San Francisco Symphony with Alondra de la Parra conductor and Joyce Yang, piano in Glinka, Rachmaninoff, and Mussorgsky, by Steven Kruger
The San Francisco Symphony
Davies Hall, July 23, 2010
Davies Hall, July 23, 2010
Alondra de la Parra, Conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Glinka, Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Mussorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
Summer concerts in the city are frequently revealing in their own several ways. A quick look around Davies Hall last Friday would have reminded locals that there is no need to escape San Francisco in July. Many of the regular faces were present, and so, too, were throngs of young couples in from the suburbs. In the shirt-sleevy dusk, Van Ness Avenue and its many venues seemed the focal point of date night. The line for will-call tickets snaked around the block.
