Yo-Yo Ma soloed in a new work by Angélica Negrón, and Gustavo Dudamel led Richard Strauss’s great symphonic poem.
Responding to the French modernist’s provocations, the group’s performers and composers took the prompt and ran with it.
Ensemble for These Times surveys nine composers on El Tiempo Latine, with highlights from León, Ortiz, and figgis-vizueta.
The newly appointed San Francisco Symphony music director talks about repertoire, her influences, and the role of a conductor.