ESA-PEKKA SALONEN & JULIA BULLOCK
Overview
SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and classical singer Julia Bullock joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Orchestra for a program that sings the American story in works by George Gershwin and Margaret Bonds. Reena Esmail’s Black Iris takes its title from the eponymous Georgia O'Keeffe painting and grapples with the recent #metoo movement. The program closes with Maurice Ravel’s ravishing Daphnis et Chloé, telling the story of two lovers and their wildly adventurous lives.
NOTE FROM JULIA BULLOCK
Concert Extras
Artists
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor
Soprano
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
Program
Black Iris
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
“Somebody from Somewhere”
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
“Summertime”
“Winter Moon”
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
“Soon”
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
THE JUNE 29 CONCERT IS PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 
These concerts, a part of The Barbro and Bernard Osher Masterworks Series, are made possible by a generous gift from Barbro and Bernard Osher.
The first San Francisco Symphony performances of Reena Esmail’s Black Iris are supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Works of Music.
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