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April 2015

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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen April is National Poetry Month.

Free and low-cost Literary Arts entertainment: Most poetry series events have free admission with requested donation. Other series’ admissions range from $2-$5. Open mic always follows featured readers. See pages 30-31

Last minute news: Complementing the Dinner with Tennessee Williams fundraiser (see page 31), the Cragmsoor Library will be showing The Glass Menagerie April 4 at 5:00pm and The Fugitive Kind (Orpheus Descending) on April 11 at 5:30pm. The films will be preceded by presentations about the plays. Admission is Free. Also - a fundraiser for the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival happens on April 19 at 2:00pm and 3:30pm at Warwick Grove. Email: hudsonvalleyjazzfest@yahoo.com Join the Orange County Citizens

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Foundation on April 30 at 7:00pm at the Seligmann Center for an evening of discussion and debate on an important issue that will affect our lifestyle via the arts, business, tourism, education, and everything else: Regionalism vs. Localism: Are there costs to losing local control? Register for the free event on the website www.occitizensfoundation.org The “J” Word Our free subscription offer continues. Guess what “J” word is misspelled most in press releases and in online bios, and win one year’s home delivery of CANVAS. Email your guess to: editor@dhcanvas.com and type “The J word” in the subject line. The “J” word is not, as most people emailed in: “jewelry”. Nor is it “judgment” or “jubilee”. I jest joyfully and judge it is time for a hint to jostle and jar your mind: The ”J” word is a proper noun.

Letters to the Editor The exhibit travels to Margaretville, in April, Dear Editor, Thank you for the article in your March, where it will be on display at the Catskill Watershed 2015 issue. You guys did a great job. Color! Corporation, 905 Main Street, Margaretville. David Munford, Grahamsville Professional! Woo hoo! And I also liked the cover very much...kissable! Dear Editor, Thanks again. Thank you for the wonderful CANVAS coverage Clay Boone, Sugar Loaf you’ve given Port Jervis Council for the Arts, especially the “Art and About” shows that Susan Dear Naomi, Thank you very much for the nice CANVAS Miiller has organized. We appreciate all that you article you wrote on the Tibetan Costume show do for us and area artists. Debbie Schofield, at the Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center. PJCA Secretary It was accurate, well-written, and warmly described. We appreciate your interest in our Dear Barry & all at CANVAS, events and hope to welcome you to the Cultural On behalf of “Spring Fling” exhibitors Debbie Center before long. Ani Kunga, Walden Gioello, Joan Kehlenbeck and Susan Miiller: A Great Big Thank You! Your continued support and recognition means Dear CANVAS Thank you so much for the “KILLER” so much! Thanks also for the beautiful images of article last month about my exhibit of paintings, our work! Debbie Gioello, Joan Kehlenbeck, & “Mountain Vistas,” at the Livingston Manor Susan Miiller, artists Library!

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Community Arts: News Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Co-Publisher, Marc E. Gerson ads@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 phone 845.926.4002 fax Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds, opportunities & auditions to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Florida Library �� 20, 30 Global Recycling, Inc., Newburgh �� 24 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch. ��3 Greenwood Lake Library �� 12 Healing Art Gallery, Ellenville �� 23 Hudson Valley Jazz Festival ��2 Jake Lentz & Marilyn Kennedy ��8 Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester �� 29 John Howland Youth Center, Walden �� 21 Josephine-Louise Library, Walden ��6 Judi Silvano & Joe Lovano ��9 Karpeles Museum, Newburgh �� 22 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford �� 28 Maybrook Wind Ensemble �� 12 Mt. Saint Mary College, Newburgh �� 10, 31 Neversink Valley Musuem, Cuddebackville �14 Newburgh Last Saturdays �� 24 Newburgh Library �� 30 New York Swing Exchange ��4 Orange County Arts Council �� 4, 26 Parksville USA Music Festival �� 19 Potluck Concerts, Cornwall �� 12 RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon �� 16 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �� 2, 16 Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville �� 12 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville �� 30 Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center �� 3, 22 SUNY Orange Community Orchestra �� 28 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 5, 7, 28, 30 SUNY Orange, Newburgh �� 24, 26, 30 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake �� 13, 31 Thrall Library, Middletown �� 21, 30 Wallkill River School ��11 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��8 Yale Whiffenpoofs, The ��4

GNSO: 20th Anniversary, 9th Symphony, 2nd Special Honor-Brunch

“It’s hard to believe it’s been two decades already,” commented Gordon Shacklett, cellist with the orchestra since its beginning, and pre-concert commentator with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO). “The Newburgh Symphony ‘family’ is also expressing their gratitude to Dr. Woomyung Choe, our conductor, music director, and founder, as he retires at the end of this season. It’s a big year, and we’re celebrating with big music.” In April, the GNSO, with numerous choruses including the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, USMA Glee Club, Middletown Concert Chorale, SUNY New Paltz CollegeCommunity Chorale, Foxhill Community Youth Choir, and the Mount Saint Mary College Choir, will give two performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. There are many facets to the hard work, the planning and physical labor behind a performance of the magnitude of Beethoven’s 9th. “To paraphrase Irving Berlin,” wrote Roanne Patterson for the GNSO 2007 performance (see photo), “the stagehands, the singers, the director of music who hires the soloists, the van drivers, the managers, the musicians, the box office advance and day-of-performance workers, the press people, the producers, the music librarian, the stage managers, the lighting technicians, the concessionaires: They all believe There’s No Business like Show Business! “The community effort to put on a large scale work like this one is a most-vast undertaking.

www.newburghsymphony.org or by calling 845913-7157, or at the door. Students admitted free.

The April 18th program is funded, in part, by Orange County Tourism and the County of Orange.

Kristine Biller Mattson

Ryu-Kyung Kim

Think of it: finding the correct size (and height) of risers to the supplying of the music for the more than 72 orchestra members and for over 200 singers as well, who must physically go on stage from seated positions in the audience after the second movement; how to move over 200 people from one location off stage to on-stage and off again at the conclusion of the performance.” “As you watch and listen, think about and imagine the commitment of the managers, stagehands, volunteers and performers from many communities all over the Hudson Valley and Catskills that have combined talents to make this masterpiece a living experience for us: the

Jin Hwan Byun

Jorge Espino

lucky audience.” “Many consider it the greatest piece of music ever written,” said Shacklett, “and it happens to be a personal favorite of Dr. Choe. With over 200 voices and outstanding soloists joining the orchestra, this is going to be one powerhouse of a concert.” Soloists include Kristine Biller Mattson, soprano; Ryu-Kyung Kim, mezzo soprano; Jin Hwan Byun, tenor; and Jorge Espino, baritone. The concert will be presented April 18 at Newburgh Free Academy, at 7:30pm. (Arrive an hour early to hear Shacklett’s 6:30pm concert preview). Tickets can be purchased online at

The April 19 performance will take place at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf at 3:30pm. Regular tickets for this performance are available through Ticketmaster or at www.sugarloafpac.org and at the SLPAC box office. “The Sugar Loaf performance also offers a VIP ticket option that includes choice seating, and admission to the 20th Anniversary Reception that will follow the performance featuring a meet and greet with the soloists, and refreshments,” said Shacklett. VIP tickets are $75 each and are available on the GNSO website. Celebrating Choe & Handler Shacklett also shared information about a special brunch at Noon on April 12 at the Powelton Club in Newburgh. “The existence of the GNSO can be attributed to two dedicated men with exceptional vision. George Handler and Dr. Woomyung Choe saw the opportunity, and were successful in bringing together the musicians, board, and volunteers. “Handler and Choe will be honored at this second annual Spring Brunch, featuring music, a silent auction, and sumptuous food. This benefit will help the Symphony continue their growth in outreach and special programs,” said Shacklett. Make your reservations online at www. newburghsymphony.org

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Whiffenpoofs Alumni Sing for OCAC Every year, 14 senior Yale men are selected to be in the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and best-known collegiate a cappella group. Founded in 1909, the “Whiffs” began as a senior quartet that met for weekly concerts at Mory’s Temple Bar, the famous Yale tavern. Today, the group has become one of Yale’s most celebrated traditions. Yale Whiffenpoofs 2015 other and for the community. The group still sings at Mory’s I don’t think any of us could every Monday night at a special have imagined, on graduation table. Each year, a wood burning day, how closely knit we would artist carves the initials of the continue to feel throughout our group’s fourteen members into lives and the opportunities being a crest on this table. In 1971, a new table was started and Norman Stein, Class of a Whiffenpoof would afford 1971 (left) & Adam Stein, us.” the initials of Orange County Class of 1999 Alumni from the Whiffenpoofs resident Norman Stein (class of will be performing a concert to 1971) and his son Adam (class benefit the Orange County Arts of 1999) are both carved on this Council on April 25 at 6:30pm table. Norm and Adam Stein at the Palacio Catering and are one of only three father-son Conference Center. Performing legacies in the history of the Then & now: with the Whiffenpoofs will be Whiffs. Bruce Leppla, Class of 1971 the New York Swing Exchange Bruce Leppla, a Whiffenpoof alum who is traveling from San Francisco Band (NYSE) led by Artistic Director and to Goshen, is excited to come and sing once Orange County musician Jim Briggs. For more than a decade, the NYSE has more with his fellow Whiffs. Leppla says “Fellowship, love of song, knowledgeable continued to feature many of the region’s finest NY audience and a great cause. That’s what jazz musicians and educators. A full eighteenpiece Big Band, the NYSE repertoire includes draws all of us.” Event organizer Norman Stein, agrees with everything from standard big band chart his classmate. “I am thrilled, but not surprised, toppers to unique arrangements to brand new that this lifelong singing fraternity I am works from today’s premier jazz composers. Tickets to this once in a lifetime event fortunate enough to be a part of is collecting here in my home town, for the second time are $75 per person and can be purchased by in 20 years, because we simply had the visiting www.ocartscouncil.org or by calling opportunity to convene again to sing for each the Arts Council at 845-469-9168.

Lugh Dubh Saoi Aosdana Goshen

Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Lughnasadh is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals; along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane. It corresponds to other European harvest festivals such as the Welsh Gwyl Awst and the English Lammas. Lughnasadh is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and is believed to have pagan origins. The festival itself is named after the god Lugh. It involved great gatherings that included religious ceremonies, ritual athletic contests, feasting, matchmaking and trading. Lughnasadh customs persisted widely until the 20th century, with the event being variously named ‘Garland Sunday’, ‘Bilberry Sunday’, ‘Mountain Sunday’ and ‘Crom Dubh Sunday’. Brian Friel is considered to be one of the greatest living English-language dramatists, best known for plays such as Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Dancing at Lughnasa. He has written more than thirty plays in a six-decade career that has seen him elected Saoi (wise one) of Aosdána (an Irish association of artists). 4

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Dancing at Lughnasa brought Friel great acclaim internationally, winning him several Tony Awards, including Best Play, London’s Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. It was also turned into a film in 1998, starring Meryl Streep. The play is set in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts’ cottage when he was seven years old, a story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. Produced by Cornerstone Theatre Arts and directed by Les Ferguson, it will run from April 1126 at Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street. Linda Ferguson Producer-Actor Ken Tschan serves as prop-master & Director Les Ferguson and assistant. Sound & lights by Jacqueline Dion. The cast features Evelyn Albino, Jessica Markman, Crystal Gilbert, Tracey Bellina, Brittany Pierce, Brian Boothe, Ben Hudson and Ken Tschan. Reservations required: 845-294-4188.

Re-Inventing Piano Sonics at SUNY Orange by Philip Ehrensaft Yet another musical coup by the SUNYOrange’s Cultural Affairs division: this month it’s a solo piano concert by a young lion of New York’s contemporary classical music scene, David Friend, performing a defining composition of the modern era, John Cage’s Sonatas and Preludes for Prepared Piano. This follows the rising star jazz saxophonist Ada Rovatti’s February concert, and the March concert headlined by the top-of-theline trumpeter Randy Brecker. Friend will also play selections from Eric Satie’s gorgeous miniaturist, masterpieces, composed in France from the late nineteenth century through 1925. The eccentric Satie’s piano compositions inspired Claude Debussy, France’s major bridge between the Late Romantic and modernist eras. Besides the concert, Friend will also present a master class on prepared piano and twenty-first century music Friend will demonstrate, step by step, how pianists “prepare” a piano. And thus offer new sonic options for composers and performers. “Preparing what exactly” is the next question. The answer goes back to 1940, when Cage was tasked with composing dance music that would normally be performed by

a percussion ensemble. The small theater Cage continued The concert takes place was too small however to hold a percussion experimenting until the on April 26 at 3:00pm ensemble. Only a piano would fit. apogee of Sonatas and at SUNY Orange in Cage thought back to his studies with the Interludes (1946–8). His Middletown, in Orange great American modernist, Henry Cowell. goal, Oxford Music Online Hall Theatre. On April Cage moved to New York City in 1931, tells us, was portraying the 27 at 10:00am Friend where he studied composition and world eight “permanent emotions” presents his master class music with Cowell. One Cowell innovation of Indian aesthetics - the on prepared piano and Composer John Cage was “preparing” pianos to emit new sounds erotic, the heroic, the twenty-first century music by strategically objects on the instrument’s odious, anger, mirth, fear, sorrow and the in Orange Hall, Room 23. strings. wondrous - and their common Tickets can be purchased online at www. Cage returned to his native L.A. tendency towards tranquility. sunyorange.edu/arts_comm/ticketing.shtml in 1934 to study with the pivotal Cage’s prepared piano techniques or at the box office starting at 7:00pm the twentieth century composer Arnold have been widely adopted by evening of the concert. Admission is free for Schoenberg, a legendarily rigorous contemporary composers. There all students. and demanding mentor. Cage are no less than 20 currently Orange Hall is located at the corner of departed from Schoenberg’s serial available recordings of Sonatas Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, techniques to follow his own path, and Interludes. Middletown. a path heavily influenced by Cage’s David Friend is well poised to do Questions may be directed to 845-341systematic study of Asian philosophy justice to Sonatas and Interludes. 4891 and cultural@sunyorange.edu ; website: and music. But, underlying Cage’s David Friend After completing bachelor’s and www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs often serene and sometimes playful music, master’s degrees at the Manhattan School Schoenbergian rigor and depth is always of Music, Friend has performed in major Arrive Early & View the Art! there. venues like Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Prior to the concert, and during Back to 1940: Cage thought about Cowell’s and the Royal Festival Hall in London. But intermission, be sure to visit Orange Hall experiments. Cage placed nuts, bolts, felt if you want a guide to NYC’s alternative Gallery where SUNY Orange Cultural strips and the like strategically on piano New Music venues, just look at the concert Affairs is presenting the 11th annual SUNY strings until his composition Bacchanale listings at www.davidfriendpiano.com/. Orange Student exhibition: ARTiculate, had the timbres of a chamber percussion Friend does all this while doing a doctorate from April 3-May 4, with 300 artworks in ensemble. at Cornell. various media.

