Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts John Adams' Harmonielehre With the San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94102)
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Conductor David Robertson, of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra leads the San Francisco Symphony in a program of great contrasts. The evening begins with a bang, as Rossini's Overture to L'Italiana in Algeri starts things off. This widely recorded and performed piece opens slowly, leading up to a joyous burst of music. Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 follows, showing off the bold and colorful style of the composer's youthful pieces. Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 closes out the evening. This complex piece combines intense calm and peacefulness with moments of intense turmoil and is one of the works that best embodies the spirit of its composer. Learn More
2 Goldstar Member Reviews
Goldstar Member
I have Harmonielehre on CD, but you really have not experienced it until you hear it live. The Symphony was amazing. Gil Shaham was also expressive and wonderful on the Mozart 5th Violin Concerto in A. Henry Cowell rounded out a great evening of classical music.Written on Dec 13 2010
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Susan West
What an amazing concert! From the pre-show talk through the final movement, it showed us, once again, what treasures we San Franciscans are blessed with in Michael Tilson Thomas, the SF Symphony, and John Adams.Written on Dec 13 2010
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More Information About Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts John Adams
Website
http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=43062
Quotes & Highlights
- Hear a sound clip from Harmonielehre.
Description
These performances are part of Project San Francisco, an innovative composer and artist residency program.
Project San Francisco continues with another signature John Adams work: Harmonielehre, a work partly inspired by Adams’s dream in which a tanker ascends from the San Francisco Bay into the sky. This milestone of American minimalism provides the evening’s rousing culmination. The program begins with Synchrony by the great twentieth-century innovator and Bay Area native Henry Cowell. Violinist Gil Shaham, one of his generation’s most dynamic soloists, joins the Symphony for Mozart’s beguiling Violin Concerto No. 5.
Inside Music, an informative talk with Scott Foglesong, begins one hour prior to concerts. Free to ticketholders.
Artists:
Michael Tilson Thomas - conductor
Gil Shaham - violin
San Francisco Symphony
Program:
Cowell - Synchrony
Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 5
John Adams - Harmonielehre
About the Ticket Supplier: San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas present more than 220 concerts each year from September through July in a variety of genres, with SFS musicians performing classical concerts, holiday favorites, summer pops events, free outdoor concerts, special series for families and children, plus presentations of visiting guest artists and orchestras from around the globe. The San Francisco Symphony also takes its unique style to audiences world-wide, touring nationally and internationally every year. The SFS is currently recording all the Mahler symphonies on its own media label and has recently launched Keeping Score, a national, multi-year, multi-media project bringing classical music to millions of Americans via TV, radio, the Internet and more.