The scion of Yiddish theater royalty announces a “coda” to a spectacular career — a concert at SF Symphony on April 26.

Half a century ago, in the fall of 1969, Michael Tilson Thomas — a promising, young conductor and scion of Yiddish theater ...

Half a century ago, in the fall of 1969, Michael Tilson Thomas — a promising, young conductor and scion of Yiddish theater royalty — lifted his baton for his New York debut with the Boston ...

But his most celebrated undertaking was the Symphony’s years-long Mahler project. Conceived and produced by Thomas, the ...

Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours ...

At the turn of the century, the expatriate novelist visited the U.S. for the first time in decades. He left feeling more ...

The former home of pushcarts, pickle peddlers and textile wholesalers welcomes a new crop of Jewish spots to the Lower East ...

On Saturday, April 26, at 7:30pm, the San Francisco Symphony celebrates Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas's 80th ...

A new musical adaptation of Yentl the Yeshiva Boy is in development, with a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Adam ...

The San Francisco Symphony has announced the complete program for a special concert honoring Michael Tilson Thomas’s 80th birthday — likely marking the former music director’s last time at the podium ...

Brown, who is Jewish, wrote “Shiksa Goddess” to replace it, and the song has been in every production of The Last Five Years ...