Pairs of contrasting works illustrated 20th-century extremes and 21st-century frontiers of orchestration at the Mavericks Festival were brilliantly juxtaposed and together made for a wonderful concert.
With programs built around composers such as John Cage, Charles Ives, Meredith Monk, and Lou Harrison, the S.F. Symphony’s three-week “American Mavericks Festival” emerged as one of this conductor’s unmitigated triumphs.