This weekend at Davies Hall, music director Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the podium for a performance that highlights some of the more radical entries in the modern repertoire by composers of American descent. The evening begins with a work by one of the more renowned American composers of the 20th Century, Aaron Copland. Copland [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
This weekend at Davies Hall, famed Dutch conductor Edo de Waart–currently the music director of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra–will be leading the San Francisco Symphony in an evening of music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Schreker. This performance occurs over two decades after de Waart’s inaugural performances with [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
This weekend at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony welcomes back its legendary music director emeritus, Herbert Blomstedt, for an evening of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Herbert Blomstedt is an American-born conductor who grew up and spent a majority of his life in Sweden, the native land of his parents. [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012
This weekend at Davies Hall, the celebrated violinist, violist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman will be sitting in for Michael Tilson Thomas to lead the San Francisco Symphony in an evening of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the great 20th Century German composer, violist and pedagogue, Paul Hindemith. Beginning with Mozart’s Adagio in E Major [...]
Thursday, January 12, 2012
This week at Davies Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas will be leading the San Francisco Symphony in a performance of Le martyre de Saint Sébastien by French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, preceded by the famous “Sinfonietta” of 20th Century Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The concert kicks off with a performance of one of the classical music repertoire’s most oft-performed sinfoniettas, [...]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
This weekend at Davies Hall, SFS chorus director Ragnar Bohlin will be leading the orchestra and chorus in a seasonal performance of George Frideric Handel’s celebrated choral masterpiece, Messiah. Composed in 1741, Handel (pictured left) managed to finish the work he will always be most remembered by in a mere 24 days. Messiah is an oratorio, [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2011
This weekend at the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas will be leading the orchestra in performances of three very disparate pieces of German music: Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock by Heinrich Schütz, Arnold Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, and the evening’s centerpiece, Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem. The first piece, Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock (I’m [...]
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