M. Tilson Thomas @mtilsonthomas Twitter profile

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

Friends - I've shared an important update about my health on my website. You can read it here:

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3 years

Dear friends and music lovers, I recently returned home from the UCSF Medical Center. After a series of tests, it was diagnosed that I had a brain tumor and that an immediate operation was necessary. The operation was successful. (1/3)

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M. Tilson Thomas

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1 year

Celebrating Stravinsky, born on this day in 1882! Watch the full “Rite of Spring” episode of Keeping Score here:

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 years

Congratulations to President @JoeBiden and Vice President @KamalaHarris !

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M. Tilson Thomas

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5 years

Thank you so much for your supportive thoughts these last weeks. My heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic was very successful. I will take summer to recover+am looking forward to returning to making music for you all in Sept. Have a wonderful summer filled w\ joy and compassion. -MTT

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M. Tilson Thomas

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3 years

Looking forward to my first rehearsal tomorrow with the LA Phil. Prokofiev Symphony No 5

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 years

It's Meyer lemon time in West Marin!

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M. Tilson Thomas

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3 years

I know this one! @SFSymphony

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M. Tilson Thomas

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2 months

So proud.

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M. Tilson Thomas

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5 years

50 years ago today, I made my NY debut. I was 24 and Asst Conductor of @BostonSymphony . During intermission at Philharmonic Hall, Music Director William Steinberg (who had fallen ill) pointed at me and said "You! Put your suit on! You're going to conduct!" 😮

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M. Tilson Thomas

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6 years

I guess it's never too late to make a debut! @MetOpera #METOrchestra

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M. Tilson Thomas

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3 years

I am very fortunate to be cared for by the excellent team at UCSF and their national and international collaborators. Thank you for your love and prayers. See you soon! MTT (3/3)

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M. Tilson Thomas

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6 years

Happy that my friend & colleague @esapekkasalonen is coming to #SanFrancisco . Our lives have been personally & musically intertwined for years & we share many musical values. Will be a joy to collaborate w/ him on bright future for @SFSymphony family. Warm welcome to EPS from MTT

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 years

Happy birthday to Aaron Copland, who was born on November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn. What comes to mind when you think of his music?

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M. Tilson Thomas

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7 years

Taking a break from studying #Mahler 4.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

I’m embarking on a course of therapy for the next several months. This means that I must curtail my public appearances through the end of October. I plan to return to the stage in November. (2/3)

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 years

Happy birthday to Dmitri Shostakovich, born on this day in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1906. Learn the story behind his triumphant and enigmatic Fifth Symphony in our Shostakovich "Keeping Score" episode.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

11 months

Thank you, @SFSymphony . Thank you, San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Thank you, San Francisco. 💙 ___ 📷 Stefan Cohen

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 years

Welcome, Izzy!

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M. Tilson Thomas

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3 years

Back in the saddle! Beethoven with the @nwsymphony .

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 months

Thank you to my colleagues on stage and to our supporters in the audience. I felt the love we have for each other and for Mahler’s music. It was a week I will never forget. @londonsymphony

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M. Tilson Thomas

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6 months

Very excited to announce that I've been appointed Distinguished Professor of Music at the @SFConservMusic and that @PENTATONEmusic will be releasing a box-set collection of my compositions this fall! Read more at

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M. Tilson Thomas

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2 years

Celebrating my birthday under a redwood tree! #californialife

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M. Tilson Thomas

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6 months

Thank you @LAPhil for over 50 years of wonderful music together.

