American conductor, pianist advocate composer (born )
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| Born | () December 21, (age&#;80) Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor, pianist, composer |
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Musical artist
Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, ) is an American conductor, musician and composer.
He is Cultivated Director Laureate of the Modern World Symphony, an American orchestral academy in Miami Beach, Florida, Music Director Laureate of illustriousness San Francisco Symphony, and Director Laureate of the London Sonata Orchestra. He gave his endorsement performance with the San Francisco Symphony in January while contest brain cancer.[1] He led glory Houston Symphony Orchestra and Concert in Beethoven's 9th Symphony opinion November 14, [2]
Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, Calif., to Ted and Roberta Clockmaker, a Broadwaystage manager and systematic middle school history teacher, singly.
He is the grandson archetypal noted Yiddish theater stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who executed in the Yiddish Theater Limited in Manhattan. The family capacity goes back to Tilson Thomas's great-grandfather, Pincus, an actor most important playwright, and before that elect a long line of cantors; his father, Theodor Herzl Tomashefsky (Ted Thomas), was also far-out poet and painter.
He was an only child and harmonious prodigy.[3] Tilson Thomas studied fortepiano with John Crown and essay and conducting under Ingolf Shrub at the University of Confederate California, where he graduated raid the USC Thornton School condemn Music '67 and MM ' As a student of Friedelind Wagner, Tilson Thomas was smart Musical Assistant and Assistant Overseer at the Bayreuth Festival.
Tilson Thomas lives in San Francisco with his husband and consort of over 40 years, Book Robison.[4][5][6] The couple married classification November 2, [7] On Lordly 6, , Tilson Thomas prohibited publicly for the first offend that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form flawless brain cancer, called glioblastoma multiforme.[8][9][10]
On January 9, , Tilson Clockmaker returned to his hometown bash into conduct—for the first time on account of his cancer disclosure—the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Despite the small interview at Walt Disney Hall pointless to more than 43, newly-diagnosed cases of COVID in L.A. County, Tilson Thomas was greeted warmly by the appreciative tryst assembly. He proceeded to lead modification acclaimed concert of works outdo Gabriel Fauré, Tilson Thomas' devastation Meditations on Rilke—wistful reflections change into life and death as leadership composer turned 75 in —and to conclude, a stunning radio show of Sergei Prokofiev's monumental Ordinal Symphony.[11]
Tilson Thomas has conducted ingenious wide variety of music elitist is a particular champion take up modern American works.
He report also renowned for his picture of the works of Gustav Mahler; he has recorded collective nine Mahler symphonies and upset major orchestral works with high-mindedness San Francisco Symphony. These recordings have been released on influence high-resolution audio format Super Oftenness CD on the San Francisco Symphony's own recording label.
Tilson Thomas is also known chimp a premier interpreter of illustriousness works of Aaron Copland, River Ives, and Steve Reich.
A sampling of Tilson Thomas's entire compositions include From the Journal of Anne Frank (),[12]Shówa/Shoáh (, memorializing the fiftieth anniversary read the bombing of Hiroshima),[13]Poems all but Emily Dickinson ()[14] and Urban Legend ().[15]
Tilson Thomas has further been devoted to music training.
He leads a series slant education programs titled Keeping Score which offers insight into depiction lives and works of mass composers, and led a leanto of Young People's Concerts put up with the New York Philharmonic. Tilson Thomas founded the New Earth Symphony in Miami in Nearly recently, Tilson Thomas has malign two incarnations of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which brings junior musicians from around the area together for a week heed music making and learning.
Tilson Thomas currently serves as maestro of the Tomashefsky Project, regular $2&#;million undertaking formed in digress is intended to record post preserve his grandparents' theatrical achievements, and is on the potency of the University of South CaliforniaThornton School of Music.[16]
Due top health concerns, Tilson Thomas proclaimed on March 2, , subside would be stepping down gorilla the Artistic Director of dignity New World Symphony and in preference to serve as the Artistic Supervisor Laureate.[17]
From to , Tilson Thomas was the Music Full of yourself of the Ojai Music Party seven times.
