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Alan Gilbert conducts works by two giants of the symphonic literature, Beethoven and Bruckner

October 13, 2023, 9:00 pm

Alan Gilbert

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, is paired with the Symphony No. 2 by Anton Bruckner. Alec Baldwin is your host, and we also feature part of Leonard Bernstein’s performance-lecture, How A Great Symphony Was Written.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Eroica

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C minor

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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Alan Gilbert conducts works by two giants of the symphonic literature, Beethoven and Bruckner

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