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Joshua Kosman May 14, 2021Updated: May 14, 2021, 11:57 am Pianist Jeremy Denk leads the San Francisco Symphony from the keyboard at Davies Symphony Hall. Photo: Kristen Loken One outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic that some of us dared to hope for was a re-examination of artistic priorities in concert life in particular, a deadening reliance on the same small set of certified “masterpieces.” What if the emergence from the shutdown offered an opportunity to allow more diverse voices into the conversation? Well, it’s still early days, but there are signs that might be coming to pass. The San Francisco Symphony gave its first live concert before a ticket-buying public on Thursday, May 13, an intimate affair led from the keyboard by pianist Jeremy Denk. And the first music to be heard was by William Grant Still, one of the leading figures in African American classical music and a woefully underrepresented name in concert life. ....
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the SF Symphony in live indoor performances for medical professionals and community partners beginning Thursday. (Andrew Eccles/Courtesy of the San Francisco Symphony) San Francisco Symphony kicks off live performances Performances will continue each Thursday and Friday throughout June. Three pairs of concerts will be conducted by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, with five additional concert sets led by Jeremy Denk, James Gaffigan, Ken-David Masur, Joseph Young and Joshua Weilerstein. All tickets for the first two concerts, and a portion of tickets for the remaining performances, will be reserved for Bay Area hospital and medical professionals and representatives from community centers and cultural districts who have been at the front lines supporting people in critical ways throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic. ....
Joshua Kosman March 9, 2021Updated: March 11, 2021, 11:46 am Soprano Julia Bullock Photo: S.F. Symphony Julia Bullock’s gifts as a soprano have been well established in the Bay Area, from her star-is-born 2013 turn in “West Side Story” at the San Francisco Symphony through her lead role four years later in the world premiere of John Adams’ “Girls of the Golden West” at the San Francisco Opera. But her ambitions have always gone well beyond performing. Bullock, 34, made an early splash with a stage show she created around the life and work of the Jazz Age singer Josephine Baker, and now she is poised to reveal her newest curatorial project, a wonderfully eclectic musical program titled “Lineage.” ....
It may be an acquired taste, but once music lovers develop an interest in the music of 20th-century composer Alban Berg, it can become a passionate preference. If you are timid sampling atonal music, rest assured- there is a strong Romantic aesthetic informing even his thorniest scores. New listeners are amazed how well they stand the test of time. Alban Berg Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra SFS Media, the San Francisco Symphony s (SFS) top-rank in-house media production company releases an album of three major Berg works recorded in high-resolution, available in 5.1 surround-capable SACD and for download and streaming on February 26. The hard copy and digital download is already available to pre-order. ....
Chronicle Staff February 1, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 7:06 am Jiab Prachakul ‘Stand-by,’ 2020 Photo: Jiab Prachakul, Courtesy of Friends Indeed Gallery The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment happenings in the Bay Area. First Jiab Prachakul show ‘14 Years’ comes to Friends Indeed Gallery Jiab Prachakul’s highly anticipated first-ever American exhibition, “14 Years,” comes to the Friends Indeed Gallery this month. Prachakul, the winner of the 2020 BP Portrait Award, was born in Nakhon Phanom, a small town on the Mekong River in northeast Thailand. The artist became interested in portraiture and art after moving to England and viewing an exhibition of David Hockney’s work. ....