Happy Summer Solstice!
Get ready for Summer with great music as only the SFCO does it! The program kicks off with Fanny Mendehlssohn-Hensel’s Overture in C Major. Composed in the 1820’s it was rediscovered and finally published in 1994.
Following this charming gem, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra tackles his least-performed symphony, Beethoven’s Fourth. Robert Schumann called it “a slender Grecian maiden between two Nordic giants,” but it is still a masterpiece by any measure.
And then we celebrate the return of outstanding young pianist Hilda Huang with her performances of Beethoven’s outstanding Fourth Piano Concerto.
Hilda Huang’s playing glimmers with “alluring extroversion” (New York Concert Review) and plumbs “philosophical depths” (West-Allgemeine Zeitung).
Program:
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hansel Overture in C Major
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Hilda Huang, piano
Concerts
Friday, December 31, 2021, 7:30pm
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Saturday, January 1, 2022, 3:00pm
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
Sunday, January 2, 2022, 3:00pm
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Season Sponsor
Supporting Government Organizations
Supporting Foundations
Myrtle L. Atkinson Foundation
Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Bernard Osher Foundation
Raymond Family Foundation
Sam Mazza Foundation
Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation