As the fall season gets underway, MTT leads the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and the West Coast premiere of Samuel Carl Adams’ Drift and Providence. Performances are September 27 at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for Performing Arts at UC Davis and September 28, 29 & 30 at Davies Symphony Hall.

Next month, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas celebrates the San Francisco Symphony’s 101st season with an all-French program that includes selections from Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, Chausson’s Poème, Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso and Ravel’s Boléro. On September 19, special guest violinist Joshua Bell joins MTT and the Orchestra for an Opening Gala Concert . On September 20, MTT and the SFS honor more than 100 social service and non-profit organizations that serve San Francisco and the Bay Area with the …

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