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Heyward Conducts Mahler (EARTH | Songs)

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Classical Collection, Classical Series
Mahler’s Song of the Earth shines with vocalists Russell Thomas and Sasha Cooke, while Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm captures spring’s beauty. Music Director Jonathon Heyward conducts, featuring a world premiere by Grace-Evangeline Mason in this chapter of the EARTH | Songs Festival.

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Jonathon Heyward, conductor   
Russell Thomas, tenor
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

DVOŘÁK In Nature's Realm
GRACE-EVANGELINE MASON New Work (world premiere, BSO co-commission with The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland)
MAHLER Das lied von der Erde "Song of the Earth"

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Spring is the time to bask in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth), with six profound and stirring movements performed by two distinguished voices of American opera. A climate-inspired world premiere from Grace-Evangeline Mason adds a current perspective on nature, and commemorates the EARTH | Songs Festival.

  • Leonard Bernstein deemed Das Lied von der Erde — or "Song of the Earth" — as Mahler's "greatest symphony." Though it is not actually a symphony, this speaks to its scope and emotional potency.
  • Sasha Cooke, a two-time GRAMMY Award-winning mezzo-soprano called a "luminous standout" by The New York Times, is frequently featured internationally in performances of Mahler's vocal works.
  • Tenor Russell Thomas is an American tenor with a “heroically shining tone of exceptional clarity and precision” (Opera Magazine) and “gorgeously burnished power” (The New York Times).
  • Born in 1994, Grace-Evangeline Mason has written compositions celebrated for their ethereal soundscapes, often drawing inspiration from art, poetry, and literature to create immersive narrative journeys. Mason's composition, The Imagined Forest, was recently recorded by the BSO and adapted for the Sonic Trails immersive experience at The Music Center at Strathmore in 2024.
  • Dvořák's In Nature's Realm is the first in his "Nature, Life and Love" trilogy of concert overtures, which also include the Carnival and Othello overtures.
  • This program is part of the EARTH | Songs Festival, which reflects on humanity's relationship with nature through music inspired by its beauty, power, and fragility. The festival's events include:
    • Reimagined: Vivaldi's Four Seasons (Popular Collection, Fusion Series: February 13–14)
    • The Rite of Spring (Classical Collection/Series: February 26–March 1)
    • Heyward Conducts Mahler (Classical Collection/Series: March 6–8)
    • Appalachian Spring & Beethoven 6 with Alsop (Classical Collection/Series: April 16–19)