Name: James Gaffigan & Ray Chen
Start: 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Davies Symphony Hall

Admin

San Francisco Symphony

Conductor

James Gaffigan

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Ray Chen

Violin

James Gaffigan & Ray Chen

San Francisco

United States

Davies Symphony Hall

Public

Sinfonia

Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

Sharan Allad

Approved

Conductor James Gaffigan and violinist Ray Chen return on a thrilling program that combines lyricism and athleticism, fireworks and finesse. Samuel Barber wrote only one Violin Concerto, but it’s such a dazzling doozy that you can’t blame him for quitting while he was ahead. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony was composed at the height of the Second World War but its appeal is universal. As conductor Serge Koussevitzky effused: “It is magnificent! It is yesterday, it is today, it is tomorrow.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble