MahlerFest Symposium

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MahlerFest 38 - Defiance, Resistance, Protest, & Remembrance - May 14-18 

FREE: MahlerFest 38 Symposium: Where Music and Ideas Meet 

More information at https://mahlerfest.org/event/mf38-symposium/

10:00 AM | Kalanit-Liat Chalstrom – Mahler’s Judaism: Understanding Mahler’s Music Through a Jewish Lens 

11:10 AM | Marilyn McCoy – Plotting a New Pathway to an Unknown Peak: Hiking the Andante moderato of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony 

12:15 PM | Lunch – Register by 8 AM on Monday, May 12 for a boxed lunch provided by the Academy. You are also welcome to bring your own lunch. 

1:15 PM | Leah Claiborne – William Grant Still’s Dismal Swamp: Origins and Background 

2:00 PM | Ryan Hugh Ross – The Music of Diaspora – in Four Perspectives 

Other talks and educational programs will be presented throughout the season. Ryan Hugh Ross will introduce the 2001 film “Estranged Passengers – In Search of Viktor Ullmann” at a showing at 11AM on Thursday, May 15 at the Academy Mapleton Hill. And Dave Maass will present a talk as part of “Opening Night: Death Goes on Strike” – Death Strikes: Behind the Panels. Kalanit-Liat Chalstrom will offer insights during the Guided Hike.