San Francisco Symphony
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Acting
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The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980 the orchestra has been resident at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the city's Hayes Valley neighborhood. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (founded in 1981) and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1972) are part of the organization. Since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas has been the orchestra's music director. Tilson Thomas is scheduled to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director in 2020, when Esa-Pekka Salonen is scheduled to become the orchestra's next music director.
Among the orchestra's awards and honors are an Emmy Award and 15 Grammy Awards in the past 26 years.
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Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
2009
Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
2019
Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
2011
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2001
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M
Self
1999
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
2009
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
2006