Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Final SF Concert, Takes the Applause For His 80th Birthday San Francisco Symphony Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas took his final series of bows Saturday at Davies Symphony Hall at an event intended to celebrate his life and career.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas Announces Brain Tumor Return, Final SF Concert Former SF Symphony musical director and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who formally retired in 2020, announced early Monday that a brain tumor he was first treated for several years ago has returned, and he plans to wind down his public appearances for good.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas to Conduct the SF Symphony Again, But For One Night Only for His 80th Birthday Party Beloved and celebrated conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will once again conduct the San Francisco Symphony, but it’s for one night only in April in celebration of his 80th birthday, and he’ll only be conducting two numbers.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Celebrates Michael Tilson Thomas' Retirement Online, and on the Radio It was supposed to be a big June blowout celebration in honor of the acclaimed 25-year tenure of Michael Tilson Thomas as musical director of the San Francisco Symphony. But as with everything else this season, plans have been curtailed and moved online.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Linda Ronstadt and Michael Tilson Thomas To Get Kennedy Center Honors Soon to retire and looking great at 74, SF Symphony's outgoing music director Michael Tilson Thomas will receive one of the most prestigious awards in artistic achievement this year.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Cancels Spring Shows In North Carolina Over Anti-LGBT Law Following in the footsteps of multiple corporations, Bruce Springsteen, and the NBA, the San Francisco Symphony is giving the middle finger to North Carolina and its pro-LGBT-discrimination law known as HB2, and canceling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Composer Cynthia Lee Wong; Plus A Review of Michael Tilson Thomas's 70th Birthday Concert Cynthia Lee Wong became the second New Voices composer selected by the San Francisco Symphony, the New World Symphony (MTT's youth orchestra in Miami) and music publisher Boosey & Hawkes. The reward for
SF News MTT & SF Symphony Win Big at Grammys Find more videos like this on San Francisco Symphony Social Network Hey, did you watch the Grammys? Neither did we. Tough Love, Celebrity Rehab, and a most excellent Brothers & Sisters (where Kitty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Michelle DeYoung The SF Symphony kicks off its Schubert and Berg journey with a mix-and-match of the Viennese composers. Tonight, and repeating through Saturday (the last show in Cupertino), we hear Berg's Seven Early songs,
Arts & Entertainment SF Interviews Piano Sensation Yuja Wang Yuja Wang will dazzle us this week at Davies Symphony Hall, playing the dastardly difficult Prokofiev piano concerto #2 with MTT. Here she plays the concerto's scherzo with the YouTube symphony orchestra. She
Arts & Entertainment MTT Joins YouTube Symphony Project "'Classical' music does not need gimmicks OR marketers/managers," hrumphs an SFGate commenter. Oh, but it does. Joining the likes of Gavin Newsom with this here YouTube craze your father just heard about,
Arts & Entertainment Brahms' ein deutsches Requiem And yet, we went, twice, and had a great time. We saw MTT lead a muscular piano concerto No. 2 with Leif-Ove Andsnes, a pianist who'd keep his cool in a pressure cooker.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: Before she was hooked on aerobics and uttering "cunt" on live TV, Jane Fonda had a memorable career as an actress. She won her first Oscar for playing "Bree," a whore, in
Arts & Entertainment MahTlerT In our haste on Tuesday, we forgot to mention that you could hear more MahTlerT (MTT and Mahler have become so imbricated that we had to create a shortcut) here (links to sound
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Marc-André Hamelin MAH: Everything I do musically comes from my belief that the piano repertoire is a great deal larger than most people realize. From what is heard in piano recitals these days, it's easy
Arts & Entertainment Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mahler's 5th Symphony is one of his most famous works: the 4th movement, Adagietto, became super popular as the soundtrack of Visconti's Death in Venice, and the whole piece has an epic, cinematic
SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Fall Classical Music Preview Tomorrow, the symphony kicks it off with a gala, celebrating three anniversaries: Michael Tilson Thomas's, aka MTT, 10th anniversary at the baton, Shostakovich's 100th birthday next year, and the 25th anniversary for Davies
SF News Parties To Which We Were Not Invited Question: where does one go if one were to celebrate the birthday of an Orchestra Conductor? Why the Tosca Cafe, of course! Last Tuesday, San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (that’s
