D & H CANVAS October 2010 by Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

Your complimentary monthly guide to Arts & Entertainment - Covering Orange and Sullivan Counties and the neighboring towns of Beacon, Marlboro, Walker Valley, Ellenville and Milford

October 2010

art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

Im Memorriam

In 2008 Gloria Krause was one of 29 local heroes nominated by Sullivan County residents for their service to community...courage, generosity and perseverance and included in Erica Hart's triptych, Heroic Spirits Shine in Sullivan County.

Gloria “transitioned” in September, leaving a void in the arts community. As a result of her work, much creativity was initially brought to a then virtually rural area of the world. Her legacy lives on, no longer just in Narrowsburg, but all over Sullivan County, continued by Elaine Giguere and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance. I am wondering if a kind of pride can be "felt" in spirit. A "good" kind, becuase I can imagine Gloria smiling now as she looks back on her life. Thank you, Gloria, for the music, the art, the poetry, the theater. We are grateful.

Black Bear FIlm Festival by Judith Anne Wink I used to go to New York's Margaret Mead Film Festival in its early days, when the films were so awful that they were fun. The last time I went, the Festival had risen to mediocrity and was just dull. I doubt if I'll go back until the films get good. Last October, for the first time, I went to Milford's Black Bear Film Festival (BBFF). I don't know if the BBFF has evolved from dreadful to so-so and on up, but I can say that the films I saw there were superb. This was Milford's tenth BBFF, and for the first time the feature-length films weren't shown at the Milford Theater. That beloved but decrepit venue was being renovated, so part of the Festival had to relocate to Delaware Valley High School in Matamoras. Roomy and comfortable, the school housed not only the films but also a makeshift restaurant, BBFF souvenirs, silent auction items and this year's crop of painted bear sculptures. But of course the films were the main attraction. Nine feature-length films were shown from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. A film festival is the place to be if you like movies but are a little tired of vampires and violence. The BBFF was short on both. Instead, it offered films about a Philadelphia mosaic artist whose work is tidier than his life; an Ecuadoran tribe fighting the oil company that has polluted its ancestral lands; two immigrants trying to make it in Manhattan's garment district; an East Texan inventor in China; a Canadian Inuit, stricken with TB and sent to a hospital in Quebec where no one speaks his language; two children abandoned by their single mother; an elderly farmer struggling to reclaim his land; the Hindu goddess Sita; and Jack Kerouac. This is not the usual Hollywood fare, and the films didn't have the usual Hollywood finish. One of them, Sita Sings the Blues, was animated and produced on a home computer. That Evening Sun, starring Hal Holbrook, was probably the most mainstream in its look, but not in its theme or its characters. Farmer Abner Meecham escapes from the retirement home to which his son has sent him and returns to his farm, only to find that his son has rented it to his worst enemy. Meecham's bitterness destroys a family, nearly kills him, and forces him to face some unattractive facts about himself. What he learns in the end is to face old age with resignation and dignity. The rest of the Festival took place, as 2

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Gloria’s Legacy Lives On

The Paul West Trio opens the Tusten Theatre fall season in Narrowsburg on Saturday, October 2, playing works of Gillespie, Parker, and Ellington. The season will continue on October 16 with Music of Our Time, a concert by Delaware Valley Chamber Orchestra featuring a newly commissioned work by David Tcimpidis, and October 30 with folkrock duo Mike and Ruthy. Sponsored and presented by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Tusten Theatre fall season is sponsored in part by a grant from the Presenting Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Alll shows begin at 8 p.m. For reservations or information, call Tusten Theatre box office at 845-252-7272.

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Marge Champion, of the famous Marge and Gower Champion dancing duo, will be appearing on the Main Theatre Stage on Saturday, Oct. 9 for showings of movie clips of their famous dances, her new documentary and an interview.

usual, in Milford. Grey Towers presented the ENVIROFEST, films about the friends and enemies of our beleaguered planet. The Columns offered an entertaining miscellany, including that classic Twilight Zone shocker, To Serve Man. The Tom Quick hosted the opening-night party as well as the Film Salon. This was a series of shorts, punctuated with talks by local filmmakers. Held in the restaurant's back room, the Salon offered pretty good popcorn and delicious little films. My favorite was about the fate of imaginary friends whose humans have outgrown them. This is what film shorts are all about: whimsical ideas that won't stand up to full-length treatment. 2010 This year, the whole festival will be back home in Milford. It runs from October 8 to 10. Between films, you'll have plenty to do. Milford is blessed with good restaurants, sophisticated shops and handsome tree-lined streets that invite leisurely walks. If you're coming from out of town, consider arriving a day early and leaving a day later. And don’t forget to visit CANVAS friends at the art and photography galleries. Check the website, www.blackbearfilm.com, for films, dates and times. I'll see you there.

