35-1178: MTT can refer to: People [ edit ] Michael Tilson Thomas (nicknamed 'MTT'), American musician, conductor, pianist Technology and science [ edit ] Meaning–text theory , a theory in linguistics MTT assay using dimethyl thiazolyl diphenyl tetrazolium salt, a type of tetrazole Multi-transaction translator , a particular functional unit in USB hubs Business [ edit ] Marine Turbine Technologies Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company , later known as MTT or MT&T Transport [ edit ] Metropolitan Transport Trust , transport authority in Western Australia from 1958 to 2003 Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos National Airport , IATA code MTT Municipal Tramways Trust , former body in Adelaide, South Australia Fiction [ edit ] Multi-troop transport vehicle in Star Wars Mettaton,
70-533: A good response and continued to perform. He conducted until 1916, then Paul Bergé , until the orchestra disbanded in 1918. The orchestra reformed in 1930, still as a semi-professional orchestra, and gave its first full season of concerts the following year conducted by Uriel Nespoli . In the spring of 1936, the symphony society officially became the Houston Symphony Society. Ernst Hoffmann began his tenure that year with increased support from
105-517: 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
140-748: A prestigious date with the Philadelphia Orchestra . The orchestra performed in either the City Auditorium or the Music Hall until the construction in 1966 of the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts . In 2001, the orchestra lost millions of dollars' worth of instruments, music, and archives when Tropical Storm Allison flooded the basement levels of Jones Hall. In 2003, the musicians went on strike for 24 days, and
175-602: 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
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245-582: 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
280-634: Is an American orchestra based in Houston , Texas . The orchestra is resident at the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts . The first concert of what was to become the Houston Symphony took place on June 21, 1913, sponsored by the Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg . Initially, the orchestra was composed of only 35 part-time musicians. Despite its small stature and budget, the orchestra and its first conductor, Julien Paul Blitz , enjoyed
315-635: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 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 the San Francisco Symphony , and Conductor Laureate of
350-680: 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
385-646: 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 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
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#1732772601386420-624: 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
455-733: 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 a middle school history teacher, respectively. He
490-644: 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
525-625: 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
560-641: 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
595-620: 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
630-480: 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
665-543: The Houston Symphony gave the American premiere of the Symphony no. 11 of Dmitri Shostakovich , and subsequently made the first commercial recording of the work. When Stokowski invited African-American opera singer Shirley Verrett to sing with the Houston Symphony in the early 1960s, he was forced to rescind his invitation when the orchestra board refused to accept a black soloist. Stokowski later made amends by giving her
700-567: 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
735-595: 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
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#1732772601386770-528: 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
805-565: 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,
840-525: The Society and began hiring professional musicians. The orchestra continued to expand over the next several decades, and its first 52-week contract was signed in 1971. In 1946, the present-day Houston Symphony Chorus was founded as the Houston Chorale, and the chorus has performed with the Houston Symphony since then. Leopold Stokowski was music director from 1955 to 1961. During his tenure,
875-718: 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
910-539: 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
945-403: 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
980-559: The music of Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Steve Reich, John Cage, Ingolf Dahl, Morton Feldman, George Gershwin, John McLaughlin and Elvis Costello. He has recorded the complete orchestral works of Gustav Mahler with the San Francisco Symphony. Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Peabody Award National Medal of Arts Kennedy Center Honor Houston Symphony The Houston Symphony
1015-778: 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
1050-415: 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
1085-573: The orchestra. Andrés Orozco-Estrada became music director in September 2014, with an initial contract of five years. In March 2017, the orchestra announced an extension of Orozco-Estrada's contract through the 2021–2022 season. Orozco-Estrada and the orchestra have recorded commercially for the PENTATONE label. Orozco-Estrada concluded his Houston music directorship at the close of the 2021–2022 season. Juraj Valčuha first guest-conducted
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1155-414: The settlement included a pay cut for the musicians and a reduction in the size of the orchestra. Hans Graf was the music director of the orchestra from 2001 to 2013, the longest tenure of any Houston Symphony music director. In September 2009, the orchestra announced the conclusion of his tenure as music director at the end of the 2012–2013 season, upon which Graf took the title of conductor laureate of
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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