The San Francisco Symphony, of the Michael Tilson Thomas variety, has been
cultivating vocal music consistently ever since MTT became music director
in September, 1995, but especially so in the past three years.  At today's
Symphony announcement of the next season, here are just some of the voices
to be heard in Davies Hall:

Audra McDonald, in the season-opening gala, Sept. 5; Rebecca Evans
and Peter Mattei, in the Brahms Requiem, October; Pamela Coburn, Larissa
Diadkova, Valentin Prolat and Gustav Belacek, in the Dvorak "Stabat mater,"
directed by Jiri Belohlavek, in November; Susan Graham in a French program,
November; Andreas Scholl, with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, in December;
Lauren Flanigan, in MTT's December "Italian Mavericks" program (of
Monteverdi, Berio and Respighi); Vance George's SFS Chorus in a December
"Pan-American Mavericks" program (of Brant, Varese, Piazzolla and
Villa-Lobos); Iris Vermillion, Marcus Ullman and Dietrich Henschel, in
a Helmuth Rilling-conducted Bach "Christmas Oratorio," in December; John
Mark Ainsley, in the Liszt "Faust Symphony," in January; Michael Schade
and Thomas Hampson in "Das Lied von der Erde," in February; Renee Fleming,
the Strauss "Four Last Songs," in March; Jessye Norman, in the Schubert
"Winterreise," in March; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, in an SFS commission
world premiere work by Giya Kancheli in May.

Janos Gereben/SF, CA
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