A rare opportunity to hear John Adams’s mammoth symphonic canvas on this weekend’s San Francisco Symphony program. Esa-Pekka Salonen, who led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the world premiere in 1999, conducts. My program note here.
The program also includes the world premiere of Jesper Nordin’s Convergence, with violinist Pekka Kuusisto as the soloist.
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 
Pekka Kuusisto played a chamber / early version of “Convergence” earlier this year at a Soundbox show that I reviewed. They have grounds for calling this the world premiere, but…
https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/soundbox-spotlights-pekka-kuusisto-and-rock-influenced-concerto#