San Francisco Symphony
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Michael Tilson Thomas
conductor
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Paul Jacobs
organ
Aaron Copland (*1900)
Organ Symphony
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
The great Mahler Renaissance began with Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film, “Death in Venice.” Right at the beginning, a steamer is seen gliding across the waters of the Venetian laguna at dawn while we hear the Adagio from the Fifth Symphony in all its unearthly beauty. But it wasn’t an autumnal mood that Mahler had in mind here—quite the opposite. He wrote this famous movement in November 1901, immediately after he had met Alma Schindler. “This Adagietto was Gustav Mahler’s declaration of love for Alma! Instead of a letter, he sent her this musical manuscript without a word more of explanation. She understood and wrote that he should come to her! Both of them confided this story to me,” reported the conductor Willem Mengelberg. Before Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler’s moving Fifth, the Goll organ of the KKL Luzern will be deployed in one of its rare appearances in a orchestra concert. But this time it’s not to perform the Saint-Saëns but another “organ symphony” instead: the one that Aaron Copland composed in 1924 for his teacher Nadia Boulanger.
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