Jahja Ling, Conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin
Jane Irwin, mezzo soprano
Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor
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Born from a time of personal calamity, Gustav Mahler's "Song of the Earth" is his supreme reflection on the beauty of life and the inevitability of death.
Concert features violinist Karen Gomyo, English mezzo soprano Jane Irwin, and, fresh from his San Diego Opera triumph in the title role of Peter Grimes, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey.
From Eric Bromberger's program notes: "In 1907, Gustav Mahler’s world shattered around him...In the space of a few weeks, Mahler lost nearly everything: his position, a daughter, and his own future..."
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A note from Nuvi Mehta: Mahler poured his search for the meaning of life into his music. After, 1907, a year of “sorrow and dread", in which Mahler’s eldest daughter died, he was fired from the Vienna Opera, and diagnosed with a heart condition, which would soon end his life, he turned to Chinese poems for understanding.
In a world, in which all is transient, we may choose to drink to forget, bathe ourselves in melancholy, recall (with envy?) the joys of youth and beauty, fall in love with nature, which persists, or simply, with nostalgia, say goodbye!
These are the songs of Mahler’s symphony – The Song Of The Earth – a composer's search for a way to say goodbye.
To learn more about this music, join us in the concert hall for "What's The Score?", a stimulating talk by Nuvi Mehta given 45 minutes before the concert.
Karen Gomyo
Jane Irwin
Anthony Dean Griffey
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