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Meet: Author of Children’s Literature Jerrice Jean Baptiste “Tu es ma belle.” What better way for a child to greet the glow of a new born day? What better way for the impressionable to realize worth? From the melodious French patois the greeting translates to: “You are my beautiful.” It is also the title of a beautiful children’s book, Tu Es Ma Belle by famed author of children’s literature Jerrice Jean Baptiste (see photo). She resides in the literature rich Hudson Valley where her reading and presentations have been enthusiastically received. Younger children, especially preschoolers and primary students traditionally respond with enthusiasm to presentations of oral narratives. Capturing and retaining the limited attention of pre and primary school students is a task critical to communication, and the child directed messages of Ms. Baptiste have a value of self-esteem and beauty that cannot be left to wither. Ms. Baptiste is fondly and enthusiastically remembered for her storytelling skills. Teresa A. Thomas-Washington, Director of the

Read, Write Tutorial Program in Kingston stated “...it takes extraordinary patience to take that story and bring it to life while children are snacking and hyped up after being in school all day. But there you were with your quiet spirit patiently waiting and then with the biggest, brightest smile, you lit up the room, announced who you were and where you came from and you proceeded to speak in French; getting everyone’s attention. Awesome!” To further explore the art of writing for children, know it is considered to be an occupation characterized by an abundance of gratification and fulfillment. And on the downside, it is perhaps the most difficult to master. To define it as a specific genre has proven to be a chore of Herculean magnitude. Nancy

Anderson, of the College of Education at the University of South Florida, defines children’s literature as “all books written for children, excluding works such as comic books, joke books, cartoon books, and nonfiction works that are not intended to be read from front to back, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials.” Historically the purposes of literature created specifically for children landed in one of several categories, e.g., to instruct, to moralize, to inspire, to entertain. In an informal, not according-to-Hoyle survey, the memories and recollections of a significant number of literature-minded adults support the statement. Their remembrances mold and shape the process of categorization. Each sampled

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recalls with various degrees of fondness distinct pieces of literature from distant and not so distant childhoods. The quick and most informal survey revealed the purposes were associated with characters and some with authors. The short list includes The Adventures of Pinocchio, Treasure Island, Peter and Wendy, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain and Joel Chandler Harris’s adaptation of African American Folk Tales, as told by Uncle Remus. As a writer, Jerrice Baptiste has mastered the art. She is not only an appealing and lasting poet, but an educator. She earned a Bachelor of Psychology degree and a Master’s of Education from Hunter College in New York City. She is also a student of Poetry Therapy at the Creative Writing Center in New York. Fortunately and through the efforts of Ginny Neidermier, Director of the Josephine-Louise Public Library, 5 Scofield Street, Walden, Jerrice Jean Baptiste will share her multiple talents at the library on April 27 at 6:30pm. On what appears to be an evening of promise, her books will be available for purchase and signing.

“Hard Evidence” Debuts in CAS Elevator Gallery

Frank Shuback picks up Binghamton, and many others. found objects in wood, metal, The Catskill Art Society plastic, and glass from antique (CAS) is presenting Shuback’s shops and bends them to his own Hard Evidence, an exhibition subjective imagination. Curious, with a series of clues to current unexpected, and often playful, events, using design and color his sculpture and installation to draw together elements from will make you wonder and even around the world. The show prod you to laugh! will run in the Elevator Gallery, Frank lives and works in New April 4-May 31 at the CAS Hampton. Since the 1960’s, he Arts Center, 48 Main Street, has shown his work all over “The Lion King” by F. Shuback Livingston Manor. the country, including the Rice Gallery and An opening reception will be held on April the University Art Gallery in Albany, the 4, 4:00pm-6:00pm. Roberson Museum and Science Center in www.catskillartsociety.org

Apprentice Players: “Love & Other Drugs”

The greatest love poetry in the English language provides the springboard for a pair of one-act plays under the billing of Love and Other Drugs, comprising the spring performances of the SUNY Orange Apprentice Players. Shakespeare’s sonnets of romantic and sexual love are timeless, and are not bound to any particular setting or to either sex. Four short works by playwrights Eric Bogosian, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman and Ntozake Shange and directed by Cabot Parsons, Love’s Fire, are each paired with the sonnet that inspired it and pulled into one play, startling - not only in the variety of their mood, content and setting, but also in their unusual interpretation. The world premiere of Social Prescriptions by Molly Pease and directed by David H. Cohen,

depicts a young woman’s memoir about her daily passage through the world of depression; abetted and impeded by her friends and family. The cast of Love and Other Drugs includes Joseph Polichetti, Ally Andryshak, Jordan Scarzfava, Sarah Hutchinson, Joseph Colon, Matthew Colben, Victoria Cottone, Alan Moss, Jazmin Jackson and Anwar George. Both plays contain strong language, adult themes and situations, not suitable for children. The student productions will run during the weekends of April 10-19 in Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown. There will be a “talk back” with actors and directors immediately following the April 18 performance. For tickets visit www.sunyorange.edu For more information, call 845-341-4790.

New Hope & Sullivan-Arc at CAS & DVAA

New Hope Community currently provides services to over 400 individuals with developmental disabilities, and strives to meet the needs of its participants as they learn skills and move toward greater independence and integration in their communities. New Hope residents are coming together for a show that will run from April 23-May 3 at the CAS Art Center (see adjacent story). A free opening reception for the show, entitled, Waxing Visions, will be held on April 23, 6:00pm-8:00pm. New Hope’s own Bistro will be catering. The exhibit will feature over 100 pieces of work including acrylic, watercolor, pen & ink, pastel, marbleizing, oil pastel and textured design. Sullivan-Arc is a non-profit agency that supplies support and services to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose mission is to allow these individuals to live as valued members of the community. The artists of Sullivan-Arc will have their 8th annual exhibit, Expressions: 2015 at

Work by Sullivan-Arc artist, Michael Cardillo

the Delaware Valley Art Alliance’s Loft Gallery, 37 Main Street in Narrowsburg. Many of the artists have limited mobility or are unable to speak or articulate words, yet they create paintings that are expressive and richly colored. Some of the artists are able to paint because a series of adaptive devices have been custom built for them, such as head gear with a paintbrush attached. The exhibit runs through April 18. For more information, call 845-796-1350.

Get Ready to Pulsate in Narrowsburg

“Bob Malone supports his singing with pulsating, roaring keyboard work that grabs you and shakes you until you cry for mercy.” Keyboard magazine. Malone’s sound is a one-of-akind hybrid of rock, blues, and New Orleans R&B, delivered with high-energy piano virtuosity

and a voice all his own. His music is heard regularly on Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight and The Rachel Ray Show. Malone performs in the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg, on April 18 at 7:30pm. For tickets: 845-252-7272.

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Happy 10th Birthday Wurtsboro Art Alliance!

In 2005 John Neilson and managed to steadily grow over a group of artist friends from time, attracting new members Wurtsboro decided to form an and new energy, and is still alliance. Neilson, who took growing today. up painting as a pastime after Members of the WAA will retiring from a career in the airline celebrate this achievement industry, had studied painting starting with their 2015 with Melville Brotherston season opening exhibit titled while living in the UK. He tried Celebrating: 10 Years and watercolors and oils before Growing Strong which opens finally adopting acrylics as his April12andrunsthroughApril painting medium of choice. 26. There will be a reception, Through their shared passion free and open to the public, for the arts, Neilson and his on April 12 from 2:00pmWork by John Neilson wife, Trudy, developed a 4:00pm. Refreshments will circle of talented, creative be served, and there will be friends in the Mamakating live music performed by local area; photographers, potters, area musicians. illustrators, watercolorists, To further mark this painters, sculptors, jewelers, milestone, the WAA will poets. With so much talent to be dedicating the “Neilson offer, they thought, why not Gallery” in memory of John Artist John Neilson (1927-2012) form a group to showcase that talent, and to help Neilson, who was instrumental in founding the promote the arts and encourage other artists in organization and establishing a home for it in its the area? They called themselves the Wurtsboro current location in the Village of Wurtsboro. Art Alliance (WAA). The WAA plans to continue the celebration This year marks the ten year anniversary of the throughout the year with a series of exhibits by founding of this once fledgling alliance. There members and featured artists, plein air artists’ have been a few bumps in the road along the fieldtrips and art classes. way; some ups and downs. Members have come The Gallery is located at 73 Sullivan Street, and gone over the years, including John Neilson Wurtsboro. Inquiries and new members are who passed away in 2012. Yet the group has welcome. Visit www.waagallery.org

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In-House Music: Wurtsboro & Bethel

Broadway, Pop, Jazz in Wurtsboro Bringing music to downtown Wurtsboro are pianist Jake Lentz and vocalist Marilyn Kennedy. They have been entertaining people in the area for 12 years at Giovanni’s Inn on Route 209 in Wurtsboro where they perform every Friday and Saturday evening from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Yes, they perform some country music, but they “specialize” in just about everything: songs from the beginning of the 20th century (including some piano ragtime a la Scott Joplin and The Sting) to the present. Their main thrust is American standards from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and films, but they also perform early jazz, early 50s ballads and 40s swing music a la Harry James and other popular bands of the era, some TV theme songs, and maybe a bit of Brubeck. They didn’t always perform together. Jake earned his credentials playing with swing bands, and even played lead alto sax with the Jimmy Dorsey band when Lee Castel was the leader. He came to Sullivan in 1967 after being with the Ice Capades as assistant conductor and arranger, and performed mostly in the Sullivan hotels.

Marilyn also came up from the city. She and Jake met at Kutsher’s in Monticello where she was band singer and emcee. In addition to performing at Giovanni’s Inn on Fridays and Saturdays, they perform at La Piazzetta on Sullivan Street, Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm-9:00pm, where they will be doing all the styles of music as described above, right in the heart of downtown Wurtsboro. Soulful Gypsy Americana in Bethel Adding to the oft-heard sounds of folk or rock music, or Sunday jazz at the Cat Stills Cafe or Dancing Cat Saloon, The Vine Brothers bring their music to Bethel on April 17 at 8:00pm. This acoustic trio uses mandolin, guitar, upright bass, and vocal harmonies to captivate audiences with crafty songwriting, fiery improvisation, and soulful delivery. They span the range from rootsy folk to gypsy swing to bluegrass and blues. The Catskill Distillery and Saloon are located at 2037 Route 17B in Bethel. For dinner reservations: 845-583-3141.

Music is the Mystical Magic in Marlboro

Joe Lovano has long experimented with varying ensembles in duets, trios, quartets and quintets, in his Wind Ensemble, Street Band and Nonet. And also Trio Fascination. “About my fascination with Trio Fascination,” Lovano says, “playing in a trio formation no matter what the instrumentation is, is a joyous creative exploration of personalities and music. I have three recordings documenting my approach in this format on Enja Records and Blue Note Records, one of which includes Trio Fascination. As much a composer as saxophone player, Joe is constantly seeking new ways to express his muse. His lifelong regime of practicing, jamming and trying new sounds, endures. After years of performing with major artists, his concept of sound and energy using distinct instrumentation and drawing ideas from the world of music started to take shape when he met Judi Silvano. “Judi’s sound influenced ideas and feelings that were instrumental in opening up my concept about an ensemble sound that includes voice. I feel it gives my music a very organic, alive, human quality. “Judi and I have had a joyous journey together since those days, not only in music but in our life partnership. She’s full of ideas, and is always surprising me with her depth, and expression.” Judi’s “depth and expression” includes

classical music about my love or my (composer), dance garden. I am making (early in life), painting observations about (presently exhibiting other people. I’m very in Montgomery and aware of allowing Pine Bush), poetry (an myself to develop my original Silvano poem own style. I don’t fall is scored for voice, into a rut doing the flute and piano) and same old same old.” songwriting. Judi is speaking “Judi Silvano’s about one of the modernism many different stretches methods she uses mainstream jazz; to compose songs, the meta-structure which are based of classical music on harmonic and her renderings progressions, or of the American Michael Abene on a melody that Doug Weiss Carmen Castaldi Songbook are cut “enters her mind”, from the same cloth.” or scatting without - Philip Ehrensaft. words, or others that That cloth, or tapestry, follow the words of if you will, includes her poems. “When songwriting. I write based on a Judi is well known melody, I write words for her respect and that meld with the exploration of the melodic and rhythmic standards. “Cole material. Sometimes Porter was such a I base words on a Joe Lovano & Judi Silvano brilliant wordsmith and tunesmith,” she said. chordal progression. Each bit of inspiration “He was an inspiration for me to challenge is different. And now I am reading about myself to write something that is about the lyric construction. There is more than the rest of the world and history rather than intuitive about it.”

Music is the Magic is a concert that features Trio Fascination, Judi Silvano and Michael Abene. “At The Falcon the Trio will be playing repertoire from my recordings,” explained Joe, “as well at some spontaneous compositions, featuring long time colleague Doug Weiss on bass, and one of my closest Trio partners from the early 70’s Carmen Castaldi on drums (we grew up together in Cleveland). We will set the stage for Judi and Michael, closing out the evening as a quintet when all five musicians will create a unique ensemble to express the joys and wonders of Our World, a mystical collaboration: Quintet Expressions - never done before, will be very spontaneous!” “Michael Abene is a brilliant musician,” said Judi. “Composer, orchestrator/arranger and a teacher at Manhattan and Juilliard Schools of Music, he came up in the big band world. Our new CD My Dance is a collection of my original songs, and our collaborative arrangements. We’re bringing these originals back to the Falcon where it all began in 2011.” This special concert is on April 11 at 7:30pm at 1348 Route 9w, Marlboro. Admission is by donation. Optional dinner starts at 6:00pm For info and reservations: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com www.judisilvano.com for more on Judi. www.joelovano.com for more on Joe.

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Meet: The Book of Days As the repetitive scenes of Winter’s wrath appear to exit stage left, relevant drama is solidifying on the campus of Mount Saint Mary College (MSMC) in Newburgh. Under the sensitive and skilled hand of director James Phillips, the MSMC Theatre will present Book of Days, a drama written by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson (1937- 2011). Theatre critics have long recognized Wilson as one of the most respected and admired playwrights in America. In 1998, Book of Days received the Best Play Award from the American Theatre Critics Association. Theatre has the unique ability to present itself in multiple forms, each with a varied assortment of intentions. From the muses comes tragedy and comedy, both poised on a spectrum that reflects multiple purposes. Consider here Lanford Wilson’s The Book of Days and its place on the campus of a prestigious college, Mount Saint Mary, Newburgh. It deserves a closer look. Inspection of the play, its characters, setting and sequence of events reveals

cheese plant is owned by the its logical categorization as a town’s benevolent benefactor morality play. The 15th and 16th who suspiciously succumbs to centuries, a time when morality wounds inflicted or suffered plays were a popular form of in a hunting accident. The theatrical entertainment, are benefactor’s bookkeeper at the now little more than historical plant, Ruth, has auditioned and bookmarks in the history of been cast as Joan of Arc, the title theatre. However, more than role in the community theatre’s ever, morality remains an issue production of George Bernard germane to the preservation Shaw’s Saint Joan. of an open and functioning There are 12 distinct characters society. Issues such as political in this production, and director ethics, medical ethics, personal James Phillips has prudently and morality, right and wrong remain Megan Hartnett topics of debate, discussion and frequent convincingly collected an ensemble of multiconfusion. It is moral principles that govern talented thespians. In that accomplished group is a bright, articulate, enthusiastic an individual’s or group’s course of action. And so it is in Dublin, Missouri, the setting Megan Hartnett, a sophomore at MSMC. of Book of Days. As the drama unfolds, the Not surprisingly, Megan has a passion for audience discovers setting, characters and theatre and aspires to the role of a voice plot, as each element is intentionally and actress. Even though MSMC has no theatre cleverly designed to strengthen and carry major, Megan believes the Mount to be the the all-important allegory. Dublin appears only college for her. A very perceptive young to be smack dab in the middle of America’s student, Megan sees the school’s liberal Heartland. It is dominated by a factory (a arts program and diversity as contributing cheese plant), a Christian fundamentalist factors in her personal choice of MSMC, “I church, and a community theater. The fit here,” she says with conviction.

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Megan as one of the talented thespians has been cast in the role of Ruth, a pivotal character in this intriguing drama. Megan’s insight and perceptiveness enhances her ability to effectively interpret and portray the character Ruth. Megan has discovered the purpose of Ruth’s existence and her suspicions as they pertain to her boss, and owner of the cheese factory, Walt Bates. As one might suspect, the play within a play emerges, as Ruth, with the enthusiasm and purity of Saint Joan seeks the truth about an incident she believes to be a murder. However, small communities frequently lack insight in direct proportion to their lack of physical size. And fittingly, that seems to be the case in Dublin. The truth is divisive and threatening, allowing hypocrisy and duplicity to be the thread that binds the fabric of Dublin, Missouri. MSMC at 330 Powell Avenue in Newburgh will present Book of Days, a play by Lanford Wilson in the Aquinas Hall Theatre on April 16-18 at 7:30pm. Additional information is available by visiting www.msmc.edu/Events or by calling the box office at 845-569-3179.

Follow The Wallkill River School’s Farm Art Trail; Win A Geo Token!

Fifteen Wallkill River School (WRS) artists partnered with fifteen open-to-thepublic farm sites to create a Geo Tour combining local color and flavor! Visit all 15 sites, collect the secret letter inside each geocache, unscramble the phrase and win a geo token! Each geocache is designed by the artist whose works are on display inside the farm stand. Sign your name on the sheet inside the geocache, and find the hidden letter inside the cache. Each farm stand has a Farm/ Art Trail sign. Find the geocache within 20 feet of the front door or the sign. The Farm Art Trail Geo kickoff starts May 2. Visit http://wallkillriverschool.com/farmart-trail/about-geotour/ for more information. From April 1-30 the WRS will feature paintings of Soons Orchards by Gene Bové, and Pierson’s Farm paintings by Mitchell Saler. April’s emerging artist is Vicki Botta. Excerpt from an art review in the Times Herald-Record: “Gene Bové, a former advertising executive in Manhattan now living in Pine Bush, has turned to his first love, painting. His sweeping landscapes exhibit a mastery of color, light and composition. Realistic, representational, but nonetheless inspirational, Bové’s oil paintings elicit the “wow” response as one gorgeous landscape after another reveals itself along the walls of the gallery.”

“Pierson’s Barn” by Mitchell Saler

“Soons Orchards” by Gene Bové

Gene has always wanted to fulfill his most serious passion: oil painting en plein air. He studied with Frank Ferrante, a talented plein air painter and instructor from New Jersey, whom he met on his very first paint-out in Middletown. Gene then joined a weekly plein air workshop led by Shawn Dell Joyce. Today, he is one of the demonstrators of that very same group! Visit www.genebove.com for more on Gene. In 2009, Mitchell Saler graduated with an Associate Degree in Visual Arts from Orange

County Community College. In 2011, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the State University of New York at New Paltz. His works emphasize vastness, dramatic lighting, and atmospheric effects. His largescale oil paintings convey overwhelming natural forces, grandeur, and seemingly impossible phenomena in nature. Visit www.mitchellsaler.com Emerging artist and Goshen resident Vicki Botta is self-taught and specializes in watercolor, oils and acrylics. She worked as a commercial artist for many years doing computer technical illustration and architectural renderings in pen & ink and watercolor for local builders, architects, also and on a commission basis. In addition to drawing, painting and writing,

“Farmstand in Middletown” by Vicki Botta

Vicki has her own potters wheel and kiln and throws functional pottery which she sells with her husband’s wood lathed creations at various local craft shows (Facebook page: VJB Creations). She teaches music at Fields of Green Montessori School in Vernon, NJ and music and art at Montgomery Montessori School. In addition, she developed the string orchestra program in the Goshen School district in 1999 and has been giving violin, viola, cello, piano and guitar lessons from her home for fifteen years. Head to the WRS this April for the opening reception on April 11, from 5:00pm-7:00pm and enjoy local foods from both farms and free-flowing local wine and apple cider! The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street (17K), Montgomery. Call 845-457-ARTS.

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Shadowland Saturdays: Movie Matinees

Founded in 1984, Shadowland Theatre performs in a newly-restored 1920’s Art Deco vaudeville/ movie house converted to a 179-seat theatre. What could be better suited to a Matinee/ Classic Film Series? According to Brendan Burke, artistic director of the theatre, “Matinee at the Shadowland gives audiences young and old a chance to experience what going to the movies during the golden age of cinema was all about.” Each main feature is shown with a full complement of selected short subjects; there is usually a cartoon classic, maybe a Three Stooges comedy and/or some trailers. On April 11, Shadowland will present Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Sons of the Desert, the 1933 feature film that inspired a worldwide organization devoted to the two comedians, with

a local “Them Thar Hills” chapter in Warwarsing that meets the first Sundays of the month to witness the on-screen antics of the two master comedians. In the film, Stan and Ollie look for a way to circumvent their wives’ objections and attend a lodge convention in Chicago. The series will conclude on May 2, with a rare screening of the 1946 comic fantasy Angel on My Shoulder starring Paul Muni, Anne Baxter and Claude Rains. Muni plays a gangster who winds up in Hades, only to wind up being used as a tool of the Devil back on Earth. Claude Rains is delicious as the malicious Mephistopheles. Tickets are available at the Shadowland box office, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. For information or to reserve seats, call 845647-5511. www.shadowlandtheatre.org

The Maybrook Wind Ensemble will perform music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Bernstein and marches by Gregorio Diaz, Henry Fillmore, R.B. Hall and John Philip Sousa for its spring concert, under the baton of Kevin Scott (see photo) who has conducted various orchestras, opera companies, choruses and bands throughout the greater New York area, as well as Atlanta, Philadelphia and Varna, Bulgaria.

Scott’s own compositions have been performed by the orchestras of Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis and St. Louis under notable conductors including JoAnn Falletta. The ensemble will perform in the Maybrook Senior Center, 111 Schipps Lane, on April 24 at 7:00pm. Admission is free, donations requested. For information, 845- 978-0617.

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Greenwood Lake: From Jazz to Soul

Rhonda Denét and The Silver Fox Trio pay homage to the great soul and jazz divas highlighting a collection of jazz standards and soul classics that span five decades. Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, Rhonda Denét performs throughout the New York metropolitan region and across the country with her band, The Bad Cats, as a lead vocalist for The Kazz Music Orchestra, as a cast member of the Off-Broadway show, The Gong Show LIVE, and in Echoes of Sinatra with vocalist, Steve Kazlauskas, for Ella & Frank: A Tribute. Her repertoire covers the gamut, ranging from the American Songbook to Top 40 radio, in addition to her original compositions.

In addition, she is proud to be the founder and primary performer for the Silver Fox Songs series, a program which brings live music to various community service organizations and celebrates American classics from jazz to soul. The Greenwood Lake Public Library presents From Jazz to Soul featuring Rhonda Denét & The Silver Fox Trio on April 16 at 7:00pm for the library’s award winning Music Makers Concert Series. The Library is located at 79 Waterstone Road in Greenwood Lake. Registration is required for this free FAMILY program either in person or by telephone at 845-477-8377 Ext. 101.

Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 4 in a minor, Opus 23, was composed in 1801, published in October that year, and dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries. It was originally meant to be published alongside Violin Sonata No. 5. However, it was published on different sized paper, so the opus numbers had to be split! The Fantasia in f minor D.940 (Op. posth. 103) for piano four-hands, is one of Schubert’s most important works for more than one pianist, and one of his most important piano works altogether. Schubert composed it in 1828, the last year of his life. Musicologist Christopher

Gibbs has characterized the work as “among not only his greatest but his most original” compositions for piano duet. Along with works by Arcangelo Corelli and other composers, violinist Emily Faxon, pianists Ruthanne Schempf and Margaret Small (see photo) and other performers will entertain you at their Potluck Concert on April 24 at 7:30pm in the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Haagen-Dazs ice cream, homemade cakes and coffee/tea are served after the music is digested!

Sweet Music, Ice Cream & Cake!

Director-Driven Verismo Operas in SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake by Philip Ehrensaft Verismo, Italian literary realism, began as a movement in Sicily during the 1870’s. Veristi novels focused on the working and peasant classes, contemporary realities, and life in specific Italian regions. The novels spawned a populist verismo theater. The populist plays, in turn, catalyzed a parallel movement in opera, beginning with the success of Pietro Mascagni’s one-act Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry). Cavalleria premiered in 1890 in Rome, and became the prototype for verismo opera. The artistic summit of verismo opera, in terms of the Darwinian selection that produced today’s standard opera house repertoire, was Ruggero Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci. Pagliacci, also a oneact opera, premiered in 1892. It became standard practice to twin the powerful pioneer and artistic summit one-act operas into one glorious evening. When a tenor successively tackles the lead roles in each respective opera, we witness a very tough test of vocal talent and endurance. These oft-twinned verismo jewels are what audiences across the world will witness during the Met Live in HD broadcast on April 25. The courageous tenor is the Argentinian phenomenon Marcelo Alvarez. Alvarez worked for a decade in the furniture industry, only beginning his professional training in 1991, at the ripe old age

of 29. His rapid climb up the international opera hierarchy is operatic in and of itself. We’ll also witness a prime instance of Regietheater, the “director-driven” opera productions that originated in post-war Germany. Regietheater has become more and more predominant in opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic. The Met’s advance information on the upcoming verismo performance, other than Opera News’ one-page listing of credits, is rather rationed. It’s focused on a 3’ 16” video clip devoted almost entirely to an interview with the Scottish director of the brand new Cav/Pag production, David McVicar. McVicar is one of the world’s most soughtafter opera directors, usually booked with engagements for the next five years. His ability to communicate the thoughtfulness and intelligence of his theatrical intentions is remarkable. But I must ask myself, and I do not believe that I am alone: is this video clip’s almost exclusive focus on a director indicative of a me-too drift of the Met into European Regietheater? I recall the last “traditional” Met performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle: the number of German-speakers in the audience was striking. I retained enough of my German to understand the grumbling about having to fly across the Atlantic to experience echt (genuine) Wagner. It is also ironic that Alvarez, the lead tenor, has

been outspoken about directors’ outsized roles in today’s opera houses. Here’s what Alvarez had to say about the matter in a 2001 interview by Dieter David Scholz for Opera Welt (translated by Google, with help from my college German): Question: What is the role of the directors? Response: Today, directors are unfortunately too often in the foreground, and play roles more important than the opera’s music. Previously, singers were the divas and prima donnas, later it was the conductor, today it is the directors. Unfortunately, directors’ achievements today are not always great moments of musical theater. I’m sure that opera’s work - understanding the spirit of music and song - will resume its prominence sooner or later. Now let’s go back to the origins of this outsized

role, as explained by the late Lofti Mansouri in his Tales From the Mad Mad Mad World of Opera: “Wieland Wagner, grandson of Richard Wagner and a prominent director in his own right, [is] often called the father of Regietheater, the high concept director-driven approach to opera. Wieland was a pioneer of spare, psychologically probing productions. You could say that it was a matter of invention coming out of necessity. Most German opera houses were devastated during the Second World War, and years following were ones of necessity. Short on materials and manpower, directors were unable to create the extravagant, realistic productions of previous decades, so they turned to abstraction.” Current versions of Regietheater are not always as abstract or deprived of resources as Wieland Wagner was in the 1940’s, but they are no less director-driven. To some, necessity forced Wieland Wagner to make discoveries that permanently advanced opera. To others, it’s time to redress the imbalance by putting singers, and conductors with a deep knowledge of voice, back into the foreground of that wonderful theatrical invention, opera. See and hear Alvarez at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake, April 25 at 12:30pm. The preconcert talk starts at about Noon. 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

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LectureS

sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College GWL �� Greenwood Lake Library MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SYNYO-GC �� SUNY Orange, Gilman Center Library, Middletown SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown SUNYO-RCSE �� SUNY Orange, Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Middletown All Lectures are free - except those for MSM-DC

“John Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct” Susie Kaspar �� SUNYO-RCSE Mar 31, 7pm “Sustainable Agriculture on the Hudson River through Hydroponics” Jennifer Sloan �� SUNY Orange, Tower Building Cafe, Newburgh, Apr 1, 7pm “Understanding Past Native American Cultures in the Hudson Valley through Archaelogy” �� Eugene Boesch Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Apr 1, 7:30pm “Resisting Militarism through Boycott and Divestment” Nick Mottern �� A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Apr 4, 4pm “Guide Dog Raising” Barbara Ward Blank & her dog �� Liberty Library, Apr 6, 10:30am Prescription Medication Lecture James Conklin �� SUNYO-GC Apr 7, 3pm James Conklin “Esoteric History of Architecture and Monuments” ��MSM-DC Apr 7, 6:30pm “Asylums” Michael T. Keene �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 7, 6:30pm “Old Technology, New Technology: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris in the 21st Century” Andrew Tallon SUNYO-RCSE, Apr 7. 7pm “The Doctor-Supervised Detoxification Program” ��MSM-DC Apr 8, 1pm “Manhattan Bridges” Kevin Woyce ��GWL Apr 9, 6:30pm “Spring Maple Syrup” w/tasting, Diehls Farm ��Jeffersonville Library, Apr 9, 6:30pm “Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine” ��MSM-DC Apr 10, 10am CONFERENCE 19th Annual Women’s Conference ��SUNY Sullivan,. Loch Sheldrake, Apr 11 “Spring Peeper Search” outdoors �� PEEC Apr 11, 8pm “A Spirituality of Non-Violence” ��MSM-DC Apr 13, 1pm “The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Influence on Women’s Rights” Sally Roesch Wagner �� SUNYO-KH, Apr 13, 7pm “My Experiences as a Concentration Camp ‘Liberator’” Alan Moskin �� SUNYO-GC Apr 16, 2pm & simulcast at SUNYO-KH Apr 16, 2pm “April 1865; A Monumental Month!” ��MSM-DC Apr 16, 9:30am “The Magic Of Hypnosis” ��MSM-DC Apr 17, 10am “The Transition from Dutch New Netherland to British New York” ��MSM-DC Apr 17, 1pm “When Things Go Bump in the Night Learn How to Bump Back – Scary Creatures from the 18th Century are Still Out There” �� New Windsor Cantonment, Apr 18, 7pm “Pre-Teen and Teen Behavior: When Should I Worry and How to Get Help” panel �� Touro College, Middletown, Apr 20, 6:30pm “Repairing the Delaware Aqueduct” Adam Bosch ��Time & the Valleys, Grahamsville, Apr 21, Noon “The House-Life Connection” ��MSM-DC Apr 21, 6:30pm “The Power of Stillness” ��MSM-DC Apr 22, 2pm “Made in Newburgh” ��MSM-DC Apr 23, 2pm “Design, Build, Own, Live:A Green Building Case Study” Rick Alfandre �SUNYO-RCSE, Apr 23, 7pm “Art About Water” panel discussion ��SUNYO-KH Apr 24, 5pm Jerrice Jean Baptiste poet, therapist, author �� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Apr 27, 6:30pm “East VS. West” ��MSM-DC Apr 28, 6:30pm FORUM: “Art About Water” ��SUNYO-KH Apr 30, 5pm “Across the Sahara Desert: People, Places, Landscapes” Barry D. Kass ��GWL, Apr 30, 6:30pm “Regionalism vs. Localism: Are there costs to losing local control?” �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Apr 30, 7pm “Learning & Sharing Genealogy” panel ��Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, May 3, 2pm clubs Newburgh Library Camera Club ��Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesday, 6pm St. James Camera Club ��St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Chess Club ��Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess �� Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch �� Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ��Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10:15am Knit & Stitch Club �� Newburgh Library Town Branch, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6;30pm Newburgh Knitting Club �� Newburgh Library, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 6pm Knitting Group ��Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” �� Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” ��Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting, Crocheting, Crafts “Stitch and Bitch” �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Sundays, 1pm Knit/Crochet Club ��Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters �� Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Circle ��Florida Library, Nov 17, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. �� First Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Group classical ��3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Electronic Music Meetup w/Neil Alexander ��Newburgh Library, 3rd Thursdays, 7pm Ladies Night Painting Social ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Thursdays 6:30pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ��St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ��Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm The Country Scrappers cardmaking, scrapbooking ��Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Tuesdays, all day 14

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Scrabble Mania ��Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill �� Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Trivia Night �� Penning’s Pub & Grill, Warwick, Thursdays, 8pm UFO Support Group �� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7:30pm Woodcarvers Guild ��Museum Village, Monroe, Apr 1, 7pm

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock Sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

