Overview
Twenty-five-year-old conductor Klaus Mäkelä leads the SF Symphony in Jimmy López Bellido's Perú Negro, a fantasy on Afro-Peruvian folksongs, while violinist Vilde Frang performs Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, a work rife with the emotion of a composer grappling with the fragility of life. The program closes with Dmitri Shostakovich’s tragic Tenth Symphony, widely seen as a depiction of the composer’s terrifying life in Stalinist Russia.Due to complications brought about by COVID-19 we have temporarily suspended coffee and free donut service at our Open Rehearsals.
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