San Francisco Symphony
Biography: The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980 the orchestra has been resident at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the city's Hayes Valley neighborhood. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (founded in 1981) and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1972) are part of the organization. Since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas has been the orchestra's music director. Tilson Thomas is scheduled to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director in 2020, when Esa-Pekka Salonen is scheduled to become the orchestra's next music director. Among the orchestra's awards and honors are an Emmy Award and 15 Grammy Awards in the past 26 years.
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Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
2009-10-30
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Overview: Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from Stalin’s totalitarian forces could have meant a sentence to the Gulag or worse.... When he penned this fifth symphony, the composer was literally writing for his life. The risk was so high that Shostakovich slept on the stairs outside his apartment so the secret police would not wake his family when they came from him, as he was sure they would. This Keeping Score episode, investigates the arresting symphony that would either redeem Shostakovich or doom him. Did he dare hide a kernel of musical criticism in what appears to be a paean to the Motherland? Join Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony as they explore the hidden language of this masterwork. Episode includes full-length concert performance of Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor by the San Francisco Symphony.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Overview: Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
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Original Language: en
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Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M
1999-12-31
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M
Overview: Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in support of metal rockers Metallica in this 1999 concert performance.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
2019-10-09
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
Overview: S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs from the two-night event that opened San Francisco’s new Chase Center, with many Metallica fan favourites and two unique classical songs chosen by San Francisco Symphony Musical Director, Michael Tilson Thomas. S&M2 is newly re-edited by the band, with re-mixed and remastered audio, for a whole new look and sound from the original theatrical run in October 2019.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Overview: How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From decoding the score, to uncovering Tchaikovsky's history, Michael Tilson Thomas gives us a backstage pass to the making of a performance.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
2011-05-10
Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
Overview: Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including selected movements of the fifth, seventh and ninth symphonies and the complete Songs of a Wayfarer with baritone Thomas Hampson.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-10
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Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
2006-01-01
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
Overview: Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
2009-01-01
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Overview: In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life upside down to meet her. Frantic months turned into years when he suddenly heard rumors about Harriet and another man. Believing himself cured, he wrote a ‘fantastic’ symphony complete with a special theme, the idée fixe, to represent his former obsession.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2001-10-31
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
Overview: In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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