Review: Composer-conductor George Benjamin explores French music and its influences in sparkling program at S.F. Symphony

As part of his two-week residency, Benjamin '” British composer, pianist and lover of the French aesthetic in music '” led Ravel's 'Ma Mere l'Oye' ('Mother Goose') as an assemblage of polished detail '” a sliding harmonic from a single violin; a sumptuous stroke of the gong '” that might have drifted in on a breeze from an enchanted garden.

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