Deep Focus: Enriching the Aspen Experience

In the last Deep Focus essay of the season, Erin Pratt uses the slow movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony to explore the philosophical and spiritual ramifications of musical repetition.

Join Ravel expert Jessie Fillerup on a tour of the influence Ravel’s Second Suite from Daphnis and Chloé has had on film music—and its connections to the rest of this summer’s program.

In this essay, Imani Mosley traces the divergent postwar temporalities of W. H. Auden’s poem The Age of Anxiety and the Leonard Bernstein Symphony that it inspired.

Peter Mercer-Taylor, an expert on Mendelssohn and religious music, discusses the Reformation Symphony’s origins in the commemoration of the Lutheran Reformation and explores its greater innovation, the reclamation of J. S. Bach for the symphonic tradition.

In honor of Pierre Boulez’s 100th anniversary in 2025, Maestro David Robertson reflects on his working relationship with the composer, focusing particularly on the repertoire he will perform with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble on July 9.