In November, Michael Tilson Thomas returned to lead the San Fransisco Symphony as Music Director Laureate for the first time. On November 12, 13, and 14, he led the orchestra in Mozart’s Three German Dances and Schumann’s First Symphony. Rounding out the program was MTT’s own composition, Notturno, featuring flutist Demarre McGill. The piece, originally written in tribute to principal flutist of the SF Symphony Paul Renzi, evokes the lyrical world of bygone Italian masterpieces.

For his second week (November 18–20), MTT led an all-American program that featured the world premiere of the Symphony’s Principal Trombone Timothy Higgins’s Trombone Concerto, William Grant Still’s Patterns, and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. 

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