
Mahler’s Third Symphony
- Sep 20, 2025 at 7 pm & Sep 21, 2025 at 2 pm
- Fisher Center at Bard, Sosnoff Theater
Program & Artists
Mahler Symphony No. 3
Leon Botstein conductor
Stephanie Blythe mezzo-soprano
Bard Conservatory Preparatory Chorus
Bard College Chamber Singers
Members of Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program
James Bagwell choral director
Tickets
- Starting at $15, Available Aug 21
Botstein Bundle 35% off the full price
Create Your Own series 25% off the full price
Packages available starting Aug 19
Part of TŌN’s Fisher Center concert series
For the fourth year in a row, TŌN opens the season with a Mahler symphony. The Third is the composer’s longest work, a deeply personal and all-encompassing masterpiece that stands as a towering monument to nature and humankind’s place within it. Mahler described the symphony as having a “steady intensification of feeling, from the indistinct, unyielding, elemental existences (of the forces of nature), to the tender formation of the human heart, which in turn points toward and reaches a region beyond itself (God).” Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe—a Musical America Vocalist of the Year, Opera News, and Richard Tucker Award-winner—joins the orchestra for two of the symphony’s six movements, singing text by Nietzsche telling of joy transcending death and worldly suffering, and then a German folk poem about heavenly joy rewarding the faithful.
These concerts will also be livestreamed on TŌNtube.
Concert Details
The concert will last approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes with no intermission.
Brief remarks by a TŌN musician
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
Stephanie Blythe mezzo-soprano
Bard Conservatory Preparatory Chorus
Bard College Chamber Singers
Members of Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program
James Bagwell choral director
1 hour and 41 minutes
Listen
All timings are approximate. Program and artists subject to change.
Sample the Music
Mahler Symphony No. 3
Photo: Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now by Matt Dine
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