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San Francisco Symphony

Lidiya Yankovskaya--Photo by Kate Lemmon

ListN Up: Lidiya Yankovskaya (April 1, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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Mason Bates: Works for Orchestra on SFS Media

Works for Orchestra is Mason Bates‘ latest album released under San Francisco Symphony‘s...
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Joanne Lam
Ted Hearne--Photo by Nathan Lee Bush

5 Questions to Ted Hearne (composer)

Composer, singer, and bandleader Ted Hearne is one sixth of the composer collective Sleeping Giant a...
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Amanda Cook
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Ifè: Three Yorùbá Songs U.S. Premiere in San Francisco

It has been 81 years since the premiere of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The opera’s then-controversial...
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Norman Cahn
Samuel Adams - Photo by Nathan Phillips

5 Questions to Samuel Adams (composer)

On Saturday, November 8, the San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor) will perform...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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San Francisco Symphony’s Beethoven and Bates Festival

On Saturday January 18, 2014, Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the San Francisco Symphony in their se...
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Kelsey Walsh

Thomas Adès in San Francisco: A Warm, Welcoming Concert Among Friends

Early October saw the San Francisco Symphony continuing it's commendable streak of new music program...
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Danny Clay
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San Francisco Symphony Plays Peer Gynt

This belated review covers an event prior to the negotiations breakdown that happened in San Francis...
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Kelsey Walsh
Julia Adolphe

This week: concerts in New York (March 18 – March 24, 2013)

Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements & The Ice:STORM/The Wind:TORNADO | Two Sides Sounding &...
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Sam Reising
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the SFS in the Opening Concert of the American Mavericks Festival.

San Francisco Symphony: American Mavericks

Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Edgard Varèse were truly mavericks in their day, challenging conventi...
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Don Clark
Samuel Carl Adams

The San Francisco Symphony performs Samuel Carl Adams and Gustav Mahler

Pairing Samuel Carl Adams' new work Drift and Providence with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony was a bold mov...
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Kelsey Walsh
Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble with members of the San Francisco Symphony - Photo by Kristen Loken

American Mavericks Finale in San Francisco

The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music...
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Kelsey Walsh
Emmanuel Ax, MTT - Photo by Kristen Loken

American Mavericks continued: Adams and Bates premieres with Feldman and Varèse

In keeping with the idea of the Mavericks Festival presenting “new classics,” the entire first half...
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Kelsey Walsh
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American Mavericks: Chamber music by Partch, Cowell, Riley and Subotnick

The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr...
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Kelsey Walsh
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the SFS in the Opening Concert of the American Mavericks Festival.

Dead American Mavericks, but sides of them rarely seen…

The San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Season has featured many interesting events, notably lengthe...
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David Gottlieb

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