# Bomsori Kim with Thomas Hoppe at Davies Symphony Hall, May 10, 2023

[San Francisco Symphony](https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/Bomsori) presents [Bomsori](https://www.bomsorikim.com/) with [Thomas Hoppe](https://thomashoppe.com/)  
[Davies Symphony Hall](http://www.sfsymphony.org)  
[201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=201+Van+Ness,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)  
7:30 PM, Wednesday, May 10, 2023

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## One Set

[7:34 PM] {lights down, announcements, performers out}

### Wieniawski: Polonaise de concert

01. [7:35 PM] Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880): _Polonaise de concert_, Opus 4 (1848; rev 1853)  
[7:41 PM] {work ends; performers off; pause for a stage hand to bring out Bomsori's music}

### Debussy: Sonata in G minor

[7:42 PM] {performers back out}

Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918): Sonata in G minor (1917)

01. [7:42 PM] Allegro vivo
02. [7:47 PM] Intermède
03. [7:51 PM] Finale: Très animé  
[7:56 PM] {work ends; performers off; pause for a stage hand to take away Bomsori's stand}

### Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella, Opus 28

[7:57 PM] {performers back out}

Karol Maciej Szymanowski (1882–1937): Nocturne and Tarantella, Opus 28 (1915)

01. [7:57 PM] Nocturne
02. [8:03 PM] Tarantella  
[8:08 PM] {work ends; performers off for a moment}

### Sibelius: Selections from Six Pieces for Violin and Piano, Opus 79

[8:09 PM] {performers back out; brief pause for tuning}

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957): Selections from Six Pieces for Violin and Piano, Opus 79 (1917)

01. [8:10 PM] No. 1: _Souvenir_
02. [8:14 PM] No. 5: _Tanz-Idylle_
03. [8:17 PM] No. 6: _Berceuse_  
[8:19 PM] {work ends; pause; performers remain onstage this time}

### Wieniawski: Fantasia on Themes from Gounod’s Faust, Opus 20 

01. [8:20 PM] Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880): Fantasia on Themes from Gounod’s _Faust_, Opus 20 (1865)  
[8:35 PM] {set ends; performers back and forth for at least two ovations/door calls}

### Encores

[8:36 PM] {performers back out; brief introduction by BK}

01. [8:37 PM] Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969): _Oberek_ No. 1 for violin and piano (1949) (? or No. 2, 1951  
[8:39 PM] {show ends}  

02. [8:40 PM] ? (no introduction -- a slow & romantic work ... maybe a lullabye)  
[show ends 8:45 PM; more applause; all done by 8:47 PM]


## Performers

* [Thomas Hoppe](https://thomashoppe.com/): piano;
* [Bomsori Kim](https://www.bomsorikim.com/): violin.

## Notes

I'm deceived into leaving early by BART tweets of a 20 minute delay, but my travel is quite efficient, and I wait only a minute or so before my SF train pulls up to the platform. More time for reading before the show!

My mom shows up after about ten minutes, giving us awhile to chit chat: she fills me in on the latest excitement in her story.

Soon enough it's showtime, so he we head inside to our seats. The start is delayed slightly (waiting for latecomers to be seated? I don't know), and we wait at least a minute or two after the house announcements before the performers enter. Bomsori is wearing a red lace dress: very elegant and slinky! Hope it's wearing a dark tweed suit: playing the party of the rumpled professor? It's a curious contrast -- I suppose no one pressured him to dandy up for the crowd tonight.

Bomsori plays most of the show from memory, with only curiosity reference to music on a stand places out for the Ravel sonata. Excellent! I will definitely make an effort to see her again!

[Program Notes](https://sfsymphony.encoreplus.app/c/05-10-bomsori/feed?postTypeId=whatsNew)

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[[2023-05-07|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2023|Up to the 2023 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2023#May_events|Up to the 2023 event list!]] ☸ [[2023-05-11|On to the next event!]]