Pianist Yuja Wang with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The last date listed for Pianist Yuja Wang with the San Francisco Symphony was Friday June 17, 2011 / 8:00pm (Post-Concert Q&A with Yuja Wang).
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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
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Business casual or formal
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People, it would not hurt to dress up a bit!
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Walking distance from Zuni Cafe, which was an AWESOME restaurant.
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That program was a real delight! i had my 12-y.o. grandson with me and he liked the program as well.Written on Jul 25 2011
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Yuja was amazing albiet brief. I would have liked to see her play more.Written on Jun 20 2011
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What a dynamo Yuja Wang is! Great performance both by the Symphony and MTT also! Wonderful seats, wonderful performance.Written on Jun 17 2011
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More Information About Pianist Yuja Wang with the San Francisco Symphony
Website
http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=43002
Quotes & Highlights
- Visit Yuja Wang's official website.
- “The arrival of Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang on the musical scene is an exhilarating and unnerving development. To listen to her in action is to re-examine whatever assumptions you may have had about how well the piano can actually be played.” --San Francisco Chronicle
Description
Praised for her “superhuman keyboard technique with artistic eloquence that is second to none” (San Francisco Chronicle), 23-year-old pianist Yuja Wang joins MTT and the San Francisco Symphony in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto. The rhapsodic Romanian Folk Dances share the Concerto’s debt to Bartók’s legendary obsession with Eastern European folk music. The program concludes with the marvelous third act of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet Swan Lake.
Inside Music, an informative talk with Laura Stanfield Prichard, begins one hour prior to rehearsal and concerts. Free to ticketholders.
This performance is part of Project San Francisco, an innovative composer and artist residency program at the San Francisco Symphony.
Artists:
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
San Francisco Symphony
Program:
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Act III from Swan Lake
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.