Mahler's Fourth: A Wicked New Look

Mahler's Fourth: A Wicked New Look

“A bass trombonist extraordinaire…(whose) voice has defined the instrument.”- Jazzed Magazine, on David Taylor

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Hailed as “wildly adventurous” by The Washington Post, PostClassical Ensemble (PCE) will present Mahler’s Fourth: A Wicked New Look for one night only. Featuring Bass Trombone virtuoso, David Taylor, and the stage debut of eighteen year-old soprano Madeleine Murnick, the evening will explore Mahler’s turn-of-the-century Vienna, which witnessed an artistic explosion that mixed traditional sounds with folk influences from across the Austro-Hungarian empire. The never-before-heard rearrangement, recast specifically for chamber orchestra and bass trombone, will highlight Mahler’s presages to the emergence of jazz. The music’s inner conflicts and contradictions allow listeners to better access the composer’s own struggles with living as an assimilated Jewish artist in a creatively liberating, yet deeply anti-Semitic Vienna. Whether you’ve heard Mahler’s Fourth a thousand times or never before, this evening promises to transport you to another place and time.

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“Not in my wildest imaginings could I have envisioned such revelatory and shocking interpretations” -  Sudip Bose , The American Scholar, on Taylor's Schubert with PCE