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2022-10-04 05:22:00
San Francisco Symphony: Salonen/Mahler 2, Weston Push
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads “Symphony No. 2” by Gustav Mahler, with soprano Golda Schultz, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. At Davies Symphony on Thursday night, September 29, 2022. (Photo by Stefan Cohen)(Clearly this is "Urlicht".)A trio of reviews with a four suspected:Joshua Kosman, SF ChronLisa Hirsch, SFCVThomas May, CVNAI meant to say something about Salonen observing the pause between the first and second movements of the Mahler, and forgot. I also had a draft lede that was awfully close to what Joshua wrote, but I pulled it in an edit. I can't remember exactly why, but I'll say that I don't have enough of a sonic memory or notes on MTT's performances of Mahler or written reviews to be able to describe accurate how and why Salonen's performance differed, so I concentrated on writing about what was in front of me Thursday night.I'm expecting at least […]
2021-08-21 14:58:00
Rolling My Eyes
Yesterday, San Francisco Symphony sent around this press release: RAGNAR BOHLIN CONCLUDES 14-YEAR TENURE AS SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S CHORUS DIRECTOR —The San Francisco Symphony today announces that Ragnar Bohlin will step down as the Orchestra’s Chorus Director at the end of August 2021. Bohlin began his tenure as Chorus Director of the San Francisco Symphony in March 2007. Under his leadership, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus received a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for the recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. With the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Bohlin has conducted such works as J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah, Arvo Pärt's Te Deum, and a cappella works such as Poulenc’s Figure Humaine. Bohlin is also the founding Artistic Director of the professional chamber choir Cappella SF with which he has recorded four CDs. In […]
2021-06-29 18:27:00
Whoa: San Francisco Symphony, 2021-22
[…] and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Notturno World premiere of Concerto for Trombone, written and performed by San Francisco Symphony Principal Trombone Timothy Higgins Featured soloists include Gautier Capuçon, Demarre McGill, and Yuja Wang San Francisco Symphony Conducting Debuts and Returning Conductors San Francisco Symphony Orchestral Series debuts by nine visiting conductors: Gustavo Gimeno, Giancarlo Guerrero, Klaus Mäkelä, Michael Morgan, Perry So, Ruth Reinhardt, Daniel Stewart, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Xian Zhang Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony Chorus Director Ragnar Bohlin, Karina Canellakis, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Ton Koopman, and Simone Young return to conduct the San Francisco Symphony Guest Artists Perform with the San Francisco Symphony Alonzo King LINES Ballet, J’Nai Bridges, Claire Chase, Aaron Diehl, Pekka Kuusisto, Demarre McGill, Víkingur Ólafsson, Esperanza Spalding, Wu Wei, and Melody Wilson, among others, make San Francisco Symphony Orchestral Series debuts Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Yefim Bronfman, Gautier Capuçon, Leila […]
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