{"id":164316,"date":"2026-02-04T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:52:16","slug":"at-san-francisco-symphonys-soundbox-violinist-alexi-kenney-explores-contemporary-composers-and-kafka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164316\/","title":{"rendered":"At San Francisco Symphony\u2019s SoundBox, Violinist Alexi Kenney Explores Contemporary Composers\u2014and Kafka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s (2\/3) <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/02\/03\/violinist-alexi-kenney-explores-dreaming-waking-in-sf-symphony-soundbox-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bay City News<\/a>, James Ambroff-Tahan writes, \u201cViolinist Alexi Kenney, creating this week\u2019s San Francisco Symphony SoundBox concert called \u2018Dream Awake,\u2019 centered the program around [Ge\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e3g\u2019s] 1987 song cycle called \u2018Kafka\u2019s Fragments\u2019 based on writer Franz Kafka\u2019s quotes and diary entries\u2026. A portion of the 70-minute-long \u2018Kafka Fragments\u2019 and pieces by mostly living composers comprise \u2018Dream Awake,\u2019 a program depicting the delicate balance between dreaming and waking life that\u2019s the theme of the first 2026 SoundBox\u2026. Experimental SoundBox shows \u2026 take place in a club-like atmosphere backstage in Davies Symphony Hall. Works by Berkeley native Dylan Mattingly, Kronos Quartet cellist Paul Wiancko and University of California, Berkeley graduate Peter Shin are also on the program \u2026 Singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon, who\u2019s joining him on \u2018Kafka Fragments,\u2019\u2026 joins a larger mixed orchestra ensemble [of San Francisco Symphony musicians] for a work by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho \u2026 \u00a0\u2018Dream Awake\u2019s\u2019 lighting design is by Luke Kritzeck and video design is by Adam Larsen \u2026 Kenney says \u2026 \u2018It\u2019s really nice to have these multidisciplinary cross-collaborations happening.\u2019 Kenney, who made his San Francisco Symphony Orchestral Series debut in December \u2026 maintains that innovative programming \u2026 is a creative, necessary way to broaden the appeal of classical music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Tuesday\u2019s (2\/3) Bay City News, James Ambroff-Tahan writes, \u201cViolinist Alexi Kenney, creating this week\u2019s San Francisco Symphony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[33620,27835,33621,101,103,102,104,106,105,33622],"class_list":["post-164316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-composers","tag-musicians","tag-repertoire","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}