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The San Francisco Symphony presents an all-Rachmaninoff program. Semyon Bychkov conducts the great Russian composer's impossibly melodic, richly detailed Second Symphony. The concert will open with Rachmaninoff's The Bells, an eerie choral work inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony explores both sides of Beethoven's legendary career. Before closing the evening with Beethoven's masterfully constructed Eighth Symphony, they'll play his fiery Coriolan Overture. Conducted by Osmo Vänskä, the program also features Sibelius's Violin Concerto, with soloist Vadim Repin. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's legendary Piano Concerto No. 1, with pianist Antti Siirala. The evening also includes Dvorák's thrilling Seventh Symphony, as well as modern master John Adams' Slonimsky's Earbox. Osmo Vänskä conducts. Learn more...

SFJAZZ presents Hawaiian-born Jake Shimabukuro, who plays everything from effects-laden rock to sensuous jazz on his ukulele. The San Francisco Chronicle says he's "taking the ukulele to places that it's never been before." Learn more...

To commemorate the opening of The Walt Disney Family Museum, the San Francisco Symphony plays a program of music heard in such classic Disney films as Fantasia, Cinderella, and Pinocchio. The program includes Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, plus Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and many more. Learn more...

Renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall. Conducted by David Robertson, the program also includes Haydn's famous "Surprise" Symphony. Learn more...

The legendary Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler's towering Symphony No. 1, a hymn to nature and youth incorporating European folk melodies. The opening concert in the Symphony's Mahler festival begins with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham singing Mahler's touching Rückert Songs. Learn more...

Immerse yourself in the ardent pathos of this trio of Russian classics. Captivating 26-year-old pianist Orion Weiss takes center stage in Rachmaninoff's fiery "Second Piano Concerto," bookended by Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain" and the intoxicating strains of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade." Learn more...

Distinguished violinist Alexander Barantschik puts his singular stamp on a performance of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall. Also on the program are works by Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Learn more...

San Francisco Symphony, under the guidance of conductor James Gaffigan, performs an all-Mozart program at Davies Symphony Hall. Music from The Magic Flute and Eine kleine Nachtmusik fills out an evening that also includes Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and a piano concerto featuring pianist Jeremy Denk. Learn more...

James Gaffigan conducts the San Francisco Symphony and pianist Jeremy Denk in an all-Beethoven program at Davies Symphony Hall. The evening opens with the gripping Coriolan Overture and heroic Emperor Concerto before concluding with one of classical music's most enduring and popular works, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony fills Davies Symphony Hall with the music of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein in this all-American program. Fresh from a performance at Barack Obama's inauguration, pianist Gabriela Montero performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as well as an improvisational piece. Also on the bill is music from West Side Story and On the Waterfront. Learn more...

George Manahan of New York City Opera leads the San Francisco Symphony and guest performers in a whimsical, semi-staged production of Iolanthe. Gilbert and Sullivan's satirical operetta follows the fairy Iolanthe and her half-fairy son Strephon as they seek revenge against the forces denying Strephon the woman he loves -- by using magic to take over Parliament. Learn more...

Star violinist Gil Shaham joins Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. They'll be playing Berg's Violin Concerto, which has been one of Shaham's signature pieces over the years. The program also features Schubert's majestic Mass No. 6. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony presents an evening of chamber music featuring renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Julia Fischer. Joined by top players from the Symphony, they'll perform a program highlighted by Schubert's famous Trout Quintet. Learn more...

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring two of Vienna's greatest composers. Composed in 1825, Schubert's Symphony in C major, The Great is an indelible classic of the Romantic era. A hundred years later, Alban Berg composed his Chamber Concerto, a bold and innovative work. Soloists include violinist Julia Fischer. Learn more...

Violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Yefim Bronfman are among the guests as the San Francisco Symphony explores the works of Franz Schubert and Alban Berg. Conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the program includes Berg's Lulu Suite and Piano Sonata, Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock, and more. Learn more...

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring two of Vienna's greatest composers. Schubert's lyrical Rosamunde Overture and his Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) are juxtaposed with Berg's vibrant Three Pieces for Orchestra and his Seven Early Songs. Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung brings her unique interpretation to these sensuous and melodic songs. Learn more...

