Jim Hsu's Page

My favorite musicians:

Ravi Shankar, Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club Quintet, Toots Thielemans, Maxim Vengerov, Evgeny Kissin as a youngster, The Beatles, Desmond Dekker, Dinu Lipatti, Jussi Bjorling, Lester Young, whatever happens to be on WWOZ or KALX.

My favorite composers:

Sibelius & Brahms. Lou Harrison. Omar Vizquel in the field.

The instrument(s) I play (or played, as a kid):

Violin

My favorite concert of all time:

Yo Yo Ma playing three concerti for a Pension Fund concert: Haydn, Saint-Saens, Dvorak. The cummulative effect was the history of the cello. A tremendous gift, as always, from Yo Yo.
Jessye Norman, in her prime, doing Strauss' Four Last Songs. Fifth row center. She almost swallowed me whole.
Both concerts at Davies--a great place to be.
Van Halen--early eighties. A millions garage bands from way back when.

What I’d like people on this social network to know about me:

My dog has a bike.

How I’m connected with the San Francisco Symphony:

as a fan, work for the Symphony