# Gautier Capuçon with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall, May 29, 2013

[Gautier Capuçon](http://www.gautiercapucon.com/)  
with the [San Francisco Symphony](http://www.sfsymphony.org)  
2013-05-29  
[Davies Symphony Hall](http://www.sfsymphony.org)  
[201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=201+Van+Ness,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Wednesday, May 29, 2013

## Set One

[8:00 PM lights down, standard announcements]

### Dvorák: Cello Concerto

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904): Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 (1895)

1. [8:m PM] Allegro
2. [8:m PM] Adagio, ma non troppo
3. [8:m PM] Finale: Allegro moderato - Andante - Allegro vivo  
[work ends 8:m PM]

? Possible GC solo encore?

## Set Two

[9:11 PM ready to go; 9:13 yah!]

### Kodály: Dances of Galánta

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967): Dances of Galánta (1933)  
[[http://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-Listen-Learn/Read-Program-Notes/Program-Notes/KODALY-Galantai-Tankoc-%28Dances-of-Galanta%29.aspx|SFS Program Notes]]  
[work ends 9:29 PM; pause about 4 min to reset the stage for the larger group needed for the next work]

### Bartók: Suite from The Wooden Prince

Béla Viktor János Bartók (1881-1945): Suite from _The Wooden Prince_, Op. 13, Sz. 60 (1917)  
[SFS Program Notes](http://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-Listen-Learn/Read-Program-Notes/Program-Notes/BARTOK-Suite-from-The-Wooden-Prince-A-Dancing-Play.aspx)

The work is written in three parts, performed contiguously:

Part One

1. [9:36 PM] Prelude
2. [9:m PM] Dance of _the Princess in the Forest_
3. [9:m PM] Dance of _the Forest_
4. [9:m PM] _the Prince’s Work Song_
5. [9:m PM] _the Brook_
6. [9:m PM] _Dance of the Wooden Prince_  
   
Part Two  
   
Part Three
7. [9:m PM] Postlude  
[10:02 ends]

## Performers

* [Gautier Capuçon](http://www.gautiercapucon.com/): cello;
* [Juraj Valcuha](https://www.google.com/#q=%22Juraj Valcuha%22): conductor;
* symphony members vary by program, see [[ http://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Musicians-Conductors|the current list]].

## Notes

Running late due to martial arts conflicts, my own laggardness and a missed connection at BART, f#@k! Arrive at Civic Center station at 7:58 PM, dash up all four flights of stairs (and everything inbetween), making all haste to get to Davies Hall. Exiting BART, I am flummoxed to see a sea of people - graduates in crimson gowns and extended families dressed in all degree of finery fill the space outside: Oh no! it’s the annual HS graduation ceremonies at the Civic Auditorium. I dodge the wheel chair bound grannies and weave through the clumps of families arranging and rearranging for their pictures, threading my way to Davies, only to arrive a few minutes late. Damn!

The usher is kindly enough to seat me in an empty box at the side of the hall, but I am bummed nonetheless. GC is but a speck in the distance from this vantage point. Wretchedly, I do my best to enjoy the program, but I neglect to take notes about what happened in this set. Was there an encore from GC? Maybe...

I meet with TC at intermission and he ribs me about being late: “You can’t always count on the world operating on Randy time”. No sir, you can’t!

The second set opens with an energetic romp through Kodály’s _Dances of Galánta_ -- a fine way to lift my mood and help put the unpleasantry of the night behind me.

The show closes with _The Wooden Prince_, a one act ballet, scored by Béla Bartók around the same time as his more famous opera, _Bluebeard’s Castle_. I enjoyed hearing the work, and would like to see it again, but in context as a ballet.

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