"Now... is a time when it will be interesting to see what music has to say, not only about our world today, but about our world tomorrow."

MahlerFest 38 is just 13 days away!
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Here is Kenneth Woods introducing this season's theme.

MahlerFest 38 - May 14-18, 2025 - "Defiance, Resistance, Protest, & Remembrance" as an extension of how Ken interprets Mahler 6.

See the full version at youtu.be/41VdhdLdgg0.

Tickets at mahlerfest.ticketspice.com/mahlerfest-3...

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Today's the day! What day? It's Colorado Gives Day AND the day we share our full performance of Mahler 4 from last May!

The full video is available at youtu.be/bkAdIdPLOHU.

If you're going to perform brass quintet music at MahlerFest, you should include some Mahler!

This is a short clip of “Die zwei blauen Augen” (“The Two Blue Eyes”) from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen arr. by Michael Drennan.

See the performance (in full quality) at youtu.be/XIHw5k1qXX4

The opening of the "Prelude to Die Meistersinger" from our final concert of MF 37.

Wagner first contemplated an opera about the Mastersingers of Nuremburg in 1845 but it wasn't until a trip to Venice in 1861 where he 'determined at once on the composition."

Full performance: youtu.be/HUVwW_p3YQg

It's Giving Tuesday! In Colorado, we celebrate by making Colorado Gives Day Donations. At MahlerFest, we celebrate by sharing more videos!

This is the opening of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Louisiana Blues Strut" performed at MahlerFest 37 by Alan Snow. Full performance at youtu.be/tKViZjqE_5E.