The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra (SFCO) is a professional
chamber orchestra in
San Francisco, California
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, that presents small orchestra and
chamber ensemble
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
performances in the
Bay Area.
The SFCO was founded by Emanuel Leplin in 1952.
[Programs for concerts composed of members of the San Francisco Symphony, and conducted by Emanuel Leplin at B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation, Berkeley, April 12, and Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, May 21, 1953; Program for the "Second Annual Spring Concert of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra" conducted by Emanuel Leplin at City College on May 11, 1954—Emanuel Leplin Archive, San Francisco History Center, ]San Francisco Public Library
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[''The San Francisco Symphony: Music, Maestros, and Musicians'', David Schneider, Presidio Press 1983] It gave its debut concert in April 1953 in Berkeley's Hillel Foundation, in a concert conducted by Leplin.
After Leplin was afflicted by polio in 1954,
management was taken over by conductors Edgar Braun and
Adrian Sunshine.
"SF Chamber Orchestra Rings in the New Year With a Free Concert," by Ira Steingroot, ''Berkeley Daily Planet'', December 28, 2004 The musicians in the early years were all members of the
San Francisco Symphony.
''Arts America'', Huffington Press, 2009[, San Francisco International Arts Festival, 2007] Sunshine left in 1958, moving to Europe.
Braun served as music director and conductor until 2002, when
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Benjamin Simon was granted the post.
References
External links
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra website
Culture of San Francisco
Chamber orchestras
1953 establishments in California
Musical groups established in 1953
Orchestras based in California
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