Alan Chartock

Recognized internationally as a conductor of the highest calibre, Stéphane Denève has won praise from audiences and critics alike for his performances and programming. Tonight, he will conduct The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Cirque de la Symphonie Family Night concert in the SPAC Amphitheatre.

We are joined at SPAC by Lesley Leduc, Public Affairs Coordinator for Yaddo and Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University and also serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN Faulkner Foundation and is a Member of the Corporation of Yaddo. 

Our SPAC tour guide and host for the morning is SPAC President and Executive Director, Marcia White. She shares with us the excitement that has been going on this season and talk about this week’s arrival of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Stella Elliston, who practices therapeutic eurythmy in the Berkshires. Elliston is the author of Ezra: A Mother’s Portrait.

Contemporary politicians often look to their predecessors for wisdom. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts representative Richard Neal tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that LBJ might well have been the country’s greatest Senate Majority Leader.

In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda, Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani continue their discussion about the differences between art and entertainment.

Upstate New York Congressman Chris Gibson, a Republican and retired Army colonel who sits on the House Committee on Armed Services, says the U.S. should not intervene in Syria, where opposition forces are locked in a violent struggle against the regime. Gibson spoke with WAMC today.

WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with musician and actor Loudon Wainwright III, who appears at Helsinki Hudson on Thursday.

The President is expected to carry Massachusetts in the fall despite running against its former governor. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts representative Richard Neal tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that he thinks President Obama will win re-election.

WAMC's Alan Chartock, Albany Times Union Editor Rex Smith, and Daily Freeman publisher Ira Fusfeld discuss all things Olympics, the Colorado shooting coverage, and the limitations of television newscasts.