Michael Tilson Thomas Movies
- 2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story6.92018HD
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
- 2003
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique
Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique02003HD
A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique (1924) for which Antheil wrote the...
- 2006
Rehearsing a Dream
Rehearsing a Dream02006HD
Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old...
- 2000
John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music
John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music02000HD
Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and...
- 2009
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 502009HD
Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another...
- 1970
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 401970HD
How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From decoding the score, to...
- 1993
On the Town
On the Town01993HD
A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town" performed at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and...
- 1976
Carnival of the Animals
Carnival of the Animals5.91976HD
Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."
- 2012
Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys
Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys02012HD
Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical performance that features five...
- 2009
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique02009HD
In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life...
- 2006
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica102006HD
Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master....
- 2018
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood102018HD
In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its...
- 2015
London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5
London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 502015HD
The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert focusing on British and Russian...