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Join us November 22nd at 3pm at San Francisco Conservatory of Music for our first concert of the season! 🎹
The Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia comes from Aram Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus (1954). But another moment in popular media where we hear this piece is in the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)!
Mussorgsky composed "Pictures at an Exhibition" as a piano suite in 1874. Ravel reinvigorated the work in his 1922 orchestration, featuring 10 movements linked by recurring Promenades. Listen for each one to guide you from one artwork to the next at our concert on Nov 22!
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we had a lovely time on stage today at the SFCM! thank you to our wonderful audience and everyone behind the scenes for your incredible support! all of you are a part of what makes a performance so meaningful ❤️ and a special thanks to Ava Pakiam, our extraordinary soloist!
Beethoven rushed to finish his violin concerto, and legends say he was still revising it two days before the premiere. Lucky for him, the concerto’s dedicatee was a brilliant violinist who could take on such a work.
Join us at the SFCM to hear us play this on the 31st!
Shostakovich knew that Soviet officials expected his 9th symphony to be a monumental work to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany. Instead, he pulled a fast one on them and came out with this witty work.
Hear us perform this symphony on the 31st at the SFCM!
✨ Soloist spotlight - Ava Pakiam! ✨
Bay Area violinist Ava Pakiam is a highly sought-after soloist and recitalist studying with Simon James.
Come to our concert on the 31st at the SFCM to see her perform the Beethoven violin concerto with us!
Max Marcus is a composer, arranger, tenor, cellist, conductor, and teacher originally from Seattle, WA. Max is a graduate of the SFCM where he studied composition with David Conte.
Come to our concert on the 31st to hear his work, Incantations for Orchestra!
(it's actually been me this whole time)
Come see us play this concerto with Ava Pakiam on May 31st! – at San Francisco, CA
Join us May 31 at 3pm at San Francisco Conservatory of Music for an afternoon of mystery, beauty, and wit! 🎟️ Get your tickets now! tickettailor.com/events/symp… – at San Francisco, CA
Happy 85th to long-time Symphony Parnassus cellist Jozo! It was a terrific and energetic concert day with celebratory donuts 🍩
We had a wonderful time at today's concert! We are so grateful for all of you in the (sold out!) audience cheering us on with so much love and support ♥️ Thank you to all who came to see us and to the many more who support us from behind the scenes. See you all at the next one!
Despite Prokofiev's own objections to the ending of his Romeo and Juliet ballet, he won international acclaim for the piece & one of the Soviet Union's highest honors, the Stalin prize. It was performed at the Kirov Theatre where Prokofiev's legacy suffers from this huge success.
Meet our two soloists for the Saint-Saëns piece in our upcoming concert! 👏
Violinist Stefan Hersh has had a varied career as a chamber, soloist, and orchestral musician, and cellist Alexander Hersh has established himself as one of the most creative talents of his generation.
Márquez, the composer of Danzón No. 2, described his inspiration for his piece like this - “The idea of writing the Danzón No. 2 originated in 1993 during a trip to Malinalco with the painter Andrés Fonseca and the dancer Irene Martínez, both of whom are experts in salon dances"
Join us Sunday, April 19 3pm at Taube Atrium Theater for an afternoon that moves from sweeping dramatic storytelling to intimate conversation to vibrant dance rhythms! 🎟️ Get your tickets now!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our performance this afternoon! It means so much to look out the from the stage and see a full audience of people supporting us. We're so glad we could share this experience with you all ♥️ see you at the next one!
We have Daniel Wang on the cello with us for Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo theme!
Tchaikovsky wanted his soloist Fitzenhagen to shape this piece to his liking, but his publisher thought he just "cello'ed it up... Good God!" Decide if you like it yourself at our concert!
Join us Sunday, February 15 at 3pm at Taube Atrium Theater for an afternoon that journeys from the American West to Imperial Russia to the forests of Finland!
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