Mahler's 8th and Ives's 4th
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| Leon Botstein |
October 26, 2012
Carnegie Hall - 8pm
Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)
by Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives
The Collegiate Chorale
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Conductor
In a fusion of song and symphony, The Collegiate Chorale, Brooklyn Youth Chorus and American Symphony Orchestra join forces in honor of the orchestra’s 50th Anniversary with a performance of Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand). One of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire, Mahler’s 8th is structured in two parts: Veni creator spiritus (“Come, Creator Spirit”), with Latin text from a 9th century Christian hymn for Pentecost, and language from the closing scene of Goethe’s Faust. The parts form the optimistic message of redemption through the power of love.
First performed in America in 1916 under the baton of the ASO’s founder Leopold Stokowski, this performance of the Mahler 8 will be accompanied by Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4 and Stokowski’s arrangement of John Stafford Smith’s The Star-Spangled Banner.
[This program is produced by the American Symphony Orchestra, and tickets for this concert are not included in The Collegiate Chorale's 2012-2013 Season subscription.]