There’s a great gaping absence in the San Francisco Symphony’s 2025-26 season:Esa-Pekka Salonen. The outgoing music director — who was supposed to carry on a four-decade tradition of excellence at the ...

T his time last year, the San Francisco Symphony’s conductor laureate, Herbert Blomstedt, withdrew from a set of concerts he was slated to lead at Davies Symphony Hall. The nonagenarian had ...

My apologies for a pun right off the bat, but Matthias Pintscher was a pinch hitter. He substituted for Herbert Blomstedt at the New York Philharmonic last night. Blomstedt was scheduled to conduct ...