MTT leads the San Francisco Symphony in Harrison, Copland and Tchaikovsky
Several solid hits and a bit of a bunt. That's how it seemed last Saturday at the San Francisco Symphony. Returning from a recent European tour, Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra set before the Davies audience three American works that played brilliantly to his strengths and temperament, and a performance of the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony which brought the house down, but seemed a touch undetailed.