Salonen: Julia Bullock Sings Ravel & Britten

Presented by San Francisco Symphony

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San Francisco Symphony Music Director Designate Esa-Pekka Salonen guides the Orchestra into a beguiling mashup of music and the written word. Charles Perrault was one of the original proponents of children’s literature. A prominent French author and avid collector of folk tales, he assembled an unforgettable set of stories under the name Mother Goose in 1695. 200 years later, his enduring characters found their way into an enchanting orchestral suite by Ravel. By then, French poetry had ventured into the hallucinatory realm of Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. To navigate the Britten and Ravel settings of these surrealistic landscapes, Salonen welcomes the impressive soprano Julia Bullock. The evening begins with a work written after a suggestion by Salonen to Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky: the haunting, freely conceived Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary.

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City: San Francisco
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$20–$160

Program Items

Stucky Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Britten Les Illuminations
Ravel Three Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé
Ravel Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)

Performers

Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor
Julia Bullock Soprano
San Francisco Symphony

Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States