The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced the launch of a new on-demand streaming service, SFSymphony+ (SFSymphony Plus), and programming details for Spring and Summer 2021. The new membership-based service launches on February 4th. The service will feature exclusive original digital content, including all-new SoundBox programs and CURRENTS episodes, as well as other special projects to be released on a rolling basis. The service will also offer select content free of charge, including previously released programs, newly recorded chamber music performances, and the SF Symphony's 2021 Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox.
"I'm very proud of what we have achieved with SFSymphony+. The challenge with digital programming is to create something that has its own identity, an essential uniqueness that allows it to function as a self-contained piece of art. And to achieve that, it's not enough just to capture a great performance by strong musicians, or even to have interesting programming. Instead, every member of the organization--on the performance level, on the production level, on the administrative level--needs to be working in harmony, drawing upon one another's talents and strengths. What we've created for SFSymphony+ could not have been realized in a traditional live setting. My hope, once live performances do resume, is that we can sustain the dialogue between digital and live performance to create something that audiences will find compelling and valuable--not only in the Bay Area, but across the world." - San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen
SoundBox Schedule:
February 4th: Nostalgia
SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen curates and conducts an evocative program titled Nostalgia, featuring works composed in the last decade including Freya Waley-Cohen's Conjure, Missy Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin, and Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte.
March 11th: Lineage
SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and soprano Julia Bullock presents a program titled Lineage--an audio and visual snapshot of how lineage can inform, influence, impact, and express itself in a musical context. Bullock's SoundBox program, originally scheduled to take place last Spring and postponed due to the pandemic, has been adapted from live performance to a digital format. Bullock comments, "SoundBox is an invitation for musicians to share their artistic interests, and to have them realized in an immersive visual space. Whatever ignites a person's artistic interests is unique to that individual, but it's often a reflection of where they have come from and encapsulates where that person envisions themselves going. In short, it has something to do with acknowledging one's lineage and allowing those influences to be consciously connected." In addition to curating the program, Bullock performs her signature rendition of Nina Simone's "Revolution" and joins members of the SF Symphony and Chorus in performances of Nina Simone's "Images," fellow Collaborative Partner Esperanza Spalding's "Little Fly," Aruán Ortiz's "Mompouana," selections from Francis Poulenc's Rapsodie Nègre, and Ricky Ian Gordon's Litany. Other works on the program include J.S. Bach's Invention No. 13 in A minor featuring pianist Sarah Cahill, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Plain Blue/s" from Blues Forms, George Walker's Lyric for Strings, selections from Elizabeth Ogonek's In Silence and Orpheus Suite (after Rilke), and Hildegard von Bingen's O frodens virga. In an in-depth interview published recently, KQED comments, "Bullock's superpower lies in reaching across centuries and continents, and feeling into the love, yearning and loss at the core of the human experience."
April 15th: Patterns
Patterns, a program exploring minimalism in music, curated and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with performances by SF Symphony musicians and pianist Elizabeth Dorman. Featured works include Steve Reich's Clapping Music, the world premiere of Salonen's new work Saltat sobrius--based on Perotin's Sederunt principes, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, and a performance of Terry Riley's In C featuring Esa-Pekka Salonen on the toy piano with an audience participation component.
May 27th: Harpist and jazz vocalist Destiny Muhammad curates the May 27 SoundBox program, joined by drummer Leon Joyce, Jr., bassist Ron Belcher, and SF Symphony musicians in performances of music by Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Lou Williams, William Grant Still, and Arthur Cunningham, and featuring Muhammad's own composition "Hope on the Horizon," arranged by Matt Wong for harp, voice, and string quartet.
July 8th & August 12th: Following are two programs curated by San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners--Nico Muhly on July 8 and Claire Chase on August 12. Nico Muhly's SoundBox program features choreographer and dancer Emma Lanier and includes performances of Inti Figgis-Vizueta's Inbhir; Muhly's Motion, and his arrangements of Orlando Gibbons's "See, See the Word is Incarnate" and Meredith Monk's Fat Stream, and the world premiere of a new work by Lukás Janata.
August 26th: The final SoundBox program of the season, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will be released August 26.
