Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas

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London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5
London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5

The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with ...

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Carnival of the Animals
Carnival of the Animals

Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."...

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Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys
Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys

Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through...

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Rehearsing a Dream
Rehearsing a Dream

Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a...

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Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony N...

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

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Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symph...

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Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2

S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of th...

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Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy

Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including s...

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Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique

A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet...

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John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music
John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music

Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performanc...

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Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Sprin...

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Keeping Score:  Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Sym...

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Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and hi...

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Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet....

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Keeping Score: Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Keeping Score: Stravinsky Rite of Spring

Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into...

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Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is

The life and career of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder ...

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Steve Reich: A New Musical Language
Steve Reich: A New Musical Language

A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program ...

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