San Francisco Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas’ mind tumor has returned, he says, and the 80-year-old intends to guide his closing efficiency in April.
Thomas introduced in August 2021 that he had undergone surgical procedure for a glioblastoma, a type of most cancers identified to kind within the mind or spinal wire. He returned to conduct with a decreased schedule and the next March resigned as inventive director of the New World Symphony in Miami Seaside, Florida, after 34 seasons. He led the New York Philharmonic’s opening subscription program in September 2024.
Thomas, identified extensively as MTT, particularly within the Bay Space after serving because the San Francisco’s fashionable music director from 1995 to the shut of the 2109-20 season, is slated to conduct his closing live performance in April on the San Francisco Symphony in April, in what’s a belated celebration of his eightieth birthday.
“The 3½ years since the initial diagnosis have been a special time in my life, filled with friends, family, and music,” Thomas mentioned in an announcement. ” They’ve additionally been difficult as I needed to endure a second operation and handle problems from the remedies which have held the tumor at bay.”
Thomas mentioned there are remedy choices for the tumor, “but the odds are uncertain.”
Thomas was additionally music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic from 1971-1979.
He’s to conduct the New World Symphony on March 29 and 30, and on April 5 and 6, then the San Francisco Symphony on April 26 in a belated eightieth birthday celebration.
“At that point we all get to say the old show business expression, ‘It’s a wrap,’” he mentioned. “A coda is a musical element at the end of a composition that brings the whole piece to a conclusion. A coda can vary greatly in length. My life’s coda is generous and rich.”
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