Two Englishmen and a Russian walk into a bar — they followed responsible drinking practices and made it home safely to their families at the end of the night. Much like the anticlimactic nature of the above scene, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) program of Thomas Adés, Tchaikovsky and Elgar on Nov. 9 was on the tamer... read full story
"Conrad Tao played the opening much more sensitively [than Van Cliburn], contrasting that sensitivity with lots of militarism,"