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Philip Glass

Iconic contemporary composer, Philip Glass, joins us to share his thoughts on his 75th birthday year and the benefit concert he's playing tomorrow night at the Garrison Institute.The Garrison Institute...

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Tanglewood on Parade - John Williams

Composer, John Williams, speaks with us, humbly, about his impact on music and composing and why he loves Tanglewood. He also shares remembrances of Marvin Hamlisch.

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A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart

Lyricist, Lorenz Hart, together with composer Richard Rodgers, wrote some of the most memorable songs ever created.

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Joe Iconis' The Black Suits presented by BSC's Musical Theatre Lab

The Black Suits is a musical with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and book by Iconis and Robert Emmett Maddock. The show is presented as part of Barrington Stage’s Musical Theatre Lab (William Finn,...

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A Celebration of the Yaddo Festivals of American Music

Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York that offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or...

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World Premiere of Michael Gordon's Rushes at EMPAC

This Saturday, September 15th at 8pm, the EMPAC Concert Hall in Troy, NY will host the world premiere of Rushes by composer Michael Gordon. New York City-based Michael Gordon, composer and founder of...

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Classical Music According to Yehuda #101

Dr. Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss the influence of Gustav Mahler, hearing a Mahler variation on Frere Jacques.

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"Reinventing Bach" by Paul Elie

In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie tells the story of how musicians of genius have made Bach’s music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways...

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Classical Music According to Yehuda #104

In this week’s “Classical Music According to Yehuda,” Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss composer Darius Milhaud, hearing a performance of his “The Ox on the Roof” from a recent Close Encounters...

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Neil Rolnick - Music for Violin, Piano & Computer at EMPAC

   Neil Rolnick, professor of music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will present a concert of music for violin, piano, and computer at 7:30 PM Wednesday night at EMPAC at Rensselaer in Troy. The...

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Ted Hearne

    This Friday at 10pm, The Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival will host R WE WHO R WE - an ongoing collaboration by composer-performers Ted Hearne and Philip White. A tribute and commentary to...

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American Music Festival Reading Session Composers

    The Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival’s Reading Sessions offer a one-of-a-kind sneak peek into the world of music today as up-and-coming composers from a competitive national selection...

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Jason Robert Brown - "The Bridges of Madison County" at Williamstown Theatre...

    Jason Robert Brown’s first musical, Songs for a New World played off-Broadway in 1995 and has since been seen in more than two hundred productions around the world. He won the Tony Award for Best...

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Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild" with Live Score at MASS MoCA

    The film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, released last year, stars Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy, a young girl living in a southern Louisiana bayou with her father and with the weight of the...

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Saratoga 150 and Richard Danielpour's "Serenade"

    The Saratoga Race Course is 150 years old and the track is being celebrated throughout the city this season and tonight, the party comes here to SPAC.Keith Lockhart will conduct the Philadelphia...

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SPAC - Jamie Bernstein

  As we mentioned earlier, Stéphane Denève will be conducting a Bernstein Extravaganza tomorrow night here at SPAC. And Jamie Bernstein will take part in a tribute to her father, Leonard Bernstein,...

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Albany Symphony - Aaron Jay Kernis

  Albany Symphony Orchestra’s Maestro David Alan Miller speaks with composer Aaron Jay Kernis.The ASO will premier Kernis’ piece Three Flavors for Piano & Orchestra on October 19th at Troy Savings...

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Classical Music According to Yehuda #116

    In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda, Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss the life of composer Maurice Ravel.This Saturday, October 19 at 6 PM Close Encounters with Music presents...

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“Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington” by Terry Teachout

Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the 20th century.  His songs—he wrote more than 1500 of them—have been recorded by a who’s who of popular music, from Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra,...

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Neil Rolnick: Dynamic RAM & Concert Grand At Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

    A pioneer in the use of computers in performance, beginning in the late 1970s, Neil Rolnick’s music has been performed around the world, and appears on 16 CD’s.Though much of Rolnick’s work...

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