This week Jeff and Carol sit down with Utah Symphony's Music Director Emeritus Thierry Fischer to talk about his upcoming Mahler mini-festival. Thierry also catches us up on his life since leaving Salt Lake City (hint: busy and fulfilling), his passion projects, and his new role of grandfather! 

Episode 9.9 - Catch Up with Music Director Emeritus Thierry Fischer

The Mahler Forum for Music and Society commissioned this piece, based on a poem by Marina Mahler, to be the featured presentation for the Forum's third edition in 2024. It was premiered by the Alma Mahler Ensemble on 14th June 2024 in Klagenfurt (Austria) with the presence of the poet, Gustav Mahler's grand daughter.

The Mahler Forum is a fantastic interdisciplinary event where art meets science and their synergies and political potentialities are explored in an attempt to imagine a future of social progress. You can read more about it in the official home page and even take a look to the video documentation (https://mahler-forum.org).

The term 'quantum entanglement' refers to a special phenomenon between two subatomic particles which are so connected that their quantum states will be the same when measured, no matter how far apart they are. If such a link is possible, could it happen between two people too? Could we entangle our voices in an interplay of natural and cultural forces?

Alma Mahler Musikverein*
Rebeka Pregelj, sopran
Sara Lešnik, sopran
Gloria Mojica, mezzosopran
Alja Klemenc, conducting

*Alenka Eržen, flute / piccolo / bass flute
Viktor Novak, clarinet / E-flat clarinet / bass clarinet
Petar Hegeduš, trumpet
Stefan Traninger, percussion
Anna Sdobnikova, piano
Daniel Pérez Trujillo, 1st violin
Natalija Tripković, 2nd violin
Laura Pletzer, viola
Andi Pogačnik, cello
Nikola Meyer, double bass

Voices of Entanglement (2024, Mahler Forum) for 10 instruments and 3 vocal soloists

The artwork is by Italian Baroque painter, Guido Reni.

Prelude to a Holy War

Nearing his 6th season as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi has reached a new level of oneness with the musicians, to the point of almost "reading each other's minds." In this conversation with WRR's Amy Bishop, Luisi joins DSO's Chief Artistic Officer Katie McGuinness for an overview of the organization's milestone 125th anniversary season for 2025-26.

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: DSO's mastery of Mahler & mindreading

After Mahler's Second and Ninth symphonies in previous seasons, chief conductor Lars Corijn, together with the young and energetic Mahler Student Festival Orchestra, ventures into this very challenging masterpiece. A musical rollercoaster along the human affections that is absolutely not to be missed.

5 - Lustig im Tempo und Keck im Ausdruck

4 - Sehr Langsam (O Mensch, Gib Acht)

3 - Comodo (Scherzando) Ohne Hast

2 - Tempo di Menuetto

6 - Langsam, ruhevoll, empfunden

1 - Kräftig. Entschieden.

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The stage is dark, but the conversation is just beginning. Welcome to Utah Symphony | Utah Opera's Ghost Light podcast, a behind the curtain look into the world of classical music and opera and the artists who make it. Hosted by Jeff Counts and Carol Anderson. Produced and edited by Robert Bedont.

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Assistant-conductor to Gergely Madaras at the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.

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