About this concert
"Virtuosity reigns and the stars shine brightly when two Perspectives artists—Michael Tilson Thomas and Yuja Wang—share the stage. Prokofiev strove for simplicity in his final piano concerto, a work he originally named “Music for Piano and Orchestra.” The concerto, however, is anything but facile with its nimble opening movement, quicksilver toccata, and emotionally powerful Larghetto. Emotions certainly are at the fore in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a phantasmagoric tale of obsessive passion painted in kaleidoscopic orchestral colors.
Performers
New World Symphony
America’s Orchestral Academy
Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director and Conductor
Yuja Wang, Piano
Program
JULIA WOLFE New Work (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 5
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Tickets on sale:
August 6 at 8 AM for subscribers and members
August 20 at 8 AM for the general public"
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Michael Tilson Thomas Biography
Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) assumed his post as the San Francisco Symphony's (SFS) eleventh Music Director in September 1995, consolidating a strong relationship with the Orchestra that began with his debut here in 1974 at the age of twenty-nine. Along with his post here in San Francisco, MTT serves as Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, a national training orchestra for the most gifted graduates of America's conservatories, which he founded in 1988 and as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Principal Conductor for seven years.
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