A PRECARIOUS POLITICAL BALANCE
If you were riled by Shostakovich’s Stalinist anthem opening the S.F. Symphony program, the worries were balanced by a much bigger selection from Ukraine’s stellar product, Sergei Prokofiev, whose grand-scale Symphony No. 3 took up half the program and shook the rafters. So, the 9-minute Funeral March from the movie “Great Citizen” honoring the Stalinist patriot Kirov gets a pass this time, however bad the taste left in your mouth by its genuflections and fortissimos. Following on April 25 came…