SPANIARDS LIGHTING UP S.F. SYMPHONY
The Spanish touch emanated at the S.F. Symphony this week, without a note of Spanish music played. The highly polished program spotlighting works both old and new emanated from conductor Gustavo Gimeno and pianist Javier Perianes. Gimeno deftly walked a tightrope contrasting two short modern pieces with standards by Mozart and Mendelssohn. The SFS trend of including a living composer nearly every time brought on the Korean-German composer Unsuk Chin, 60, in her brief but tumultuous “subito con forza” composition….