This week\u2019s Symphonies of Iowa features Orchestra Iowa\u2019s \u201cMahler Symphony 3\u201d concert. Austrian composer Gustav Mahler wrote music during the summer and<\/b>
\nThis week\u2019s Symphonies of Iowa features Orchestra Iowa\u2019s \u201cMahler Symphony 3\u201d concert.
Austrian composer Gustav Mahler wrote music during the summer and conducted throughout the rest of the year. In the summer of 1894, he had a small hut built in Steinbach on the shore of a lake so he could compose without being disturbed. He spent the summers of \u201895 and \u201896 writing his Third Symphony, taking breaks only to sleep, eat, and take walks. Nature was certainly his \u201csubject\u201d for his Third Symphony, in addition to philosophical ideas such as the meaning of life, God and man, transcendence, and heaven and earth. Orchestra Iowa\u2019s Timothy Hankewich describes Mahler\u2019s Third Symphony as the \u201cclosest musical depiction of heaven\u201d that he\u2019s ever heard.
With six movements, Mahler\u2019s Third Symphony contains the most movements of any of his works. Mahler himself described his symphony as \u201ca work of such magnitude that it actually mirrors the whole world\u2014one is, so to speak, only an instrument, played on by the universe. . .. My symphony will be something the like of which the world has never yet heard! The whole of nature finds a voice.\u201d Mahler also uses women\u2019s and children\u2019s choirs and a female soloist to add even more color to the piece. Orchestra Iowa hosts The Discovery Chorus, Chorale Midwest Women\u2019s Chorus, and Katherine Goeldner on this concert to perform those roles. Katherine Goeldner, mezzo soprano, graduated from the University of Iowa and currently performs in opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Don\u2019t miss this week\u2019s Symphonies of Iowa broadcast on Sunday, June 24th at 4 p.m. and again on Monday, June 25th at 7 p.m.!
PROGRAM
MAHLER Third Symphony
Featuring
Katherine Goeldner mezzo-soprano
The Discovery Chorus
Chorale Midwest Women\u2019s Chorus<\/p>\n

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