Keeping Score is the San Francisco Symphony’s national, multi-year program designed to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds. Keeping Score uses media in its most public and accessible forms to show that classical music can speak to everyone and instill a lifelong love of music.
Watch Keeping Score: Copland and the American Sound on KQED-TV
Airing March 6 at 7:30-9:00pm in the Bay Area
Tune in for this special KQED pledge drive presentation, with series producers/ directors Joan Saffa and David Kennard of InCA Productions providing behind-the-scenes commentary in the studio during pledge breaks. In this Keeping Score episode, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony delve into the world of composer Aaron Copland—his roots in Brooklyn, travels abroad, and the influences that shaped his uniquely American sound. (Outside the San Francisco Bay Area, check your local listings for broadcast schedules.)
Explore the Music
Visit interactive Web sites for composers Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Copland, with entertaining and engaging features. Dig into the score. Listen as Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony musicians share their insights.
Watch the Keeping Score TV shows
Host Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony explore how Beethoven, Stravinsky and Copland changed music forever, transforming their personal visions of the world around them into sounds unlike any heard before.
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Preview the Keeping Score shows »Episode 1: Beethoven’s Eroica »
Episode 2: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring »
Episode 3: Copland and the American Sound »
Listen to The MTT Files
This 8-part radio series features Michael Tilson Thomas reminiscing about—and in conversation with—legendary artists with whom he has worked.
For public radio station broadcasts and to stream the shows, visit mttfiles.org.
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Learn how to Teach through Music
The Keeping Score education program shows K-12 teachers how music can become part of their core-subject lessons. Watch a short video feature about the program.
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Lead funding for Keeping Score is provided by:
with generous support from The James Irvine Foundation, Marcia and John Goldman, Nan Tucker McEvoy, William and Gretchen Kimball Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund, Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey, Koret Foundation Funds, Tom and Lynn Kiley, Anita and Ronald Wornick, Margaret Liu Collins and Edward B. Collins, the Acacia Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Mary Falvey, and others.
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