Tag Archives: San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony Plays Haydn, Sibelius, and Beethoven
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 16th September 2016On Thursday evening, September 15, the San Francisco Symphony played Haydn’s Symphony # 69 for the first time in it’s long history. Its Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas conducted. The orchestra played the short work with a lush sound better suited to the symphonic works of the succeeding century. The concluding movement marked presto was…
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San Francisco Symphony Plays Pärt, Bartók, and Respighi
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th October 2012Last night the San Francisco Symphony presented a program of 20th century music of very different styles under the leadership of the young (born 1976) Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko. The program began with Arvo Pärt’s 1977 composition Fratres. Pärt has reworked this piece many times; the San Franciscans played the 1991 version. The basic structure of work is simple….
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