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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts a performance of Copland's Appalachian Spring by The Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Mass. in 2018. Thomas, who led the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2021.
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Michael Tilson Thomas, renowned conductor and composer, dies at 81
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Thomas led the San Francisco Symphony from 1995 to 2020, helping to establish its reputation as a world-class orchestra. In 2021, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer.
Steve Reich is a percussionist and composer who traveled the world soaking up the rhythms and instrumentation of far-flung places. He studied African drumming at the University of Ghana.
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ensembleNewSRQ performs 'Music for 18 Musicians' on the 50th anniversary of its premiere
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Many of the old wives tales and superstitions that Jacobs features in his musical cross racial and ethnic divides.
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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe's Nate Jacobs weaves old wives tales and superstitions into new musical
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9-year old third graders, Ross Taplinger, and Isaac Roberts are part of the award winning writing team behind 'Nugget Saves the Day,' about a baby chicken who meets some dinosaur friends, which they wrote with help from their teacher Casey Sullivan.
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Young playwrights take a Jurassic joyride for an annual theater festival in Sarasota
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