About this concert
"Perspectives artist Michael Tilson Thomas’s brilliance as conductor and composer are showcased. His Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind takes its text from a Carl Sandburg poem and was composed for soprano Measha Brueggergosman. This unique song cycle—scored for three singers, chamber orchestra, and cabaret band—is a fascinating fusion of art song and bebop. Tilson Thomas’s mastery of Mahler is featured in a performance of the composer’s string orchestra arrangement of Schubert’s powerful string quartet. Fellow Perspectives artist Yuja Wang is also on hand for the New York premiere of a Tilson Thomas work for solo piano.
Performers
New World Symphony
America’s Orchestral Academy
Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director and Conductor
Measha Brueggergosman, Soprano
Yuja Wang, Piano
with
Mikaela Bennett, Vocals
Kara Dugan, Vocals
Program
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Work for Solo Piano (NY Premiere)
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (NY Premiere)
SCHUBERT String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, ""Death and the Maiden"" (arr. for string orchestra by Mahler)
Tickets on sale:
August 6 at 8 AM for subscribers and members
August 20 at 8 AM for the general public"
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Michael Tilson Thomas Biography
Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) assumed his post as the San Francisco Symphony's (SFS) eleventh Music Director in September 1995, consolidating a strong relationship with the Orchestra that began with his debut here in 1974 at the age of twenty-nine. Along with his post here in San Francisco, MTT serves as Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, a national training orchestra for the most gifted graduates of America's conservatories, which he founded in 1988 and as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Principal Conductor for seven years.
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