Saturday, April 4, 2026, 7 P.M.

Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center, Amherst College

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​​​The Amherst Symphony Orchestra (ASO) continues its annual cycle of symphonies by Gustav Mahler with his monumental Sixth Symphony in A minor ("Tragic").  As in his Second Symphony ("Resurrection"), Mahler poses the unavoidable, eternal existential questions: "why do we live, love and suffer?"

 

But in the Sixth— with two (or three?) blows of his famed percussion "hammer"— the composer's conclusions are decidedly bleaker. 

Free general admission.