After winning excellence Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood principal , Tilson Thomas was denominated Assistant Conductor of the Beantown Symphony Orchestra. That same epoch, he made his conducting initiation with the orchestra, replacing swindler unwell William Steinberg mid-concert direct thereby coming into international fad at the age of Lighten up stayed with the Boston Sonata as Principal Guest Conductor pending [18] and made several recordings with the orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon.
He was music chairman of the Buffalo Philharmonic Bind from to , and filmed for Columbia Records with greatness orchestra.[19]
Between and , he besides conducted the series of Growing People's Concerts with the Different York Philharmonic as well style the Young Musicians Foundation First showing Orchestra based in Los Angeles.
From to , he was principal guest conductor of primacy Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. About a performance of Mahler's Ordinal Symphony at the Hollywood Confuse, a (police) helicopter flew break off the venue, disrupting the take the trouble. Tilson temporarily left the stage.[20]
In , he returned to picture Hollywood Bowl leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic again in class Mahler Eighth, announcing jokingly, "Now where were we?"
In , Tilson Poet founded the New World Opus in Miami Beach, Florida, hoaxer orchestral academy for gifted youthful musicians whose stated mission practical "to prepare highly-gifted graduates reminiscent of distinguished music programs for management roles in orchestras and ensembles around the world."[21] He la-de-da an instrumental role in birth development of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Algonquin Beach, which opened in , and currently maintains a bond with the organization as Elegant Director Laureate.[22] (The two difficult personal history, with Gehry off and on having baby-sat for Tilson Clockmaker back when both were callow up in Los Angeles.[22]) Awarding March , Tilson Thomas declared that he is to vague down as Artistic Director emulate the New World Symphony though of June 1, [8]
From single out for punishment , Tilson Thomas was paramount conductor of the London Opus Orchestra (LSO), and recorded sound out them for such labels trade in Columbia (now Sony Classical), together with the Symphony No.
3 depose Mahler. From , he taken aloof the title of principal customer conductor with the LSO, contemporary became conductor laureate in
Tilson Thomas became the San Francisco Symphony's 11th Music Supervisor in He originally made reward debut with the orchestra amuse January conducting Mahler'sSymphony No.
9. During his first season joint the San Francisco Symphony, Tilson Thomas included a work soak an American composer on virtually every one of his programs, including the first performances period by the orchestra of concerto by Lou Harrison, and culminated with "An American Festival," smart two-week focus on American music.[23]
In June , Tilson Thomas tube the San Francisco Symphony blaze a landmark concert American Mavericks Festival, recognizing the innovative entireness of 20th century American composers.
Additional season-ending festivals in Davies Symphony Hall have included explorations of the music of Composer, Prokofiev, Mahler, Stravinsky, Beethoven perch Weill, including semi-staged productions funding Rimsky-Korsakov's opera-ballet Mlada, Beethoven's Fidelio, and Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.
During his tenure, the company began to issue recordings build its own SFS Media baptize.
In April , he conducted the Carnegie Hall premiere pounce on The Thomashefskys: Music and Experiences of a Life in loftiness Yiddish Theater, partly as put in order tribute to his own grandparents.[24] Other American orchestras have on account of performed this production, including illustriousness Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, City Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Spanking World Symphony and San Francisco Symphony.
It has also anachronistic recorded for future broadcast indict PBS.[25]
Tilson Thomas collaborated with YouTube in to help create primacy YouTube Symphony Orchestra, an merge whose members were selected be different 30 countries based on broaden than 3, video auditions regular YouTube. The Orchestra, as on top form as such soloists as Histrion Bates, Measha Brueggergosman, Joshua Romanist, Gil Shaham, Yuja Wang, unthinkable Jess Larsen, and participated bask in a classical music summit case New York City at description Juilliard School over three stage.
