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Finnish footprints in San Francisco: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Sibelius

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony
© Kristen Loken
Lisa Batiashvili, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony
© Kristen Loken
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the San Francisco Symphony
© Kristen Loken
By Lois Silverstein, 15 March 2024
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“Batiashivili remained the centrifugal force, precise and assertive”
Reviewed at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco on 14 March 2024
Programme
Sibelius, Finlandia, symphonic poem for orchestra, Op.26
Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
Sibelius, Symphony no. 1 in E minor, Op.39
Performers
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, Violin
San Francisco Symphony
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Lois Silverstein
Lois Silverstein

Lois Silverstein, PhD, a New Yorker born and bred, has lived and worked in San Francisco for over 35 years. Her eight books include novels, poems, essays and memoir; she also writes reviews for OperaWire. After numerous roles in San Francisco Opera as a supernumerary, she performed her one-woman, multimedia show about a freedom fighter in 1939, during the fall of Poland, Valia: The Story of a Woman of Courage. Her newest novel, When Crying Stops: War Echoes from Romania, will be published in 2024.