Name: Mahler’s Journey
Start: 2025-02-20
End: 2025-02-20
Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall

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LA Phil

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Gustavo Dudamel

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Baritone

Simon Keenlyside

Mahler’s Journey

Los Angeles

United States

Walt Disney Concert Hall

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Blumine

Symphony No.10

The Youth's Magic Horn

Sharan Allad

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Mahler has been a specialty and obsession throughout Gustavo Dudamel’s career, and in the opening weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Dudamel curates and conducts a selection of the composer’s music in Mahler’s Journey. He opens with two excerpts from Mahler’s First and Tenth symphonies that frame the composer’s life. Blumine was the second movement from Symphony No. 1, which was removed after a few performances but rediscovered in the 1960s and appreciated for its rapturous trumpet and melancholy oboe. The Adagio from Symphony No. 10 similarly found a new life and was published after Mahler’s death. The unfinished sketches were written during personal crisis and brim with anguish and pain that is expressed through harmonic language that straddles the Romantic era and the 20th century. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) is based on a collection of German poetry of the same name that was influential to Mahler and other Romantics. Two dozen of the poems are set to music with the help baritone Simon Keenlyside that explore stories of love, loss, and the supernatural.

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Mahler’s Journey by Mahler, Thu 20 Feb 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, United States

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