It wouldn’t be the first time in the orchestra’s history that contract negotiations disrupted an overseas trip.
The pioneering flutist and SF Symphony collaborative partner makes a masterpiece out of Marcos Balter’s imaginative work.
But those works are just an anchor for a festival that will embrace everything from the Baroque to the 21st century this season.
In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.
In his San Francisco debut, Shibe brings in the Van Kuijk Quartet for a luminous performance of Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