Grammy Award-winning producer, musician and songwriter Narada Michael Walden presents Let the Sunshine In, a concert featuring Sting, Bob Weir, The Supremes' Mary Wilson, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. of the Fifth Dimension, David Grisman, Earl Klugh and other musicians performing in tribute to Christopher (Chris) Rodriguez, an 11-year-old Oakland youth who was hit by a stray bullet while at a piano lesson. Learn more...

SFJAZZ presents a 1930s-style "music battle" between two of the swing era's greatest big bands. The Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra have both outlived their legendary founders, playing live before packed houses around the world. They collide in this friendly but hard-fought competition, playing classics like "In the Mood" and "I'll Never Smile Again." Learn more...

Michael Feinstein presents The Sinatra Project at Davies Symphony Hall. The four-time Grammy nominee, Broadway star, and renowned interpreter of the Great American Songbook tackles the legacy of "Ol' Blue Eyes", interpreting the classic songs of Frank Sinatra with a top-notch big band. Learn more...

Bernard Labadie conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a performance of Mozart's Gran Partita. Labadie fuses passion and musical scholarship, bringing his historically informed approach to 18th-century masterpieces that feature SFS first-chair players. Also on the program is Haydn's Sinfonia concertante Learn more...

Davies Symphony Hall will be filled with supercharged music that grabs listeners, leads them through an inferno, and releases them to catch their breath, as the San Francisco Symphony and organist Paul Jacobs perform Poulenc's Organ Concerto under the guidance of conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier. The program also includes works by Bizet and Vaughan Williams. Learn more...

Pianist Piotr Anderszewski makes his San Francisco Symphony debut. The acclaimed musician, who has performed with orchestras around the world, appears on Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. The program also includes French Impressionist works by Faure and Debussy, as well as Jennifer Higdon's serene blue cathedral. Learn more...

Andras Schiff concludes his two-year, eight-concert series at Davies Hall, in which he has played all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas. The renowned pianist is especially known for his mastery of Beethoven's works, which will be fully on display in these concerts. Learn more...

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. The evening also includes the world premiere of Gerber's Music in Dark Times, a work dedicated to Ashkenazy, as well as Walton's spectacular choral work Belshazzar's Feast. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony explores works with deep ethnic roots in a classical program at Davies Symphony Hall that culminates with Brahms' fourth symphony, perhaps the composer's best-regarded work. Conducting the Symphony is San Francisco Opera's future music director, Nicola Luisotti. Learn more...

James Conlon, LA Opera's music director, conducts the San Francisco Symphony in his own arrangement of a suite from Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Also on the program is Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by superstar French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, as well as music from Berlioz. Learn more...

The legendary Kurt Masur conducts the San Francisco Symphony. They'll be presenting one of the most majestic pieces in the orchestral repertoire: Bruckner's Symphony no. 4, Romantic. The concert also features The Light of the End, a recent work by the Symphony's resident composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Learn more...

Davies Hall presents Philip Glass' Music in Twelve Parts. This massive four-hour work radically altered the course of modern composition. Glass' masterpiece has never been performed live in its entirety on the West Coast until now. The Philip Glass Ensemble, led by Glass himself on keyboards, performed the work's premiere in 1974; they now present it live at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

Broadway and West End performers Marin Mazzie (Ragtime, Kiss Me, Kate) and Jason Danieley (Candide, The Full Monty) start the new year on an upbeat with a romantic and witty afternoon of duets, featuring favorite classics from American musical theater accompanied by the San Francisco symphony. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony presents an afternoon of hilarity with A P.D.Q. Bach Christmas. Since 1965 the tireless Professor Peter Schickele has kept audiences in stitches with P.D.Q. Bach's uniquely typical music. In his well-known role as perpetrator of the now-classic P.D.Q. Bach, Peter Schickele is one of the great satirists of the 20th century. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony welcomes organist David Higgs for Christmas Pipe Dreams, a special holiday concert. Higgs will perform seasonal songs on Davies Symphony Hall's massive, majestic 9,000-pipe organ, alongside soprano Nicole Folland and a brass ensemble from the Symphony; the concert features a sing-along. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony presents BRAVO! Holidays, an evening with Broadway stars Hugh Panaro, Debbie Gravitte, and Christine Noll, who will perform a program of traditional carols and some modern holiday songs while backed by the Symphony. Learn more...

