Monday, April 26, 2021

The Return of San Francisco Symphony


Photo by Lisa Hirsch


Welcome news from Davies today: starting in May, San Francisco Symphony will present concerts again. They will be about 90 minutes, with reduced attendance and a small orchestra, with every masked, and you'll have to present evidence that you have been vaccinated. Esa-Pekka Salonen (our new! music! director!) and guest conductors will lead these programs.

I think I might be up for this! The announced programs are certainly tasty.

Here's the schedule as of today; full programming will be announced next month:

Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, May 7, 2021 at 7pm
 
San Francisco Symphony

JEAN SIBELIUS Rakastava (final version)

GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings

CARL NIELSEN Little Suite for Strings

CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte

EDVARD GRIEG From Holberg’s Time Suite

Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, May 14, 2021 at 7pm
 
Jeremy Denk piano, director
San Francisco Symphony

WILLIAM GRANT STILL Out of the Silence

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052

GERALD FINZI Eclogue for Piano and Strings

WOLFGANG AMADÈ MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major, K.449

Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, May 21, 2021 at 7pm

James Gaffigan conductor
San Francisco Symphony
 
FREYA WALEY-COHEN Talisman [U.S. Premiere]

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht 

SAMUEL BARBER Adagio for Strings


Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, May 28, 2021 at 7pm

Ken-David Masur conductor
San Francisco Symphony
Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7pm

Joseph Young conductor
San Francisco Symphony

Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, June 11, 2021 at 7pm

San Francisco Symphony

Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, June 18, 2021 at 7pm

San Francisco Symphony

Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 7pm
Friday, June 25, 2021 at 7pm

San Francisco Symphony

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