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10/09/093:40 pm

Keeping Score with MTT

Yoda fountain at the Letterman Digital Arts Center during the SF Symphony Keeping Score screening
Photos by Catherine Bigelow

 

 

 

October in our fair city is definitely a-buzz. Last week, San Francisco swayed to the sounds of the renown Bluegrass Festival. This weekend, it's President's Cup golf tourney and the Blue Angels.

But with the season’s lengthening shadows and rain on the horizon, doesn’t a night at home listening to great music sound divine?

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09/10/093:26 pm

The Band Played on @ SF Symphony Opening Night Gala

MTT with Gala Chairwoman Jessa Wu (in Badgley Mischka) and her husband, Tommy Wu
Photos by Catherine Bigelow

Music, it is said, hath charms to soothe the savage breast.

And maestro Michael Tilson Thomas and his band, starring piano virtuoso Lang Lang, masterfully hit their notes last night in Davies Symphony Hall during a sold-out, glittery opening-night gala that heralded the 98th season of the San Francisco Symphony.

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12/31/085:29 pm

SF Symphony Performs Brahms and Our Town

$30+

Michael Tilson Thomas uses his magic wand to direct Copland's music for the film version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town classic that paints a scene of small-town America. And Brahms' journey from darkness to light captures listeners every time.

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12/31/084:03 pm

Music Master Michael Tilson Thomas

$25

As Music Director of the SF Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas has built one of the most vital, exciting orchestras on the international scene. He's an unabashed champion of twentieth-century American music and has received eight Grammy awards for the Symphony's recordings of Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinksy. Join for a conversation in which Tilson Thomas will discuss his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, as pioneers of American Yiddish theater.

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