SCHUYLERVILLE - The Albany Symphony will take four major new works created during the American Music Festival on the road in four free community concerts. The first of the four takes place 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6 at Hudson Crossing Park in Schuylerville.
The show marks the first major concert event hosted by Hudson Crossing Park. Local artists and vendors will be invited to attend in addition to the symphony performance.
The evening’s featured work: inspired by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the origin of the fight for women’s suffrage, Loren Loiacono creates a musical docu-play in collaboration with Capital Repertory Theatre exploring New York’s role at the vanguard of the women’s rights movement.
The program will also include Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Stars and Stripes Forever, and “Lift Every Voice And Sing.” Pre-concert activities will include featured opening acts by local school and community groups, local craft food and beverage vendors, community artmaking, and family fun. Each concert will conclude with fireworks.
The four free community concerts are as follows: June 6 at Hudson Crossing Park in Schuylerville; June 7 at Jennings Landing, Albany; June 8 at Mohawk Harbor, Schenectady, and June 9 at Basilica Hudson, in Hudson. All performances begin 7:30 p.m.
In addition to the free community concerts, the Albany Symphony, led by Music Director David Alan Miller, kicks off its 2019 American Music Festival, “Sing Out! New York,” May 30 in Troy.
Two milestone anniversaries frame the “Sing Out” festival: the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Sing Out! New York draws inspiration from both these events, and celebrates New York’s leading role in championing equal rights, through innovative concerts, close encounters with today’s most adventurous artists and composers, interactive workshops, collaborative community events, film screenings, and artistic happenings.
Tickets and Festival Passes to the American Music Festival are on sale and can be purchased through the Albany Symphony Box Office: 518-694-3300. For more information about all symphony events, go to: albanysymphony.com.
