2017 – 2018 season

3 Jan, 2019

2018 – A Year in Photos

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Happy New Year everyone! We hope that 2018 was as exciting for you as it was here at The PAC. For us, 2018 was a year of celebration (40 years!) and experimentation as we introduced new types of programming, commissioned [...]

25 Apr, 2018

Zisson Day at The PAC

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On Thursday, April 19, the Zisson Family Foundation supported a fully immersive arts-in-education program right here at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, designed to provide social and emotional education, academic curriculum support through performing arts engagement, and an introduction [...]

26 Mar, 2018

Five Questions for Choreographer Victor Quijada

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Victor Quijada and his RUBBERBANDance Group are spending a few days on the Purchase College campus ahead of their performance on Saturday, March 31. We caught up with Victor to ask him a few questions. Q: Why the name “RUBBERBANDance [...]

6 Mar, 2018

Five Questions for Sarah Chang

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In advance of violinist Sarah Chang's upcoming performance, we asked her a few questions about herself and her music.   Q: You made your New York Philharmonic debut at age 8. What was that experience like? A: Life changing. I [...]

23 Feb, 2018

Five Questions for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center about the February 24th concert: Vienna to Hollywood.

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Q: How did the idea for a program connecting Vienna to Hollywood come about? Q: What do you hope to communicate to the audience with this program? A: We are thrilled to be back at Purchase with a wonderful program [...]

15 Feb, 2018

Five Questions for Velvet Caravan

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The unorthodox, high-energy, acoustic-based quintet Velvet Caravan has, over the past few years, emerged as one of the shining lights of Savannah’s burgeoning music scene, and they are heading our way this weekend! Looking ahead to their show, we posed [...]

26 Oct, 2017

Jon Faddis – Living a Dream

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Imagine a twelve-year-old trumpet player meeting his life’s hero and – even though he’d studied with a great teacher who introduced him to the best in jazz at age eight – being too afraid to say anything. Imagine that same young [...]