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Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from Stalin’s totalitarian forces could have meant a sentence to the Gulag or worse.... When he penned this fifth symphony, the composer was literally writing for his life. The risk was so high that Shostakovich slept on the stairs outside his apartment so the secret police would not wake his family when they came from him, as he was sure they would. This Keeping Score episode, investigates the arresting symphony that would either redeem Shostakovich or doom him. Did he dare hide a kernel of musical criticism in what appears to be a paean to the Motherland? Join Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony as they explore the hidden language of this masterwork. Episode includes full-length concert performance of Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor by the San Francisco Symphony.

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony rehearse and perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Metallica a joué le premier d’une série de deux concerts au San Francico’s Chase Center à l’occasion du 20ème anniversaire de leur album live 'orchestral'. Divisé en deux parties, le concert d’une durée de 3 heures a été dirigé par le chef d’orchestre américain Edwin Outwater ainsi que par Michael Tilson Thomas qui a fait une apparition surprise durant la prestation. Metallica y était accompagné par 75 musiciens classiques et a joué devant plus de 16.000 personnes : 1. The Ecstasy of Gold 2. The Call of Ktulu 3. Master of Puppets 4. Of Wolf And Man 5. The Thing That Should Not Be 6. Fuel 7. The Memory Remains 8. No Leaf Clover 9. Hero of the Day 10. Devil's Dance 11. Bleeding Me 12. Nothing Else Matters 13. Until It Sleeps 14. For Whom the Bell Tolls 15. Minus Human (- Human) 16. Wherever I May Roam 17. Outlaw Torn 18. Sad But True 19. One 20. Enter Sandman 21. Battery

Concert unique S&M2 marque le 20e anniversaire des concerts révolutionnaires S&M de Metallica et de leur album enregistré avec l’orchestre symphonique de San Francisco (San Francisco Symphony). Assistez à leur nouvelle performance avec cet orchestre qui sera pour partie dirigé lors de ce show par le chef d’orchestre Michael Tilson Thomas à l’aube de sa dernière saison à San Francisco. Filmé en direct les 6 et 8 septembre 2019, ce show marque aussi l’inauguration historique du Chase Center, la toute nouvelle et moderne aréna située sur les quais de la ville.

Mahler's Symphony No.1 by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra including selected movements of the fifth, seventh and ninth symphonies and the complete Songs of a Wayfarer with baritone Thomas Hampson.

How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From decoding the score, to uncovering Tchaikovsky's history, Michael Tilson Thomas gives us a backstage pass to the making of a performance.

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.

In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life upside down to meet her. Frantic months turned into years when he suddenly heard rumors about Harriet and another man. Believing himself cured, he wrote a ‘fantastic’ symphony complete with a special theme, the idée fixe, to represent his former obsession.

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.