The 2024 Oregon Mahler Festival is coming!

Oregon Mahler Festival Concerts

The 2024 Oregon Mahler Festival Concert will be held at Lake Oswego High School

on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM.

On the program will be Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10, performing version edited by Deryck Cooke

Conducted by our Music Director Mark Perlman

General admission to the concert is $20 general admission, and $15 for Students and Seniors.

The eighth season concert of the Oregon Mahler Festival will feature Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10, in the performance version by Deryck Cooke. The work was composed in 1910 and 1911.  It was Mahler's last symphony which was left unfinished at his death in 1911.  Mahler wrote the full score for the opening Adagio movement, and the short Purgatorio movement, but the two scherzos and finale were composed in "short score", indicating only the melodies and harmonies and some instrumentation instructions.  In the 1950s and 60s, musicologist Deryck Cooke used those short scores to reconstruct what he thought Mahler might have written.  Since then, thre ahve been several other performing versions done, but Cooke's is the most often performed.