Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco, CA)
The San Francisco Symphony is proud to welcome pianist Richard Goode. Known for his balance of passion and thoughtfulness, Goode is the ideal pianist for Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 18. Also on the bill: Nielsen's highly entertaining Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments", and Stucky's "Son et lumière". Alan Gilbert, Music Director Designate of the New York Philharmonic, conducts.
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Excellent concert in a great venue. Great at full price and tremendous at half price.
Excellent performances by all involved, but only the Mozart really seemed like important music to us. We might have enjoyed the evening more, had the venue not assigned us the worst possible seats in the comparatively high-priced catagory.
The symphony was awesome.
Thank you.
Completed in September, 1980 after more than two years of construction, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall is the home of the San Francisco Symphony.
During the summer of 1992, Davies Symphony Hall underwent a major renovation, enhancing its acoustics to ensure an even better musical experience, and making an already stunning interior more beautiful still.
The San Francisco Symphony's home owes its
Artists and Program:
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Richard Goode, piano
Steven Stucky: "Son et lumière"
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18
Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments"
Stucky’s "Son et lumière" is quirky and adventurous. Thoughtful, elegant, and impassioned, Goode is the ideal pianist for Mozart. Nielsen’s symphony is nonstop fun: The temperaments depicted are those of a great composer on a very good day. Alan Gilbert, Music Director Designate of the New York Philharmonic, conducts.
Free Inside Music talk by Benjamin Shwartz at 7pm.
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.
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