ALBANY — The Massry Center for the Arts on the former College of Saint Rose campus is “a building waiting to happen,” said Michael Kirsty, executive director of the Friends of Chamber Music in Troy.
“It’s just a great space,” Kirsty said. “It can be an incubator. You can host ambitious projects.”
The $14 million center boasts an art gallery, practice rooms for musicians, classrooms and an “acoustically superb” 400-seat performance hall, Kirsty said. And like many of its neighboring buildings on the former college campus, it’s without an operator, leaving a void for arts organizations, said Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, Musicians of Ma’alwyck founder and director…