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The Perfect Pair: Mozart & Mahler

Venue: Overture Hall

Friday, January 19, 2024
7:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 20, 2024
8:00 p.m.

Sunday, January 21, 2024
2:30 p.m.

Buy Single Tickets

$15 – $102
Only through the Overture Center Box Office, 201 State Street

This month, I not only continue to celebrate my 30th anniversary season, but I celebrate a milestone birthday. I have chosen two desert island favorites of mine for the occasion and invite you to come celebrate with me. Joyce Yang played so wonderfully a few seasons ago, that I wanted to bring her back immediately. She will play one of the great piano concertos of Mozart. Mozart is considered the perfect pairing with Gustav Mahler, so I have done just that. Mahler’s great fifth symphony, with its famous Adagietto movement extracted for the movie Death in Venice, is a colossal work for a very large orchestra. The Adagietto movement is scored only for harp and strings and is of exquisite beauty. This will be the MSO’s second performance of this masterwork. Treat yourself to the sonic experience of a Mahler symphony and the sublime perfection of a Mozart piano concerto.  – John DeMain, Music Director

 

Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Intermission
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 5

Read the Program Notes

Featuring

John DeMain, Music Director
Joyce Yang, Piano

 

Enhance Your Concert Experience

Take Note: Drinks Allowed in Overture Hall
As of this season, drinks are allowed inside Overture Hall during all Madison Symphony Orchestra concerts. Refreshments may be purchased at bars and concession stands located around the Overture Hall lobby before each concert and during intermission. Please enjoy food in the lobby and unwrap any candy or cough drops before the performance begins. Thank you!

Prelude Discussion
Enjoy a 30-minute talk with Michael Allsen starting one hour before each concert in Overture Hall. Free to ticketholders.

Ms. Yang’s performance was sensational.

– MSO patron

Her attention to detail and clarity is as impressive as her agility, balance and velocity.

– Washington Post

Joyce was astounding and a great performer. We really enjoyed the emotion she put into her performance.

– MSO patron

Meet the Performers

mso music director john demain

John DeMain, Conductor

View Biography

Joyce Yang, Piano

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Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors!

Presenting Sponsor

Myrna Larson

 

Major funding provided by

 

Kenneth A. Lattman Foundation, Inc.

 

Fred Mohs, in memory of Mary Mohs

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David and Kato Perlman

 

Cyrena and Lee Pondrom

 

Fred A. Wileman

Additional funding provided by

 

Scott and Janet Cabot, in honor of John DeMain

with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts

Details

Start:
January 19
End:
January 21
Event Category:

Venue

Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703 United States
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