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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.

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.