CURRENTS Schedule:
February 18th: A program exploring the relationship between classical and Indian musical cultures, curated by tabla player and composer Zakir Hussain. Hussain joins Indian classical violinist Kala Ramnath and musicians of the SF Symphony in performances of his own compositions Sands of Time and Bichhua, arranged by Neelamjit Dhillon and Chris Votek. The program also featres Laya-Jam, composed by Hussain's father, Alla Rakha, a renowned Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to western audiences. In this sound journey for percussion ensemble, Hussain brings his knowledge as an Indian classical master working in the western world to traditional music of his past.
April 1st: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate curates a program exploring the intersection of classical and Native American musical cultures, featuring performances of his own compositions, as well as music by Rochelle Chester and Louis W. Ballard.
May 6th: This episode focuses on the music of Zimbabwe, curated by members of the Chinyakare Ensemble who specialize in traditional Zimbabwean music and dance.
June 17th: CURRENTS dives into Persian music, featuring composer and multi-instrumentalist Mohammad Nejad as curator.
July 29th: The final CURRENTS episode of the season on July 29 looks at Klezmer musical culture and is curated by chromatic button accordion, cimbalom, and piano player Joshua Horowitz and Veretski Pass.
Special Event:
February 20th: Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox
On February 20, the San Francisco Symphony presents its annual Chinese New Year celebration, now in its twenty-first season and, for the first time, in a virtual format. The Symphony's Chinese New Year event is an elegant and colorful celebration of the Lunar New Year, featuring a program of traditional folk music and works by Asian composers and drawing upon vibrant Asian traditions, past and present. The program will be available free on SFSymphony+ and broadcast on NBC Bay Area at 4pm on February 20; the program will rebroadcast February 27 at 4pm on NBC Bay Area and KTSF 26 on February 21 & 27 at 3:30pm.
Hosted by acclaimed Bay Area actor-director Joan Chen, this season's virtual program focuses on themes that coordinate with the Year of the Ox--prosperity, unity, and growth. Works featured on the program include Chen Yi's "Romance of Hsiao" and "Ch'in" from Romance and Dance, Zhou Long's Chinese Folk Songs, Julian Yu's "Flower Riddle" and "Dry Boat Dance" from Chinese Folk Song Suite, Yao-Xing Chen's Gallop of Warhorses, Yuan-Kai Bao's "Little Cabbage" from Chinese Sights and Sounds, and Wenying Wu's arrangement of the traditional tune Tajiks Festival. Performances feature conductor Ming Luke, Bay Area erhu player Tao Shi, yangqin player Wenying Wu, pianist Samantha Cho, and members of the San Francisco Symphony.
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"I'm very proud of what we have achieved with SFSymphony+. The challenge with digital programming is to create something that has its own identity, an essential uniqueness that allows it to function as a self-contained piece of art. And to achieve that, it's not enough just to capture a great performance by strong musicians, or even to have interesting programming. Instead, every member of the organization--on the performance level, on the production level, on the administrative level--needs to be working in harmony, drawing upon one another's talents and strengths. What we've created for SFSymphony+ could not have been realized in a traditional live setting. My hope, once live performances do resume, is that we can sustain the dialogue between digital and live performance to create something that audiences will find compelling and valuable--not only in the Bay Area, but across the world." - San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen
SoundBox Schedule:
February 4th: Nostalgia
SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen curates and conducts an evocative program titled Nostalgia, featuring works composed in the last decade including Freya Waley-Cohen's Conjure, Missy Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin, and Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte.
March 11th: Lineage
SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and soprano Julia Bullock presents a program titled Lineage--an audio and visual snapshot of how lineage can inform, influence, impact, and express itself in a musical context. Bullock's SoundBox program, originally scheduled to take place last Spring and postponed due to the pandemic, has been adapted from live performance to a digital format. Bullock comments, "SoundBox is an invitation for musicians to share their artistic interests, and to have them realized in an immersive visual space. Whatever ignites a person's artistic interests is unique to that individual, but it's often a reflection of where they have come from and encapsulates where that person envisions themselves going. In short, it has something to do with acknowledging one's lineage and allowing those influences to be consciously connected." In addition to curating the program, Bullock performs her signature rendition of Nina Simone's "Revolution" and joins members of the SF Symphony and Chorus in performances of Nina Simone's "Images," fellow Collaborative Partner Esperanza Spalding's "Little Fly," Aruán Ortiz's "Mompouana," selections from Francis Poulenc's Rapsodie Nègre, and Ricky Ian Gordon's Litany. Other works on the program include J.S. Bach's Invention No. 13 in A minor featuring pianist Sarah Cahill, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Plain Blue/s" from Blues Forms, George Walker's Lyric for Strings, selections from Elizabeth Ogonek's In Silence and Orpheus Suite (after Rilke), and Hildegard von Bingen's O frodens virga. In an in-depth interview published recently, KQED comments, "Bullock's superpower lies in reaching across centuries and continents, and feeling into the love, yearning and loss at the core of the human experience."
