Three guest conductors take the podium of the San Francisco Symphony during August. Jaap van Zweden, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Herbert Blomstedt.
8/4 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (Carey Bell, cl; Jaap van Zweden, cond)
8/11 Thorvaldsdottir: Metacosmos R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala (Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond)
8/18 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Scottish (Herbert Blomstedt, cond)
8/25 S. Mackey: Portals, Scenes and Celebrations Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (Gil Shaham, v; Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)