San Francisco Symphony – Season Opening Gala 2021

Synopsis

Feel the energy as the great San Francisco Symphony welcomes its new music director Esa-Pekka Salonen with its 110th season Reopening Night, filled with jazz and dance from special guests. To kick of the evening, Slonimsky’s Earbox is a virtuosic piece composed in 1995 by Bay Area composer John Adams, full of cascading phrases of minimalist patterns being played with remarkable precision and energy by the orchestra. Alonzo King’s choreography for the four movements of Alberto Ginastera’s Ballet Suite Estancia is a joyride. The dancers of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet excel themselves at athletic jumps and limber, airy movements within the explosive last dance of the suite, the ‘Malambo’. Gaia, a 27-minute opus by the jazz legend Wayne Shorter forms the centerpiece of the evening and features the extraordinary bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding. The evening evolves into a true night of enchantment with ‘Noche de incantamiento’ by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas who wrote a percussion extravaganza with his music to the film La noche de los Mayas in 1939.

Additional Info

• No: 8802
• Composer: John Adams, Alberto Ginastera, Wayne Shorter, Silvestre Revueltas
• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony
• Artists: Esperanza Spalding, Alonzo King Lines Ballet
• Production year: 2021
• Run time: 01:22:00
• Producers: BFMI
• Format: 4K