TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — The Festival Orchestra will perform Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony this Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, as part of the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF).
Witness Mahler’s massive cosmic struggle from funeral march to ecstatic hymn of resurrection with the Grand Teton Festival Chorus as he attempts to answer the eternal questions “Why have you lived? Why have you suffered?” Mahler believed his mighty second symphony “came to us from some other world” and in its thrall we are “battered to the ground and then raised on angel’s wings to the highest heights.”
Sir Donald Runnicles is the Orchestra conductor, Heidi Stober is the soprano, Sasha Cooke is the mezzo-soprano and Barlow Bradford is the Grand Teton Music Festival Chorus director.
An open rehearsal will be held at Walk Festival Hall on Friday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Tickets are $20 ($5 for children/students) and can be purchased here.
The Friday performance is from 8-10 p.m. with a pre-concert talk by GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts at 7 p.m. in the Barbara Furrer Goodman Memorial Garden near Walk Festival Hall’s north entrance.
Saturday’s performance is from 6-8 p.m. with the pre-concert talk by GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts at 5 p.m. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.
The concert is sponsored by Pearls by Shari and tickets are available here.
