Classical Music Articles & Interviews | San Francisco Symphony

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

These Symphony-commissioned feature articles offer insights into the music you’ll hear in the concert hall.

January 1, 2025

MUSIC WITH FRIENDS

Guest conductor James Gaffigan returns to the San Francisco Symphony

Permission for Reprints

The San Francisco Symphony owns the rights to these articles. If you wish to reproduce them in any form, in whole or in part, you must receive written permission.

Please e-mail your request to [email protected]

January 1, 2025

Meet the Musicians

Leonid Plashinov-Johnson
Viola

December 1, 2024

Conductor and Teacher

Radu Paponiu Joins the SFSYO
By Benjamin Pesetsky

November 1, 2024

Undaunted Enthusiasm

Conductors Nicholas Collon and Kazuki Yamada
By Steve Holt

November 1, 2024

Mozart as Mirror

The Making of a Reputation
Adapted from an essay by Thomas May

October 1, 2024

Rhapsody in Blue at 100

A San Francisco History
by Steven Ziegler

October 1, 2024

Wrestling the Dream Down

Reflections on the Composer-Conductor Bond
by Thomas May