Benjamin Britten's Peter
Grimes is one of the great operatic psychodramas–an outcast in a closed society, is
Grimes truly a villain, or a victim of circumstance?
Podcasts from the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15
Dmitri Shostakovich summed up his life and art in his 15th
and final symphony. But, in the end, did it reveal who he really was, or was it
just another mask for him to hide behind?
Monday, June 2, 2014
Britten's The Prince of the Pagodas
Britten's exotic fairy-tale ballet The Prince of the Pagodas fuses the sounds of East and West in a
magical mix that sounds like nothing else he ever wrote.
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