For some young musicians just learning to play together, the “infernal machine” can be the orchestra itself. Not, however, for those expert and passionate San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra players.
Under conductor Donato Cabrera, they will take on the subtle and intensely rewarding Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar, Haydn’s “Oxford” Symphony No. 92, and a crazy whiz-bang work that’s full of surprises, Christopher Rouse’s “orchestral etude”