""It's meant to have various intriguing and alluring, questioning things that you hear on first hearing... But by its very nature it's holding a lot of other secrets or a lot of other perspectives much closer to its chest, which only with repeated hearing you start realizing are there.""
""I don't fling the word genius around lightly, but I fling it around about Michael. He reminds me of me at that age, except that he knows more than I did... Not only music, but things like the functions of the brain, cerebrology, physics, biochemistry.""
Michael Tilson Thomas, a prominent American conductor, died at the age of 81. He had undergone surgery for a brain tumor in 2021, but the tumor returned in 2025. His final concert with the San Francisco Symphony took place in April 2025. Tilson Thomas received 39 Grammy nominations, winning 12, and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2019. Born in Los Angeles, he was immersed in the arts from a young age and collaborated with many notable composers throughout his career.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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