April 15th: Patterns
Patterns, a program exploring minimalism in music, curated and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with performances by SF Symphony musicians and pianist Elizabeth Dorman. Featured works include Steve Reich's Clapping Music, the world premiere of Salonen's new work Saltat sobrius--based on Perotin's Sederunt principes, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, and a performance of Terry Riley's In C featuring Esa-Pekka Salonen on the toy piano with an audience participation component.
May 27th: Harpist and jazz vocalist Destiny Muhammad curates the May 27 SoundBox program, joined by drummer Leon Joyce, Jr., bassist Ron Belcher, and SF Symphony musicians in performances of music by Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Lou Williams, William Grant Still, and Arthur Cunningham, and featuring Muhammad's own composition "Hope on the Horizon," arranged by Matt Wong for harp, voice, and string quartet.
July 8th & August 12th: Following are two programs curated by San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners--Nico Muhly on July 8 and Claire Chase on August 12. Nico Muhly's SoundBox program features choreographer and dancer Emma Lanier and includes performances of Inti Figgis-Vizueta's Inbhir; Muhly's Motion, and his arrangements of Orlando Gibbons's "See, See the Word is Incarnate" and Meredith Monk's Fat Stream, and the world premiere of a new work by Lukás Janata.
August 26th: The final SoundBox program of the season, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will be released August 26.
CURRENTS Schedule:
February 18th: A program exploring the relationship between classical and Indian musical cultures, curated by tabla player and composer Zakir Hussain. Hussain joins Indian classical violinist Kala Ramnath and musicians of the SF Symphony in performances of his own compositions Sands of Time and Bichhua, arranged by Neelamjit Dhillon and Chris Votek. The program also featres Laya-Jam, composed by Hussain's father, Alla Rakha, a renowned Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to western audiences. In this sound journey for percussion ensemble, Hussain brings his knowledge as an Indian classical master working in the western world to traditional music of his past.
April 1st: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate curates a program exploring the intersection of classical and Native American musical cultures, featuring performances of his own compositions, as well as music by Rochelle Chester and Louis W. Ballard.
May 6th: This episode focuses on the music of Zimbabwe, curated by members of the Chinyakare Ensemble who specialize in traditional Zimbabwean music and dance.
June 17th: CURRENTS dives into Persian music, featuring composer and multi-instrumentalist Mohammad Nejad as curator.
July 29th: The final CURRENTS episode of the season on July 29 looks at Klezmer musical culture and is curated by chromatic button accordion, cimbalom, and piano player Joshua Horowitz and Veretski Pass.
Special Event:
February 20th: Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox
On February 20, the San Francisco Symphony presents its annual Chinese New Year celebration, now in its twenty-first season and, for the first time, in a virtual format. The Symphony's Chinese New Year event is an elegant and colorful celebration of the Lunar New Year, featuring a program of traditional folk music and works by Asian composers and drawing upon vibrant Asian traditions, past and present. The program will be available free on SFSymphony+ and broadcast on NBC Bay Area at 4pm on February 20; the program will rebroadcast February 27 at 4pm on NBC Bay Area and KTSF 26 on February 21 & 27 at 3:30pm.
Hosted by acclaimed Bay Area actor-director Joan Chen, this season's virtual program focuses on themes that coordinate with the Year of the Ox--prosperity, unity, and growth. Works featured on the program include Chen Yi's "Romance of Hsiao" and "Ch'in" from Romance and Dance, Zhou Long's Chinese Folk Songs, Julian Yu's "Flower Riddle" and "Dry Boat Dance" from Chinese Folk Song Suite, Yao-Xing Chen's Gallop of Warhorses, Yuan-Kai Bao's "Little Cabbage" from Chinese Sights and Sounds, and Wenying Wu's arrangement of the traditional tune Tajiks Festival. Performances feature conductor Ming Luke, Bay Area erhu player Tao Shi, yangqin player Wenying Wu, pianist Samantha Cho, and members of the San Francisco Symphony.
