This weekend violinist Rainer Honeck and cellist Tamás Varga – members of the esteemed Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – join MTT and the New World Symphony as guest soloists on January 26 and 27. Tamás Varga joins MTT and the NWS for Fitzenhagen’s Concert Waltzes for Four Cellos, followed by Rainer Honeck in Berg’s Violin Concerto. MTT opens the program with Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations before rounding out the evening with …
On January 17, 18 and 19, Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus in a semi-staged production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, exploring what MTT calls “a challenging, provocative play filled with questions about life, and love” through music, original video projections, actors and theatrical elements. The program features selections from music written for Peer Gynt by composers of diverse eras and backgrounds: Edward Grieg, Alfred Schnittke, and Robin …
This Saturday, January 5, MIchael Tilson Thomas guests on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. The live broadcast performance takes place at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House and will feature special guest Elvin Bishop along with the Royal Academy of Radio Actors Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band.