MAHLER Symphony No. 5
Also playing Sunday, June 12 at 2:30 p.m. in Iowa City at West High School.
We close our classical season with Gustav Mahler’s masterpiece, Symphony No. 5. This piece, arguably the composer’s greatest work, fittingly serves as our third and final installment in a season honoring the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death, and 150th anniversary of his birth.
Completed between 1901-1902, Symphony No. 5 marks the beginning of the composer’s “middle period.” He had just turned forty and while he was celebrating many accomplishments in his life (he was recently married and expecting a child, owned a lakeside villa in Austria, and was director of the Vienna Philharmonic), a near-death experience left the composer shaken.
From the funeral trumpet solo that opens the work to the famous Adagietto. This fantastic finale to the season will have you holding your breath.
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