Ever wonder what a conductor actually DOES? Spoiler: it's wizardry with a baton.
How can marks on a 150‐year‐old page transform into the unflinching emotion of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony? From decoding the score, to uncovering Tchaikovsky's history, Michael Tilson Thomas gives us a backstage pass to the making of a performance.
Direction
Joan Saffa makes sheet music cinematic—no small feat.
Production
Seamless weave of performance, history, and MTT's infectious passion.
Director
David Kennard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tchaikovsky wrote this symphony while disastrously married to a woman he didn't love—he literally fled to Russia to escape her.
MTT's 'Keeping Score' series was revolutionary for PBS: classical music treated with the production value of a Scorsese film.
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