Nearly 70, New World and San Francisco Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas keeps looking to the future
Nov 17, 2014
Miami Herald
by Lawrence A. Johnson
“As I think about what the frontier of classical music performance, is, it seems to me that it’s almost entirely about delicacy, tenderness and understatement…. Emotions like wistfulness or vulnerability — things that have such an important part in music — these things are not very much a part of the emotional landscape of 21st century life.”