces of nature), to the tender formation of the human heart, which in turn points toward and reaches a region beyond itself (God).” Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe—a Musical America Vocalist of the Year, Opera News, and Richard Tucker Award-winner—joins the orchestra for two of the symphony’s six movements, singing text by Nietzsche telling of joy transcending death and worldly suffering, and then a German folk poem about heavenly joy rewarding the faithful.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/mahlers-third-symphony/.
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
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