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What does SF Opera music director Donald Runnicles do when he's not conducting Wagner at the War Memorial Opera House? He's conducting Wagner in London. What does SF Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas do when he's not conducting Mahler at Davies Symphony Hall? You guessed it: he's conducting Mahler in London. We knew that addicts to Mahler or Wagner existed. But to think that they live in our own backyard? Well, that's just spooky.

In our haste on Tuesday, we forgot to mention that you could hear more MahTlerT (MTT and Mahler have become so imbricated that we had to create a shortcut) here (links to sound file of Mahler's 7th symphony). This is a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, which happened on 9/2. And the difficult to please London reviewers chime in here. (Dang, these commenters are harsh! Worth a look.)

MTT and the SF Symphony orchestra had two Proms performance, the other one the night before (click for music, program and reviews/comments) was pretty much the Bon Voyage! concert they gave here prior to leaving on this trip.