Colorado MahlerFest
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MahlerFest 38, May 14-18, 2024 - an immersive experience featuring a series of concerts and events carefully curated to build deeper understanding and richer context for Mahler’s 6th Symphony.
MahlerFest.org/mf38/
Boulder, CO
MahlerFest.org/mf38/
Boulder, CO
Pete Townshend on Colbert last night.
What does Pete have to do with MahlerFest?
Check out our newly announced MahlerFest 39 - Channeling Change into Creativity!
mahlerfest.org/pages/mf39
youtu.be/ukBwvh3-h2Y?...
What does Pete have to do with MahlerFest?
Check out our newly announced MahlerFest 39 - Channeling Change into Creativity!
mahlerfest.org/pages/mf39
youtu.be/ukBwvh3-h2Y?...
Pete Townshend On The Who's Farewell Tour, "Quadrophenia," And The Best Thing He's Ever Written
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Pete Townshend on Colbert last night.
What does Pete have to do with MahlerFest?
Check out our newly announced MahlerFest 39 - Channeling Change into Creativity!
mahlerfest.org/pages/mf39
youtu.be/ukBwvh3-h2Y?...
What does Pete have to do with MahlerFest?
Check out our newly announced MahlerFest 39 - Channeling Change into Creativity!
mahlerfest.org/pages/mf39
youtu.be/ukBwvh3-h2Y?...
'Rhinelegendchen', the first single from ourupcoming Mahler 4th Symphony and Wunderhorn Songs album with soprano April Fredrick, tenor Brennen Guillory, and Kenneth Woods, conductor, is out now: open.spotify.com/track/6TkdgH...
Des Khaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen - Live
Gustav Mahler, Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra, Kenneth Woods, April Fredrick · Des Khaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen (Live) · Song · 2025
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August 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
'Rhinelegendchen', the first single from ourupcoming Mahler 4th Symphony and Wunderhorn Songs album with soprano April Fredrick, tenor Brennen Guillory, and Kenneth Woods, conductor, is out now: open.spotify.com/track/6TkdgH...
Our symposium is live!
www.youtube.com/live/xValPGm...
www.youtube.com/live/xValPGm...
May 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our symposium is live!
www.youtube.com/live/xValPGm...
www.youtube.com/live/xValPGm...
"If one could liken Mahler’s 6th Symp to a drink, it would be a double espresso chased with a shot of fernet: Intense, bitter, complex & not remotely interested in being liked. It wakes you up, knocks you sideways & leaves a long, lingering finish that tastes like existential dread...
bit.ly/MF38DC
bit.ly/MF38DC
Boulder’s MahlerFest 38 a rally cry of protest songs, defiance and the Sixth Symphony at its core
MahlerFest returns to Boulder on Wednesday and runs through May 18 with a program that embraces defiance, protest, resistance and remembrance.
www.dailycamera.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"If one could liken Mahler’s 6th Symp to a drink, it would be a double espresso chased with a shot of fernet: Intense, bitter, complex & not remotely interested in being liked. It wakes you up, knocks you sideways & leaves a long, lingering finish that tastes like existential dread...
bit.ly/MF38DC
bit.ly/MF38DC
Another article! Thanks to the Daily Camera.
This one is behind a paywall though.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/05/08/s...
This one is behind a paywall though.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/05/08/s...
Boulder’s MahlerFest 38 a rally cry of protest songs, defiance and the Sixth Symphony at its core
MahlerFest returns to Boulder on Wednesday and runs through May 18 with a program that embraces defiance, protest, resistance and remembrance.
www.dailycamera.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Another article! Thanks to the Daily Camera.
This one is behind a paywall though.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/05/08/s...
This one is behind a paywall though.
www.dailycamera.com/2025/05/08/s...
Thank you to the Boulder Weekly for not only covering MahlerFest, but covering the arts in Boulder. We're so lucky to have such a great local publication!
boulderweekly.com/entertainmen...
boulderweekly.com/entertainmen...
MahlerFest returns - Boulder Weekly
Colorado MahlerFest presents symphonies by Mahler and Korngold, May 17-18 at Macky Auditorium on the CU Boulder campus.
boulderweekly.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Thank you to the Boulder Weekly for not only covering MahlerFest, but covering the arts in Boulder. We're so lucky to have such a great local publication!
boulderweekly.com/entertainmen...
boulderweekly.com/entertainmen...
"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!
mahlerfest.org/mf38events/
MahlerFest 38 is just 13 days away!
mahlerfest.org/mf38events/
May 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"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!
mahlerfest.org/mf38events/
MahlerFest 38 is just 13 days away!
mahlerfest.org/mf38events/
Here it is!
On May 16, James Hajost will talk about how he built the box, Principal Percussionist Jack Barry will demonestrate and he might pull out some of the other unique instruments we have on stage this year. Then, you'll get a chance to try it!
Full season at mahlerfest.org/mf38events/.