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M. Tilson Thomas

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4 years

It's California poppy time! #firstdayofspring

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@mtilsonthomas

3 months

#MTT80 // The music of Gustav Mahler, born on this day in 1860, has been a guiding light for MTT. This clip is from the finale of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, performed with the @BostonSymphony at @TanglewoodMusic Festival in 2018.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

#MayThe4th #JohnWilliams90 #ThankYouNWS

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

I’m deeply honored to have been named an Officer in the French Ordre des Arts et Lettres at a beautiful ceremony in San Francisco on Monday. 🇫🇷

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M. Tilson Thomas

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8 months

Thank you, San Francisco 💙 ___ 📷 Christopher M. Howard @SFSymphony

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

10 months

It was so much fun on Friday when “MTT Way” was unveiled. I’m so grateful to Mayor @LondonBreed and the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco for this honor, and to all our friends who joined us for a very special day.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

10 months

Thank you, @chicagosymphony for a beautiful week of music. Although we have been working together for over 50 years, every time we are together feels as fresh and as exciting as ever. Bravo to all. 📷 David Taylor

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

5 years

My family+teachers understood that the arts really matter when they have a creative role in a living tradition. Honored that @KenCen , a living center of both arts+ideals, has chosen to recognize my work. #KCHonors

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! This is me with my grandmother, Bessie Thomashefsky. ❤️

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

8 years

I guess Yuja likes me 😉 @YujaWang @SFSymphony #SFSAsiaTour

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

A wonderful memory with my dear friend @YujaWang , although sad to live through an April without baseball and the @SFGiants . #InThisTogether

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

Happy birthday, #Gershwin ! No better way to celebrate than with @YujaWang and the @londonsymphony . 🎶🥳 ___ 🎥 @medicitv

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

Writing thank you notes and packing up with Shoko Kashiyama, Oliver Theil, and Joshua. It’s been a great 25 years with the @SFSymphony !

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

To everyone who made these last 25 years, last 25 days, and last night so special: thank you. It has been a spectacular journey, and I look forward to being with all of you again soon. @SFSymphony #MTT25 📷 Brigitte Lacombe

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

9 months

A blast caroling at Linda Ronstadt’s with members of the SF Symphony Chorus. Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt and Governor Jerry Brown joined in. Super fun! 🎶 🔔

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

Back where we belong! Going on stage with @YujaWang at the @BarbicanCentre . Sensational to make music with my colleagues in the @londonsymphony . Rach 2 with Yuja and a tremendous Beethoven 5. My first public concert in 15 months!

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

What a special two weeks with the @SFSymphony . Brilliant music-making by the orchestra. So grateful to make music with @GautierCapucon and to surprise @YujaWang with an encore after hers! Photos by Stefan Cohen

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 months

#MTT80 // Some things never change! A young MTT reflects on the most important task of a conductor.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

8 months

#MTT80 // A classic MTT story for Mozart's birthday featuring a mass murderer with excellent taste... (Part 1/2)

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

6 months

#MTT80 // Play ball! MTT and @YujaWang don their @SFGiants gear.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

Today is #Shostakovich ’s birthday. Celebrate with me by deciphering his Fifth Symphony, written under Stalin’s oppressive rule. Watch “Keeping Score: Shostakovich” ▶️ ___ @SFSymphony

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

10 years

"38 years together, Tilson Thomas and Robison marry" http://t.co/e7U6x7rkn3 http://t.co/54xBv65DsA

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

5 years

Thank you for all of your well wishes. Your support means so much to me and to Joshua. I will report in after the procedure. Meanwhile, I look forward to sharing more music and life with you all. –MTT

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

10 months

So happy to be back on stage with the fantastic @chicagosymphony . Our 50+ years of making music together has been one of the joys of my life. Info ▶️

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

6 years

Thinking today of André Previn: a great musician, a great friend, a great man. We will miss you. Photo by Keith Saunders

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M. Tilson Thomas

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7 years

Looking back this season on #BernsteinAt100 , celebrating courageous & generous spirit.

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M. Tilson Thomas

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7 years

Two concertos/one concert (w/ @yujawang + @nwsymphony )

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M. Tilson Thomas

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8 months

After 50 years together, it still felt like a young romance. 💙 @SFSymphony 📷 Stefan Cohen

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

7 years

A meeting of longtime friends backstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall. With #JohnWilliams and #FrankGehry following last night's concert in #LosAngeles with the @SFSymphony .

