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Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Mahler Songs, Featuring Sasha Cooke

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley

One of classical musicā€™s great mysteries is why Schubert never finished his eighth symphonyā€”he lived six more years after he stopped working on it. But thereā€™s no mystery in why it has become so popular: itā€™s gorgeous, and it includes one of the most famous melodies ever written. Like Schubert, Gustav Mahler was a master songwriter, and he set many poems by Friedrich RĆ¼ckert to music. Sasha Cooke, a ā€œluminous standoutā€ (The New York Times) with ā€œequal parts poise, radiance, and elegant directnessā€ (Opera News), sings Mahlerā€™s RĆ¼ckert Lieder with the Festival Orchestra.

Small Ensemble Recital

Community School Theater 1 Community School Drive, Sun Valley

Students from this summer's programs for grades 2-12 share their work from the week in small ensembles.

Sasha Cooke with Festival Musicians

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley

Themes of love and loss feature strongly in this program featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. First up are a pair of songs Brahms wrote for his friends, the great violinist Joseph Joachim and his wife, Amalie, hoping to bolster their rocky marriage. Chaussonā€™s Chanson perpĆ©tuelle then depicts the distress of an abandoned woman, evoking memories of happy love, nostalgia, and anguish. Concluding the program, Cooke will sing Hector Berliozā€™s Les nuits dā€™Ć©tĆ© (ā€œSummer Nightsā€). Berlioz put six poems about unrequited love to music, creating a song cycle. Itā€™s a musical form Mahler would employ several decades later in his RĆ¼ckert Lieder, which Cooke will sing in the following concert.