Following their season-opening concert earlier this month, MTT and the New World Symphony continue the 2011-12 season with an all-Beethoven program at the New World Center on October 22. MTT’s final concerts of the fall with the New World Symphony take place on October 28 and 29 at the New World Center and the Adrienne Arsht Center, respectively.

Michael Tilson Thomas returns to guest conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for one week this season. For the performances on December 8, 9, and 10, MTT conducts Mahler’s-Blumine-the rejected Andante from his First Symphonyand Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s First Piano Quartet.

After kicking off the 2011-12 season at the New World Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to San Francisco in November to continue the orchestra’s centenary season with three weeks of concerts at Davies Symphony Hall.