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America, the Beautiful

June 5, 2020, 9:00 pm

Leonard Bernstein conducts selections by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Marc Blitzstein in a program that features William Warfield, Orson Welles, and more.

Playlist

Ives: Holiday Symphony
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Copland: Lincoln Portrait
William Warfield, narrator; Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Blitzstein: Airborne Symphony
Orson Welles, narrator; Andrea Velis, tenor; David Watson; Choral Arts Society; Leonard Bernstein, conductor

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Meet the Host

Alec Baldwin is the Radio Host of the New York Philharmonic. Since 1980 Mr. Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films, and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992), an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004), and has won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC’s 30 Rock. His films include The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Edge, It's Complicated, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice, and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, among many others. Alec Baldwin earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994, and received an honorary doctorate in 2010. He is co-chairman of the Board of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

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