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Pair of Tickets to the Santa Cruz Symphony Performance of Mahler's Second Symphony
- Item Number
- 128
- Estimated Value
- 120 USD
- Sold
- 75 USD to cw9799d72
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
May 6, 2018 2 pm. Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts, Watsonville, CA.
Alan Gilbert on Mahler's Symphony No. 2
Mahler’s Second Symphony tells a story, and it is nothing less than the story of life. It’s about an existential quest for understanding; it’s about coming to terms with life’s challenges and incomprehensibilities.
The first movement (Allegro maestoso) is an anguished cry, searching for understanding and meaning, aimed at the cosmos. The second movement (Andante moderato) is a kind of nostalgic reflection back on happier times, albeit with some bittersweet moments thrown in. Mahler himself described the third movement (In quietly flowing motion), which churns along in an almost mechanistic way, as a rumination on the meaningless nature
of life. The fourth movement, Urlicht (Primal Light), is a song in response to that idea, and it expresses the hope that the empty, seemingly meaningless dimension that Mahler portrays in the third movement is not actually what it finally comes down to — that life does have a beauty and a meaning. The fifth, concluding movement (In the speed of the scherzo) is an expression of hope, of optimism: it is couched in religious terms, but I think it is universal, expressing the deep level of humanity that all people share, regardless of
specific belief or creed.
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