‘A concert should be an adventure': How Michael Tilson Thomas' legacy lives on in S.F. Joshua Kosman

San Francisco Chronicle
October 3, 2026

The memoirist Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, reminisced about the time a young MTT first showed up at their home to study with her father. She recalled how he immediately proved he could go toe-to-toe with the great man on everything from arcane corners of the musical literature to wordplay and Yiddish jokes.