I was at The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra performance of Das Lied von der Erde today (May 31st, 2009) at The Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn and caught the entire performance of Gustav Mahler’s masterpiece.   A friend was also playing in the orchestra today and that’s how I came to know of the performance.

In fact, I was very fortunate today as I was sitting in the front row and could get a very good seat and great sound, even my Flip Camera had the sound ….sounding good, and the Brooklyn Orchestra was great.

Here’s song 4 of the Song of the Earth cycle

And here’s the rest of the videos I made today

Song 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esddjnp-PmA

Song 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-CEoJtmO8

Song 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgH2vB4uZg

Song 4 – embedded above

Song 5 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYbTmlkDDc

Song 6 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAiKnW33Xk  Part 1

Song 6 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vZQIOjMp8  Part 2

Song 6 – Part 3 is being uploaded now

I wanted to write a little more about the piece but decided to place my video recollections, as I left the Church of St. Ann, as my commentary.