(DECEMBER 28, 2024) Every year since 2011 (save for a COVID hiatus), the Green Mountain Mahler Festival, founded in 2002 by Larner Professor of Medicine Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., has celebrated New Year’s Day with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Members of the double bass section of the Green Mountain Mahler Festival Orchestra, including founder Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., Larner professor of medicine (far right)
(DECEMBER 28, 2024) Every year since 2011 (save for a COVID hiatus), the Green Mountain Mahler Festival, founded in 2002 by Larner Professor of Medicine Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., has celebrated New Year’s Day with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by its orchestra and chorus, conducted by Daniel Bruce, the Rutland Herald reports.
Proceeds for this year’s concert at the Elley-Long Music Center in Colchester benefited the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity.
Weiss, an “avocational” bassist, physician, and scientist at the University of Vermont, founded the festival to give area instrumentalists opportunities to play large-scale symphonic works. Performing Beethoven’s Ninth has become an annual New Year’s Day tradition.
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