Mahler Concert

I'm playing a concert tomorrow night (Sat) at 8pm (Dallas time) with the UNT Symphony Orchestra. We're playing Mahler's 1st symphony which is a really sweet piece, one of my favorites. If you're sitting at home bored (or you wanna see a sweet piece being played live) you can listen to a live stream here:

http://recording.music.unt.edu/index.php/live

The video at the top of the page is the end of the piece played by the Vienna Phil conducted by Leonard Bernstein (Bernstein conducted the NY Philharmonic for decades. He also wrote the music to West Side Story among other things). It's interesting if you want to see the musicians but not my favorite recording (though still good). The trumpet players are playing rotary trumpets as opposed to normal piston trumpets and the horns are playing single F horns, which is crazy and very hard- but business as usual for the Vienna Phil.

This video is a recording of the Chicago Symphony which has the greatest brass section in the world. If you compare the ends of the two videos you'll see what I mean. In the Chicago one the brass completely dominate the whole ensemble, you can barely tell the strings are playing. If you enjoy this I'd recommend listening to the other sections by the CSO, as they are equally awesome.