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Rewards Along the Interstate by J. A. Di Bello

The Art of “Culinary” by Urs Kopp A Taste of Montgomery On Sunday, October 3, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm the Walden Rotary Club will sponsor the Taste of Montgomery at the Veteran's Memorial Park on Clinton Street in the Village of Montgomery. Quality Montgomery area restaurants will be offering samplings of their signature dishes and local wineries will be on hand for wine tasting. Tickets are $30.00 if purchased prior to September 28 and $40.00 thereafter. All the proceeds will benefit worthwhile community projects undertaken by the Rotary Club and the Thomas Gabrynowicz Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship is awarded to a graduating Valley Central senior who has distinguished him or herself with community service during high school. For information call 845-457-3898 or Email tasteofmontgomery@frontiernet.net. To order tickets make checks payable to "Walden Rotary Club," and send to: Taste of Montgomery, 91 Madison Ave. Montgomery, NY 12549.

As is its fashion, the Orange County Arts Council (OCAC) has added a touch of class to our County. The Orange County North Artists Studio Tour, sponsored by OCAC, is scheduled for the weekend of October 16 & 17, and will feature studios and galleries located north of Interstate 84. Interestingly, this places the Historic Village of Montgomery in a well-deserved spotlight, as the number of its artistically oriented venues continues to increase. Combined with the antique shops, fine restaurants and museums, this village continues to grow as an appealing Orange County destination. Montgomery studios and galleries participating in this year's tour are the James Douglas Gallery, located 22 Railroad Ave.; Shawn Dell Joyce Studio, 7 Factory St.; Nancy Michaels at her Olde Towne Antiques and Potter Shop, 70 Union St.; as well as the Di Bello Gallery, 3 Wallkill Ave. The Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St., is offering additional “things to see and do”. Opening hours vary, 10am to Noon, and artists will be available at each of these locations on the 16th and 17th of October, until 5:00pm. A journey to this historic village is never without reward.

MUSIC - Blues / COUNTRY / FOLK / Pop / rock / etc. BW EHT NACL PV RITZ

= Bethel Woods Center for the Arts = Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point = North American Cultural Lab, Highland Lake = Palaia Vineyards, 10 Sweet Clover Road, Highland Mills = Ritz Theater Lobby, 111 Broadway, Newburgh

Al Westpahl ............................................................................................................PV Oct 1, 7pm “Rock the Mountain Music Festival” ......Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center, Oct 1, 7pm & Oct 2 Noon-10pm Lazy Boys................................................................................................................PV Oct 2, 7pm Blues Festival Blues ................................................PV outdoor tent, bring chairs Oct 3, 2:30pm Ellis Paul folk, Mansion Series ......................................Morrison Mansion, OCCC, Oct 3, 3pm Marc Cohen ..........................................................................................................BW Oct 3, 7pm Henderson & Osinki..............................................................................................PV Oct 8, 7pm Celtix Thunder ....................................................................................................EHT Oct 8, 8pm Straight Shot ..........................................................................................................PV Oct 9, 7pm Rhett Miller ..........................................................................................................BW Oct 9, 8pm Steve Wells ......................................................................................................PV Oct 10, 2:30pm Ladies Noght Out ................................................................................................PV Oct 14, 7pm Robert Schiff ........................................................................................................PV Oct 15, 7pm Groovy Tuesday ..................................................................................................PV Oct 16, 7pm Music for Humanity Steve Vecchiotti, Stuart Kabak, Joshua Sanders........................................ Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 16, 7:30pm FREE Cindy Cashdollar & Steve James Tom Humphrey Guitar Series ................RITZ Oct 16, 8pm Bobby “Z” ......................................................................................................PV Oct 17, 2:30pm Basket Landing folk ......................................................................................NACL Oct 17, 3pm Buskin & Batteau Mansion Series ..............................Morrison Mansion, OCCC, Oct 17, 3pm Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers ........................................................BW Oct 22, 10am FREE Gregg Van Gelder ................................................................................................PV Oct 22, 7pm Duo Phonic ..........................................................................................................PV Oct 23, 7pm Leilah Dione Ezra ........................................................Peach Grove Inn, Warwick, Oct 23, 7pm Los Lonely Boys..................................................................................................BW Oct 23, 8pm Paul Binotto ....................................................................................................PV Oct 24, 2:30pm Bruce Perone ........................................................................................................PV Oct 29, 7pm Pamela Moore & George Meyers ......................................................................PV Oct 30, 7pm West Point Concert Band w/Phil Stacey, Hellcats, Benny Haven Band, jazz, rock, etc............. Trophy Pt. Amphitehtre, Oct 31, 6pm FREE Mike & Ruthy folk/rock............................................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Oct 31, 8pm open mic Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ............................................Logan’s Well, Florida, Wednesdays, 9pm Open Mic Musicians Gathering ..............................Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Thursdays, 8pm Open Mic ................................................................Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, Oct 1, TBA Open Mic ....................................................................2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Oct 3, 8pm Open Mic....................................................................................................PV Oct 7, Oct 28, 7pm Heritage Coffee House ..............Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Thompson Ridge, Oct 16, 7pm Open Mic - Audition Night..................................................................................PV Oct 21, 7pm

lectureS, DEmos & SymposiumS / Forums (most are free) (See location codes on page 7)

Raptors & Harvests ................................................................................PEEC Oct 2, 9am-6pm “Tracking Coyotes” Pam Golbin ..........................................................HHNM-O Oct 2, 10am FORUM: Our Natural Heritage The Value & Necessity of Indigenous PLants & Animals .. SUNYO Oct 2, 11am-5pm “Bringing Nature Home” Dr. Douglas W. Tallamy ..................................SUNYO Oct 2, 2pm Nature at Night ................................................................................................PEEC Oct 2, 6pm “Edgar Allan Poe” The Big Read........................................Orange County Libraries, Oct 3-27 “Our Future Forests: Sustaining Native Forests & Wildlife” Dr. William Schuster .............. SUNYO Oct 7. 7pm “The Erie Underground Railroad” Stephen Skye................................NVAM Oct 10, 7:30pm Growing Native by Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East”............................ Carolyn Summers SUNYO Oct 13, 7pm Glassblowing Demos ......................Gillander Glass, Port Jervis, Oct 16, 17, 23, 24, 10am-3pm Cooking with John John Moultrie, sushi ......................................................NFL Oct 16, 1pm “Native PLants for Native Birds” Dr. Joel Baines..................................SUNYO Oct 20, 7pm Do-It-Yourself Antique Appraisals ..............................................................NFL Oct 23, 10am “The Winter Garden: Beauty & Nourishment” Francis Groeters........SUNYO Oct 25, 7pm 9th Annual Catskill Preservation Conference ........LMAC Oct 31, 10am-8pm“Tracking Coyotes” Pam Golbin ..............................................................................HHNM-O Oct 2, 10am FORUM: Our Natural Heritage The Value & Necessity of Indigenous PLants & Animals .. SUNYO Oct 2, 11am-5pm “Bringing Nature Home” Dr. Douglas W. Tallamy ..................................SUNYO Oct 2, 2pm Nature at Night ................................................................................................PEEC Oct 2, 6pm “Edgar Allan Poe” The Big Read........................................Orange County Libraries, Oct 3-27 “Our Future Forests: Sustaining Native Forests & Wildlife” Dr. William Schuster .............. SUNYO Oct 7. 7pm “The Erie Underground Railroad” Stephen Skye................................NVAM Oct 10, 7:30pm Growing Native by Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East”............................ Carolyn Summers SUNYO Oct 13, 7pm Glassblowing Demos ......................Gillander Glass, Port Jervis, Oct 16, 17, 23, 24, 10am-3pm Cooking with John John Moultrie, sushi ......................................................NFL Oct 16, 1pm “Native PLants for Native Birds” Dr. Joel Baines..................................SUNYO Oct 20, 7pm Do-It-Yourself Antique Appraisals ..............................................................NFL Oct 23, 10am “The Winter Garden: Beauty & Nourishment” Francis Groeters........SUNYO Oct 25, 7pm 9th Annual Catskill Preservation Conference ........................LMAC Oct 31, 10am-8pm

