Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden

Name: Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden
Start: 2025-05-08T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-08T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Schedule

Thu May 08 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Chicago, IL

The CSO brings the soaring emotional peaks and valleys of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to Chicago audiences before performing it on Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw stage. The “hammer blows of fate” in the finale seem to foreshadow the tragedies in Mahler’s life, including his own fatal illness. But the symphony brims with life’s pleasures, too, from memories of mountain pastures (listen for the cowbells) to a rapturous portrait of the composer’s wife, Alma.
Thursday, May 8: Classic Encounter
Enhance your concert experience with a preconcert multimedia discussion hosted by Chicago’s favorite radio DJ, WXRT’s Terri Hemmert, with a guest CSO musician. You will have the opportunity to add Classic Encounter to your order after selecting your concert seats.
Performers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden conductor
Program
Mahler Symphony No. 6
Sponsors
This performance is sponsored by the Bonnie Ann Barber Endowment Fund, which recognizes the importance of the CSO to Chicago and aims to preserve and support the CSO’s legacy for future generations.