San Francisco St Josephs Art Society Michael Tilson Thomas Medallion Award Live Stream
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Webcast: An MTT Celebration featuring Gil Shaham
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** ONLINE CONCERT **
Sat, May vii, 2022 at 8:00 PM ET
- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
- Gil Shaham, violin
Program
- Boulogne : Violin Concerto in Yard
- Mahler : Symphony No. v
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Join the New Globe Symphony family unit in celebrating our Co-Founder and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT). Gustav Mahler's symphonies take changed the way we think of music. And MTT is changing the way nosotros hear them. Half-dozen of his 12 Grammy Awards celebrate his explosively fresh interpretations of these symphonic masterpieces. Encounter extraordinary expression past MTT's side as he explores Mahler'southward Fifth Symphony, a rich panorama of life showcasing tender bereavement and beautiful jubilation. Gil Shaham shares the vigor and beauty in fellow virtuoso violinist Joseph Boulogne's 9th Concerto.
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Program
Joseph Boulogne
(1745-1799)
Approx. Duration: 22 minutes
Concerto No. 9 in Chiliad major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. eight, No. nine (1781)
Allegro
Largo
Rondeau
M r. Shaham
Intermission
Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911)
Approx. Duration: 68 minutes
Symphony No. v in C-sharp minor (1901-02)
Part I:
Trauermarsch
Stürmisch bewegt , mit grösster Vehemeng
Part II:
Scherzo: Kräftig , night zu schnell
Office III:
Adagietto, sehr langsam
Rondo – Finale: Allegro
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor 
Michael Tilson Thomas is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy; Music Managing director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony; and Usher Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. In improver to these posts, he maintains an active presence guest conducting with the major orchestras of Europe and the The states.
Built-in in Los Angeles, Mr. Tilson Thomas is the third generation of his family to follow an artistic career. His grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, were founding members of the Yiddish Theater in America. His begetter, Ted Thomas, was a producer in the Mercury Theater Company in New York earlier moving to Los Angeles where he worked in films and television set. His mother, Roberta Thomas, was the head of enquiry for Columbia Pictures.
Mr. Tilson Thomas began his formal studies at the Academy of Southern California, where he studied piano with John Crown, and conducting and composition with Ingolf Dahl. At age 19 he was named Music Director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. During this same period, he was the pianist and conductor in master classes of Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz and worked with Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen and Copland on premieres of their compositions at Los Angeles' Monday Evening Concerts.
In 1969, later on winning the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood, he was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That year he also made his New York debut with the Boston Symphony and gained international recognition after replacing Music Director William Steinberg in mid-concert. He was later appointed Principal Invitee Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra where he remained until 1974. He was Music Manager of the Buffalo Philharmonic from 1971 to 1979 and a Main Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1981 to 1985. His guest conducting includes appearances with the major orchestras of Europe and the U.s..
Mr. Tilson Thomas is a ii-fourth dimension Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist, curating and conducting serial at the hall from 2003 to 2005 and from 2018 to 2019. In the virtually contempo series, he led Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra of the Usa both at the hall and on tour in Asia, opened the Carnegie Hall flavor over 2 evenings with the San Francisco Symphony, conducted two programs with the Vienna Philharmonic and finished with a pair of concerts leading the New World Symphony.
A winner of 11 Grammy Awards, Mr. Tilson Thomas appears on more than 120 recordings. His discography includes The Mahler Project, a collection of the composer's complete symphonies and works for vocalism and orchestra performed with the San Francisco Symphony, in addition to pioneering recordings of music past Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Steve Reich, John Muzzle, Ingolf Dahl, Morton Feldman, George Gershwin, John McLaughlin and Elvis Costello. His recordings span repertoire from Bach and Beethoven to Debussy and Stravinsky, and from Sarah Vaughan to Metallica.
