On behalf of the board of the Colorado MahlerFest, Kenneth Woods, our wonderful musicians and scholars, and our generous supporters, Welcome to MahlerFest XXXI Mon (5/14) & Thu (5/17) at 7pm, Tue (5/15) & Fri (5/18) at 6pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium Tuesday – May 15 – 12:00pm – Concert – Canyon Theater at the Main Boulder Library o Jesse Jones and Craig Butterfield Wednesday – May 16 – 7:30pm – Concert – Gordon Gamm Theater at The Dairy Center o R. Strauss: Sextet for Strings from Capriccio Op. 85 o J. McCabe: Pilgrim – Sextet for Strings (US Premiere) o J. Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor Op. 115 o Daniel Silver – Clarinet, Jorja Fleezanis and Karen Bentley Pollick – Violin o Erika Eckert and Lauren Spalding – Viola o Parry Karp, Andrew Brown and Kenneth Woods – Violoncello Thursday – May 17 – 1:30pm – Master Class - Atonement Lutheran Church o The Conducting Fellows, Kenneth Woods and chamber orchestra o Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – Chamber version (Schönberg, Riehn) Friday – May 18 – 2:00pm – Concert – The Academy, Boulder o A. Zemlinsky: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano o J. Brahms: Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99 o J. Jones: Phantasma for solo Cello o G. Enescu: Sonata No 3. for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 25 o Karen Bentley-Pollick – Violin, Parry Karp – Violoncello, Jennifer Hayghe – Piano Saturday – May 19 – Symposium – 9:00am – 3:30pm – C-199 – Imig Building, CU Boulder o Stephen E. Hefling – Case Western Reserve University (Emeritus) . “’The most personal thing I have yet created’: Mahler’s Lied von der Erde” o Ofer Ben-Amots – Chair, Department of Music – Colorado College . “Time Formation in Mahler's Compositional Technique” o Kenneth Woods – Artistic Director and Conductor, Colorado MahlerFest . “Conducting Mahler and Sibelius” o Jack Sheinbaum – Lamont School of Music – University of Denver . “Suspension, Fulfillment, and Fin de Siècle Orchestral Timbre in Das Lied von der Erde” o David Auerbach – President, Colorado MahlerFest Board of Directors . “Sibelius and His Seventh Symphony” o Juha V. Mäkikalli - Honorary Consul of Finland, Colorado . “Sibelius and His Importance to the Finnish People – Historical and Modern” o Lunch: $15.00 – Tickets on sale at the Symposium – Lunch in the Atlas Atrium Saturday – May 19 – 7:30 pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado Sunday – May 20 – 3:30 pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado o Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 o Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde o Stacey Rishoi (Mezzo-soprano) and Brennen Guillory (Tenor) o Kenneth Woods conducting the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra o Pre-concert Lecture by Kenneth Woods at 6:30pm on Saturday and 2:30pm on Sunday All venues are in Boulder, CO: Macky Auditorium (1595 Pleasant St, 80309) – IMIG (1020 18th Street, 80302) Boulder Public Library (1001 Arapahoe Ave, 80302) – Gordon Gamm at the Dairy Center (2590 Walnut St, 80302) Atonement Lutheran Church (685 Inca Parkway, 80303) – The Academy (970 Aurora Ave, 80302) .