Esa-Pekka Salonen did a masterful job of concert programming and great performers did the rest.
Francis Johnson gets a dazzling revival from Music of the Regiment and the New York Baroque Dance Company.
Early music veterans Sequentia turned a concert of 11th-century German songs into a meditation on music itself.
Conductor Tianyi Lu made her debut with the SF Symphony, but violinist Maria Dueñas stole the show.
