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I did not, even in my job, I did not understand the depths, the richness, the probing insights of her artistry.

And I came to, I am a recording of, there's a recording of her in 1950, Mahler Kindertoten Lieder with the San Francisco Symphony and Pierre Monteau conducting.

I've become obsessed with it.

And I didn't really know it until I wrote this book, worked on this book.

You know, even while I was quite into my symphonic career, subbing with San Francisco Symphony, like assistant principal horn on a recording of Tchaik 5, I still struggled with the high range.

I went back to school.

That didn't really solve it until I found Jeff Pirtle, today's guest.

I'm going to start this episode by reading the first email that I sent to you in 2016.

Dear Jeff, I'm a professional French horn player, and from the outside, things look like they're working.

I've played with major orchestras, toured Europe with San Francisco Symphony, and recently performed principal horn on Mahler 5 successfully.

But internally, on the inside, playing feels physically painful, unreliable, and confusing.

I'm dealing with hesitant attacks, inconsistent range, poor endurance, and an embouchure setup that feels twisted and damaging.

Some of the speakers include Speaker of the Mayor Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, and Larry Baer, the president and CEO of the Giants.

The San Francisco Symphony will also perform, and then they'll follow that with a service project.

ABC7 Eyewitness News political reporter Monica Madden is there and will have a full report later on today.

Don't forget to stay with ABC 7 tonight for our special 9-11 tribute in light.

And Kyle.

Yeah! S&M, an abbreviation of Symphony and Metallica, is a live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica with San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen.

It was recorded April 21st and 22nd, 1999 at the Berklee Community Theater.

It was released on the Elektra Vertigo label, and it was produced by James Hetfield, Michael Kamen, Bob Rock, and Lars Ulrich.

By the end of the decade, Metallica was established as the pioneer of modern metal, but the band hadn't done anything innovative yet.

arguably in 10 years.

In April 1999, the group performed two concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, and the result was S&M, a two-disc collection of the concerts.

Overall, the album successfully pairs violin strings with guitar strings, but it's no surprise that the best tracks here are the older songs, their multi-layered compositional music.

What's going on with Fantastic Negrito, right?

Yeah, so he is performing with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall on September 26th.

And it feels like really the right year to do that.

It's the 10-year anniversary of his landmark album, The Last Days of Oakland.

They're doing that again this month.

And then, not to be outdone...

The San Francisco Symphony with their brand new music director, Ilim Chan, the first woman to be music director of the San Francisco Symphony.

In late October, October 29th to November 1st, she's conducting a program of Brahms and Mendelssohn.

Because you would have been there, what, in the late 90s? Yeah, late 90s.

Yeah, it was kind of the beginning of the heyday of Michael Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.

Yes.

So the kind of programming that they did was incredible.

Yeah, I think Michael Tilson Thomas just had a...

Was it a Tilson Thomas conductor? Yeah, it was.

Was it the San Francisco Symphony? It was like

the Youth Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, some players from the main orchestra, the remaining members of Grateful Dead.