2023-2024 SEASON
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May 18, 2024 • 7:30 PM
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May 19, 2024 • 3:00 PM
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Sunset Center, Carmel Map
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Jayce Ogren, Music Director and Conductor
The season closes with Pinnacles. The craggy ridges and valleys of Pinnacles National Park were formed around 23 million years ago, a product of eruption, cracking, stretching, and erosion. The landscape is otherworldly, something that is unique to the region. Austro-Bohemian composer Gustav Mahler said that "A symphony should be like the world. It must embrace everything." If each of his nine completed symphonies is a world, then the fifth occupies the world of love. Mahler wrote the Symphony No. 5 during his brief courtship of Alma Schindler in 1901 before their marriage in 1902. It is dedicated to her. The symphony has moments of cragginess and melancholy, but finishes with ebullient moments of joy and celebration.
MAHLER Symphony No. 5 [Running Time 65']
Talk Back
8:45 PM
After the Saturday concert, please join us in the lobby for our season closing Talk Back with Music Director and Conductor Jayce Ogren and Symphony President and CEO Nicola Reilly. Enjoy a glass of wine on us and participate in a Q&A discussion about the evening's concert.
