Violinist Alexi Kenney, creating this week’s San Francisco Symphony SoundBox concert called “Dream Awake,” centered the program around a 1987 song cycle called “Kafka’s Fragments” based on writer Franz Kafka’s quotes and diary entries. “In one of them, the lyrics are ‘slept, woke, slept, woke,’ and then the final line is ‘miserable life,’” Kenney says of Hungarian composer Geörgy Kurtãg’s piece for violin and soprano. Kenney […]
