“ The result was a stunning encounter challenging each of us to take apart the nature of listening and reassemble it with both eyes and ears facing the future. ”

— San Francisco’s Examiner.com lauds the Philharmonic’s first concert in Frisco last evening, singing the praises of Magnus Lindberg’s new Piano Concerto with Yefim Bronfman, and Alan Gilbert’s “impeccable senses of both balance and pace,” writing also that “Gilbert found logic where other composers often fly on autopilot.” The transformative concert clearly erased any memory of that morning’s disappointing loss on the softball field!