Homage to Mahler Hanya Holm's setting of Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) Hanya Holm created Homage to Mahler in 1976 during her thirty-fifth consecutive summer of Dance Instruction and Production in Colorado. Premiere performances were August 4 and 5 in Armstrong Theatre at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Jeanne Piland, soloist with New York City Opera ...