The B-Sides is a symphony in five movements for electronica and orchestra by the American composer Mason Bates . The work was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (to whom the piece is dedicated), with support from the Ralph I. Dorfman Commissioning Fund. It was premiered May 20, 2009 at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco , with Michael Tilson Thomas leading the San Francisco Symphony.
35-468: [REDACTED] Look up B-sides in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. B-Sides or B-Side may refer to: Music [ edit ] B-side , the second side of a record or cassette The B-Sides (composition) , a 2009 symphony by Mason Bates The B-Sides (band) , a 2000s American rock group "B Side", a song by San Cisco , 2016 "B-Side",
70-554: A 2016 documentary film by Errol Morris "B Sides" ( Cloak & Dagger ) , a 2019 television episode Other uses [ edit ] Friday Night Funkin B-Sides, a popular modification for Friday Night Funkin' Side B Christians See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with B-Side B-Sides and Rarities (disambiguation) List of B-side compilation albums Side B (EP) , by Christina Grimmmie, 2017 B-Sides The Beatles , an album by
105-844: A highly focused manner. So, like the forgotten bands from the flipside of an old piece of vinyl, The B-Sides offers brief landings on a variety of peculiar planets, unified by a focus on fluorescent orchestral sonorities and the morphing rhythms of electronica. The work has a duration of roughly 22 minutes and is composed in five movements : The B-Sides is scored for electronica and orchestra, comprising two flutes (1st doubling piccolo ), two oboes (2nd doubling English horn ), E-flat clarinet (doubling bass clarinet ), two clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons , contrabassoon , four French horns , three trumpets , two trombones , bass trombone , tuba , three percussionists, harp , piano , strings . The B-Sides has received mostly positive responses from critics. Joshua Kosman of
140-517: A live concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, April 15. The concert was later made available on YouTube. On March 20, 2011, Tilson Thomas also conducted the "YTSO2" (YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2) in Sydney . In October 2017, the orchestra announced that Tilson Thomas would conclude his tenure as its music director at the close of the 2019–2020 season, and subsequently take the title of music director laureate. His first television appearances were in
175-533: A middle school history teacher, respectively. He is the grandson of noted Yiddish theater stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky , who performed in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan. The family talent goes back to Tilson Thomas's great-grandfather, Pincus, an actor and playwright, and before that to a long line of cantors ; his father, Theodor Herzl Tomashefsky (Ted Thomas), was also
210-865: A poet and painter. He was an only child and musical prodigy. Tilson Thomas studied piano with John Crown and composition and conducting under Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California , where he graduated from the USC Thornton School of Music '67 and MM '76. As a student of Friedelind Wagner , Tilson Thomas was a Musical Assistant and Assistant Conductor at the Bayreuth Festival . Tilson Thomas lives in San Francisco with his husband and partner of over 40 years, Joshua Robison. The couple married on November 2, 2014. On August 6, 2021, Tilson Thomas disclosed publicly for
245-602: A prime-time special, Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals , a combined live action/animated broadcast of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns . In 2011, he hosted a concert stage show celebrating his grandparents and the music of American Yiddish theatre The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater , which aired in 2012 on the PBS series "Great Performances." Tilson Thomas hosted
280-552: A song by Khruangbin and Leon Bridges , 2022 Albums [ edit ] B-Side (album) , by Mr. Children, 2007 B-Sides (Avril Lavigne album) , 2001 B-Sides (Danko Jones album) , 2009 B-Sides (The Enemy album) , 2008 B-Sides (Helix album) , 1999 B-Sides (Slade album) , 2007 The B-Sides (The Gaslight Anthem album) , 2014 B Sides , by Brooke Fraser , 2018 B-Sides , by Tom Rosenthal , 2013 B-Sides: 1996–2006 , by Placebo , 2011 EPs [ edit ] B-Side (EP) , by Baiyu, or
315-582: Is also renowned for his interpretation of the works of Gustav Mahler ; he has recorded all nine Mahler symphonies and other major orchestral works with the San Francisco Symphony. These recordings have been released on the high-resolution audio format Super Audio CD on the San Francisco Symphony's own recording label. Tilson Thomas is also known as a premier interpreter of the works of Aaron Copland , Charles Ives , and Steve Reich . A sampling of Tilson Thomas's own compositions include From
350-487: Is at his finest and most convincing as a symphonic colorist working with a wide palette." Richard Scheinin of the San Jose Mercury News wrote: An artful orchestrator and schemer — he knows how to move, stealthily, from A to Z and back — his works drip with delicate atmospherics while prowling through beats and weaving warm harmonies and some convincing melodies into the spaced-out tapestry. All of that
