Oregon Mahler Festival 2022
$20 ($15 senior/student)
The Oregon Mahler Festival orchestra will perform Gustav Mahler's monumental and enigmatic Symphony No. 7 on Sunday, July 24, at 7:30pm. Music Director Mark Perlman conducts this concert, which will be at Lake Oswego High School auditorium.
The festival draws around one hundred musicians from all over the Portland metro area, as well as elsewhere in Oregon and Washington, and even as far as Arizona. Come join these Mahler enthusiasts for a labor of love bringing this masterpiece to life.
Mahler's 7th is a wild five movement piece that runs the gamut from tender to blasting brass. The first movement features a "tenor horn" playing the main melody – kind of like a Wagner tuba or a Euphonium (a small tuba). The third movement scherzo has been described by our conductor as "demented Austrian circus music". The fourth movement features a couple of instruments rarely heard in a symphony orchestra – guitar and mandolin. And the piece reprises Mahler's use of an array of cowbells. The ending is a brass-fest.
Tickets available online and at the door.