Season Finale: Mahler 5
Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United StatesAfter hearing Sasha Cooke sing Mahlerās RĆ¼ckert Lieder on August 10, audiences may recognize some themes in tonightās symphony. The fourth movement, the Adagietto, draws explicitly from the Lieder and is recognized as a love letter from Mahler to his wife, Alma. Leonard Bernstein famously led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of the heartbreakingly beautiful Adagietto at Robert Kennedyās funeral service in 1968. The rest of the symphony is pretty good, too.