The Mahler Experiment review – physical drama comes at a musical cost in choreographed symphony

Sinfonia Smith Square, London Tom Morris’s staged take on Mahler’s first symphony is valiantly performed by Stephanie Childress and Sinfonia Smith Square, but the result feels more like R&D than a finished product If you’re Macbeth, a moving forest generally isn’t a good thing. But what if you’re Mahler? The instrumentalists of Sinfonia Smith Square, conductor, Stephanie Childress and director, Tom Morris decided to test the result in The Mahler Experiment . As Morris declared cheerfully at the outset: “None of us quite know what’s going to happen!” The composer’s First Symphony conjures a

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