Mahler’s Wondrous Third Symphony at Bard Sosnoff – The Millbrook Independent

Mahler’s Wondrous Third Symphony at Bard Sosnoff – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney Twenty-six years ago, Bard opened the acoustically marvelous Sosnoff Theater with Gustave Mahler’s Third Symphony (1896, only the first two movements were performed), one of the longest symphonies ever written and rarely performed. The symphony was performed in exactly two hours without intermission under the enthusiastic baton of Dr. Leo Botstein. Last Saturday and Sunday were the first reprise of this extraordinary symphon…