MahlerFest: London 1969
Category: Live Music
Date and Time
- Wednesday, May 13, 2026 6:30pm - 11:59pm
Location
1400 Block of Pearl Street
1400 Pearl St
Details
Wear your grooviest 60s outfit.
It’s 1969 and veteran composer Franz Josef Haydn is making his first trip to London where he is swept up in the dizzying world of The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Cream, and Hendrix, many of whom had grown up idealizing this early work in Esterhazy in the 1950s, much as they had Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker in America.
All of London’s hippest gather for the premier of Haydn’s London Symphony at the Hammersmith Odeon (aka Boulder Theater) but Haydn is there for the premiere of the first rock opera, "Tommy," by Who's Mahler.
HAYDN | Symphony No. 104 in D major
THE WHO | Tommy
MahlerFest Chamber Orchestra
Ken Woods, Conductor
Who's Mahler?
Ken Woods, Guitars & Vocals
Tony Escueta, Keyboards & Vocals
Sean Flora, Bass & Vocals
Brad Harner, Drums & Vocals
Featuring a talk at 6:30pm: "Tommy and Rock Music’s Ambitious Turn" – Presented by John Covach, Director of the University of Rochester’s Institute for Popular Music.
