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SEASON FINALE: MAHLER 3 + ADOLPHE PREMIERE
May 16-17, 2020 | Music Hall
Mahler puts his ears to the world and hears a symphony as big as dreams.
Program
JULIA ADOLPHE: New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3
Artists
Louis Langrée, conductor
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Women of the May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director
Cincinnati Boychoir, Christopher Eanes, director
Venue
Music HallTicket Prices
$14-$130Concert Duration
About 2 hours, 20 minutes with intermissionSeries
This concert is part of Series 3
What's Interesting
- Mahler’s Third Symphony was premiered in the U.S in 1914 by the CSO. The symphony’s movements have illustrative titles like “What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me,” and “What Love Tells Me.”
- Mahler used text from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra: “The world is deep, and deeper than the day has thought.”
- A new work from Julia Adolphe, whose music has been described as “alive with invention” (The New Yorker), proves we are ever looking forward.
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What Critics Are Saying
“...mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, singing with ravishingly velvet vocal tone and an astonishing ability to sustain the song’s long, ardent phrases...”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Adolphe’s work was alive with invention. Plaintive strands of near-tonal melody floated in an eerie, wide-open space defined at its edges by groaning bass timbres…”
—The New Yorker
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CSO Commission by Julia Adolphe is made possible by Ann and Harry Santen
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