Innocence

Harmonia Orchestra • William White, conductor

Katherine Goforth , tenor

Carl Maria von Weber Overture to Der Freischütz

Gustav Mahler selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

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Gustav Mahler was so enchanted by The Boy’s Magic Horn, a collection of Romantic German folk poems, that he set 14 of them for voice and orchestra , incorporating some into his early symphonies. The innocence of childhood in these songs stands in contrast to the innocence of a guileless artist, Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies were deeply influenced by those of Mahler. Shostakovich’s multi-layered fifth symphony publicly served as a form of atonement to the Soviet government, which had found him guilty of artistic sins.

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