Artists
Thomas Wilkins
Conductor
Branford Marsalis
saxophone
San Francisco Symphony
program
Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Hot-Sonate
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
Escapades
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
performances
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THE MAY 5 CONCERT IS PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
THESE CONCERTS ARE GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY ANDY AND TERI GOODMAN.
THURSDAY MATINEE CONCERTS ARE ENDOWED BY A GIFT IN MEMORY OF
RHODA GOLDMAN.
Event Description
Thomas Wilkins leads the SF Symphony in a program full of the rhythms, blues, and swagger of jazz. Leonard Bernstein’s Three Dances from On the Town and Duke Ellington’s Harlem paint the sights and sounds of New York City. Grammy award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis joins for Erwin Schulhoff’s Hot-Sonate—a 1930 work banned by the Nazis and then long forgotten—followed by John Williams’ effortlessly cool Escapades from the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can.
