Michael Tilson Thomas begins 2012 with two concert series with the San Francisco Symphony. His first program with the orchestra includes Liszt’s symphonic poem Prometheus, Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony “Winter Dreams,” and Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, featuring the German violinist Christian Teztlaff. Listeners can watch MTT in an open rehearsal of this program on January 5. The concerts take place at UC Davis’s Mondavi Center on January 5 and then at Davies Symphony …
A century ago this month, American conductor Henry Hadley took the podium at San Francisco’s Cort Theater to lead the newly formed San Francisco Orchestra in its first concert. Now, 100 years later, the San Francisco Symphony – led by its Music Director of 16 seasons, Michael Tilson Thomas – is an internationally-acclaimed orchestra.
Michael Tilson Thomas joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as guest conductor for concerts on December 8, 9, and 10. A premier Mahler interpreter, MTT performs Blumine, the original Andante from the composer’s First Symphony. American pianist Jeremy Denk, making his CSO debut, partners with MTT in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. MTT’s Chicago program concludes with Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1.