Maestro Thomas News

In the Cabaret world they call it a sound check, in the world of classical music it's an orchestra rehearsal. As Maestro Thomas Crawford raised his hands for the first note of the afternoon rehearsal of the American Classical Orchestra, the orchestra surprised him with some music that was not on his podium. Happy Birthday! I've gotten some tuneful ecards but nothing like Happy Birthday being played to me live, by 50 musicians.

Tonight, March 12 at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall, the American Classical Orchestra, conducted byMaestro Thomas Crawford, presents Schubert's Symphony No. 9 'Great', Mozart's Mass in C 'Coronation'

Amazon will premiere all ten episodes of the highly-anticipated dramatic comedy series MOZART IN THE JUNGLE tomorrow, Tuesday, December 23 on Prime Instant Video in the US, UK and Germany.

Tonight, November 15 at 7:30PM at Alice Tully Hall, the American Classical Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Thomas Crawford, presents J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, The ACO's first ever performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's towering masterpiece

On Saturday, November 15 at 7:30PM at Alice Tully Hall, the American Classical Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Thomas Crawford, presents J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, The ACO's first ever performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's towering masterpiece

Tonight, September 23 at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall, the American Classical Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Thomas Crawford, presents its opening night concert of its 30th Anniversary season with music that includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, which will feature violin soloist Krista Bennion Feeney; Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Mozart's Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'.

On Tuesday, September 23 at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall, the American Classical Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Thomas Crawford, presents its opening night concert of its 30th Anniversary season with music that includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, which will feature violin soloist Krista Bennion Feeney; Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Mozart's Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'.

On Tuesday, September 23 at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall, the American Classical Orchestra presents its opening night concert of its 30th Anniversary season with music that includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with violin soloist Krista Bennion Feeney; Beethoven Symphony No. 8 and Mozart Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'. Krista Bennion Feeney will perform the legendary Mendelssohn Concerto on a historic violin with the same configuration as that of Mendelssohn's concertmaster Ferdinand David.

On Thursday, June 5 at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall, The American Classical Orchestra presents its season finale in a concert of music written in or for Prague at the end of the 18th century.

'The Thomashefskys' were on stage again last night as Michael Tilson Thomas & the New York Philharmonic presented his acclaimed multi-media concert of the Music and Memories of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky This years gala honored David and Sylvia Steiner as well as Tilson Thomas. Folksbiene is the sole surviving professional Yiddish Theatre in America and it preserves and adds to the legacy of Yiddish theatre, which flourished on Second Avenue and was domnated by Tilson Thomas's legendary grandparents ‘The Thomashefskys.'

In a tribute to the late Beverly Sills, a legendary soprano and a frequent guest on the Met broadcasts, the company will air her April 19, 1975 performance as Pamira in Rossini's The Siege of Corinth over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:30PM EST on February 9, 2008.