Spotlight: Ifetayo Ali-Landing & Minhye Choi

American cellist Ifetayo Ali-Landing makes her SF Symphony recital debut with pianist Minhye Choi in a program featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s ecstatic Second Cello Sonata, a work that revels in moments of heart-pounding energy and soaring lyricism. The program also includes 20th-century Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze’s Five Pieces on Folk Themes and two contrasting works by William Grant Still, the balmy and quiet <em>Summerland </em>and<em> Mother and Child</em>, a deeply personal musical lullaby