Music for a City Music for the World 100 Years with the San Francisco Symphony

In Music for a City, Music for the World, Larry Rothe shares how the San Francisco Bay Area's love of music, rooted in the Gold Rush, gave birth to a Grammy-winning and internationally acclaimed orchestra. Released in time for the San Francisco Symphony's celebration of its 100th anniversary, this definitive history-replete with hundreds of archival photos and images-gives readers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the world's foremost orchestras and, in so doing, illuminates the cultural life of a city.

Larry Rothe is co-author of For the Love of Music and longtime editor of the San Francisco Symphony's program book. He lives in Berkeley, California.