On May 16, James Hajost will talk about how he built the box, Principal Percussionist Jack Barry will demonestrate and he might pull out some of the other unique instruments we have on stage this year. Then, you'll get a chance to try it!
Full season at mahlerfest.org/mf38events/.
April 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Here it is!
On May 16, James Hajost will talk about how he built the box, Principal Percussionist Jack Barry will demonestrate and he might pull out some of the other unique instruments we have on stage this year. Then, you'll get a chance to try it!
Full season at mahlerfest.org/mf38events/.
On May 16, James Hajost will talk about how he built the box, Principal Percussionist Jack Barry will demonestrate and he might pull out some of the other unique instruments we have on stage this year. Then, you'll get a chance to try it!
Full season at mahlerfest.org/mf38events/.
Gustav Mahler (July 7th, 1860 - May 18th, 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜!
You can find tickets here:
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𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜!
You can find tickets here:
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April 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Gustav Mahler (July 7th, 1860 - May 18th, 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜!
You can find tickets here:
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𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜!
You can find tickets here:
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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...
#Mahler
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...
#Mahler
March 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
#Mahler
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...
#Mahler
Check out the schedule for MahlerFest 38 coming up this May! ✨🎻
Click the link below to purchase your tickets!
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Click the link below to purchase your tickets!
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March 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Check out the schedule for MahlerFest 38 coming up this May! ✨🎻
Click the link below to purchase your tickets!
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Click the link below to purchase your tickets!
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March 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Check us out at the end of Performance Today!
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Every Mahler symphony packed into 5 minutes. Can you find them?
George Morton: Mahler, A Final Frontier-Fantasy on
Themes of Mahler and Courage
Concert Record Date: 5/21/2022
yourclassical.org/episode/2025...
Every Mahler symphony packed into 5 minutes. Can you find them?
George Morton: Mahler, A Final Frontier-Fantasy on
Themes of Mahler and Courage
Concert Record Date: 5/21/2022
February 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Check us out at the end of Performance Today!
yourclassical.org/episode/2025...
Every Mahler symphony packed into 5 minutes. Can you find them?
George Morton: Mahler, A Final Frontier-Fantasy on
Themes of Mahler and Courage
Concert Record Date: 5/21/2022
yourclassical.org/episode/2025...
Every Mahler symphony packed into 5 minutes. Can you find them?
George Morton: Mahler, A Final Frontier-Fantasy on
Themes of Mahler and Courage
Concert Record Date: 5/21/2022
Our friends at Boulder Opera invite you to an exciting & dramatic double bill of Puccini at the Dairy Arts Center!
Get 10% discount with code BOC10 when you get your tickets before Jan 30th.
Feb. 7 | 7 PM
Feb. 8 | 7 PM
Feb. 9 | 3 PM
Get your tickets here! bit.ly/puccinis-double-bill
Get 10% discount with code BOC10 when you get your tickets before Jan 30th.
Feb. 7 | 7 PM
Feb. 8 | 7 PM
Feb. 9 | 3 PM
Get your tickets here! bit.ly/puccinis-double-bill
January 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Our friends at Boulder Opera invite you to an exciting & dramatic double bill of Puccini at the Dairy Arts Center!
Get 10% discount with code BOC10 when you get your tickets before Jan 30th.
Feb. 7 | 7 PM
Feb. 8 | 7 PM
Feb. 9 | 3 PM
Get your tickets here! bit.ly/puccinis-double-bill
Get 10% discount with code BOC10 when you get your tickets before Jan 30th.
Feb. 7 | 7 PM
Feb. 8 | 7 PM
Feb. 9 | 3 PM
Get your tickets here! bit.ly/puccinis-double-bill
Through 1/19, everything in the MahlerFest Store is 20% off!
Use coupon code 20for2025 at checkout to enjoy the discount on all orders over $30.
Recordings
Books and scores
Signed art prints of "Mahler, the Conductor"
and much more!
mahlerfest.org/shop/
Use coupon code 20for2025 at checkout to enjoy the discount on all orders over $30.
Recordings
Books and scores
Signed art prints of "Mahler, the Conductor"
and much more!
mahlerfest.org/shop/
January 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Through 1/19, everything in the MahlerFest Store is 20% off!
Use coupon code 20for2025 at checkout to enjoy the discount on all orders over $30.
Recordings
Books and scores
Signed art prints of "Mahler, the Conductor"
and much more!
mahlerfest.org/shop/
Use coupon code 20for2025 at checkout to enjoy the discount on all orders over $30.
Recordings
Books and scores
Signed art prints of "Mahler, the Conductor"
and much more!
mahlerfest.org/shop/
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.
The full video is available at youtu.be/bkAdIdPLOHU.
December 10, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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.
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
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
December 9, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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
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
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
December 7, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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
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.
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.
December 3, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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.
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.
1 of the most Romantic works ever written. 2 young people in love confronting a secret. Music of intense passion, drama, and radiant beauty.