385-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The B-Sides (composition) Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas first approached Bates about the commission during a concert intermission between performances of Tchaikovsky and Brahms . Bates wrote: Fresh off the podium after the concerto, and apparently undistracted by the looming symphony in
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#1732790761753420-622: Is intended to record and preserve his grandparents' theatrical achievements, and is on the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music . Due to health concerns, Tilson Thomas announced on March 2, 2022, he would be stepping down as the Artistic Director of the New World Symphony and instead serve as the Artistic Director Laureate. From 1968 to 1994, Tilson Thomas
455-596: Is true of The B-Sides , as is this: It's often hard to tell where Bates' purely acoustic sounds end and where his electronica begins; he is that skillful an integrator of his materials. Michael Tilson Thomas Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is Artistic Director Laureate of the New World Symphony , an American orchestral academy in Miami Beach, Florida , Music Director Laureate of
490-624: The Keeping Score television series, nine one-hour documentary-style episodes and eight live-concert programs, which began airing nationally on PBS stations in early November 2006. He and the San Francisco Symphony have examined the lives and music of Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Charles Ives, Hector Berlioz, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tilson Thomas has made more than 120 recordings, including works by Bach, Mahler, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Stravinsky as well as his pioneering work with
525-476: The San Francisco Chronicle lauded the piece, writing: ...one of the great virtues of The B-Sides is that the electronics are rarely the point of the exercise, any more than the inclusion of massed brass or a wind machine is the point of a Richard Strauss tone poem . Rather, the electronic beats - cannily shaped and finessed during performance by the composer, hunched over his laptop in
560-813: The San Francisco Symphony , and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra . He gave his last performance with the San Francisco Symphony in January 2024 while fighting brain cancer. He led the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven's 9th Symphony on November 14, 2024. Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California, to Ted and Roberta Thomas, a Broadway stage manager and
595-625: The YouTube Symphony Orchestra , an orchestra whose members were selected from 30 countries based on more than 3,000 video auditions on YouTube. The Orchestra, as well as such soloists as Mason Bates , Measha Brueggergosman , Joshua Roman , Gil Shaham , Yuja Wang , and Jess Larsen, and participated in a classical music summit in New York City at the Juilliard School over three days. The event culminated in
630-641: The Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, airing from 1971 to 1977. He has also made regular appearances on PBS, with broadcasts featuring Tilson Thomas airing from 1972 through 2008. Eight episodes of WNET's Great Performances series have featured Tilson Thomas. He has also been featured on Japan's NHK and the BBC many times in the last three decades. In 1976, Tilson Thomas appeared alongside Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in
665-620: The Boston Symphony as Principal Guest Conductor until 1974 and made several recordings with the orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon . He was music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra from 1971 to 1979, and recorded for Columbia Records with the orchestra. Between 1971 and 1977, he also conducted the series of Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic as well as
700-480: The Diary of Anne Frank (1990), Shówa/Shoáh (1995, memorializing the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima ), Poems of Emily Dickinson (2002) and Urban Legend (2002). Tilson Thomas has also been devoted to music education. He leads a series of education programs titled Keeping Score which offers insight into the lives and works of great composers, and led a series of Young People's Concerts with
735-567: The Los Angeles Philharmonic again in the Mahler Eighth, announcing jokingly, "Now where were we?" In 1987, Tilson Thomas founded the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida , an orchestral academy for gifted young musicians whose stated mission is "to prepare highly-gifted graduates of distinguished music programs for leadership roles in orchestras and ensembles around the world." He played an instrumental role in
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#1732790761753770-595: The New World Symphony as of June 1, 2022. From 1988 to 1995, Tilson Thomas was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), and recorded with them for such labels as Columbia (now Sony Classical), including the Symphony No. 3 of Mahler. From 1995, he held the title of principal guest conductor with the LSO, and became conductor laureate in 2016. Tilson Thomas became the San Francisco Symphony 's 11th Music Director in 1995. He originally made his debut with
805-528: The New York Philharmonic. Tilson Thomas founded the New World Symphony in Miami in 1987. Most recently, Tilson Thomas has led two incarnations of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra , which brings young musicians from around the world together for a week of music making and learning. Tilson Thomas currently serves as president of the Tomashefsky Project, a $ 2 million undertaking formed in 2017 that
