Mahler confronted life’s fragility in his towering Ninth Symphony, combining fleeting pleasures with fraught anguish. From the stirring opening movement to the achingly tender finale, Music Director Franz Welser-Möst gives voice to Mahler’s poignant farewell to the beauties and woes of the world.
A free concert preview lecture with Michael Strasser, Professor of Musicology Emeritus at Baldwin Wallace University, will take place in Reinberger Chamber Hall one hour before the performance.