Michael Tilson Thomas, eminent orchestra leader, dies at 81

Michael Tilson Thomas, an American conductor who grew up in public from an imperious wunderkind into one of the grand old men of classical music, died April 22 at his home in San Francisco. He was 81. The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, said his publicist Constance Shuma...

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