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	Michael Tilson Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944), nicknamed MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer.
		As a student of Friedlinde Wagner, Michael Tilson Thomas was a Musical Assistant and Assistant Conductor at the Bayreuth Festival.
		Tilson Thomas has conducted a wide variety of music, and is a particular champion of modern American works, recording the complete symphonies of Charles Ives and the premiere recording of Steve Reich's The Desert Music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Tilson_Thomas (412 words)

	Sony Classical Artist: Thomas, Michael Tilson (Biography) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael Tilson Thomas was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic (1971-79) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1981-85).
		For the orchestra´s UNICEF tour in 1989 Michael Tilson Thomas composed "From the Diary of Anne Frank", which was narrated by Audrey Hepburn.
		In 1988 Michael Tilson Thomas succeeded Claudio Abbado as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/tilson_thomas/bio.htm (432 words)

	Michael Tilson Thomas
		Tilson Thomas began his formal studies in music at the University of Southern California where he studied piano, conducting and composition.
		In 1994 Michael Tilson Thomas was awarded the Ditson Conductor's Award from Columbia University for his service to American Music, and in 1995 he was named "Conductor of the Year" by the Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts.
		With the BPO Michael Tilson Thomas also made two exceptional recordings for Columbia records including the music of American composers Carl Ruggles and Charles Ives as well as a brilliant set of Gershwin show overtures - a recording which was doubly successful as part of the sound track of the Woody Allen film Manhattan.
	www.music.buffalo.edu /bpo/mtt.htm (649 words)

	American Mavericks : Press : Michael Tilson Thomas
		Michael Tilson Thomas is the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, the Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
		Tilson Thomas' works for television is a series with the London Symphony Orchestra for the BBC, including programs on Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel and Ein Heldenleben, Sibelius' Symphony No. 6, Beethoven's Symphonies No. 3 and 5, and an examination of late 19th century Russian music.
		Tilson Thomas and the orchestra were presented in a series of benefit concerts for UNICEF in the United States, featuring Audrey Hepburn as narrator of From the Diary of Anne Frank, composed by Mr.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /press/bio_mtt.html (1061 words)

	classical music - andante - michael tilson thomas on mahler's third symphony
		MTT: Understanding a little bit, through my own experience, of the process involved in composing a piece of music — and please understand, I mean this in all humility — there are initial "takes" you get when the initial germs for a piece come into your mind.
		Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony juxtapose Boulez and Messiaen with Ravel and Debussy.
		Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony bring their Russian Music Festival to a triumphant close with a semi-staged performance of Rimsky Korsakov's operatic rarity.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=20173 (2047 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats
		Tilson Thomas conducts tight performances, honing a professional edge on the Mahler and the first disc performance of Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" suite.
		Tilson Thomas' instincts don't seem to allow him to linger over unusual contours, and he lacks the rhythmic harmonic weight that marks the best Copland performances of, say, Bernstein.
		On an accompanying press video interview, Tilson Thomas talks about "layering" some parts of his recordings track by track, a technique borrowed from the pop world that he says allows a kind of precision that would be difficult or impossible in a performance.
	www.salon.com /july97/sharps/sharps970702.html (715 words)

	Michael Tilson Thomas News
		MICHAEL Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have been performing and recording the complete Mahler Symphonies for some time.
		Michael Tilson Thomas' return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription series Thursday night at Symphony Center, after an absence of a dozen years, told us much about why San Francisco seems to love its...
		Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have one foot out the door on the eve of next month's journey to China -- assuming a settlement of the labor...
	www.topix.net /who/michael-tilson-thomas (685 words)

	Making Music: Michael Tilson Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael Tilson Thomas is celebrated internationally as a conductor and pianist, but over the past decade audiences have begun to appreciate him also as a composer.
		Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) began inventing music as a child, and the contemporary-music circles in which he worked as a young pianist proved fertile ground for unveiling his creations.
		Tilson Thomas won the Koussevitzky Prize and was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony.
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	Michael Tilson Thomas
		Michael Tilson Thomas, the ebullient synthesis of genius and energy who has lit up the Bay Area music scene since 1995, often enlivens an audience with tales and anecdotes before picking up his baton.
		Aside from his tasks as San Francisco Symphony music director, Tilson Thomas is the founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony (Miami Beach, FL), principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.
		Tilson Thomas is dressed in what Robison smilingly refers to as "his pre-matinee attire": white shirt, patterned sleeveless sweater and slacks.
	www.nobhillgazette.com /archives/mtt.htm (1688 words)

