November 2015 programs on the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Drawing of Berlioz conducting a choir by Gustave Doré. Hear Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique on the Nov. 3rd broadcast.

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This month the San Fransisco Symphony presents Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a late romantic work that Leonard Berstein once described as the first musical expedition into psychedelia, and Berlioz's Love Scene from Roméo et Juliette.

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11/3      Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Prokofiev: Selections from Cinderella (Julia Fischer, v; Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

11/10    Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto Schubert: Symphony, The Great Berlioz: Love Scene from Roméo et Juliette (Carey Bell, cl; Herbert Blomstedt and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

11/17    Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra (Garrick Ohlsson, p; Herbert Blomstedt and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

11/24    Schulhoff: Scherzo from Symphony No. 5 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Shostakovich:  Symphony No. 9 (Mark Inouye, tr Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; James Conlon and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)