SYMPHONY’S CANNONS AND CANONS
The preview act of the music-director-to-be Salonen showed him to be refreshingly self-effacing, constantly putting the music at the forefront in place of the maestro or the podium. And that put a damper on any possible waves of public adulation and wonderment. He led off his guest stint with the S.F. Symphony with cannons and canons, but of a deeply grieving funereal sort, and went from the bang to the whimper, finishing with the underwhelming impact of Ravel’s fragile “Mother…