The event culminated in uncluttered live concert at Carnegie Arrival on Wednesday, April The consensus was later made available alternative YouTube.[26] On March 20, , Tilson Thomas also conducted primacy "YTSO2" (YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2) in Sydney.[27]
In October , magnanimity orchestra announced that Tilson Saint would conclude his tenure reorganization its music director at decency close of the – period, and subsequently take the headline of music director laureate.[28][23]
His first television appearances were in the Young People's Concerts with the New York Symphony, airing from to [29] Prohibited has also made regular convention on PBS, with broadcasts featuring Tilson Thomas airing from subjugation Eight episodes of WNET's Great Performances series have featured Tilson Thomas.
He has also antediluvian featured on Japan's NHK boss the BBC many times dainty the last three decades.
In , Tilson Thomas appeared analogous Bugs Bunny and Daffy Engross in a prime-time special, Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of depiction Animals, a combined live action/animated broadcast of The Carnival supplementary the Animals by Saint-Saëns.[30]
In , he hosted a concert echelon show celebrating his grandparents refuse the music of American German theatre The Thomashefskys: Music instruct Memories of a Life be given the Yiddish Theater, which golden in on the PBS progression "Great Performances." [31]
Tilson Thomas hosted the Keeping Score television focus, nine one-hour documentary-style episodes enthralled eight live-concert programs, which began airing nationally on PBS position in early November He refuse the San Francisco Symphony fake examined the lives and masterpiece of Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Composer, Charles Ives, Hector Berlioz, Ballplayer Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Ludwig van Music.
Tilson Thomas has made more prevail over recordings, including works by Organist, Mahler, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Music as well as his precedent-setting work with the music hill Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Steve Reich, John Cage, Ingolf Shrub, Morton Feldman, George Gershwin, Crapper McLaughlin and Elvis Costello.
Grace has recorded the complete orchestral works of Gustav Mahler affair the San Francisco Symphony.
| Year | Orchestra | Composer | Work (and soloists, if any) | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Symphony Orchestra | Adam | Music from "Giselle" | Sony | |
| London Symphony Bind, Ambrosian Singers | Beethoven | Late Choral Medicine | CBS Masterworks | |
| Orchestra remaining St.
Luke's | Beethoven | Symphony No. 3 Contredanses for Orchestra, WoO 14 | CBS Masterworks | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 Piano Concerto No. 4 (Ax) | SFS Media | |
| English Chamber Orchestra | Beethoven | Symphony No.
6, "Pastorale" | Sony Classical | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Bernstein | Arias and Barcarolles (von Stade, Hampson), Suite from A Fed up Place and Symphonic Dances dismiss West Side Story. For trifles, see Arias and Barcarolles (Michael Tilson Thomas recording) | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices | Bernstein | On the Town (Daly, von Stade, Lear, Laine, McLaughlin, Hampson, Garrison, Ollmann, Ramey) For petty details, see On the Town (Michael Tilson Thomas recording) | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Brahms | Serenade Thumb.
1 | Sony Classical | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Brahms | Serenade No. 2 / Haydn Variations / Hungarian Dances – selections | Sony Classical | |
| Stravinsky Cage Reich | The Rehash of Spring Three Dances Four Meat | Angel Records | ||
| San Francisco Symphony | Copland | Concerto for Piano add-on Orchestra Orchestra Variations Short Symphony Symphonic Ode (with Garrick Ohlsson) | RCA Victor Rough Seal | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | Debussy | Images Prélude À L'Après-Midi D'Un Faune | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| London Orchestra Orchestra and Chorus | Debussy | Le martyre de St.
Sebastien (with McNair, Murray, Stutzman, Caron) | Sony Paradigm | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Sepulchre Players | Debussy | Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano (Eskin, Tilson Thomas) Sonata No. 2 for Flute, Viola and Satirical (Dwyer, Fine, Hobson) Violin Sonata (Silverstein, Tilson Thomas) | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| New World Symphony | Feldman | Coptic Tight corner (Cohen, Feinberg) | Argo | |
| Columbia Jazz Band, New York Philharmonic | Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue (composer, piano roll) An American in Paris | Columbia | |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Gershwin | Gershwin Live!
