MahlerFest 38!

“Defiance, Protest, Resistance, & Remembrance”

Join us for an immersive experience featuring a series of concerts and events carefully curated to build deeper understanding and richer context for Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.

Schedule of Events:

May 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Pre-Season Recital and Cocktail Party: Roots of Resistance

FREE EVENT FOR DONORS.
Tall? Rouge with special guest Sophia Szokolay perform and The Academy provides hors d'oeuvres and drinks.

Location: Academy - Mapleton Hill 311 Mapleton, Boulder, CO, United States

May 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM - May 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Open Rehearsals, Dinners, Masterclasses, & Other Social Events

FREE EVENTS - Hear the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra prepare, watch our Festival Artists work with aspiring musicians, and join us for social gatherings before and after rehearsals.

May 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Opening Night: Death Goes on Strike

Viktor Ullmann, a German-speaking, Austro-Hungarian Jew like Mahler, wrote this satirical opera while imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Ullmann was killed in Auschwitz, but the manuscript was saved by the camp's librarian who survived the war.

Cost: $5 – $45

Location: Mountain View United Methodist Church 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, CO, United States

May 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Estranged Passengers – In Search of Viktor Ullmann

Viktor Ullmann composed our opening night opera in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
This FREE event will feature the movie "Estranged Passengers - In Search of Viktor Ullmann" with an introduction by Ryan Hugh Ross who will be performing in the opera and is an expert on surpressed composers.

Location: Academy - Mapleton Hill 311 Mapleton, Boulder, CO, United States

May 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Songs of Protest and Defiance

FREE EVENT - From the battle cry of “La Marseillaise” in the French Revolution to the unforgettable strains of “We Shall Overcome” in the Civil Rights era, when we raise our voices in the most important protests, we do so in song. Our assembled team of world-class singers present an afternoon of song like no other.

Location: Canyon Theater at the Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO, United States

May 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM

Guided Hike

Join Boulder-based naturalist Suzanne Michot and symposium speaker Jeremy Barham for this gentle, two- to three-mile hike to learn about the Boulder natural environment as well as Mahler's connection to nature.

FREE EVENT - Registration Required

May 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Chamber Music: Determination & Defiance

SCHULHOFF | String Sextet
SHOSTAKOVICH | String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108
BLOCH | Suite No. 3 for Solo Cello
WALKER | Raise the Roof!
McKee | Escape

Erwin Schulhoff incorporated jazz in his compositions as the ultimate protest music of the 1920s. Dmitri Shostakovich, similarly defiant, used recurrent themes and sharp transitions to capture the tightening of a society closing in on itself.

Cost: $5 – $45

Location: Roots Music Project 474 Pearl Street, Suite V3A, Boulder, CO, United States

May 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Rhythm, Roots, and Resonance

The Jones/Butterfield Duo performs music that is informed by a collective study of roots, jazz, rock, and classical practices, as well as various world music traditions.

Cost: $5 – $45

Location: Roots Music Project 474 Pearl Street, Suite V3A, Boulder, CO, United States

May 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM

MahlerFest 38 Symposium

FREE EVENT - Speakers at the symposium and other events throughout the festival will include Jeremy Barham, Leah Claiborne, Marilyn McCoy, Ryan Hugh Ross, Dave Maass. Lunch is free but reservations are required for sandwiches.

Location: Academy - Mapleton Hill 311 Mapleton, Boulder, CO, United States

May 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Celebrating Peace

MAHLER | Todtenfeier
PRITCHARD | Seven Halts on the Somme, Concerto for Trumpet and Strings
KORNGOLD | Symphony in F-sharp, Op. 40

Korngold, whom Mahler referred to as a “musical genius,” refused to write concert music while Hitler was in power. After the war, he composed his only symphony, a celebration of peace and hope for the future, dedicated to FDR.

Cost: $5 – $85

Location: Macky Auditorium 1595 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO, United States

May 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Resistance

MARTINU | Memorial to Lidice
STILL | Dismal Swamp
MAHLER | Symphony No. 6 in A-minor

Where there is resistance, there is hope. Of all of Mahler's symphonic protagonists, it is the hero of his Sixth who fights the most bravely, even when all hope seems lost.

Cost: $5 – $85

Location: Macky Auditorium 1595 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO, United States

Date: May 14-18, 2025

Location: Various Location in Boulder, CO

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