When Michael Tilson Thomas walked on stage at Davies Symphony Hall Saturday night, two things were evident. One: the applause ...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had declared it Michael Tilson Thomas Day. City Hall glowed MTT’s trademark blue. Davies Symphony Hall, where Tilson Thomas presided over the San Francisco Symphony ...

But his most celebrated undertaking was the Symphony’s years-long Mahler project. Conceived and produced by Thomas, the ...

Half a century ago, in the fall of 1969, Michael Tilson Thomas — a promising, young conductor and scion of Yiddish theater royalty — lifted his baton for his New York debut with the Boston ...