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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Behind-the-scenes at the CSO’s Mahler Fest debut
Description: Only three times in the history of music has the classical world convened to celebrate the composer Gustav Mahler. An invitation to play at Mahler Fest is a big deal.
Last week, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra received a 10-minute standing ovation there for their rendition of Mahler’s Seventh.
WBEZ contributor Hannah Edgar filed this dispatch from Amsterdam.
HOST: DIXON