James Gaffigan & Ray Chen

Presented by San Francisco Symphony

Conductor James Gaffigan and violinist Ray Chen return on a thrilling program that combines lyricism and athleticism, fireworks and finesse. Samuel Barber wrote only one Violin Concerto, but it’s such a dazzling doozy that you can’t blame him for quitting while he was ahead. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony was composed at the height of the Second World War but its appeal is universal. As conductor Serge Koussevitzky effused: “It is magnificent! It is yesterday, it is today, it is tomorrow.

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City: San Francisco

Program Items

Missy Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Samuel Barber Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 5 Sergei Prokofiev

Performers

James Gaffigan Conductor
Ray Chen Violin
San Francisco Symphony

Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States