Barenboim, Beethoven, Tilson-Thomas

Studio 360 | Feb 15, 2011

Does the orchestra have a future in the United States? Kurt Andersen and the writer and composer Greg Sandow ask what needs to change for orchestras to survive. We’ll hear how the San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas brings his dog along to get kids interested in Mahler. The musicians of the New York Philharmonic pull a symphony apart and put it back together again. And the visual artist damali ayo gets blindsided by Beethoven’s Fifth.

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