St. Joseph's Arts Society
Formerly St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Photo by Lisa Hirsch
The San Francisco Opera Orchestra, under Music Director Eun Sun Kim, played a lovely concert on Saturday, May 17, at St. Joseph's Arts Society. I wrote about it for the S.F. Chronicle, not a review, but a report on what happened and what it was like. I really enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere, with children and adults wandering around during the performance and talking to the musicians before and after.
The orchestra played Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, the Rondeau from Purcell's Abdelazar, and Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell), which, right, is the Rondeau from Abdelazar. I thought the performances were terrific; the orchestra sounded great; it was fantastic to be sitting ten feet from the orchestra. Eun Sun Kim's multitasking––conducting, holding a microphone, and calling out the instruments in the Britten––was astonishing. Stephen Smoliar was there too and wrote it up for his blog.
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