Saturday, October 12th 2024
Program
● In October we continue our series “Mahler’s Life in Song”, this time with a look at Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
● These songs form a central element in Mahler’s creative life, spanning roughly twenty years of composition and constituting a majority of his entire song output.
● We will be asking how these poems were written and published, what types of topics they explore, and why the texts proved so inspiring to Mahler. We will also take look at how some of these lieder were incorporated into his symphonies and how the orchestral settings of the songs differ from the piano versions.
● Guiding us through this fascinating material will be Kammersänger Thomas Hampson and musicologist Renate Stark-Voit, who have pursued, presented, and celebrated these songs for decades in curated performances, manuscript studies, editions, and recordings.
● Join us on Saturday to hear the experts and to ask them your questions about these central works in Mahler’s oeuvre.
Guests
- Renate Stark-Voit, Musicologist, Editor of the New Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Gustav Mahler
- Thomas Hampson, Baritone
