Twenty-five years after Michael Tilson Thomas arrived as San Francisco Symphony’s music director, shaking up programming, his successor Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced his vision for the orchestra’s future. MTT, 75, will complete his quarter-century service at the end of the season in June, becoming music director laureate. Salonen, music director designate, picks up the baton in the fall for the orchestra’s 109th season, which promises to be exciting, complex and challenging. The Finnish composer-conductor, 61, brought the Los Angeles Philharmonic to international prominence when he led it from 1992-2009. In the decade since, he has been courted by major orchestras around...
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