The group’s season-opening concert features two surging string works by Mexican composers.
The music is pure expansiveness in this mythologically themed concert titled “Heaven + Earth.”
The conductor burnishes her resume with strong performances of music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Jessie Montgomery.
The new piece, written for Emanuel Ax, is bookended by two familiar staples.
At SF Performances, the group premieres a new quintet that has its moments, with Andres on piano.
Cheng is one of the great explorers of new music, pushing herself beyond her comfort zone and finding delight in the unexpected.
The San Francisco Symphony plays Naïve and Sentimental Music, plus a new violin concerto with soloist Pekka Kuusisto.
Did Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated portrait of creative obsession spark ideas for composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell?
