This is the advance publicity pic for a mass joint performance by the Czech Philharmonic and the Bamberg Symphony of Mahler’s 7th symphony.
The open-air concert will be conducted in Prague on September 11 by Jakub Hrusa at the Prague Exhibition Centre, a site that resembles the former exhibition grounds where Mahler gave the world premiere in September 1908.
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