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Thursday Nov 5 | Voice of America

Los Angeles Music School Celebrates 125th Birthday

The USC Thornton School of Music's 125th anniversary makes it the oldest continuously operating cultural institution in Los Angeles and one of the oldest music schools in the US In 1884, Los Angeles was a small city which had only recently gotten a rail line, telephone service, electric streetlights and a daily newspaper.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, University of Southern California, Classical, Schoenberg

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Philly.com

A range of vocal strength

The better informed the listeners were at Lyric Fest's concert on Friday, the more incredulous they were likely to be.

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Related Topix: Classical

Sun Nov 01, 2009

TulsaWorld.com - Lifestyle

Scene Setting

Officially, this takes place Friday, but today's the day to make plans to capture the third episode of "Keeping Score," the innovative music show from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.

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Related Topix: Classical, Brand New, Punk, Tulsa, OK

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Financial Times

Lang Lang/Tilson Thomas, Carnegie Hall, New York

The catch-all title for the series seems both portentous and pretentious: Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture .

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Related Topix: New York, Classical

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Tulsa World

True blue

W hen Robin McKee knew she was going to appear on television, her first thought was about nail polish.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Tulsa Metro, Tulsa, OK, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, Charles Ives

Sat Oct 17, 2009

NewsBlaze

Keeping Score Season II

Premieres Nationally October 15, 22 & 29, 2009 at 10 p.m. on PBS Keeping Score returns to PBS this fall with Michael Tilson Thomas and the world-class San Francisco Symphony, beginning Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10 p.m. . Keeping Score is the San Francisco Symphony's national project to make classical music more accessible and meaningful to ...

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, Aaron Copland

Thu Oct 15, 2009

The Huffington Post

Michael Tilson Thomas: Michelle Obama and I Agree: Commit to the Arts in Schools

While foreign finance ministers and central bankers met a few weeks ago at the G-20 summit to discuss the state of the world's finances, it was something that Mrs.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, Classical

Tue Oct 13, 2009

SFGate

Review: Symphonies, life stories in harmony

The interweaving of music and biography has been a regular component of "Keeping Score" ever since Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony introduced this lively multimedia project in 2004.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Classical

Mon Sep 21, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Tuned In: Baritone Thomas Hampson serves as ambassador of American song

Baritone Thomas Hampson celebrates the vast diversity of the American art song in the second phase of his joint Song of America collaboration with the Library of Congress.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Thomas Hampson, Classical, Music, Entertainment

Thu Sep 17, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

Review: Kickoff for S.F. Symphony's three-week Mahler festival lacked the usual finesse

The countdown begins. In 15 months, it will be 2011, the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's death.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, 9, Science / Technology

Thu Sep 10, 2009

SFGate

Music review: Demonic S.F. Symphony opening

Leave it to Michael Tilson Thomas to inject a few welcome shadows into the bubbly breathlessness of the San Francisco Symphony's opening gala.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical

Fri Aug 28, 2009

The Boston Globe

Thomas, Masur lead BSO closers

The Boston Symphony Orchestra concluded its summer season at Tanglewood on Sunday afternoon with a rousing performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, Music, Entertainment

Wed Aug 26, 2009

Civic Center

San Francisco Symphony 2009-10 Preview

Literal signs of high musical culture have been sprouting all month around the Civic Center, including the San Francisco Symphony whose opening night gala is in a couple of weeks on Wednesday, September 9th.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, CA

Tue Aug 25, 2009

Renaissance Research

The SFS's New Mahler Symphony #8 Recording: A Late Romantic, Supreme ...

The SFS's New Mahler Symphony #8 Recording: A Late Romantic, Supreme Masterpiece "Out of Time" With The Western Musical Tradition? The San Francisco Symphony, under Michael Tilson Thomas, has just released the latest in its series of self-produced, live recordings of the complete major works of Gustav Mahler - a multi-year project begun in the late ...

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Mahler, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, Gustav Mahler

Sun Aug 23, 2009

SFGate

CD: Mahler, Symphony No. 8

No one lucky enough to have witnessed November's electrifying Davies Symphony Hall performances of Mahler's Eighth by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony will be surprised to learn that this live recording, due for release this week, stands as one of the grand highlights of the orchestra's self-produced Mahler cycle.

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Related Topix: Classical, San Francisco Symphony

Thu Aug 20, 2009

The Gazette

A musical strudel

At Tanglewood's packed Ozawa Hall Wednesday night, the multi-talented Michael Tilson Thomas gave the enthusiastic audience his Russian immigrant grandmother's strudel recipe: go into the kitchen, put on your apron, wash your hands and make the strudel.

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Related Topix: Classical, Theater, Arts, Symphony

Sun Aug 16, 2009

Albany Times Union

Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Tanglewood and gets personal

The grounds at Tanglewood. Judy Blazer is one of the actor/singers who is making her Tanglewood debut in Michael Tilson Thomas' "The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish more... Ronit Widmann-Levy is one of the actor/singers who is making her Tanglewood debut in Michael Tilson Thomas' "The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Theater

Mon Aug 10, 2009

International Herald Tribune

At Tanglewood: Michael Tilson Thomas's Life in Pictures

Last summer, when the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music here was devoted fully to Elliott Carter, in anticipation of his 100th birthday, the Tanglewood Visitor Center mounted an illuminating exhibition of Mr.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts

Tue Jul 21, 2009

InfoComm International

Audiovisual GrandMA Rocks Carnegie Hall With YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Legendary Carnegie Hall was the setting for a sold-out concert. 96 musicians from over 30 countries came together for the first-ever YouTube Symphony Orchestra.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Financial Times

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, London

Take four sets of bells, tuned to three different keys. Add trumpets and trombones, making tuneless interjections, and craft a musical vision of a night when a church was struck by a thunderbolt, setting bells pealing and telephones ringing.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical

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