Michael Tilson Thomas

Most Popular Michael Tilson Thomas Trailers

Total trailers found: 20

Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master.

On the Town Trailer (1993)

22 December 1993

A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town" performed at the Barbican Centre in London

Keeping Score: Stravinsky Rite of Spring Trailer (2006)

06 November 2006

Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene of one of the most astounding opening nights in history.

Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique Trailer (2003)

21 September 2003

A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique (1924) for which Antheil wrote the music.

John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music Trailer (2000)

31 December 2000

Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and commentary from his collaborators and the master himself.

Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Trailer (2009)

30 October 2009

Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No.

Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys Trailer (2012)

24 April 2012

Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical performance that features five performers and the New World Symphony orchestra.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Trailer (2018)

06 June 2018

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2 Trailer (2019)

09 October 2019

S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs from the two-night event that opened San Francisco’s new Chase Center, with many Metallica fan favourites and two unique classical songs chosen by San Francisco Symphony Musical Director, Michael Tilson Thomas.

London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5 Trailer (2015)

12 March 2015

The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert focusing on British and Russian music, but with a nod to his native USA.

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood Trailer (2018)

28 December 2018

In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its entire 2018 season to the iconic composer, conductor, performer, educator and humanitarian.

Carnival of the Animals Trailer (1976)

22 November 1976

Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."

Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Trailer (2006)

14 November 2006

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

Steve Reich: A New Musical Language Trailer (1987)

09 June 1987

A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became accessible to the musical audience at large.

Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

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.

Rehearsing a Dream Trailer (2006)

25 August 2006

Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas.

Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is Trailer (2020)

23 October 2020

The life and career of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony and conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Keeping Score: Mahler Legacy Trailer (2011)

23 June 2011

Examining Mahler's creative flowering, from the 1890's to his untimely death at the age of 51, in 1911, including Symphonies 5 through 10, the Rückert songs and the "Song of the Earth".

Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy Trailer (2011)

10 May 2011

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.

Keeping Score: Mahler Origins Trailer (2011)

23 June 2011

Focusing on Mahler's birth, conflicted childhood and early influences in the backwoods of Bohemia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, through his student days in Vienna and early song-writing to his emerging triumph as a conductor in concert halls all over Europe.