The mavericks are iconoclasts, mold breakers, voyagers, pioneers of the American sound. They imagined themselves as musical revolutionaries. And they were. – Michael Tilson Thomas Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present American Mavericks, a month-long festival of music by pioneers of the American sound at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall (March 8 – 18) and on tour in Ann Arbor, in Chicago and at Carnegie Hall (March 18 – 30). In addition to …
The New World Symphony and its Artistic Director, Michael Tilson Thomas, present an all-Russian concert program to be performed at the New World Center on February 17 and at the Adrienne Arsht Center on February 18. Gil Shaham joins MTT and the NWS for Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto. The concert will also include Tchaikovsky’s Marche solennelle and Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.
Michael Tilson Thomas will be featured in two new Great Performances presentations to be broadcast nationally in the US on PBS this March. On Thursday, March 29, PBS airs The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater at 8 p.m. ( check local listings ). The television program, written and hosted by MTT, examines the life and legacy of MTT’s grandparents, the Yiddish theater pioneers Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky. After its …
This February, MTT travels to Israel to lead the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Copland’s ballet Billy the Kid, Brahms’s Second Symphony and Strauss’s Brentano Lieder. The American soprano Laura Claycomb is the featured soloist for the Strauss songs, which are based on poems by the early German Romantic Clemens Brentano. MTT’s performances with the IPO will take place in Tel Aviv on February 7 and 11 and in Haifa on February …