Mahler ’s Resurrection Symphony

Saturday, Nov 11

Sunday, Nov 12

What was created must perish, What has perished must rise again. Tremble no more! Prepare yourself to live!

There could not be a more fitting work to perform in the first subscription concert of the season—in the newly resurrected Jacobs Music Center—than Gustav Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection.” Cast in five movements and written for a massive orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus, Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony takes listeners on a journey in search of truth, solace and the meaning of life, all on a galactic scale. Written during an age riddled with doubts and anxieties, not unlike our present, Mahler plunges us into the fires of hell before lifting us into an ecstatic, soul-affirming hymn of resurrection—one of the greatest of all music climaxes.