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Mahler's Third Symphony with the San Diego Symphony


  • Jacob's Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue San Diego, CA, 92101 United States (map)

featuring Premier Choir with select member of Intermediate

Friday and Saturday 7:30PM

Sunday at 2pm

at the Jacob’s Music Center

Written over the course of three years, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is a monumental two-part declaration of faith that reveals the composer’s wide-ranging influences, from folk song to mythology and philosophy. This vastly expansive work is Mahler’s ode to nature, progressing in ever wider circles from the intimacy of flowers and meadows, to a colossal vision of humanity, and the splendor of the cosmos and its Creator. Perhaps no other symphony of Mahler’s so well embodies his famous declaration to Sibelius, in Sibelius’s own account:

"Die Symphonie muss sein wie die Welt, Sie muss alles umfassen."
("A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.")

World-renowned mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill will make her San Diego Symphony debut, conducted by Music Director Rafael Payare, for these final concerts of this historic season.

Earlier Event: April 27
St Mark's Concert Series
Later Event: June 1
35th Annual Spring Concert