/Music
MTT Conducts Mahler 5
Event WebsiteAbout
Featuring many of his most rapturous melodies—the “Adagietto” is a love poem for his young bride Alma—the Fifth Symphony finds Mahler at his most joyous and life-affirming. It’s the ideal vehicle for Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas, whose decades-long devotion to the Austrian visionary yielded the acclaimed Mahler recording project on SFS Media. In Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, offbeat instrumental combinations and collisions create new harmonic pathways, new expressive possibilities.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Renowned for his devotion to the works of Gustav Mahler, SF Symphony’s Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas triumphantly returns to conduct works that feature some of the Austrian conductor and composer’s most euphoric melodies, including "Adagietto," a love poem created for Alma, Mahler’s young bride. Also on the program is "Five Pieces for Orchestra," by Arnold Schoenberg, another Austrian composer whom Mahler once adopted as a protégé.
Laura Fraenza
SF/Arts Curator
San Francisco Symphony