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Esa-Pekka Salonen's resignation in San Francisco is a wake-up call for arts groups nationwide
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoConductor Esa-Pekka Salonen's statement about the San Francisco Symphony board has crucial...
Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave San Francisco Symphony, citing dispute with orchestra's board
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoEsa-Pekka Salonen will leave the San Francisco Symphony following the 2024-25 season, just his fifth...
Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen's organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEsa-Pekka Salonen, shown in a file photo conducting in Disney Hall, where he once was music...
Nile Rodgers and Esa-Pekka Salonen Named 2024 Polar Music Prize Laureates
Billboard via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNile Rodgers, who co-founded Chic and produced hits for a wide variety of artists, including Diana...
Nile Rodgers & Esa-Pekka Salonen Celebrated as 2024 Laureates at Sweden’s Polar Music Prize
Billboard via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoRodgers thanks the Prize "for recognizing so many artists of color, and…the people of Sweden for...
Nile Rodgers of disco group Chic, classical music innovator Esa-Pekka Salonen win Polar Music Prize
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and...
The L.A. Phil just finished its best fall season in memory. How three maestros made magic
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe three living L.A. Phil music directors, Zubin Mehta (conductor emeritus), Gustavo Dudamel (music...
Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoPolar Music Prize laureate composer Kaija Saariaho, of Finland, receives the Polar Music Prize 2013...
Review: An unforgettable performance by SF Symphony reveals Busoni in his full glory
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBeing called by some a failed city, San Francisco struggles to recover from the pandemic. The view from the street is all too often that of an appalling income divide in which the Silicon rich ...
Does adding scents to a symphony make sense? Scriabin and synesthesia in San Francisco
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoEsa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony add color and, courtesy of a perfumer at Cartier, scent to Scriabin's 'Prometheus.' Does the novelty prove effective?