May 2016 programs on the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Pianist Yefim Bronfman performs this month with the San Francisco Symphony

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This month hear music by Bach, Bartók and Tchaikovsky. Yefim Bronfman will perform Brahms' 2nd piano concerto, and we hear Michael Tilson Thomas' beautiful Street Song for Symphonic Brass.

5/3        Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Brant: Ice Field Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Tilson Thomas: Street Song for Symphonic Brass (Cameron Carpenter, org; Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

5/10      Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

5/17      Griffes: The White Peacock Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Stravinsky: Petrushka (Jeremy Denk, p; Susanna Mälkki and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.)

5/24      Cynthia Lee Wong: Carnival Fever Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (Yefim Bronfman, p; Joshua Gersen and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

5/31      Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings (Peter Serkin, p; Herbert Blomstedt and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.)