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“MACABRE MASTERWORKS”

October 29, 2026, 10:00 pm

For this festive program the New York Philharmonic performs a series of haunting pieces with a variety of conductors.

Playlist

J.S. Bach (arr. H.J. Wood): Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Arturo Toscanini, conductor

Modest Mussorgsky/ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Night on Bald Mountain
Alan Gilbert, conductor

Charles Gounod: Ballet Music from Faust
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”
Alan Gilbert, conductor

Franz Liszt: A Faust Symphony
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Charles Bressler, tenor

Edvard Grieg: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
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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“MACABRE MASTERWORKS”

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