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

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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