San Francisco Symphony

San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980 the orchestra has been resident at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the city's Hayes Valley neighborhood. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (founded in 1981) and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1972) are part of the organization. Since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas has been the orchestra's music director. Tilson Thomas is scheduled to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director in 2020, when Esa-Pekka Salonen is scheduled to become the orchestra's next music director. Among the orchestra's awards and honors are an Emmy Award and 15 Grammy Awards in the past 26 years.

  • Title: San Francisco Symphony
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  • Homepage: http://www.sfsymphony.org/
  • Also Known As: SFS, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
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San Francisco Symphony Movies

  • 2009
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    Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
    Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

    1 2009 HD

    Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another...

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  • 1970
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    Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
    Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

    1 1970 HD

    Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

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  • 1999
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    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony: S&M
    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony: S&M

    8.4 1999 HD

    A live Metallica concert backed by a 80 piece symphony orchestra, conducted by Michael Kamen. Two songs are debuted, "- Human" and "No Leaf Clover."...

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  • 2019
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    Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
    Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2

    8.7 2019 HD

    S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs from the...

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  • 1970
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    Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
    Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

    1 1970 HD

    How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From decoding the score, to uncovering...

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  • 2011
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    Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
    Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy

    1 2011 HD

    Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including selected movements of the fifth, seventh and ninth...

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  • 2006
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    Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
    Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica

    10 2006 HD

    Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master....

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  • 2009
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    Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
    Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

    1 2009 HD

    In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life...

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  • 2001
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    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert

    7.2 2001 HD

    In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt...

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