Mahler's Second Cymphony is commonly called "the Resurrection". It is funereal in many spots, but the end is very triumphant and uplifting. At one spot about 2/3s of the way through, there is silence , then a crescendo drum roll and a huge cymbal crash--the notes say this was supposed to represent a particular moment in the apocalpse (sp?). there was a time when I listened to a tape of this repeatedly while driving from court conference to deposiitions etc, as one has to do in upstate NY. It was frequently played on classical music stations by Robert J. Lurtsema on Easter morning. If I remember, ESYO played at least the 1st moveemnt while Dan was a member, so he got in the habit of hearing it in my cara t that time, due to our habit of playing recordings of music that the orchestra was playing, to get a feel for the sound by professionals. Dan will recall on our trip to Chicago to check out the school in April 2004, when we left very early Easter morning, and we had to take 2 cars until we reached Rochester, I played it in the car between Schenectady and Rochester, in honor of Easter.