Kurt Masur Conducts Mendelssohn and the San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The last date listed for Kurt Masur Conducts Mendelssohn and the San Francisco Symphony was Saturday March 12, 2011 / 8:00pm (Pre-Concert Talk Begins at 7:00pm).
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8 Goldstar Member Reviews
D. Ch'an-Moriwaki
As to the comment about the narrator's voice, there are certain "dead spots" where Davies Hall has VERY poor acoustics. Sometimes I don't attend the pre-concert lectures for this very reason, for the continuous stress of straining to decipher the blurred sonics of speech severely subtracts from the enjoyment. However, from where I sat at Midsummer Night's Dream, for once, every aspect of the narrator's delivery was transmitted clearly and undistorted. I got the right seat, and my thank-yous to Goldstar for that! My "sweet spot" revealed the narrator as being an excellent actor and very fine speaker.Written on Mar 13 2011
In my 7th decade of listening to classical music and SF Symphony (since kidhood), I long ago became a specialist in 20th-Century/Contemporary repertoire. It's therefore rare that I would attend a performance of entirely Romantic-and-earlier programming without highly specific reason. However, this concert was a "must:" almost always heard as an orchestral piece, rarely is it ever performed in its fullness; and also, this is Masur territory. This concert thus was worth my decision to attend, musically --- and especially price-wise, another thank-you to Goldstar.
Simply, utterly superb!!
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Belfast
lOVED THE MUSIC. gIRLS cHORUS WAS REALLY BEAUTIFUL. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE OF THEM. mezzo Soprano had better projection than Soprano. Enjoyed the narration but needed beeter mic.Written on Mar 11 2011
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Goldstar Member
A wonderful evening of great music played beautifully. Maestro Masur is quite understated in his delivery, but the result is beautifully musical. I had difficulty hearing the dialog, it went by a little too quickly for me.Written on Mar 14 2011
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maestro and nerrator were just perfect! Thank you!Written on Mar 14 2011
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More Information About Kurt Masur Conducts Mendelssohn and the San Francisco Symphony
Website
http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=42844
Quotes & Highlights
- Inside Music, an informative talk with James Keller, begins one hour prior to concerts.
Description
The San Francisco Symphony performs an all-Mendelssohn program led by Kurt Masur, one of history’s foremost Mendelssohn interpreters. The program pairs the picturesque Italian Symphony with Mendelssohn’s puckish incidental music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a hallmark of both the composer’s oeuvre and the Romantic period.
Artists:
Kurt Masur, conductor
Susannah Biller, soprano
Maya Lahyani, mezzo-soprano
Itay Tiran, narrator
San Francisco Girls Chorus, Susan McMane, director
San Francisco Symphony
Program:
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (complete, sung in English)
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