Mahler’s music sings the solitude, the immensity of emptiness and the sufferings of existence… but in the depths of this existential anguish, through this heartrending melody, a light emerges and guides us to real life, the love of others and the joy of nature.

Mahler’s apparent pessimism reaches out to us, with a warming hand, and within the palm a flower comes into existence, promise of the future.

Maurice Béjart