Prometheus: The Poem of Fire features a unique collaboration between the San Francisco Symphony, Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and perfumer Mathilde Laurent. This ...

The LA Phil today confirmed program details for the first program of its 2025/26 Body and Sound festival—Prometheus with Esa-Pekka Salonen, from January 9–11, 2026 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Salonen ...

The mercurial world of gods, demigods, and myth take center stage once again as Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony for Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, a ...

Alexander Scriabin's symphonic poem Prometheus, The Poem of Fire celebrates synesthesia and cosmic unity. Devised by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves ...

The sloping, polished wooden interior of Walt Disney Concert Hall looked like the ridged belly of a musical beast Sunday, with the rolling hills of its ceiling and the warm brown rows of plush seats; ...

In March of 1915, a crowd of fashionable patrons gathered for the New York premiere of Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. The Russian-born Scriabin had composed the piece by means of ...

It was a cold and wet afternoon as I strolled down forlorn Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. A countercultural thoroughfare in the late 1960s, the street retained next to nothing of its once colorful ...

Nineteenth-century composer Alexander Scriabin believed that there is an intrinsic relationship between music and color. So, when he wrote his work “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” 100 years ago, he ...