Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
Photo by Lisa Hirsch
It's not often that a music review also contains breaking news, but my review of last night's SFS gala concert concludes with more good news for the orchestra: the orchestra has a new artistic administrator, a position that has been open since last fall, when Phillippa Cole left. Michael Gandlmayr joins the orchestra next, from the same position at the Cleveland Orchestra. Before Cleveland, he was artistic administrator of the Seattle Symphony. (Seattle experienced the departure of a number of good people during the tenure of Krishna Thiagarajan, who left the orchestra earlier this year.)
Amusingly, the news came from SFS in the form of a correction: I had the wrong time frame for Cole's departure, and, oh, there's a new artistic admin starting next week!
Oh, right, the gala was fun! It wasn't a deep program and it seemed to exemplify this year's...uh...weak programming, but Jaap van Zweden led a zippy and fun program; the orchestra sounded great; Yuja Wang is always fun.
- Lisa Hirsch, S.F. Chronicle (review)
- Tony Bravo, S.F. Chronicle (reporting)
- Steven Winn, SFCV (review; link to follow)
- Joshua Kosman, On a Pacific Aisle (link to follow)
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