• The San Francisco Academy Orchestra, founded in 2000, is an American Symphony Orchestra based in San Francisco, California. To preserve, promote, and present...
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    The San Francisco Symphony, founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980 the orchestra has been resident at...
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    The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO) is a youth orchestra organized by the San Francisco Symphony. The SFSYO performs an annual concert series...
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  • the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. Profile and interview from San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Academy Orchestra...
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  • the principal bassist in the San Francisco Symphony. He had been the principal bassist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 Pingel had the privilege...
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    San Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet...
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    CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "San Francisco Academy Orchestra Pressroom" (Press release). The San Francisco Academy Orchestra. October 23, 2006. Retrieved...
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  • director of the San Francisco Academy Orchestra and has held that post since the year 2000. Since moving back to his native city of San Francisco in 2000, he...
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  • instrument was featured with bassist Scott Pingel and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. The origins of the bass have long been subject to speculation...
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    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association...
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    Michael Tilson Thomas (category LGBT people from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    orchestral academy in Miami Beach, Florida, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. He...
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    Esa-Pekka Salonen (category Sibelius Academy alumni)
    the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish...
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    Koussevitzky, and has been played by bassist Scott Pingel and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. In 1956, the American composer Howard Hanson, a friend of...
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  • as soloist with the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Academy Orchestra, and with orchestras in Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Seoul, Shanghai...
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  • Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the...
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  • musician and academic who was the principal trombonist of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1974 to 2007. Lawrence was educated at the University...
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  • the San Francisco Bay Area. The music director chooses the programs and guides the artistic vision and leads the seventeen members of the orchestra as...
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    politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold that office. Born...
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  • the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States. 1776 – Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís established by colonists...
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    Romantic Tenor – Francisco Araiza – Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Ralf Weikert. Sony Victor RCA. Fiesta Mexicana – Francisco Araiza. DG. French...
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  • Arts, and he has also been in residence with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the California Symphony...
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    at 1025 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. It specializes in live rock and jazz shows. The location is one of San Francisco's oldest nightclub sites, and...
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    The San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) based in San Francisco, California. Merola's...
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    the San Francisco Symphony appointed by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2014. He is the first Russian-born oboist in any major U.S. symphony orchestra. Previously...
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  • Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California. A working-class neighborhood until gentrification in the late 1990s, it is now...
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  • Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2009-2016. Cabrera...
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  • concertmaster in a major orchestra when appointed. Prior to Minnesota, she was associate concertmaster with the San Francisco Symphony for eight years...
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  • Jung-Ho Pak (category Musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    director at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra. In 1999, he additionally became music director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, with which...
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    The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of the world's largest male choruses and the group most often credited...
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  • with the San Francisco Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Lithuanian State Orchestra, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, The Berkeley...
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