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Article: POLISH CONTRALTO EWA PODLES IS DRAWN TO THE TRAGIC NATURE OF MAHLER'S MUSIC.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 22, 2007
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Byline: PHILIPPA KIRALYSpecial to the P-I
Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 3, his depiction of nature as representative of the divine, takes up a whole concert program with five movements so beautiful they carry the listener along, enthralled to the end.
The Seattle Symphony gives it three performances next week, with the great Polish contralto Ewa Podles, the Northwest Boychoir, and the women of the Seattle Symphony Chorale joining the orchestra in the last two movements.
Reached at her home in Poland, Podles talks about Mahler's use of voice in the work. "He loved the human voice, and wanted to express something more concrete than with ...