San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas Announce 2012-13 Season Concert Programs, Recordings, and Community Initiatives
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS ANNOUNCE 2012-13 SEASON CONCERT PROGRAMS, RECORDINGS, AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES (Images of Michael Tilson Thomas, Renée Fleming, Lang Lang, Juraj Valcuha, and Khatia Buniatishvili available online in the 2012-2013 Press Kit) Orchestra’s 101st season highlights include Tilson Thomas-led explorations of music by Beethoven, Stravinsky, and enhanced concert experiences around Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis MTT conducts the SFS in the first concert performances by an orchestra of Bernstein’s complete West Side Story Orchestra to perform two world premieres, three US premieres, three West Coast premieres, and 13 San Francisco Symphony premieres MTT leads premieres of new SFS commissions by Robin Holloway, Jörg Widmann and Samuel Carl Adams Soprano Renée Fleming and pianist András Schiff perform in Project San Francisco residencies; Schiff begins two-year exploration of Bach’s works for keyboard Distinguished guests include Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman, Julia Fischer, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Marc- André Hamelin, Gil Shaham, Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, David Robertson, Vasily Petrenko, and Marek Janowski, with debuts by Vladimir Jurowski, Jaap van Zweden, Juraj Valcuha, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Michael Fabiano, and The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble Great Performers Series features concerts by the Warsaw Philharmonic and Russian National Orchestra plus recitals by Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Renée Fleming with Susan Graham, and Matthias Goerne with Christoph Eschenbach MTT and Orchestra
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