Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas

Perfil

Michael Tilson Thomas

Filmes

Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
Himself
No dia 9 de outubro de 2019, a Trafalgar Releasing apresenta S&M2, a imperdível celebração do 20º aniversário dos inovadores shows e discos S&M2 do Metallica gravados com a Orquestra Sinfônica de São Francisco. Veja-os mais uma vez se apresentando com a Sinfônica com o lendário maestro Michael Tilson Thomas conduzindo parte do show, dando início à sua última temporada em San Francisco. Gravado ao vivo nos dias 6 e 8 de setembro, os shows também comemoram a inauguração do moderno Chase Centre, uma adição histórica à orla da cidade. Incluindo os `clássicos´ do Metallica desde o lançamento do S&M em 1999, bem como versões sinfônicas de novas músicas, este lançamento nos cinemas dá a milhões de fãs em todo o mundo a chance única de experienciar este o show na tela do cinema.
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
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.
Bombshell: A História de Hedy Lamarr
Self
Hedy Lamarr ficou conhecida por ser "a mulher mais bonita do mundo". Mas, entre outras peculiaridades, a austríaca queridinha de Hollywood foi também inventora da tecnologia sem fio nos anos de 1940.
London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5
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.
Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys
.In THE THOMASHEFSKYS, 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.
Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
Conductor
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.
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Director
Rehearsing a Dream
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.
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
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.
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
Conductor
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.
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique
Self - Conductor
A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique (1924) for which Antheil wrote the music.
John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music
Self
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.
Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
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 decoding the score, to uncovering Tchaikovsky's history, Michael Tilson Thomas gives us a backstage pass to the making of a performance.
Keeping Score:  Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Conductor
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.