Michael Tilson Thomas continues his spring season with the San Francisco Symphony this week with a program featuring Debussy’s orchestral triptychImages and Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto with pianist Yuja Wang May 22, 23, 24 and 25 . The San Francisco Symphony Music Director begins the concerts with Fauré’s Pavane, Schubert’s Entr’acte No. 3 in B-flat major from Rosamunde, Dvorak’s LegendNo. 6, and Grieg’s The Last Spring. Yuja Wang also guests in the Scherzo from Litolff’s Concerto …

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This week Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the West Coast to lead the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall ( May 14, 16, 17 ) and the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis ( May 15 ). Violinist Christian Teztlaff guests with MTT and the SFS in Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, on a program that also includes Brahms’s Fourth Symphony and Sibelius’s symphonic poem Lemminkäinen’s Return. 

On June 10, 2014, MTT and the San Francisco Symphony will release a new live recording of the first concert performances of Leonard Bernstein’s complete score for the musical West Side Story featuring a stellar Broadway cast including Cheyenne Jackson and Alexandra Silber, and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.