Storytelling in music was revolutionized by Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, with its massive orchestra and vivid, even hallucinatory, colors. Wildly popular from its first performance, it makes the perfect beginning to our season. Austrian Maestro Campestrini[…]

Legendary timpanist and composer William Kraft wrote his second concerto specifically for San Francisco Symphony’s David Herbert, and Herbert will perform it with Kraft in attendance. Played on 15 custom-built timpani tuned for melody, the[…]