Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that presents hundreds of music, literary, family, film, theatre, and dance events each year. The series "Selected Shorts" is known nationwide through its distribution on Public Radio. When Symphony Space opened its do...

Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that presents hundreds of music, literary, family, film, theatre, and dance events each year. The series "Selected Shorts" is known nationwide through its distribution on Public Radio. When Symphony Space opened its doors in 1978 with its first production, Wall to Wall Bach, it gathered together an eclectic group of musicians, professional and amateur, well-known and emerging. What began as a natural outgrowth of the cultural epicenter that is the Upper West Side, traditionally home to many of the great actors, writers, dancers and musicians of our time, remains a unique melding of world-class artistry with the informality and intimacy of a neighborhood salon.