His television work includes a serial with the London Symphony Orchestra for BBC Tv set, broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts from 1971 to 1977 and numerous productions on PBS's Peachy Performances. With the San Francisco Symphony, he created a multi-tiered media projection, Keeping Score, which includes a television serial, spider web sites, and radio programs. He received a Peabody Award for his SFS Media radio series The MTT Files.
Mr. Tilson Thomas's compositions are published past Thousand. Schirmer. In 1991, he and the New Globe Symphony were presented in a series of do good concerts for UNICEF in the United states of america, featuring Audrey Hepburn as narrator of his work From the Diary of Anne Frank, which was commissioned by UNICEF. This piece has since been translated and performed in many languages worldwide. In August 1995, he led the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in the premiere of his composition Shówa/Shoáh, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. His song music includes settings of poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, which were premiered by Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming, respectively. In 2016, Yuja Wang premiered his piano piece You Come Hither Often?.
Mr. Tilson Thomas' vocal wheel Iv Preludes on Playthings of the Current of air, a setting of Carl Sandburg'southward poem, was premiered in 2016 by the New World Symphony, with Measha Brueggergosman equally soloist. In 2019 the piece was recorded for Medici.tv at the New World Heart and given its New York premiere as function of Mr. Tilson Thomas's second Carnegie Hall Perspectives series. His commencement Perspectives series too featured performances of his own compositions, including Island Music for four marimbas and percussion; Notturno for solo flute and strings, featuring soloist Paula Robison; and new settings of poems past Rainer Maria Rilke. In 2020, he led the San Francisco Symphony in the world premiere of his half dozen-part vocal cycle Meditations on Rilke, and he afterwards conducted the work at the Cleveland Orchestra. Additional compositions include Street Song for brass instruments; Agnegram, an overture for orchestra; and Urban Legend, a concerto for contrabassoon that was premiered by the San Francisco Symphony. In June 2020, SFS Media released an album of works equanimous by Mr. Tilson Thomas, featuring live concert recordings of From the Diary of Anne Frank, narrated by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and Meditations on Rilke, sung past mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny.
Mr. Tilson Thomas is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, is a member of the American University of Arts and Sciences, was Musical America's Musician of the Year and Conductor of the Twelvemonth, was Gramophone magazine's Artist of the Year and has been profiled on CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC'southward Nightline. He has been awarded the National Medal of Arts, has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a 2019 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
Gil Shaham, violin 
Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our fourth dimension: his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy Honour-winner is sought afterward throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the earth'south great concert stages and at the almost prestigious festivals.
Mr. Shaham'southward recent highlights include the acclaimed recording and performances of J.S. Bach's complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. In the coming seasons, in improver to championing these solo works, he will join his long-time duo partner pianist, Akira Eguchi in recitals throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Shaham'due south appearances with orchestra regularly include the Berlin Combo, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Combo, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and San Francisco Symphony also every bit multi-year residencies with the Orchestras of Montreal, Stuttgart and Singapore. Mr. Shaham continues his exploration of violin concertos from the 1930s, including the works of Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Erich Korngold, Sergei Prokofiev, amid many others.
Mr. Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his proper name, earning multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d'Or and Gramophone Editor's Pick. Many of these recordings appear on Canary Classics, the characterization he founded in 2004. His CDs include 1930s Violin Concertos, Virtuoso Violin Works, Elgar'due south Violin Concerto, Hebrew Melodies, The Butterfly Lovers and many more than. His nigh recent recording in the serial 1930s Violin Concertos Vol. 2, including Prokofiev'southward Violin Concerto and Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Mr. Shaham was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1971. He moved with his parents to Israel, where he began violin studies with Samuel Bernstein of the Rubin University of Music at the age of seven, receiving almanac scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1981 he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and State of israel Philharmonic, and the post-obit year, took the first prize in State of israel's Claremont Competition. He then became a scholarship educatee at The Juilliard Schoolhouse, and as well studied at Columbia Academy.
Mr. Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008 received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012 he was named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by Musical America. He plays the 1699 "Countess Polignac" Stradivarius, and lives in New York Metropolis with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony, and their three children.
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