Joshua Kosman, retired San Francisco Chronicle critic, comments in his new newsletter on a recent performance of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Cello Concerto at the San Francisco Symphony, under the composer's direction: "I don’t want to start penning weekly rants about Salonen’s departure, or the short-sightedness that has led to that incomprehensible institutional failure. But there was no way to witness the excitement of this event — the outpouring of love directed from the hall to the stage, the ovation that brought Salonen and Eudeikis back for curtain call after curtain call, the enthusiasm with which this superb but not especially accessible work was received — and not wonder about the choices and priorities that have brought the organization to its current impasse."