The Louisville Orchestra presents its next evening concert in the Classics Series Friday, October 29 at 8:00 p.m. This year has celebrated the great cities of classical music and the focus for Friday night at Whitney Hall is Vienna.
The program will feature German Romantic-era composer Johannes Brahms' Tragic Overture, which premiered in Vienna in 1880, as well as his Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn. The latter work was first performed by the Vienna Philarharmonic Orchestra in 1873, conducted by Brahms himself. Capping off the evening is Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G Major.
Mahler graduated from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878 and went on to serve as Principal Conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic. His Symphony No. 4 includes the song "Das himmlische Leben" in the final movement, which will be sung by soprano Hana Park [4]. Park has recently performed the role of Mimi in La Boheme for Wolf Trap Opera and is a doctoral student at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Single tickets [5] range from $20-$75 and are available by calling 502.584.7777 or visiting LouisvilleOrchestra.org [6].
Watch Leonard Bernstein conduct the last movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 below: