wamc@spac

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) has announced the return of its resident companies -- New York City Ballet and The Philadelphia Orchestra -- to their summer home in Saratoga for a diverse season featuring SPAC premieres and debuts by women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) composers, choreographers, performers and conductors, alongside iconic masterworks of the classical repertoire. It has been an awesomely weird year for all of us and certainly for the arts. So, talking about some normalcy is quite refreshing. We do so this morning with Elizabeth Sobol, president and CEO of Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

This is Travers Week in Saratoga Springs, NY. This town is “Horse Crazy” and especially so on the eve of the Saratoga Race Course’s marquee race – The Travers Stakes. Horses are synonymous with Saratoga and have been for generations. But, what is it about these majestic animals that make us go – Horse Crazy? Sarah Maslin Nir joined us in a WAMC@SPAC event.

Editor, journalist and writer Christopher Cox explores his experiences with looming deadlines and how he became determined to learn the secret of managing them in his new book, “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like it’s the Last Minute Before the Last Minute.”

Editor, journalist and writer Christopher Cox explores his experiences with looming deadlines and how he became determined to learn the secret of managing them in his new book, “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like it’s the Last Minute Before the Last Minute.”