Welcome to MTT's New Legacy Website
The new MichaelTilsonThomas.com invites you to explore MTT’s exceptional life and career through a vast digital collection that captures all the depth and color of MTT’s singular artistic world.
Includes:
• his complete compositions and recordings
• streaming versions of Keeping Score, Michael Tilson Thomas: Where NOW Is, The Thomashefskys, The MTT Files, and more;
• microsites for Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas and Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Celebration
• video, photo, and writing archives;
• an interactive timeline of his life;
• and more being added every day!
Now Streaming
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The Thomashefskys
In The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theatre, MTT serves as guide through the lives and repertoire of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky — two of the founding members of the American Yiddish theatre. MTT shares the stage with a 30-piece orchestra and four principal performers, mixing musical numbers with film clips and projections of archival photos and memorabilia to tell a uniquely American tale.
New Release
Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
A four-disc deluxe box-set that spans more than five decades of MTT’s compositional life and features 18 of his works, from premiere recordings to remastered archival recordings available for the first time.
Documentary
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Michael Tilson Thomas: Where NOW Is
Presented as part of PBS’ award-winning American Masters series, Michael Tilson Thomas: Where NOW Is documents MTT’s life and career—from his childhood in California to his ascension to the world stage and leadership roles with the New World Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony.
Featured Composition
Meditations on Rilke
“In 1917, in a bar just outside Oatman, Arizona, sat an old piano. Behind it there sat a seemingly older pianist. He’d been there since forever. No one could remember when he wasn’t. He played for tips and for drinks, and was happy to provide whatever music anyone wanted to hear. Occasionally he channeled the spirits of Schubert, Mahler, and Berg. Everyone had gotten kind of used to his musical …
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On Record
Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Argo Recordings
In celebration of MTT’s 80th birthday, DG Eloquence has released the first complete collection of MTT’s recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Argo. The 14-disc box set comprises recordings spanning from 1970 to 2003, featuring Tilson Thomas as both conductor and pianist.
The collection includes all original jackets with archival photography, new remasterings, and authoritative notes by music journalist Peter Quantrill. Taken as a whole, the box set demonstrates Michael Tilson Thomas’s affinity for a wide range of repertoire, his ear for complex rhythms and textures, and his skills as an orchestra builder.
Sony Classical Releases 80-Disc MTT Box Set
In celebration of MTT’s’s 80th birthday on December 21 this year, Sony Classical has released an 80-CD box set that collects Michael’s entire discography from Columbia, Sony and RCA recorded between 1973 and 2005.
The collection showcases many of the orchestras Michael conducted, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and more.