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The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California.
Since 1980 the orchestra has been resident at the Louise M.
Davies Symphony Hall in the city's Hayes Valley neighborhood.
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (founded in 1981) and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1972) are part of the organization.
Since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas has been the orchestra's music director.
Tilson Thomas is scheduled to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director in 2020, when Esa-Pekka Salonen is scheduled to become the orchestra's next music director.
Among the orchestra's awards and honors are an Emmy Award and 15 Grammy Awards in the past 26 years.
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Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive...Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 2009
Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from Stalin’s totalitarian forces could have meant a sentence to the Gulag or worse.... When he penned this fifth symphony, the composer was literally writing for his life. The risk was so high that Shostakovich slept on the stairs outside his apartment so the secret police would not wake his family when they came from him, as he was sure they would. This Keeping Score episode, investigates the arresting symphony that would either redeem Shostakovich or doom him. Did he dare hide a kernel of musical criticism in what appears to be a paean to the Motherland? Join Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony as they explore the hidden language of this masterwork. Episode includes full-length concert performance of Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor by the San Francisco Symphony.
In 1827 Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for...Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique 2009
In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life upside down to meet her. Frantic months turned into years when he suddenly heard rumors about Harriet and another man. Believing himself cured, he wrote a ‘fantastic’ symphony complete with a special theme, the idée fixe, to represent his former obsession.
Beethoven spent three years composing the...Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica 2006
Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.
In 1846 Anthony Hope sails into London...Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert 2001
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco...Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M 1999
Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in support of metal rockers Metallica in this 1999 concert performance.
