Tilson Thomas Conducts Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet. This concert clip was recorded on December 15, 2016.

[MinersForTheWin]

The amount of sound 3 professional trombone players and a tuba can put out is absolutely jaw-dropping.

[kitraKat]

My all time favorite orchestral piece!!!! Played amazing here.

[manuelcornelio]

Charles Vernon and Gene Pokorny is power in low brass, excelent!!

[starwarsjunkie]

Confession: I'm obsessed with the CSO brass perhaps in an unhealthy way. Is this bad for my musical growth? Yes and no, but do I care? No, this sound is obsessive. I can't get enough of it. It's like my musical drugs.

Also, props to the orchestra for following MTT in the final cadence before the repeated section. He did a major slow down that may not have been rehearsed, but man, they just keep going along as the best in the business do. Props.

[shayjamz]

i’m an orchestra student..
i suddenly love the trombone

[chrisdean]

I love it Gene sits in the back by himself.

[BEAN.MACHINE]

I'm a tenor trombone player but I'm being lent my first bass trom next week, sure you're all as excited as I am lol just everything I hear reminds me, I'm just telling everyone who cares 😂 and even people who I know won't care. I'm just so excited ahaha. It's a niiice bone too

[dmoon]

In Soviet Union you don't listen to musik. Musik listens to you.

[shin-i-chikozima]

Something is coming
Something is coming
Something unfamiliar comes

[chrisdean]

How do they follow that conductor? his downbeat seems all loosey-goosey and there is no rhyme nor reason to his conducting at all.