Celebrated orchestra leader Michael Tilson Thomas has died

from All Things Considered · host Jeff Lunden

Conductor, composer and educator Michael Tilson Thomas, who led the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years, establishing its reputation as a world-class orchestra, died Wednesday. He was 81.

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