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Learn more about the musicians that make up the San Francisco Symphony. Led by Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen.
The horn is a member of the brass family. The horn is easily recognized by its circular form. The horn consists of a long slender metal tube, up to seventeen feet long, curved around and around, ending in a wide bell. The modern horn has four valves.
Dec 18, 2023 · Robert Ward, principal horn player with the San Francisco Symphony, plays a French horn at his home studio in Oakland. Ward, who has been with the Symphony since 1980, including 16...
As of the beginning of the 2023–2024 season, the horn section looks like this: Ward (retiring at the end of 2023), Almond (on leave, appointed principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Roberts (retired at the end of the 2022–2023 season), Ring (still with the orchestra), Valeri (still with the orchestra), and Hawkins (on leave ...
Jul 3, 2018 · In the first bars, the S.F. Symphony’s formidable horn section melded into a single super-instrument for the opening theme. The melody paraphrases the finale of Brahms’ First Symphony, which itself is a reworking of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” — a quotation of a quotation that encapsulates German Romanticism.
Dec 29, 2020 · With musical life on hiatus, a horn virtuoso tackles the COVID pandemic. Joshua Kosman December 29, 2020 Updated: December 30, 2020, 12:12 am. San Francisco Symphony horn player Mark...