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Landmark Composition Part of Symphony Benefit A pair of benefit concerts for the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra will be offered by The Newburgh Concert Strings (NCS), conducted by (see photo) Gordon Shacklett, and featuring Nancy Wegrzyn as viola soloist. After an October 17 performance at Newburgh's Karpeles Museum, NCS will perform on Sunday, October 24 at 3:00pm as part of the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, at The Village of Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge St., Montgomery. The Newburgh Concert Strings consists of twenty musicians, resident in and around the lower Hudson Valley.

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Admission is free and, a suggested donation of $20…any amount welcome…will be collected at the door, with all proceeds going directly to the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, now beginning it's 16th season. The program includes Telemann's Viola Concerto in G, with Ms. Wegrzyn as soloist and a major work and landmark composition not often performed, by Arnold Schönberg, his Op. 4, Transfigured Night. "Unlike Schönberg's later 'atonal' compositions, Transfigured Night is very tonal, one of the composers major influences," according to Shacklett. "The piece is important historically, as it sits at the very cusp of the tonal revolution in the early 20th century." Transfigured Night reflects deep human emotions, ranging from darkness and turmoil, into resolution, forgiveness and clarity. (Editor’s note: It is a masterpiece.) Richard Dehmel's poem of the same title, which inspired the composer, will be recited at the concert by soprano Julie Ziavras. Refreshments will be served following the concerts. For further information, directions or questions, please leave a message at 845-566-1745.

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Marlene in Montgomery The Grand Montgomery Music & Theater Series is presenting Janice Hall singing the songs of Marlene Dietrich on

October 17 at 3pm. Soprano Hall is a favorite from the Wurtsboro Broadway Concert Direct Series. Free admission.

Montgomery Calendar CALENDAR SPONSORED BY MONTGOMERY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION Museums Di Bello Gallery - James Douglas Gallery -Olde Village of Montgomery Museum Firefighters Museum Saturdays 1pm-4pm

Towne Antiques & Pottery - Shawn Dell Joyce Studio - Wallkill River School

Music - Classic Pop Art Ehibits Mike Jaroszko luminist James Douglas Gallery - ongoing Joe Carroll, George Hayes “Here and There” Linda Lydecker emerging artist Wallkill River School thru Oct 31 Robert Score “Bicentennial” pen & ink Marilyn Richter acrylics Catherine Hagerty oils Di Bello Gallery thru Dec 31

Recreation Taste of Montgomery - Oct 3, 1pm-4pm Veteran’s Memorial Park Candlelight Ghost Tour - Oct 9 & 16, 7pm Village Hall

Art Studio Tour Orange County Studio Tour - Oct 16 & 17

Janice Hall sings Marlene Dietrich Oct 17, 3pm Grand Montgomery Music Series Senior Center

Music - Classical Newburgh Concert Strings - Oct 24, 3pm Grand Montgomery Music Series Senior Center

Music - Broadway & Opera Music for Humaity Benefit - Oct 23 Julie Ziavras soprano & John Cimino baritone Senior Center: Auction: 7pm, Show 8pm

Book Signing & Ghost Tour Wallkill River School - Oct 29, 7pm-9pm

Recreation MFD Halloween Party - Oct 30 4pm - Parade, Village Hall to Veteran’s Park 5pm - Judging at Senior Center

Montgomery! Julie Ziavras and John Cimino will perform for a Music For Humanity benefit on October 23 at the Montgomery Senior Center. Music for Humanity scholarships help students with a passion for music who need financial assistance to continue their musical education. Doors open at 7:00pm for general admission seating, Silent Auction and Gift Basket raffle. Concert begins at 8:00 pm. Tickets are available at www.musicforhumanity.org.

Art on Ward Street Here and There, an exhibition of pastel and oil paintings by Warwick-based George Hayes and Montgomery painter Joseph Carroll, is on view at Wallkill River School from Oct. 1-31, along with the work of emerging Artist Linda Lydecker. The reception is from 5pm-7pm on Sat. Oct. 9.

Waterwheel by George Hayes

Art on Wallkill Avenue

Fence of Flowers by Joseph Carroll

The Di Bello Gallery, known for its keen interest in talented, inspiring local artists, is exhibiting the artworks of Catherine Hagerty, Marilyn Richter and Robert Score thru December 31.

