3 December 2020 Michael Tilson Thomas But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
3 December 2020 Michael Tilson Thomas They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That’s the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
3 December 2020 Michael Tilson Thomas The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there’s been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.