

This market kept us inventive, flexible and fast on our feet. This episode features BPO musicians Amy Licata (violin) and Brett Shurtliffe (double bass) performing their own arrangement of the traditional Irish song “The Star of the Lake,” set to views of Kleinhans’ iconic architecture.We started out courageous, broadminded, hardworking and fiercely independent. Eliel Saarinen’s aim was to create “an architectural atmosphere…so as to tune the performers and the public alike into a proper mood of performance and receptiveness, respectively.” In 1989, the hall was designated a National Historic Landmark, the highest designation of significance a site or structure can receive.

and W.A Kidd, Kleinhans is known for its combination of graceful structural beauty and extraordinary acoustics. Designed by the famous Finnish father-and-son team of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, along with architects F.J. Orchestra musicians, conductors, and soloists have long admired Kleinhans, including Jascha Heifetz (“It’s a joy to play in this hall”) Artur Rubenstein (“Any artist gives his best in a hall such as this”) and Serge Koussevitzsky (“Kleinhans Music Hall is a dream of a lifetime – perfect and complete.”) Kleinhans is considered one of the most acoustically perfect halls in the world, and that perfection has not diminished through the years.

While the BPO loves traveling our musicians all over Western New York there really is no place like home. Kleinhans Music Hall has an international reputation as one of the world’s finest concert halls. This episode of BPO Out of the Box features BPO musicians Amy Licata (violin), Andrea Cone (violin), Janz Castelo (viola), and Eva Herer (cello) performing Manuel Ponce’s Estrellita, Dvořák’s Song to the Moon from Rusalka, and Mozart’s Adagio-Allegro from String Quartet in C Major, K. The planetarium also offers programs for school groups, scout groups, and the general public where audiences view the night sky and are transported across our solar system and out into the universe. The state-of-the-art projection systems and 360-degree immersive environment provides seating for up to 48 visitors under its 35-foot diameter dome, and includes several projection, lighting, and audio systems. The newly opened, state-of-the-art planetarium continues the tradition of bringing astronomy education to the Buffalo State and Western New York communities since 1964. The Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium, located on the Buffalo State campus, offers spectacular viewings of stars, constellations, nebulae, galaxies, planets, and much more. Bach’s Adagio from his Concerto for Oboe and Violin, as well as Roman Mekinulov’s solo performance of Ennio Morricone’s Love Theme from the 1988 Italian drama film Cinema Paradiso.

This episode features a trio of BPO musicians: oboist Joshua Lauretig, violinist Clement Luu, and principal cellist Roman Mekinulov in a performance of J.S. The theatre was closed for nearly a year when it reopened in 2014, it has been restored to its 1920s glory. Still, despite years of architectural neglect, the local community never stopped showing their love for the North Park Theatre. With each year, the auditorium grew darker as managers did their best to hide the crumbling plaster that had spoilt Henry Spann’s elegant design. Yet, as the years passed, subsequent owners chose to sacrifice the North Park’s original splendor for the sake of the bottom line. Visitors praised the North Park’s elegant neoclassical foyer and auditorium, designed by Buffalo architect Henry Spann, as well as its murals by famed 1901 Pan-American Exposition painter Raphael Beck.
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Original owner, theatre magnate Michael Shea, believed a movie theatre should capture the imaginations of filmgoers as soon as they enter the building and that the theatre should lift the “common man” out of his daily routine and place him in a setting so grandiose, so richly detailed, that he should think it the most natural thing in the world to watch his dreams come to life on the silver screen. The North Park Theatre opened on November 21, 1920. Neighbor to Neighbor Community Concerts.Corporate, Foundation & Government Support.
