Mark Gresham | 29 SEP 2022
This week’s Earpiece features a live performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and allied forces. It was the closing concert of the ASO’s 2021-22 season and proved a fitting finale for Robert Spano’s two-decade tenure as the orchestra’s music director.
The celebratory trio of performances, which included Thursday and Saturday nights plus a Sunday matinee, marked only the third time in the ASO’s history that it has programmed the 105-minute work, which the orchestra presented without intermission. The first was in 1984, led by Robert Shaw. Spano first conducted it with the ASO in 2010. Here then, is the video of Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No. 3 from June 2022, Robert Spano’s final program as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. ■
June 9, 11 & 12, 2022
Atlanta Symphony Hall, Woodruff Arts Center
Atlanta, Georgia – USA
Robert Spano, conductor; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Women of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus (Norman Mackenzie, director); Georgia Boychoir (David R. White, director).
Gustav MAHLER: Symphony No. 3
Mark Gresham is publisher and principal writer of EarRelevant. he began writing as a music journalist over 30 years ago, but has been a composer of music much longer than that. He was the winner of an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music journalism in 2003.
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