While clarifying its complex music, conductor James Gaffigan’s interpretation lacked the power of storytelling.
For her debut with SF Symphony on July 1, the conductor will lead Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony.
Esa-Pekka Salonen did a masterful job of concert programming and great performers did the rest.
Francis Johnson gets a dazzling revival from Music of the Regiment and the New York Baroque Dance Company.
Early music veterans Sequentia turned a concert of 11th-century German songs into a meditation on music itself.
Conductor Tianyi Lu made her debut with the SF Symphony, but violinist Maria Dueñas stole the show.