SNATCHING VICTORY FROM JAWS OF DELETION
You were sure that you hit the wrong concert on the wrong night, unless you caught the fine-print program insert. Neither the conductor nor the opening symphonic work matched the earlier billing, which had featured the recuperating Michael Tilson Thomas on the podium of the S.F. Symphony. But MTT, still curtailing commitments, had given way to emergency fill-in Ludovic Morlot, most recently music director of the Seattle Symphony. And as you learned in the late-hour fine-print, the French-born Morlot had…