Tag: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
'Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen to Part Ways With San Francisco Symphony in the Next 2024 - 2025 Season
-
'2014, the Year of Pierre Monteux (Remember Him?)
There will be some anniversaries celebrated this year, none wider than that of the birth of Richard Strauss. But here's a milestone that I suspect few will comment on. It is half a century since Pierre Monteux, the French-born conductor. Not just any conductor, one of the most influential and revered of the 20th century. And yet these days, few music lovers are more than dimly aware of his name.
