Name: Spano Conducts Mahler’s Ninth
Start: 2025-03-14T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-14T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Bass Performance Hall

$Spano Conducts Mahler\u2019s Ninth$

A superstitious composer, Mahler greatly feared the musical “curse of the ninth,” which claimed the lives of other great symphonists like Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. His own ninth, a work of epic melodies and proportions, was indeed his final symphonic offering, a four-movement work that many hear as Mahler’s farewell to life, a glorious work that sets the soul aflame. Be there when Music Director Robert Spano and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra explore this tour-de-force, which begins with an irregular rhythm that Bernstein suggested was Mahler’s failing symphonic heartbeat.
Works
MAHLER: Symphony No. 9
Featured Artist
Robert Spano, conductor
Friday & Saturday Schedule: Pre-Concert Lecture (Bachtales with Buddy) begins at 6:30 PM and will last approximately 30 minutes. Doors open at 6:20 PM for all patrons. Performance starts at 7:30 PM.
Sunday Schedule: Pre-Concert Lecture (Bachtales with Buddy) begins at 1:00 PM and will last approximately 30 minutes. Doors open at 12:50 PM for all patrons. Performance starts at 2:00 PM.