Bernstein Centennial Celebration with the San Francisco Symphony
[…] performances by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny that were little short of revelatory. This suite of half-a-dozen vocal selections, bracketed by a prelude and postlude, give a glimpse of Bernstein romping through a range of stylistic ideas, from pop ballads and Sousa marches to a dark Expressionist undercurrent.
An all-Bernstein concert featuring Ragnar Bohlin’s SFS Chorus in Chichester Psalms (thanks for that “Messiah,” too!), and lustrous mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and exciting bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, making his SFS debut, in “Arias and Barcarolles” turned into a memorably rip-roaring show.