Magical Evening with the San Francisco Symphony

Distinguished Spanish maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos returned for Rimsky-Korsakov's spectacular, Scheherazade last Wednesday to demonstrate that he had not lost a step.

Several remarkable solos by timps and trumpets were also highligts of this musical magic carpet ride to the world of the Arabian nights.

Making the evening’s San Francisco Symphony San Francisco Symphony 

concert  even more special was the inclusion of acclaimed cellist and MacArthur Fellow Alisa Weilerstein.

Her inspired performance of Haydn’s elegant Cello Concerto in C, was a revelation.