Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's January Masterworks program, featuring Mahler's Symphony No.5. In this interview, Maestro Aram Demirjian gives some tips on understanding the music of Mahler, particularly the fifth symphony. Demirjian says that Mahler wanted to encompass the entire world in his symphonies and that his symphonic output follows the trajectory of his own life. Four words are used to summarize Mahler's fifth symphony: messy, real, beautiful, and powerful.