Christian Baldini conducts the San Francisco Symphony in John Luther Adams’s...
This week's program at Davies Hall had a split personality. Young contemporary music specialist Christian Baldini was onstage to lead the opening work, The Light That Fills the World, by Alaska...
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If you feel pursued by good luck, do we call it paranoia? This is the question I must answer lately, since it seems the London Symphony has chased me down in San Francisco—to my great delight! Just a...
View ArticleMichael Tilson Thomas Leads the San Francisco Symphony in Leonard Bernstein’s...
There is a sound you sometimes feel after midnight, high up in Manhattan. It comes from maybe thirty blocks away. Very faint. In the stillness of your mind, you know it is a lonely taxi horn dancing...
View ArticleMTT and Yuja Wang play their European Tour Program at Home: Bartók and Mahler
Naked came the pianist! Or so it nearly seemed, as Yuja Wang made her way to the Davies stage last Saturday. This young performer always serves up classic delicacy spiked with erotic undulation. But...
View ArticleMTT leads the San Francisco Symphony in Ravel Rossini, and Respighi, with...
Davies Hall, San Francisco September 26, 2015 The San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano Ravel – Menuet Antique (1895/1929) Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2 in F...
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