Conductor, composer and educator Michael Tilson Thomas, who led the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years, establishing its reputation as a world-class orchestra, died Wednesday. He was 81.

SF Symphony icon Michael Tilson Thomas dies at 81. He expanded access to classical music across California and the globe.

Thomas, the beloved mentor and conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, recently died. He offered a road map for a ...

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Conductor and educator Michael Tilson Thomas died yesterday at his home in San Francisco after enduring an aggressive type of brain cancer. He was 81 years old. MTT, as he was called, was best known ...