Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
PROGRAM
Preamble: An introduction to Mahler’s Sixth
with Kenneth Kiesler, Esther Van Zyl (as Alma Mahler), and Joseph Horowitz (as Gustav)
- intermission -
Mahler Symphony No. 6
Please join us for the final concert of the GRAMMY-winning University Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-2026 season. Following its recent performance of “The Jungle” by Wynton Marsalis with Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a concert of seven World Premieres, and a performance of the Verdi Requiem with University Choirs and soloists, this culminating concert features Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, known as “The Tragic.” With its brilliant marches, lyrical Andante – some of the most beautiful music he ever wrote – and other-worldly finale, famous for its hammer-blows of fate, Mahler’s Sixth speaks of the composer’s dark inner life and intuition about his future.
The concert will begin with Preamble: An introduction to Mahler’s Sixth, hosted by Kenneth Kiesler, with musical excerpts played by the USO, and performances by Esther Van Zyl as Alma Mahler, and Joseph Horowitz as Gustav. The preamble will explore Mahler’s Sixth in the context of his life and times – and its pertinence right now.
Special guest Joseph Horowitz gives the pre-concert lecture, "Leonard Bernstein's Mahler: The Art of Advocacy" in the Hill Lower Lobby. (Please note the 7:00 starting time)
The residency of Joseph Horowitz is made possible, in part, by grants from the U-M Arts Initiative and the Sally Fleming Master Class Fund.
Joseph Horowitz is an award-winning author, concert producer, filmmaker, and broadcaster. He is one of the most prominent and widely published writers on topics in American music. His most recent books include a novel, The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York, about which Clive Paget wrote in Musical America: “With his unparalleled knowledge of fin-de-siècle classical music in America, Joseph Horowitz [has] brought us closer to Mahler and his wife Alma than any other author I have read."
PROGRAM
Preamble: An introduction to Mahler’s Sixth
with Kenneth Kiesler, Esther Van Zyl (as Alma Mahler), and Joseph Horowitz (as Gustav)
- intermission -
Mahler Symphony No. 6
Please join us for the final concert of the GRAMMY-winning University Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-2026 season. Following its recent performance of “The Jungle” by Wynton Marsalis with Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a concert of seven World Premieres, and a performance of the Verdi Requiem with University Choirs and soloists, this culminating concert features Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, known as “The Tragic.” With its brilliant marches, lyrical Andante – some of the most beautiful music he ever wrote – and other-worldly finale, famous for its hammer-blows of fate, Mahler’s Sixth speaks of the composer’s dark inner life and intuition about his future.
The concert will begin with Preamble: An introduction to Mahler’s Sixth, hosted by Kenneth Kiesler, with musical excerpts played by the USO, and performances by Esther Van Zyl as Alma Mahler, and Joseph Horowitz as Gustav. The preamble will explore Mahler’s Sixth in the context of his life and times – and its pertinence right now.
Special guest Joseph Horowitz gives the pre-concert lecture, "Leonard Bernstein's Mahler: The Art of Advocacy" in the Hill Lower Lobby. (Please note the 7:00 starting time)
The residency of Joseph Horowitz is made possible, in part, by grants from the U-M Arts Initiative and the Sally Fleming Master Class Fund.
Joseph Horowitz is an award-winning author, concert producer, filmmaker, and broadcaster. He is one of the most prominent and widely published writers on topics in American music. His most recent books include a novel, The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York, about which Clive Paget wrote in Musical America: “With his unparalleled knowledge of fin-de-siècle classical music in America, Joseph Horowitz [has] brought us closer to Mahler and his wife Alma than any other author I have read."
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