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Invitation to the Dance

February 26, 2026, 10:00 pm

David Robertson. (Photo: Chris Lee)

David Robertson – former Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony and Director of Orchestral Studies at Juilliard – conducts the New York Philharmonic in a concert of dance music.

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George Benjamin: Dance Figures: Nine Choreographic Scenes for Orchestra

Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

Alberto Ginastera: Dance Suite from Estancia, Op. 8bis

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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.

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

Invitation to the Dance

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