“Twenty-five years after Michael Tilson Thomas arrived as San Francisco Symphony’s music director, shaking up programming, his successor Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced his vision for the orchestra’s future,” writes Janos Gereben in Tuesday’s (2/18) San Francisco Examiner. “Salonen … picks up the baton in the fall for the orchestra’s 109th season.… Salonen said his decision to take the job was predicated on the orchestra itself, calling the musicians an ‘expressive, flexible, open, powerful group of players.’… With more than two dozen premieres or first local performances, Salonen’s season offers a dazzling lineup of new music, debuts by conductors and soloists, and the involvement of young artists out of the mainstream of conventional symphonic music.… The world premiere of Chinese-born American composer Fang Man’s yet untitled composition blending Chinese and Greek mythology is on a program … with the rarely-performed Scriabin’s ‘Prometheus: The Poem of Fire’ and Beethoven’s ‘Creatures of Prometheus.” Fang Man’s score was commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Salonen’s Collaborative Partners project includes Nicholas Britell, Julia Bullock, Claire Chase, Bryce Dessner, Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly, Carol Reiley, and Esperanza Spalding. “MTT will be back on several occasions to conduct.”
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