San Francisco Symphony celebrates New Year’s Eve in style

Gilly Lloyd, San Francisco Examiner, 30th December 2013

“Concert-goers will be delighted to learn that British conductor, Michael Francis, will once more lead the Symphony in a program of delights which includes music by Lèhar, Strauss Jr, Lortzing, Gershwin, Lerner and Lowe, Kurt Weill, and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Guest artists are mezzo- soprano Sasha Cooke and baritone Kelly Markgraf…”