Film and Television
His first television appearances were in the CBS Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, airing from 1971–1977. He has also made regular appearances on PBS, with broadcasts featuring Tilson Thomas airing from 1972 through 2008. Eight episodes of WNET's Great Performances series have featured Tilson Thomas. He has also been featured on Japan's NHK and the UK's BBC many times in the last three decades.
In 2011 he hosted a concert stage show celebrating his grandparents and the music of American Yiddish theatre The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, which aired in 2012 on the PBS series "Great Performances."
Tilson Thomas hosts the Keeping Score television series, nine one-hour documentary-style episodes and eight live-concert programs, which began airing nationally on PBS stations in early November 2006. He and the San Francisco Symphony have examined the lives and music of Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Charles Ives, Hector Berlioz, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
- Keeping Score discography
- Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony – 2004
- Beethoven's Eroica – 2006
- Copland and the American Sound - 2006
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring – 2006
- Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique – 2009
- Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 – 2009
- Ives' Holiday Symphony – 2009
- Mahler: Origins and Legacy – 2011
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