Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra: Mahler's Third Symphony

 MAHLER’S THIRD SYMPHONY: FOR THE CHILDREN

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Mahler  | Symphony No. 3

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     Women from ECSC

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     Children’s Chorus

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     Janna Baty, Mezzosoprano

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The second concert of the ECSO’s 2024-25 season honors World Children’s Day, three days earlier, which marks the date when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989. A single work will be performed: Gustav Mahler’s overwhelmingly moving Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, completed in 1896. Mahler called this monumental instrumental and choral composition—the first movement of which is almost a symphony in itself—“a summer’s midday dream.” Joining the orchestra for this not-to-be-missed performance will be mezzo-soprano Janna Baty, a Yale School of Music faculty member; the women of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus, led by Music Director Dr. Daniel McDavitt; and a children’s chorus. Mahler had two daughters with his wife Alma: Maria Anna, who died of scarlet fever and diphtheria at age 4; and Anna, nicknamed “Gucki,” who became a sculptor and died shortly before her 84th birthday in 1988.

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