TSO closes out song fest with Mahler and Mozart

Tucson Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director George Hanson, will help close the third annual Tucson Desert Song Festival this weekend with Mahler’s six-song “Das Lied von der Erde” (Song of the Earth), featuring a pair of rising New York Metropolitan Opera stars.

“Das Lied von der Erde,” which explores the themes of living, parting and salvation, is arranged much like a symphony, with four movements. Guest soloists mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, who has sung in more than 140 performances with the Met, and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, a Met regular since the mid-1990s and a two-time Grammy winner, will take turns singing the songs.

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The performance is part of the TSO’s MasterWorks chamber series. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7575 N. Paseo del Norte, as part of the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance season (saaca.org); and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. Tickets are $48 to $53 through ticketmaster.com for Tucson concerts and by calling 797-3959, Ext. 1, for Oro Valley concert. Note, Sunday’s performance is sold out and there are only a few tickets remaining for Saturday’s show.

This is the first time the TSO will perform the Mahler piece.