Music for Humanity �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 7:30pm FREE “Amplify Sound Concert Series” poets Decora & Gold, Neil Alexander �� Falcon, Mondays, 7pm Spook Handy �� Universalist Unitarian Congregation, Rock Tavern, Mar 28, 7:30pm Jazzmosis jazz & Yasgur blues, roots, rock �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Mar 28, 7:30pm Carolyn Wonderland, Shelley King blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 31, 7pm Clark “Big Kitty” Williams folk �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Apr 2, 7pm Chris O’Leary Band, Studio Stu blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 2, 7pm Yarn ��Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon, Apr 2, 7:30pm Tal National, M’Bollo African Fusion ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 3, 7pm Buffalo Stack roots, rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 5, 10am-2pm Lost Leaders ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 8, 7pm Slam Allen CD Release “Feel These Blues” ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 9, 7pm Bruce Katz Band, Fillet of Soul funk, soul, blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 10, 7pm Kansas ��Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Apr 10, 8pm Keith Jordan, Pat Lamanna folk � Unitarian Universalist Coffehouse, Rock Tavern, Apr 11, 7:30pm The Crackers �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Distillery, Apr 11, 8pm M.A.K.U. Sound System Caribbean, rock �� Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Apr 11, 8pm Rob Paparozzi’s “Good Old Boys” Music of Randy Newman ��The Falcon, Apr 12, 10am-2pm Jeff Penque & Karen Fariweather “Dynamic Duos” �� Newburgh Library, Apr 12, 3pm FREE Cuboricua! Salsa ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 12, 7pm Pierre Bensusan world guitar ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 15, 7pm Rhonda Denet “From Jazz to Soul” �� Greenwood Lake Library, Apr 16, 7pm Rosewell Rudd Quartet & Heather Masse “Sonic Embrace” ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 17, 7pm The Vie Brothers Gypsy-Americana �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Distillery, Apr 17, 8pm Ed Palermo Big Band & Rob Paparozzi “Electric Butter” CD Release ��The Falcon, Apr 18, 7pm Bob Malone r&r, blues, r&b ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Apr 18, 7:30pm Doug Rogers & The Backseat Drivers �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Distillery, Apr 18, 8pm Mary Chapin Carpenter & Lúnasa �� Bethel Woods, Apr 18, 8pm Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound gospel, blues � The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 19, 10am-2pm Larry Moses’ Latin Jazz Explosion ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 19, 7pm Willy Porter & Carmen Nickerson Duo indie folk ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 21, 7pm Mike & Annie Baglione & Friends �� Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Apr 25, barbecue: 5pm, music: 7:30pm Leni Stern African Trio ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 22, 7pm Jim Campilongo Trio, Seth Adam blues, country, rock, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 24, 7pm Larry Chance & the Earls, Shirley Alston Reeves DooWop ��Paramount Th., Middletown, Apr 25, 7pm Duke Robillard blues ��Sugar Loaf PAC, Apr 25, 8pm

The Blues Farm �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 26, 10am-2pm Howie Day ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 26, 7pm Jeremy Baum’s Soul Jazz Blues Quartet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 29, 7pm The Trapps, Carl Mateo Band Americana, folk ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 30, 7pm “Thunderbash 10” country, Thunder Radio ��Monticello Raceway, May 2, 6pm

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Maglione �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals ��La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals �� Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em Soul, blues, funk ��WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Dose Acoustic Sundays ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 1st & 2nd Sundays, Noon-2pm Doug Rogers �� Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 3rd & 4th Sundays, Noon-2pm Ray Longchamp �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Mar 1, 2:30pm-5:30pm Steve Schwartz, Renata Daria & Firebrand Band �� Albella Restaurant, Monticello, Apr 10, 7pm

Barbecue Before Bagliones & Buddies

Neversink Valley Museum’s (NVM) Summer Concert Series is Back in CuddeBackville BUT with a BBQ added. “NVM is inviting you to arrive around 5:00pm,” says director Gretchen Weerheim, “set up a chair or blanket in NVM’s park-like setting, or take a seat under the pavilion, and NVM volunteers will make dinner for you. Afterwards, at 7:30pm, Mike and Annie (Loeb) Baglione will entertain you with a fine selection of music, along with their friends joining in. Word has gotten around that Mike and Annie assemble a great roster of area artists

and bring them to NVM for your enjoyment.” The first concert of the season is April 25 at the Visitor’s Center, 58 Hoag Road in Cuddebackvlle, where NVM’s monthly evening lecture series begins on April 1 with Dr. Eugene Boesch speaking on Pre-Contact Cultures in Southeastern NewYork at 7:30pm, and continues with Frank Salvati speaking on the Battle of Monongahella on May 6. And be sure to visit the silent film and historic exhibits in the Leura Murray Center’s main building, now open for the season. For more information: 845-754-8870.

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Broadway Concerts Direct �� United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove NY, Apr 18, 6pm

cinema

Adult Independent Film Night �� Greenwood Lake Library, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm FREE Reel Eclectic Film Series �� Thrall Library, Middletown, 1st Thursday, 7pm FREE “Beyond Iconic” Q&A w/Hanna Sawker �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 29, 1pm “The Theory of Everything” ��Newburgh Library, Mar 30, 6:30pm FREE “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” discussion w/Andrea Laurencell Sheridan �� SUNY Orange, Harriman Hall, Middletown, Apr 2, 6:15pm FREE “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar” ��Cornwall Library, Apr 8, Noon, FREE “Dear White People” �� Newburgh Library, Apr 11, 1:30pm FREE “Sons of the Desert” Laurel & Hardy, selected shorts � Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Apr 11, 2pm “A Walk in the Spring Rain” I.Bergman, A. Quinn Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 15, 3pm FREE “Temple Grandin” into w/Michele Iannuzzi-Sucich �� SUNY Orange, Tower Building Café, Newburgh, Apr 15, 6pm, “Into the Arms of Strangers” Holocaust Remembrance Day ��Florida Library, Apr 26, 1pm FREE “Angel On My Shoulder” Paul Muni, Claude Rains �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, May 2, 2pm

Comedy

Tom McTiernan, John Iavarone �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 4, 8pm Rich Voss & Bonnie McFarlane �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Apr 10, 8pm Joey Kola, Jerrold Benford �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 11, 8pm Brad Lowery, Seymour Swan �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 18, 8pm Isaacs & Baker, Davin Rosenblatt �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 25, 8pm Rob Falcone, Marion Grodin �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, May 2, 8pm

festivals

Earth Day Festival ��Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Apr 25, 10am-4pm

fundraisers

Cragsmoor Library Tennessee Williams Dinner �� 71 Old Inn Road, Cragsmoor, Apr 11, 7pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Benefit Brunch Powelton Club, Newburgh, Apr 12, Noon Friends of Walden Youth Indoor Craft Fair & Yard Sale �Wooster Grove, Walden, Apr 12, 9am-4pm Cragsmoor Free Library Onze Card Party �� Cragsmoor Library, Apr 18, 7pm Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Fundraiser �� Warwick Grove, Warwick, Apr 19, 2pm & 3:30pm Orange County Arts Council Yale Whiffenpoofs & NY Swing Exchange �� Palacio Conference Center, Goshen, Apr 25, 6:30pm Mulberry House Senior Center Tricky Tray ��Middletown, May 2, opens Noon, calling starts 2pm Local Food Pantries “Thunderbash 10” country music ��Monticello Raceway, May 2 TBA FREE Liberty Library English Tea Fundraiser �� Lazy Pond Bed & Breakfast, Liberty, Apr 12, 1pm

holistic

Reiki Circle �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Apr 13, 6pm Drumming Circle ��The Bodhi Tree, Sugar Loaf, Apr 16, 6:30pm Kim Russo “The Happy Medium” �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Apr 17, 8pm Sacred Yoni Meditation “Ladies Night” ��The Bodhi Tree, Sugar Loaf, Apr 18, 6:30pm

museums

Terwilliger House Museum ��Ellenville, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living ��Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing Celebrating Catskill Waters Past & Present ��Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing “Tibetan Costume: Fashion for Life on the Roof of the World” �� Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, thru Apr 30 “Peace, Love, Unity, Respect: The Rise of Electronic Music Culture in America” �� . Museum at Bethel Woods, Apr 4-May 31 “Colden Day” Property Tours, history �� Colden Mansion Ruins, Coldenham, Apr 26, 1pm-5pm

Music - Classical

Tobias Steymans violin, Victoria Schwartzman piano �� Newburgh Brewery, Apr 10, 7pm Kindred Spirits’ “Mostly Bach” benefit concert Church of the Good Shepherd, Milford, Apr 11, 7:30pm Greg Dinger guitar ��Ellenville Library, Apr 12, 2pm FREE Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Beethoven’s 9th, etc. �� Newburgh Free Academy, Apr 18, 7:30pm & Sugar Loaf PAC, Apr 19, 3:30pm Maybrook Wind Ensemble �� Maybrook Senior Center, Apr 24, 7pm FREE Potluck Concerts “European Fantasy” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Apr 24, 7:30pm David Friend classical & prepared piano ��SUNY Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, Apr 26, 3pm SUNY Orange Chamber Ensemble ��SUNY Orange Morrison Hall, Middletown, Apr 26, 3pm SUNY Orange Community Orchestra Gregg Michalak, piano �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 2, 7:30pm Classic Choral Society “Baroque with a Touch of Class(ical)” �� First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, May 2, 7:30pm FREE United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, May 3, 4pm FREE King of Kings Lutheran Church, New Windsor, May 9, 7:30pm FREE

music - jazz

Jazz Cat Lunch ��Dancing Cat Distillery, Bethel, Sundays, Noon The Nanga World Trio w/Latin flare ��Cilantro Tapas & Bar, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 7pm Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Catherine Russell w/Matt Munister, Mark Shane, Tal Ronen ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 28, 7pm Pete Levin Quartet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 29, 10am-2pm Expansions:The Dave Liebman Group, Dylan Maida �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 4, 7pm The Organ Grinders Jazz Trio �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 5, 10am-2pm Joe Lovano’s Trio Fascination, Judi Silvano & Michael Abene CD Release �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 11, 7:30pm Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Fundraiser ��Warwick Grove, Warwick, Apr 19, 2pm & 3:30pm Eric & Mary Ross “Ultimedia Concept” jazz-classical-serial �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 16, 7pm Taylor Eigsti Trio “Fallout Shelter” �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Apr 23, 7pm

opera

“Cavalleria Rusticana”& “I Pagliacci” Live from the Met in HD SUNY Sullivan, Apr 25, 12:30pm

poetry & prose readings

“Amplify Sound Concert Series” poets Decora & Gold, Neil Alexander �� Falcon, Mondays, 7pm Roger Aplon, Hayden Wayne ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Apr 2, 7pm Hudson River Poets ��Newburgh Library, Apr 2, 7pm FREE David Messineo, Mary Makofske Calling All Poets Center for Creative Education, Beacon, Apr 3, 8pm Barbara Adams �� Dominican Library, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, Apr 9, 4pm FREE Robert Milby �� Dominican Library, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, Apr 14, 4pm FREE Elizabeth Gordon slam poetry, Hudson River Poets ��Newburgh Library, Apr 16, 7pm FREE Alyta Adams, Jennifer Circosta, Robert Milby Poetry Cafe �� Florida Library, Apr 17, 7pm FREE Li-Young Lee & book signing �� Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Apr 18, 2pm Christi Shannon Kline Poetry at the Church �Goshen United Methodist Church, Apr 27, 7pm FREE Christopher P. Gazeent, Susan Hoover Calling All Poets Center for Creative Ed., Beacon, May 1, 8pm recreation & Dancing Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra ��Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing (Ballroom) ��MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 7:30pm, Dancing 8pm “The Catskill Club – Let’s Go to the Movies” silent film, games, gambling, dining �� The Sullivan, Rock Hill, Apr 11, 7pm Hudson Valley Polonaise Spring Polka Dance ��Polish League Hall, Pine Island, Apr 19, 2pm-6pm

storytelling

“Two Chairs Telling” improv style ��Florida Library, Mar 13, 7pm FREE

theatre - musical

“Sister Act: The Musical” ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Mar 8, 3pm

theatre - play

“Dancing at Lughnasa” Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall, Apr 11-26 “Peter & The Starcatcher” �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Apr 12, 3pm “The Real Housewives of Murder” Killing Kompany, dinner show �� West Point Club, Apr 17, 7pm “Next Year in Jerusalem” Hatmaker’s Attic play reading ��Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Apr 19, 5pm “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas, Amity Players play reading �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 26, 3pm FREE “The Crucible” Arthur Miller, Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� The Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, May 1-17 “I of the Storm” by & w/Richard Hoehler �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 2, 8pm

Schools & Conservatories

“Side By Side” Greater Newburgh Sym Orch & Newburgh Enlarged City Schools String Program Newburgh Free Academy, Mar 28, 3pm “Love & Other Drugs” SUNY Orange Apprentice Players �� Orange Hall, Middletown, Apr 10-19 “Book of Days” by Lanford Wilson, Mount St. Mary College students �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Apr 16-18, 7:30pm “Legally Blonde - The Musical” HS spring musical �� Cornwall High School, Apr 16-19 “Peter Pan” HS spring musical �� Port Jervis High School, Apr 16-19 “No No Nanette” HS spring musical ��Burke Catholic High School, Goshen, Apr 24-26 Orange County Arts Council All-County Dance Celebration ��Sugar Loaf PAC, Apr 26, 3pm Poetry Night with SUNY Sullivan Students ��Liberty Library, Apr 30, 6:30pm

master classes

“Blogging & Online Presentation for Creative Endeavors: How to Market Yourself as a Working Artist” Samantha Seeley SUNYO-RCSE Mar 30, 6pm “Sustainable Agriculture on the Hudson River through Hydroponics” Jennifer Sloan �� SUNY Orange, Tower Building Cafe, Newburgh, Apr 1, 7pm “Inspiration” Gail Godwin, author ��SUNYO Orange, Kaplan Hall, Apr 9, 10:15am “Working as Professional Classical Musicians on the International Scene” TRIO + musicians �� SUNYO-OH Apr 13, 10am “Modern Art: Why Does It Look Like That?” Martha Zola SUNYO Orange, Kaplan Hall, Apr 14, 6pm “Prepared Piano and 21st Century Music” David Friend ��SUNYO-OH Apr 27, 10am April 2015

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

APRIL BGRV ��United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, NY BW �� Event Gallery/Museum, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CALL Calling All Poets �� Center for Creative Education, Beacon CAS Catskill Arts Society �� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor CTMW CreativeTheatre-MuddyWaterPlayers...Museum Village, Monroe DCAT ��Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel

MONDAY

Please check the schedule for Gallery Art & Photography Opening Receptions, page 18

DOWN �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh DVAA �� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ��Senior Center, Montgomery GWL �� Greenwood Lake Library

TUESDAY

Cinema “The Theory of Everything” NFL 6:30pm

WEDNESDAY

Music-Gospel SALT & guests FAL 7pm

Local artist Gayle Clark Fedigan-Lisa HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY!

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Cinema “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar” Cornwall Library, Noon

Poetry & Music Decora, Gold, Neil Alexander FAL 7pm

Music Lost Leaders FAL 7pm “These Girls” by Olivia Baldwin On view through April 6, Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf

Poetry & Music Decora, Gold, Neil Alexander FAL 7pm

Cinema “A Walk in the Spring Rain” THRALL 3pm

Poetry Robert Milby MSM-DOM 4pm

Cinema “Temple Grandin” SUNYO-TBC 6pm Music - World-Guitar Pierre Bensusan FAL 7pm

Music Willy Porter & Carmen Nickerson Duo FAL 7pm

Poetry & Music Decora, Gold, Neil Alexander FAL 7pm

Poetry Christi Shannon Kline Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm Poetry & Music Decora, Gold, Neil Alexander FAL 7pm

22 Music Leni Stern African Trio FAL 7pm

Music Jeremy Baum’s Soul Jazz Blues Quartet FAL 7pm “Colleoni by Verrocchio, Venice” by Franc Palaia; on view through April 4, RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

April 2015

THURSDAY

Cinema..“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”.SUNYO-HH 6:15pm Cinema................... Reel Eclectic Film Series............... THRALL 7pm Poetry..................Roger Aplon, Hayden Wayne............... NOBL 7pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Music - Folk........... Clark “Big Kitty” Williams............... SLGMN 7pm Music - Blues.....Chris O’Leary Band, Studio Stu.................FAL 7pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm Music...............................Yarn.........Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon 7:30pm

Music - Blues Carolyn Wonderland, Shelley King FAL 7pm

Poetry Franklin Schneider Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

IKE �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point JEST ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester MISU Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster �� St. John’s Episcopal Ch, Ellenville MSM-AQ ��Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh MSM-DC ��Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Balmville MSM-DOM ��Dominican Center Library, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh

NFL �� NOBL �� NVM �� PT �� RITZ �� SCCC ��

Music - African............ Poetry...............Dav

Music.SteveSchwart

Poetry............................. Barbara Adams.................. MSM-DOM 4pm Music - Blues.......Slam Allen CD Release Party...................FAL 7pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm

Music - Blues-Fink-

Music - Classical.T.S

Comedy............. Ri Music..................................... Theatre - Play............

