Event Details

SFS Conductors on the Podium

Benjamin Shwartz

SFS conductors take turns at the podium. Our Concertmaster brings the voice of the Heifetz Guarnerius violin to life in a virtuoso concerto. Also: music from one of England’s hottest composers, choral gems from France, and Bartók’s savage ballet score.

Center Terrace seats are not available.

Program Notes

Conductor/Performers

James Gaffigan
conductor

Benjamin Shwartz
conductor

Ragnar Bohlin
conductor

Alexander Barantschik
violin

SFS Chorus

Program

Mark-Anthony Turnage

Three Asteroids: The Torino Scale, Juno, Ceres

Poulenc

Figure humaine

Prokofiev

Violin Concerto No.1

Bartók

Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Performance Date(s)

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