According to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler,

“What’s best in music is not to be found in the notes.”

Mahler fans in Colorado present MahlerFest, a celebration of accomplished composer and conductor, Gustav Mahler.  We in Colorado can also celebrate the recent official naming of a peak northwest of Rocky Mountain National Park as “Mount Mahler“.  The stamp of approval for the name by the U.S. Board On Geographic Names came after a decades-long campaign by climbers and musicians Bob Michael and Chris Mohr, among many others.

Meanwhile, back to the music festival.  There are a number of free concerts and events available to enjoy the music of this great composer:

January 10, 2007
Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater – 9th & Canyon – Boulder – 7 PM
Chamber/Lieder Recital

January 12, 2007
Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts – 200 E. Baseline Road - Lafayette – 7:30 PM
Chamber/Lieder Recital
 
January 13, 2007 
Eaton Humanities Building, Room 150, CU Campus – Boulder - 9 AM to 4 PM
Free Symposium

For a sampling of the music you’ll be hearing at these concerts, listen to selections from “Das Lied von der Erde” (“The Song of the Earth“), the music featured in this year’s MahlerFest.

A schedule of festival events can be found here.

As Gustav used to say,

“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”