San Francisco Symphony: Stravinsky's Firebird & Perséphone

Airs Friday, July 25, 2020, at 12 noon. Since its beginning in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony has been known for innovative programs that offer a spectrum of traditional repertory and new music. Today, the Orchestra’s artistic vitality, recordings, and groundbreaking multimedia educational projects carry its impact throughout American musical life. In this first concert the orchestra presents two works by Igor Stravinsky with Michael Tilson Thomas leading the orchestra along with narrator by Leslie Caron, tenor Nicholas Phan, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, an the Pacific Boychoir in Stravinsky's Perséphone and The Firebird.