San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Seasonally available weekday evenings 8 to 10 pm on WXXO-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXO-FM/HD1 and online at wxxiclassical.org
Known for its innovative programs that span a wide variety of both traditional and new music, the San Francisco Symphony has grown in stature under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, setting the highest possible standard for excellence in musical performance at home and around the world.
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By the time his Fourth Symphony premiered, Anton Bruckner was 57 years old, a Viennese organist underdog, the target of hisses and boos. The “Romantic” was his first major composition to earn real applause. -
July program listings for the San Francisco Symphony -
What happens when progressive metal meets Symphony Orchestra? Watch a video as composer Jens Ibsen talks about his new work, Drowned in Light. -
Milky Ways was commissioned by the Finnish Radio, BBC Radio 3 and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra -
No Such Spring by Samuel Adams, an SF Symphony commission, received its world premiere on Feb. 23. The pianist was soloist Conor Hanick, a specialist in new music. -
Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra proves that even without Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film, Bernard Herrmann’s ominous score slashes with vivid effect all the way up to the most infamous shower scene in cinema. -
Learn more about 54-year-old composer Trevor Weston -
A brilliant musician and visionary, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard's approach to Classical and Romantic music is often in demand with leading composers as collaborator and interpreter. We hear him collaborate with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on 8/23 @ 8pm. -
Ferocious, haunting, serene, searching, Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury takes inspiration from the emotionally fraught verses of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. -
Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph describes the violinist like this, “Pekka Kuusisto…surely has the most personal sound of any classical violinist now alive”
