{"id":12153,"date":"2023-11-13T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12153"},"modified":"2023-11-13T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:38:15","slug":"san-francisco-names-street-conductor-michael-tilson-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/11\/13\/san-francisco-names-street-conductor-michael-tilson-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Names Street After Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12154\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Michael-Tilson-Thomas.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Tilson Thomas\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Michael-Tilson-Thomas.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Michael-Tilson-Thomas-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Michael-Tilson-Thomas-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Michael-Tilson-Thomas-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tilson Thomas (Photo courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city of San Francisco will honour the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s former music director, Michael Tilson Thomas, by naming a street after him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s Up: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mayor of San Francisco, London N. Breed, has announced that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sf.gov\/news\/mayor-breed-proposes-honoring-longtime-san-francisco-symphony-music-director-michael-tilson\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a central street in the city<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will honour conductor and former music director of the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT). The block of Grove Street between Franklin Avenue and Van Ness Avenue where Davies Symphony Hall is situated will hang a sign marking MTT Way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Refresher: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American pianist, conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas served as the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s 11th music director for 25 years. His tenure as music director of the ensemble led to 11 Grammy Award-winning recordings and the establishment of cutting-edge performances and concert formats as part of his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsymphony.org\/Discover-the-Music\/SoundBox\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SoundBox<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program. His name is now considered synonymous with the institution.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><b>Digging Deeper: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Tilson Thomas, now 78, was diagnosed two years ago with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/datebook.sfchronicle.com\/music\/michael-tilson-thomas-reveals-details-of-his-cancer-diagnosis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">glioblastoma multiforme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an aggressive brain cancer. While he still conducts, in his last performance with the SFS he appeared <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/datebook.sfchronicle.com\/classical\/review-sf-symphony-michael-tilson-thomas-beethoven-18429843\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">visibly weakened<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The street named for MTT demonstrates the conductor\u2019s lasting imprint on classical music in San Francisco, ensuring his legacy will be honoured in years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of San Francisco will honour the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s former music director, Michael Tilson Thomas, by naming a street after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,196,3],"tags":[350],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Michael-Tilson-Thomas.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12155,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions\/12155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}