San Francisco Symphony Season Subscription Group
Save the Dates for the San Francisco Symphony 2024–25 season.
The OFJCC will be taking a group to the Thursday matinee series starting in November at Davies Symphony Hall. The trips will follow the same schedule as the current season. Maximum capacity is 45. This group always sells out. People on the Interest List will be the first to know when it goes on sale, as soon as transportation costs are worked out.
Concert dates:
November 21, 2024: Labadie Conducts Mozart
The Canadian early-music master Bernard Labadie leads the SF Symphony in an effervescent all-Mozart program. Soprano Lucy Crowe makes her symphony debut in hidden gems from Mozart's Italian- and German-language repertoire. Capping off the program is Mozart's Symphony No. 39, which finds the composer reveling in the very act of music making.
January 30, 2025: Blomstedt Conducts Schubert and Brahms
Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt brings his eloquent exactitude to two treasures of the German symphonic tradition. In a diary entry that Schubert wrote around the time he composed his Fifth Symphony, he raved about the "haunting" influence of Mozart. Brahms worked on his First Symphony for more than 20 years; he fretted obsessively about living up to Beethoven's example.
March 13, 2025: Chan Conducts Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is a fairy tale made tender and violent, ethereal and primal. Thanks to Tchaikovsky's music, you can watch the enchanted swans glide across the moon-dappled lake of your mind. Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony Pathetique, inhabits a mood of exquisite longing. He called it "the best thing I ever composed or shall compose."
May 29, 2025: Salonen & Hahn
A blazingly beautiful all-Beethoven program: Hilary Hahn performs the Violin Concerto, a work of singular scope, vision and majesty. Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 isn't performed as often as his other symphonies, but it is every bit as beguiling. Bubbling over with Haydnesque wit and dance-derived hooks that wouldn't seem odd in a Mozart opera, the Fourth might be Beethoven's most underrated symphony.
The OFJCC will be taking a group to five matinee concerts for the new 2023–24 season of the San Francisco Symphony. The season subscription will include orchestra seats for three Thursday concerts and two Sunday concerts. Round-trip transportation from the OFJCC to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco will be by private 56-passenger chartered bus with restroom on board. Maximum group size is 45 people.
2023–24 Concert Schedule
- Sunday, February 4: Blomstedt Conducts Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 and Franz Schubert Symphony No. 6.
- Sunday, March 3: Dark and Divine: Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Bela Bartok and Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.
- Thursday, March 14: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts All Sibelius, Lisa Batiashvili on violin. Finlandia, Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 1 by Jean Sibelius.
- Thursday, April 18: Karina Canellakis conductor, Cedric Tiberghien piano. Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss. Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and la Valse by Maurice Ravel.
- Thursday, May 16: Ryan Bancroft conductor, Joshua Bell violin. La Mer by Debussy. Air by Higdon. Violin Concerto No. 5 by Vieuxtemps. Alaraph 'Ritus des Herzschlags' by Chin.
Itinerary:
11:30 AM | Check-in (lower lobby of Schultz Cultural Arts Hall)
2:00–4:00 PM | Concert at Davies Symphony Hall
5:30 PM | Arrive at the OFJCC (depending on traffic)
To register, contact Michelle Rosengaus at [email protected] or call (650) 223-8616.
Senior Programs are made possible in part by generous contributions from the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund, the John R. Schwabacher Family, as well as many other individual donors. We are grateful for their generous support.
For Adults
Sundays, February 4, March 3, 2024
Thursdays, March 14, April 18, May 16, 2024
Price: $595
Price includes orchestra seats for five concerts, round trip bus transportation from the OFJCC by private coach, plus logistical arrangements and reminders yearlong.
$125 Single tickets if available
Refund policy: $100 non-refundable cancellation fee if we can resell the subscription. No refunds after December 31.
To register:
Contact Michelle Rosengaus at [email protected]. Registrations will be done over the telephone with a credit card. When registering, let us know if you want to sit with a friend and if you need special accommodations due to mobility issues.
NOTE: If you need individual assistance of any kind, you must bring an escort with you.
Important COVID-19 Information: The SF Symphony is not currently requiring masks or proof of COVID vaccination. Masks are still strongly recommended. COVID guidelines will be updated as needed.
