Monthly Archives: June 2014

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony’s live recording of the first concert performances of Leonard Bernstein’s complete score for West Side Story has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Traditional Classical chart. Released on June 10 and featuring Cheyenne Jackson and Alexandra Silber as Tony and Maria, the recording is also in the No. 2 spot for overall classical.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in three weeks of concerts celebrating English composer Benjamin Britten’s centenary. The Britten concerts begin June 12 to 15 with a program comprising excerpts from the composer’s ballet scoreThe Prince of the Pagodas, along with an instrumental and dance work from the Balinese performing arts group Gamelan Sekar Jaya, and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Gil Shaham.