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Really, Really Big Show

Picking a symphony for Mahler's Eighth

by James Leonard

posted 12/24/2009

Beethoven's Ninth is big; Verdi's Requiem is bigger. But the biggest show in classical music is Mahler's Eighth Symphony. The "Symphony of a Thousand" requires an enormous orchestra, an off-stage brass band, eight vocal soloists, a children's choir, and a gargantuan adult choir. And now the UMS Choral Union--the only chorus between Chicago and Cleveland capable

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