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Northeast Ballet’s Annual Nutcracker

by The Staff December 6, 2012

There are a lot of Nutcrackers presented at this time of the year. The most loved, and the most eagerly awaited, is presented in Schenectady: Northeast Ballet’s production on the Mainstage at Proctors. This year’s Nutcracker ...

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Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker

by The Staff November 29, 2012

When it comes to dance, the holidays are Nutcracker season. First up this year is the Moscow Ballet’s lavish Great Russian Nutcracker at the Palace. How lavish, you ask? There will be 40 dancers, nine hand-painted ...

Palace Theatre

Albany Symphony Orchestra

by The Staff September 21, 2012

The Albany Symphony and maestro David Alan Miller will kick off their season at the Palace Saturday night with some Russian fireworks: a Rachmaninoff piano concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. The featured soloist on Rachmaninoff’s ...

Palace Theatre

The Philadelphia Orchestra

by The Staff July 25, 2012

It’s time for those fabulous Philadelphians again, as the Philadelphia Orchestra return to SPAC this week. Wednesday’s (Aug. 1) opening night concert finds the orchestra under the direction of Stephane Deneve (pictured) and accompanying pianist ...

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Moscow Festival Ballet

by The Staff January 5, 2012

The holidays—aka Nutcracker season—may be over, but Proctors has another Tchaikovsky ballet treat on offer this weekend: The Moscow Festival Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty. Founded in 1989 by ex-Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Sergei Radchenko, the ...

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Fun and Fireworks

by B.A. Nilsson December 21, 2011

Violinist Joshua Bell was the big draw at Saturday’s concert by the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Simply put, he turned in an astonishing performance. Conductor David Alan Miller and the orchestra handed him a well-chosen lead-up ...

Palace Theatre

Joshua Bell with the Albany Symphony

by B.A. Nilsson December 14, 2011

“In the big cities, the audience has 30 things to choose from that night and they’ve heard everything a million times,” says Joshua Bell. “And they’ve heard every soloist under the sun. I enjoy playing ...

Palace Theatre

Northeast Ballet’s The Nutcracker

by The Staff December 8, 2011

The sugarplum-sprinkled tradition that is Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is now well over a century old, and locally, Proctors’ resident ballet company, Northeast Ballet, has made The Nutcracker its own annual tradition, delighting more than 5,000 ...

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St. Petersburg String Quartet

by The Staff November 22, 2011

This Saturday evening, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, an ensemble the Los Angeles Times praised as “masters of subtlety and refinement,” will perform at Emma Willard School’s Kiggins Hall. Alla Aranovskaya and Evgeny Zvonnikov (violins), Boris ...

Emma Willard School

Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker

by The Staff November 10, 2011

If the arrival of Christmas cards in your grocer’s “seasonal goods” aisle didn’t tip you off, we’ll let you in on a secret: The holidays are more-or-less here. And let’s face it, nothing says “Christmas ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra

by The Staff July 20, 2011

Those fabulous Philadelphians are back. And, considering how hot it is in Philly—what with the crushing heat wave and the organization’s assorted financial woes—the Philadelphia Orchestra is probably delighted to be in Saratoga. We’re delighted that ...

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Russian National Ballet Theatre

by The Staff March 17, 2011

As Russian ballet companies go, the Russian National Ballet Theatre are the new kids on the block. They were formed in the late 1980s as the Soviet National Ballet; since 1994, they have operated under ...

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