Sabrina Buell & Yves Béhar
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Yurie Pascarella
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Leigh Mathes
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Leigh Mathes wears a J. Mendel gown at the opening night gala for the San Francisco Symphony.

Deepa Pakianathan
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Vanessa Getty
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Diane Chapman
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Nancy Pelosi
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Annie Costner
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Yurie Pascarella, Deepa Pakianathan & Afsaneh Akhtari
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Sako Fisher & Elisa Stephens
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Rose Fisher
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Remy Fisher
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Lexi Fisher
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Randi Fisher
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Michael Tilson Thomas & Marissa Mayer
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Jack Calhoun
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Dede Wilsey
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Charlotte Shultz
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Barbara Brown & Carolyn Chang
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Anne Getty
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Soprano Audra McDonald sings with the San Francisco Symphony.

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Visitors from abroad inevitably describe San Francisco as European, and music director Michael Tilson Thomas capitalized on the sentiment during the San Francisco Symphony’s opening night gala celebrating its 102nd season on Tuesday, September 3, by leading the orchestra in George Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Soprano Audra McDonald joined him onstage at Davies Symphony Hall to sing standards from the American songbook including “Somewhere” by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim from West Side Story and “The Music that Makes Me Dance” from the always memorable Funny Girl by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill.
Sako Fisher, Dede Wilsey, Diane Chapman and Ann Getty all arrived in lavish Oscar de la Renta gowns while Charlotte Mailliard Shultz and Marissa Mayer selected Carolina Herrera designs for the evening. Deepa Pakianathan donned Tom Ford, Leigh Mathes chose J. Mendel, Vanessa Getty selected a vintage column gown from Decades and Annie Costner dressed in A.L.C. Blueprint Studios conjured up an array of modern glass tables for dinner guests inside the Patron’s tent (interior designer David Oldroyd lent a hand as well) and then transformed it into an after-party lounge for post-concert dancing that capped off the evening benefit for the San Francisco Symphony’s education programs.