The visionary conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen—former music director of Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony—joins Tufts students for the next installment of the Mahler Sessions, a new series of public conversations about the art of interpretation, featuring some of the leading classical voices of today and tomorrow.
About the Mahler Sessions:
The composer Gustav Mahler famously declared that a symphony should be like the world: it must contain everything. But before a musical world can be heard, it must be performed — and interpreted. How do musicians approach the task of interpretation today, and how should we as listeners? Please join us for The Mahler Sessions, an exciting spring series of student-led conversations with leading classical musicians of today and tomorrow, all of them appearing for the first time on Tufts campus.
- CANCELLED Anna Handler (and Mahler’s beginnings) Assistant Conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra | January 27 at Noon
- David Robertson (and Mahler’s bounty) Former Music Director, St. Louis Symphony | February 5 at Noon
- Esa-Pekka Salonen (and Mahler’s modernity) Former Music Director, LA Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony | February 11 at 6pm
- Thomas Hampson (and Mahler’s voice) Baritone, distinguished interpreter of Mahler’s vocal music | March 26 at Noon
- Andris Nelsons (and Mahler’s posterity) Music Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra | April 7 at Noon
Free and open to the community. Each conversation will be introduced with a brief musical performance by Julia Soojin Cavallaro (mezzo-soprano) and Thomas Stumpf (piano).
Sponsored by the Tufts Department of Music and the Office of the President.
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