Esa-Pekka Salonen & Yefim Bronfman tickets

By the time his Fourth Symphony premiered, Anton Bruckner was 57 years old, a Viennese organist underdog, the target of hisses and boos. The “Romantic” was his first major composition to earn real applause. Composed over four turbulent years, Robert Schumann’s only piano concerto features a lustrous intermezzo, blazing bravura passages, and encoded tributes to the composer’s wife, muse, and finest interpreter. Romantic, no?

These concerts are presented in honor of Ruth Evelyn Miller, who generously provided for the San Francisco Symphony through her estate.