what was the title of the hastag by mahler?

For the penultimate concert in the Basler Münster, before the return to the Stadtcasino, the SOB honors the Italian composer Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) for the second time this season. On the programm is his transcription for orchestra of Gabrieli’s Canzone a tre cori. The concert will take place, appropriately, just one day after Maderna’s hundredth birthday. The original piece by Gabrieli (born between 1554 and 1557, died in 1612) was a song for three choirs, making it a fitting appetizer for the remainder of the concert. The main course, Mahler’s second symphony, features a choir in the last movement and Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erde (Peace on Earth), the entremets if you wish, is a composition for a cappella choir based on the Swiss poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer’s eponymous poem.

The concert more or less coincides with Easter when the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. Resurrection (or Auferstehung) is also the title of Mahler’s second symphony. The name refers mostly to the approximately 35-minute long last movement, in which the Last Judgement is announced. The graves open up, the earth shakes, people ¬¬– rich and poor – arise without any discrimination, and finally we hear a beautiful fifth in the horns echoed by a second group of horns (reminding us of the tattoo that marks the end of the day or in this case perhaps the end of time), until from out of nowhere the bird-like flute and piccolo introduce the choir that sings: “Auferstehen