It played out as it had to. The San Francisco Symphony’s board of directors gave the composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen assurances of support for his trailblazing plans. Then they got cold feet and walked everything back. Bye, said Salonen, who bounced to Paris, where the forward-looking Philharmonie de Paris embraced him warmly. As of September 2027, he presides as the institution’s “inaugural creativity and innovation chair” (whew!) and principal conductor of the Orchestre de Paris. Okay! This month, the new guy delivers his new constituency previews of coming attractions. Stefan Dohr is the soloist in the French premiere of Salonen’s Concerto for Horn, which premiered with the same forces last summer (April 1, 2); a week later, Renaud Capuçon is the front man for Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 3 (April 8, 9). Other composers in the mix are Debussy, Richard Strauss, Sibelius, and Stravinsky—Salonen specialties all. —Matthew Gurewitsch