In a gesture of goodwill and solidarity, the San Francisco Symphony, its musicians, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced last week that they will play a benefit concert on March 8 at Davies Symphony Hall on behalf of victims of the January wildfires in Los Angeles.
The concert’s proceeds will go to two charities: the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), a national nonprofit human services organization for all performing arts and entertainment professionals, and ReBUILD LA, a special project from Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles.
Members of the SF Symphony and the SFCM Orchestra will play together on the concert, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson will donate his services for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The SF Symphony Chorus will be featured on the program’s opener, “The Promise of Living” from Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land. Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) will fill out the concert’s second half.
Tickets to “SF Musicians for LA: A Benefit for Fire Relief” are $50–$200 and can be purchased online, by phone at 415-864-6000, or in person at the Davies box office.
