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Concerti for Diverse Instruments

October 29, 2021, 9:00 pm

Concerti not only for the violin, but also for the mandolin, trumpet, clarinet, flute, and more.

Playlist

Hindemith: Violin Concerto
Charles Rex, violin; Zubin Mehta, conductor

Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Leonard Bernstein, piano; John Corigliano, violin; Laszlo Varga, cello

Corigliano: Clarinet Concerto
Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Zubin Mehta, conductor

Vivaldi/Casella: Concerto for Diverse Instruments in C
John Corigliano Sr., violin; Giovanni Vicari & Carlo de Filippos, mandolins; John Wummer & Robert Morris, flutes; Engelbert Brenner, bass oboe; William Vacchiano & Nathan Prager, trumpets; Christine Stavrache & Aristid Wurtzler, harps; Laszlo Varga, cello; Leonard Bernstein, harpsichord and conductor

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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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Concerti for Diverse Instruments

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