Compositions

Michael Tilson Thomas - Compositions

MTT’s published compositions include a song cycle on Emily Dickinson’s poems, premiered by the San Francisco Symphony in February 2002, performed on their 2003 European tour and 2005 American tour; Urban Legend, for contrabassoon and orchestra, first performed by the San Francisco Symphony in October 2002; Three Poems by Walt Whitman for baritone and orchestra; Five Songs, for voice and piano, including “We Two Boys Together Clinging,” recorded by baritone Thomas Hampson and pianist Craig Rutenberg for EMI; Street Song, written for the Empire Brass Quintet and also available in a version for symphonic brass; and Agnegram, the composer’s 90th-birthday orchestral tribute to longtime San Francisco Symphony patron Agnes Albert. MTT’s From the Diary of Anne Frank, for narrator and orchestra, was commissioned by UNICEF and given its world premiere at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music in 1990 by the late Audrey Hepburn and the New World Symphony, conducted by the composer.

Compositions

1988

Street Song for Brass Quintet

2003

Island Music

1998

Agnegram

2005

Notturno (flute and piano)

2005

Notturno (flute and strings)

2016

Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind

2018

Whitsett Avenue: Sunset Soliloquy 1963

For more information about the Michael’s compositions, please visit www.musicsalesclassical.com

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