“The Bay Area [is] the place where the future gets invented,” Chan said on becoming the first woman to lead the Symphony as music director.
With music directors splitting time across continents, the orchestra invents the role for the 30-year-old pianist-conductor.
A fatigued Herbert Blomstedt nearly came to grief during a performance of Mahler's massive Symphony No. 9 with the SF Symphony.
Led by Kedrick Armstrong, the orchestra performed Dett’s 1932 oratorio The Ordering of Moses — it deserves to be played more often.
The composer’s thorny Selah received a stunning performance, but Tchaikovsky’s Mozartiana brought delight.
