The program was sparkling, imaginative, and even exotic, featuring works from Chinese-American composer Chen Yi and Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu.
The orchestra — joined by the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Pacific Boychoir Academy, and San Francisco Girls Chorus — gave a near-perfect performance brimming with joy.
The Philharmonic’s performance marks the beginning of a new era for the orchestra.
The four-and-a-half-hour marathon had everything except the composer himself.
The maestro led the symphony with casually controlled theatricality and an air of mischief.
An exciting performance of Concerto for Orchestra caps off an evening that included pieces from Samuel Carl Adams and Mozart.
What happens when indeterminate music’s “happy accidents” are not so accidental?
A lovely rendering of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is unfortunately paired with Bernstein’s brash, ostentatious Age of Anxiety.
Mahler’s Third Symphony is a long haul, but the Santa Rosa Symphony was in it to win it.
The orchestra, conducted by Mälkki, played through pieces by Bartók, Stravinsky, and Sibelius with jolly virtuosity.
