Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony come to Los Angeles for a one-night-only performance, featuring John Adams’ Naïve and Sentimental Music—originally dedicated to and premiered by Salonen—a work that combines the scale and scope of a Bruckner symphony with Adams’ free-flowing and expressive minimalist language. Gramophone praised Lisa Batiashvili’s ability to tell a story through inventive phrasing and range of color that keeps the ...