The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is likely one of the world’s nice Gustav Mahler orchestras, a legacy that goes again to its second music director, Frederick Inventory. That legacy catapults the orchestra this month to one in all classical music’s most distinguished boards, because the CSO turns into the primary American orchestra to carry out on the Mahler Pageant, an 11-day marathon hosted in Amsterdam.
The pageant has run solely twice earlier than, in 1920 and in 1995. Connecting Chicago and the pageant’s host metropolis is the conductor Klaus Mäkelä, who takes over Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2027, the identical 12 months he turns into music director of the CSO.
However who was Gustav Mahler — and why are a number of the largest names in classical music convening in Amsterdam to rejoice him? Illustrator Eda Uzunlar and WBEZ contributor Hannah Edgar collaborated on this comedian to clarify.
To study extra about Mahler Pageant, tune in to 91.5 FM to listen to Edgar’s dispatches from Amsterdam.
Hannah Edgar is a Chicago-based tradition author. Their work seems commonly within the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Musical America and Downbeat. Eda Uzunlar is a multimedia journalist based mostly in New York. Her work has appeared in NPR, The Washington Publish and public radio stations throughout the nation. Attain her at euzunlar.com.