Poetry..Alyta Adam Theatre - Play..........

Holistic.........Drumming Circle.. The Bodhi Tree, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Theatre - Play.......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 7pm Music............. Rhonda Denet “From Jazz to Soul”............GWL 7pm Poetry.................Elizabeth Gordon Slam Poetry................. NFL 7pm Music - Jazz.... Eric & Mary Ross “Ultimedia Concept”......FAL 7pm Theatre-Play.... “Book of Days” by Lanford Wilson..MSM-AQ 7:30pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm

Music..Roswell Ru Theatre-Play.... “Bo Holistic............. Kim Music - Gypsy-Ame Theatre - Play............

Music.............................Taylor Eigsti Trio ............................FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm

Music - Rock-Countr Music - Classical........ Music - Classical...P

Music - Americana-Folk.....The Trapps, Carl Mateo Band ....FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm

Theatre - Play...... “ Poetry..........Christ

Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio. Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm

Dinner-Theatre.”The

Theatre - Play..........

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��Newburgh Free Library ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall ��Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville ��Paramount Theatre, Middletown ��Lobby at the Ritz Theater, Newburgh ��SUNY Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake

FRIDAY

............Tal National, M’Bollo..........................FAL 7pm vid Messineo, Mary Makofske............. CALL 8pm

SLGMN ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SLPAC ��Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center ST ��Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville STORM ��Storm King Art Center, Mountainville SUNYO-HH ��SUNY Orange, Harriman Hall, Middletown SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh

SATURDAY

Music - Jazz.......Dave Liebman Group, Dylan Maida........ JEST 8pm Comedy............. Tom McTiernan, John Iavarone.............. JEST 8pm

SUNYO-MM �� SUNY Orange, Morrison Mansion, Middletown SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown SUNYO-TBC ��SUNY Orange, Tower Building Cafe, Newburgh THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TUST ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg UUC �� Unitarian Universalist Coffeehouse, Rock Tavern

SUNDAY

Music - Roots-Rock........ ...Buffalo Stack.................... FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.................... Jazz Cat Lunch..........................DCAT Noon Music.......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon.Noon-2pm

Conferece.........19th Annual Women’s Conference......SCCC all day Fundraiser........Friends of Walden Youth..Wooster Grove, 9am-4pm Cinema.......................“Dear White People”.................... NFL 1:30pm Music................Rob Paparozzi’s “Good Old Boys”.. FAL 10am-2pm Cinema......... “Sons of the Desert” Laurel & Hardy.............. ST 2pm Music - Jazz.................... Jazz Cat Lunch..........................DCAT Noon tz,RenataDaria&FirebrandBand.Albella,Monticello, 7pm Music-JazzJoeLovano,TrioFasincation,JudiSilvano&Michael Abene. FAL 7:30pm Fundraiser..GNSO Benefit Brunch..Powelton Club, Newburgh, Noon -Soul ...Bruce Katz Band, Fillet of Soul...FAL 7pm Fundraiser...Tennessee Williams Dinner..71 Old Inn Road, Cragsmoor, 7pm Music.......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon.Noon-2pm Steymans & V.Schwartzman.Newburgh Brewery, 7pm Recreation..Catskill Club film, dining, gambling.The Sullivan Rock Hill 7pm ich Voss & Bonnie McFarlane........... SLPAC 8pm Fundraiser..Liberty Library English Tea..Lazy Pond B&B, Liberty, 1pm Theatre - Play.......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 7pm ..................................... Kansas...................................... PT 8pm Music - Classical......... ...Greg Dinger guitar..... Ellenville Library, 2pm Music-Classical.Kindred Spirits.Ch. of Good Shepherd, Milford, 7:30pm ............“Love & Other Drugs”............SUNYO-OH 8pm Theatre - Play.......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 2pm Music -Folk........... Keith Jordan, Pat Lamanna.............. UUC 7:30pm Theatre - Play.........“Peter & the Starcatcher”...................... IKE 3pm Music................................ The Crackers............................ DCAT 8pm Theatre - Play............“Love & Other Drugs”............SUNYO-OH 3pm Music - Caribbean-Rock........M.A.K.U. Sound System........ RITZ 8pm Music...Jeff Penque & Karen Fairweather “Dynamic Duos”..NFL 3pm Theatre - Play............“Love & Other Drugs”............SUNYO-OH 8pm Comedy................ Joey Kola, Jerrold Benford.................. JEST 8pm

ms, Jennifer Circosta, R. Milby.. Florida Lib., 7pm .......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 7pm

e Real Housewives of Murder”.West Point Club 7pm

udd & Heather Masse “Sonic Embrace..FAL 7pm ook of Days” by Lanford Wilson..MSM-AQ 7:30pm m Russo “The Happy Medium”.......... SLPAC 8pm ericana........The Vine Brothers............. DCAT 8pm ............“Love & Other Drugs”............SUNYO-OH 8pm

Poetry................... Li-Young Lee......................... STORM 2pm Cabaret..................Broadway Concerts Direct.................BGRV 6pm Theatre - Play.......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 7pm Fundraiser.....................Onze Card Party......Cragsmoor Library, 7pm Music -Pop-Jazz-Rock.Ed Palermo Big Band,Rob Paparozzi.FAL 7pm Music...........................Music for Humanity.................. NOBL 7:30pm Music - Classical......Greater Newburgh Symph. Orch.... NFA 7:30pm Music - R&R-Blues-R&B.... Bob Malone..........................TUST 7:30pm Theatre-Play.... “Book of Days” by Lanford Wilson..MSM-AQ 7:30pm Music............... Mary Chapin Carpenter & Lúnasa............... BW 8pm Music........... Doug Rogers & The Backseat Drivers........ DCAT 8pm Theatre - Play............“Love & Other Drugs”............SUNYO-OH 8pm Comedy...............Brad Lowery, Seymour Swan................ JEST 8pm

Music - Gospel-Blues..Alexis P. Suter & Ministers of Sound.FAL 10am-2pm

Music - Jazz.................... Jazz Cat Lunch..........................DCAT Noon Fundraiser.Hudson Valley Jazz Festival.Warwick Grove, 2pm & 3:30pm Music..................Doug Rogers......Cafe Devine, Callicoon.Noon-2pm Recreation.Spring Polka Dance.Polish League Hall, Pine Island, 2pm-6pm

Theatre - Play............“Love & Other Drugs”............SUNYO-OH 3pm Music - Classical....Greater Newburgh Symph. Orch...SLPAC 3:30pm Theatre - Play Reading........”Next Year in Jerusalem”........ RITZ 5pm Music...............Larry Moses’ Latin Jazz Explosion..............FAL 7pm

Opera.......“Cavalleria Rusticana” & “I Pagliacci”....SCCC 12:30pm

Music - Blues... ...The Blues Farm . ............... FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz....... Jazz Cat Lunch..........................DCAT Noon .......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 7pm Fundraiser.Yale Whiffenpoofs, NYSwing Exch..Palacio, Goshen 6:30pm Museum..”Colden Day Tours”..Colden Ruins, Coldenham, 1pm-5pm ry-Jazz Jim Campilongo Trio, Seth Adam..FAL 7pm Theatre - Play.......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 7pm Theatre - Play.......... “Dancing at Lughnasa”................... GOSH 2pm ........Maybrook Wind Ensemble......Senior Center, 7pm Music - DooWop....Larry Chance & the Earls, S.A.Reeves... PT 7pm Music - Classical.......... David Friend piano...............SUNYO-OH 3pm Potluck Concerts..Cornwall Presbyterian Ch., 7:30pm Music............. Mike & Annie Baglione and Friends....... NVM 7:30pm Music - Classical.....SUNYO Chamber Ensemble.... SUNYO-MM 3pm Music - Blues...................Duke Robillard......................... SLPAC 8pm Theatre - Play Reading.... .“Under Milk Wood”.............. THRALL 3pm Comedy........... Isaacs & Baker, David Rosenblatt............ JEST 8pm Cinema..............”Into the Arms of Strangers”....Florida Library, 3pm Music....................................Howie Day ................................FAL 7pm

“The Crucible” Arthur Miller...............CTMW 8pm topher P. Gazeent, Susan Hoover........ CALL 8pm

Fundraiser........Tricky Tray...Mulberry House, Middletown, Noon-3pm Cinema.......... “Angle On My Shoulder” Paul Muni............... ST 2pm Music - Country.............. Thunderbird 10.... Monticello Raceway, 6pm Music - Jazz.................... Jazz Cat Lunch..........................DCAT Noon Music - Classical.Classic Choral Society.First Presby Ch., Goshen, 7:30pm Music.......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon.Noon-2pm Music - Classical...SUNY Orange Community Orchestra .PT 7:30pm Theatre - Play...... “The Crucible” Arthur Miller...............CTMW 3pm Comedy............... Rob Falcone, Marion Grodin................. JEST 8pm Music- Classical.Classic Choral Society.United Ch. of Christ, B.Grove, 4pm Theatre - Play...... “The Crucible” Arthur Miller...............CTMW 8pm Theatre -Play.................. “I of the Storm”...........................TUST 8pm

April 2015

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Art exhibits

CAS ��Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DVAA ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WRS �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Group Show ��Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings ��BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ��Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Lana Privitera paintings ��Blazing Bagels Cafe, Montgomery, ongoing Furniture, sculpture, ceramics, woodburnings ��Once A Tree, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Cynthia Strunsky McLean “Piece Together Peace” ��CAS thru Mar 29 David Munford ��Livingston Manor Library, thru Mar 31 “ISMS” group show ��Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, thru Apr 1 Ashlie Blake mixed media �� Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, thru Apr 3 Photobook Show and Book Signing ��RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Apr 4 Olivia Baldwin “Exotic, Fur, etc.” �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Apr 6 “The Ladies in Beacon: 20 collages” �� The Gallery at Dream in Plastic, Beacon, thru Apr 6 Jeffrey Parker collage �� DVAA thru Apr 11 “Spring” WRS members group show �� WRS thru Apr 14 Sullivan ARC Expressions �� DVAA thru Apr 18 CMFY-Creatives, Mamas, Friends & Yahoos group show �� Howland Library, Beacon, thru Apr 25 Denise & Ed Burkhart “Imagine Alpacas” �� Rolling River Cafe & Gallery, Parksville, thru Apr 26 “Comfort and Color: Orange County Quilts” ��ORMC, Middletown, thru Apr 30 “It’s ok to be a realist” group show ��Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru May 2 Debbie Gioello ”Art on Art” �� Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, thru May 19 Joan Kehlenbeck “Spring Triptychs” ��Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, thru May 19 Susan Miiler “Spring Florals” �� Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, Wednesdays, thru May 19 Martha Zola “The Newburgh Paintings” ��SUNYO-KH thru May 21 Brenda Scott Harburger, Margaret Drake, “Artists of Excellence” sculptures �� SUNYO-KH thru May 27 Always Searching” (art rotates throughout the year) Michael Byro, Janet Howard-Fatta, & �� Billie Robson, Craig Wettstein Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern thru Aug 2015 NEW ART EXHIBITS

Corey Pane “Brief Encounters” ��Space Create, Newburgh, Mar 28, 6pm-9pm Steel Plant Creative “Raw Refections” group show �� Global Recycling, Newburgh, Mar 28-Apr 4 Joan Lesikin “Bodyscapes” ��Healing Arts Gallery, Ellenville Hospital, Mar 30-May 22 Gene Bove & Mitchell Saler “Along the Farm Art Trail”, Vicki Botta �� WRS Apr 1-30 William Winters, Jr. ��Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, Apr 1-30 Toni Quest “Actualized” ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Apr 1-May 31 Joe Splendora & Wendell Upchurch paintings ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 7-TBD Community Art Show �� Newburgh Library, April Lynne Digby and Susan Sciaretta paintings ��Amity Gallery, Pine Island, Apr 4-26 Frank Shuback “Hard Evidence” ��CAS Apr 4-May 31 Photography & Graphics, Realism Paintings juried group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, Apr 8-30 “Floral” WRS members group show �� WRS Apr 15-May 14 “Celebrating: 10 Years and Growing Strong” �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 12-26 Alan Wood “Fool’s Gold” paintings �� DVAA Apr 17-May 9 Bruce Young graphite portraiture, pen & ink, architecture ��Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, Apr 19-Jul Maryann Maffei ��Artology Studio, New Windsor, Apr 18-24 The Artists of New Hope Community ��CAS Apr 25-May3 “Art About Water” group shows �� see page 24, Newburgh, Apr 25-May 3 Nancy Pitcher paintings ��Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 1- Jun 26 “Art in Bloom” group show �� The Barn at Elm Lake, Middletown, May 2 & 3 Flavia Bacarella woodcuts �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 2-31

Photography exhibits

Markie Baylash “My Heroes Have Always Been Strong Women” Howland Library, Beacon, thru Mar 8 Richard Hirschman “Slice of Life” �� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, thru Mar 29 Kathleen Downey “Classy Camera Clicks” �� Newburgh Brewing Company, thru Mar 31 Armand Agresti “The Rich and the Poor” �� Cafe Devine, Callicoon, thru Apr 27 Nancy Hopping �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Apr 28 NEW photography EXHIBITS

Photography & Graphics, Realism Paintings juried group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, Apr 8-30 18

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ART & Photography receptions

Sullivan County High School Show �� CAS Mar 28, 11am-2pm Steel Plant Creative “Raw Refections” group show �� Global Recycling, Newburgh, Mar 28, 5pm Corey Pane “Brief Encounters” ��Space Create, Newburgh, Mar 28, 6pm-9pm Joan Lesikin “Bodyscapes” ��Healing Arts Gallery, Ellenville Hospital, Mar 30, 5pm-7pm Lynne Digby and Susan Sciaretta paintings ��Amity Gallery, Pine Island, Apr 4, 1pm-4pm Frank Shuback “Hard Evidence” �� CAS Apr 4, 4pm-6pm SUNY Orange Student Exhibition “ARTiculate” �� SUNYO-OH Apr 8, 2pm-4pm William Winters, Jr. �� Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, Apr 11, Noon-2;30pm Gene Bove & Mitchell Saler “Along the Farm Art Trail”, Vicki Botta �� WRS Apr 11, 5pm-7pm Beacon Second Saturday ��All Main Street Galleries, Apr 11, 5pm-8pm Photography & Graphics, Realism Paintings juried group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, Apr 11, 5:30pm-7:30-m Community Art Show ��Newburgh Library, Apr 12, 2pm “Celebrating: 10 Years and Growing Strong” �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 12, 2pm-4pm Alan Wood “Fool’s Gold” paintings ��DVAA Apr 17, 7pm-9pm Toni Quest “Actualized” ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Apr 18, 1pm-4pm Maryann Maffei ��Artology Studio, New Windsor, Apr 18, 4:30pm-7:30pm Bruce Young portraiture, pen & ink, architecture ��Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, Apr 19, 5pm-7pm The Artists of New Hope Community �� CAS Apr 23, 6pm-8pm “Art About Water” group shows ��see page 24, Newburgh, Apr 25, 6pm-9pm “Art in Bloom” group show ��The Barn at Elm Lake, Middletown, May 2 & 3, 11am-5pm Nancy Pitcher paintings �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 2, 5pm-7pm Flavia Bacarella woodcuts �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 2, 4pm-7pm

Schools & Conservatories

Sullivan County High School Show ��CAS Mar 28-Apr. 19 SUNY Orange Student Exhibition “ARTiculate” �� SUNYO-OH Apr 3-May 4

