{"id":12856,"date":"2024-03-25T20:21:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12856"},"modified":"2024-03-25T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:21:51","slug":"san-francisco-symphony-musicians-fight-keep-esa-pekka-salonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/03\/25\/san-francisco-symphony-musicians-fight-keep-esa-pekka-salonen\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Symphony Musicians Fight to Keep Esa-Pekka Salonen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12858\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/SFO.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Symphony\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/SFO.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/SFO-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/SFO-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/SFO-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Symphony (Photo: Kristen Loken)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After Esa-Pekka Salonen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/03\/18\/salonen-bows-out-of-san-francisco-symphony\/\">announced his resignation<\/a> as music director of the San Francisco Symphony last week, the SFO\u2019s musicians are publicly fighting to keep him.<\/p>\n<p>When the San Francisco Symphony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsymphony.org\/About-SFS\/Press-Room\/Press-Releases\/2024-25-SF-Symphony-Season-Announcement\">announced its season<\/a> last week, its visionary music director Esa-Pekka Salonen simultaneously announced his resignation. Salonen cited a lack of a shared vision with the Board of Directors, who have made extensive cuts to performances and educational programs, cancelled a European tour and <a href=\"https:\/\/riffmagazine.com\/news\/sf-symphony-musicians-call-for-board-to-keep-esa-pekka-salonen\/\">refused to restore musicians\u2019 salaries to pre-pandemic levels<\/a>.The San Francisco Symphony Musicians Group <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/san-francisco-symphony-musicians-release-statement-regarding-esa-pekka-salonens-departure\/\">released a statement<\/a> calling Salonen\u2019s departure not only a great loss for their organization, but for San Francisco as a city and community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> The Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is known as one of classical music\u2019s most innovative leaders. He is passionate about the possibilities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/05\/arts\/music\/san-francisco-symphony-esa-pekka-salonen.html\">combining classical music and technology<\/a>, and has recruited innovators to collaborate on AI-related and avant-garde programming. Under his watch, the SFO\u2019s attendance has gone up as well as the organization\u2019s endowment, which has increased from $40 million to $315 million since 2019 and is now one of the highest endowments of any US orchestra. When you combine all of that with Salonen\u2019s world-class music-making, it\u2019s no wonder the players are fighting to keep him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Esa-Pekka Salonen announced his resignation as music director of the San Francisco Symphony last week, the SFO\u2019s musicians are publicly fighting to keep him.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,255],"tags":[410,409],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/SFO.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12859,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions\/12859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}