M8 in Aspen / August 19

[Roland Flessner]

Note that Robert Spano will conduct M8 in the closing concert of the Aspen Music Festival on August 19. I'm going, and it will be quite a pilgrimage.

I'm not familiar with any of the soloists, but Duane Wolfe leads the CSO Chorus.

http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/index.cfm?method=c.eventDetail&eventID=4734&layout=1

[barry guerrero]

Not to sound discouraging, but Vinson Cole has definitely seen better days, vocally speaking (decades, really). Yet, they keep dredging him up for Mahler 8.