I sang in the choir for a performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony in grad school (second bass), drove to Chicago from Bloomington to hear Pierre Boulez conduct it with the Chicago Symphony, and heard it for the first time performed by the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. And who could forget the CSO’s performance in 2006 with Michael Tilson Thomas, which would turn out to be Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s final public performance? (The Resurrection was only about halfway accomplished that first hearing, but here’s an A for effort.)
Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn joins the orchestra this week. Here she sings “Urlicht.” The pianist is Julius Drake.
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