The festival in San Francisco Botanical Garden may have a swish schedule now, but the original model of “anyone can play” hasn’t changed.
Caroline Shaw’s work of the same name is the centerpiece of a program about inspiring action beyond the concert hall.
Mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts and conductor Karen Kamensek are up for the challenges of Poul Ruders’s music and Margaret Atwood’s story.
World-class artists associated with the school, from Esa-Pekka Salonen to the Calidore String Quartet, are set to take the stage as well.