SF Symphony's 2008-2009 Season
March 03, 2008
September 3 2008: Gala (Chabrier, Bernstein, Rachmaninoff)
September 4-7 2008: Ligeti, Poulenc, Prokofiev's 5th
September 10-12 2008: Knussen's 3rd, Beethoven's 9th
September 15 2008: Pension Fund Concert (Beethoven's 9th)
September 17-19 2008: Bernstein
October 8-11 2008: Mozart, Szymanowski, R. Strauss, Tchaikovsky
October 12 2008: Beethoven Piano Sonatas
October 16-18 2008: Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann's 2nd
October 19 2008: Beethoven Piano Sonatas
October 23-25 2008: R. Strauss, Ravel, Saint-Saen, Schmidt's 4th
October 29- November 1 2008: Lutoslawski, Bruckner's 2nd
October 31 2008: The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
November 6-8 2008: Brahms, Nielsen's 3rd
November 13-16 2008: Haydn, Barber, Beethoven's 6th
November 19-23 2008: Mahler's 8th
November 26-29 2008: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovitch's 1st
December 4-6 2008: Wagner, Chopin
January 7-11 2009: Copland, Berg, Brahms' 1st
January 15-17 2009: MTT, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky
January 24 2009: Hvorostovsky sings Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Medtner
February 4-7 2009: Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Scriabin
February 12-15 2009: Debussy, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
February 18-21 2009: Guvaidulina, Bruckner's 4th
February 26- March 1 2009: Prokofiev, Gubaidulina, Ravel, Mendelssohn
March 5-7 2009: Gabrieli, Ligeti, Ravel, Liszt
March 12-14 2009: Berlioz, Liszt, Shostakovich
March 15 2009: Prokofiev
March 16 2009: Prokofiev, Beethoven
March 18-21 2009: Kodaly, Bloch, Brahms' 4th
March 25-28 2009: Gerber, Beethoven, Walton
March 29 2009: Beethoven Piano Sonatas
April 1-4 2009: Haydn's 52nd, Adès, Mozart's 39th
April 5 2009: Beethoven Piano Sonatas
April 9-11 2009: Higdon, Mozart, Faure, Debussy
April 16-18 2009: Anderson, Knussen, Mussorgsky
April 22-25 2009: Bizet, Poulenc, Vaughan Williams
April 29- May 3 2009: Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky
May 7-9 2009: Haydn, Mozart
May 14-16 2009: Handel
May 20-23 2009: Mason Bates, Sibelius, Prokofiev
May 27-30 2009: Schubert, Berg
June 3-4 2009: Schubert, Berg
June 5-6 2009: Berg, Schubert's 9th
June 10-13 2009: Berg, Schubert
June 18-21 2009: Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe
The San Francisco Symphony announced the 2008-2009 season today. Kendall Gladen is singing in Beethoven's 9th; Dawn Upshaw sings Bernstein; Dmitri Hvorostovsky gives a recital; Elza van den Heever, Anthony Dean Griffey, and James Morris are soloists in Mahler's 8th; John Relyea is the bass-baritone in Walton's Belshazzar's Feast; and Michelle DeYoung sings Berg's Sieben frühe Lieder. Next year, James Conlon, Nicola Luisotti, and Valery Gergiev all guest conduct in March.