Arts & Events

Spanish Night at the San Francisco Symphony

Reviewed by James Roy MacBean
Tuesday June 09, 2015 - 09:59:00 AM

The San Francisco Symphony program for Thursday-Saturday, June 4-6, offered music focusing on Spain, with the orchestra under the baton of Guest Conductor Charles Dutoit. Included in the program were Manuel De Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain and two works by Maurice Ravel: the 7-minute piece Alborada del gracioso (1905), and the one-act opera L’Heure espagnole (1907). -more-