Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony Set for Pair of Shows at Carnegie Hall, 11/13-14

Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) perform two concerts at Carnegie Hall in Stern Auditorium on Wednesday, November 13 at 8:00 pm and Thursday, November 14 at 8:00 pm. The repertoire for these concerts exhibit the breadth of MTT and the SFS's hallmark programming with performances of core repertoire by Mahler, Mozart and Beethoven, along with works by American composers Steven Mackey and Aaron Copland.

That same week, on Tuesday, November 12, MTT and the SFS release their new recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 and the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with the SFS Chorus and guest soloists on in-house label SFS Media on CD and digital download.

For the November 13 performance, Jeremy Denk joins MTT and the Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major. MTT and the SFS also perform Steven Mackey's Eating Greens, Copland's Symphonic Ode and Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3, a work MTT and the San Francisco Symphony recorded and released on SFS Media in 2011. The performance on November 14 features MTT and the Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 9.

The November 13 concert will be broadcast as part of the "Carnegie Hall Live" radio series, a co-production between WQXR classical radio and American Public Media (APM). "Carnegie Hall Live" airs in New York on WQXR 105.9 FM, is distributed by APM to classical stations across the country, and is available for live streaming on www.wqxr.org and www.carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

The New York concerts are part of the Orchestra's U.S. tour that also includes performances at the Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on November 16 and the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana on November 15.