The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti Visit San Francisco: Honegger: Pacific 231, Bates: Alternative Energy, Franck: Symphony in D-minor , by Steven Kruger

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DJ / Composer Mason Bates. Photo Lydia Danmiller.

Davies Hall, San Francisco
Tuesday, February 20, 2012

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
Bates: Alternative Energy (2012)
Franck: Symphony in D-minor (1888)

Choose wisely what and how you imitate.... This may be the composer's lesson to take away from last Tuesday's much anticipated San Francisco visit by the Chicago Symphony, led by Riccardo Muti. Though Muti's program concluded traditionally, with the Franck Symphony in D-minor, the first half of his concert was devoted to two pieces which undertake, with differing levels of success, the engineering of musical expression through depiction.

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