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Maestro Aram Demirjian gives a user's guide to understanding Mahler's fifth symphony

Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's January Masterworks program, featuring Mahler's Symphony No.5

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's next MoxCar Marketing and Communications Masterworks series concert features Gustav Mahler's epic Symphony No.5. Performances will be given in the magnificent Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville on Thursday and Friday, January 16th and 17th at 7:30pm.

In this interview, Maestro Aram Demirjian gives some tips on understanding the music of Mahler, particularly the fifth symphony. Demirjian says that Mahler wanted to encompass the entire world in his symphonies and that his symphonic output follows the trajectory of his own life. Four words are used to summarize Mahler's fifth symphony: messy, real, beautiful, and powerful.

Tickets and additional information at https://knoxvillesymphony.com/concert/mahler-symphony-no-5/

Melony calls the beautiful mountains of Boone, N.C., home, although she was born near Greensboro, N.C. There’s just something about those Blue Ridge Mountains that got in her blood and never left after she moved there to attend Appalachian State University (ASU). While at ASU, she majored in piano performance and music therapy and began to cultivate a love for accompanying and for collaborating with other musicians. This soon led her to earn a master’s degree in collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee, which she attended from 2006-2008.