Overview
When a 29-year-old conductor named Michael Tilson Thomas made his San Francisco Symphony debut in 1974, leading Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, few could have foreseen that this would evolve into one of the most successful unions of composer, conductor, and orchestra in recent memory. Now, in celebration of 50 years performing Mahler together, MTT and the Symphony present Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, which finds the composer at his most joyous and life-affirming.
Michael Tilson Thomas' appearance is supported by the Louise M. Davies Guest Conductor Fund.
These concerts, a part of The Barbro and Bernard Osher Masterworks Series, are made possible by a generous gift from Barbro and Bernard Osher.
These concerts are generously sponsored by the William and Gretchen Kimball Fund.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Open rehearsals are endowed by a bequest from The Estate of Katharine Hanrahan.