Gustav Mahler News

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck returns to Boston to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra tonight, February 20-22, 2014 in a program featuring peerless German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Honeck's conducting debut with the Boston Symphony was in November 2005.

Today and tomorrow's performances of the Hamburg Ballet's Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler has been cancelled due to an electrical fire that caused damage to the Harris Theater's operational and mechanical equipment earlier this afternoon. The illustrious company was scheduled to perform Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer John Neumeier's iconic ballet tonight, February 19, and tomorrow, February 20 at 7:30PM. Harris Theater ticket holders will be contacted by a Harris Theater Box Office representative as a result of the cancellation.

Internationally-acclaimed and Milwaukee-born choreographer John Neumeier speaks on the subsequent cancellation of Wednesday and Thursday night's presentation of Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.

From February 21 to March 16, 2014, Carnegie Hall presents Vienna: City of Dreams, a three-week citywide festival featuring more than 90 events, at Carnegie Hall and 23 partner cultural organizations throughout New York City, all inviting audiences to discover the extraordinary artistic legacy of Vienna. The festival features symphonic and operatic masterpieces, chamber music, and lieder, as well as new sounds emerging from this historic cultural capital. In addition to music, Vienna: City of Dreams shines a spotlight on Vienna's visual art, film, architecture, politics, science, and history, creating an extensive look at a city that for centuries has drawn artists, dreamers, and innovators from all corners of the world to its dazzling intellectual and artistic life.

The Hamburg Ballet, led by Director and Chief Choreographer John Neumeier, brings the classicThird Symphony of Gustav Mahler to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance tonight, February 19, and tomorrow, February 20, 2014 at 7:30PM. The Harris Theater is the only American venue that will present Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler during the company's U.S. visit in 2014.

What could have been a disaster turned out to be another momentous Harris Theater collaboration, this time between the Hamburg Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, two of the world's greatest dance companies with ties to the Harris.

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra presents 'Brass, Bows and Brilliance' today, February 15, 1:00 p.m., in Uihlein Hall of the the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee. The performance will feature MYSO's Percussion Ensemble, String Orchestras West & Central, Junior Wind Ensemble and Philharmonia. The performance will include works written for orchestra by Gustav Mahler, Percy Grainger, Carl Maria von Weber, Maurice Ravel and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as well as works for percussion ensemble and wind band by contemporary composers including John Williams, Steven Barton, Kenley Kristofferson, Donald Grantham, Tomohiro Tatebe, Joel Smales and more.

Flowers, hearts and marriage are showcased in the sounds of love and affection in the Utah Symphony's Valentine's Day performance this weekend, Feb. 14 - 15 at Abravanel Hall.

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra presents 'Brass, Bows and Brilliance' on Saturday, February 15, 1:00 p.m., in Uihlein Hall of the the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee. The performance will feature MYSO's Percussion Ensemble, String Orchestras West & Central, Junior Wind Ensemble and Philharmonia. The performance will include works written for orchestra by Gustav Mahler, Percy Grainger, Carl Maria von Weber, Maurice Ravel and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as well as works for percussion ensemble and wind band by contemporary composers including John Williams, Steven Barton, Kenley Kristofferson, Donald Grantham, Tomohiro Tatebe, Joel Smales and more.

Carnegie Hall today announced that conductor Franz Welser-Most has graciously agreed to step in for Daniele Gatti in the concert performance of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck on Friday, February 28 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. The concert by the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is part of Carnegie Hall's three-week, citywide festival Vienna: City of Dreams. Due to a tendinopathy (acute inflammation of the tendon) of both shoulders, Maestro Daniele Gatti-on the advice of his doctors-with deep regret cancels all his professional engagements for the next two months, including his two Vienna: City of Dreams programs, scheduled for February 28 and March 15 at Carnegie Hall. A new conductor for the March 15 concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is to be announced.

New York Theatre Ballet celebrates 35 years with LEGENDS at Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, NYC. LEGENDS, the second of two programs in the series LEGENDS AND VISIONARIES, performs on Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 7pm. Tickets are $30 ($20 for students and seniors) and are available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-982-2787.

Due to the sudden death of guest vocalist Alexei Mochalov's wife, tonight's February 7 program of Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica at the Harris Theater has been changed. Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Concertino, Op. 42 and Benjamin Britten's Young Apollo, Op. 16 replaces the previously scheduled Antiformalist Rayok by Dmitri Shostakovich and Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10. With the addition of Concertino, Op. 42, audience members will have the extraordinary opportunity to hear two works featuring violinist Gidon Kremer. Kremer also leads Kremerata Baltica in Weinberg's Symphony No.10 for strings, Op.98, appearing onstage in three of the evening's four works.

From the far reaches of the solar system to the depths of Pittsburgh's rivers, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Music Director Manfred Honeck will take audiences for a wild ride during the BNY Mellon Grand Classics performance this weekend, February 7-9.

Flowers, hearts and marriage are showcased in the sounds of love and affection in the Utah Symphony's Valentine's Day performance on Feb. 14 - 15 at Abravanel Hall. Fall in love with Maestro Thierry Fischer as he leads guest Violinist Itamar Zorman through Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto in D Major." Composed in 1878, this concerto is one of the best known and is considered to be one of the most technically difficult.

The New York Philharmonic has received a $2.4 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to complete the digitization of its extensive Archives, beginning with its founding in 1842 through the present day. The grant builds on previous funding from the Leon Levy Foundation - now totaling $5 million since 2007 - which funded the digitization of the 1.3 million pages currently available. When completed, the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives will contain almost 3 million pages comprising all documents in the New York Philharmonic Archives - including correspondence, marked scores and parts, contracts, and Board minutes - from 1842 through 1970, as well as all public documents - including marketing materials, press releases, and annual reports - from 1970 through today. The Digital Archives' infrastructure will also be modified to integrate born-digital documents created today, as well as additional technological enhancements. Launched in February 2011, the Digital Archives currently includes historic material from 1943-70 including programs, marked scores and orchestral parts, business documents, photos, and more. The completion of the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives will create one of the world's most comprehensive online collections documenting a single cultural institution, as well as provide the structure for growth into the future.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic on the ASIA / WINTER 2014 tour, February 6-19, 2014. The two-week tour - the Philharmonic's seventh international concert tour under Alan Gilbert's leadership - will feature ten concerts in three countries, with performances in Seoul, South Korea; Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, and Yokohama, Japan; and Taipei, Taiwan.

Due to the sudden death of guest vocalist Alexei Mochalov's wife, the Friday, February 7 program of Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica at the Harris Theater has been changed. Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Concertino, Op. 42 and Benjamin Britten's Young Apollo, Op. 16 replaces the previously scheduled Antiformalist Rayok by Dmitri Shostakovich and Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10. With the addition of Concertino, Op. 42, audience members will have the extraordinary opportunity to hear two works featuring violinist Gidon Kremer. Kremer also leads Kremerata Baltica in Weinberg's Symphony No.10 for strings, Op.98, appearing onstage in three of the evening's four works.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra welcomes back revered conductor, and former CSO Creative Director, Rafael Fru?hbeck de Burgos for his second engagement of the 2013- 14 season. On February 28 and March 1 at historic Music Hall, Maestro Fru?hbeck de Burgos will conduct one of the most epic works in orchestral and choral repertoire-Verdi's Requiem. The piece pulls together massive forces of orchestra, chorus and soloists for an impassioned and dramatic blockbuster of human emotion. Perhaps best known for the famous 'Dies irae' movement, prevalent in pop culture in movies, advertisements and television, Verdi's masterpiece depicts a journey from terror and darkness to joy and light.