Michael Tilson Thomas conduct’s Britten’s ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell’ to open his gala concert with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall.

Michael Tilson Thomas leaves the stage for the last time with Joshua Robison, Edwin Outwater and Teddy Abrams at the end of his 80th birthday celebration at Davies Symphony Hall, April 26, 2025.

Despite starting treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer in summer 2021, Tilson Thomas astonishingly continued to conduct throughout the U.S. and even in Europe for the next three and a ...

Michael Thomas — a longtime person of interest in the killing of 34-year-old Julie Mitchell — requested that his meeting last week with investigators be virtual rather than in person before he ...