Cast
Michael Tilson Thomas — Teacher, conductor
Kensho Watanabe — Conductor
Program notes
Michael Tilson Thomas, co-founder of the New World Symphony (NWS) and one of today's leading orchestral conductors, gives a series of three conducting and violin master classes to NWS alumni.
In the excerpted master class, Michael Tilson Thomas works with Kensho Watanabe on Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major. The maestro insists on the importance of gesture, breathing and energy in the art of conducting.
