The outgoing music director gave a strong performance at the black-tie gala held in his honor.
The guitarist played a Concierto de Aranjuez for the ages and the orchestra premiered Henry Dorn’s seductive Blues Variations.
The conductor led the orchestra in a powerful, stormy program on April 17.
The performance captured cornerstones of the David Byrne experience: confusion and childlike wonder.
The Berkeley-based group's “Wandering Dove” program drew from Iberia, Yemen, and North Africa with fluid grace.
Los Angeles Master Chorale performed the lesser-known Mendelssohn’s work, alongside Mozart’s canonic Requiem.
Her SF Performances recital was powerful, playful, virtuosic, and dramatic.
In his penultimate production as music director, Conlon directs a terrific cast with spontaneity and emotional clarity.
The world-class American violinist put his characteristic stamp on works by Ravel, Schubert, Grieg, and Prokofiev.
The conductor distilled The Ring of the Nibelung at the SF Symphony, and Gautier Capuçon played Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto.
