Name: 2425 Season Finale
Start: 2025-05-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Hill Auditorium

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Ann Arbour Symphony Orchestra

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Earl Lee

Orchestra

24/25 Season Finale

Ann Arbor

United States

Hill Auditorium

24/25 Season Finale: Musica Pyralis Balch, K. (+1 More)

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Musica Pyralis

Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor

Sushant Karmakar

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“In which way I love you, my sunbeam, I cannot tell you with words. Only my longing, my love and my bliss, can I with anguish declare.” A love song to his beloved wife Alma, the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 continues to set the standard for musical tributes of adoration. 

Framing this remarkable movement are expressions of triumph and despair, all within a broader symphonic conception that marked the composer’s shift to “pure” instrumental music and the contrapuntal intensity of J.S. Bach. 

Music Director Earl Lee takes the podium to conduct this season-concluding concert, with Katherine Balch’s musica pyralis premiering as a co-commission in partnership with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the Erie Symphony, with support from New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices program.

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24/25 Season Finale by Balch, K., Mahler, Sat 17 May 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Earl Lee, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, United States

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