More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys

I can't remember if the program for SFS's Barbary Coast & Beyond concerts has been announced previously or not, but a press release that landed in my inbox a couple of hours ago has the story. It looks like MTT went completely nuts, in a good way, when he picked the works to be performed. The program is the kind of 19th century monstrosity I thought I'd never hear:

Barbary Coast & Beyond: Music from the Gold Rush to the Panama-Pacific Exposition

                                                                       

Michael Tilson Thomas conductor

Laura Claycomb soprano

Vadim Gluzman violin

Anton Nel piano

Cameron Carpenter organ

James Robinson producer and director

San Francisco Symphony

Meyerbeer Coronation March from Le prophète

Gottschalk Grand tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra

Wieniawski Allegro moderato, à la Zingara from Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Opus 22

Bull Herdgirl’s Sunday

Délibes Les Filles de Cadix

Offenbach Overture to Orphée aux enfers

Flotow/Osborne “The Last Rose of Summer”

Kreisler Tambourin Chinois

Wagner Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Sousa The Pathfinder of Panama

Rossini Overture to William Tell

Saint-Saëns Hail! California

Various California Medley

Okay, it's missing a Beethoven symphony, but wheeeeeeeeeeee!

Dates are May 10, 11, 12.

Guess I'd better pick up a ticket!