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

8 years

Instrument swap– #backstage in #Seoul after #Shostakovich 's First #Piano Concerto w/ @YujaWang & #MarkInouye @SFSymphony #SFSAsiaTour

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

11 months

Happy 9th (and 47th!) anniversary, Joshua. What a wonderful life!

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

9 months

A birthday message from Team MTT 🎁 Today is MTT's 79th birthday! As we count down to 80, we'll be sharing treasures from the archives all year. If you have any favorite photos or memories of MTT you'd like us to consider sharing, DM us! #MTT80

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5 years

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M. Tilson Thomas

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3 years

"Amid all the angst and uncertainty of these troubling times, there’s one thing that can still reliably lift the spirits of music-lovers: seeing Michael Tilson Thomas walk onto the stage of Davies Symphony Hall." ❤️🌉

Review: Michael Tilson Thomas makes a heartening return to Davies Symphony Hall

With cellist Gautier Capuçon as an eloquent soloist, the former music director led the San Francisco Symphony in an all-Russian program.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

11 months

What a great group for my final Beethoven 9 at the @SFSymphony ! Paul Pelosi, Speaker Emeritus Pelosi, Nick and Susan Pritzker, @BobWeir and Natascha Weir, Lou Demattei and @AmyTan , and…Joshua.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

Wonderful to be back with my brilliant colleagues at the @SFSymphony and to share the stage with @dannyelfman and @GautierCapucon . A great night. 📸 Brittany Hosea-Small

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

5 years

I’m happy to invite you on a journey through #Mahler ’s life, from rural Bohemia to the greatest concert halls in the world. The two-part Keeping Score documentary has its streaming premiere tonight at 8pm ET / 5pm PT here:

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

First time conducting in 14 months!! Wonderful to be with the @nwsymphony Fellows again. Our first concert together is May 8, a tribute to the pioneers of American orchestral music. Info here:

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

An abundance of squash.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

1 year

Back in the saddle! Beethoven 9 with the @sfsymphony tonight and this weekend. 💙

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

5 years

I know this one! @nwsymphony @Jeopardy

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

And so we come to the end. Tune in tonight at 5pm PT (8pm ET) for the @SFSymphony 's celebration of our 25 years together. . ft. @AudraEqualityMc , Susan Graham, @YoYo_Ma , @ReneeFleming , @_JuliaBullock , @MeashaBG , Bonnie Raitt, Lars Ulrich & more.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

Happy #StarWarsDay ! ✨

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@mtilsonthomas

4 months

#MTT80 // MTT first saw Stravinsky (born #otd in 1882) conduct when he was 10 years old, and would go on to observe and work with the great composer during his student years. In this episode of “Keeping Score,” MTT dives into “The Rite of Spring.” ▶️

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

6 years

Ollie Knussen was the most spontaneous & erudite person I have ever known. His dedication, artistry & sense of humor brought so much to everyone who knew him. I will always remember him as the youthful bright spirit I met at Tanglewood so many years ago. I will miss him greatly.

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M. Tilson Thomas

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3 years

Essential viewing for #Stravinsky 's birthday. 🎶💃🏽🌿🌍👼🏽🔥🤔🤯🤬

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

At #Tanglewood and remembering my friend @LennyBernstein on his birthday.

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@mtilsonthomas

7 months

#MTT80 // Written for Audrey Hepburn in her role as an ambassador for @UNICEF , MTT’s composition “From the Diary of Anne Frank” received its world premiere on March 19, 1990, with the @nwsymphony . Audrey had grown up in occupied Holland identified strongly with Anne.

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7 years

Our ginger plant and our ginger dog!

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6 months

#MTT80 // A party at MTT's NYC loft in the 1980s with Stephen Sondheim, born on this day in 1930.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

6 years

Today would have been #AudreyHepburn ’s 89th birthday. Happy birthday to one of the loveliest people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

7 years

With @EmanuelAx , getting ready for our #tour with the @Vienna_Phil

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

A riotous premiere. A revolutionary piece. "Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring" is the next episode of "Keeping Score" to have its streaming debut. Tune in starting tonight at 8pm.

