CANCELLATIONS AND EAR-OPENERS, AS WOMEN DOMINATE
A symphony program featuring exotic Eastern-European moderns, substitutes and women-at-the-forefront provided a late-season highlight at the San Francisco Symphony, where the street might still be resounding from the unaccustomed claps and cheers of both musicians and audience. And once again Susanna Mälkki was on the podium, clearly a strong prospect to be the S.F. Symphony’s next music director, with a big IF: provided she could be wrenched away from the current podia of Los Angeles, Helsinki and the Metropolitan Opera in…