Seasons & Episodes
MTT on Music: The Making of a Performance
“Listen and obey! Fate decrees you must follow the road down to a place you have never imagined yet secretly always fe
Beethoven's Eroica
Beethoven’s Third Symphony Eroica, the “Heroic,” literally turned classical music on its head. Composing the first
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Copland and the American Sound
Dealing notes like cards in a game of poker, Aaron Copland gambled on a new American sound. His roots in Brooklyn’s Je
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
"I feel therefore I am." For Hector Berlioz, and for the Romantic movement he personified, those were words to live by.
Ives: Holidays Symphony
Ranging from tender sentiment to savage chaos, the music of early 20th-century composer Charles Ives explores an essenti
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Hidden beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5, Shostakovich may have left a subversive cipher. Publicly c
Gustav Mahler: Origins
In Origins Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to the provincial Austro-Hungarian city of Mahler's childhood, traces his musi
Gustav Mahler: Legacy
Legacy explores Mahler's grand achievements and great sorrows—his career-crowning appointments in Vienna and New York,
A Mahler Journey