We were honored to have Dr. Robert Baldwin with us at rehearsal this week. Putting it all together with the symphony this week! In Maestro’s words, Mahler is “one the few composers that can take us on such an incredible journey of human experience, and, by the end of that journey in Mahler 2, he’s pointed somewhere entirely different. From death, to life.
As sung by the choir in the final moments of this spectacular work, “With wings which I have won, I shall soar away. Die I shall, to live again…”
