Albany Symphony Orchestra

The Albany Symphony Orchestra, of the upstate New York city of Albany in the U.S., is notable for its strong commitment to contemporary music, rivaled in America perhaps only by the Louisville Orchestra. Yet the Albany Symphony also presents programming of broad mainstream appeal. The orchestra was founded in 1930 as the People's Orchestra of Albany by conductor and Italian native John G. Carabella, a student of Pietro Mascagni who had come to New York state to take a job as an organist at a church in the Albany suburb of Cohoes. The Albany Symphony began with just 24 member...