Salonen Conducts Mahler 2
Overview
In his final concerts as San Francisco Symphony Music Director, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Mahler’s Second Symphony—an SF Symphony staple. The Resurrection still matters because it moves us, and it moves us because it grapples with the Big Questions: Do our lives matter? Why must we suffer? Will we be healed? Reinforcing this theme of spiritual transcendence, Mahler wrote his own text for the finale: “Rise again…What you have conquered, will bear you to God!”
Concert Extras
Artists
Conductor
Soprano
Mezzo-soprano
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Director, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
Sponsors
Sasha Cooke’s and Heidi Stober’s performances are generously sponsored by Anderson Norby.





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