DEMOS

Wallkill River School Teaching Artists ��WRS Mar 28, 5pm-7pm Woodcarving Demonstration Mount St.Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Apr 8, 6:30pm Glass Blowing Demos ��Gillinder Glass, Port Jervis, Apr 11, 10am-3pm “Cooking With John” John Moultrie, “Spring Dishes” ��Newburgh Library, Apr 25, 1pm

books - Discussions/Readings /siGNings

Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group �� Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Book Discussion Group ��Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm “1776” by David McCullough ��Cornwall Library, Apr 1, 7pm “Mad House:The Hidden History of Insane Asylums in 19th-Century New York” Michael Keene Thrall Library, Middletown, Apr 7, 6:30pm “Blue Covenant” The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water” �� by Maude Barlow, w/Paul Basinskini SUNY Orange Gilman Center, Middletown, Apr 8, 7pm “Death of Ivan Ilych” Tolstoy, w/Jess Gerson ��Newburgh Library, Apr 15, 7pm Elizabeth Gordon slam poet ��Newburgh Library, Apr 16, 7pm Li-Young Lee poet �� Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Apr 18, 2pm Great Books Discussion ��Newburgh Library, Apr 24, 11:30am “Tu Es Ma Belle” by Jerrice Jean Baptiste ��Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Apr 27, 6:30pm “A Moveable Feast” Hemingway, w/Patty Sussman ��Newburgh Library, Apr 28, 2pm

children & Teens Calendar

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

books

“Love That Dog” by Sharon Creech, grades 3 & 4 ��Cornwall Library, Apr 20, 4:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night grades 5-12 �� Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE Teen Movie ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Apr 4, 2:30pm FREE entertainment

“Phantom of the Opera” dir. Joyce Presutti �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Mar 27-29 Museums

Meet the Animal of the Week ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Marvelous Moths Exhibit & Caterpillars �� HHNM CoH Apr 2-4, Noon-4pm Eco-Zone �� PEEC Apr 4 & 19, 1pm-4pm recreation & Lectures - see also lectures on page 14

Teen Painting Drop-in ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 1pm “Marvelous Moths” ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm “Bunnies” Pam Golbin & Lisa Mechaley �� HHNM Apr 4, 9:30am & 11am “Salamanders, Frogs & More!” outdoors ��PEEC Apr 11 & 26, 1pm

Parksville USA Music Festival 2015

Now in its third year, the “The Western Hemisphere will Parksville USA 2015 Music be well represented with a Mexican Festival opens with Around the song and some Broadway favorites, World with the Lyric Quartet. too. All of it beautiful music,” added Take a trip with soprano Caltabellotta. Kathryn Wieckhorst, tenor Kathryn Wieckhorst made her Michael Celentano basso Tom international debut in Greece as Caltabellotta and pianist Keira Kathryn Wieckhorst Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte at the Weyant to Jerusalem (via Italy), Festival of the Aegean in Syros, and Mexico, Austria, Spain, and back to after the show Kathryn will be off to Broadway. sing once again in Greece where her I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata husband will be directing an opera. (The departure of the Lombards A former resident artist of Trifor the Crusade) is an operatic Cities Opera in Binghamton, “dramma lirico” by Giuseppe Michael Celentano recently received Verdi. His fourth opera, in 1847 Michael Celentano his Masters of Music in Opera at it was significantly revised to SUNY Binghamton University. become Verdi’s first grand opera for Tom and Keira are well known performances in French at the Paris and top favorites at many Sullivan Opera under the title of Jérusalem. venues, including Delaware Valley “The opera contains a wonderful Opera, Forestburgh Playhouse trio,” explained Caltabellotta, “and and Sullivan County Community we will include that in our 2015 Chorus. Festival opening.” “And we are offering our audience Tom Caltabellotta In addition to the trio, there will a COMPLIMENTARY full buffet be a Spanish duet By the Light of the dinner following the performance Moon, a visit to Granada, and then with no extra charge,” master chef to Vienna, the City of My Dreams Tom happily exclaimed. by Rudolf Sieczyński whose fame Be sure to reserve your space today rests on the nostalgic song early for the performance and buffet which he wrote in 1914, and was on April 19 at 3:00pm at the Dead featured in the soundtrack of the Keira Weyant End Cafe, 6 Main Street, Parksville. Stanley Kubrick 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. Call 845-292-0400.

May I Have A Word With You...Language and its Oddities with Carol Pozefsky

Find the Oxymoron An adoring son seeks revenge on the mafia when his father turns up missing.

From the book, Words You Should Know to Sound Smart The rock group incurred opprobrium when they wrecked their room at the St. Regis Hotel. Opprobrium is disgrace brought on by outrageously shameful behavior. Old Time Hollywood Speaks Mickey Rooney: “I was a 14 year old boy for 30 years.” Mickey Rooney again, who was married 8 times: “It’s confusing. I’ve had so many wives and so many children I don’t know which house to go to first on Christmas.” Burt Reynolds on retiring from films: “You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.” Robert Mitchum on maintaining his success in Hollywood: “Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I’m constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.” Spencer Tracy’s favorite advice to young actors: “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

George Sanders, suicide note: “I am leaving because I am bored.” Your Name was WHAT?! Shawn Michaels was born Michael Higgenbottom. Macho Man John Wayne’s birth name was Marion Morrison. Michael Caine was Maurice Micklewhite. Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Banji. Where Have All The Teachers Gone? We came across an informal online survey entitled: Songs With The Best Lyrics. High on the list was rapper Eminem’s song Lose Yourself. Fans of the song explained their choices: “Listen to this before voting for all the other craps. Eminem is GOD!” (sic) “Defintely best song with lyrics it always pumps blood within my body truly ispirational song” (sic) One voter chose rock group Nine Inch Nail’s song, Hurt and wrote: “This is an amazing straight forward lyrics” (sic) Are we laughing at these missteps? No, we’re crying. Are we out of touch, outdated and out of the loop? Yes. Are we widely and wildly outnumbered? Yes.

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Judi Dench in Florida

Whispering Pines The History of Easter Easter is the time of Spring festivals, a time to welcome back the tulips, crocuses and daffodils. It is a time of new suits, new dresses and patent leather shoes. A time for Christians to celebrate the life and resurrection of Christ. Don’t forget the chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and colored eggs! Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian “Ostra” and the Teutonic “Ostern” or “Eastre,” both Goddesses of mythology signifying Spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored Easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter egg rolling contests or given as gifts. The celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity. The Christian celebration embodies a number of traditions with emphasis on the relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover from

Cooking with Chef Douglas Frey which is derived Pasch, another name used by Europeans for Easter. Passover is an important feast in the Jewish calendar and commemorates the flight and freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets.Easter is observed by the churches of the West on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or following the spring equinox. Here are some of my favorite recipes for Easter Sunday. Enjoy! Easter Ham

7-8 lb fully cooked smoked ham shank 1 c maple syrup 2 T cider vinegar 1 T prepared mustard a/n whole cloves

Combine syrup, vinegar, mustard. Place ham, fat side up, on rack in shallow roasting pan. Pour about ½ cup mixture over ham and bake, uncovered, in a preheated 325 degree oven for 1 1/2 hours. Baste every 30 minutes with sauce. Remove ham from oven and score fat into diamond shapes. Insert clove into each diamond.

Bake ham an additional 30 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of meat registers 140 degrees. Let ham rest 15 minutes before carving. Babka (Polish Easter Bread) 2 c flour ½ c sugar 1 package yeast ½ c milk boiled mix ½ c margarine 3 whole eggs, room temp 1 can raisins, seedless ½ c brown sugar 1/3 c water, boiled 1/4 c rum, boiled 3/4 c flour and yeast, boiled

Combine milk and margarine in a sauce pan till WARM only and pour into bowl. Add remaining DRY ingredients and Beat for 2 minutes in electric mixer, add eggs 1 at a time and up to a ½ cup flour to make a thick batter and then beat for an additional 2 minutes. Cover and let rise till doubled. Stir in raisins and turn out into a 2 quart greased tube pan. Let rise uncovered for 30 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Before removing from pan and while still hot from the oven, prick to with a fork and pour rum syrup over cake. As always, for any of your culinary questions or needs, I can be reached at 845-647-1428.

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During the nine months prior to World War II, 10,000 children were placed in foster homes and hostels in Great Britain. Some built new family ties. Some endured the Blitz. Some, amazingly, found ways to liberate their own parents from Hitler’s tyranny. And all have unforgettable stories to tell. Florida resident Linda Dubin partners with the Florida Library to present an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day with a new topic each year. She will host this year’s program and introduce the featured movie, Into the Arms of Strangers, stories of the “Kindertransport” (Child Transport) narrated by Judi Dench (photo right). From Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer (whose mother was one of the 10,000 children), comes an Oscar winning documentary filled with rare archival footage and featuring gripping remembrances by the child survivors, rescuers and parents of the heroic Kindertransport. Discussion will follow the film with coffee, tea and dessert provided. This program, suitable for adults & teens, is on April 26 at 1:00pm at 4 Cohen Circle. Admittance is free. To register, call the library at 845-651-7659.

It Takes a Village by J. A. Di Bello “Friendship in Walden,” what is it? A brand or perhaps even a label? And how might a casual observer recognize it? Imagine for a moment, famed radio personality Garrison Keillor as he is imagined to wax poetic on the subject and the unique characteristics of a village called Walden, a village that straddles the banks of a meandering kill: Walden, New York, Where the kill flows north, The Women are strong And Village’s youth are its Most cherished possession. Radio-land ditties, as above, are inviting and cute, but meaning requires action and the Friends of Walden Youth, spearheaded by a vigorous Brenda Adams, is an energetic, purposeful organization designed for the expressed cause of “working to enhance and subsidize youth programs in Walden.” To that end, the group’s past fund raising activities “have purchased and contributed to playground equipment at Olley Park, toys for the Mom and Tots program, TV and games for the teen center and last year an automated external defibrillator (AED) for Olley Park, where the summer camp

program takes place.” About a decade or so ago, Mary Jean “Midge” Norman, a much loved and now deceased Village Trustee, conspired with other village residents to increase the activities available to the youth of the village. Her theory, supported by educators, parent organizations and others, asserted that youngsters whose daily activities consumed high quantities of energy and creativity would, as a result, be more socially compatible than those who saved their energy and creativity for “mischief.” To that well founded purpose the group initially assisted with the Halloween costume contest, dances, and participated in the Make-A-Wish program. Currently the group is known to all as the Friends of Walden Youth. To extend its mission of providing activities for the youth of Walden, it will sponsor the 10th Annual Indoor Yard Sale on April 12, from 9:00am to 4:00pm. This highly anticipated event will include crafts and raffles as its location will be the John Howland Youth Center, Wooster Grove, 89 East Route 52, Walden. To donate merchandise, reserve a vendor spot or ask for additional information, contact Anita (845-778-7772); Becky (845-527-1221); or Brenda (845-778-4028).

Amity Llareggubians Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Dylan Thomas (photo) that was later adapted for the stage and film. Welsh place names often begin with "Llan" (meaning Church - more correctly, a holy site). In Thomas’ “play for voices” an omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing village Llareggub (“bugger all” backwards.) They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town awakens and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business. A reading of Under Milk Wood, by the Amity Players takes place at Thrall Library, 11-19 Depot Street, Middletown, on April 26 at 3:00pm. Admission is free. For information: 845-258-6030.

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A Quest in Art at Karpeles Museum

A versatile painter, science, spirituality, and sculptor, poet, and the arts. This event led to educator who employs a speaking engagement her creative gifts to at Columbia University, explore both outer form where she moderated and inner significance, a discussion on Toni Quest holds a BFA environmental issues for in communication arts the Global Foundation and a masters degree for Environmental in adult education. Management. She was named a She currently hosts the leading new artist by weekly cable program the Westchester Arts Talk with TQ, where she Council, and selected to interviews people from display her work in the all walks of life. Through Young Emerging Artists her art and her poetry, Toni looking back at Joan (Rivers) exhibition, in 2006. she defines her goal as “to provoke thought and That year, her award-winning painting U.S in inspire communication about our relationships US was licensed for the cover of the book View with others and the world around us.” from the Middle of the Road, Vol. II, U.S. in Us, an The public is invited to meet the artist at anthology of African-American poets including a reception for her exhibit, Actualized at the a selection of her own work. Her poetry is also Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on featured in the third volume of the series, Quest April 18, 1:00pm-4:00pm. The show runs from of Knowledge. April 2-May 31. In 2008 she hosted her own talk show, and Karpeles is located at 94 Broadway, Newburgh. the next year was called on to moderate a panel Admission is always FREE. For additional discussion in New York City on the synergy of information, call 845-569-4997.

Sugar Loaf: “My Wife Hates Me”

Best known from NBC’s hit reality show Last Comic Standing, Rich Vos is one of the most exciting and broadest headlining comedians in the country. The excitement of a Rich Vos show stems from his no-holds-barred perspective on relationships, divorce and parenthood. On many occasions, he will deliver some of the quickest crowd banter, leaving audiences not knowing what to expect next. Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, Vos struggled to beat drug and alcohol addictions. He now celebrates his victories on stage with stories about kids, divorce, marriage and recovery. When he is not on the road, he can be seen regularly at Caroline’s and The Comedy Cellar as well as other clubs in New York City, which he calls home. Bonnie McFarlane did her first open mic in Vancouver, Canada. The manager of the club told her she should enter a contest, The Search

for Canada’s Funniest New Comic. She did, and she won. She moved to New York, where she landed a manager, an agent, and taped her first half-hour special, which aired on Comedy Central. Bonnie went on to participate in the second season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing and became one of the show’s stand-out characters, which led to an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Painfully honest and brutally funny married comedians Rich and Bonnie will give you a glimpse into their lives as they vent about the industry, everyday life and each other in My Wife Hates Me, a comedy show that combines all of the bickering of a husband and wife with the sharp wit of two cutting edge comedians. They will attack your funny bones at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1391 Kings Highway on April 10 at 8:00pm. For tickets: 800-745-3000.

It’s That Time Again! Get the Park Ready!

The Downing and summer events Park Planning and activities. Committee is If interested in looking for Quite taking part in this a Few Good community service Women and Men to initiative, contact volunteer their time committee member for Downing Park’s Tony Scully at 845annual Spring 534-5506, ext. 204. Cleanup! And don’t forget: The public is Newburgh Free Academy Junior ROTC students be sure to ask more than welcome about the April 18 who volunteered to clean up the park in 2012 to share in readying the Park for its spring Butterfly Garden creation! 22

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Baroque with a Touch of Class(ical)

by Derek Leet If “baroque” can suggest “ornate”, perhaps ornate is another way to describe Classic Choral Society’s (CCS) Spring Program. Artistic Director / Conductor Donna Kushner Lauren Buono Jeanne Fox Ruthanne Schempf Janiece Kohler, who has built an Donna Kushner (violin), Cynthia Lehrer enthusiastic and loyal following among Orange (violin; photo not shown), Lauren Buono County’s choral community over the past 30 (viola), and Jeanne Fox (cello), and years, has cleverly compiled an opulently pianist Ruthanne Schempf (continuo) will ornate and luminous list of wondrous works accompany on all but M. Haydn’s a cappella for us, including choral compositions by THE work Christus Factus Est. CCS veterans Aileen three Baroque masters Vivaldi, Telemann and Mahoney (soprano), Kristine MacMillin Purcell for CCS’ early May concerts. (mezzo-soprano), Robert Pollsen (baritone), To give the concert a touch of class(ical), and Jeffrey Knight (bass) will be soloists for she has added works by Mozart and Johann Purcell’s O Sing Unto the Lord. Michael Haydn, the latter known for being the The concerts will be on May 2 at 7:30pm in actual composer of Mozart’s Symphony # 37! the First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, May (Franz-Joseph Haydn had two younger brothers 3 at 4:00pm in CCS’ “home” since 1959, the named Johann. Johann Evangelist Haydn was United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove a tenor singer of the era. Ergo, to differentiate and May 9 at 7:30pm in the King of Kings between them, the common usage of simply Lutheran Church in New Windsor. “Michael Haydn”). Free admission; good will donations will be Hudson Valley String Quartet members collected.

Winters’ Work in Ellenville

A man of many trades, William Winters, Jr. was at one time a sign painter for regional businesses and began his career as a commercial artist. Winters strives to keep the past alive with his paintings of historic buildings, barns and rural scenes. Many views would be lost without his oil renderings, set in wooden frames he makes by hand, giving them a simple setting that supports the historic feel he wants to cultivate. Winters is an amateur history buff who, in addition to painting, hosts websites he’s created to help celebrate it and encourage interest in it. “We often find ourselves frustrated by complex social and economic demands,” writes Winters. “We don’t often take the time to savor the daily joys of living. If we look back we may discover the peace and serenity of the good life. The relics of that

“Log Pulling” by William Winters, Jr.

time are all around us...” The Early Years, an exhibit of work by Winters is at the Ellenville Public Library & Museum’s Gallery Link, 40 Center Street, throughout the month of April. A reception will be held on April 11, Noon -2:30pm. For more information, call 845-647-5530.

Cragsmoor Artist’s Exhibit in Ellenville Hospital

Cragsmoor artist Joan Lesikin: “I think one important function of art is to disrupt the commonplace. I want my work to provoke the viewer to regard everyday objects - whether animate or inanimate - in a new way. I hope my art also functions to kindle viewers’ humor, stimulate their intelligence, and provide them with a rich visual palette and technical dexterity.

These functions are both my artistic challenges and goals.” Joan’s work is in numerous collections in the U.S. and abroad, and is presently represented by Hudson River Editions. She will have an exhibit of her paintings and works on paper at Ellenville Regional Hospital’s Healing Art Gallery, 10 Healthy Way, Ellenville, thru May 22. For info: 845-647-6400.

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Newburgh Last Saturdays in April Realism started in mid-nineteenth century France, as an art movement that was based on accurate observations and descriptive realism drawn from life to produce an illusion of reality. The nineteenth century artist Courbet headed this movement and crafted the Realist Manifesto, which claimed to represent the common people and their circumstances, encourage artistic freedom and self-expression, while looking to nature as the source of inspiration. Safe Harbors of the Hudson’s Ann Street Gallery presents It’s ok to be a Realist, a new exhibition highlighting a group of sixteen artists whose work demonstrates the range and depth of the Realist tradition while adhering to traditional artistic values. The works in this exhibit feature a plethora of themes with exemplary paintings, drawings, and sculptures of a new Realist movement. These new movements of Realist artists are returning to those traditional concepts of the earlier academies and expressions of reality. Their works are bound by a shared common aesthetic, one associated with the traditional values and techniques of the old masters. More importantly, their works are expressions of personal human experiences and timely subject matter which deserves merit not only for technical skill, but the artist’s ability to universalize those experiences. Curated by Virginia Walsh, Director and Curator of exhibitions at Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, the exhibition is on view there through May 2. The gallery also stays open for Newburgh Last Saturdays from 5:00pm-8:00pm. For more information, call 845-784-1146.

“Birdboy” by Jason John

Art About Water: FORUM & EXHIBIT Water is the essential component of all life. We are becoming a much thirstier world. By 2025, more than half of the nations in the world will face freshwater stress or shortages. One thing is clear: the availability of water will be a key driver in the development of the world’s economy and government policies in the next decade. It is inevitable that WATER is destined to become an even more prized commodity and likely source of conflict in our world. Art About Water is part art exhibition, part community awareness to bring attention to the importance of water. Art About Water is collaborating with SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs & Sustainability Departments. “The establishment of a public forum will take place at Kaplan Hall, engaging the community with a comprehensive overview of water in conversation with experts, artists, activists and scholars to explore the value of water,” writes curator Gerard Castro. The public awareness Forum will take place on April 24, 5:00pm to 8:00pm, in Kaplan Hall, at SUNY Orange, First & Grand Streets, cosponsored by Cultural Affairs and Sustainability Departments. Call 845-341-9386. Castro has arranged for exhibits in which artists envision the mysteries of Water, the Raw Reflections “There is an exhibit Raw Reflections at various conditions of the state of Water, its Global Recycling. It’s a collaboration with beauty, environmental / man’s impact on it, Global Recycling, Marist College and Steel a mythological view, spiritual feeling, socioeconomic views, its healing Plant Creative, very cool!”, and nourishing properties said Lisa Gervais of Healing or the disruption of Water Arts Studio. by governmental policies, Steel Plant Creative is a offering attendees a compelling contemporary arts collective discourse about Water. of painters, designers, Art About Water includes writers, and sculptors based works of fifty artists at four in Poughkeepsie. They work venues, April 25 to May 3. together to provide each other Newburgh Art Supply, 5 with support, creativity, and Grand Street; ingenuity. Healing Arts Studio, 75 At their upcoming show, Broadway; Raw Reflections at Global Create, 115 Recycling, Inc. 107 Liberty Art courtesy of www.Artaboutwater.org Space Street, the artists will all create a photo self- Broadway; Teran Studio, 119 Broadway. portrait using recycled materials. All of the Last Saturday opening receptions for all photographs will be uniform - the same size and in the same frame. However, each picture will exhibits take place at all four venues on April 25, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. represent the artist’s personality. For more, visit www.ArtAboutWater.org Call 914-213-9290 for more information. 24

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“North by Northeast” Paintings in Amity

British-born artist Lynne Digby works with watercolor and oil to create paintings both representational and impressionistic. Her work is in private collections throughout the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Several of her paintings were “Late Spring Snows” by Lynne Digby “Shore House” by Susan Sciaretta used on the set of TV show, Sex in the City. reception on April 4 from 1:00pm-4:00pm. Susan Sciarretta loves to paint “plein aire” Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be available capturing the mood of her subjects through light along with evening entertainment from 6:00pmand atmosphere. Her work is in private collections 8:00pm. throughout the country and was included in a Viewing is every weekend during the month PBS documentary, American Artists. of April at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge North by Northeast, paintings by Lynne Digby Road, Warwick. and Susan Sciarretta, will have its opening For information, call 845-258-1055.

Forecast: Storm to Hit DVAA on May 2

Due to its highly successful city park, holds forth for all comers trial run last fall, I Of The Storm - musing, ranting, singing, dancing, is being fully produced in NYC and spitting poems with aplomb. A through April 29. A 70 minute comic tragedian, an Everyman on tour de force bursting at the seams steroids, a Superman who does not with song, dance, poems, rant, leap tall buildings at a single bound, rave, “foolosophy” and pesto, Hoehler in “I Of The Storm” but takes them one story at a time. Storm will then blow into Narrowsburg as part In embracing both the joys and sorrows of life, of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance’s Spring the message is clear: it’s about not wasting any more time. Cultural Series. I Of the Storm will be at the Tusten Theatre Playwright/actor Richard Hoehler performs the riches to rags, unlikely success story in 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg, on May 2 at which a hero, ensconced on the street outside a 8:00pm. For tickets: 845-252-7272.

“As I See It” at Artology Studio & Gallery

Maryann Maffei has Studio, April 18-24. been a freelance artist for Her artwork has been the past forty years, working exhibited at the Garrison mostly as an illustrator and Art Center, student graphic designer. Her more galleries at SUNY Orange serious works use a variety and SUNY New Paltz, and of media such as oils, several arts fairs throughout pastels, ink, photography Dutchess, Putnam and and printmaking. Ulster counties. She is a black belt Meet the artist at the instructor at the Aikido opening reception on School of Self Defense April 18, from 4:30pmin Middletown, and also 7:30pm. teaches classical piano. Owner of Artology, “Artists view things in Jamie Taylor is planning “For Mom” by Maryann Maffei a personal way. With eyes to refocus on creating art honed by years and giving private and small group lessons of art work, out of her home studio they observe the beginning in August. nuanced colors “All classes will end and shapes of a at the New Windsor landscape or a location on April 24. portrait. They Arrangements can be also “see” images made with anyone who internally: images would like to continue may become art lessons at my home abstracted and studio located in the Town Jamie Taylor altered based on of Newburgh. You may email jtaylor@ an artist’s internal “Hank” by Maryann Maffei artologystudio.org or call 845-399-7575 for vision - driven by a need to communicate arrangements,” said Jamie. personal feelings, or just plain visual effect. Artology Studio is located at 318 Blooming This is life as I see it,” said Maryann, referring Grove Turnpike in New Windsor. to her exhibit titled, As I See It at Artology For more information, call 845-391-8686.

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Newburgh’s Artists of Excellence

Colorado award-winning Highlighting artists of watercolor, A Wash with Newburgh, the Artists Sadness, at Orange of Excellence exhibit Hall Gallery (OHG) spotlights the exquisite the following autumn, works of sculptors and was the “Emerging Brenda Scott Harburger Artist” at the Wallkill and Margaret Drake, River School (see page both Newburgh residents. Their sculptures, ranging “Kipling as a Young Cat” by Brenda Scott Harburger 11) in March 2013, showing a dozen pieces. from abstraction to In the fall of 2013, she realism, are on view in the participated in On & Off vitrine glass cases in the the Wall ~ Sculpture: Art Foyer of the Mindy Ross in 3 Dimensions at OHG Gallery, SUNY Orange and recently, in exhibits at Newburgh campus. the New Windsor Gallery. The Artists of Currently, she studies Excellence exhibit series “Reflections” by Margaret Drake with William Noonan. features distinguished Margaret Drake is showing five pieces, regional artists and gives both the college community and the community-at-large the three cast in bronze and two in plaster. The opportunity of viewing three dimensional works are highly realistic, rich in detail, but pieces in various media, this time produced by natural. Over the years, she has exhibited her artists who happen to live in Newburgh. The pieces in New York City and Connecticut as well as local venues including SUNY exhibit will run through May 30. Brenda Scott Harburger is exhibiting four Orange, Middletown, Mt. St. Mary College, of her sculptures, two bronzes, one terra-cotta, Newburgh Free Library, and others. Drake is and one made of oil-clay. The terra cotta piece a native of nearby Ulster County. Acting on the is quite realistic, but the rest are extremely encouragement of a friend and colleague, Dolly stylized, with simplified forms that have great Kearney, she began her study of sculpture with Jean Carlson in Cornwall. Later, she studied presence. Expressing her talent in very early childhood with Tom Devaney at both his Newburgh and and through her school years, Harburger fine- Connecticut studios. Most recently, she has tuned her studies at the University of Colorado been working with Najim Chechen at Fine at Boulder where she received a BFA. After a Art Studios in Otisville. Kaplan Hall on the SUNY Orange Newburgh successful career as a new product marketing executive and an art director at her own campus is located on the corner of Grand and advertising agency, Harburger decided to put her First Streets. The exhibit is free and open to the energy into the creation of fine art. In the spring public. For information, email cultural@sunyorange. of 2012, she traveled with the Warwick Atelier to paint en plein air in Ireland. She showed her edu or call 845-341-9386.

4th Annual Orange County Dance Celebration!

Salisbury Mills; Goshen; Monroe; Highland Mills; Cornwall-on-Hudson; New Windsor; Westtown; Pine Island; Blooming Grove; Warwick; Port Jervis; Newburgh; Campbell Hall; Chester; Pine Bush; Sugar Loaf. Reading like a super-impressive Who’s Where in Orange County, these are the many hamlets from which Orange County dancers, choreographers, dance companies and dance studios will share their talent with the community for the Orange County Arts Council’s (OCAC) 4th All-County Dance Celebration on April 26 at 3:00pm at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center (SPLAC) to coincide with National Dance Week. OCAC executive director Dawn Ansbro states, “The Arts Council is thrilled to once again host this county-wide Celebration of Dance. This event has always been about elevating the art of dance and highlighting the creativity of choreography, as well as the grace and talent of the dancers. It offers the community a wonderful opportunity to see a wide variety of dance performed with excellence and offers local performers a chance to demonstrate their skill. “The OCAC invites all supporters and dance 26

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appreciators to be aware of the artistic beauty, local availability and fundamental benefits of dance. All pieces presented are choreographed and performed by artists living or working in Orange County.” Call the OCAC at 845-469-9168 or visit www. sugarloafperformingartscenter.org for tickets. Tickets are also available at any participating dance studio.

Community Building Through the Arts with Sus a n H a ndle r

Building community through the arts takes commitment, openmindedness, and personalities that are willing to contribute to a community’s narrative. This month we will explore Adams Fairacre Farms’ expanded commitment to the concept of Local and the rippling benefits of supporting community. Adam’s support of local vegetable produce dates back to 1919 when Ralph and Mary Rodgers Adams opened up their vegetable stand in Poughkepsie. Today their son Tom Adams is at the helm of 4 Hudson Valley stores. Building upon their support of the local community, the business has expanded into supporting local art at the Newburgh store. In a fundraising partnership with the Artology Studio in New Windsor, Adams is collaborating on a year-long art exhibit entitled Adams and Artology Fight Breast Cancer. Adams supports its managers in thinking out of the box, however it takes one person to start the process. Tim Bellamy (photo right) is that person. Tim is the Nursery Manager at Adams in Newburgh. He has a good

Adams and Artology Fight Breast Cancer

Exhibiting artists Jamie Taylor & Judy Winter stand in front of Adams’ exhibit wall

relationship with his customers. The idea for an art collaboration developed over a period of time with the input of Adams’ customers’ Steve Pettman and Tom Dinchuk (read May 2015 CANVAS for more on Tom!). They all knew someone who had been touched by breast cancer. As the idea of an art project progressed, Tim contacted Jamie Taylor, owner of Artology. Obviously, a lot of discussion, research, and outreach was necessary before moving forward. After many months of preparation, Bellamy spoke with Store Manager Mark Wheeler who whole-heartedly gave his approval. Adams Fairacre Farms has donated

Artist Enid Hermann stands proudly in front of her artworks on Adams’ exhibit wall

Artist Sunwha Gil smiles for the camera in

front of her artwork at Adams the exhibition space, IT support, legal support, artists with 50% of the PR support, and the proceeds from the sales time investment of Tim being donated to breast Bellamy. Artology has cancer research. organized the artists, The April exhibit and owner Jamie Taylor showcases the watercolor installs each new monthly paintings of Linda Fay exhibit. Local artists Berger. Rachel Weidkam, Enid For more information Herrmann, Sunwha on the monthly exhibits Gil, Linda Fay Berger, visit http://adamsfarms. Judy Winter, Kat or Strickland, Colleen On view in April: Art by Linda Fay Berger com/blog/page/2/ McGowan, and Jamie Taylor are the exhibiting contact Tim Bellamy at 845-569-0303.

DINING & S E RV I CE S in CO RNW A L L & N E W W I N DS O R !

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Innovative Beethoven & Schubert

The standard concerto form in 1806 consisted of the “double exposition” in which the orchestra plays the dual role of introducing all the thematic material of the movement as well as building up tension and expectation for the entrance of the soloist. But Beethoven’s Piano Concerto # 4 opens with the soloist stating the opening of the main theme and the rhythmic motive that will pervade this. Thus begins a remarkably complex work in which the two forces continually engage, not in the typical echoing phrases back and forth, but rather in a true dialogue with a bouquet of themes. And speaking of “force(s)”, pianistic powerhouse Gregg Michalak is a good choice for displaying same, having done same to welcome in the New Year for the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series this past January with a stunning solo performance, mesmerizing the highly enthusiastic audience. “The Concerto has become one of the most beloved of all concertos by pianists and audiences,” stated Michalak. “The Vienna premiere took place in 1808 with the composer as soloist, but was not heard again in concert halls until Mendelssohn revived the

work in 1836. “The work conveys a sense of lyricism not seen in any of his other works. It is, for this reason, a unique work, with its opening, followed by unparalleled beauty and lyricism, a dialogue between piano and orchestra, its later forceful dotted rhythms offset by meditative chords, its lively and joyful Rondo romp and a finale which leaves one with a sense of wonder about its thirty-five minutes of sheer bliss.” Get ready for his performance with the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra. Conductor Hilarie Clarke-Moore (see photo below) has chosen to complement the innovative concerto with Schubert’s innovative Unfinished Symphony, sometimes called the first Romantic symphony due to its emphasis on expressive melody, vivid harmony and creative combinations of orchestral tone color, despite the architecturally imposing Classical structures of its two completed movements. Moore and the orchestra’s musicians perform both works at the Paramount Theatre, 17 South Street in Middletown on May 2 at 7:30pm. Call 845-346-4195. Tickets are available at the door.

Peace, Love, Unity, Respect: The Rise of Electronic Music Culture in America was inspired by the sounds and crowds brought to Bethel Woods by Mysteryland, the world’s longest running electronic music festival. The exhibit, interpreting the history, aesthetics, and communities of a flourishing culture, is on display April 4 - May 31, with music, lights, interactive festival artwork, costumes, and artifacts from disco, rave, club, and electronic music cultures. Admission is only $5 for this special exhibit, or included in the price of admission to the main exhibit. Festival culture will also be celebrated during a fundraising event this spring. Designer and musician, Andy Hilfiger, has partnered with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts to present Festival Fashion: Bellbottoms and Butterfly Wings, an eclectic runway show featuring festival inspired clothing from Hilfiger’s personal collection. “Over my four decades in music and fashion,

I have styled everyone from The Ramones to ZZ Top, Kid Rock to Michael Jackson, and collected countless vintage looks, including pieces worn by some of the world’s biggest stars,” explained Hilfiger. The show will be held at Bethel Woods on April 25 and will take guests on a fashion journey from Woodstock to Mysteryland, with looks ranging from iconic ’60s-period ensembles to contemporary electronic music festival designs. The Museum’s reopening will also be complemented by an outdoor exhibition featuring sculptures by Harry H. Gordon. The award winning sculptor transforms imposing masses of granite, marble, and wood into visually and kinesthetically pleasing masterpieces. His work will be on display at Bethel Woods beginning this spring through October. To purchase tickets to Festival Fashion: Bellbottoms and Butterfly Wings or any other events at Bethel Woods, visit www. BethelWoodsCenter.org or call 1-866-781-2922.

A cornerstone of the Milford community, the Church of the Good Shepherd and St. John the Evangelist is celebrating its 100th anniversary. A concert to raise funds for structural improvements at the historic church is being presented by Kindred Spirits Arts. The Mostly Bach program will include organ works, some of the suites for unaccompanied cello, and music by Pachelbel. Attending the concert will not

only lift your spirits but will help preserve a historic structure and support its ongoing works of charity. Internationally heralded cellist Yosif Feigelson and organist Gwendolyn Toth perform on April 11, 7:30pm at the Church, 110 West Catharine Street. Tickets for this fundraiser, which are $45, are available at www.kindredspiritsarts.org or the Church, and also at Books and Print, 220 Broad Street.

Bethel Woods Museum Special Exhibits

Back to Bach for Building’s Benefit

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Can Our Pets Influence Our Art? Woof, Woof!! Meowww!! by Naomi Kennedy The family of Rondout Valley Veterinary’s Dr. Eric Hartelius’ always had a variety of animals around; dogs, cats, lizards, chickens, guinea pigs, and even newts! At the age of 15 years old, he was asked to do medical work on his cousin’s dairy farm. After treating a cow with milk fever that was almost comatose, the cow stood up 15 minutes later and walked back to the barn. This was the moment that he knew what he would do for the rest of his life. Rondout Valley Veterinary takes great pride in being able to offer many modalities of medicine which include: acupuncture, holistic therapies, chiropractic care, pet behavior treatment, rehabilitation, laser therapy, and a full surgical suite and dental area. At present, they are building a wing onto their clinic for a full pet wellness center which will offer physical therapy with stretching, exercising, range of motions, and underwater and land treadmills. The success of Rondout Valley Veterinary lays in the dedication of the 12 staff members and how they work together to provide the emotional and physical wellbeing of all their animals. “My staff members are the greatest!” said Dr. Hartelius. “We have a really wonderful group of caring devoted members who are very special.” The staff meets the behavioral needs of their patients and the emotional needs

of the pet owners. They have built personal relationships, and tailor to the individual needs of every pet. The bond with any animal can be a very special one. “For some people it ends up being their most enduring relationship,” said Dr. Hartelius. “It brings out things in us that sometimes even relationships with other human beings can’t do,” he added. Therapy animals help people in nursing homes who are either mentally or physically disabled. “You can see an immediate change in people when an animal is brought in. They brighten up and their symptoms lesson,” said Dr. Hartelius. There are many customers in their clientele who are artists, musicians and even poets. “Pets help us to be above ourselves and more of who we are,” said Dr. Hartelius. A former staff member specializes in animal portraiture. Two other clients have also been inspired to paint pet portraits and create pet sculptures; and another client is a watercolorist who features animals. There have been stories about dogs who have had their own art exhibits. “I don’t know exactly what to make of it. Animals can have

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an instinctive artistic nature, but it’s not the same as our higher level of learning. I don’t believe though, that it’s purely accidental,” said Dr. Hartelius. Dr. Hartelius has viewed artwork created by a dog and a cat; murals of paw prints, tail swishes, and body parts which were covered in tempura paint, directly after which, they walked across a newspaper. “This art was pleasing to me, but the true artist is the person that chose the color palette and allowed the animal to randomly go do what they would normally; investigate the space.” He recently saw other artwork created by an English bulldog at a puppy playschool where the owner had taken two shades of pet-safe pale green and blue tempura paint which he put on the dog’s paws. The dog then put his paws on paper. The artwork was framed as a series of paw prints. “It was beautiful and very soothing to look at. That’s what our relationships with animals do. They enhance our lives and we then become more creative,” said Dr. Hartelius. Rondout Valley Veterinary is located at 6006 Route 209, in Kerhonkson. For information, call 845-626-5555.

A talented and versatile comic, Seymour Swann tours with major comedians like Damon Wayons and Chris Rock. He hosts the Seymour Swann & Friends Show at the New York Comedy Club, which he’s been doing regularly for more than 20 years. Seymour made an appearance in the movie Major Payne and also in various movies and series on HBO, BET and Comedy Central. Seymour is at his best in front of a live audience where his hilarious material, timing and ability to connect with the audience make for a memorable night of laughter! Brad Lowery has long been a favorite at colleges and universities across the country. He averages over 200 college performances a year! He has performed on Caroline’s Comedy Hour, Star Search and Showtime at the Apollo, and opened for acts such as Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Tommy Davidson. Currently, he has been warming up the audience for the Queen Latifah Show and can be seen on Comedy Flava. See them perform at Chester’s Comedy Club, 109 Brookside Avenue on April 18 at 9:00pm. For tickets: 845-345-1039.

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CANVAS CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Slam Poet Elizabeth Gordon in Newburgh From Elizabeth Gordon’s poem Looking Up

Things were looking down last November. I had writer’s block. Who could blame meall these young poets coming up with more skills than Whitney had Grammys? Plus it was getting dark at, what, like four o’clock? I had to go for a walk just to put some distance between my mouth and my chocolates.

Elizabeth Gordon’s performance forte evolved from her early career as a college poetry instructor. A life-long writer, she was smitten in 2012 with performance style “slam” poetry. She earned a spot on Albany’s first slam team and in 2014 represented New York City’s famed Urbana slam at The Women of the World Poetry slam. An advocate of empowerment through poetry, Gordon is considered to be a “Poet of Witness.” Seeking truth and healing through the spoken word, Gordon upholds minority rights in her slams, including those of women, blacks, gays and the disadvantaged in general. Her models have included rappers and the poet laureate, Josef Brodsky who induced her to commit to poetry as a vocation. She has been teaching at community colleges in the Albany area for several years, currently on sabbatical from Northampton Community

Robert Milby (see page 31) will emcee the popular Florida Public Library Poetry Café with his own poetry, guest poets Alyta Adams and Jennifer Circosta, and an open mic on April 17 at Alyta Adams 7:00pm. Freshly-brewed coffee and desserts will be provided.

This event is FREE for adults and teens over age 16 and was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, and The Friends of Jennifer Circosta the Florida Public Library. The Library is located at 4 Cohen Circle. For info: 845-651-7659.

Lynn Marie Houston’s poems have appeared in many journals. Her first poetry book, The Clever Dream of Man, is due out from Aldrich Press this year. She has her Ph.D in English from Arizona State University and lives in her hometown of Newburgh. A poetry workshop led by Houston will take place on April 18 at 1:00pm in the Middletown Thrall Library, focusing on the use of the

sensory images in a poem. Participants will study descriptive poems written by famous poets, write one of their own, share their work, and get feedback. All levels of poets, beginners to advanced, are welcome. Registration required. The workshop is limited to 12

people. Thrall Library is located at 11-19 Depot Street, Middletown. Call 845-341-5454.

Li-Young Lee was born in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese political exiles. He and his parents arrived in the U.S. in 1964. Though his father read to him frequently as a child, he did not begin to seriously write poems until a student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied with Gerald Stern. Influenced by Chinese poets Li Bo and Tu

Fu, Lee is sometimes described as a supremely lyric poet. His poems often use narrative and personal experience or memories to launch their investigations of the universal. He will read his poetry and have a book signing on April 18 at 2:00pm at Storm King Art Center, 1 Museum Road, New Windsor. For information: 845-534-3115.

11:00am in the College Library. A Student Poetry Slam will be held at 6:00pm, April 10 in the Gilman Center for International Education. In the Newburgh Campus’ Kaplan Hall, a Poetry Marathon will happen from 11:00am2:00pm on April 8. An Interdisciplinary Faculty Reading from 11:00am-Noon on April 14 will feature the faculty members and staff: Christine Henderson, Tim Zeszutek, Pete Soscia and Graff. Sandor, Jean Carlos Cowan and student David Remer will headline a Poetry Coffee House lineup at 6:00pm, April 21. All events are free and open to the public. For info, Diane Bliss at 845-341-4063. Link to full program: http://www.sunyorange. edu/english/events/index.shtml

Owner of Newburgh’s Space Create and cofounder of the ReadNex Poetry Squad, Decora is a hip-hop artist for whom art and progressive work are simply inseparable. Synthesist and composer Neil Alexander recently completed a 2 year solo tour featuring his piano transcription of Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring. He performs every “Third Thursday” with the Thunderhead Organ Trio at The Wherehouse in Newburgh. Bettina “GOLD” Wilkerson is a writer, spoken word performance artist and poet. Her work is driven by the desire to triumph over personal challenges and the belief that everyone has greatness inside of them. “Gold” balances literary arts with performance, delivering

transformative and entertaining Spoken Word Poetry. Along with weekly special guests, these three artists are ensconced at The Falcon every Monday in April at 7:00pm, 1348 Route 9w, Marlboro, for an innovative poetry and music collaboration. Admission is by donation. 845-236-7970.

Poetry Marathon at SUNY Orange(s)

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the SUNY Orange English Department will host a series of Poetry Readings, throughout the month of April, This will mark the fourth successive year that the College will host Poetry on the Green, an outdoor poetry reading marathon on April 22, 9:00am-3:00pm on the Middletown campus Alumni Green. Other events planned for the Middletown campus include a series of Tuesday morning faculty readings on April 7 (Anne Sandor, Mary Makofske, Deborah Chedister and Diane Bliss), April 14 (Amanda Crowell and Alex Jakubowski) and April 28 (Sandra Graff, Bliss and Sandor). All three sessions will be held at

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College. In addition to slam, she is adept at traditional poetry which she teaches and also uses in her writing forms, such as sonnets and sestinas. Her nonfiction narrative, Walk with Us: Triplet Boys, their Teen Parents & Two White Women who Tagged Along won an Indie Book Award for multi-cultural nonfiction. Her first full collection of poetry, Love Cohoes (CDD Books 2014), is a page-stage hybrid that celebrates the old mill town where she lives. In celebration of April is Poetry Month, the Newburgh Free Library (NFL) is presenting Elizabeth Gordon on April 16 at 7:00pm. She will be available for book signing and a modest reception. Given her range of poetry mediums, Gordon is one of the most versatile poets to be introduced in the poetry series offered by the Hudson River Poets (HRP) who will share the podium with her on April 16. The HRP is a Library gathering of literati, artists, musicians, retirees and students who meet monthly at the Library for a poetry theme study. The Library is located at 124 Grand Street, Newburgh. For additional information, call the Library at 845-563-3601.

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Thrall Library’s Poetry Workshop

Poetry Reading & Book Signing

Hip-Hop Poetry, Music, Spoken Word

Decora

Neil Alexander

Bettina Wilkerson

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Poetry Month at the Mount on Powell

The Robert Frost Foundation holds an annual festival in Lawrence, MA with poetry readings by prize winners and other poets in addition to readings of Frost’s poems. Barbara Adams, winner in 2007, relates her story: “In October of 2007, I was invited to a friend’s art show at Union College and saw a painting of his that captivated me. I asked him how much he wanted. It was way out of my price range. “For you, I’ll make a special offer,” Alfred answered, an amount half the original price. “I want my painting on a wall where it will be appreciated,” he said. “I’ll take it,” I said, though I still couldn’t afford it. “Two weeks later, I got a phone call from Mark Schorr, the Executive Director of the Frost Foundation. “Is this B.B. Adams?” he asked. “Your poem Henry Jones, From Wales won first prize in the Frost Foundation’s annual award. The judge, Stephen Sturgeon, chose it from over 600 poems. WOW! joy and shock froze my tongue. “Thank you,” I finally answered. “Do you go by ‘B.B.’?”, he asked. I laughed, “No, that’s a leftover from my early days of publishing when I thought gender could be a factor in acceptance of a work or not. Call me Barbara.”

The kicker: “The Frost Foundation prize money equaled exactly what I’d paid for Alfred’s painting. I look at it in my living room, thanking Robert Frost and Henry Jones.” Robert Milby has been writing poetry since 1987, reading work and hosting series throughout the Hudson Valley, New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New England since early 1995. Robert is THE Hudson Valley poetry coordinator and promoter, and is involved with area poetry series as host, cohost and/or reader. He has written articles for CANVAS since our beginning in 2004, and is our stalwart poetry calendar submitter. Barbara will read her poetry at Mount St. Mary College (MSMC) on April 9 in the Dominican Center Library, and then Robert will bring his poetry there on April 14. MSMC Professor-Poet James Cotter hosts these free 4:00pm poetry events. Later in the month there will be a student open mic and readings. MSMC is at 330 Powell Avenue in Newburgh. Free and low-cost Literary Arts entertainment Most poetry series events have free admission with requested donation. Other series’ admissions range from $2-$5. Open mic always follows featured readers.

SUNY Sullivan Students Read in Liberty

“Good writing comes from the discomfort of knowing we aren’t perfect, but beauty blossoms from the dark places we wish didn’t exist.” SUNY Sullivan Associate Professor Lisa Caloro. “My students write bravely, igniting the bright flowers of night that remind us of our humanity. The themes are often dark,

sometimes funny, but always poignant.” Caloro’s students will be performing their poetry, and reading from written poems as well, at the Liberty Library, 189 North Main Street on April 30 at 6:30pm. This program is not intended for children due to adult content. Light refreshments provided. Phone: 845-292-6070.

Cragsmoor Cajun Food Fundraiser

A finger-lickin’ New Orleans meal!

into a fine restaurant. The incredible menu which, by the way, does NOT include cat on a hot tin roof, is on the poster on the Library’s facebook page. Cragsmoor Kitchens happens on April 11 at 7:00pm, at 71 Old Inn Road, Cragsmoor. Make your reservations for this New Orleans menu event: cragsmoorkitchens@gmail.com or by calling 845-646-4611.

“I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.” Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams Cragsmoor Kitchens, a fundraiser for the Cragsmoor Library, returns with an homage to Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans cuisine. Sumptuous food, great conversation, new and/or good friends, and a beautiful home transformed

“Everywhere I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music; perhaps only a little piece of transparent glass. And all at once, my sister touches my shoulder. Laura, I’ve tried to leave you behind, but I’m more faithful than I intended to be. I reach for a cigarette. I cross the street; go into a bar. I buy a drink. Anything that can blow your candles out. For nowadays the world is lit by lightning. Blow out your candles, Laura. And so good-bye.”

April 2015

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April 2015