The premiere was met with some unfavorable reaction. However, Schoenberg’s work impressed Mahler, who was in the audience that night.
youtu.be/IrXOCxOAlkM
The premiere was met with some unfavorable reaction. However, Schoenberg’s work impressed Mahler, who was in the audience that night.
youtu.be/IrXOCxOAlkM
Verklärte Nacht - Schoenberg - Colorado MahlerFest
YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest
youtu.be
December 2, 2024 at 7:19 PM
1 of the most Romantic works ever written. 2 young people in love confronting a secret. Music of intense passion, drama, and radiant beauty.
The premiere was met with some unfavorable reaction. However, Schoenberg’s work impressed Mahler, who was in the audience that night.
youtu.be/IrXOCxOAlkM
The premiere was met with some unfavorable reaction. However, Schoenberg’s work impressed Mahler, who was in the audience that night.
youtu.be/IrXOCxOAlkM
"A few years ago, I threw caution to winds and turned the Scherzo of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony — a whirling waltz/scherzo — into a sui generis concertino for bass trombone and chamber ensemble: Mahlerei."
youtu.be/vS7oI5q-6ec?...
youtu.be/vS7oI5q-6ec?...
Mahlerei (Scherzo from Symphony No. 4) - Mahler arr. Horowitz/Schnyder - Colorado MahlerFest 2024
YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 PM
"A few years ago, I threw caution to winds and turned the Scherzo of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony — a whirling waltz/scherzo — into a sui generis concertino for bass trombone and chamber ensemble: Mahlerei."
youtu.be/vS7oI5q-6ec?...
youtu.be/vS7oI5q-6ec?...
"silhouette, mirror" creates a haunting musical setting where the two violas blend seamlessly, evoking a "single super viola" gliding through a shared sonic space.
youtu.be/Zr52JNQr5h0?...
youtu.be/Zr52JNQr5h0?...
Silhouette, Mirror - Leilehua Lanzilotti - Colorado MahlerFest - Tallā Rouge
YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 10:11 PM
"silhouette, mirror" creates a haunting musical setting where the two violas blend seamlessly, evoking a "single super viola" gliding through a shared sonic space.
youtu.be/Zr52JNQr5h0?...
youtu.be/Zr52JNQr5h0?...
There are three videos premiering right now. Two featuring Talla Rouge Duo including this wonderful performance.
youtu.be/uXq3zCX86MM?...
Check them all out on our YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/@coloradomah...
youtu.be/uXq3zCX86MM?...
Check them all out on our YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/@coloradomah...
Seesaw - Karl Mitze - Colorado MahlerFest - Tallā Rouge
YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
There are three videos premiering right now. Two featuring Talla Rouge Duo including this wonderful performance.
youtu.be/uXq3zCX86MM?...
Check them all out on our YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/@coloradomah...
youtu.be/uXq3zCX86MM?...
Check them all out on our YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/@coloradomah...
MahlerFest commissioned the "Little Piece for Brass Quintet" from David LeRoy Biller, a multi-instrumentalist based in central Texas. Biller has written, performed, & recorded in a huge variety of styles and genres, including; country, jazz, blues, rock, soul, and classical.
youtu.be/txufB6IsgyM
youtu.be/txufB6IsgyM
Little Piece for Brass Quintet - David LeRoy Biller - Colorado MahlerFest Brass Quintet
YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM
MahlerFest commissioned the "Little Piece for Brass Quintet" from David LeRoy Biller, a multi-instrumentalist based in central Texas. Biller has written, performed, & recorded in a huge variety of styles and genres, including; country, jazz, blues, rock, soul, and classical.
youtu.be/txufB6IsgyM
youtu.be/txufB6IsgyM
Emmy-nominated composer Anthony Barfield’s "Gravity" is based on Langston Hughes’s poem, “Dreams Deferred.”
May 16, 2024
Canyon Theater
Daniel Kelly & Richard Adams, trumpets
Lydia Van Dreel, horn
Lucas Borges, trombone
Jesse Orth, tuba
youtu.be/7vW3wS4Zfow
May 16, 2024
Canyon Theater
Daniel Kelly & Richard Adams, trumpets
Lydia Van Dreel, horn
Lucas Borges, trombone
Jesse Orth, tuba
youtu.be/7vW3wS4Zfow
Gravity - Anthony Barfield - Colorado MahlerFest Brass Quintet
YouTube video by Colorado MahlerFest
youtu.be
November 19, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Emmy-nominated composer Anthony Barfield’s "Gravity" is based on Langston Hughes’s poem, “Dreams Deferred.”
May 16, 2024
Canyon Theater
Daniel Kelly & Richard Adams, trumpets
Lydia Van Dreel, horn
Lucas Borges, trombone
Jesse Orth, tuba
youtu.be/7vW3wS4Zfow
May 16, 2024
Canyon Theater
Daniel Kelly & Richard Adams, trumpets
Lydia Van Dreel, horn
Lucas Borges, trombone
Jesse Orth, tuba
youtu.be/7vW3wS4Zfow