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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.
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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 is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience o...
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M...
Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."
In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchest...
Keeping Score investigates the compelling stories behind and intertwined with classical music. Regardless of yo...
Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic...
Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of t...
A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores ho...
Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical...
Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This...
Examining Mahler's creative flowering, from the 1890's to his untimely death at the age of 51, in 1911, includi...
Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including selected mov...
Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage w...
How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From...
The life and career of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder and artisti...
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert f...
A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique...
Focusing on Mahler's birth, conflicted childhood and early influences in the backwoods of Bohemia, then a part...
In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly...
Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene...