Mahler Symphony No. 2
By Mark Flegg
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[/caption] On September 26 and 27 I’ll be performing with the Toledo, Ohio Symphony, as they open their 2008-2009 season with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, The Resurrection. This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of symphonic music, and I’m always thrilled to have the opportunity to perform it. From the TSO Website:
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.