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2023-02-05 23:32:00
emergency shelter intake form at San Francisco Sypmphony
The Chorus of Inconvenient StatisticsPhoto: Kristen Loken, care of San Francisco SymphonyOfficial caption:Edwin Outwater conducts the SF Symphony, Conrad Tao, Gabriel Kahane, Alicia Hall Moran, Kristen Toedtman, Holcombe Waller, Community Music Center Choir, and Skywatchers Ensemble in a performance of emergency shelter intake form at Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday, February 2, 2023. Photo credit: Kristen Loken.Somewhat unusually, I reviewed San Francisco Symphony for the San Francisco Chronicle the other day. This is my third review for the Chron since fall, 2014. Joshua Kosman is available almost all of the time, and his usual backup is Steven Winn, who was a critic for the Chron for many years.This was quite a program, with Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F (Conrad Tao, piano) paired with Gabriel Kahane's emergency shelter intake form. The latter has been described as a song cycle and as an oratorio, and I went with oratorio, given the forces involved […]
2022-04-30 05:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 30, 2022
[…] his work as a DJ and curator for series including San Francisco’s Mercury Soul, and KC Jukebox at the Kennedy Center. Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra is no exception. Bates’s most ambitious project to date comes to life this Spring with performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra, positioning the modern orchestra as the perfect synthesis of art and technology. The soundtrack, recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edwin Outwater, is available on Sony Classical, with performances worldwide to follow.A collaboration between Mason Bates (composer of the Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs), multi-Oscar & BAFTA-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom and Oscar nominated Hollywood animator Jim Capobianco, Fantastique is a sparkling blend of creative animation guided by an endearing, magical Sprite who flies around the orchestra and dives inside instruments discovering how they’re made, their kinetic energy, sound and vibrations.Co-commissioned by six of America’s top […]
2022-03-29 19:43:00
San Francisco Symphony 2022-23
[…] his last season as music director lost to the pandemic. There's a Brahms program; Danny Elfman's Cello Concerto, an SFS Commission, with Gautier Capuçon; a mostly-French program including Debussy and Messiaen; There's a piece on one of the Youth Symphony programs by SFO clarinetist José González Granero. Robin Ticciati's debut program includes Jörg Widmann's Violin Concerto (Alina Ibragimova) and Mahler 4 (Ying Fang). Leif OveAndsnes plays Janáček, Vustin, Beethoven, and Dvorák on a solo recital. Edwin Outwater conducts a program that include a new work by Gabriel Kahane called emergency shelter intake form that includes a Chorus of Inconvenient Statistics. E-PS conducts Sibelius 5, unfortunately the other half of the program doesn't interest me much. E-PS conducts a new work by Samuel Adams, unfortunately on a program with Bruckner 6. Herbert Blomstedt conducts Dvorak 8, which I love, and a symphony by Jan Vaclav Vorisek. E-PS, Yuja Wang; Gabriella Smith Tumblebird Contrails, […]
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