Artists
Marta Gardolińska
Conductor
Pablo Ferrández
Cello
San Francisco Symphony
program
Overture
Grażyna
Bacewicz
Cello Concerto
Edward
Elgar
Symphony No. 3, Scottish
Felix
Mendelssohn
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performances
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Event Description
Debuting conductor Marta Gardolińska leads the San Francisco Symphony in Felix Mendelssohn's evocative travelogue, inspired by a visit to the ruins of Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh. Grażyna Bacewic wrote her Overture in 1943, during the German occupation of her native Poland. The premiere was delayed until her homeland was liberated from the Nazis two years later. Written in the aftermath of World War I, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto is an urgent elegy, a late-life affirmation of Englishness.These concerts are supported in part by the Barbara Brookins Young Artist Fund.
