Michael Tilson Thomas heads into the 2014/15 season leading the first San Francisco Symphony performances of Mason Bates’s Alternative EnergySeptember 10 to 13 at Davies Symphony Hall. The program also includes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Leif Ove Andsnes and Rossini’s Overture to La gazza ladra.

Instrument Shopping for Mason Bates’s Alternative Energy