To historically and artistically note the by-gone days of the village, the noted pen & ink artist, Robert Score has initiated a Bicentennial Series of drawings oil on canvas replicating scenes by Catherine Hagerty from an earlier time; a time when the Village thrived and survived on the agriculture that surrounded it, the small businesses that nourished it and the people that populated it. To borrow from Bing and Dinah, it was and remains a village of dear hearts and gentle people who live and love in Historic Montgomery.

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2010 Orange County North Open Studio Tour Weekend The Orange County Arts Council presents Orange County Open Studio Weekend 2010, a county-wide event celebrating the Artists and Craftspeople of Orange County during which Orange County artists and craftspeople open their studios to the public for the sale and demonstration of their work. This event will be held on Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17 from 11am to 5pm. At the height (we hope) of the fall foliage season, trees will be ablaze with glorious warm shades accenting beautiful landscapes and vistas as you navigate from

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studio to studio, meet and talk with the artists and watch them demonstrate their skills. See new works being created and gain insight into the creative processs. The Orange County Arts Council produces this unique event to educate the public about the skill and processes that go into the production of craft and art work, and to offer an opportunity for the community to support and explore local arts in Orange County. Visitors will tour throughout the county learning how art works are created while experiencing the environments where the artistry and handicrafts are conceived. Over 30 artists and craftspeople are participating including 8 Hats High Animation Studio, Maureen Thompson, Starr Novak, Town of Deer Park Museum, Susan Miiller Fine Art, Joan Kehlenbeck, Dani Cooney, Al Champy, Eric Stein, Julia Healy, UpFront Exhibit Space, Catmaid Wearable Art, Drury Studio & Design, Shawn Dell Joyce, Donna Jacke, Sandy Scarano, Nancy Michaels, James Douglas Gallery, Carriage House Art Studios, Clayton Buchanan, David Nolan, Di Bello Gallery/Frame Shop, Rahl Nadas Gallery and Potshop, M.E Whitehill-Watercolors, The Blue Rose Studio, Michael Piotrowski, and Wallkill River School. Using the Orange County North Studio Tour Map, visitors are directed to each participating studio location. These selfguided tour maps will be available throughout the County in galleries, local

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lodging businesses and tourist information centers, and can also be found at www.ocartscouncil.org. 845-469-9168. Opening Reception The Orange County Arts Council will host an opening reception on Friday, October 8, from 5pm to 8pm as well as a Preview Exhibition on October 9 and 10 from 11am to 5pm where select works from participating crafters and artists will be on CANVAS DIRECTORY HOLISTIC The Crystals Center Retail, Workshops, Events, Healing 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro 845-888-2547 www.the crystalscenter.com Miskris Beads Retail, Stones, Jewelry, Judaica Items 22 Laurel Avenue South Fallsburg 845-434-4804

display at the Seligmann Homestead, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. CANVAS DIRECTORY ARTISTS Mary Mugele Sealfon Portaits, Lanscapes, Still Life Commissions 845-774-7658 mary.sealfon@gmail.com Jonathan Talbot Painter, Printmaker, Instructor Collage Artist 7 Amity Rd. Warwick, NY 10990 www.talbot1.com HEALTH & HOLISTIC SERVICES Patricia Quinn Art Therapy, Hypnosis & Healing 62 No. Main Street, Florida, NY 10921 845-649-0953 ORGANIZATIONS

RETAIL Consignium A Consignment Emporium Sharon McKane, prop. 108 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro 845-888-2121

Orange County Citizens Foundation Citizens Building a Better Community 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf 845-469-9459 www.occitizensfoundation.org

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CATEGORY CALENDAR BW CTMW EHT GMMT

= Bethel Woods Center for the Arts = Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players, Museum Village = Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point = Grand Montgomery Chamber Music & Theater Series Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street, Montgomery 845-457-9867 HCC = Howland Cultural Center, Beacon HHNM = Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson HHNM-O = Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall KMM = Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh LC = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 LMAC = Liberty Museum & Arts Center MSM = Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh NACL = North American Cultural Lab, Highland Lake NFL = Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street 845-563-3619 NVAM = Neversink Valley Area Museum, Cuddebackville PEEC = Pocono Environmental Education Ctr, Dingmans Ferry PT = Paramount Theater, Middletown PV = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills SCCC = Sullivan County Community College - Seelig Theatre, Loch Sheldrake SCDW =(Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop) Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg SUNYO-HH = Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre 845-341-4891 SUNYO (OCCC) = SUNY Orange (Orange County Community College) Orange Hall Theatre & Galleries, 845-341-4891, TL = Thrall Library, Middletown TT = Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg WAA = Wurtsboro Art Alliance Delaware & Hudson CANVAS, Inc. cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates & times.

ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon Trolley Service ................................................Oct 9, all day Second Saturday in Sugar Loaf ................................................................Oct 9, thru 7pm Art After Dark Milford Galleries..............................................................Oct 9, 6pm-9pm Orange County North Artists Studio Tour ....................................................Oct 16 & 17

Allen Yueh, piano, Shandelee Music Festival ..........................Monticello HS, Oct 22, 10:30am St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano ............Dia:Beacon, Oct 24, 2pm Newburgh Concert Strings Gordon Shacklett, cond. Benefit GNSO ........GMMT Oct 24, 3pm Potluck Concerts Variety Show ....Cornwall Presby Ch., Cornwall-on-Hudson, Oct 29, 7:30pm

music - jazz John Simon et al ....................................................Aroma Thyme Bistro, Thursdays, 8pm-11pm Chris Cubeta & the Liars Club..............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 1, 7pm Four For ..................................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 2, 7pm The Paul West Trio ......................................................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Oct 2, 8pm Scott Sharrard Band, Brian Charette Trio ..........................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 8, 7pm Trixie Whitley w/Greg Mullen, The Paper Planets ..............The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 9, 7pm Ryan Keberle Double Quartet, Elijah Tucker ....................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 14, 7pm Sex Mob, Wu Li ....................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 15, 7pm Todd Sickafoose, Greg Klyma ..............................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 16, 7pm Kevin Hays Trio ....................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 21, 7pm “Art Song Jazz” ............................................................Corner Cafe, Marlboro, Oct 21, 7:30pm Naomi Kennedy, vocals; Dov Dixler, Keyboardist; Cosmo Policriti, Saxophonist Jay Collins & The Kings County Band, Mojo Myles Mancuse Band ...................................... The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 22, 7pm Hugh Brodie & the Cosmic Ensemble ................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 23, 7pm Ignacio Berroa, Erin Hobson Compact ..............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 29, 7pm Edmar Castaneda, Szelrozsa ................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 28, 7pm

OPera - cinema “Das Rheingold” Live from the Met in HD......................................................SCCC Oct 9, 1pm “Boris Godunov” Live from the Met in HD ................................................SCCC Oct 23, Noon

OPera - concert Anne Tormela ................................................................Greenwood Lake Library, Oct 7, 6:30pm “The Bad Boys” Opera Co. of the Highlands............Union Presby. Ch, Balmville, Oct 31, 3pm

CINEMA Oscar 2010: Great Performances film w/George Clooney..............NFL Oct 4, 6:30pm FREE The Big Read films related to Edgar Allan Poe ................Orange County Libraries, Oct 5-29 Reel Eclectic Film Series “Jaffa” in Hebrew & Arabic w/titles..............TL Oct 7, 7pm FREE “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein”......................................................PT Oct 9, 7:30pm “The Perils of Pauline” & selected shorts......Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Oct 10, 1pm “Shakespeare in Love”......................................................................SUNYO-HH Oct 12, 3pm “Homeland: Four Portreaits of Native Action” ..............................SUNYO-HH Oct 19, 3pm Afternoon Movies for Grownups w/Rod Steiger & Sydney Poitier ......TL Oct 20, 2pm FREE “Other People’s Money” ..................................................................SUNYO-HH Oct 26, 3pm “Phantom of the Opera” (1925) ..................................................................PT Oct 29, 7:30pm “House on Haunted Hill” Vincent Price........Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Oct 31, 1pm

Comedy Jim Gaffigan....................................................................................................EHT Oct 23, 8pm

