Conductor, compsr, and pianist Michael Tilson Thomas (75) has had an illustrious decades-long career in music. He was the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony and the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Currently, he is the artistic director of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy based in Miami Beach. Tilson Thomas, who is openly gay, is the grandson of Yiddish theater stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who performed in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan.
Quote: “If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that’s most exciting.” | “I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that’s associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.”
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