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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The San Francisco Symphony's world premiere of Meditations on Rilke in January 2020 revealed yet another side of Michael Tilson Thomas's compositional…
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The pictures that inspired Mussorgsky’s composition were mostly related to other works of art by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann. We'll hear…
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We don’t often think of Felix Mendelssohn as a composer of stage works, but from (age 10) 1820 to 1847 he actually composed a number of musical settings…
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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:…
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What happens when a composer reaches his or her 9th Symphony. We'll find out this month when Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler's 9th (7/14) and…
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Conductor Michael Morgan, music director of the Oakland Symphony in California, will make his San Francisco Symphony debut April 30-May 2, 2020. Morgan…
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Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1990, Behzod Abduraimov began to play the piano at the age of five as a pupil of Tamara Popovich at Uspensky State…
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The San Francisco Symphony presents songs from camp meetings from the late 19th century on the May 14th episode.5/7 Ives: From the Steeples and the…
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4/2 Haydn: Symphony No. 69, Laudon Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)4/9 Tilson Thomas: Agnegram Chopin:…