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13) YOU LOVE LIFE and intend to keep living it to its (over)fullest! 12) This orchestra will be CRAZY BIG: 10 trumpets, 10 French horns, two bass drums, two harps, a double sized woodwind section, a giant chorus, and vocal soloists. WHERE WILL THEY FIND ALL OF THESE NEEDED EXTRA VIRTUOSI? 11) Where have I heard THAT before?! Mahler’s Second symphony contains and integrates--by far!--more hints, allusions, and wild transformations--this is NOT plagiarism!--of previously composed music, including his own, than any music previously composed (that is, of course, until completing his Third symphony...). 10) TSO Maestro José Luis Gomez ("The real deal!", spake Lenny's daughter, Jaime Bernstein) TRANSFORMS into a highly driven, yet relaxed, grunting and groaning MASTER DIRECTOR of gigantic musical forces. This may be his most daunting challenge yet! WILL HE RISE (Yes, rise again!) TO THE OCCASION? 9) Mahler’s COMPLETELY NOVEL, NON-METRIC VOCAL SETTINGS mirror w

Tucson Symphony Orchestra BEETHOVEN'S NINTH José Luis Gomez, conductor Maria Brea, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano* Richard Trey Smagur, tenor Kelly Markgraf, baritone Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus · Marcela Molina, interim director PROGRAM Richard Wagner: Prelude to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder* Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Friday, 20 January 2023 ________________________ Prologue - Regarding Beethoven After life's most difficult questions and challenges have been asked and directly confronted, we all come together in a blissful bond of global fellowship, the grace of our open embrace of the entire knowable universe, beyond which a loving father–Nature's Creator!–must lie. Rejoice!! The rapturous evocation and celebration of universal brotherhood, described by Friedrich Schiller and delivered by Beethoven, is an overpowering, cathartic answer and conclusion to the massive tumult which was the social, economi