Conductor Teddy Abrams led the Boston Symphony Orchestra and bass-baritone Dashon Burton in four performances of MTT’s composition “Whitman Songs” at Boston’s Symphony Hall March 13–16.
MTT Featured in BBC Music Magazine
By Michael White
classical-music.com
Some musicians seem incapable of ageing; and until quite recently a prime example was that most articulate, engaging and all-round alive of conductors Michael Tilson Thomas.
Decades passed and, with them, orchestras: the London Symphony, which he directed in the 1980s/90s; then the San Francisco Symphony, which he ran from the mid-90s through to 2020. Eras changed. But MTT, as people call him, somehow didn’t. He held onto a mercurially boyish grace and elegance – until, in 2022, news broke that he’d contracted a particularly cruel and aggressive kind of brain cancer.
On Disc, the Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas Is Prolifically Himself
By David Allen
The New York Times
As Thomas turns 80, new collections of his recordings reveal the legacy of a maestro who has exuberantly refused to conform to expectations.
Sony Classical Releases 80-Disc MTT Box Set
In celebration of MTT’s’s 80th birthday on December 21 this year, Sony Classical has released an 80-CD box set that collects Michael’s entire discography from Columbia, Sony and RCA recorded between 1973 and 2005.
The collection showcases many of the orchestras Michael conducted, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and more.