Open Rehearsal: Stucky, Adams & Sibelius

Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, and the SF Symphony present John Adams’ <em>Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?</em>, a rollicking work evoking Franz Liszt and the gritty sounds of American funk music in equal measure. Steven Stucky’s<em> Radical Light</em>, inspired by the grandeur of Jean Sibelius’ symphonies, opens the concert and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 closes it with rich orchestral textures, bold brass proclamations, and ...