M. Tilson Thomas

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📷 MTT in Buffalo in the 1970s

On February 4, 1988, MTT led the @nwsymphony in its inaugural concert at the Gusman Cultural Center in downtown Miami. The New World Symphony moved into the Lincoln Theatre in 1989.
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MTT's delightful composition "Lope," premiered by the New World Symphony on February 2, 2018, was "inspired by a lifetime of living with dogs."
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Happy #Grammys Day! In 2000, MTT and the @SFSymphony's Stravinsky recording featuring Le Sacre du printemps, The Firebird, and Perséphone won three awards: Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album.
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I often feel as if I have a personal relationship with the composers whose music I play, many of whom are no longer living. [...] As I play over their scores, it is as if I can hear them speaking through the phrases, asking, ‘Can you hear me? Do you understand?’