MTT & Brahms’ A German Requiem
Overview
Due to the COVID-19 situation, we have had to make the difficult decision to cancel the remainder of the 2019–20 season, including Summer with the Symphony. This cancellation includes most concerts that were previously announced as postponed.
Enthralling, intimate, spacious, human. In his choral masterpiece Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Johannes Brahms crafts an exquisite hymn of consolation. 100 years and an ocean away from the Requiem’s debut, 26-year-old Michael Tilson Thomas traveled to a Vermont nursing home to meet the nonagenarian Carl Ruggles. Devoted to the discovery of America’s visionaries, MTT became a lifelong champion of Ruggles’s music, and transformed the San Francisco Symphony into a hotbed for the new American sound. Now, in his final season as Music Director, MTT doubles down on his commitment to side-by-side performances of visionaries past and present with this inspired pairing of Ruggles and Brahms.
CONCERT EXTRAS
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Artists
Conductor
Joélle Harvey
Soprano
Bass
Ragnar Bohlin
Animator
San Francisco Symphony
Program
Angels
Sun-treader
Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
Joélle Harvey's appearance is supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Guest Artists.
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