Esa-Pekka puts in 15 weeks at San Francisco
NewsIn today’s other season roll-out, the San Francisco boasts a longer commitment from its music director than other US orchestras.
Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead 15 weeks of programming in the Bay Area and abroad, to include world premieres of works by Samuel Adams, Magnus Lindberg, and winner of the 2021 Emerging Black Composers Project Trevor Weston.
He also launches a four-year partnership with director Peter Sellars, launching in June 2022 with a staging of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex.
Sellars will direct Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater in June 2023 and, in following seasons, Olivier Messiaen’s La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ and Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen.
Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas is expected to return for four weeks of concerts.
They can keep him. Most of the LA Phil musicians were happy to see him leave.
He is a critic’s dream.
Consider the source.
Bullshit.Those i know personally did´t…4 principals among them…
I doubt that’s true, but after 17 years, I’m sure everyone agreed it was time for a change.
Peter Sellars is way way (way) past his sell-by date.
Pretty good-looking season. The west-coast orchestras are showing they’re the place to be.
Yes, they are doing wonderful things, but…have you been to LA or SF lately. S**t Hole doesn’t begin to convey the god-awful mess those cities are in. Homeless encampments everywhere. Drugged up, mentally ill people walking the streets. Human feces and urine stink to high heaven. I’d like to think the leaders of those places care about making their downtowns attractive and appealing but they don’t. It’s dangerous walking near Disney Hall at night, even by day it’s not exactly a great place.
Seems pretty common in US of A… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1Kf-1qd6Y
Lots of causes for that at all levels of government, starting with an inadequate public health system, to zoning laws that have helped make housing absurdly expensive in those cities; Seattle now has a huge problem with homelessness, too. LA and SF are also affected by the fact that the weather is nice; if you’re going to be living in the street, would you prefer to do it in LA or in Chicago?
Homeless people can’t survive outdoors in the harsh winter conditions of America’s midwestern and northeastern states. Other states are more than happy to ship them off to California. It happens all the time. Once you get this far, there’s nowhere left to go, westward-ly speaking, except surfing. It’s not an easy problem to fix, or it would it have been fixed already. I know – we have a higher than average proportion of homeless in the CA town I live in.
Really? I don’t believe that. They always played out of their skin for him every time he came back.
Wait. You mean an American music director is actually going to reside with their orchestra for more than the going minimum? Wow.
Must be nice to be a rich orchestra
After suffering lots of amateurish and shallow arm-waving as well as way too much superfluous talking for 25 years, all those fine SFS musicians truly deserve to finally have a fully professional and highly intelligent presence on the podium.