Episode 90: See the Music Live: Agon
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This week\\u2019s episode features a special live presentation of See the Music, hosted by Associate Music Director Andrews Sill and Resident Conductor Clotilde Otranto. With a little help from the New York City Ballet Orchestra, they explore the combination of old and new, romantic and acrobatic in Igor Stravinsky\\u2019s commissioned score for George Balanchine\\u2019s Agon. As Otranto notes, Agon displays Stravinsky\\u2019s creativity in \\u201cfull bloom.\\u201d (10:39)
Edited by Emilie Silvestri
Music:
Symphony in Three Movements (1945) by Igor Stravinsky
Agon (1953-56) by Igor Stravinsky
All music performed by New York City Ballet Orchestra