Posts: Mahler’s Inner Circle

MORE TRIANGLE with Victor Avdienko

March 6, 2023

Who knew the triangle could be so expressive?  Leave it to percussionist Victor Avdienko to navigate the triangle-a-thon in Rott’s Symphony No. 1 on the upcoming MAHLER’S INNER CIRCLE concerts.  We can only agree that “We gotta fever… For more triangle!” via GIPHY You performed one single, epic, cymbal crash in the 2019 season finale…

2022-23 Season, Blog, Mahler's Inner Circle, Rott

Program Notes — MAHLER’S INNER CIRCLE

March 2, 2023

Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942) Lustspiel Overture (1891) He was the little quiet guy amidst a bunch of big loud personalities. His brother-in-law was Arnold Schoenberg. He fell in love with Alma Schindler, who rejected him—too short, too homely, she said—and married Gustav Mahler instead. One of his early boosters was Johannes Brahms. Among his students we…

2022-23 Season, Alma Mahler, Mahler's Inner Circle, Rott, Sara Couden, Zemlinsky