Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this performance of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which was originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009 as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this performance of Charles Ives' Holidays Symphony, which was originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009 as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.

Coverage of the 2011 Centennial Opening Night Gala of the San Francisco Symphony. The event was overseen by the San Francisco Symphony's current Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas, and featured performances by musicians including violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, which was originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009 as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.

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Michael Tilson Thomas and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform three works by Charles Ives, Jean Sibelius and Richard Wagner. Recorded in 1970 at the Symphony Hall, Boston, the featured works are Ives' 'Three Places in New England', Sibelius's 'Symphony No. 4', and Wagner's 'Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey' from 'Götterdämmerung'.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this performance of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', which was originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2006 as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.

Coverage of the 2011 Centennial Opening Night Gala of the San Francisco Symphony. The event was overseen by the San Francisco Symphony's current Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas, and featured performances by musicians including violinist Itzhak Perlman.