Ravel & Music of the Americas
May 29 & 30, 2026
Overview
Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the San Francisco Symphony in a globe-hopping, toe-tapping program that’s bursting with rhythm and color. Among the highlights is Shift, a new trombone concerto by Lima native Jimmy López—performed by SF Symphony Principal Trombone Timothy Higgins—inspired by “the behavior of waves as observed through the Doppler effect.” The Spanish composer Joaquín Turina wrote his most famous work, Danzas fantásticas, in 1919, inspired by the novel La orgía by José Más. Printed on the score at the start of each dance are quotations from the novel, which convey the ecstatic splendor of Turina’s music. Born in the French Pyrenees to a Basque mother reared in Madrid, Maurice Ravel embraced a cross-cultural style. Rapsodie espagnole boasts Spanish-inflected castanets and tambourine, shadowy low winds, muted brass, and blazing instrumental colors.Concert Extras
A preconcert talk will be presented from the stage one hour before the concert. Free to all ticketholders.
Program
Alberto
Ginastera
Dances from Estancia
Jimmy
López
Shift
SF Symphony Commission and US Premiere
Joaquín
Turina
Danzas fantásticas
Maurice
Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole

Timothy Higgins, trombone

San Francisco Symphony
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