Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony & Beethoven’s 2nd and 4th, Oh, My!

Tonight at 7:00 on "The Evening Concert" on WILL, FM-90.9 Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven’s less-often-heard Second and Fourth Symphonies.  Also on the program: Beethoven’s “Three Equali for Four Trombones and John Adams’ “Absolute Jest”.

Wednesday September 17: San Francisco Symphony (SFS) (#14-24)

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Beethoven:       Three Equali for Four Trombones, WoO 30

Beethoven:       Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36

John Adams:    Absolute Jest

Beethoven:       Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60

 [SFS Encore: Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor)