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On March 3, 2012 a very exciting schools. Dr Dames was extremely event took place in the Cornwall supportive and we got most music High School. Titled Side by Side, it teachers on board. was the first of hopefully an annual “After it was a program, a club, “jubilation” with the Cornwall for two years, it was then School Orchestras performing incorporated into the district and has alongside Greater Newburgh been growing ever since, now with Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) two full time teachers, Kevin members.

Cranca (high and elementary This collaborative “miracle” was schools) and Tracy Decker, (middle eleven years in the making! “I school).”

Greg Phillips believe it was 2001,” Greg Phillips Presently working only part time, said when asked when he birthed the string Phillips has “room” to play in the cello section program in the Cornwall schools. of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Phillips’ first teaching position was in the Orchestra and various chamber ensembles. He Ramapo Central School District in Suffern helped to create the Side by Side concert with where he instituted an orchestra program in GNSO director Dr. Woomyung Choe, a heavily 1965. Retiring in June of 1999 he and his wife attended afternoon concert at which guest Carol relocated in Cornwall where, again, he conductor Marissa Kaczynski led first the started the new string program in the Cornwall Fifth and Sixth Grade Orchestra and then the Central School District.

Seventh and Eighth Grade Orchestra in two “It was difficult and it was easy,” Phillips works, with 2/3rds of the musicians being the continued. “It was difficult to convince some students and the other 1/3rd the GNSO people, but easy to convince Cornwall professionals, sitting side by side on the stage.

Superintendent Dr. Margaret Dames whom he The enthusiastic audience was amazed at how knew previously when she was a Suffern well it sounded, but then, like myself, they were principal. Subsequently “she became a good blown away when, under Kaczynski’s baton, the friend in Cornwall. There was an opening for a High School Orchestra performed Jupiter band position and I applied under a provision from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. It was a that she would help institute string club in the perfect choice as the music has much bravura school. At first it was an extracurricular activity for the kids to show off, plus a hymn-like and we brought in kids from other Cornwall middle section which transported the audience:

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Congratulations to the music teachers and the students. The intonation of the players was just about perfect and they more than held with own with their GNSO partners.

Congratulations to Greg Phillips. I forgot to ask how he felt when he saw, heard and participated in his “baby” blossoming into full adulthood.

Other school districts please take note. It can be done!

Cornwall School District take note:: Concert was too short. Next year, please, a full two hours of these remarkable students.

A USA Telemann Premiere April 1: No Foolin’!

Fools & Fiddlers take the stage on April 1 beginnning Weekend of Chamber Music’s (WCM) 19th season in Sullivan County.

The concert includes the first modern performance in the U.S. of an unpublished 18thcentury work, the Trio in D Major by Georg Philipp Telemann. The autograph of the Trio

languished in the Landesbibiothek in Darmstadt, Germany until the noted botanist Hans-Jürgen Beug uncovered it in the 1960s when he was at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, and then gave a copy to Gisela Baethge, a viola da gamba player and close friend of WCM Artistic Director Judith Pearce.

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Selections from Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin, and works by Dario Castello and Vivaldi will also be played.

The April 1, 3:00pm WCM concert is in the Hortonville Church on Hankins Road. A meetthe-artists reception follows the concert.

For information: 845-932-8527.

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Table of Contents

Dorian Wind Quintet pg 3 Chamber Music at St. Andew’s pg 3 Beltane Spring Festival pg 4 Pine Bush UFO Festival 2012 pg 5, 6, 7, 8 OCAC All County Dance Celebration pg 13 Strazza Art Gallery pg 14 OC Classic Choral Society & Orchestra pg 15 About Crystals with Cephora pg 16 Hillarie Clark Moore pg 24 De Fesi, Music with a Hebrew Accent pg 25 Sounds Asylum with Tina Piaquadio pg 26 Meet Me at the Library: Rosemarie Werkman pg 38 Calendars

Music, Lectures & Books Calendar Category Calendar April 2012 Calendar Art & Photography Calendar Children & Teen’s Calendar

pg 18 pg 19 pgs 20, 21 pg 22 pg 22

Destinations

Destination: Chester/Sugar Loaf Destination: Cornwall Destination: Ellenville Destination: Florida Destination: Goshen Destination: Greenwood Lake Destination: Middletown Destination: Milford Destination: Monroe Destination: Montgomery Destination: Newburgh Destination: Walden Destination: Wurtsboro

pgs 9, 10, 11 pg 35 pg 36 pg 33 pg 34 pg 33 pg 24, 25, 26 pg 23 pg 12 pgs 30, 31, 32 pgs 27, 28, 29 pgs 37, 38, 39 pg 16, 17

Dorian Wind Quintet 50th Anniversary

Opera at St. Andrews: Sing for Spring

by Derek Leet

Carolyn Steinberg

Lee Hoiby

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is joining with the Delaware Valley Chamber Orchestra (DVCO) to present classical music. “They approached DVCO,” explained DVCO Artistic Director Carolyn Steinberg, “continuing to strengthen their ties and interact even more with the community.”.

For the first of three concerts in the new subscription series, Steinberg and Bethel Woods CEO Darlene Fedun are bringing the World Class Dorian Wind Quintet back to Sullivan County for a 50th anniversary program of new music that includes an arrangement of a Bach Prelude and Fugue by Israeli composer Ilan Rechtman.

For its 40th anniversary ten years ago, the Quintet commissioned Anniversary Variations on a Theme of (Anton)Reich and arranged for five composers Lee Hoiby, Bruce Adolphe, Barney Childs, George Perle and Richard Rodney Bennett, to compose one variation each.

As most local music lovers know, worldrenown composer Hoiby lived in Long Eddy, and Weekend of Chamber Music has performed works by Adolphe who is the

Bruce Adolphe

David Del Tredici

resident lecturer and director of family concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and an author of books on music.

The Variations will be performed along with music by Pulitzer Prize (1980) awardee David Del Tredici, who, though trained in serial technique, now composes in a tonal style, and is one of the clearest exemplars of neo-romanticism (not to be confused with the 1920s post-romanticism).

The program also includes a World Premiere of Steinberg’s new work, Natural Discourses. “Each movement (titled Invisible, Barely Visible and Clearly Visible) has a literary, poetic image...,” explains Steinberg. “...a stylistic comment, and combines an emphasis of tone color with strong rhythmic life including “groove” (rhythmic swing - a term taken from the jazz idiom).

The concert takes place indoors on April 20 at 8:00pm in the Bethel Woods Event Gallery.

See the ad on page 14 for purchasing tickets, either for the full series, or individually for each concert.

stranger to Sullivan County, having brought his singers to the Dead End Cafe in Soprano Leslie Parksville many times in the past, and still Swanson, baritone brings them to Frost Valley in Claryville.

Jeremy Moore, and Spierman expects a special guest, Tom other performers, Caltabellotta of the Dead End Cafe, to will take us on a perform along with the singers and voyage from 18th musicians, one of which includes oboist century Vienna to Gerard Reuter of the Dorian Wind 20th century New Quintet (see story on left). Reuter is a York City when The favorite of St. Andrew’s audiences and also Bronx Opera oboist for Spierman’s Orchestra of the Company (BOC) Leslie Swanson Bronx. opens Chamber Chamber Music at St. Andrews offers soprano Music at St. painting by two free chamber concerts a year, always Marguerite Andrew’s 11th performed by outstanding musicians, that Chadwick Juner season, presenting enrich, inspire and bring pleasure to “Sing for Spring,” Sullivan County audiences. selections from This series is supported in part with funds opera and the golden from the 2012 Decentralization Program, a age of Broadway regrant program of the NYS Council on the musical theatre, an Arts, administered in Sullivan County by exciting departure the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, and by for the chamber the generosity of many individuals and music series. businesses.

The performance St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is located Jeremy Moore is narrated by BOC at 5277 State Route 42 in South Fallsburg. baritone Artistic Director and Reservations for the free 8:00pm April Conductor Michael Spierman. Spierman, 21 performance are required. E-mail who infuses his narrations with his love of pcfriedman27@gmail.com. or call 845opera (and his sense of humor) is no 292-8967.

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Holistic Living sponsored by Linda Richichi Brid’s Closet Fair at Palaia Vineyards Holistic Calendar Palaia Vineyards

UUC .............................................................................................................. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern

Psychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes ......................................................UUC 1st Tuesdays, 7pm Healing EXPO ......................................................................Best Western, Matamoras, Apr 1, 11am-6pm Grandmother Sacred Plant Ceremony ........................Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Apr 6 & 7, 8pm Chinese Meditation in Three Forms ............................................Cornwall Library, Apr 9 & 23, 6:30pm Dinner and Reading w/Lisa Ann............................The Trestle, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Apr 15, 2pm-6pm Message Circle ..........................................................Spiritquest Healing Center, Slate Hill, Apr 20, 7pm Beltane Spring Festival ......................................................................Palaia Vineyards, Mar 5, 9am-6pm

Cornwall holistic business owner Bernadette Montana of Brid’s Closet is hosting the Beltane Spring Festival at Palaia Vineyards in Highland Mills.

Dress in your Renaissance Faire best and come celebrate Spring on May 5, from 9:00am to 6:00pm.

A Mummer’s parade will open the festival at 9:00am. and there will be live entertainment throughout the day, including games of chance, classes, music, Courtney Weber belly dancing, tons of shopping and food from local vendors.

Judika Illes will offer workshops and readings; Liron Peled and Rio will be performing modern middle eastern and rock-drumming.

Cornwall’s Boom Boom Shake performance group belly dancers and drummers will perform.

Courtney Weber will offer Tarot workshops; Primal Percussion George Courtney will offer drumming workshops; George Courtney will offer Astrology workshops; Nancie's Spinning Fancies will offer workshops, and 3rd degree classic rock band will be performing; This year’s festival will be held at Palaia Vineyards, 10 Sweet Clover Road, Highland Mills, at the base of beautiful Schunnemunk Mountain.

Admission is $20 per person. Children ages 12 and under are free. Tickets are on sale at Brid’s Closet, 296 Main Street.. See ad, pg. 35.

For information call 845-458-8726.

“Family Matters”

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For over 30 years, Peter Greene as been portraying family life through his paintings.

Whether depicting a child teasing a cat or a father playing a game with a toddler, Greene’s narrative paintings explore parent/child dynamics, marital roles, and generational identities of family members.

Family Matters, an exhibit of Green’s paintings is on view in the Alliance Gallery at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street in Narrowsburg thru April 14.

For information: 845-252-7576.

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earth day Calendar

Earth Day with SUNY Orange ............................................Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Apr 19, 9am-1pm “Work o The Weavers” folk music ..........................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Apr 20 & 21, 8pm Potluck Concerts “Music of the Earth” ............Cornwall Presbyterian Church, C-o-H, Apr 20, 7:30pm Earth Day Celebration Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Apr 28, 10am-4pm Earth Day Celebration & Hike-A-Thon ..................................................................................................

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Apr 28, 10am-3pm

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Artists opportunity

2nd Annual Pine Bush Area UFO Festival & Parade: April 28 & 29!

Children's Games & Activities Face painting, carnival games, slime the alien, bounce house, pony rides, and spaceship MERCHANT UFO HIDE & SEEK Spot 'Alfie the Alien' in his spaceship and collect building crafts, will occur throughout the town a ticket from each participating merchant. in several locations. Main locations are 61 Redeem the right amount of tickets at Stewart's Main St. Plaza and 20 Boniface Dr. or Family Scoops for a free ice cream cone.

ALIEN Costume/Theme Parade Enter to win a free 'shop local' gift basket at The costume/theme parade will be held at 3pm Stewart's. BOTH DAYS! starting at Main St., Route 52, continuing onto Boniface Drive, and finishing in front of the LECTURES on the local UFO Lore Ufologists will speak about local lore at EJR Cup & Saucer Diner.

Elementary School, 78 Holland Ave., within Viewing of UFO Documentary walking distance to all other event activities. [just off Center St.] Special interest item Adventures of an Earthling by Bill Hussung & vendors will also be available at this location. Mishara Canino-Hussung. Pine Bush Area Authors, graphic artists and unique items Public Library Annex, 227 Maple Ave. Bill relating to the UFO community. Back entrance retraced his mom's steps who was very involved is off Route 302/Stock Market Rd. just south of with the UFO phenomenon during the height of activity in the 1990s in the Pine Bush area. the light at Rtes. 302 & 52.

Viewings at 10am, 12:30pm and 3:15pm.

MUSIC Earthlings & Aliens Ball Main St. Gazebo: Showcasing local talent.

7:00pm-11:00pm. Sponsored by the Catholic Bizarre ART Exhibition & Competition Showing Sat. & Sun. from 11:00am-3:00pm in the Crawford Gallery, 121 Route 302.

Reception and awards ceremony on Sunday 3:00pm-5:00pm. Sponsored by the Pine Bush Area Arts Council. BOTH DAYS!

Saturday, April 28, 10am - 5pm

War Veterans at their Social Hall. Music, Theme Costumes, Prizes. 161 Center Street. Tickets $10 per person includes snacks. You may bring your own additional food snack items to munch on. Water, soda and adult beverages available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Soldiers Fund that support our troops here and abroad.

Sunday, April 29, 10am-3pm Cosmic Chili Cook-Off Participants will be vying for three trophies: Judge's Choice, Peoples' Choice and the best Luna Lava Chili [the hottest]. Applications are available by calling 845-742-0087 or by email to eastcoastufo@gmail.com. Entry Fee $15 nonrefundable donation to the LIONS CLUB. Preregistration by April 13 is mandatory.

11:00am-2:30pm. P&B Woodworking, 2415 Route 52 Main St.

by calling 845-742-0087. Entry fee is $5 payable in cash morning of event. Arrival time: 8:30am-10am. Location: Village Ford lot, 2420 Route 52 right next door to P&B Woodworking.

Musical Entertainment Local DJ Bernadette Gill will be spinning the music for your enjoyment. Special guest performances include Prez, the Not Just Country Line Dancers, and some other friends of the festival!.

Bizarre ART Exhibition & Competition Exhibit all day, reception and awards ceremony 'Out of This World' Car Show from 3pm-5pm. Sponsored by the Pine Bush Participants will be competing in four peoples' Area Arts Council. choice categories. Pre-Registration is suggested For information: 845-744-5648.

PB High School student UFO competition Will be exhibited at the Mitchell Performing Arts Center 86 Main St.on April 28-29 during the festival. Includes grades k-12. Themes are UFO, alien, sci-fi. Two and three dimensional works. Top prize winner for all grades receives $50. Winner’s art theme will be the logo for the parade in 2013. First and second prizes awarded to each grade level. BOTH DAYS!

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Excerpts taken from:The Rise and Fall of Pine Bush - Scott C. Carr, The MUFON Journal, Nov. 1998. www.ufoevidence.org America's most uncelebrated UFO hotspot first came into the public perception in 1987, when it was mentioned in passing in Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Philip Imbrogno's, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.

Though Pine Bush played only a minor role in the Hudson Valley UFO flap of the mid1980s, it was just outside of Westchester and Putnam counties, where the bulk of the sightings were taking place. The Pine Bush sightings, however, would continue to grow, both in number and frequency.

Even as reports of the Hudson Valley's much publicized "Westchester Wing" or "Westchester Boomerang" began to diminish after reaching a peak of nearly two thousand sightings between 1983 and 1987, just next door, in the Wallkill River Valley area of neighboring Ulster County, Pine Bush was

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becoming more and more active with unexplained phenomenon of its own. This tiny, rural farming community began to attract first the attention of curious and perplexed locals, and soon the attention of other outsiders and serious investigators.

But, even though it was overlooked by the

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media and mainstream UFO culture, Pine Bush did begin to slowly attract attention. PM Magazine did a segment, and many years later Sightings and Strange Universe would visit.

The alien abduction craze was spreading like wildfire throughout the country, and Pine Bush was no exception. Abductees began to come forward, organizing meetings and support groups, and planning excursions into the fields to go skywatching, or "UFOing" as some of the local UFO enthusiasts have termed their nocturnal pastime. And, even though rumors abounded among the small, yet growing, group of skywatchers who gathered almost nightly on West Searsville Road, Whitley Strieber was still half a decade from finally admitting that much of his own experience, eerily and starkly described in his best-selling Communion, did in fact take place in his cabin just outside of Pine Bush.

Even as the core group of locals continued to watch the skies, keeping to themselves and

eschewing all newcomers and outsiders, the number of interested people making the sojourn to the small farming community from further away continued to grow until, by 1995, you could find a line of cars parked along West Searsville Road on virtually any weather permitting night. Dedicated UFO enthusiasts would gather together to discuss the paranormal, to fling wild theories, and watch odd lights dart about the skies.

The continued urbanization of the area began to seriously threaten the sanctity of the skywatchers. New homes were popping up everywhere, and with them, "No Trespassing" and "Private Property" signs appeared in

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places that had traditionally been open to skywatching.

Police began to quietly patrol the once quiet backroads, courteously asking skywatchers to keep it down, or to please find somewhere else to park. By the end of 1996, sightings had reached an all time low.

This faith and dedication would soon be put to the test, however. Just as sightings and reports of strange lights and phenomenon began once again to pick up pace, with a renewed vigor not seen in nearly five years, so did the continued urban development. New homes along West Searsville threatened issues of freedom and privacy. It was not long before

the new residents of these homes began to take notice of the men and women outside, staring up into the star filled sky, searching for flying saucers. Conflict was inevitable as, for the first time the general public

at the time of this writing, several skywatchers have been told by authorities anyone found guilty of trespassing or parking with the intention of "skywatching" will be subject to incarceration and/or fine.

Many of the researchers and skywatchers of the area have moved their efforts to the mysterious and enigmatic Wanaque, New Jersey, where they claim to experience many bizarre sightings and confronted the UFO culture on common, "interdimensional phenomenon." They neutral ground. Update: As of January of have dubbed the place: this year [1999], skywatching has "The New Pine Bush." apparently been banned in Orange County.

Though the legalities of this are uncertain

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Meet Mr. Peter Mosen

by Naomi Kennedy From an early age, Pine Bush resident Peter Mosen created costumes. When he was seven years old, he was given fabric from his dad, a part-owner of a bathing suit company. From this material, Mosen created a cape for a Zorro character (an action/adventure Walt Disney series, popular in the 1950's). This was the impetus for his future in costuming, acting and doing props in films.

Mosen's TV credits include: Real People, Morning Show with Regis Philbin, Matlock, and Unsolved Mysteries. Movie credits include: Ghostbusters 2, Gremlins 2, Nothing but Trouble, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Coneheads, and Honey I Blew up the Kids. Most of his acting parts were cameos or as an extra.

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Mosen has created props for films such as Stargate, Terminator 2; and was the first to build four Ghostbuster II vehicles for promotional purposes and licensed appearances.

Fans of Ghostbusters call themselves "Ghostheads". Mosen, the first person to dress in a Ghostbusters outfit with all the props, is considered to be "the original Ghosthead". "This is one of the titles I'm very proud to hold," said Mosen who is also slated to be in the next Ghostbusters film!

Winner of countless awards for costume competitions, which include: Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek promo-contest, and 1st Place, 1979 for his “Alien w/ Vulcan Firegoddess”.

"I've been a very lucky man, had a lot of fun, and met a lot of people. Dan Aykroyd is a personal friend of mine; I met Leonard Nimoy (Spock in the original Star Trek series); I even got to meet a man that walked on the moon, Buzz Aldrin (the astronaut). I've been around

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Peter Mosen (left) poses with Dan Akroyd.

one or twice!" said Mosen.

As a youngster, Mosen started attending costume competitions at sci-fi conventions. "I've been interested in sci-fi all my life," he explained, and he will be assisting with costumes and float designs for the April 28 Pine Bush UFO Festival parade.

For the festival, Mosen will create alienrelated costumes/props. He will be one of the "costume strollers". His R2D2 mockup that accompanies his costume will be on display.

Come meet Peter Mosen on April 28 in your own costume and you can vie for one of the costume prizes when they are awarded at the end of the parade at the Cup and Saucer Diner.

Destination...................................................Chester - Sugar Loaf 3 Playwrighting Concepts - Language, Satire, Parody

The Air Pirates Radio Theater is the only theater of its type in the United States.

Air Pirates began six years ago based on two concepts. The first was to bring live interactive theater to the public and second to make the plays accessible to small business owners so that they could be involved in arts sponsorship (branding) the same as large corporations. By producing radio plays, the company is able to broaden the audiences, therefore enabling the sponsors to reach large numbers of listeners.

The company is not only committed to involving the audience, but also to new theater based in a traditional American form.

This commitment is reflected in the styles used in the scripts, which generate new and distinctly different characters and acting skills. Each play has its own trademark style rooted in literary techniques, enabling both the actors and audience to engage in a new form of radio drama.

Paul Ellis explains: “As the producer I researched a number of options and came to the realization that there really was very little available in the radio-play genre. Most of the plays were dated simply because radio drama was an old format which has been ignored in favor of newer media. What followed was the development of new scripts designed for a new concept: audience interaction and live broadcasts.

“Having studied playwriting I decided that I would tackle the scripts myself. Research had shown that there were certain types of plays that dominated the genre during its heyday; mysteries, science fiction and westerns Since these concepts were so different in character, location and plot I

decided that they should also be different in style.”

Mystery & Language During his research Ellis discovered that the mystery needed a strong lead character and the old radio formula included things like a definable locale and several recurring characters. The second thing was the language. “There seemed to be an emphasis on language. This made the Herb Marks Freelance series the one that would play with language. To that end Herb, the main character, has become the master of simile and metaphor. One of the results of this is the plays have double meanings built in and Herb always emphasizes what he says through simile or metaphor. The element of audience participation only enhances this stylistic trick because they do not know what their sound effect is for until the play reaches the point in which it occurs. This twist allows for yet another opportunity to use the metaphor or enhance the double meaning.”

Science-Fiction & Satire When approaching science fiction, Ellis was able to address political and social satire.

Plomedy: A Playwrighting Concept?

"Stai zitto siediti e mangia"

“Because of the imaginary world in which the Space Cadet characters inhabit, the opportunity to satirize contemporary issues became almost obvious. With that in mind the main character, Tica Maroo, was designed to be a naive innocent who encounters new and unusual circumstance that reflect social issues of our own modern times. This has been the traditional nature of science fiction. Where Herb Marks may be viewed as jaded, Tica is wide eyed which allows for an entirely different approach to the humor.”

Westerns & Parody Los Tres Balceneros, Air Pirates’ western series, quickly took a different turn. In the first episode, Ellis used The Magnificent Seven, one of the best westerns ever committed to film, as the source. “After presenting this to the public it became apparent that I had stumbled upon a parody.

With that in mind I began to craft these plays accordingly, resulting in parodies of not only western film but contemporary music.” Even though the characters are traditional western heroes, the plays became musicals with full scores based on contemporary popular music styles. The result was The Beatles, Grateful Dead and Rap westerns.

Air Pirates is the area’s only acting repertory company. The actors perform multiple roles while reading Ellis’ original scripts in front of microphones. Many of them have been together since the beginning and

now bring ideas and improvisational skills to the shows. “The characters themselves have developed over time. Smokestack El Ropo, Herb's sidekick in the mysteries, has become so real that I now write in his voice. The same is true of Tica Maroo and the three cowboys.

“Another evolution is that of the secondary characters. These characters have almost demanded they be included and they help to set the scene and plot without using narration.

This is particularly true in the mystery series.

In the science fiction series two of the main characters are voiced by one actor which offers me the challenge of challenging that actor. It has almost become a game of how much can I make these two characters do before the actor can no longer keep it up.

Right now he is ahead, conceded Ellis.

The audience is also a character in these plays. Because they have to supply the sound effects on time it becomes Ellis’ job as a writer to figure out where they can be included and just how much he can rely on them. “At first this seemed very risky, but as Producer Paul Ellis

we moved further I found the audience can't wait to be involved. Now I am writing with them in mind from the start rather than figuring it out after the play is written. In other words what was once an addition to the script is now the starting point.”

Ellis is serious about his playwrighting of comedies, parodies, satires - yes, even farce.

No, no door slamming on stage, but YES when an audience member creates the sound of a slamming door!

Learn how to slam a door on cue. The next live radio theater play is on April 21 at 8:00pm in the Pavilion at Lycian Centre.

Phone: 845-469-7563.

Tina Giorgi, Joe Moffa, Eric Tartaglione & Chris Monty

If you’re tired of the typical and really need a good belly laugh, then visit Jester’s Comedy Club for an innovative evening of fun. “Shut Up, Sit Down and Eat” aka "Stai zitto siediti e mangia" is America’s first ‘plomedy’! It combines the wit of stand-up comedy, the intensity of a one-man show and the format of an innovative Off –Broadway play, served up as dinner-theatre.

When a therapist fails to arrive on time for a group therapy session, four impatient Italian Americans take their issues into their own

hands and invent a new type of therapy – Italian therapy!

The play is written and performed by four outstanding seasoned New York comedians.

It features the comedic styles of Tina Giorgi, Joe Moffa, Chris Monty and Eric Tartaglione.

Enjoy the rollercoaster ride of laughter, insight, revelation and hilarious dysfunction on April 28. Doors open 7:00pm This is dinner-theatre, so reservations are necessary. 845-3450-1039.

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The Bacon Brothers Perform at Lycian

chester / sugar Loaf Calendar sponsored by Orange County Citizens Foundation

Comedy

Theatre - Musical

Andy Pitz Apr 7 Ross Bennett Apr 14 Johnny Watson Apr 21 Michael Somerville May 5 Jester’s Comedy Club, 9pm

”The Honky Tonk Angels” Lycian Centre Apr 22, 3pm

Exhibits Kurt Seligmann Collages Seligmann Center for Surrealism, thru Apr 30

Music The Bacon Brothers Lycian Centre, Apr 21, 8pm

Long before Kevin Bacon launched his prolific stage and screen career, and before Michael Bacon became known as a go-to composer for film and television, they were just two brothers, born nine years apart, coming of age in Center City Philadelphia.

By the late 1960s, Michael, already a professional musician, would gig with his band at the city's famed Electric Factory with a young Kevin tagging along when he could.

"My earliest memory of music was what my brother was playing or the music he brought home," Kevin Bacon recalls. "I would sit on the steps of our basement while he was downstairs

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practicing with our sister, Hilda, and their band.

So my heroes growing up were all rock 'n' rollers. I wasn't really into sports, or even movies. If I could save money I'd buy an album."

"Kevin writes a lot more songs than I do," Michael says. "While I spend a lot of time writing instrumental music, lyrical songs are tougher: if I write one or two a year that I like, then I'm happy. But Kevin has this amazing gift of turning everyday experiences into universal thoughts that everybody can identify with."

As The New Yorker recently observed: "Hollywood hangs like an albatross around the

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neck of any movie star turned musician, but this duo shakes off the burden of fame with sharply executed rock that has a blue-collar, rootsy edge."

"I like risks," notes Kevin, a classic understatement from an artist who's played challenging, unsympathetic roles in everything from The Woodsman to Sleepers to Oliver Stone's JFK. "And there's nothing more risky about being a well known actor and playing in a rock band."

The Bacon Brothers are bringing their sizzling band to Lycian Centre on April 21 at 8:00pm. For tickets, call: 845-469-2287.

Theatre - Play “Tica Maroo: Space Cadet: King Foo Amazons of Doom” Air Pirates Radio Theater Pavilion at Lycian Centre, Apr 21, 8pm “Shut Up, Sit Down and Eat” Dinner 7pm, Play 9pm Jesters Comedy Club, Apr 28, +++++++++++++++++++++++++

Children’s Theatre “Angelina Ballerina” Lycian Centre, Apr 14, 10am & 1pm

Classified STORE FOR RENT - Sugar Loaf Seeking craftsman/artist. Large display window, skylight, new doors/locks, bathroom.

AC/heat included. Approx. 300 sq. ft.

Call 845-469-0993.

.........................................................................Chester - Sugar Loaf Seligmann’s Books on Magic

Reviewed by Rick Kleffel © 2002 Reprinted from http://trashotron.com Subtitled The History of Magic, “author” Kurt Seligmann’s Magic, Supernaturalism and Religion surveys the history of magic and its influence on Western history and civilization While the average reader might not think that Western civilization has much magic in it at all, Seligmann demonstrates otherwise, and illustrates the matter with over two hundred beautiful reproductions of portraits (ideal and otherwise), woodcuts and engravings.

He starts early, in Mesopotamia, and carries the reader through the end of the nineteenth century, showing how magic and magical thinking stirred men to believe that their actions could have some influence on the world around them, and inspiring them to further action. What Magic, Supernaturalism and Religion offers is nothing less than a concentrated and dense history of the weird extremes of Western human belief over the centuries.

While Seligmann's history is impressive, clearly written, informative and surprisingly non-judgmental, it's the illustrations that kick this book into a unique category. A surrealist artist of the 1940's, Seligmann has managed to

Masonic Lodges.

Horror writers often refer to a mythical book of the occult, containing pointers to the arcane not easily found in normal literature. In many ways, Magic, Supernaturalism and Religion is that book. It covers a wide range of history and beliefs, yet remains focused and is often even quite entertaining. Seligmann's coverage of ancient and not-so ancient beliefs is very even handed. He does not have an agenda to foist off on the reader, trying to prove that the occult phenomena he covers does or does not exist. He examines the beliefs the people who originated supernatural theories and quotes liberally from various the books they wrote.

Magic is an important part of Western civilization, he concludes, because it gave Illustration from “The History of Magic” people the feeling that their actions mattered. It unearth a series of haunting images, rendered in still does, and they still do. black and white, that will linger long after the histories themselves have dissipated.

As a reference, Magic, Supernaturalism and Following recent surreal cabarets and Dada Religion is excellent, providing passages on the poetry readings, The Seligmann Center For Devil, possessions in nunneries, vampires, Surrealism, 23 White Oak Drive in Sugar witchcraft, an excellent survey of alchemical Loaf continues its Homage To Kurt beliefs, as well as sections on the Tarot, the Seligmann with a Collage Exhibit, curated by Cabala and other staples of the occult. He Warwick collagist Jonathan Talbot and speaks of the works of such famous images of Jessica Lawrence, through the end of April.

Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus For information: call the Orange County Magnus, and gives brief histories of the various Citizens Foundation: 845-469-9459.

The Chess Match” from the book “The Mirror of Magic”

Seligmann’s Collages on Exhibit

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Stories in Long Eddy

Music in Rock Tavern

Jazz in Warwick

Bells in Barryville

The Yarnslingers, a Youngsville-based group of storytellers founded by performance artist and published author, Ramona Jan, began telling stories in the summer of 2010.

“We tell true, first person stories,” Jan explains.

Members include Ann Finneran, Patti Zins, Marion Kaselle, Maura Stone, Jason Rahm, June Donahue and Glenn Pontier Their April 20 session with the theme Verbatim is at The Chestnut Cafe 11625 Route 97 in Long Eddy.

Call for performance time: 845-887-6161.

Andrew McKnight is a nationallyacclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist from northwestern Virginia who celebrates rural America, weaving his songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into musical soundscapes sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk.

McKnight will be performing on April 28 at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UUC) in Rock Tavern, 9 Vance Road.

Phone: 845-978-5620 or the UUC office at 845-496-9696.

The Warwick Historical Society is now located in what was the former Wisner Library, the new Buckbee Center at 2 Main Street, across the street from “the Clocktower”.

Joining forces with The Warwick & Hudson Valley Jazz Festival, the two Warwick groups are collaborating on a fundraiser, May 6 at 4:00pm. Donation is $20.

You can contact the Historical Society at info@warwickhistoricalsociety.org. or at 845986-3236.

Also: www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com.

The Brook House Gallery in Barryville is featuring paintings, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and felt artistry by seven artists in a new exhibit opening April 14.

Imagine the Sound of Peace: At the reception, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, David Greenbaum will demonstrate his ceramic bell collection along with Laurie Schwartz who will be showing her painted glass works.

Brook House is located at 5 Austin Road, off Routes 97 & 55 in the heart of Barryville.

For more information, visit them online at www.brookhousegallery.com. or phone 845456-0066.

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Orchestra Shines!

Some of our finest musicians in the area play for the Hudson Opera Company and conductor Rod De Fesi (caricature photo right) wants them to be the stars of the show.

ERGO -Jewels: Great Orchestral Moments from the Opera (plus Beethoven’s 7th) on April 28 at 7:00pm in the First Presbyterian Church, 132 Stage Road AND and in Middletown on April 29 at 7:00pm in the United Presbyterian Church, 25 Orchard Street. For tickets: 845-661-0544.

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Celebrating Orange County Dancers & Choreographers Meadow Dance and Integral Healing Arts Center

Newburgh Performing Arts Academy’s Expressions Dance Ensemble

Jennifer D’Andrea, Arts Administrator for the Orange County Arts Council (OCAC), has always been involved with dance “on some kind of level,” she explains, “be it teaching or managing my own dance studio.

“I studied dance with Marya Kennett and graduated Hofstra University with a Bachelor in Arts and Creative Studies with a concentration on dance. I had my own studio for five years in Wallkill and Newburgh and have taught at various studios and recreation departments.”

One of D’Andrea’s involvements in 2011 was a series of dance forums held at the OCAC and attended by representatives of “just about every dance school and company in Orange County.

We wanted to find out ways to work together The Paraclete Arts Center

the Arts Council and the Dance Community. So we had about seven groups perform in an informal event as an outlet and to show what they created.

“The next idea was to have a large-scale collective dance performance. Though it was an idea that I had had, now it was an idea that the various companies themselves came up with. It had been tried before by Marya Kennett, but the group felt the OCAC could do it on a much larger scale.

“We wanted this to be somewhat of an alternative to the dance recitals specific to each school. We wanted it to be something that was diverse and artistically creative. The dance coummunity has used the Paramount Theater in

Middletown and they suggested we check it out, and, yes, it has a great stage, a great location and plenty of parking. We then received sponsorships from TD Bank, Stewart’s Shops, and Yellow Freight and ECCO! The OCAC All-County Dance Celebration was born.

With a myriad of companies performing, questions come to mind. Who is in charge? How does this happen in terms of stage management?

Who runs the performance?

“The only “drawback” was stage mechanics.

But the Paramount has a stage crew, light crew, music, a curtain, etc., and I will be backstage “choreographing” traffic control and communicating with the crews.

“To make sure the performance keeps the

Performing Studios

audience’s attention, we have Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Pointe, Contemporary - in between modern and ballet - Latin Ballroom and Street Jazz, which is NOT Hip Hop, but more of a cross between hip hop and jazz, a “new age hip hop” which has evolved into more of a technique and therefore it becomes another viable dance genre.

“We all agreed there would be no re-staging, we’d showcase all Orange County choreographers. So in a way it is a showcase of Orange County dancers AND choreographers, not just a dance concert...an “exhibition of the County.”

A perfect fit for Orange County’s Dance Community and its Arts Council.

Orange County School of Dance

The following studios perform April 29 at 3:00pm in the Paramount Theatre, 17 South Street in Middletown. For information 845-346-4195.

American Youth Dance Academy

Blooming Grove............................................................................Joanne's Dance Studio Campbell Hall...............................................................................................Volute Dance Cornwall.....................................................................................:.....Dance Design School Cornwall-on-Hudson.........................................................Step It Up Dance Productions Goshen..............................................................................Marya Kennett Dance Centre Goshen....................................................................Mas Salsa Que Tu Dance Company Middletown............................................................................The Paraclete Arts Center Monroe.........................Orange County School of Dance/Little Feet Dance Company Montgomery....................................Meadow Dance and Integral Healing Arts Center Newburgh...............................Newburgh Free Academy's Advanced Dance Company Newburgh.........Newburgh Performing Arts Academy Expressions Dance Ensemble Newburgh........................................................................Orange County Ballet Theatre Port Jervis............................................................................................The Dance Center Salisbury Mills............................................................American Youth Dance Academy Warwick.......................................................................................Warwick Dance Center Washingtonville.................................................The New York Performing Arts Center

The New York Performing Arts Center

Orange County School of Dance

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A Labor of Love: The Strazza Art Gallery

by Anna Lillian Moser Walk into the Strazza Art Gallery in Warwick on any given day and you won't find a curator or a gallery manager sitting behind a desk.

Instead you might see Lisa Strazza working on one of her paintings in the back, or John Strazza scrutinizing over a collection of his black and white New York City street photos. It's this - the presence of the artists that sets Strazza Art Gallery apart from the rest.

"A dynamic that works seems to be that the artists are here instead of a curator," John said, adding that they've had a number of instances where someone will buy a piece of artwork, then return because they simply need to talk about it. "They have the right to do that here. Somebody can stare at one of these quiet pieces and they have the room to do it and the time to do it, and then they can turn and 10 feet away is the person who made the thing and that's value in the bigger way."

Lisa and John are both extremely talented and successful in their individual artistic mediums. Lisa, an abstract expressionist, was trained and mentored directly by Pietro Anthony Narducci, a founding member of the movement. In 1989 she won the SOHO International Art Competition for a piece

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Lisa & John Strazza

which hangs in the gallery to this day, and for two consecutive years she was named Best Oil Artist in the Hudson Valley by the Times Herald Record.

John, who says he was born with a camera in his hand, was trained directly by world famous photographer Sandy Skoglund, as well as a number of other teachers closely associated by photographers Walker Evans

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and Ansel Adams. His work is currently displayed in the Kunstwerk Museum in Germany among other places.

The couple, who sometimes refer to themselves as the modern day Stieglitz and O'Keefe, met many years ago during a river festival where John - who is also a guitarist and songwriter - was performing. "A year later I went to the same festival, hoping he would be there and he did the same," Lisa said.

They didn't see each other again, though, until years later when Lisa emailed him out of the blue. "I knew it was her, I just knew," John said. "It was a very slow connection. I think it took us seven years to even go on a date. We talked and there was an instant trust...instant trust and love." Even then, though, it was ten years before the couple officially tied the knot in 2007. "I guess we valued what we had and therefore didn't want to go about connecting our lives the wrong way."

While one might assume a relationship between two successful artists would be a constant case of one-upmanship, the Strazzas say they're not only supportive of each other, but depend on one another to keep them on the right track.

"I don't think we're typical of that because we're not very competitive," Lisa said. "We're

very supportive of each other. What's that expression, iron sharpens iron? I feel like he brings out the best in me and I bring out the best in him. There are times when I'll see what people like and I'll start to paint in that direction and he'll bring me back to being a purist, and there are times when he's looking through photographs and saying 'there's no way people are going to understand that,' and I'm saying 'people are going to love that,' and we put it on the wall and it's a bestseller."

The couple decided to open a gallery together in 2007, opening at first in Sugar Loaf before moving to Warwick in 2010.

"The focus is on my art and his art and the gallery kind of comes second," Lisa said, adding that her years spent framing and doing restoration work, as well as running galleries for other artists, helped prepare them for going into business for themselves. "Being an artist you can't just open up and say 'oh I'm going to open up a gallery and sell my work!'

There's a lot more to it."

While they love what they do, the couple admits they sometimes loathe the business side of things. They even once - completely exasperated - decided to quit. "I think it lasted maybe five hours," John said.

The Strazza Art Gallery is located at 65 Main Street, Suite 100, in Warwick.

For information, call 845-988-5598.

Strangely Forgotten and Thankfully Recovered

by Phillip Ehrensaft

Despite Luigi Cherubini's music being championed by the likes of Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, and even his arch opponent, Berlioz, his music descended into obscurity in the century after his death.

We'll have two occasions to hear why this who's who roster of composers was so drawn to Cherubini's music: on April 29 at 4:00pm, the Orange County Classical Choral Society and Orchestra under the baton of Janiece Kohler perform his engulfing Requiem in C Minor, plus pieces by Schubert and Mozart at the United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove.

There will be a second chance to catch the same program at the First Presbyterian Church in Goshen at 7:00pm on May 5.

Cherubini emigrated to Paris in 1788, just in time to catch the French Revolution of 1789. His composing initially focused on sacred music, but Cherubini shifted gears to opera. Paris, then the reigning European capital of opera, was a logical move.

During the revolutionary 1790's, Cherubini composed one successful opera after another.

Given his penchant for sacred music, plus conservative attachment to the classical techniques pioneered by Haydn, Cherubini’s roaring success seems contradictory in the

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Luigi Cherubini AKA Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini

Janiece Kohler Cond: Classical Choral Society & Orchestra

context of such, the militantly secular and often deadly politically correct era of the French Revolution and its guillotines.

But less contradictory than it would seem: French revolutionaries perceived themselves as embodying the Age of Reason, and the classical compositional techniques of Haydn through early Beethoven are one of the Peaks of Reason in human affairs. Cherubini was likely heard and appreciated as a neo-classical embodiment of Reason, just as David was in painting.

A second element was Cherubini's use of classical techniques to continue the opera reforms pioneered by Gluck (1714-1787).

Before Gluck's reforms, French opera, as in much of the rest of Europe, became a rather static and disjointed art form. A night at the opera would probably bring successions of more or less related scenes and arias based

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Photo by John F. Maney

either on classical mythology, or the ambitions and intrigues of royalty. The singers were the thing: they viewed scores as stand-and-deliver occasions to be altered at will - in function of showing off their vocal prowess.

Gluck saw opera as theater, as drama sequenced with carefully crafted music to intensify the emotions and minds of audiences. Cherubini used his conservative techniques to further Gluck's reforms. And that carries over into his sacred music: one

senses right away that it is not only resplendent but intends to move us along a spiritual narrative.

As the second decade of the nineteenth century proceeded, Cherubini had fewer successes at the opera house, and he threw in the operatic towel in 1813. But certainly not the musical towel. First, he became the director of France's national conservatory.

Second, he focused on sacred music again, and in 1816 created the splendor of his Requiem in C Minor.

Musical fashions change, however, and the Romantic and Modernist eras pushed most of Cherubini's works out of earshot.

Then fashion changed again, this time very dramatically, in the form of Maria Callas making Cherubini's opera Médée into an icon of iconic Callas performances. That was complemented by the eminent opera conductor Riccardo Muti championing Cherubini's sacred vocal music.

Admission is free to both concerts.

To prepare yourself for the Orange County Classical Chorale Society and Orchestra performances, or keep it in memory afterward, I highly recommend the bargain-priced but upscale-quality recording of Cherubini's Requiem in C Minor by the Chorus and Orchestra of the Swiss Italian l a n g u a g e broadcasting station. (Naxos 8.554749).

Or you can do what I did: sign on to www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com for a modest monthly fee, and compare 6 different recordings of the Requiem streaming in CD quality - or any of the other 64,294 albums from a wide diversity of classical music labels.

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The Acting Contest is On! Natalie Dessay in “La Traviata” April 14

Anna Netrebko in “Manon” April 7

by Derek Leet Who is the world’s leading actress on the operatic stage? The acting contest is on in Loch Sheldrake at Sullivan County Community College (SCCC).

Of course, opinion is opinion, moot is moot, and no one is perfect. But fans of Anna Netrebko and Natalie Dessay claim their DivaIdols ARE perfect. What do you think?

What IS uncontestedly perfect are the sightlines in SCCC’s Seelig Auditorium where both superstars can be seen performing opera’s most famous, tragic mistresses on April 7, Noon and April 14 at 12:55pm, Live from the Met in HD. With glorious music by Jules Massenet and Giuseppe Verdi, I suspect it will be a tie!

For tickets: 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

An audience participation murder mystery, Last Will & Testament takes place at a memorial dinner in honor of Jonas Carmody, President and Founder of Carmody Oil. Dead of natural causes at the age of 78, Jonas left an estate valued in excess of $30 million.

The heirs are in for a big surprise when they gather together with his friends and business associates to pay their respects, because a surprise reading of the will is on the menu.

Who is willing to kill for their fair share? The prim and proper step-daughter? The greedy, ne'er-do-well brother? The hot-shot lawyer? The underpaid security guard? Or the floozy girlfriend?

The Greater Liberty Chamber of Commerce is presenting the Big Sky Production with a cast that includes Bob and Carol Bliefernich of Highland Lake, Connie Lawrence of Divine Corners, Thunder 102 Radio Personality Paul

Ciliberto of Hurleyville, and Terry McNamara of Claryville. The play is directed by Big Sky Artistic Director Carol Montana of Grahamsville.

Audience members are Terry McNamara encouraged to come in Security Guard, dressed in their Texas best, Carmody Oil and will team up with the detective to crack clues, obtain evidence and ultimately help solve the crime committed before their very eyes!

BYOB to the Murder, Intrigue, Food & Fun benefit murder mystery dinner theatre on April 29 at 7:00pm in the Liberty Fire House, 256 Sprague Avenue. Admission is $25 and includes a three-course dinner and the show.

For reservations call the Chamber at 845292-5807.

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Destination......................................

About Crystals

with Cephora

Wood Turned into Stone When you pass by Crystal Connection in Wurtsboro, you can’t help noticing several logs of petrified wood. To celebrate the reopening for the 2012 season, amongst the many new stones here on Sullivan Street, we are giving the spot light to the under appreciated Petrified Wood.

Arizona Redwood has turned into stone through a very interesting process. The logs of wood are actually over 220 million years old! From the Triassic period - yes, when the dinosaurs were running around.

Here is what happened: A tree turns completely into stone through the process of permineralization.

Wood (or plants) must first be covered under sediments such as ash from erupting volcanoes, volcanic mud flows, sediments in lakes and swamps or material washed in by violent floods which would exclude

oxygen preventing decay. While retaining the original structure of the wood, all the organic materials are replaced with minerals (mostly silicate, such as quartz).

Such a process takes over 100 years. As far as I know, in spite of many attempts, scientists have not been able to duplicate this process in the laboratory.

The beautiful and varied colors are caused by the presence of other minerals that enter the wood in solution with the silica. Iron oxide stains the wood orange, rust, red, or yellow. Manganese oxide produces blues, blacks, or purple.

Come feel the powerful energy of petrified wood - it brings forth a new beginning through a deeper knowledge of yourself and your purpose!

Crystal Connection is located at 116 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro. 845-8882547.

Cephora is a crystal lover, a student of the universe, and a certified Crystal Healer & Energy Healer Level III Reconnective HealingTM. Her center offers classes, events and healing services.

...............................................................................................Wurtsboro Congratulations Broadway Concerts!

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) was founded in 1983.

Since 1986, its MAC Awards have been presented at an annual ceremony. Currently the annual Awards Show shines the spotlight on up and coming, locally established, and nationally recognized cabaret, comedy, and jazz performers, as well as behind- the-scenes professionals.

This year’s roster of nominees includes faces familiar to Wurtsboro audiences from the monthly Broadway Concerts Direct (BCD)

presentations.

BCD friends will remember these 2012 nominees: Janice Hall (female vocalist), Sue Matsuki & Edd Clark (Duo-Group), Frank Basile NY Debut, Male) Sean Harkness (Major Artist, male), and Mark Janas (Variety Show Host).

Happily, BCD co-producers Sarah Rice and John Hiller are nominated for their NYC presentation of Love Makes the World Go 'Round Concerts for Zani's Furry Friends at Birdland and at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

5th Season of Poetry

The Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) has opened its 5th season of Poetry in the Gallery.

Perfect timing as April is National Poetry Month. Matthew J. Spireng will read on April 1 and Barbara Adams is the featured poet for May 6. All readings begin at 8:00pm.

The WAA Gallery is located at 73 Sullivan Street.

For information: 845-985-7663.

Rice & Vernon Take Show on Road

BCD star Sarah Rice and David Vernon have been “trying out” selections from their creation History/Herstory: Where Truth Lies for the past few months at the BCD concerts.

For a performance of the entire work, with Piano, Jazz Violin, Classical Guitar and Percussion, you can join them in the Fireside Theater and Cafe at the Christian Community Church, 340 Bogert Road in River Edge, NJ on April 28 at 8:00pm.

JoAnn Yeoman (photo left), the show’s director, is one of the April 21 BCD performers in Wurtsboro.

Church info: 201-487-4828.

Reservations: 845-888-2798

Wurtsboro calendar sponsored by Consignium

Exhibits

“Water/Reflections” Wurtsboro Art Alliance, thru Apr 22

Songs of Spring

BCD producer John Hiller is bringing eight NYC cabaret performers including MAC nominees Janice Hall and Sue Matsuki to Wurtsboro for Broadway Comes to the Garden with Songs of Spring at the next BCD concert on April 21 at 8:00pm in the Wurtsboro Community Church, 134 Sullivan Street.

For reservations 845-888-2798.

Music - Broadway-Pop-Opera-Operetta Broadway Concerts Direct Apr 21, 8pm Wurtsboro Community Church

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Poetry Reading Matthew J. Spireng Apr 1 Barbara Adams May 6 Wurtsboro Art Alliance, 8pm

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lectureS / DEmos / SymposiumS / Forums /Master Classes

HHNM ..................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ......................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC .............................................................. Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

“Heirloom Everything: From Seed to Seed” Ken Greene..................................................................

Shepard Student Center, SUNYO Middletown, Apr 5, 7:15pm “An Evolving Romance with Spiders: Behavior, Evolution and Sociality” Linda S. Rayor ..........

Gilman Center, SUNYO, Middletown, Apr 11, 7:15pm Salamander Egg Search ........................................................................................PEEC Apr 14, 1pm “My Dream Job: An Inside Look at Rock N Roll” John Simon......................................................

Shadowland Theatre , Ellenville, Apr 14, 8pm Spring Peeper Search ............................................................................................PEEC Apr 15, 7pm “Using 19th Century Photography Methods in the 21st Century” Francesco Mastalia ................

Buckbee Center, Warwick, Apr 19 Glass Blowing Demos ......................Gillander Glass, Port Jervis, Apr 21, 10:15am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm “African Dance & Drumming” Bernard Woma & Saakuma Dance Troupe ....................................

Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Apr 21, 10:30am “How Does a Tissue Make a Tumor? Studies on radiation and breast cancer” Science Cafe ......

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff Diana’s Restaurant, New Windsor, Apr 25, 7pm "A Village Apart in Orange County: History of the Hasidic People of Kiryas Joel."....................

Richard Hull Buckbee Center, Warwick, Apr 26, 7pm “Xeriscaping: Creating a Low Maintenance Water-Wise Landscape” Judy Lawrence ................

Gilman Center, SUNYO Middletown, Apr 26, 7:15pm A Conversation with Stephanie Plunkett, David Byrd & Arnold Skolnick ....................................

Bethel Woods, Apr 28, 2pm MASTER CLASS Judith Pearce flute ................................Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Apr 30, 5pm Wildlife & Nature Photography Stephen J. Davis ................................Eldred Library, May 1, 3pm MASTER CLASS Kenneth Hamrick piano ..........Nesin Theatre, Monticello, May 1, 5pm & 7pm "Finding the World in Your Backyard; Archaeological Dig at Ashokan" Andy Angstrom............

Buckbee Center, Warwick, May 3, 7pm

books Book Lover’s Club............................................Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm Book Discussion “Hunger Games” w/games Josephine-Louise Library, Walden,Apr 10. 6::30pm Book Discussion“Zombies, the Undead, and the People Who Love Them” w/Linda Zimmerman Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Apr 12, 7pm Scholars Book Discussion ................................................................Newburgh Library, Apr 18, 7pm Book Discussion “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak ....................Cornwall Library, Apr 26, 7pm Book Discussion “The Double Blind” by Chris Bohjalian ..............Cornwall Library, Apr 26, 7pm Mother-Daughter Book Discussion ............................................Newburgh Library, Apr 29, 6:30pm Book Signing & Lunch “Meet the Authors” Robert and Sam Lipsyte ..............................................

Moffatt Library, Washingtonville, Apr 29, 1pm Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels ..Josephine-Louise Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays, 6pm

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FAL NCR PV SA UUC

= The Falcon, Marlboro = Noble Coffee Roasters Cafe, Campbell Hall 845-294-8090 = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills = Sounds Asylum, Middletown 845-341-4787 = Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 9 Vance Lane, Rock Tavern

Black Flag, Wutang, Operation Ivy, Despised Icon April Fools Show ........SA Apr 1, 6pm Existence, Sing the Essex ................................................................................SA Apr 6, 6pm Spottiswoode & His Enemies, Adam Falcon ..............................................FAL, Apr 6, 7pm Yasgur and 1 guest ..................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Apr 7, 8pm The Letdowns, Moodna Creek, The Second Advance, Innocent Sins..........SA Apr 7, 6pm Erin Hobson & The Compact ............................................................FAL Apr 8, 10am-2pm Spies Like Us ..................................................................................................SA Apr 14, 6pm Leo Kottke guitar, blues-jazz- folk ..............................................Bethel Woods, Apr 14, 8pm Kate McGarry ..............................................................................................FAL Apr 19, 7pm John Mayer ........................................Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, Apr 19, 7:30pm Ben Van Gelder Quintet ..............................................................................FAL Apr 20, 7pm IS and 1 guest ........................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Apr 20, 8pm Work O’ The Weavers Earth Day Event Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Apr 20 & 21, 8pm Dirt Simple and 1 guest ..................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Apr 21, 7:30pm The Bacon Brothers Kevin & Michael Bacon ........Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Apr 21, 8pm Geoff Muldaur, guitar - folk-blues-rock ..................Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, Apr 21, 8pm Jim Campilongo Acoustic Duo w/Steve Cardenas ............................................FAL Apr 26, 7pm The World We Knew, Rose Funeral, Through the Flood, When Everything Else Dies.............

Nefara, In Darkest Days SA Apr 27, 6pm Smalltown Sheiks and 3 guests ....................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel,. Apr 27, 8pm Mike Jung and 1 guest ..................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 4, 8pm Livingston Taylor folk-pop-gospel- jazz ......................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 5, 8pm Country Joe McDonald Tribute to Woody Guthrie ..........................Bethel Woods, May 5, 8pm The Dan Brother Band and 2 guests ............................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 5, 8pm

Open Mic & Coffee House/cabaret Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ........................................Logan’s Well, Florida, Wednesdays, 9pm Open Mic........................................................................Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic ..........................................Broad Street Coffee House, Milford, Fridays 7pm FREE Stacy & Friends Musicians Gathering ....The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, from 7:30pm Steve Lane, Van Manakas Woodsongs Coffeehoue ................................................................

Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Apr 7, 6pm-9pm Andrew McKnight Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse ........................UUC Apr 28, 7:30pm

museums Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ........................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives ............................Hurleyville. ongoing Civil War Artifacts ....................................................................Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing “Coming of Age at Woodstock: Jason Laure”..................Museum at Bethel Woods, thru May 31 “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters” ..........................Museum at Bethel Woods, Apr 1-Jul 22

CANvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation, Monroe ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon Beacon Galleries ....Downtown Beacon, Apr 14, all day to 9pm Art After Dark Milford Galleries ................................Downtown Milford, Apr 14, 6pm-9pm

cinema “Catch Me If You Can”..........Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre, SUNYO Middletown, Apr 4, 3pm “Titanic” Film Festival ....................................................Greenwood Lake Library, Apr 5-May 12 Reel Eclectic Film Series ........................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 5, 7pm FREE Afternoon Movies ..................................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 18, 2pm FREE “Titanic” (1953) Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb ..Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Apr 7, 7:30pm “Sweet Hearts Dance” Susan Sarandon, Don Johnson, Jeff Daniels ..Cornwall Library, Apr 11, Noon

“The Gefilte Fish Chronicles”..............Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Apr 16, 2pm & 7:15pm “Le Papillon”..........................................................................Cornwall Library, Apr 19, 6pm FREE La Tournées French Language Film Festival ..........................................................................

Downing Film Center & Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Apr 21-26 “American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art” Musuem at Bethel Woods, Apr 27, 7pm

“Hellzapoppin’ & Matinee Shorts ............................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Apr 28, 2pm “Suspicion” Hitchcock, w.Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine ..Cornwall Library, Apr 29, 1:30pm FREE “The Interrupters” ....................................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Apr 30, 5pm & 8pm “Spellboud” Hitchcock ..........................................................................Bethel Woods, May 4, 7pm

music - international Ray Spiegel tabla & Aashish Khan sarode “Indian Music” ..............Bethel Woods, Apr 22, 2pm

music - jazz Jazz Trio ..................................................Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, Thursdays, 8pm-11pm Dan Tepfer Goldberg Variations/Variations ..............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 4, 7pm The Sjye Jazz Quintet ................................................................................The Dautaj, Apr 6, 8pm Idan Santhaus Big Band............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 7, 7pm Billy Hart Quartet w/ Ethan Iverson ....................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 10, 7pm Pete Levin w/Dave Stryker & Adam Nussbaum, ..................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 12, 7pm Sheila Jordan Duo w/Cameron Brown, Niels Vincentz........The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 14, 7pm Erik Lawrence w/Pete Levin & Lee Falco ..................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 15, 10am-2pm Margo Marusek harp........................................................................Ellenville Library, 2pm FREE Piotr Kargul viola, Ron De Fesi piano “The Art of the Viola” ......................................................

St.Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Walden, Apr 15, 3pm FREE Quintette 7 Music of Raymond Scott ..St. Paul’s Methodist Ch., Middletown, Apr 15, 7pm FREE String Trio of New York..............................Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh, Apr 20, 7pm Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra ..............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 28, 7pm The Saints of Swing ......................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 29, 10am-2pm The Saints of Swing Dance Night! ..........................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 29,.7pm Warwick Historcial Society & Jazz Festival Fundraiser ..Buckbee Center, Warwick, May 6, 6pm

comedy Andy Pitz ......................................................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Apr 5, 6pm Andy Pitz ........................................................................Jesters Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 7, 9pm Gene Bisconte & David Drake ..........................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Apr 14, 8pm Ross Bennett ............................................................Jesters Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 14, 9pm Johnny Watson ........................................................Jesters Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 21, 9pm

dance “Peter Pan” choreographed by Dee Wright ..............................New Rose Theatre, thru-Apr 1 Orange County Ballet Theatre....................................Newburgh Library, Apr 22, 3pm FREE Bernard Woma & the Saakuma Dance Truope ......Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Apr 20, 8pm “La Danse” film - Paris Opera Ballet - 7 ballets ......................................................................

Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Apr 23, 7:15pm All-County Dance Celebration ........................Paramount Theater, Middletown, Apr 29, 3pm

opera - Video “Macbeth” ............................................................................Cornwall Library, Apr 22, 1pm FREE

opera - “livecast” “Manon” Massenet - Live From the Met in HD series w/Anna Nebtrenko................Apr 7, Noon “La Traviata” Verdi - Live From the Met in HD series w/Natalie Dessay ................Apr 14, 1pm Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake

poetry & Prose readings Matthew J. Spireng Poetry in the Gallery ....................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1, 8pm FREE Hudson River Poets ........................................................Newburgh Free Library, Apr 5, 7pm FREE Emmet Garnham ..............................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Apr 5, 7pm First Friday Contemporary Writers prose ................Narrowsburg Library, Apr 6, 7:30pm FREE Calling All Poets........................................................Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Apr 6, 8pm Elaine Koplow Poetry on the Loose ..............................7 West Street, Warwick,. Apr 7, 4pm FREE NE Poetry Center College of Poetry Waywayanda Review Poets ..Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Apr 14, 7pm

Festival Craft Fair and Spring Soup & Dessert Festival ..............................................................................

Storm King Firehouse, Cornwall-on-Hudson Apr 14, 9am-3pm 2nd Annual Pine Bush Area UFO Festival 2012 ..........Apr 28,10am-11pm & Apr 29, 10am-3pm Earth Day Celebration hikes, exhibits, music, food, animals etc. ..........PEEC Apr 28, 10am-4pm

museums Rondout & Neversink watershed areas ........Time & the Valley Museum, Grahamsville, thru Oct “Coming of Age at Woodstock” Jason Laure ..................Museum at Bethel Woods, thru May 25 “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters” ..........................Museum at Bethel Woods, Apr 1-Jul 22 Storm King Sculpture Park ........................Storm King Arts Center, Mountaindale, Apr 4-Nov 25

Music - Broadway - Film - Tin pan alley - Opera - Operetta “Songs of Spring” Broadway Concerts Direct ..........Wurtsboro Community Church, Apr 21, 8pm Frances Devine & Richard Cassell Opera & B’way Duets..Newburgh Library, Apr 1, 3pm FREE “Sing for Spring” Bronx O pera Company Chamber Music at St. Andrews..................................

St. Andrews Episcopal Church, South Fallsburg, Apr 21, 8pm FREE Samuel E. Wright’s “Ta-Ta Willies” dinner-cabaret ........Sprice Lodge, Coldenham, Apr 27, 6pm

music - classical Weekend of Chamber Music ....................................Hortonville Presbyterian Church, Apr 1, 3pm Potluck Concerts “Music of the Earth” ..............Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Apr 20, 7:30pm Dorian Wind Quintet music by Carolyn Steinberg, D. Del Tredici ....Bethel Woods, Apr 20, 8pm West Point Concert Band Young Artists Competition Winners........................................................

Eisenhower Hall Ballroom, Apr 22, 3pm FREE “Music with a Hebrew Accent” Ron De Fesi & Ensemble ..............................................................

Temple Sinai, Middletown, Apr 22, 4pm Kairos: A Consort of Singers ..................St. George’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh, Apr 22, 4pm Poné Ensemble for New Music ............Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh, Apr 28, 7pm Hudson Opera Theatre Orchestra “Jewels” ......First Presbyterian Church, Monroe, Apr 28, 7pm United Presbyterian Church, M iddletown, Apr 29, 7pm Classic Choral Society & Orchestra ......United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, Apr 29, 4pm First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, May 5, 7pm SUNY Orange Community Orchestra ....................Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 5, 8pm

Poetry Night............................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Apr 19, 6:30pm FREE Marina Mati & Haigan Smith..............................Bank Square Coffeehouse, Beacon, Apr 19, 7pm Adrianna Delgado, Terence Chiesa, Robert Milby ......Florida Library Poetry Cafe, Apr 20, 7pm Third Saturday Poetry Series ..................................Wisner Library, Warwick, Apr 21, 3pm FREE Pat Kett......................................................................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Apr 24, 7pm Barry Wallenstein w/Steve Carlin guitar ....................7 West Street, Warwick, Apr 28, 4pm FREE Poetry at the Church ..........................................................Goshen Methodist Church, Apr 30, 7pm 8th Annual Timothy Munford Memorial Awards Ceremony........Cornwall Library, May 5, 1pm Alyta Adams Poetry on the Loose ................................7 West Street, Warwick,. May 5, 4pm FREE Poetry in the Gallery ....................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, May 6, 8pm FREE

Recreation (adults, Teens & Children - see also kid’s recreation page 18) Arts Alive House Parties ..................................................various Sullivan locations, Apr 21 Art Plus Craft Fair ................................Mt. Haven Resort, Milford, Apr 28 & 29, 9am-4pm

storytelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Wilderness”........................Florida Library, Apr 12, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers “Verbatim”..........................................Chestnut Cafe, Long Eddy Arp 20, TBA FREE

theatre-musical “Vaudeville in the Catskills” incl . lunch ......Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Apr 1, 2pm “Young Frankenstein” ......................................Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point Apr 6, 8pm “The ‘Cast’ of Beatlemania” ..........................Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, Apr 14, 8pm “The Honky Tonk Angels” ..............................................Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Apr 22, 3pm

theatre - Play “Amelia Earhart” w/Rebecca Robbins ..........................................Goshen Music Hall, Apr 14-29 “Tica Maroo Space Cadet: Kung Foo Amazons of Doom” Air Pirates Radio Theatre................

Pavilion at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, Apr 21, 8pm “You’ve Got Hate Mail” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ....................................................

Sullivan County Musuem, Hurleyville, Apr 27-May 6 “Artifacts of Consequence” ........................................................Railroad Playhouse, Apr 27, 8pm “Shut Up, Sit Down & Eat” dinner & “plomedy” ..Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 28, 7pm “Last Will and Testament” dinner-theatre, Big Sky Productions ..................................................

Liberty Fire House, Apr 29, 7pm April 2012

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April CTMW EHT FAL GLL GMCM HCC

= Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players, Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe = Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point = The Falcon, Marlboro = Greenwood Lake Public Library = Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, Senior Center, Montgomery = Howland Cultural Center, Beacon

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Cinema “Catch Me If You Can” SUNYO-HH 3pm

Please check the schedule for Gallery Art and Photography Opening Receptions

Music - Jazz Dan Tepfer FAL 7pm

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“Daffodils” by Gayle Clark Fedigan MSM-DC

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NFL NRT PEEC PT PV RRP

= Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall = Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester 845-345-1039 = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 = Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh = Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus = Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 845-294-1056

THURSDAY

= Newburgh Free Library = New Rose Theatre, 35, East M = Pocono Environmental Educa = Paramount Theatre, Middletow = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mi = Railroad Playhouse, Newburg

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Poetry Reading ................Hudson River Poets....................NFL 7pm Poetry Reading ..................Emmet Garnham ....................NCR 7pm Cinema...Reel Eclectic Film Series ..Thrall Library, Middletown, 7pm COmedy ....................................Andy Pitz............................RRP 6pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee

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Music...........Spottiswoode & His Enemies

Prose Reading.First Friday Contemporary W

Music - Jazz..............The Skye Jazz Quintet .

Poetry Reading ......................Calling All Poe

Music - Jazz.Pete Levin, Dave Stryker, Adam Nussbaum ..FAL 7pm Please check the schedule for Gallery Art and Photography Opening Receptions

Music - Jazz Billy Hart Quartet FAL 7pm

Cinema “Sweet Heatrs Dance” Cornwall Library, Noon

Storytelling......Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Library 7:30pm Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Recreation.......................Earth Day ..................SUNYO-KH 9am-1pm Cinema...........................“Le Papillion” ............Cornwall Library, 6pm

Cinema “The Gefilte Fish Chronicles” Downing Film Center, Newburgh 2pm & 7:15pm

Cinema Afternoon Movie TL 2pm

Cinema “La Danse” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 7pm

Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

Theatre - Play......................“Amelia Earha

Poetry Reading......Adiranna Delgado, Terence Chiesa, R

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Cinema.......................”Of Gods and Men”..............SUNYO-KH, 7pm Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee Music.........Jim Campilongo Acoustic Duo w/Steve Cardenas ........FAL 7pm

Theatre - Play ....................................“Amelia Earhart

Cinema..”American Artifact:Rise of American Rock P

Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Theatre - Play................“Artifacts of Conseq Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Play....................“You’ve Got Hate

Music...................Smalltown Sheiks ......D “Prelude” by Gayle Clark Fedigan, MSM-DC thru Apr 30

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Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee

Cinema “The Interrupters” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 5pm & 8pm

Poetry Reading Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

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Music ......................Ben Van Gelder Q

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Cinema “La Vie En Rose” SUNYO-KH 7pm Poetry Reading Pat Kett Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, 7pm

Open Mic ........Broad Street Coffee

Dance...Bernard Woma & Saakuma Dance

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Poetry Reading....Marina Mati & Haigan Smith Bank Sq. Coffeehouse, Beacon, 7pm

Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm “Carrion” by Crystal Warms SUNYO thru May 4

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Cinema..........................“Spellbound” HItc

by Malcolm Hope

Theatre - Play....................“You’ve Got Hate

SUNYO thru May 4

Music.....................Mike Jung ..................D “Lake Erie” by Joan Polishook, Chant Realtors, Lords Valley Apr 1-28

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= Sounds Asylum, 59 North Street, Middletown = Sullivan County Community College, Seelig Theater = Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville = Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville = Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre, OCCC, Middletown 845-341-4891 = Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Orange, Newburgh

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s, Adam Falcon ..........FAL 7pm

Writers ..Narrowsburg Lib. 7:30pm

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Opera - Livecast ......“Manon” Massenet..........................................SCCC Noon

Poetry Reading......................Elaine Koplow....................7 West Street, Warwick, 4pm Music................................Various Rock Bands ......Sounds Asylum, Middletown, 6pm Music - Jazz ..................Idan Santhaus Big Band ............................................FAL 7p, Cinema ..............“Titanic” (1953) w/Barbara Stanwyck ............................PT 7:30pm Music ..........................................Yasgur ..................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy ....................................Andy Pitz ......................................................JCC 9pm

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Festival.....Craft Fair, & Food Festival ..Storm King Firehouse, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 9am-3pm Art Walk ....................Second Saturday in Beacon ..............................Downtown Beacon, All Day Opera - Livecast ................................La Traviata Verdi ................................................................SCCC 1pm Art Walk ................................................Art After Dark ..........................................Milford Galleries, 6pm-9pm Music ......................................Various Rock Bands ................Sounds Asylum, Middletown 6pm e House ..................Milford, 7pm Theatre - Play ....................................“Amelia Earhart”............................................Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Music - Jazz..........................Sheila Jordan Duo w/Cameron Brown, Niels Vincentz ....................FAL 7pm Poetry Reading ........................Waywayanda Review Poets ............................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, 7pm Comedy ..................................Gene Bisconte & David Drake..............Railroad Playhouse, Hewburgh, 8pm Music - blues-jazz-folk ............................Leo Kottke ........................................................Bethel Woods, 8pm Comedy ................................................Ross Bennett ......................................................................JCC 9pm

e House ..................Milford, 7pm

Quintet ....................FAL 7pm

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Robert Milby ....Florida Library Cafe, 7:30pm

Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm

uintet......Bethel Woods, 8pm

avers ..........................RRP 8pm

e Troupe ..Nesin Th. Monticello, 8pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

ounds Asylum, Middletown, 6pm

e House ..................Milford, 7pm

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Poster Art” ..Bethel Woods Museum 7pm

quence” ........................RRP 8pm Mail” ........................SCDW 8pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

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Recreation ....................Arts Alive Weekend ..................various Sullivan locations & DAC Poetry Reading........Third Saturdays Poetry Series ..........Wisner Library, Warwick, 3pm Theatre - Play ............................“Amelia Earhart” ..................................Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Music - jazz ..........................String Trio of New York ........................................SUNYO-KH 7pm Cinema ............................................“Lourdes” ..................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 7pm Music ........................................Music for Humanity ..................................................NCR 7:30pm Theatre - Live Radio ..................Air Pirates Radio Theatre ............................Pavilion at LC, 8pm Music - Opera-B’way.......Bronx Opera Company ........St. Andrews Epis. Ch, So. Fallsburg, 8pm Music - B’way-Opera-Pop ...Broadway Concerts Direct ....................Wurtsboro Comm. Ch. 8pm Music ......................................The Bacon Brothers ..........................................................LC 8pm Music - Folk ............................Work O’ The Weavers......................................................RRP 8pm Music - Folk-Blues-Rock ........Geoff Muldaur guitar ............Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, 8pm Theatre - Live Radio ..................Air Pirates Radio Theater ............................Pavilion at LC 8pm Music ..............................................Dirt Simple ........................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy ......................................Johnny Watson ..........................................................JCC 9pm

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Recreation ..................Art Plus Craft Fair ..............Mt. Haven Resort, Milford, 9am-4pm Festival...................2nd Annual UFO Festival ........................Downtown Pine Bush, 10am-11pm Festival ..................................Earth Day Celebration ........................................PEEC 10am-4pm Cinema ........................“Hellzapoppin’ & Matrinee SHorts ..............................................ST 2pm Poetry & Music ..............Barry Wallenstein & Steve Carlin ..............7 West Street, Warwick, 4pm Theatre - Play ............................“Amelia Earhart” ..................................Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Music - Classical......Hudson Opera Theatre Orchestra ......First Presbyterian Ch., Monroe, 7pm Music - Classical ...................Poné Ensemble for New Music ............................SUNYO-KH 7pm Music - jazz ....................Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra................................................FAL 7pm Music - Folk ..............................Andrew McKnight....................................................UUC 7:30pm Theatre - Play ..........................“You’ve Got Hate Mail” ....................................................SCDW 8pm Music......................................................MiZ ..............................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy ................................“Shut Up, Sit Down & Eat” ......................................................JCC 9pm

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Holistic Living..............................Healing EXPO ................Best Western, Matamoras, 11am-6pm Music.............................The Piano Man Gary Mazz ........Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm-4pm Dance ......................................................“Peter Pan” ..................................................NRT 2pm Theatre - Musical......“Vaudeville in the Catskills”..Sullican County Museum, Hurleyville, 2pmH Music - Classical..........Weekend of Chamber Music ........Hortonville Presbyterian Church 3pm Music - Opera-B’way ............Frances Devine & Richard Cassell ................................NFL 3pm Music ................................................Various Rock Bands ......Sounds Asylum, Middletown 6pm Poetry Reading ..................................Matthew J. Spireng ............................................WAA 8pm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Music ..............................Erin Hobson & The Compact ............................FAL 10am-2pm Music.....................The Piano Man Gary Mazz......Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm-4pm

Music - Jazz..Erik Lawrence w/Pete Levin & Lee Falco ....FAL 10am-2pm

Music..The Piano Man Gary Mazz..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm-4pm Music - Classical ..............Margo Marusek harp ......Ellenville Library, 2pm Music - Classical..“The Art of the Viola” ..St. Andrew’s Epis. Ch. Walden, 3pm Music - Jazz........Quintette 7......St. Paul’s Methodist Ch. Middletown, 7pm Theatre - Play......................“Amelia Earhart” ......Goshen Music Hall, 2pm

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Theatre - Play........“Amelia Earhart” ......Goshen Music Hall, 2pm

Music..The Piano Man Gary Mazz Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm-4pm Opera - VIdeo ......................“Macbeth” Verdi ..........Cornwall Library, 1pm Theatre - Musical ........“The Honky Tonk Angels” ........................LC 3pm Dance ......................Orange County Ballet Theatre....................NFL 3pm Music - Classical ..........West Point Concert Band ......EHT Ballroom, 3pm Music - Classical..Kairos: A Consort of Singers St. George’s Epis. Ch., Newburgh, 4pm Music - Classical...“Music with a Hebrew Accent” ..Temple Sinai, Middletown, 4pm

Cinema.............”Un Prophete”........Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 7pm

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Recreation.......Art Plus Craft Fair ....Mt. Haven Resort, Milford, 9am-4pm

Music - Jazz ..........Saints of Swing......................FAL 10am-2pm Festival......2nd Annual UFO Festival ....Downtown Pine Bush, 10am-3pm Music..The Piano Man Gary Mazz..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm-4pm Cinema ....................................“Suspicion” ........Cornwall Library, 1:30pm Theatre - Play......................“Amelia Earhart” ......Goshen Music Hall, 2pm Theatre - Play....................“You’ve Got Hate Mail” ......................SCDW 2pm Dance ..........................All-County Dance Celebration ........................PT 3pm Music - Classical..Classic Choral Society ....United Ch. of Christ, Blooming Grove, 4pm

Theatre - Play ..................“Last Will & Testament” ....Liberty Fire House, 7pm Music - Classical.....Hudson Opera Theatre Orchestra ....United Presbyterian Ch., Middletown, 7pm

Music - Jazz ..............Saints of Swing Dance NIght ....................FAL 7pm

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Poetry Reading........TImothy Mumford Memorial Awards Ceremony Cornwall library 1pm Poetry Reading ......................Alyta Adams ..............................7 West Street, Warwick, 4pm Music - Classical....................Classic Choral Society ..........First Presbyterian Ch. Goshen, 7pm chcock ........Bethel Woods, 7pm Music..........................................Livingston Taylor ............................................................TT 8pm Mail” ........................SCDW 8pm Theatre - Play ..........................“You’ve Got Hate Mail” ....................................................SCDW 8pm Music - Classical ..........SUNY Orange Community Orchestra ................................................PT 8pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music ................Country Joe McDonald’s Tribute to Woody Guthrie ..................Bethel Woods, 8pm Music ............................................Dan Brother Band........................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy ........................................Michael Somerville ............................................................JCC 9pm

e House ..................Milford, 7pm

= Orange Hall, OCCC, Middletown 845-341-4891 = Thrall Library, Middletown = Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern = Wurtsboro Art Alliance = The Wherehouse, Newburgh

Music..The Piano Man Gary Mazz..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm-4pm Theatre - Play....................“You’ve Got Hate Mail” ......................SCDW 2pm Music - Jazz.Warwick Hist. Soc. & Jazz Fest Fundraiser ....Buckbee Center, 4pm

Poetry Reading ................Poetry in the Gallery ..........................WAA 8pm April 2012

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ART exhibits CAG ..................................................................................................................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty CAS......................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor DAC ........................................................................................................Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg GLL ............................................................................................................................Greenwood Lake Library NFL ................................................................................................................................Newburgh Free Library OSH..........................................................................................Old Stone House, Hasbrouck (Woodbourne) SUNYO ..........................................SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 SUNYO-KH..........................................................................................SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall UUC ......................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Gallery 917-613-3489 WAA ..............................................................................................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance WRS ..................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery 845-457-2787

Carolyn Duke pottery ..............................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Mike Jarozsko luminist paintings ............................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Lisa Strazza ............................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Nelson Pantoja “Toothpick Art” ....................................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, thru Apr 3 Calico Geese Quilting Guild ....................................................................Liberty Library, thru Apr 4 Ursula Clark & Naomi Teppich “Vernal Equinox” ................................................CAS thru Apr 8 Mike Childs & Patricia Zarate. “2abstract” ..................Hiudson Beach Glass, Beacon, thru Apr 8 Delaware Valley High School Students....................................HPG & ARTery, Milford, thru Apr 8 Rick Gedney........................................................................ RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Apr 8 Linda Malmendier ......................................................................Elant at Goshen Gallery, thru Apr 9 Ezerd Ad Astra Ad Infinitum ........................Town of Crawford Gallery, Gov’t Center, thru Apr 14 Peter Greene “Family Matters” ....................................Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, thru Apr 14 Bill Yost............................................................................Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Apr 21 “Water Reflections” ................................................................................................WAA thru Apr 22 Martha Zola, Stuart Sachs, Meadow “Energy Recital” ..........................SUNYO-KH they May 4 Bob Hartman, Frank Shuback, Richard Apgar, Phil Rachelson ..The Forge, Milford thru May 5

Allen Levine “Beauty in Flight” ..................................................................HPG Apr 14, 6pm, 5pm-7pm Gayle Clark Fedigan “Desmond Show” ..........Desmond Campus, Mt. St.Mary College, Apr 15, 1pm-4pm Annual Community Art Show ........................................................Newburgh Library, Apr 15, 2pm-4pm Ralph Aiello “Hudson Valley Landscapes and Sacred Places," ........................KMM Apr 15, 1pm-4pm Charles Maraia ”An Unfamiliar Place” ..............................................................DAC Apr 20, 7pm-9pm

clubs Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip................................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels Josephine-Louise Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays, 6pm Friday Night Chess ....................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch ........................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitters & Crocheters Crochety Knitters ......................................Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10am Knimble Knitters ..................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10:15am Knitting Group ..................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Feb 23, 6:30pm Knitting Circle ......................................................................................Florida Library, Feb 20, 6pm Knitting Club ..................................................................................Newburgh Library, Apr 24, 7pm Knitting knitters and beginners “Stitch & Bitch” ..Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org......Last Sundays, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild ..............................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ................................2nd Monday, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester Country Quilters Guild............................................Mondays, all day, Walker Valley School House Science Cafe “How Does a Tissue Make a Tumor? Studies on radiation and breast cancer” ....

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff Diana’s, New Windsor, Apr 25, 7pm Scrabble Players................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Thursdays, 6pm Scrabble Players ............................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ............................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Woodcarving Guild....................................................Valley Cabinets, Harriman, Wednesdays, 7pm

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New art Exhibits Glenn Freedman collage ............................................................WVFA Gallery, Warwick. Apr 1-30 Shawn Dell Joyce & Carrie Jacobson, Susan Dollard ............................................WRS Apr 2-29 Gayle Clark Fedigan “The Desmond Show” ....Desmond Campus, Mt. St.Mary College, Apr 2-30 Annual Community Art Show ..............................................................Newburgh Library, Apr 2-30 SUNY Orange Student Art Exhibition ..Orange Hall Gallery, SUNYO, Middletown, Apr 2-May 4 Sullivan County High School Art Show ............................................................CAS Apr 14-May 6 “New Visions” 40 artists ............................................................The ARTery, Milfrod, Apr 12-May 7 Kelly Patton......................................................................Caffe Macchiato, Newburgh, Apr 14-TBD “Imagine the Sound of Peace” ceramic bells by David Greenbaum plus 8 artists ..........................

Brook House Gallery, Barryville, Apr 14-TBD

photography exhibits FOV ........................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon HPG....................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford KMM..............................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown James Hiller ..............................................................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Harry L. Goldman “Fotography Plus”..................................Andromeda Gallery, Florida, ongoing John Strazza ..........................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Delaware Valley High School Students ....................................................................HPG thru Apr 8

New Photography Exhibits Ralph Aiello “Hudson Valley Landscapes and Sacred Places," ........................KMM Apr 12-Jun 3 Allen Levine “Beauty in Flight”........................................................................HPG Apr 14-May 11 Charles Maraia ”An Unfamiliar Place” ..........................................................DAC Apr 20-May 12

Art & photography receptions SUNY Orange Student Art Exhibition ....Orange Hall Gallery, SUNYO, Middletown, Apr 3, 2pm-4pm Shawn Dell Joyce & Carrie Jacobson, Susan Dollard ..........................................WRS Apr 7, 5pm7pm Glenn Freedman collage ......................................................WVFA Gallery, Warwick. Apr 13, 5pm-8pm Sullivan County High School Art Show ........................................................................CAS Apr 14 TBA Kelly Patton ..............................................................................Caffe Macchiato, Newburgh, Apr 14-TBD “Imagine the Sound of Peace” 9 artists....................Brook House Gallery, Barryville, Apr 14, 4pm-7pm

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The Musical Adverntuers of Flat Stanley, Jr.” SUNY Orange Apprentice Players ............................

Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, April 14, 11am & 2pm

Children and teens calendar Lectures & recreation - adults & children, see page 13

museums HHNM ........................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ..............................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ...................................................................... Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Meet the Animals .. ........................................................HHNM CoH Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm World of Bees and Brook Trout Exhibits ........................HHNM-CoH, Fri, Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm Trout Weekend meet the live fish, feeding, crafts ..........HHNM-CoH Mar 31 & Apr 1, Noon-4pm Cottontail Tales..................................................................................................HHNM Apr 7, 10am Nest Watch ........................................................................................................HHNM Apr 14, 10am Discovery Quests departs every hour ........................................................HHNM Apr 21, 9am-4pm Wild Edibles Suburban Foragers ..............................................................HHNM Apr 21, 10:30am

Music Indian Music: Ray Spiegel & Aashish Khan grades 2-6....Bethel Woods, Apr 22, 12:30pm FREE Chinese Music: Yihan Chen grades 2-6 ..............................Bethel Woods, May 6, 12:30pm FREE

Recreation EcoZone! ............................................................................................PEEC Apr 7, 15, 21, 29, May 5 Kids Karaoke Night ........................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 15, 7pm Nature Strollers family hike, babies, toddlers, youngsters ............................HHNM Apr 17, 10am Earth Day Celebration & Hike-A-Thon................................................HHNM Apr 28, 10am-3pm

opera “Hansel & Gretel” Opera-in-Brief ............ SOLD OUT ............Bethel Woods, Apr 5, 11am FREE

theatre - musical “Angelina Ballerina”........................................Lycian Centre, Sugar Loafm, Apr 14, 10am & 1pm “The Musical Adverntuers of Flat Stanley, Jr.” SUNY Orange Apprentice Players ....................

Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, April 14, 11am & 2pm “If You Really Love Polar Bears” ..........................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Apr 22, 3pm

Destination.................................................................................Milford Kids! Check out PEEC’s EcoZone!

The old indoor pool at the Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) has become the new EcoZone! exploration & discovery room!

Visitors will enter the EcoZone! next to a life-sized Bald Eagle’s nest & a giant eagle mural by Ken Batelman. The eagle’s nest will show visitors what an actual eagle nest looks like, and students will be able to climb into the nest to experience the world of the eaglets (baby eagles) after they hatch.

Another prominent exhibit is the bat cave.

Visitors to the bat cave will crawl through the serpentine tunnel and enter the “decorated” big room. The big room is decorated with stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, and rimstone.

The black bear skeleton display is a “puzzle”. Kids and adults will be able to see and understand the difference between bear and human skeletons as they manipulate the 75 magnetized bones to complete the skeleton of what was a 450 pound bear.

Other exhibits include a beaver lodge, an aquaponics display, a fossil pit, a recycling

Art & Photography Exhibits Various Artists ongoing Greg Hecho Broad Street Coffee House

Festival Holistic & Healing EXPO Best Western, Matamoras, Apr 1, 11am-6pm

Delaware Valley High School Students Showcase The ARTery & Highlands Photographic Guild thru Apr 8

Earth Day Celebration Apr 28, 10am-4pm Pocono Environmental Education Center,

Lectures “Salamander Egg Search” Apr 14, 1pm “Spring Peeper Search” Apr 15, 7pm Pocono Environmental Education Center

Bob Hartman, Richard Apgar, Frank Shuback, Phil Rachelson “Into The Woods” The Forge, thru May 5

Open Mic

“New Visions” 40 artists The ARTery, Apr 12-May 7

display, a watershed display, a Skins & Skulls display, and the Critter Corner.

PEEC has Bats in the Belfry…I mean the EcoZone! Saturdays from 10am-Noon and 1pm-3pm and Sunday:12:30pm-3:30pm.

PEEC is located at 538 Emery Road, in Dingmans Ferry.

For information call 570-828-2319.

New Visions at the ARTery

The ARTery Gallery is celebrating it's 12th year by kicking off the new season with a impressive bang. The members of the cooperative gallery are pleased and excited to host an exhibit for non-member artists for this first annual show that guarantees to be an impressive and diverse showcase of the talent in this area.

The ARTery is presenting a new exhibit featuring art by 40 regional artists and craftsman. New Visions, a juried show and sale, features fine work of various artists in the tri-state region, work that was chosen from hundreds of submissions.

Their works represent a wide range of mediums, from ceramic pottery to sterling silver jewelry; genre ranging from whimsical animal sculptures to elegant figurative photography; paintings from impressive realism to expressive abstracts.

New Visions is on display from April 12 thru May 7. The reception will be during Art After Dark on Saturday, April 14, from 6:00pm - 9:00pm. The gallery is located at 210 Broad Street.

For more information call 570-409-1234.

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Broad Street Coffee House, Fridays, 7pm

Recreation

Allen Levine “Beauty in Flight” Highlands Photographic Guild, Apr 14-May 11 Art After Dark Receptions Apr 14 The ARTery, 6pm-9pm Highlands Photographic Guild, 6pm-9pm The Forge, 6pm-8pm Broad Street Coffee House, 7pm-9pm

Art Plus Craft Fair Mt. Haven Resort, Apr 28-29, 9am-4pm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Children’s Events Youth Entertainment Program Broad Street Coffee House, Fridays 5pm-7pm,

Joan Polishook “Inspirational Creations” Apr 1-28 Chant Realtors, Lords Valley Opening Reception Apr 7, 5pm-7pm

EcoZone! Apr 7, 15, 21, 29, May 5 Pocono Environmental Education Center

Watercolor by Rosemary Osnato

HS Art thru Apr. 8

Two arts exhibits displaying the art of Delaware Valley High School students continues thru April 8 at The ARTery Gallery and Highlands Photographic Guild.

The Guild is located at 224 Broad Street.

Phone: 570-296-2440.

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We Want MORE of Moore

by Naomi Kennedy Hilarie Clark Moore is celebrating her 14th season as conductor of the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra.

Moore is the assistant conductor and chorus accompanist for the Hudson Opera Theatre.

She freelances on the French horn with the Hudson Opera Theatre, the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO), Opera Company of the Highlands, and the Classic Choral Society.

Ten years ago, Moore created a Concerto/Aria contest to help talented young musicians and vocalists within Orange County. It takes young musicians six months to prepare for an audition.

One or two applicants are chosen to be soloists with the orchestra. "It is quite an honor," said Moore. On February 25, 2012, contest winners cellist Erik Bjokman of Monroe-Woodbury HS and tenor Michael Kolb of Newburgh Free Academy gave outstanding performances as soloists with the orchestra.

The contest is open to all SUNY Orange students and Orange County high school students. Applications can be obtained from the Art and Communications Department at the college or from high school music directors As a professor at SUNY Orange in Middletown, Moore has taught a variety of music classes which include Fundamentals of Music, Introduction to Music, History of Western Music, and History of Jazz. She received a performance degree (Bachelor's of Music) on the French Horn at the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Music Theory at Yale University.

There are 60 musicians in the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra. "The orchestra is a wonderful blend of college students, adult musicians consisting of amateurs and professionals, and some very talented high school students," said Moore.

A blending of generations takes place with students as young as 16 years old and seasoned

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players, such as retired West Point musicians. "It's a fascinating mix of people," said Moore.

Many of the musicians have continued their pursuit of music.

"There is a history of people using this orchestra as a Hilarie Clark Moore stepping stone to become better known," said Moore.

Moore chooses the music for the season a year in advance. By the time of rehearsals, or by the time of the performance, she makes it a point to love the pieces. "I hope to bring about passion in my interpretations, and if that occurs, it spills upon the musicians and they want to come and play for me," said Moore.

The SUNY Orange Community Orchestra rehearses and performs at the Paramount Theatre in Middletown. "It's great to be able to utilize one of the gifts the city of Middletown has, the Paramount and its organ.”

The Orchestra’s next program consists of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Saint-Saens’ Symphony # 3 the ‘Organ’ Symphony. “It is great to be able to showcase an Organ Symphony piece, "said Moore.

Nicolas Szucs, violin soloist performing the Mendelssohn piece, is well-known to area audiences from his past performances with the GNSO when he was its concertmaster, and for the Montgomery Chamber Music Series. "He is a very impressive musician," said Moore.

Ron De Fesi, the organist in this concert, is the artistic director, principal conductor, and producer of the Hudson Opera Theatre.

The concert will be held on May 5, 8:00pm at the Paramount Theatre, 17 South Street, Middletown.

For information call 845-346-4195.

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Middletown calendar Cinema “Catch Me If You Can” Apr 4, 3pm w/Thomas Stack, pre and post film talks Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre, SUNYO Reel Eclectic Film Series Thrall Library, Apr 5, 7pm “Titanic” (1953) w/Barbara Stanwyck Paramount Theatre, Apr 7, 7:30pm Afternoon Movie Thrall Library, Apr 18, 2pm

Dance All-County Dance Celebration Paramount Theatre, Apr 29, 3pm

Exhibits SUNY Orange Student Art Exhibition Orange Hall Gallery, SUNYO, Apr 2-May 4

Lectures

“Xeriscaping: Creating a Low Maintenance Water-Wise Landscape” Judy Lawrence Gilman Center, SUNYO, Apr 26, 7:15pm

Music Sounds Asylum, Apr 1, 6, 7, 14, 27 See Calendar Page 18

Music - Classical “Music with a Hebrew Accent” Ron De Fesi & ensemble Temple Sinai, Apr 22, 4pm Hudson Opera Theatre Orchestra “Jewels” Great Operatic Moments United Presbyterian Church, Apr 29, 7pm SUNY Orange Community Orchestra Paramount Theatre, May 5, 8pm

Music - Jazz Quintette 7 Music of Raymond Scott St, Paul’s Methodist Church, Apr 15, 7pm

“Heirloom Everything: From Seed to Seed” Ken Greene Apr 5, 7:15pm Shepard Student Center, SUNYO

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“An Evolving Romance with Spiders: Behavior, Evolution and Sociality” Linda S. Rayor Apr 11, 7:15pm Gilman Center, SUNYO

“The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Jr.” SUNY Orange Apprentice Players Orange Hall Gallery, Apr 14, 11am & 2pm

Children’s Theatre - Musical

................................................................................................middletown De Fesi Conducts Classical Music Based on Biblical Hebrew Themes Ron De Fesi, a veteran of music that is religious and that which is classical by definition, was requested by Linda and Edward Dubin to open a music series at Temple Sinai, Music with a Hebrew Accent.

De Fesi was thrilled to be considered to do this kind of thing as it is an interesting and different music subject. “With a great bunch of singers, each of the eight, fine soloists will be featured as soloists and in ensemble.

People should give it a try as it is rarely heard and may be even the first time being heard outside of a big city," De Fesi recommends.

Music from the Bible is generally drawn from Christian themes. De Fesi’s program will introduce the audience to Hebrew concert music, generally more obscure by virtue of the fact there is less of it written.

"Mostly there are pieces of music specifically written to be in a temple or church, those are by and large strictly for the service. They follow the parts of the mass, the Kyrie and Gloria, etc. Many masses, like Verdi’s Requiem were written as a concert piece. They were never intended to be performed in churches, but written with the idea of concert hall in mind," says DeFesi.

“Some Haydn and Mozart masses were

Not to worry!!! For front views of Maestro De Fesi visit pages 12 and 39.

expected to be performed in a church. Over time however, they have become such well known pieces that they are performed more often in a concert hall or as concert events in churches, rather than specifically as part of the worship service.”

This program includes music by Schubert, Mussorgsky, Rodrigo, Verdi, Bernstein and Bloch.

Five pieces by Franz Schubert based on psalms which were written in Hebrew.

A piece created out of the biblical story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho sung in Russian with a text that Modeste Mussorgsky pulled out of scripture.

A Joaquin Rodrigo piece about King David on the death of his son, Absalom, which was written in Spanish.

Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and the only selection that actually could be be part of a religious service, Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service, a “classical”: version of a Friday Night Service. It was was scored for an orchestra too large for a synagogue, so it is always performed in a concert hall.

Also included in the program is Verdi’s chorus Va Pensiero (go my thoughts) from the opera Nabucco, based on the Hebrew captivity in Babylon, the famous chorus in which the Hebrew slaves expressed that thoughts are free. For Italian patriots, who were seeking to unify their country in the years up to 1861 and free it from foreign control, the chorus's theme of exiles singing about their homeland, and its lines "O my country, so lovely and so lost" was thought to have been adopted by Italians as their anthem for independence, some scholars say. (Some scholars disagree.)

All these pieces are concert works with religious themes, none of which were intended only for Jewish or religious audiences, but for concert-goers.

The concert is on April 22 at 4:00pm in Temple Sinai, 75 Highland Avenue.

Phone: 845-343-1861 for tickets.

Great Scott: West Point’s Quintette 7

West Point’s Quintette 7 will perform a free concert featuring the music of Raymond Scott (of 1950s TV’s Your Hit Parade fame) as well as arrangements of the Mario Brothers Theme, the Muppet Show Theme, and John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.

Quintette 7 selected its name as a witty homage to composer Scott, incorporating elements of two of his performing ensembles’ names (The Raymond Scott Quintette and The Secret 7). The ensemble, a mixed septet of four rhythm players and three horns, is comprised of members of the West Point Concert Band and The Hellcats.

Quintette 7 convened in the fall of 2008 for a

o n e - t i m e performance of the quintet music of Scott, which was accompanied by a biographical presentation by Raymond Scott Archives director Portrait of Irwin Chusid.

Raymond Scott Quintette 7 continues

by Drew Friedman to delight audiences with its unique repertoire.

While trying to stay true to the original style, Quintette 7 has taken advantage of the many fine instrumentalists in the West Point Band by adding tuba in place of the bass and percussion parts to pieces that originally had no percussion.

Members of Quintette 7 come from varied musical backgrounds, having worked with various orchestras, wind ensembles, popular musicians, and chamber ensembles throughout the country. Three members of Quintette 7 attended the Juilliard School, Raymond Scott’s own alma mater.

The free concert is on April 15th at 3:00pm. in Saint Paul’s Methodist Church, 58 Main St. in Middletown.

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Destination...........................................................................middletown It Takes a Ruckus to Find the Right Sound!

SUNYO Student Art

by Tina Piaquadio

In late 2009, Sounds Asylum was established

by Robert Ruckus of Orange County. Since 1997, Ruckus has been promoting local music, attending shows, and providing bands with other services such as web/graphic design.

Finding too many business owners to be more concerned about money than the quality of the music they were supporting, Ruckus was frustrated by the direction the local music business was going. In 2009, he opened the original location which was a small venue in Goshen. By October of 2010, Sounds Asylum was moved to a larger place with less limitations at 59 North Street in Middletown.

Since the move, Sounds Asylum has evolved into an internet café with vending machines and WiFi. Ruckus is planning on doing some renovations and building up the retail end of the business as well. Most of all, he is passionate about the integrity of the local music scene.

“Our main goal is to build on the fan base of the musicians who come through. Build a family of friends who support one another. How I saw it growing up…” he says.

There certainly is a community-like vibe about Sounds Asylum. Ruckus credits many good friends and acquaintances among the local

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Robert Ruckus, Sounds Asylum owner & Zach Gibson, (right) local musician

music scene for the success thus far. So many that he's reluctant to try to name them all. He feels strongly that without their support the business wouldn't be what it is today.

Most recently, Ruckus is joining forces with promoter Jeremiah Opitz of Agrestic Promotions in the Pike County area to put together some large festival-type events this summer.

Sounds Asylum clearly takes pride in the quality of service they offer to the bands that play there. Many have told Ruckus he offers the

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best sound in the area. The establishment is alcohol-free, and all ages are welcome. “Attend any show and you will be blown away!” says Ruckus. Why not take him up on it?

If you are interested in booking a band at Sounds Asylum, here's how it works: All bands are asked to sell a minimum of twenty tickets.

You will receive a total of fifty tickets and $2 for every ticket you sell. Send the following information to soundsasylum@gmail.com: Band Name, Mailing Address, Email, Phone, Myspace / Facebook, and MP3 if available.

Caught Between Two Worlds by L. Perez-Ruiz

300 works in oil, acrylic, pastels; pencil drawings, charcoal, conte; digital & traditional photographs; sculptures, three-dimensional pieces, display projects; collages of mixed media; computer graphics; theatre puppets; and jewelry made from recycled materials will be displayed April 2 - May 4 at the SUNY Orange Student Art Exhibition in Orange Hall Gallery on Grandview and Waywayanda Avenues.

Reception: April 3 from 2:00pm-4:00pm.

For information: 845-341-4787.

See pg. 20 for additional student works.

Destination............................................................................Newburgh Washington’s Headquarters

Mark the date Wednesday, April 18 on your calendar! It's the 162nd start of the new season at Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, the first historic site in the nation!

General Washington made use of Mrs. Hasbrouck's Newburgh farmhouse as a headquarters during the last months of the Revolutionary War. The history of this headquarters is just as relevant today as it was crucial when being made.

Tours are scheduled Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 am-5:00pm, and Sunday, 1:00pm-5:00pm, and given every half-hour. The last tour of each day begins at 4:30pm.

To mark Opening Day, you might find Sgt. John Phillips, a member of the Commander-in-

Art & Photography Exhibits

Museum Exhibit

Bill Yost “A Retrospective” Ann Street Gallery, thru Apr 21

“Continental Congress Presidents” manuscripts

Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Apr 29

Linda Richichi Transitions Ritz Theatre, thru April

Chief's Guard, preparing his coffee by a campfire, and boasting what it's like protecting General Washington.

Call 845-562-1195 for monthly details or visit www.nysparks.com.

Washington’s Headquarters is located at 84 Liberty Street.

Brewery Opens Doors for Art

The Newburgh Brewing Company will host The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands’ biennial Feast of the Arts Art Auction in their refurbished building, which last produced paper boxes, but is being completely outfitted as a brewery with a tasting room and a family restaurant.

The fourth floor restaurant area will be the site of the Art Auction and it features beautiful light and panoramic views of the Hudson River and Newburgh’s Historic District.

“Many local people either worked in this building or have fond memories of its earlier life,” said Auction Co-Chair Anne Coon. Co-Chair and well-known local artist, William Noonan offers “This is a wonderful place to exhibit the art, have a great party, and support the Historical Society.”

The Brewery is located at 88 S. Colden street, corners of Washington and Water Streets. The event takes place on Sunday, May 6 at 2:30pm.

See ad on page 29 for ticket information.

For information, call 845-561-2327.

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Music - Classical Kairos: A Consort of Singers St. George’s Episcopal Church, Apr 22, 4pm

Martha Zola, Stuart Sachs, Meadow “Energy Recital” Kaplan Hall, OCCC, thru May 4

Poné Ensemble for New Music Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Apr 28, 7pm

Annual Community Art Show Newburgh Library, Apr 2-30 Reception: Apr 15, 2pm-4pm

Music - Folk Work O’ The Weavers Earth Day Event Railroad Playhouse, Apr 20 & 21, 8pm

Kelly Patton Caffe Macchiato, Apr 14-TBD

Music - Jazz String Trio of New York Apr 20, 7pm Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange

Gayle Clark Fedigan “The Desmond Show” Desmond Campus , Mount St. Mary College, Apr 2-30

Music - Opera-Broadway

Reception: Apr 15, 1pm-5pm

Frances Devine & Richard Cassell Immortal Love Songs Newburgh Library, Apr 1, 3pm

Ralph Aiello photography “Hudson Valley Landscapes & Sacred Places” Karpeles Museum, Apr 14-Jun 3

Music - Folk-Blues-Rock

Cinema

Geoff Muldaur guitar Tom Humphrey Guitar Series Ritz Theater Lobby, Apr 21, 8pm

“The Gefilte Fish Chronicles” Apr 16, 2pm & 7:15pm

Feast of the Arts Committee Member Susan Kneiser, center, Newburgh Brewing Comapany partners: Paul Halayko, left, and Chris Basso, right.

La Tournées French Film Festival Apr 21-23 Downing Film Center, La Tournées French Film Festival Apr 24-26 Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange

Poetry Reading Hudson River Poets Newburgh Free Library, Apr 5, 7pm.

Comedy Andy Pitz Apr 5 Geno Bisconte & David Drake Apr 14 Railroad Playhouse, 8pm

Recreation Earth Day Apr 20, 9am-1pm Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange

Dance

Theatre - Play

Orange County Ballet Theatre Newburgh Library, Apr 22, 3pm

“Artifacts of Consequence” Railroad Playhouse, Apr 27, 8pm

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“Feast of the Arts” Art Auction Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands

Newburgh Brewing Company, May 6, 2:30pm

Theatre - Children “If You Really Love Polar Bears” 6yrs & up Railroad Playhouse, Apr 22, 3pm

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The Poné Ensemble Performs in Newburgh

Founded in 1974 by Gundaris Poné (19321994) and Karen Poné (1935-2005), the Poné Ensemble for New Music is dedicated to the performance of contemporary chamber music. Each concert season brings guest artists to join with the regular musicians of the Poné Ensemble in offering music of the 20th and 21st centuries that you are unlikely to hear elsewhere. The Ensemble has premiered many works by living composers and seeks to increase the accessibility and enjoyment of contemporary music for appreciative audiences in New York's Hudson Valley and beyond. The Poné Ensemble for New Music is celebrating its 38th anniversary season in 2011-2012.

On April 28 at 7pm, the Poné Ensemble for New Music will perform in the Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101.

For information, contact SUNY Orange Newburgh, Cultural Affairs at 845-431-9386 or visit: www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.

Downing and SUNY Orange Collaborate

SUNY Orange, in conjunction with Downing Film Center, presents the Tournées Film Festival. The aim is to bring contemporary French cinema to American college and university campuses. The films represent the best of contemporary French cinema, and span generational and geographic borders, offer a range of genres and subjects, and showcase innovations in both style and storytelling.

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Caffe' Macchiato will launch a series of art exhibits starting in April 2012. Artists of all media interested in exhibiting are encouraged to submit their work to Caffe Macchiato to be considered for future shows.

On April 14, Caffe Macchiato is pleased to present the first exhibition of work by a Newburgh born, raised and based artist: Kelly Patton.

The opening reception will be held on April 14 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.

Caffe' Macchiato is located at 99 Liberty Street. For information call 845-565-4616.

On right: “Queen of the May” by artist Kelly Patton.

The String Trio of NY Visits NFL

The String Trio of NY was founded in 1977. Though they initially worked on improvisational playing and on their own compositions, they eventually began taking on commissions, as well as doing arrangements of other jazz musicians' works.

They will perform on April 20 at 7:00pm at the Newburgh Free Library.

For information, call 845-563-5400.

Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street, and end on April 26 at SUNY Orange on Liberty Street.

Downing will be screening films on April 21 and April 23 at 7:00pm. SUNY Orange will screen films on April 24 and April 26 at 7:00pm in the Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101.

For a complete listing of films and times, visit the Newburgh Cultural Affairs website Photo - L to R: Rob Thomas, John Lindberg & at www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.

James Emery. Photo by Gordon Wenzel.

For information, call 845-431-9386.

Muldaur at Ritz

Geoff Muldaur is one of the great voices and musical forces to emerge from the folk, blues and folk-rock scenes centered in Cambridge, MA and Woodstock, NY. During the 1960's and '70's, Geoff made a series of highly influential recordings as a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and the Paul Butterfield's Better Days group, as well as collaborations with other notables (Bonnie Raitt, Eric Von Schmidt, Jerry Garcia).

He will perform at the Ritz Theatre on April 21 at 8pm. For information call 845-784-1199.

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For the Kids!

For an educational production told through music, puppetry, and physical comedy, here’s an original production commissioned by the Wildlife Conservation Society, If You Really Love Polar Bears, produced by Making Books Sing. The performance is on April 22 at 3:00pm at the Railroad Playhouse.

For information, call 845-565-3791.

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One of the most prominent photographers of the Hudson Valley, longtime Newburgh resident Ralph Aiello (1913-2005) celebrated the visual splendor of the region for more than three-quarters of century. His artfully composed images include rural scenery, nature closeups, houses of worship, portraits, and still lifes.

Aiello began working seriously in photography with the purchase of an Argus camera in 1935 and two years later he progressed to a state-of-the-art Leica, the first precision 35 mm camera. With it he obtained a job as a reporter-photographer with the Middletown Times-Herald, forerunner of the present-day Times Herald-Record. He moved on to the Newburgh News in 1939 and remained there in various editorial capacities until his retirement in 1978.

A member of the Newburgh Camera Club, which he served repeatedly as president over the course of more than 50 years, he also worked with the Hudson Valley Color Slide Club and helped organize photography clubs in Walden, Monroe, Middletown, and at Stewart Field.

He received hundreds of national and international awards for his color slides and

Cragsmoor Stone Church by Ralph Aiello

black-and-white prints and won the International Understanding Through Photography Award, a distinction he shares with such luminaries as Margaret BourtkeWhite, Ansel Adams, and Walt Disney.

The opening reception at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is on April 15, 1:00pm-4:00pm, at 94 Broadway.

For information, call 845-569-4997.

Kairos to sing Hudson Valley Composers

Kairos: A Consort of Singers is performing their annual Spring Concert featuring an all-Hudson Valley composers program.

Kairos usually performs renaissance and baroque music, as recently witnessed by enthusiastic audiences at SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs in Middletown.in February and in March at the Greater Montgomery Chamber Music Series.

The Ulster County-based ensemble’s concert will include:After Spring Sunset by Peter Schickele, settings of Japanese haiku.

“Schickele is of course best known as PDQ Bach, but his music under his own name is well worth hearing,” Kairos conductor Edward Lundergan explains.

Rossetti Nursery Rhymes by George Tsontakis: “delicate settings of poems by Christina Rossetti, with a touch of the dark side. Tsontakis is a faculty member at Bard Conservatory, and one of the most acclaimed contemporary composers.”

Selections from Exeter Riddles by John B Hedges: tenth-century Old English texts.

“The composer is a faculty member at SUNYNew Paltz and a member of Kairos.

“And several other pieces by Kairos members,” Maestro Lundergan continues,

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“selections from the Missa Brevis by Craig Fryer, Three Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Peter Sipple and my own Dark Hills (Edwin Arlington Robinson) and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (Walt Whitman).

Additional songs include Rain Has Fallen (James Joyce), music by Jonathan Russell, A Rose of Sharon by James Fitzwilliam, text from the Song of Songs, and Purpose of a Cat, by Shirley Hoffman Warren, poem by David Appelbaum.

The concert is April 22 at 4:00pm. at St. George's Church, 105 Grand Street, opposite the Newburgh Library parking area. (and also on Saturday, April 21 at 8pm. at Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz.).

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Hurry! Hurry! Toothpicks go to Washington DC April 4!

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The Town of Montgomery's Senior Independence Project is hosting its fifth annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner in memory of Charter Member Ruth Gardner, with a sit-down pot roast dinner catered by Ceil, and entertainment provided

by Side by Side with Darryl Wilbur. It will be held at the new Maybrook Senior Center on April 25 at 6:00pm. The Volunteer of the Year 2012 is awarded to Robin McVey of Maybrook.

All the volunteers who have given their time and effort to better the lives of the Town's seniors will be recognized. Special recognition will be given to TOMSIP member Carol Holbert and Police Chief Butch Amthor for their work on establishing Code Red and SALT programs to keep seniors and those with special needs safe during community crises such as power outages.

Call Dinner Chair Joan Buck Smith for information/reservations at 845-457-3457 for the $20 per person dinner.

For more information on this project to either receive assistance or to become a volunteer call 845-457-4138. (TOMSIP hotline).

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Anonymous Gay Pride

Disaster at Wolfgang!

Chess

This is your very last chance to view the wonderful toothpick art of Nelson Pantoja at the Wolfgang Gallery, 40 Railroad avenue.

Nelson received an invitation to bring his innovative work to Washington DC as part of the Graffitti of War Traveling Exhibit that was shown at Wolfgang Gallery in February.

For information: 845-769-7446 or email jenny@therealmikeyteutul.com.

At the opening reception for Toothpick Art, Nelson Pantoja’s daughter brought out a tray of cold cuts for the guests.

When the first guests approached the tray and saw the hors d’oeuvres, they noticed there were no untensils with which to pick up the food.

So they all traipsed into the back room where Nelson was preparing more food, told him there was no way to pick up the food, and asked him if he had any toothpicks!

.........................................................................................montgomery “Dreaming in Color”...New Paintings at the Wallkill River School

Clove Brook Farm, Salisbury Mills

by Shawn Dell Joyce

Dreaming in Color, the April show at the Wallkill River School Gallery, offers fresh art by two friends who introduced each other to a new life. Shawn Dell Joyce and Carrie Jacobson have been friends and painting buddies for years. Each has opened a door for the other into a new life.

Joyce, one of the founders of the Wallkill River School, is a writer and sustainability advocate who lives in Montgomery. Her Sustainable Living column first appeared in the Times Herald-Record, where Jacobson worked, and was Joyce’s editor and mentor. Now, Joyce’s column appears in newspapers throughout the country.

Joyce has learned to capture the light in two hours in her pastel paintings, making each

painting a moment frozen in time. Two hours is also how long most of her art classes are at the Wallkill River School where students learn to paint from still-lifes every Thursday night. She sets a still life, and helps each budding artist capture the scene with correct perspective, value and composition.

Joyce also takes artists out to farms and open spaces throughout the region to paint en plein air (French for painting outdoors) during the warm months (May-October). The landscapes and still lifes displayed in this exhibit are from Joyce’s classes.

With help, training and mentoring by Joyce, Jacobson left her life as a journalist to pursue a career as an artist. Her vivid oil paintings focus on the mid-Hudson, the New England shoreline

Black Dirt II by Carrie Jacobsen

and places in the West. She also has found joy and success painting portraits of animals.

Jacobson is a co-founder of the Art for Shelter Animals Project in which artists make portraits of animals in shelters, or with rescue groups, and then donate the art to the shelter or rescue group.

Emerging artist Susan Dollard will be featured in a solo exhibit in the workshop room.

Dollard is a multimedia artist who graduated with an MS in Art Education and Elementary Education from New Paltz. Her work ranges from realistic pastel renderings to gelatin prints and mono-prints. An avid gardener, many of her works reflect her love of woodlands and simple country living. After teaching elementary art for 30 years, she has opened her own studio and gallery called Off the Beaten Path in Smallwood. She often collaborates with her husband Tim, a rustic woodworker.

Be Vigilant

by Susan Dollard

The opening reception is free and open to the public and will be held on April 14 between the hours of 5:00pm - 7:00pm at the Wallkill River School and Art Gallery. Hot appetizers from the Wildfire Grill and cool local wines will be served. The Wallkill River School and Gallery is located at 232 Ward Street.

For information, call 845-457-2727.

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Destination....................................................................Montgomery Three Voices, Visions & Mediums

The Wolfgang Gallery will hold an exhibit called Three Voices, Visions & Mediums with artists Nancy Reed Jones, Marge Morales, and Marylyn Vanderpool.

From an early age Marylyn Vanderpool has had a passion for art and dreamed of being an artist. A Monroe native; Vanderpool married her childhood sweetheart and together they raised a family. She studied art at the Traphagen School of Fashion Illustration and Design in New York City until deciding to pursue painting full time.

She studied watercolor with Don Selchow, who mentored Vanderpool, and taught her the intricacies of the medium.

Margaret Morales grew up in New York City, dreaming from the time she was a young child of "being an artist and moving to Greenwich Village." No one in her family could figure out how she knew at age 5 about the budding artists haven of the Village, but they were certainly not surprised that Margaret - the girl who would draw, paint, sculpt and even construct spaceships from packing boxes - wanted to be an artist. Though Margaret never made it to the Village, she now resides in New York's other artist haven, the Hudson Valley. She has been working on her own art for 38 years.

Shop Door, Oil by Marylyn Vanderpool

Nancy Reed Jones uses techniques of the famous impressionists as well as traditional realism. Her paintings reflect the softness of oil with the detail of acrylic. Trained on Long Island, she has had commissions from the Vanderbilt estates as well as many clients in the Hamptons. She has used her painting skills to help people in recovery from addiction as well as using her murals for guided imagery with cancer patients.

The Wolfgang Gallery is located at 40 Railroad Avenue. An opening reception will be held on April 14 from 6pm - 9pm. The exhibit will run though May 4.

For information call 845-769-7446.

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montgomery calendar sponsored by Di Bello Gallery

Art & Photography Exhibits

Poetry Reading

Mike Jaroszko luminist James Hiller photography James Douglas Gallery, ongoing

Emmet Garnham Apr 5, 7pm Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

Nelson Pantoja Toothpick Art thru Apr 3 Nancy Reed Jones, Marilyn Vanderpool, Marge Morales “3 Voices, 3 Visions, 3 Mediums” Apr 14-May 4 Opening Reception: Apr 14, 6pm-9pm Wolfgang Gallery Shawn Dell Joyce, Carrie Jacobson, Susan Dollard, Apr 2-29 Reception: Apr 7, 5pm-7pm

Recreation Volunteer Recognition Dinner Town of Montgomery Maybrook Senior Center, Apr 25, 6pm Arbor Day Apr 27, 11am-Noon Orange County Arboretum, Hamptonburg

Theatre & Dinner “Ta-Ta Willie’s”

by Samuel E. Wright Spruce Lodge, Coldenham, Apr 27, 6pm

Celebrating Arbor Day

Celebrate Arbor Day April 27 with a free event from 11:00am to Noon on the beautiful grounds of the Orange County Arboretum.on Grove Street, off County Route 416 Festivities include Ask a Master Gardener, Growing Heirloom Tomatoes, a tree planting demonstration, and a guided tour of the Arboretum highlighting the variety of plants and trees.

For information call 845-615-3828

Spring tulip display, OC Arboretum

Be sure to BUY LOCAL!

Destination.....................................greenWood Lake Titanic 100th Anniversary

The Greenwood Lake Public Library presents commemorative programming, beginning with a film festival and ending with a historical lecture/performance program, for the 100th Anniversary of the April 15, 1912, sinking of the Titanic.

The Titanic Film Festival will be held throughout the month of April 2012. The following six films, including several documentary versions, will be shown: Ghosts of the Abyss by James Cameron April 5, 6:30pm

Titanic: The Definitive Documentary Collection - Legends of the Titanic Sections 1 & 2 Echoes of the Titanic and Titanic Remembered, April 10, 6:30pm Sections 3, 4 & 5 The Story of Captain Smith and the Titanic, End of an Era, and Titanic Survivors, April 12, 6:30pm Titanic by James Cameron (Academy Award Winning Film), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, April 15 11:00am A Night to Remember directed by Roy Ward Baker, based on the book by Walter Lord, April 19, 6:30pm Titanic: How It Really Sank by National Geographic, April 22, Noon greenwood lake calendar All events are at the Greenwood Lake Library

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Titanic Film Festival Apr 5-May 12

Exhibits Collectibles Series changed bi-weekly Val Sorrentino “Trains”Artist-of-the-Month Baker HS Students “Mask Project” Brooke Heffner (6 yrs) "In living Color” Apr 1-29 Art Extravaganza 6 Alumni Artists Apr 29, 12:30pm-2:30pm

Titanic directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck, April 22, 1:00pm This commemorative programming will conclude with the historical lecture/performance program, Titanic: Love, Life & Loss, featuring Titanic Historian Denise Vanaria as Helen (Nellie) Andrews on May 12, 1:00pm.

Vanaria takes you back in time with "Nellie," as she recounts her early life in Victorian society and later when she meets and marries, Thomas Andrews, Jr., the Titanic's Chief Designer. She appears in authentic Edwardian wardrobe from her extensive private collection.

Guests are encouraged to dress in Titanic theme for the program. For additional information about Vanaria, visit www.mrsthomasandrews.com.

Registration is required for these free ADULT programs either in person or by telephone at 845-477-8377 Ext. 101.

Young Adults (Grades 7 & up) are also invited to attend. Seating is limited; early registration highly suggested. Refreshments will be served at all programmings.

The Greenwood Lake Public Library is located at 79 Waterstone Road.

For information, call 845-477-8377.

Destination..........................................................................................florida Poetry Cafe

Florida Public Library’s Poetry Cafe offers guest poets and an Open Mic Hour with desserts & coffee. Teenagers over age 16 are also welcome.

Emcee Robert Milby’s special guest readers for April 20 are Walker Valley resident Terence Chiesa & Adrianna Robert Milby Delgado.

Chiesa lives with the love of his life in the house he built far enough from the road, close enough to the woods, on the southern side of the Gunks, not far from where Terence Chiesa the last glacier swept across a carapace of metamorphic stone composed of a quartz conglomerate.

He is a published short Adrianna Delgado story writer and poet and a carpenter, bent toward the whimsical, and contraptions of dubious utility, who believes wholeheartedly in the irrational and the corruptibility of man, and therefore, aside from minor exceptions,

does not trust what he is told or what he reads any more than he would trust a Bible salesman selling redemption in easy-to-meet installments.

Despite this Chiesa maintains an easy optimism which he attributes to being a child of the sixties with “alternative” still a major noun of his vocabulary, and “hope” in spite of his existential leanings still a part of his philosophy. He has spent the last dozen years of his life writing for voice (in the form of character-driven poetry and spoken word), and performs these monologues in cafes, colleges, libraries, up and down the Hudson Valley.

“In her first collection, Adrianna Delgado, known equally for her explosive readings and explosive presence on the page, gives us a volcanic rap of rhyming language ‘translated by tongues of the soul’”, Janet Hamill (Northeast Center for Poetry).

Robert Milby of Florida is well known to many CANVAS readers. He has been reading his poetry throughout the Hudson Valley since 1995 and hosts numerous poetry series in the Valley.

The April 20 cafe is at 7:00pm.

See Storytelling on right for address.

Storytelling is Entertainment

Adults over the age of 16 are invited to the monthly Black Dirt Storytelling Guild meetings to tell a story or to "just listen" and be entertained.

Themed meetings are held the second Thursday of the month at 7:30pm.

Wilderness is the theme for the free April 12 gathering.

The Florida Public Library is located at 4 Cohen Circle, off Route 17A, behind the village hall.

Phone: 845-651-7659.

Storytellers Eileen Stelljes, Madelyn Folino, Anne Hanson and Debra Weber

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Destination.......................................................................................Goshen Elant at Goshen’s Jeffrey A. Weiss Memorial Arts Series

With tears welling up in his eyes, Morton Waters, a resident of Elant at Goshen and a jazz enthusiast since he was 15, leaned over to jazz artist Christopher Dean Sullivan and said with a smile, “You can’t imagine what this has done for me today. It’s the greatest thing I’ve enjoyed in a long time.”

Mr. Waters was among the Elant at Goshen residents who were listening to the soulful sounds of jazz from the Christopher Dean Sullivan Trio from the Cornerstone Arts Alliance in Goshen. It was part of a recent kickoff event for the residents, celebrating the

new Jeffrey A. Weiss Memorial Arts Series. The Arts Series is a new program that will provide free art classes, exhibits and performances for Elant residents and the public.

Now, because of Elias and Nettie P. Weiss’ thoughtful planned giving, Elant brought the entertainment to Mr. Waters and other seniors who enjoyed hearing and feeling the music they love. The bequest of $25,000 to the Elant Foundation was specifically earmarked to establish an art series at Elant at Goshen in memory of their only child, Jeffrey. Jeffrey had a passion for the arts throughout his youth and into his adult life before passing from Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Melissa McCoy, Director of the Elant Foundation and coordinator of the series said, “As a lifelong resident of Orange County, the visual and performing arts have played a significant role in my own life, specifically through dance with the Orange County Ballet Theatre. Developing the series has brought personal joy through the opportunity to collaborate with and support the arts community, while enhancing the quality of life for the residents of Elant at Goshen.

The Elant Foundation has collaborated with the expertise of the Orange County Arts Council and Executive Director Dawn Ansbro, the Wallkill River School and Founder Shawn Dell Joyce, and a committee of community

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Julie Ziavras will perform folk songs at Elant on September 15. Julie is pictured above at the Jeffrey A. Weiss Memorial Art Series opening with CANVAS co-publisher Barry Plaxen & CANVAS distributor Robert Piacentino.

leaders to develop the first of four years of the art series. Residents who participate will have twice-monthly performances and presentations, along with instruction in numerous art forms. A continually changing art exhibit will enhance the residents experience, as will a series of musical performances, both open to the public.

For information on the Jeffrey A. Weiss Memorial Art Series, call 845-360-1261.

For information on the Elant planned giving program, email ElantFoundation@elant.org.

Earhart: Taking Flight

Amelia Earhart: Taking Flight featuring Rebecca Robbins as Earhart is Cornerstone Arts Alliance’s next theatrical production.

It will run weekends from April 14 thru 29 at the Goshen Music Hall. Call for times and information: 845-294-4188

Pine Bush Area Arts Council president, Linda Malmendier, is showing her paintings at Elant thru April 9.

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and art instructor. He was also well-known as a lecturer on art, particularly oriental painting.

He was born in Worcester, Mass., studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and later instructed at Pratt for 22 years. He was a prominent illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post for more than eight years and an illustrator for many national corporations.

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Goshen Calendar Exhibits Linda Malmendier thru Apr 9 Photography Exhibit Apr 9-30 John F. Gould Apr 30-May 21 Elant at Goshen

Music - Classical Classic Choral Society First Presbyterian Church, May 5, 7pm

Theatre - Play “Amelia Earhart: Taking Flight" Goshen Music Hall, Apr 14-29.

Destination.............................................................................Cornwall Community Building through The Arts

cornwall / woodbury calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Society for Music, Potluck Concerts, & Peggi’s Place

with Susan Handler

All events are in Cornwall or Cornwall-on-Hudson unless otherwise noted

Potluck’s Earth Concert April is Earth Month, and this year it is expected that over half a billion people in over 180 countries will be participating in local community events and Susan Handler activities to celebrate and raise awareness about environmental issues.

In Cornwall-on-Hudson, the Potluck Concert Series will meld music and environment in their yearly Earth performance. Music, as stated by the United Nations Music and Environment Initiative, is one of the most powerful media to communicate environmental messages.

This year’s Potluck Concert highlights the sounds of birds.Concert series co-founders ,

Emily Faxon and Ruthanne Schempf, are inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring. This is ‘the’ book that set the stage for the environmental movement. Ms. Carson was motivated to write this book due to the large 1958 Cape Cod Massachusetts bird kills from the pesticide DDT. She shared her concerns about the silencing of nature as a result of toxic chemicals; from the birds, to the fish, to the children.

Art & Photography Exhibits

Lectures

Paul Gould Hudson Valley Gallery, ongoing

Cottontail Tales Apr 7, 10am Nest Watch Apr 14, 10am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

Emily Waterfield photography Gary Hoff & Terri Clearwater paintings Clearwater Gallery, ongoing

Museum World of Bees & Brook Trout Exhibit Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm

Book Discussion “The Book Thief” Apr 4, 7pm “The Double Bind” Apr 26, 7pm Cornwall Public Library

Meet the Animal of the Week Sat & Sun, 2:30pm

HHNM Wildlife Education Center

Music - Classical

Cinema

Olivier Messiaen

Performed will be the rarely heard clarinet composition of Olivier Messiaen, Abyss of the Birds, from the Quartet for the End of Time.

Messiaen wrote the work in 1941 while interned in a WWII German concentration camp. The abyss speaks of the sadness and weariness of time, while the bird, written in the style of the blackbird, represents our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs.

The language of birds is the focal point of Amy Beach’s Opus 92 Hermit Thrush compositions. The composer listened intently to the thrush, documented the notes sung by the bird, and then held a musical conversation with the bird. No. 1: Hermit Thrush at Eve is cloudy and twilit in mood, and gets darker as the piece progresses. No. 2: Hermit Thrush at Morn is bright in tone and pictures the bird¹s exuberant flight.

Along with the songs of birds, Franz Schubert’s world-favorite1828 masterpiece Shepherd on the Rock for soprano, clarinet, and piano will be performed.

This unique concert will be held on April 20 at 7:30pm at Cornwall Presbyterian Church at 222 Hudson Street.

Suggested donations.

Potluck Concerts “Music of the Earth” Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Apr 20, 7:30pm

“Sweet Hearts Dance” Apr 11, Noon “Le Papillon” Apr 19, 6pm Cornwall Public Library

Opera - Video “Macbeth” Cornwall Public Library, Apr 22, 1pm

Festival Brid’s Closet’S “Beltane Spring Festival” Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, May 5, 9am-6pm

Recreation Craft Fair and Spring Soup & Dessert Festival Storm King Firehouse, Apr 14, 9am-3pm

Craft Fair - Soup & Dessert Festival Storm King Firehouse, Apr 14 9am-3pm

Earth Day Celebration & Hike-A-Thon Apr 28, 10am-3pm HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

Holistic Living Psychic Lisa Ann Private Readings The Trestle, Apr 24, 2pm-6pm

Children’s Activities

Chinese Meditation in Three Forms Cornwall Public Library, Apr 9, & 23, 6:30pm

All About Salamanders Apr 1, 10am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

“Nest Watch” Join environmental educator Pam Golben of the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum on April 14 at 10:00am for “Nest Watch”.

Learn about the different ways birds make their nests and how to identify common bird nests found in this area. Make a Bluebird Box (limited number available) to take home. photo: Pam Golben Then take a short walk to observe the nest across from 174 Angola Road boxes at the Outdoor Discovery Center.

For information, call 845-534-5506, ext Recommended for adults with or without or visit the website at and children and for children ages 5 and up. 204 The museum is located on Muser Drive, www.hhnaturemuseum.org

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Destination............................................................................Ellenville Film Comedy, Music and Dance

ellenville calendar sponsored by Hole In The Wall Music & Matthews Pharmacy

Cinema “Hellzapoppin’” & Matinee Shorts Shadowland Theatre, Apr 28, 2pm

Lectures “My Dream Job: An Inside Look at Rock N Roll”

John Simon Shadowland Theatre, Apr 14, 8pm Martha Raye, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson Frankie Manning in Hellzapoppin'

by Derek Leet

services to WWII troops. Raye once again achieved great popularity in the 1950s on TV and later for her “denture” commercial Whitey's Lindy Hoppers got its start in 1939 as the primo group of The Harlem Congaroos.

After playing the Cotton Club, they danced in a few films including Hellzapoppin' and A Day at the Races.

Shadowland Theatre is located 157 Canal Street.

Box Office: 845-647-5511.

Jazz musician John Simon produced some of the biggest records of the 1960's: Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills, most of Simon and Garfunkle's Bookends, Leonard Cohen's 1st album, the 1st album by Blood, Sweat and Tears and the 1st 2 albums by The Band.

In addition, he produced The Last Waltz, Steve Forbert's Jackrabbit Slim, Michael Frank's Tiger In The Rain, David Sanborn's Heart To Heart, and albums by John Hartford, Gil Evans and Mama Cass

Elliott, as well as working with Taj Mahal, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Mason, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Phoebe Snow, Joni Mitchell and many others.

His most recent album productions have been for The Band (Jericho), A.J. Croce and Jackie Cain & Roy Kral and a new album

by Hirth Martinez.

Now he is set to tell you all about My Dream Job: An Inside Look at Rock N Roll at Shadowland Theatre on April 14 at 8:00pm.

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Margo Marusek Classical Harp Ellenville Library, Apr 15, 2pm Recreation Shadowland $10,000 Raffle Shadowland Theatre, Apr 21, 6pm

Spring Concert Series

Shadowland is continuing its Saturday Matinee Film Series which includes a host of entertaining shorts and previews in addition to a main feature. Vaudeville comics Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson star in Hellzapoppin’on April 28 at 2:00pm.

Also starring in the film is the wonderful Martha Raye who had been featured in many comic movies prior to Hellzapoppin’ and later gave a bravura performance in Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux. Some sources say that had Chaplin not been a political outcast in the 1940s for his leftist leanings, Raye might have been nominated for her performance, which could be the most outrageous comic film performance prior to Jack Lemmon in Some like It Hot. Raye was honored in 1969 with an Academy Award as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and

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“Lincoln on the Civil War” reading/discussion Ellenville Library, Apr 18, 6:30pm

Music Jazz Trio Thursdays, 8pm-11pm Aroma Thyme Bistro

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Margo Marusek began studying piano and harp performance at the respective ages of 6 and 7. She earned her Masters degree in Music at Boston University’s School of Music, studying under Ann Hobson Pilot, principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Previous tutelage with Felice Swados of Western Massachusetts, Bonnie Shaljean of Cork, Ireland, Abigail Stockman, and the late Kenneth Custance inform her eclectic musical style.

She performs with orchestras, wind ensembles, choirs, and as a soloist for special events. She also teaches elementary vocal music in the Ellenville Public Library and Museum, and private music.

40 Center Street.. Admission.is free.

Margo will perform at 2:00pm on April 15 For more information, call 845- 647-5530.

Destination..................................................................................Walden Samuel E. Wright’s Dinner-Cabaret

by J.A. Di Bello Once again the performing arts in the Wallkill Valley's most active river town will demonstrate to neighbors, "how it's done." The amiable, lovable, two-time Tony Award nominee Samuel E. Wright, veteran star of stage and screen, has written and will direct a first-time-ever production of Ta-Ta Willies.

Produced by the Hudson Valley Pops and the New Rose Theatre of Walden, the presentation will be in the form of a dinner-cabaret theatre honoring the greats of the New York Cabaret Golden Age era. In addition to dinner and engaging entertainment, the evening will include dancing and an auction. Tickets are $60 each and can be purchased at the New Rose Theatre in Walden.

Established in 1993, the Hudson Valley Conservatory (HVC) was conceived by directors Samuel E Wright, Amanda A Wright and Pamela A Murphy, with the goal of bringing arts to the Hudson Valley region. HVC teaches music, dance and drama to ages four and up with classes ranging from the recreational to the more structured.

The Hudson Valley Pops began as Parents of Performing Students, and is now an adult community theatre group of talented local

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Book Discussion

Recreation

“Hunger Games”Apr 10, 6:30pm “Zombies, the Undead, and the People Who Love Them” w/Linda Zimmerman Apr 12, 7pm Josephine-Louise Library

Chess Club Mondays, 6pm-8pm Chess Club Saturdays, 10am-2pm Scrabble Club Thursdays 6pm-8pm Knitting Group Thursdays, 6:30pm Josephine-Louise Library

Lecture - Demo

Theatre - Dance

“Cooking Middle Eastern Style”

“Peter Pan” New Rose Theatre, thru Apr 1

Theatre & Dinner “Ta-Ta Willie’s”

by Samuel E. Wright Spruce Lodge, Coldenham, Apr 27, 6pm

Samuel E. Wright

thespians.

The debut presentation of Ta-Ta Willies will be presented on April 27, 6:00pm at Colden Manor at Spruce Lodge, Route 17K, Montgomery (Coldenham).

For information and reservations: 845-7782478 or 845-978-0351. For other events at the New Rose Theatre visit www.hvcfa.com.

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w/John Moultrie Josephine-Louise Library, Apr 26, 6:30pm

Music - Classical Piotr Kargul & Ron De Fesi “The Art of the Viola” St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Apr 15, 3pm

Lecture “Be An Energy Whiz Kid” 5 years & up Josephine-Louise Library, Apr 16, 4:30pm

Poetry Reading Josephine-Louise Library, Apr 19, 6:30pm

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Magic Tree Story Time 5yrs and up Apr 24, 6:30pm Josephine-Louise Library

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Meet Rosemarie Werkman When sporadic spring showers grace the days of an amiable April and the nights are satisfied with savory scents of fresh born buds, the incentive for the Academy of American Poets to designate the month of April as National Poetry Month is readily apparent. It is triumph and tribute to divinely inspired hands. Hands guided by sister muses, writers and scribblers who celebrate and give recognition to the aesthetic and evocative qualities of language, fondly known as Poetry.

Orange County's wealth is not limited to rolling hills and majestic rivers. With blessings, it maintains a level of literary prowess and sophistication found solely in counties able to provide the intellectual pillars necessary to support the position Poet Laureate.

To be named Poet Laureate is an accomplishment of considerable merit. In early Greek times, Laureate, by definition, represented the leaves of the Laurel, a plant sacred to the god of music and poetry, Apollo.

The leaves were customarily woven to the shape of a crown and subsequently placed on the head of great warriors, thespians and poets.

Orange County's Poet Laureate, Rosemarie

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Werkman, began her life in Washingtonville as Rosa Maria Antonia di Benedetto in a musical, linguistic environment of rolling r's, double consonants and spelling/pronunciation rules rooted in "what sounds good!"

Adversity remains a motivational factor for those who harbor creativity. The Second World War (WWII) provided sufficient fuel for a generation of exceptionally talented creative artists. These circumstances had a special impact on Rosemarie di Benedetto, then a student at Washingtonville High School (1943).

As was the practice in towns, villages and cities across America, young men were sent to distant shores to serve in harm's way. The first WWII casualty from Washingtonville was Rosemarie's older brother, Joe. As the war progressed, another loss impacted Rosemarie's world; her high school sweetheart, the man she intended to marry was killed in Europe. It was the jolt of Brother Joe's sacrifice that sparked Rosemarie to put pen to paper and begin a lament, a soothing exercise fueled by a love affair with words and a passion for the people

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she knew. It was a talent recognized by an acute, perceptive English teacher, Marion C. McInerney, fondly remembered for her prophetic words: "Of course you can do it."

Rosemarie married Hank Werkman, a soldier from Campbell Hall, who single-handedly captured 200 Nazi soldiers in Normandy. The Middletown paper head-lined Werkman "Campbell Hall’s Sgt. York." He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action and later lost his leg in the Battle of the Bulge.

As said, it was adversity that brought the talented Rosemarie to the attention of the public.

Beginning as one of six orphaned children, she has several published pieces and articles plus two published books to her credit: P.S...I Love You, a biographical prose and poetry and Love, War and Remembrance. Both recall a time of family, sacrifice and memories. Of Love, War and Remembrance, author-director Frank Gilroy (The Subject was Roses) says it is "crammed with unmistakable feeling...above all preserves the story of Hank Werkman, a war hero who deserves to be heard". The dedication reads:

"...to all the young girls who 'waged war'; those grown to womanhood and the others... 'cut down in the middle of their dreams'..."

Rosemarie has been included in the Who's Who of American Women and has been published in several anthologies. Additionally, many of her writing were published in the Hudson Valley Literary Magazine. She was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate Orange County by former Orange County Historian, Theodore Sly in 2002 and has now completed her tenure in that position. A certificate of appreciation was presented to Rosemarie by current Historian, Cornelia Bush. As Poet Laureate, Rosemarie has had several poetry readings designed to encourage young people to read and write about personal experiences. Rosemarie currently resides in Blooming Grove. Her books are offered for sale.

See advertisement on page 18.

Historian, Cornelia Bush is seeking nominations for the County's next Poet Laureate. Recommendations may be sent to her at cbush@orangecountygov.com. Nominees must have a published body of work, in any of the following formats: books, magazines, newspapers, and/or music. Nominations are due April 30.

For information about the Historian's Office, visit www.orangecountygov.com.

.........................................................................Walden Meet Viola Da Braccio: Orchestral exemplar Middle Child Syndrome In the hierarchical structure of the symphony orchestra, it is the conductor who commands.

This position of ultimate authority is followed by the first violin, the Concertmaster, who is then followed by additional orchestra members, composed of brass, wind and percussion. Each has a place that complements the specific purpose of the orchestra's existence. As a member of the bowed string instrument family, the viola sits firmly between the violin and the cello, a qualified candidate for the position: The Middle Child.

Due to the viola's physical characteristics, size, string composition and a soft, rich sound with less carrying power, viola parts are frequently less demanding than violin parts and serve frequently as non-melodic fill-ins.

Consequently, a number of musicians believe the viola to be less important than its siblings.

Further, few classical compositions call for viola solos to perform duties or parts beyond the fillins mentioned above. These are truly demoralizing, deflating characteristics.

Combine these qualities with the fact that a number of orchestral musicians are frequently known to engage in verbal bullying. The viola is

often the subject of cruel, insensitive ridicule, e.g.: Q. How do you keep your violin from getting stolen?

A. Put it in a viola case.

And so the Middle Child of the symphony orchestra develops low self- Ron De Fesi & Piotr Kargul esteem, a feeling of emptiness, and becomes lonely and jealous of the remaining components.

To the rescue: Fortunately for the musical world and those who listen, two highly trained, dedicated musicians have been secured by the ever ready, multi-tasking Ginny Neidermier, of the Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden to perform first aid and remedy the plight of the Middle Child Viola. Violist Piotr Kargul, who earned his MA in Music from the Music Academy in Poznan, Poland and Julliard-trained Ron De Fesi, current artistic director and conductor of the Hudson Opera Company, will present a concert in Walden, The Art of the Viola.

Since the viola is not accustomed to serving in the position of a featured instrument in concert, it is their intention to demonstrate what a joy the instrument can be.

The program will feature works of Beethoven, Faure, Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, Kreisler, Mascagni, Bruch, Debussy, Hummel and Piotr Kargul himself. Notably absent from the announced selection of great composers and compositions is Giacomo Puccini. It is rumored through the Village that Puccini is a strong possibility for an encore.

As stated earlier, classical music has few solos for the viola, and a number of the selections in this concert were written for the sister violin. Each has been "specially arranged� for the viola. Audiences uniformly praise the fluent, and mellow timbre of Piotr's viola in dialogue with De Fesi's pianistic virtuosity."

The Art of the Viola will be presented in a free concert on April 15, 3:00pm in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Municipal Square, followed by an artists' reception in the Josephine-Louise Public Library across the street.

(Humor and tech data provided by Carl Rahkonen at the National Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology. )

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Dining Out to Support the Arts

Every April for the past three years, members and friends of Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) have hosted dozens of house parties around Sullivan County and the Upper Delaware River Valley to raise funds for DVAA’s programs and services.

This year, their event is scheduled for April 21 and has been expanded to include participating restaurants. Arts Alive Fundraising House Parties and Savor the Arts - Restaurant Style involve people coming together for a common goal that will focus support for regional arts - and the DVAA. It’s a day to dine out for the arts.

Those familiar with the DVAA might invite friends to their home for dinner and extol the virtues of having DVAA in our community, thereby expanding the network of support. There are 16 house parties currently scheduled on April 21 around the region, with numbers growing.

(Technically, house parties may take place anytime, but most events focus on April 21.) If you think this is a fun way to support your local arts organization and creative community, just call the DVAA office at 845-252-7576 and say you would like to host your own event. Support materials are available.

Fundraising parties may be as simple as

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Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) Communications Director,Tina Spangler, Executive Director, Elaine Giguere and Gallery Director, Rocky Pinciotti

barbequed beans and beer or as lavish as a champagne and caviar event at your home, place of business, or public space. It is up to you. Be creative, have fun, and introduce DVAA’s outstanding record of over 35 years of service to your friends and neighbors.

For those not attending a house party, Savor the Arts - Restaurant Style has a wide variety of venues to choose from in which you can support the arts. From a dinner, a movie, and dessert to a distillery tour and tasting, several regional restaurants are partnering with DVAA to host their special event.

For information, call 845-252-7576.

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Saakumu Dance Troupe in Monticello The Monticello Performing Arts Booster Club is presenting Master Drummer Bernard Woma and the Saakumu Dance Troupe The award winning Troupe is one of the leading traditional/contemporary dance and music groups in Ghana. Their music and dance range from spiritual, ceremonial, recreational genres to contemporary African dance forms.

Their music and dance is joyful, expressive and highly participatory.

Bernard Woma has shared the performance stage with renowned artists such as Maya Angelou, Yo Yo Ma, and Glen Velez. He has performed for international dignitaries and presidents such as U.S. president Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. He was recently honored as the cultural resource person for President Barack Obama’s family when they visited Ghana. He is a cultural treasure from Ghana who has toured the world as xylophonist and lead drummer of the National Dance Company of Ghana. Bernard is an extremely dynamic artist and deeply experienced educator.

His recent appearances in the US include a performance with New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, residency with the Ethos Percussion group, performances and teaching at New York’s African Xylophone

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Festival, and various universities and colleges.

The performance of his composition “Gyil Nyog Me Na” in the spring of 2006 at Carnegie Hall is a testimony of his musicianship.

Woma is the Artistic Director of Saakumu Dance Troupe and the founder and director of the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Accra, Ghana.

The event takes place on April 20 at 7:30pm, in Eugene D. Nesin Theatre for the Performing Arts, 22 St. John Street, Monticello, just off Broadway and Route 42.

For more information call 845-794-6013.

Dancers Opportunity Bernard Woman will also be presenting a workshop at the Nesin Theatre on April 21 at 10:30am.