Reviews

Steven Winn - October 16, 2022

This collaborative work responding to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police demands sustained attention.

Giacomo Fiore - October 16, 2022

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon is among the artists featured on opening night.

David Bratman - October 16, 2022

It’s a gigantic new piece that, perhaps surprisingly, is entirely at home on a program of 20th-century masterworks.

Richard S. Ginell - October 16, 2022

The acclaimed music director surprised the classical world when she stepped away from her position with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Richard S. Ginell - October 11, 2022

The Pan-American Music Initiative gives the orchestra the chance to revisit some recent pieces, like Gabriela Ortiz’s dazzling violin concerto.

Emery Kerekes - October 11, 2022

The composer teamed up with an array of avant-garde artists for the most talked-about New York premiere of the season.

Nicholas Jones - October 10, 2022

Avian themes are a thread through this imaginative program featuring soprano Golda Schultz and a U.S. premiere.

Jason Victor Serinus - October 10, 2022

Baritone Andrew Garland’s must-hear recording includes three of Frank’s vocal works paired with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Spanish Songs.

Lisa Hirsch - October 3, 2022

The SF Symphony’s music director finally tackles Mahler with the orchestra, and a new work by Trevor Weston opens the program.

Scott Cmiel - October 3, 2022

The virtuoso’s recital for the Omni Foundation counts as a return appearance of sorts after a concert recorded in Kyiv last year.