Review: A vivid evocation of London highlights a mostly British program by the SLSO
Chuck Lavazzi, KDHX, 25th November 2018 "It has been a few years since my wife and I have been to London, but I feel like we took another visit there…
Concert review
Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 24th November 2018 "Francis made a masterful case for [Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 2, “A London Symphony,”], aided by the orchestra."
Florida Orchestra, Holocaust Museum collaborate in a stirring A Child of Our Time
Andrew Meacham, Tampa Bay Times, 9th November 2018 "[T]he Florida Orchestra and the Florida Holocaust Museum collaborate to remember Kristallnacht, the 'night of broken glass,' and uplift its victims. This…
Michael Francis leads The Cleveland Orchestra in all-Czech program at Blossom
Timothy Robson, Cleveland Classical, 8th August 2018 "The Cleveland Orchestra played a concise and musically satisfying program of works by three Czech composers: Smetana, Janáček, and Dvořák. British conductor Michael…
Cleveland Orchestra heats up Blossom with rare Czech program
Mark Satola, The Plain Dealer, 6th August 2018 "Guest conductor Michael Francis, music director of the Tampa Bay-based Florida Orchestra since 2015, delivered electrifying performances of Smetana's "Sarka," Janacek's "Taras…
Review: Mainly Mozart
Ken Herman, San Diego Story, 18th June 2018 "...the evening’s award for most audacious ensemble work came from 15 members of the orchestra who gave a vibrant account of Igor…
Mainly Mozart Festival gives Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky first-class treatment
Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17th June 2018 "Festival director Michael Francis led 15 musicians in a crackling performance. Many groups play the outer movements of “Dumbarton Oaks” under tempo,…
Review: Mainly Mozart Festival
Ken Herman, San Diego Story, 11th June 2018 "For Sergei’s Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise,” the program opener, the additional strings from the Youth Orchestra gave the Festival Orchestra an unusually lush, satiny…
Michael Francis and Anne-Marie McDermott Inspire Exotic Fare in Opening Mainly Mozart Festival Concert
Ken Herman, San Diego Story, 10th June 2018 "Michael Francis opened the 30th installment of San Diego’s annual Mainly Mozart Festival Saturday with an ebullient orchestra concert that brought back…
A rare, fiery performance of a Rebel ballet kicks off Mainly Mozart Festival
Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10th June 2018 "At the Balboa Theater on Saturday evening, Mainly Mozart director Michael Francis brought down his baton to unleash a grinding orchestral dissonance…
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