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DESCRIPTION:Sep 24\, 2026\nIn concertos\, unlike in opera\, soloists don’
 t get to fidget out of sight until it’s time for that all-important entr
 ance. Far more often than not\, they must chill front and center as the or
 chestra takes forever setting out the exposition. That “forever” is su
 bjective\, of course\; measured by the clock\, the intros to Beethoven’s
  Violin Concerto and the piano concertos of Chopin take several minutes ap
 iece\, which in this context is objectively a long time. Epitomizing the o
 pposite approach\, Felix Mendelssohn’s sublime Violin Concerto in E mino
 r\, op. 64\, has the soloist on the wing in a heartbeat. For Hilary Hahn\,
  now 46\, the moody\, urgent opening melody and the half-hour magic-carpet
  ride that follows have been a specialty since her teens\; Sony Classical 
 released her critically acclaimed recording with Hugh Wolff and the Oslo P
 hilharmonic nearly a quarter century ago. Her reprise of this particular m
 asterpiece under the baton of Giancarlo Guerrero at the San Francisco Symp
 hony’s opening night gala thus feels highly propitious—a promise of in
 stant liftoff for a thrilling season. But you know that line about the lef
 t hand and the right? The week before the “opening gala\,” David Afkha
 m conducts an early-bird special culminating in the Piano Concerto No. 1 o
 f Brahms with the eminently gala-worthy Garrick Ohlsson in the hot seat fo
 r that epic orchestral preamble (September 18\, 19). That’s not the only
  scheduling irony. As widely reported\, San Francisco’s last music direc
 tor Esa-Pekka Salonen skipped out early\, leaving the players rudderless f
 or now. His designated successor Elim Chan\, who takes over next year\, dr
 ops in for a potpourri program that includes—really?!—the Mendelssohn 
 Violin Concerto\, with Hahn’s estimable colleague Renaud Capuçon doing 
 soloist honors (October 29 to 31).
LOCATION:San Francisco Symphony\, 201 Van Ness Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 941
 02\, USA
SUMMARY:San Francisco Symphony\, Opening Gala with Hilary Hahn
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 y-opening-gala-with-hilary-hahn
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