Swed To SF: MTT Is Worth Every Cent

The president of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, angered by Michael Tilson Thomas’s $1.6M salary as an Francisco Symphony music director, wants to cut all of the city’s $1.8M funding to the orchestra. But, MTT having made the SFS into one of the world’s best orchestras, the question “is not how much MTT is worth but how many millions might it cost San Francisco to once more promote itself as a sophisticate city if a Philistine supervisor actually has his way?”