Michael Tilson Thomas
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London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5
Overview: The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert focusing on British and Russian music, but with a nod to his native USA. He’s joined by the sensational young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang in Gershwin’s popular Concerto. Michael Tilson Thomas gave the US premiere of Colin Matthews’ Hidden Variables, an LSO commission during Matthews’ time as an Associate Composer with the LSO.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Carnival of the Animals
Overview: Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys
Overview: Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical performance that features five performers and the New World Symphony orchestra.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-24
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Rehearsing a Dream
Overview: Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas... and from each other. For seven transformative days, the passionate young artists revel in the support, encouragement and attention they have earned.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Overview: Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from Stalin’s totalitarian forces could have meant a sentence to the Gulag or worse.... When he penned this fifth symphony, the composer was literally writing for his life. The risk was so high that Shostakovich slept on the stairs outside his apartment so the secret police would not wake his family when they came from him, as he was sure they would. This Keeping Score episode, investigates the arresting symphony that would either redeem Shostakovich or doom him. Did he dare hide a kernel of musical criticism in what appears to be a paean to the Motherland? Join Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony as they explore the hidden language of this masterwork. Episode includes full-length concert performance of Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor by the San Francisco Symphony.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Overview: The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-06
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Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Overview: In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its entire 2018 season to the iconic composer, conductor, performer, educator and humanitarian. The festivities culminated on Bernstein’s centennial birthday on August 25, 2018, in a special celebrity-studded gala concert. Directed for the stage by James Darrah, The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood illuminates the breadth of Bernstein’s incredible life and career, which inspired generations of music lovers around the globe – from his talent as a composer to his generosity in mentoring other composers and musicians, his inimitable role as a driving musical force at Tanglewood for over 50 years and more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-28
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Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
Overview: S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs from the two-night event that opened San Francisco’s new Chase Center, with many Metallica fan favourites and two unique classical songs chosen by San Francisco Symphony Musical Director, Michael Tilson Thomas. S&M2 is newly re-edited by the band, with re-mixed and remastered audio, for a whole new look and sound from the original theatrical run in October 2019.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
Overview: Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including selected movements of the fifth, seventh and ninth symphonies and the complete Songs of a Wayfarer with baritone Thomas Hampson.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-10
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Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique
Overview: A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique (1924) for which Antheil wrote the music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music
Overview: Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and commentary from his collaborators and the master himself. Highlights include performances of Adams's Grammy Award-winning operas “Nixon in China” and “El Niño” and excerpts from Penny Woolcock’s film adaptation of “The Death of Klinghoffer”. Works by Steve Reich and Conlon Nancarrow are also performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain at the Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Overview: Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
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Original Language: en
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Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
Overview: Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Overview: In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life upside down to meet her. Frantic months turned into years when he suddenly heard rumors about Harriet and another man. Believing himself cured, he wrote a ‘fantastic’ symphony complete with a special theme, the idée fixe, to represent his former obsession.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Overview: How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From decoding the score, to uncovering Tchaikovsky's history, Michael Tilson Thomas gives us a backstage pass to the making of a performance.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Keeping Score: Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Overview: Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene of one of the most astounding opening nights in history. In this episode of Keeping Score, the clutching tendrils of the music pull us back through France and Russia to the wild abandon of pagan times.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-06
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Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Overview: The life and career of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony and conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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