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Albany Symphony Opening Night

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Opening night for the two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Albany Symphony's 2025-2026 season features Stravinsky’s  Firebird Suite (1919), soloist Zlatomir Fung for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, the electrifying world premiere of Look Up by Alex Berko, and Sibelius’s stirring Finlandia. The concert will take place at the Palace Theatre in downtown Albany on Saturday, October 11, beginning at 7:30pm, with a pre-concert talk by Music Director David Alan Miller at 6:30pm. Miller spoke with us about the performance and about their Side by Side program with ESYO on Monday, October 13.

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Rob Brown comes from a musical family. His mother played piano and taught in this area for nearly 30 years. One uncle is a composer and brass player, one aunt is a professional accompanist and recitalist. And his grandfather had a record collection to rival WMHT’s. He started at WMHT as an intern in 1996. His first job was to go through the stacks of vinyl to make sure they were filed properly. He’s now the Music Director and is thrilled to continue in the “family business” and share more of our very favorite classical music from 1-4 every weekday and 11-3 on Sundays.