Author: Michael Tilson Thomas

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I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

- 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.

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.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

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