Celebrated conductor, pianist and composer Michael Tilson Thomas, a longtime ​music director of the San Francisco Symphony known as a creative visionary, has died at age 81 after nearly five years wit...

Michael Tilson Thomas, a leading American conductor for a half-century who headed orchestras in Buffalo, Miami, London and San Francisco while also composing, died Wednesday.

The 1960s wunderkind long served as the San Francisco Symphony's music director and later the conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra, leading the latter ensemble on regular tours in Europ...