Hamburg Ballet probes monumental themes in Mahler's 'Third Symphony'
Gustav Mahler's "Third Symphony" clearly became an obsession for the Milwaukee-bred choreographer John Neumeier, who, for more than four decades, has served as artistic director of Germany's Hamburg Ballet. He created his "Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler" - a monumental neoclassical work that echoes the scale and emotional fervor of the music - in 1975. And this past weekend, Chicago audiences had the rare opportunit…