{"id":243649,"date":"2026-03-30T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:45:06","slug":"san-francisco-symphony-announces-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243649\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Symphony Announces 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday\u2019s (3\/26) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/music-news\/san-francisco-symphonys-2026-2027-season-boasts-drama-and-novelties#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Classical Voice<\/a>, Janos Gereben writes, \u201cSan Francisco Symphony audiences who thrilled to dramatically staged, interdisciplinary, innovative presentations \u2026 are getting some good news. While SF Symphony is still without a music director since [Esa-Pekka] Salonen\u2019s abrupt departure almost a year ago, the 2026-2027 season \u2026[features] performances combining dance, theater, and videography.\u2026 Choreographer Alonzo King and his LINES Ballet join SFS and conductor James Gaffigan to present world premiere works set to Debussy\u2019s Pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 L\u2019Apr\u00e8s-midi d\u2019un faune and Copland\u2019s suite from Appalachian Spring \u2026 Janni Younge\u2019s staged production of Stravinsky\u2019s The Firebird, featuring larger-than-life puppets set to contemporary South African dance forms \u2026 Deborah O\u2019Grady envisions John Adams\u2019s The Dharma at Big Sur through photography and video \u2026 Bay Area composer Gabriella Smith joins the Symphony as Creative Partner \u2018to explore ecology and the natural world through programs and special events featuring her works.\u2019\u2026 SFS partnering with Congregation Emanu-El for Ernest Bloch\u2019s monumental Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a five-part choral-orchestral setting of Hebrew liturgy\u2026. The world premieres of SF Symphony commissions by Emerging Black Composers Project winner Kyle Rivera \u2026 and a new concerto for harp and percussion by Rene Orth \u2026 Additional SF Symphony commissions include Gabriella Smith\u2019s violin concerto How to Be a Bird \u2026 and a new work by Reena Esmail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Thursday\u2019s (3\/26) San Francisco Classical Voice, Janos Gereben writes, \u201cSan Francisco Symphony audiences who thrilled to dramatically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52493,33620,37665,33621,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-243649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-artistic-planning","tag-composers","tag-conductors","tag-repertoire","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243649","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=243649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}