Davies After Hours
Part performance, part reception, Davies After Hours offers concertgoers the opportunity to enjoy musical groups of other genres reflecting on that night’s program, in the nightclub-like atmosphere of a transformed top floor of Davies Symphony Hall. With its open air balconies, stunning views overlooking City Hall, and specialty drinks at a cash-only bar, Davies After Hours is a unique after-party designed to draw parallels between classical music and the many other popular styles that thrive in the Bay Area. It is free for all ticketholders to concerts held on January 15, April 2, and June 11, 2010.
“From the symphony that’s won eleven Grammy®s, frequently gives back to the community, and is notorious for luring new audiences to fall in love with classical music comes a new event: Davies After Hours. It’s a three-part series that’s a little bit of concert, a little bit of reception and 100% inspiring, educational, and fun.” —Saturday Night Magazine
Watch a video featuring the March 20, 2009 Davies After Hours, on VidSF.
Events
 John Santos Sextet
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Friday, Jan 15, 2010
Concert at 8pm: Project San Francisco: Composer Residency with George Benjamin
Davies After Hours Artist: John Santos Sextet
John Santos congas and percussion
Saul Sierra bass
Marco Diaz piano
John Calloway flute and percussion
Melecio Magdaluyo saxophones
David Flores drums
Four time Grammy Award ® nominee and “Latin music Renaissance man”, John Santos leads his sextet in a night of fiery Latin Jazz music that is sure to spice up Davies Symphony Hall’s second tier. Their unique arrangements from the music of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the US are combined with original compositions to create a musical response to the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of works by Ravel, Messaien, and Composer-in-Residence, George Benjamin.
“Brilliant, revolutionary… they drive the temperature through the ceiling… One of the Bay Area’s hottest discoveries.” - Larry Kelp, Oakland Tribune
Watch a YouTube Video of John Santos teaching, playing, and discussing the importance of the music of drums.
Watch a video of John Santos live at the DeYoung Museum.
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.jpg "Thesis 80x80") Adam Theis and an All-Star Jazz Mafia Ensemble
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Concert at 8pm: Vasily Petrenko conducts Greig and Shostakovich
Davies After Hours Artist: Adam Theis and an All-Star Jazz Mafia Ensemble
Composer, conductor, bass, and trombone player Adam Theis and an All-Star Jazz Mafia Ensemble will fuse elements of jazz, electronics, and hip-hop in response to the San Francisco Symphony’s performance. This specially convened 12-piece band of piano, bass, drums, horns, and violins has been culled from the many talented musicians making up the greater Jazz Mafia collective, which includes members of the Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Shotgun Wedding Hip-Hop Symphony, Brass Mafia, and Supertaster, among others.
"Certainly there have been 'hip-hop symphonies' before, but this is a full-on movement...It's like an opera in terms of the way it's structured, and I don't know that it's been done before quite like this." - Lyrics Born
Learn more at: jazzmafia.com
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 Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Concert at 8pm: Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Davies After Hours Artist: Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet
Classically trained vocalist, Amy X Neuburg explores connections between classical, experimental, and popular music, and is the perfect artist to respond to the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of Berg’s Lulu Suite. She combines electronic looping, witty and provocative lyrics with the sounds of the Cello ChiXtet to create what they describe as “avant-cabaret” that is at once sharp and quirky.
"Her songs channel the rhythms of urban life through the seriocomic sensibility of a born entertainer... Neuburg's musical inventiveness proves a delight throughout." – Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
Watch a video of the ChiXtet live here.
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