840-565: The San Francisco Symphony presented a landmark 12-concert American Mavericks Festival, recognizing the innovative works of 20th century American composers. Additional season-ending festivals in Davies Symphony Hall have included explorations of the music of Wagner , Prokofiev , Mahler, Stravinsky , Beethoven and Weill , including semi-staged productions of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera-ballet Mlada , Beethoven's Fidelio , and Wagner's The Flying Dutchman . During his tenure,
875-517: The Smithereens, 2008 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title B-Sides . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=B-Sides&oldid=1188581282 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
910-718: The Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra based in Los Angeles. From 1981 to 1985, he was principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . During a 1985 performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl , a (police) helicopter flew over the venue, disrupting the concert. Tilson temporarily left the stage. In 2007, he returned to the Hollywood Bowl leading
945-513: The back of the percussion section - become one of many resources in his orchestral palette. Despite expressing misgivings for Bates's "rather self-consciously hip" style, Lawrence A. Johnson of the Chicago Classical Review called the symphony "much more substantial" and remarked, "Scored for large orchestra, The B-Sides shows that, despite his reputation as a composer whose music is dominated by rhythmic pop influences, Bates
980-539: The development of the Frank Gehry -designed New World Center in Miami Beach, which opened in 2011, and currently maintains a relationship with the organization as Artistic Director Laureate. (The two had personal history, with Gehry sometimes having baby-sat for Tilson Thomas back when both were growing up in Los Angeles. ) In March 2022, Tilson Thomas announced that he is to stand down as Artistic Director of
1015-403: The first time that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, called glioblastoma multiforme . On January 9, 2022, Tilson Thomas returned to his hometown to conduct—for the first time since his cancer disclosure—the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Despite the small audience at Walt Disney Hall due to more than 43,000 newly-diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in L.A. County, Tilson Thomas
1050-778: The orchestra began to issue recordings on its own SFS Media label. In April 2005, he conducted the Carnegie Hall premiere of The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, partly as a tribute to his own grandparents. Other American orchestras have since performed this production, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic , Boston Symphony Orchestra , Philadelphia Orchestra , New York Philharmonic , New World Symphony and San Francisco Symphony . It has also been recorded for future broadcast on PBS . Tilson Thomas collaborated with YouTube in 2009 to help create
1085-415: The orchestra in January 1974 conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 9 . During his first season with the San Francisco Symphony, Tilson Thomas included a work by an American composer on nearly every one of his programs, including the first performances ever by the orchestra of music by Lou Harrison , and culminated with "An American Festival," a two-week focus on American music. In June 2000, Tilson Thomas and
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1120-429: The second half, he suggested a collection of five pieces focusing on texture and sonority — perhaps like Schoenberg 's Five Pieces for Orchestra . Since my music had largely gone in the other direction — large works that bathed the listener in immersive experiences — the idea intrigued me. I had often imagined a suite of concise, off-kilter symphonic pieces that would incorporate the grooves and theatrics of electronica in
1155-553: The title song, 2010 B-Sides (Damien Rice EP) , 2004 B-Sides (Pin-Up Went Down EP) , 2012 B-Sides (Smile Empty Soul EP) , 2007 The B-Sides (EP) , by Adam and the Ants, 1982 The B-Sides/The Conversation , by the Afghan Whigs, 1994 B-Sides , by G-Eazy , 2019 The B-Sides, 2011–2014 , by Jon Pardi , 2015 Film and television [ edit ] The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography ,
1190-431: Was greeted warmly by the appreciative audience. He proceeded to lead an acclaimed concert of works by Gabriel Fauré, Tilson Thomas' own Meditations on Rilke —wistful reflections on life and death as the composer turned 75 in 2019—and to conclude, a stunning performance of Sergei Prokofiev's monumental 5th Symphony. Tilson Thomas has conducted a wide variety of music and is a particular champion of modern American works. He
1225-685: Was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival seven times. After winning the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood in 1969, Tilson Thomas was named Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra . That same year, he made his conducting debut with the orchestra, replacing an unwell William Steinberg mid-concert and thereby coming into international recognition at the age of 24. He stayed with
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