	Cheryl North Interviews Michael Tilson Thomas
		Ten years ago, when MTT assumed the post of music director of the San Francisco Symphony, he knew he was in for something special.
		Milestones of the MTT and SFS collaboration include the commissioning of 20 new works and a number of fresh new insights into masterpieces from the past.
		MTT is an uncharacteristically youthful 60 -- slim and lithe as a dancer with salt and pepper hair that often falls boyishly over his forehead.
	www.northworks.net /c_mtt.htm (845 words)

	American Mavericks: Michael Tilson Thomas \| 91FM \| WHYY
		Tilson Thomas began his formal studies at the University of Southern California, where he studied piano, conducting and composition, and at age 19 was named Music Director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra.
		Tilson Thomas is also noted for his commitment to music education, guest lecturing at Carnegie Hall, and leading the television broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts from 1971 to 1977.
		Tilson Thomas and the Symphony have also presented five summer festivals devoted to the music of Mahler, Stravinsky and American Mavericks; each of those festivals focused the attention of the international music community on the West Coast of America.
	www.whyy.org /publications/91fmmavericks_mtt.html (683 words)

	Michael Tilson Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He received the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood at age 25 and was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra soon after.
		Tilson Thomas has served as principal conductor and guest conductor to numerous symphony orchestras.
		He was commissioned by UNICEF to compose From the Diary of Anne Frank, and for Shówa/Shóah, a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
	www.ovationtv.com /rhythm/thomas.html (98 words)

	Amazon.com: Ives: An American Journey: Music: Michael Tilson Thomas,Charles Ives,San Francisco Symphony and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tilson Thomas cites Ives's desire for performers to creatively shape his music, and this disc vindicates his editorial liberties by making Ives's surprising music even more unpredictable.
		Thomas Hampson is the grateful choice for the songs and he sings with an abandon apropos of the texts.
		Thomas Hampson secures his position as the best singer of American songs with highly dramatized, unbuttoned singing--his Charlie Rutlage, a Texas-accented elegy for a fallen cowpoke, and the familiar General William Booth Enters Into Heaven are instant classics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UED6?v=glance (2303 words)

	Amazon.com: Mahler: Symphony No. 7 [Hybrid SACD]: Music: Gustav Mahler,Michael Tilson Thomas,San Francisco Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael Tilson Thomas's Mahler cycle continues with this well-played Seventh.
		Michael Tilson Thomas has Mahler circulating in his veins, and if his interpretations of each o these works vary a bit from performance from one year to the next, it is because he senses the spirit of Mahler and follows it.
		MTT is a local hero, but that's not enough to make one a great Mahler conductor, just as the skill of the San Francisco Sym.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000B66OQM?v=glance (2394 words)

	Michael Tilson Thomas: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael Tilson Thomas[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] (born December 21, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_tilson_thomas.htm (931 words)

	Michael Tilson Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael Tilson Thomas is a distinguished conductor sharing the gift of music with audiences all over the world.
		Adding to his busy schedule, Tilson Thomas also shares his time readying young musicians for the symphony job market and training them for a career in an orchestra.
		Eleven years ago Tilson Thomas founded the Miami based New World Symphony, America¹s only full time, national training orchestra.
	www.giles.com /yamaha1/content/as/ANtilson.html (265 words)

	Michael Tilson Thomas ?
		MTT is especially good at keeping music sounding fresh, rather than something you've heard over and over.
		MTT also gives musicians under him a lot of leeway in interpreting the piece.
		One of Michael Tilson Thomas's recordings I like is of Darius Milhaud's chamber ballet on Harlem jazz themes "La Creation du Monde" which combines classical and jazz techniques and has several interesting parts for stringed instruments.
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	Thomas, Michael Tilson on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A stimulating evening at Cleveland Orchestra: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts moving program.
		THOMAS, MICHAEL TILSON [Thomas, Michael Tilson] 1944-, American conductor, composer, and pianist, b.
		Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas works to help the public keep score of living classical music
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/ThomasM1T1.asp (407 words)

	New World Symphony - America's Orchestral Academy
		It’s different because this season we are adding a three-concert series at Miami’s new Performing Arts Center with our very own Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
		New World, which is scheduled to perform at the PAC opening, will officially open its residency on Oct. 21, 2006 with a repertoire that includes chestnuts like Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice as well as Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
		All three concerts will be conducted by New World director Michael Tilson Thomas, a superstar in his own right.
	www.nws.org (382 words)

	1944 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
		November 2 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b.
		November 5 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
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	Michael Tilson Thomas - CONNECT, Powered By Sony
		With the titles Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Pacific Music Festival, Michael Tilson Thomas has built quite a reputation for himself in the music industry.
		He is internationally known as a composer and a conductor, combining his own eclectic style with various American music styles.
		During his career he has worked with such music greats as Igor Stravinsky,...
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	Michael Tilson Thomas
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