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Seal and the SF Symphony give new life to old standards

Anna Nguyen
December 8, 2017
Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
My own personal experience with Seal and his music takes me back to my high school choir days when my vocal jazz group sang an a cappella rendition of his Grammy-winning song “Kissed By a Rose”. It was one ...

The New York Philharmonic stun in Sevens

Joanna Jiang
May 11, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
On May 6, the New York Philharmonic performed two serious seventh symphonies: Beethoven’s boisterous A (op. 92) and Sibelius’ programmatic C (op. 105). The evening was capped with shorter-length works from ...

Angélique Kidjo to premiere Philip Glass composition stateside with SF Symphony

Joanna Jiang
July 5, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews
From two internationally-respected artists proven limitless in both time and place comes Ifé, an orchestral illustration of the Yorùbán creation land and holy city. The collaboration between visionary co...

San Francisco Symphony to reprise The Soldier’s Tale this weekend

Nikos Zarikos
January 14, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, News
This weekend, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in three performances of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) with Elvis Costello as narrator. The Sol...

Vivaldi, Bach, and Tchaikovsky: an evening with the San Francisco Symphony

Nikos Zarikos
November 4, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
On October 23, San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, Principal Second Violin Dan Carlson, and Principal Keyboard Robin Sutherland starred as soloists at the Davies Symphony Hall in a p...

Magisterial Garrick Ohlsson on the shoulder of giants

Nikos Zarikos
October 18, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in a letter: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. A concept perhaps made relatively more colloquial by physicist Stephen Hawking in 2002, i...

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