Community Calendar

Join Mostly Modern’s kickoff concert at Saratoga Springs historic and iconic Caffè Lena. Tonight features tapas, a tasting and variety of what Mostly Modern is all about. Sold out for 3 years in a row ~ secure your seats!

Tonight features the Albany Pro Musica Choir and Maestro José Daniel Flores-Caraballo. This is a brand-new three year collaboration with Albany Pro Musica and the Mostly Modern Festival. This concert also features our concerto winner, Ethan Pound, in Tomasi’s Concerto for Trombone, as well as special guest from Mexico City, handpan percussionist Diego Alfonso, featured in Robert Paterson’s KAMA. The program starts with Johanny Navarro, who is a fantastic Puerto Rican composer, and the evening ends with Morten Lauridsen’s breathtaking Lux Aeterna.

Tonight brings brand-new premieres with “hot-off-the-press” pieces, featuring composers of all ages and backgrounds from across the globe, all in the audience. Mostly Modern Ensemble features our world class faculty performing everything up close and personal from the piano to cello to clarinet to harp and much more. New this year — Audience Choice Awards — pick your favorite of the night via QR code!

This afternoon celebrates FAB5’s tracks from their very 1st album, along with brand new premieres. The FAB5 is a string quartet with famed-percussionist Diego Alfonso coming all the way from Mexico City! This matinee is a great choice for families, kids and seniors ~ classical and pop music all come together for a very special afternoon. Explore the FAB5 here – Digital, Vinyl and CDs will be for sale at the show!

CMS Co-Artistic Director Wu Han opens the season with Mozart’s elegant Trio in E major, Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Three Preludes (in Heifetz’s dazzling arrangement), and Dvořák’s youthful Piano Quintet.

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Discover Burleigh’s Southland Sketches—the music that helped shape Dvořák’s vision for American classical style—followed by Dvořák’s Trio in G minor and Beethoven’s majestic Quintet in C major.

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A globe-spanning celebration of wind instruments: Beethoven’s Horn Sonata, Barber’s Summer Music, Villa-Lobos’ spirited Trio, Taktakishvili’s lyrical Flute Sonata, and Jongen’s dramatic Rhapsody.

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The acclaimed Calidore String Quartet performs a lively program including the F-major quartet once attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Haydn’s witty “The Joke” Quartet, Mozart’s graceful “Prussian” Quartet, Wolf’s Italian Serenade, and Wynton Marsalis’s At the Octoroon Balls.

Learn more and buy tickets now at spac.org

Every First Friday of the month, organist David Baranowski gives organ recitals at noon for approximately 1/2 hour. Free to the public.

Every First Friday of the month, organist David Baranowski gives organ recitals at noon for approximately 1/2 hour. Free to the public.