San Francisco Symphony presents MTT & Mahler: Love & Lyricism, featuring soprano Sasha Cooke and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny
Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
2:00 PM, Sunday, January 12, 2020

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[2:00 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

1. [2:03 PM] Heitor Berlioz (1803–1869): Overture to Benvenuto Cellini (1837)
   [segment ends 2:13 PM; pause to reset the stage]

Michael Tilson Thomas (b.1944): Meditations on Rilke (2019) (World premiere)

1. [2:17 PM] Herbsttag (Autumn Day) (SC)
2. [2:28 PM] Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen (I live my life in growing orbits) (RM)
3. [2:31 PM] Das Lied des Trinkers (Song of the Drunkard) (RM)
4. [2:37 PM] Immer wieder (Again, Again) (SC)
5. [2:44 PM] Imaginärer Lebenslauf (Imaginary Biography) (SC/RM)
6. [2:50 PM] Herbst (Autumn) (RM)
   [2:59 PM; work and set end; lots of applause and bows; break time!]

[3:21 PM lights down, tuning; pause for entrance of SC & MTT]

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911): Four Songs From Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1892–1893)

1. [3:24 PM] Rheinlegendchen (Little Rhine Legend)
2. [3:27 PM] Das irdische Leben (the Earthly Life)
3. [3:30 PM] Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Where the Fair Trumpets Sound)
4. [3:36 PM] Urlicht (Primeval Light)
   [3:41 PM; work ends; applause; pause to reset stage]

[3:46 PM; tunning; MTT out to start the final work]

1. [3:47 PM] Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): La Valse (1920)
   [set ends 4:00 PM; applause for a few minutes, then all done for the day]

San Francisco Symphony

• Michael Tilson Thomas: conductor, music director;
• symphony members vary by program; see the current list.

• Sasha Cooke: mezzo-soprano vox;
• Ryan McKinny: bass-baritone vox.

Another fine afternoon with MTT and the SF Symphony. Really good, if romantic art-classical songs are the thing you want to listen to! I'm not normally a fan of that genre, but it was good enough to keep my attention at least 90% of the time! It will be interesting to find out what the various self-appointed expert critics have to say about the show, and whether or not they feel MTT measures up to the standard set by Mahler.

Janos Gereben posted a promo article for the show at SFCV.

Steve Winn posted a review of the show at SFCV.

Meditations on Rilke appears on a new release from SFS Media: read more about that on their info page.

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2020 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2020 event list! ☸ On to the next event!