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The San Francisco Symphony gave its first concerts in 1911 and has grown in acclaim under a succession of music directors: Henry Hadley, Alfred Hertz, Basil Cameron, Issay Dobrowen, Pierre Monteux, Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstedt, and, since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas. The SFS has won such recording awards as France's Grand Prix du Disque and Britain's Gramophone Award, and the MTT/SFS Mahler recording cycle, inaugurated in 2001 and released on the Symphony's own label, has won four major Grammys. The SFS Youth Orchestra, founded in 1980, has become known around the world, as has the SFS Chorus, heard on recordings and on the soundtracks of such films as Amadeus and Godfather III. Adventures in Music, the longest running education program among US orchestras, reaches every child in grades 1 through 5 in San Francisco's public schools. SFS radio broadcasts, the first in North America to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, today carry the Orchestra's concerts across the country. In a program designed to make classical music accessible to all, the SFS has launched Keeping Score on PBS-TV, DVD, the World Wide Web (keepingscore.org), and radio (The MTT Files). San Francisco Symphony recordings are available at shopsfsymphony.org.