The New World Symphony, which calls itself America's national training orchestra, was founded in 1988.
In 1958 he resigned from the association, a training orchestra for musicians and conductors, but returned to it from 1970 to 1976.
Q: Will you be working more with the New World Symphony, the training orchestra you founded in Miami 32 years ago?
As artistic director of the New World Symphony, a training orchestra in Miami, which he founded in 1988, Mr. Thomas has also shown a particular gift for working with young players.
Eighteen years ago, when Lincoln Road was still a dilapidated strip, Michael Tilson Thomas established the New World in a former movie palace, as a training orchestra for recent conservatory graduates.
Then there is Mr. Gehry's recent masterpiece, the New World Center in Miami Beach, the home of the New World Symphony, the excellent training orchestra directed by Michael Tilson Thomas.
But much more remarkable was the stellar playing of the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku (Youth Academy), a training orchestra that will also appear at Carnegie in April.
MIAMI BEACH — On Friday night at the New World Center here the New World Symphony, a top-notch training orchestra, presented its first free Wallcast concert.
UBS VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA The prestigious corporate-sponsored training orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit (and with the pianist Martha Argerich as soloist), performs works by Prokofiev (the Third Piano Concerto) and Berlioz (the "Symphonie Fantastique") at Avery Fisher Hall.
Mr. Ozawa had conducted these pieces days before at private performances by the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku, a young training orchestra, which he will also present at Carnegie Hall in the spring.
