A Post-Bernstein Foray into Musical Evolution
It’s hard to top the yen for adventure in Esa-Pekka Salonen. His latest effort for the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox digressions-in-streaming is part concert, part music education, part alluring visuals, part dance, in part also recalling the famous Leonard Bernstein music lectures on TV of the 1960s, back when major commercial channels still had such cultural programs. This latest effort entitled, “Patterns,” is an imaginative foray into roots of minimalism spanning some 800 years of creativity, at times more an…