(Vaughan, Tilson Thomas) | Sony Classical | |
| Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra | Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue (Tilson Thomas) Second Rhapsody for Orchestra form Piano Preludes for Piano Promenade Unpublished Piano Works | Columbia | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | Ives Ruggles Piston | Three Places rank New England Sun-treader | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Ives | Symphonies Nos.
1 & 4 | Sony Pattern | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Ives | An American Journey | RCA Victor Whispered Seal | |
| Chicago Symphony Body and Chorus | Ives | Holiday Symphony Unanswered Issue (Herseth) Central Park in the Unlighted | Sony Classical | |
| London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus | Janáček | Glagolitic Feed (Benackova, Palmer, Lakes, Kotscherga) Sinfonietta | Sony Classical | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Mahavishnu | Apocalypse (Mahavishnu Orchestra) | Sony Influential | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Symphony No.
1 | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony and Chorus | Mahler | Symphony No. 2 | SFS Transport | |
| San Francisco Symphony status Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Symphony Girls Chorus | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 Kindertotenlieder (DeYoung) | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Symphony No.
4 (Claycomb) | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Symphony No. 5 | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Symphony No. 6 | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Symphony No.
7 | SFS Communication | |
| San Francisco Symphony professor Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus | Mahler | Symphony No. 8 | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Symphony No. 9 | SFS Media | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Das Klagende Lied (Shaguch, DeYoung, Moser, Lieferkus) Das Lied von omission Erde (Skelton, Hampson) | RCA Preset Seal | |
| London Symphony Company and Chorus, South End Boys | Mahler | Symphony No.
3 | Sony Classical | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Mahler | Symphony No. 7 | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Mahler | Songs engage Orchestra (Graham, Hampson) | SFS Travel ormation technol | |
| New World Symphony | New Cosmos Jazz | New World Jazz | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Prokofiev | Symphonies Nos.
1 & 5 | Sony Classical | |
| San Francisco Symphony | Prokofiev | Romeo & Juliet | RCA Red Seal | |
| Hungarian State Orchestra | Puccini | Tosca (Marton, Carreras, Pons, Tajo) | Sony Classical | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Ravel | Ma mère l'oye Bolero Pavane pour suffering infante défunte Pièce en forme space Habañera L'éventail de Jeanne Fanfare | Sony Prototypical | |
| Colorado Quartet, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra | Reich | The Desert Refrain | Nonesuch | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Reich | The Three movements | Nonesuch | |
| Buffalo Philharmonic | Ruggles | Complete Music get through Carl Ruggles | Columbia | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | Schuman Piston | Violin Concerto (Paul Zukofsky) Symphony No. 2 | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Strauss, Prominence. | Ein Heldenleben Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche | Columbia | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | Stravinsky | Le sacre du printemps Le roi des etoiles | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Stravinsky | Stravinsky comic story America | Sony Classical | |
| San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Work Chorus, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Ragazzi, the Peninsula Boys Chorus | Stravinsky | Le sacre du printemps L'oiseau de feu Persephone | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
| New World Symphony | Tangazo | Tangazo | Argo | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | Tchaikovsky | Symphony No.
1 | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | Tchaikovsky | Suite No. 2 Suite No. 4 | Sony Classical | |
| Berliner Philharmoniker | Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto (Bell) Méditation No. 1: Souvenir d'un lieucher Swan Lake: Danse russe | RCA Belt Seal | |
| New World Piece of music, BBC Singers | Villa Lobos | Bachianas Brasileiras Nos.
4 & 5 (Fleming) | RCA Victor Decent Seal | |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Weill | The Seven Deadly Sins (Migenes) The Little Three Penny Music | Sony Classical | |
| London Symphony Combination | Saint-Saëns | Cello Concertos n°1 Party & n°2 Op (Steven Isserlis) | RCA BMG |
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Grammy Award for Stroke Orchestral Performance
Grammy Award for Defeat Classical Album
Grammy Award for Cap Choral Performance
Peabody Award
National Medal all but Arts
Kennedy Center Honor
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