José Luis Gomez, Music Director Tucson Symphony Orchestra Friday, 31 March 2023 RISE! YES, RISE AGAIN, TUCSON! This was a fine and joyous performance. The brass, percussion, and woodwind-swollen orchestra, alternately stretched out in long-spun soundscapes, attacking in thunderous outbursts, and finally layering into Mahler’s otherworldly culmination of musical forces, performed very well under Maestro José Luis Gomez’ steady, studied, expressive, can't miss direction. The multi-ensemble symphonic chorus produced Mahler’s delicate dissonances and ultra-powerful divine declarations in fine form. Vocal soloists Kelly Nassief and Emily Marvosh both achieved that seemingly impossible combination of powerful projection, tonal variation, and exaggerated annunciation that is required to deliver Mahler’s grand settings of the Urlicht (4th mvt.) and Auferstehen (Finale). Concertmaster Loren Roth ’s several solo contributions were deliciously outstanding and were heavily lauded during ova
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