The Canadian Brass plays alongside the San Francisco Symphony. The pioneering quintet has been performing together since 1970; they were the first Western musicians allowed into China after the Cultural Revolution, and the first chamber music ensemble to play a solo concert on the main stage at Carnegie Hall. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony celebrates the Colors Of Christmas with a concert featuring Peabo Bryson, Melissa Manchester, Stephanie Mills and Jon Secada performing some of the greatest Christmas music and most memorable pop hits. Learn more...

Walt Whitman and the Soul Children of Chicago perform in A Gospel Christmas. This program of spirituals, gospel songs, and holiday music, sung by this inspiring youth choir from Chicago which has entertained audiences here and abroad for over two decades, promises to raise the roof and bring crowds to their feet. Learn more...

Join the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus as they unite for Choral Christmas Spectacular, a concert featuring such classic carols as "The First Noel", "O Come All Ye Faithful", and "O Holy Night". The concert also includes a sing-along, plus seasonal works by Bach and Britten. Learn more...

Classical superstar Lang Lang joins San Francisco Symphony musicians for an intimate evening of chamber music. Lang Lang has performed with most of the world's major orchestras, including the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, and is considered one of the most exciting pianists in the world. Learn more...

Pianist Lang Lang, one of the hottest young stars of the classical music world, takes the stage at Davies Symphony Hall for a recital featuring the works of Schubert, Bartók, Debussy and Chopin. Lang has played sold-out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world and is the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the top American orchestras. Learn more...

Hilary Hahn, who first picked up a violin before she was four years old, can make the most familiar music sound new, and this performance will be no different as she plays this most popular of concertos, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major and Shostakovich's fun-filled First Symphony. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony marks the Day of the Dead with a concert for the entire family that celebrates the music of Latin culture. Conductor Enrique Arturo Diemecke is joined by violinist Danielle Belen Nesmith and bandoneón player Peter Soave. Pre-concert festivities including traditional Altares de Muertos by renowned artist Herminia Albarrán Romero, Aztec dancers, traditional refreshments and face painting for children. Learn more...

Maestro Herbert Blomstedt returns to Davies Hall to lead the San Francisco Symphony in a performance of Bruckner's Second Symphony, a piece that bears all of the composer's trademark majesty and breadth. Also on the program will be pianist Krystian Zimerman playing the piano concerto which Lutoslawski dedicated to him. Learn more...

Relive the golden days of early cinema with Lon Chaney in his classic role in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The live musical accompaniment to this gem of the silent film era comes from Davies Hall's majestic, 9,000-pipe Ruffatti organ, the largest concert hall organ in North America. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony welcomes stunning pianist Emanuel Ax. Ax will perform Richard Strauss' virtuoso showpiece Burleske, as well as Szymanowski's theatrical Symphony No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra. An exciting program led by guest conductor Peter Oundjian also includes Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini and Mozart's Magic Flute Overture. Learn more...

SFJAZZ presents Sweet Honey in the Rock at Davies Symphony Hall. Renowned for their close harmony singing, the Grammy-winning ensemble celebrates a wide array of African-American musical traditions, ranging from gospel and hymns to jazz and R&B. Learn more...

Miles From India returns to San Francisco following a sold-out show this spring. Carrying on Miles Davis' groundbreaking experiments with Indian modal music, an assortment of jazz and Indian classical stars have recorded a CD, and now perform together. The group includes Wallace Roney, Badal Roy, Lenny White, Dave Liebman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and many more. Learn more...

The music of Leonard Bernstein--energetic, rhythmically complex and harmonically innovative--takes center stage. Hear Bernstein's solemn side with Meditation No. 1 from Mass, as well as music from some of his most popular musicals, including West Side Story. The San Francisco Symphony and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will be taking this show on the road to Carnegie Hall's season opening. The concert features soprano Dawn Upshaw and other guest artists. Learn more...

The San Francisco Choral Society will sing Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Davies Symphony Hall. Written to commemorate the reconstruction of Britain's Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a World War II bombing raid, this powerful work presents an eloquent case for peace, and incorporates the haunting words of British poet Wilfred Owen. Learn more...