Meyer, violinist Tessa Lark, and cellist Joshua Roman perform three of the bassist’s crossover compositions in advance of recording them.
Kedrick Armstrong conducts his first concert as music director, featuring jazz artists with Bay Area ties and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4.
Poet and activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph is reimagining Saint-Saëns’ suite with the help of dancers Wendy Whelan and Francesca Harper.
In his own composition, the conductor turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s recently appointed principal cello, Rainer Eudeikis.
Mixing surprise with structural logic, the nonconformist soloist steals the show in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1.
