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1971
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Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas (December 21, 1944 – April 22, 2026) was an American conductor, composer and pianist. He was artistic director laureate of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy in Miami Beach, Florida, music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, and conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. He gave his final performance with the San Francisco Symphony in April 2025 while fighting brain cancer.
Filmography
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Soundbreaking
2016
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Explore the art of music recording with a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds. Featuring mo...
Masterclass
2010
MasterClass is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience o...
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
2019
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S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M...
Carnival of the Animals
1976
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Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
2018
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In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchest...
Keeping Score
2004
Keeping Score investigates the compelling stories behind and intertwined with classical music. Regardless of yo...
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
2006
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Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic...
Rehearsing a Dream
2006
Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of t...
Steve Reich: A New Musical Language
1987
A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores ho...
Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys
2012
Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical...
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
2009
Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This...
Keeping Score: Mahler Legacy
2011
Examining Mahler's creative flowering, from the 1890's to his untimely death at the age of 51, in 1911, includi...
Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
2011
Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including selected mov...
John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music
2000
Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage w...
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From...
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
2020
The life and career of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder and artisti...
Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
2006
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5
2015
The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert f...
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique
2003
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A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique...
Keeping Score: Mahler Origins
2011
Focusing on Mahler's birth, conflicted childhood and early influences in the backwoods of Bohemia, then a part...
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
2009
In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly...
Keeping Score: Stravinsky Rite of Spring
2006
Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene...