Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden

Name: Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden
Start: 2025-05-08T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-08T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60604

Thu May 08 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60604 | Chicago

Publisher/HostChicago Symphony Orchestra

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The CSO brings the soaring emotional peaks and valleys of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to Chicago audiences before performing it on Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw stage. The “hammer blows of fate” in the finale seem to foreshadow the tragedies in Mahler’s life, including his own fatal illness. But the symphony brims with life’s pleasures, too, from memories of mountain pastures (listen for the cowbells) to a rapturous portrait of the composer’s wife, Alma.
Performers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden conductor
Program
Mahler Symphony No. 6