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CATEGORIES: SPECIAL OCCASION;TRAVEL;APPOINTMENT
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SUMMARY:Mahler Triumphant!
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Mahler Triumphant!=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441558959=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2012-04-29=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2012-04-29=0D=0A=0D=0AThe Boston Philharmonic revisits one of its signature composers and ends the 2011-2012 season with a riveting and awe-inspiring fourth and final concert, performing Mahler's massive and technically-demanding Seventh Symphony. Maestro Benjamin Zander, a Mahler devotee with several recordings of the great Austrian symphonist to his credit, leads the orchestra in a dazzling showcase of Mahler's often overlooked work, a piece the composer hailed as his “greatest” musical achievement after its completion in 1905.=0D=0A==0D=0A= =0D=0A=Beginning with a small rhythmic pattern inspired by a summer rowing trip, the Seventh grows steadily into a gigantic display of orchestral power, using a wide variety of instruments seldom heard in a concert hall, such as the guitar, mandolin, tam-tam, glockenspiel, gong and hand-bells. Though never following a specific story or program, the symphony's five movements—featuring titles like “Night Music” and “Shadowlike”—are cinematic in scope and designed to immerse the audience in a world of images, including scenes of nature, chivalric love and military drama.=0D=0A==0D=0A= =0D=0A=True to his belief that musical repetition was something of a “lie,” Mahler infused his Seventh with several catchy melodies and slightly distorted dance forms that never quite take hold, but which build up to a bold and brassy finale that threatens to literally raise the roof. Scholars have referred to the last movement as nothing short of “life-affirming.”=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:Sun, Feb 29 @ 3:00 pm, Sanders Theatre
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