ACFNY recommended | Concert: Mahler in Progress

April 20 | 8 PM

An evening with music inspired by Gustav and Alma Mahler, semi-staged songs by Alma Mahler & a new version of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 10

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Argento continues its exploration of contemporary composers and their reception of Gustav and Alma Mahler. Many 21st Century composers have continued to write Mahler-influenced works since 1998, when Darmstadt Festival director Thomas Schaefer catalogued over 70 Mahler influenced works of contemporary music in his “Modellfall Mahler: kompositorische Rezeption in zeitgenössischer Musik (Modellfall Mahler : compositional reception in contemporary music). Argento performs two such recent compositions in a varied program that also includes a theatrical presentation of Alma Mahler’s songs, and two newly completed movements from Mahler’s 10th Symphony.

PROGRAM

Patricia Alessandrini – Canto d’Alma (2018/2020) for soprano, chamber ensemble, and electronics (inspired by Alma Mahler’s fünf Lieder) | Ariadne Greif, soprano

Semi-staged songs by Alma Mahler arranged for narrator, voice and piano by interspersed with texts from letters written by Gustav Mahler:

Laue Sommernacht

Ansturm

Ich wandle unter Blumen

Ekstase

Ariadne Greif, voice & Piers Playfair, narrator

Gustav Mahler – Purgatorio and Scherzo: Nicht zu schnell from Symphony no. 10; Completed by Michel Galante (2022) for 15 musicians (World Premiere)

Sang Song – Gretel (2021) for ensemble

I. To the Little House – New York premiere

II. Vein of Shame – World premiere

III. Kindertotenmusik – New York premiere

(inspired by Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder)

Post-concert discussion with Patricia Alessandrini , Ariadne Greif and Sang Song.

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