San Francisco Symphony

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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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Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2

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Released: 2019-10-09

S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event...

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Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M

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Released: 1999-12-31

Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in support of metal rockers...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert

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Released: 2001-10-31

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber...

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Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica

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Released: 2006-01-01

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises...

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Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

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Released: 2009-10-30

Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving...

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Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

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Released: 2009-01-01

In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of...

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Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy

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Released: 2011-05-10

Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra...

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