HK Gruber: Aeriel

MUSIC
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2018
8:00 PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$24.50-$161
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This gets Listed for the madcap Viennese postmodernist HK Gruber's wild trumpet concerto, Aerial -- played by one of the few people in the world capable of doing so, its dedicatee, the spectacular Håken Hardenberger (who, since the 1980s, has somehow morphed from a near-teenage cutiepie into a middle-aged man).  But let's not forget the other piece on the program: Mahler's Fifth Symphony.  Mahler is arguably the first postmodernist -- which would make him postmodern before there was even modernism, a trick that surely only he and and he alone could have pulled off.  Even people who think they don't like Mahler (and they're wrong, wrong, wrong) must feel a tug when they hear this symphony's great Adagietto, an elegy (or not) so moving as to be indelible (OK, maybe that's not so postmodern).  Andris Nelsons can be expected to lead his marvelous orchestra marvelously.

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