As the New Year approaches, Michael Tilson Thomas looks ahead to his first performances of 2013 with the San Francisco Symphony: an all-French program with Renée Fleming, who sings the world premiere of Robert Holloway’s arrangement of Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées. The American soprano will also perform selections from Canteloube‘s collection of folk songs Chants d’Auvergne. MTT’s’ concerts on January 10, 12 and 13 with the SFS will also include Debussy’s poème dansé Jeux, the waltz La Plus que lente, and La mer.
Monthly Archives: December 2012
On January 11, 2013, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony celebrate the opening of Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University with an inaugural concert that features mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. The program showcases music by American composers, with works such John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Harrison’s “The Family of the Court” from Pacifica Rondo, and Bernstein’s Take Care of This House, performed with Frederica von …
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Cage genuinely wanted to open up the beauteous experience of sound for everyone. Much of his work could be described as kits to be used tin the creation of a performance that relies on the perceptions, imaginations and choices of the musicians. It was a spiritual mission for him to create the opportunity for the performance to exist while at the same time to interfere with it as little or …
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On the heels of their Asian tour, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony return to California with a musical program that features Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto performed by Yefim Bronfman and the world premiere of Mark Volkert’s Pandora. MTT and the Orchestra open their concerts with Strauss’s tone poem Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which is followed by the debut performances of Pandora by SFS Assistant Concertmaster Mark Volkert. The …
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