{"id":95498,"date":"2025-12-15T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/95498\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:53:09","slug":"review-jon-batiste-with-san-francisco-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/95498\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Jon Batiste with San Francisco Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Saturday\u2019s (12\/13) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/music\/article\/jon-batiste-sf-symphony-review-21240842.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, Andrew Gilbert writes, \u201cIn an era of debased and divisive politics, Jon Batiste is putting the pop back into populism. The New Orleans pianist, vocalist and melodica maestro met the San Francisco Symphony \u2026 at Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, Dec. 12, and while he didn\u2019t utter a single statement about the state of the union, his far-ranging program offered a road map for national reconciliation. Encompassing blues and Beethoven, soul and Christmas carols, jazz, gospel and standards, the sold-out show was a joyous encounter that embodied Batiste\u2019s vision of music as a unifying force. \u2018We play all the different types of music for an allegory of how we can all be together,\u2019 he told the crowd \u2026 The seven-time Grammy winner didn\u2019t have to make an explicit political statement. He opened with a section from his \u2018American Symphony\u2019 \u2026 He crooned Hoagy Carmichael\u2019s \u2018Georgia on My Mind\u2019 and \u2018What a Wonderful World\u2019 \u2026 His original songs, like \u2018Freedom,\u2019 are often sing-along anthems, and he coaxed the audience to join in the choruses \u2026 While effectively deployed when integrated into an arrangement, the orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Taylor Rush, was under-utilized\u2026. His rapport with the Symphony worked best on Bill Withers\u2019 \u2018Ain\u2019t No Sunshine.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Saturday\u2019s (12\/13) San Francisco Chronicle, Andrew Gilbert writes, \u201cIn an era of debased and divisive politics, Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52493,27835,33621,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-95498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-artistic-planning","tag-musicians","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\/95498","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=95498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}