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Hamburg Ballet probes monumental themes in Mahler's 'Third Symphony' by Hedy Weiss

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…

SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:53PM on February 28, 2016

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