Name: Salonen Conducts Verdi’s Requiem
Start: 2024-09-19T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-19T22:30:00-07:00
Location: San Francisco Symphony

$Salonen Conducts Verdi\u2019s Requiem$

Crude as a gut punch, tender as a kiss, Verdi's Requiem translates the medieval Latin mass for the dead into the vivid & visceral idiom of Italian opera, bringing divine scripture to the streets, & vice versa. Opening the program is a set of three choral works by Gordon Getty, a longtime friend of the Symphony & one of San Francisco’s most celebrated composers.
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ARTISTS:
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Leah Hawkins, Soprano
Karen Cargill, Mezzo-Soprano
Mario Chang, Tenor
Eric Owens, Bass
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Jenny Wong, San Francisco Symphony Chorus Director
San Francisco Symphony
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PROGRAM:
Intermezzo from 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips'
Gordon Getty
'Saint Christopher'
Gordon Getty
'The Old Man in the Snow'
Gordon Getty
Requiem
Giuseppe Verdi
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Illustration by Shout