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Saturday, December 21, 2024

MTT is 80!


Michael Tilson Thomas
Photo by Brandon Patoc (c), 2019
Courtesy of San Francisco Symphony

MTT turned 80 today! What a great life and career he has had, from southern California to Boston and Buffalo to London to the Bay Area. I had my beefs with programming at SFS during his last five years as music director of SFS, but whatever: he's a great conductor and a deeply loved person in San Francisco.

SFS has just scheduled a concert in honor of his 80th birthday - for April! - and tickets go on sale on January 28 at 10:00 a.m. The concert will include Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a theme of Henry Purcell) and Respighi's Feste Romane Festi Romani.

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2 comments:

  1. The BobblerDecember 21, 2024 at 9:33:00 PM PST

    From the editing department: "Feste Romane"

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  2. Lisa HirschDecember 21, 2024 at 10:15:00 PM PST

    LOL, thank you! I should not have tried to translate the English into my totally amateur Italian.

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