Intimate Sounds of Women’s Music at Forefront
The San Francisco Symphony’s latest aphoristic streaming program “Nostalgia” suggests more the dimensions of opera and Broadway theater than of mere chamber music. The focus is on three American women composers still on the way up, the best-known of them the pride of Brooklyn Missy Mazzoli, 40, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning Caroline Shaw, 38. And their deft music for strings is enhanced with elaborate lighting, split screens, and forest backgrounds, all of it in lighting so sparsely atmospheric you’re still not sure…