Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had declared it Michael Tilson Thomas Day. City Hall glowed MTT’s trademark blue. Davies Symphony ...

FILE - 2019 Kennedy Center Honoree conductor Michael Tilson Thomas arrives at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner Saturday, Dec ...

“I am overjoyed to mark my 80th with the wonderful musicians of the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus,” said Tilson Thomas, who turned 80 on December 21, 2024. “I remember the fantastic celebrations ...

Renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is leading some of his final concerts. MTT, as he's long been known, has been battling brain cancer for the last four years. His cancer returned earlier this ...

Half a century ago, in the fall of 1969, Michael Tilson Thomas — a promising, young conductor and scion of Yiddish theater royalty — lifted his baton for his New York debut with the Boston Symphony ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua Robison in his home he shared with husband Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco on August 20, 2019. Robison, the longtime ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Famed conductor and ...

Two performances this weekend by the New World Symphony in Miami Beach are bound to be among the most poignant in its nearly 40-year history. They will mark the last time the symphony is led by the ...

Joshua Robison, the husband of conductor and music director Michael Tilson Thomas, died in his sleep Sunday night at his apartment in San Francisco. He was 79. News of Robison’s passing was confirmed ...

50 years ago, an up-and-coming young maestro made his San Francisco Symphony debut. Conducting Gustav Mahler's powerful Symphony No. 9, Michael Tilson Thomas started a musical partnership that would ...

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas’ brain tumor has returned, and the 80-year-old intends to lead his final performance in April. Thomas announced in August 2021 that he had undergone surgery for a ...