Benefit Concert Featuring Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony To Benefit The Children Of AIDS

A benefit concert featuring Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony will take place on January 12, 2009 to benefit the charity the Children of AIDS. The concert will begin at 8:00 pm and will be held at Carnegie Hall at the Isaac Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Conductor George Matthew will lead some of the finest musicians across the world, including soprano Susanne Mentzer, trombonist Joseph Alessi, and posthornist Matthew Muckey to perform Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D Minor.

Principal artists from the New York Philharmonic, the MET Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Emerson String Quartet, will also perform. The students, graduates and faculty of the Julliard School and the Manhattan School of Music will also accompany the musicians.

According to George Mathew, artistic director and conductor, "Mahler's magisterial Third Symphony speaks with a sternness and immediacy to the global community to act responsibly today. Tomorrow will be too late for too many."

The benefit concert is sponsored by the Catholic Medical Mission Board which works to help provide quality healthcare programs and services to people in need around the world and will raise funds and public awareness for global pediatric AIDS and the Prevention-of-Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.

The evening will also serve as a memorial for the millions of mothers and children who have lost their lives, a tribute to the resilience of the survivors, and an urgent call for help to the global community.

For more information or to purchase tickets go to www.mahlerforthechildren.org.