James Gaffigan & Ray Chen

Name: James Gaffigan & Ray Chen
Start: 2025-01-09T19:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-09T22:30:00-08:00
Location: San Francisco Symphony

Schedule

Thu Jan 09 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

San Francisco Symphony | San Francisco, CA

Conductor James Gaffigan & violinist Ray Chen return on a thrilling program that combines lyricism & athleticism, fireworks & 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.
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ARTISTS:
James Gaffigan, Conductor
Ray Chen, Violin
San Francisco Symphony
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PROGRAM:
Missy Mazzoli
'Sinfonia' ('for Orbiting Spheres')
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5
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James Gaffigan’s appearance is supported by the Louise M. Davies Guest Conductor Fund.
This concert is generously supported by the Ralph I. Dorfman Commissioning Fund.