The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced the launch of a new on-demand streaming service, SFSymphony+ (SFSymphony Plus), and programming details for Spring and Summer 2021. The new membership-based service launches on February 4th. The service will feature exclusive original digital content, including all-new SoundBox programs and CURRENTS episodes, as well as other special projects to be released on a rolling basis. The service will also offer select content free of charge, including previously released programs, newly recorded chamber music performances, and the SF Symphony's 2021 Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox.
"I'm very proud of what we have achieved with SFSymphony+. The challenge with digital programming is to create something that has its own identity, an essential uniqueness that allows it to function as a self-contained piece of art. And to achieve that, it's not enough just to capture a great performance by strong musicians, or even to have interesting programming. Instead, every member of the organization--on the performance level, on the production level, on the administrative level--needs to be working in harmony, drawing upon one another's talents and strengths. What we've created for SFSymphony+ could not have been realized in a traditional live setting. My hope, once live performances do resume, is that we can sustain the dialogue between digital and live performance to create something that audiences will find compelling and valuable--not only in the Bay Area, but across the world." - San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen
SoundBox Schedule:
February 4th: Nostalgia
SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen curates and conducts an evocative program titled Nostalgia, featuring works composed in the last decade including Freya Waley-Cohen's Conjure, Missy Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin, and Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte.
March 11th: Lineage
SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and soprano Julia Bullock presents a program titled Lineage--an audio and visual snapshot of how lineage can inform, influence, impact, and express itself in a musical context. Bullock's SoundBox program, originally scheduled to take place last Spring and postponed due to the pandemic, has been adapted from live performance to a digital format. Bullock comments, "SoundBox is an invitation for musicians to share their artistic interests, and to have them realized in an immersive visual space. Whatever ignites a person's artistic interests is unique to that individual, but it's often a reflection of where they have come from and encapsulates where that person envisions themselves going. In short, it has something to do with acknowledging one's lineage and allowing those influences to be consciously connected." In addition to curating the program, Bullock performs her signature rendition of Nina Simone's "Revolution" and joins members of the SF Symphony and Chorus in performances of Nina Simone's "Images," fellow Collaborative Partner Esperanza Spalding's "Little Fly," Aruán Ortiz's "Mompouana," selections from Francis Poulenc's Rapsodie Nègre, and Ricky Ian Gordon's Litany. Other works on the program include J.S. Bach's Invention No. 13 in A minor featuring pianist Sarah Cahill, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Plain Blue/s" from Blues Forms, George Walker's Lyric for Strings, selections from Elizabeth Ogonek's In Silence and Orpheus Suite (after Rilke), and Hildegard von Bingen's O frodens virga. In an in-depth interview published recently, KQED comments, "Bullock's superpower lies in reaching across centuries and continents, and feeling into the love, yearning and loss at the core of the human experience."
April 15th: Patterns
Patterns, a program exploring minimalism in music, curated and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with performances by SF Symphony musicians and pianist Elizabeth Dorman. Featured works include Steve Reich's Clapping Music, the world premiere of Salonen's new work Saltat sobrius--based on Perotin's Sederunt principes, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, and a performance of Terry Riley's In C featuring Esa-Pekka Salonen on the toy piano with an audience participation component.
May 27th: Harpist and jazz vocalist Destiny Muhammad curates the May 27 SoundBox program, joined by drummer Leon Joyce, Jr., bassist Ron Belcher, and SF Symphony musicians in performances of music by Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Lou Williams, William Grant Still, and Arthur Cunningham, and featuring Muhammad's own composition "Hope on the Horizon," arranged by Matt Wong for harp, voice, and string quartet.
July 8th & August 12th: Following are two programs curated by San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners--Nico Muhly on July 8 and Claire Chase on August 12. Nico Muhly's SoundBox program features choreographer and dancer Emma Lanier and includes performances of Inti Figgis-Vizueta's Inbhir; Muhly's Motion, and his arrangements of Orlando Gibbons's "See, See the Word is Incarnate" and Meredith Monk's Fat Stream, and the world premiere of a new work by Lukás Janata.
August 26th: The final SoundBox program of the season, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will be released August 26.
