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Great Composers Conduct

November 11, 2022, 9:00 pm

Igor Stravinsky conducting

In this broadcast we hear a quartet of great composers lead the New York Philharmonic in their own music: Darius Milhaud’s orchestral arrangement of his Suite francaise, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, a requiem by Paul Hindemith, and Richard Rodgers’ Carousel Waltz.

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All works conducted by their composers

Darius Milhaud: Suite francaise (arr. for orch.)

Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945)

Paul Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Louise Parker, alto; George London, bass; Schola Cantorum

Richard Rodgers: The Carousel Waltz from Carousel

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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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