A Night Out at the Symphony: The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble
Groupmuse Night Out

A Night Out at the Symphony: The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble

Western Addition, SF

Sun, March 8, 2020 2:00 PM, PDT
(Ticket sales closed Mar 3, 9:00 AM PST)

Capacity
200 of 200 tickets still available
No COVID-19 restrictions
Drinking policy
Don't bring your own drinks
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for sale
Toilet with a slash through it
No bathroom at this event
Wheelchair access
Wheelchair Accessible

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NOTE:

Dear all,

Due to a municipal declaration in relation to the Corona virus outbreak, The San Francisco Symphony has had to cancel tomorrow’s concert. So many apologies for the inconvenience.

Please be in touch with SFS’s box office for next steps — including if you wish to receive a refund or ticket exchange: (415) 864-6000 or [email protected].

Stay safe!

Best,
Team Groupmuse


While the stakes in the political arena have never been higher, Groupmuse has always been committed to holding explicitly non-politicized space. Our belief is that music has the power to connect people on a lever lower (or higher…) than language and ideology and that those more charged conversations will do well to come after a degree of heart-centered connection is established between people who vote differently.

And there’s hardly an organization working today that’s more deeply committed to the power of music to transcend politics than the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble - made up of Palestinians, Israelis, and other Middle Eastern peoples committed to making glorious music together regardless of the power politics tearing apart that corner of the world.

So important is there work that the San Francisco Symphony is bringing them for an evening at SFS’s very own Davies Concert Hall — and they’ve invited us along for a Night Out!

The ensemble was founded over 20 years ago by the Argentine-Israeli superstar pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late, great Palestinian-American pianist/academic Edward Said and it burns bright after two decades - one of the world’s most inspiring examples of music’s power to heal divides.

This evening opens with Franz Schubert’s lovely Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings. It’s followed by a newly commissioned work by Benjamin Attahir called Jawb for String Octet. Follows is the jaw-droppingly virtuosic Violin Sonata No. 4 in G minor by Giuseppe Tartini - more popularly known as the Devils’ Trill Sonata.

And the grand finale is the towering masterpiece, humbling in its warmth, scope, depth, invention - Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, arguably his greatest work, and written when he was only 16 years old (!).

The violin virtuoso who’ll be leading the evening is the great Michael Barenboim - son of one founder Daniel Barenboim.

We've got an awesome stack of tickets at a deep discount -- only $15!

What's the music?

Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings | Schubert

Jawb for String Octet (West-Eastern Divan Ensemble Commission) | Benjamin Attahir

Violin Sonata No. 4 in G minor |Tartini

String Octet in E-flat major | Mendelssohn

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