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@mtilsonthomas

6 months

The @laphil has never sounded better, and I am deeply grateful. It was a true collaboration. Special to be back in my hometown. ___ Photos by Timothy Norris, provided courtesy of the LA Phil

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

Happy first birthday, Izzy!

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6 months

Happy 100th birthday, “Sassy!” Making music with #SarahVaughan was a total joy, including our 1982 Gershwin recording, which won her a GRAMMY. She was a great artist and an interpretative genius. She left us way too soon. 💙 Full video ▶️

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

5 years

Maestro Maydela takes the podium at #SeveranceHall ! 🐩 🎶 😄 @CleveOrchestra

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

I want to thank my friend Nancy Pelosi for everything she has achieved for our country and what she has contributed to my life personally. Bravo, Nancy. Bravissimo. @SpeakerPelosi

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

Remembering Charles Ives today on his birthday. Ives could write the most beautiful, sentimental music or the most challenging, confrontational music, all of it included in this playlist >> 📸 From the Ives Centennial, 1974

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

10 months

Thank you, @chicagosymphony for a beautiful week of music. Although we have been working together for over 50 years, every time we are together feels as fresh and as exciting as ever. Bravo to all. 📷 David Taylor

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

11 months

A photo with Aaron Copland in honor of his birthday. 🎧

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

The only critic that really matters... ___ 📷 Ana María Estévez

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

4 years

Happy birthday, Mahler! Celebrate with the brand-new podcast "Embrace Everything," an exploration of Mahler's music. I was happy to participate in Season 1, focused on Symphony No. 1. **Apple: **Spotify:

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

Wonderful to connect with my friends in London. ____ 📷 @YujaWang , @maxinekwokvln , Mark Allan / @londonsymphony

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@mtilsonthomas

2 years

Maydela is happy to be back on stage at Disney Hall with the @LAPhil . As am I! 🎟️

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@mtilsonthomas

6 months

#MTT80 // On this day in 2009, MTT led the @YouTube Symphony Orchestra in a performance streamed live on YouTube from @carnegiehall . The musicians were selected from around the world to participate via video auditions.

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

6 years

My thanks to the members of the @Vienna_Phil for a brilliant #Mahler 9 at the @Musikverein . Looking forward to performing it with them in @CarnegieHall in March. Photos © Terry Linke

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#MTT80 // MTT was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic ( @BPOrchestra ) from 1971 to 1979, which required some changes to his wardrobe! This photo was taken in 1975. #MTT1970s

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

6 years

Maydela hopes to audition for the @LAPhil

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

Happy birthday to Aaron Copland, born #otd in 1900! ✨ Stream "Keeping Score: Copland and the American Sound" >> ✨ Listen to his Symphony No. 3 performed by the @SFSymphony >>

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

5 years

Waiting to go on next at the Kennedy Center Honors rehearsal? #KCHonors

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

7 years

Looking back at history of @NWSymphony as #NWSTurns30 . Here's @YujaWang after #Gershwin in 2013–she returns this week 📷 Rui Dias-Aidos

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

2 years

I am so saddened by the passing of the Queen. She was the long time patron of the London Symphony Orchestra and it was my honor to make music for her often. She listened with enormous attention and was warm in her appreciation of the excellence of the performers.

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@mtilsonthomas

8 months

#MTT80 // MTT traveled to rural Bohemia to visit Jihlava, the town where composer Gustav #Mahler grew up, for the documentary series “Keeping Score” created by the @sfsymphony in 2010. You can watch the whole series at

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6 years

Classical music's next great duo. Working title: Glamour Girls (w/ @YujaWang )

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M. Tilson Thomas

@mtilsonthomas

3 years

Thank you to the @nyphil musicians and staff, @GilShaham and everyone who came out to @LincolnCenter 's Alice Tully Hall last weekend. It was an honor to share this music with you all. 📸 Chris Lee

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