Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony through Mahler Symphony No. 2 at the Kimmel Center, March 23
MARCH 9, 2010
Michael Tilson Thomas
One of the world’s foremost Mahler interpreters, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony through Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 8pm. Known as the Resurrection, Symphony No. 2 in C minor was Mahler’s first major symphonic work revealing his thoughts on the afterlife and resurrection.
Tilson Thomas launched his first recording of Mahler’s symphony cycle in 2002, following the September 11 attacks, when his recording of Symphony No. 6 propelled the orchestra into the international limelight. Since then, Tilson Thomas has completed all 10 of Mahler’s recordings, with three recent 2010 Grammy Awards for recordings of Symphony No. 8 (“Symphony of a Thousand”) and the Adagio from Symphony No. 10.
Tickets for San Francisco Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas are $39 to $113 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.
A limited number of $10 community rush tickets will be available for this performance. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the
Michael Tilson Thomas was recently honored with the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama on February 25, 2010. Heralded for his wit, charm, fantasy and irony (Gramophone) in leading some of the world’s top orchestras, he has been the music director of the San Francisco Symphony for the past 14 years. His recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the San Francisco Symphony marks a major milestone, as he is the first American conductor to record the complete cycle since Leonard Bernstein’s New York Philharmonic recordings in the 1960s.
Tilson Thomas’s “Keeping Score” project, a television documentary series on PBS, exemplifies his spiritual pursuit of educating lay audiences of classical music’s offerings. The second season aired October 15, 2009, with innovative, thought-provoking classical content exploring the life and works of various composers, paired with orchestral performances. “Keeping Score” also appears on National Public Radio and on the internet, and has become a national model for classroom arts integration for K-12 teachers. As founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony’s orchestra of young instrumentalists in
Tilson Thomas previously performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1970s and ‘80s at the Saratoga Springs Festival and the
Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season is sponsored by Citi. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents.
Free at the Kimmel programming and subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.
The
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 8pm
Verizon Hall
Great Orchestras On Tour
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Laura Claycomb, soprano
Katarina Karnéus, alto
Jonathan Dimmock, organist
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