CURRENTS Schedule:
February 18th: A program exploring the relationship between classical and Indian musical cultures, curated by tabla player and composer Zakir Hussain. Hussain joins Indian classical violinist Kala Ramnath and musicians of the SF Symphony in performances of his own compositions Sands of Time and Bichhua, arranged by Neelamjit Dhillon and Chris Votek. The program also featres Laya-Jam, composed by Hussain's father, Alla Rakha, a renowned Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to western audiences. In this sound journey for percussion ensemble, Hussain brings his knowledge as an Indian classical master working in the western world to traditional music of his past.
April 1st: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate curates a program exploring the intersection of classical and Native American musical cultures, featuring performances of his own compositions, as well as music by Rochelle Chester and Louis W. Ballard.
May 6th: This episode focuses on the music of Zimbabwe, curated by members of the Chinyakare Ensemble who specialize in traditional Zimbabwean music and dance.
June 17th: CURRENTS dives into Persian music, featuring composer and multi-instrumentalist Mohammad Nejad as curator.
July 29th: The final CURRENTS episode of the season on July 29 looks at Klezmer musical culture and is curated by chromatic button accordion, cimbalom, and piano player Joshua Horowitz and Veretski Pass.
Special Event:
February 20th: Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox
On February 20, the San Francisco Symphony presents its annual Chinese New Year celebration, now in its twenty-first season and, for the first time, in a virtual format. The Symphony's Chinese New Year event is an elegant and colorful celebration of the Lunar New Year, featuring a program of traditional folk music and works by Asian composers and drawing upon vibrant Asian traditions, past and present. The program will be available free on SFSymphony+ and broadcast on NBC Bay Area at 4pm on February 20; the program will rebroadcast February 27 at 4pm on NBC Bay Area and KTSF 26 on February 21 & 27 at 3:30pm.
Hosted by acclaimed Bay Area actor-director Joan Chen, this season's virtual program focuses on themes that coordinate with the Year of the Ox--prosperity, unity, and growth. Works featured on the program include Chen Yi's "Romance of Hsiao" and "Ch'in" from Romance and Dance, Zhou Long's Chinese Folk Songs, Julian Yu's "Flower Riddle" and "Dry Boat Dance" from Chinese Folk Song Suite, Yao-Xing Chen's Gallop of Warhorses, Yuan-Kai Bao's "Little Cabbage" from Chinese Sights and Sounds, and Wenying Wu's arrangement of the traditional tune Tajiks Festival. Performances feature conductor Ming Luke, Bay Area erhu player Tao Shi, yangqin player Wenying Wu, pianist Samantha Cho, and members of the San Francisco Symphony.
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"I'm very proud of what we have achieved with SFSymphony+. The challenge with digital programming is to create something that has its own identity, an essential uniqueness that allows it to function as a self-contained piece of art. And to achieve that, it's not enough just to capture a great performance by strong musicians, or even to have interesting programming. Instead, every member of the organization--on the performance level, on the production level, on the administrative level--needs to be working in harmony, drawing upon one another's talents and strengths. What we've created for SFSymphony+ could not have been realized in a traditional live setting. My hope, once live performances do resume, is that we can sustain the dialogue between digital and live performance to create something that audiences will find compelling and valuable--not only in the Bay Area, but across the world." - San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen
SoundBox Schedule:
February 4th: Nostalgia
SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen curates and conducts an evocative program titled Nostalgia, featuring works composed in the last decade including Freya Waley-Cohen's Conjure, Missy Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin, and Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte.
March 11th: Lineage
SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and soprano Julia Bullock presents a program titled Lineage--an audio and visual snapshot of how lineage can inform, influence, impact, and express itself in a musical context. Bullock's SoundBox program, originally scheduled to take place last Spring and postponed due to the pandemic, has been adapted from live performance to a digital format. Bullock comments, "SoundBox is an invitation for musicians to share their artistic interests, and to have them realized in an immersive visual space. Whatever ignites a person's artistic interests is unique to that individual, but it's often a reflection of where they have come from and encapsulates where that person envisions themselves going. In short, it has something to do with acknowledging one's lineage and allowing those influences to be consciously connected." In addition to curating the program, Bullock performs her signature rendition of Nina Simone's "Revolution" and joins members of the SF Symphony and Chorus in performances of Nina Simone's "Images," fellow Collaborative Partner Esperanza Spalding's "Little Fly," Aruán Ortiz's "Mompouana," selections from Francis Poulenc's Rapsodie Nègre, and Ricky Ian Gordon's Litany. Other works on the program include J.S. Bach's Invention No. 13 in A minor featuring pianist Sarah Cahill, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Plain Blue/s" from Blues Forms, George Walker's Lyric for Strings, selections from Elizabeth Ogonek's In Silence and Orpheus Suite (after Rilke), and Hildegard von Bingen's O frodens virga. In an in-depth interview published recently, KQED comments, "Bullock's superpower lies in reaching across centuries and continents, and feeling into the love, yearning and loss at the core of the human experience."
