Moving Sounds Festival 2018 The Mahler Question: Fatal Cracks show poster

Moving Sounds Festival 2018 "The Mahler Question: Fatal Cracks" at Advent Lutheran Church

Dates: (10/1/2018 )

Theatre:

Advent Lutheran Church

2504 Broadway
New York,NY 10002

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Tickets: Free (reservations required)

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For the opening concert of the 9th edition of Moving Sounds, Argento performs three recent works influenced by Mahler along with the very last music Mahler wrote before his death in 1911.

PROGRAM:

M. Galante “Trinklied” from Das Lied von der Erde (1908; 2018) – (7:45 min)
for tenor and ensemble

Taylor Brook Arrhythmia – expanded version (2012; 2017) – (11 min)

for string ensemble and percussion

Jesse Jones Threshold (2012) – (9 min)

for tenor and ensemble

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Alma Mahler Drei Lieder (1899) – (7 min)

for soprano and piano

Patricia Alessandrini Alma (2018) preview performance – (6 min)

for soprano and ensemble

Gustav Mahler/M. Galante Symphony 10: Adagio and Scherzo/Finale (1910; 2018) – (35 minutes)

for ensemble

Reception and discussion with artists to follow the concert

Mahler's last work, his unfinished 10th Symphony, was first conceived in 2 movements, concluding with a hybrid Scherzo - Finale. The opening Adagio includes Mahler's only foray into atonality, and the 2nd movement features constantly changing meters that foreshadow Stravinsky's Rite of Spring by three years. Argento performs Michel Galante's completion of the Symphony's original 2-movement form, reduced to an ensemble of 15 players.

Composer Taylor Brook's Arrhythmia asks, "what if Mahler wrote his 9th Symphony today?" Reviewing Arrythmia in The New York Times, James Oesterrich wrote, "The work was gripping from the outset and engrossing throughout." Argento will perform its second expanded version, scored for strings and percussion.

Acclaimed Austrian soloist Virgil Hartinger sings the 1st movement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde to introduce a work it directly inspired: Rome Prize winning composer Jesse Jones' Threshold, for tenor and ensemble, which is set to Rabindranath Tagore texts that explore "concepts of mortality and transcendence over death outside Western traditions."

Argento gives a preview performance of Patricia Alessandrini's work-in-progress Alma, which takes Alma Mahler's youthful compositions and re-interprets them in contemporary terms. Alessandrini's work is paired with three original songs by Alma Mahler.

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