April 15th: Patterns
Patterns, a program exploring minimalism in music, curated and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with performances by SF Symphony musicians and pianist Elizabeth Dorman. Featured works include Steve Reich's Clapping Music, the world premiere of Salonen's new work Saltat sobrius--based on Perotin's Sederunt principes, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, and a performance of Terry Riley's In C featuring Esa-Pekka Salonen on the toy piano with an audience participation component.
May 27th: Harpist and jazz vocalist Destiny Muhammad curates the May 27 SoundBox program, joined by drummer Leon Joyce, Jr., bassist Ron Belcher, and SF Symphony musicians in performances of music by Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Lou Williams, William Grant Still, and Arthur Cunningham, and featuring Muhammad's own composition "Hope on the Horizon," arranged by Matt Wong for harp, voice, and string quartet.
July 8th & August 12th: Following are two programs curated by San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners--Nico Muhly on July 8 and Claire Chase on August 12. Nico Muhly's SoundBox program features choreographer and dancer Emma Lanier and includes performances of Inti Figgis-Vizueta's Inbhir; Muhly's Motion, and his arrangements of Orlando Gibbons's "See, See the Word is Incarnate" and Meredith Monk's Fat Stream, and the world premiere of a new work by Lukás Janata.
August 26th: The final SoundBox program of the season, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will be released August 26.
CURRENTS Schedule:
February 18th: A program exploring the relationship between classical and Indian musical cultures, curated by tabla player and composer Zakir Hussain. Hussain joins Indian classical violinist Kala Ramnath and musicians of the SF Symphony in performances of his own compositions Sands of Time and Bichhua, arranged by Neelamjit Dhillon and Chris Votek. The program also featres Laya-Jam, composed by Hussain's father, Alla Rakha, a renowned Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to western audiences. In this sound journey for percussion ensemble, Hussain brings his knowledge as an Indian classical master working in the western world to traditional music of his past.
April 1st: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate curates a program exploring the intersection of classical and Native American musical cultures, featuring performances of his own compositions, as well as music by Rochelle Chester and Louis W. Ballard.
May 6th: This episode focuses on the music of Zimbabwe, curated by members of the Chinyakare Ensemble who specialize in traditional Zimbabwean music and dance.
June 17th: CURRENTS dives into Persian music, featuring composer and multi-instrumentalist Mohammad Nejad as curator.
July 29th: The final CURRENTS episode of the season on July 29 looks at Klezmer musical culture and is curated by chromatic button accordion, cimbalom, and piano player Joshua Horowitz and Veretski Pass.
Special Event:
February 20th: Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox
On February 20, the San Francisco Symphony presents its annual Chinese New Year celebration, now in its twenty-first season and, for the first time, in a virtual format. The Symphony's Chinese New Year event is an elegant and colorful celebration of the Lunar New Year, featuring a program of traditional folk music and works by Asian composers and drawing upon vibrant Asian traditions, past and present. The program will be available free on SFSymphony+ and broadcast on NBC Bay Area at 4pm on February 20; the program will rebroadcast February 27 at 4pm on NBC Bay Area and KTSF 26 on February 21 & 27 at 3:30pm.
Hosted by acclaimed Bay Area actor-director Joan Chen, this season's virtual program focuses on themes that coordinate with the Year of the Ox--prosperity, unity, and growth. Works featured on the program include Chen Yi's "Romance of Hsiao" and "Ch'in" from Romance and Dance, Zhou Long's Chinese Folk Songs, Julian Yu's "Flower Riddle" and "Dry Boat Dance" from Chinese Folk Song Suite, Yao-Xing Chen's Gallop of Warhorses, Yuan-Kai Bao's "Little Cabbage" from Chinese Sights and Sounds, and Wenying Wu's arrangement of the traditional tune Tajiks Festival. Performances feature conductor Ming Luke, Bay Area erhu player Tao Shi, yangqin player Wenying Wu, pianist Samantha Cho, and members of the San Francisco Symphony.
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