DANCE “Rhythm of the Dance” Nat’l Dance Company of Ireland......................LC Oct 15, 8pm Shen Yun Performing Arts Chinese ......................................................EHT Oct 16, 8pm

festivalS “Mystic Music Festival” ACS Making Strides Aganist Breast Cancer .................................... The Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Oct 3, 11am-6pm Black Bear Film Festival ................................................................................Milford, Oct 8-10 Barryville PumpkinFest ......................Springhouse Commons, Barryville, Oct 9, 10am-5pm Sugar Loaf Fall Festival ............................................................................Sugar Loaf, Oct 9-11 Rustic Home Craft Festival ................................................................BW Oct 10, 11am-Dusk

Holistic living Meditation w/Tim............................................The Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Sundays, 11am Psychic Development Dr. Bill ......................The Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Sep 30, 6:30pm “A Call to Power: Grandmothers Speak” Gonyea & Jennifer “White Raven”...................... The Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Oct 7, 6:30pm Guided Light Metaphysical Society ............Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Oct 11, 6:30pm “Wisdom Circle” Rev. Donna Hohman........The Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Oct 14, 6:30pm Group Past Life Regressions Dr. Bill & Sue ......Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Oct 22, 6:30pm “Earth Changes” Dr. Bill & Sue ........................The Crystals Center, Wurtsboro, Oct 29, 6pm

Music - Broadway - classic pop - Opera - Operetta Broadway Concerts Direct Sarah Rice, et al ....Wurtsboro Community Church, Oct, 23, 8pm Janice Hall songs of Marlene Dietrich ..........................................GMMT Oct 17, 3pm FREE Julie Ziavras & John Cimino singers, Music For Humanity Benefit ...................................... GMMT Oct 23, Silent Auction: 7pm; Show: 8pm “Pop Culture in the Age Of Poe” The Big Read ..........................................NFL Oct 24, 3pm w/ Lydia Adams Davis vocal & Ruthanne Schempf piano

music - classical “Voices of the Clarinet” SFC Jeff Getler, clarinet; SS Erin Bubalo, vocal & bassett horn, Meg Geller, flute West Point Jewish Chapel, Oct 3, 3pm FREE SFC Shawn Herndon clarinet ..........................................Egner Hall, West Point, Oct 10, 3pm “Movable Concert” Weekend of Chamber Music & Catskill Art Society ................................ Livingston Manor Central School Lobby & Catskill Art Society, Oct 16, 3pm Music of Our Time” Delaware Valley Chamber Orchestra ............................TT, Oct 16, 8pm Todd Crow piano, Music in Central Valley series ......United Methodist Church, Oct 17, 3pm Newburgh Concert Strings Gordon Shacklett, cond. Benefit GNSO ........KMM Oct 17, 3pm

POETRY & PROSE READING (Open mic session usually included) First Fridays Contemporary Writers Series prose ................Narrowsburg Lib., Oct 1, 7:30pm Susan Lustig, Frank Laronca Calling All Poets ..............................................HCC, Oct 1, 8pm “Poe in Person” David Keltz, The Big Read..................................Pavilion at LC Oct, 1, 7:30pm Robert Roth Poetry on the Loose ..............................7 West Street, Warwick, Oct 2, 4pm FREE Poetry in the Gallery ........................................................................................WAA Oct 3, 8pm The Big Read Poetry & Prose Readings, E. A. Poe ............Orange County Libraries, Oct 6-28 Hudson River Poets..............................................................................................NFL Oct 7, 7pm Edgar Allan Poe Stories The Big Read, Dr. Jessica Gerson ............................NFL Oct 13, 7pm Poetry Cafe Walter Worden-David Messineo-Robert Milby......Florida Lib., Oct 15, 7pm FREE Oliver Grech Poetry at the Church ................................Goshen Methodist Church, Oct 25, 7pm Ted Gill ..................................................................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Oct 26, 7pm “The Haunting of Howland” Theremin, ghost & gothic poems ....................HCC Oct 28, 7pm

recreation adults & children Discovery Quests hiking trails ........................................................HHNM Weekends, 9am-4pm Nature at Night ..................................................................................................PEEC Oct 2, 6pm A Taste of Montgomery ......................Veteran’s Memorial Park, Montgomery, Oct 3, 1pm-4pm Catskill Chili Cook-off ............................................................................LMAC Oct 9, 4pm-8pm Candlelight Ghost Tour ..........................................Village Hall, Montgomery, Oct 9 & 16, 7pm Night At The Headquarters & Museum Night Watchman Tours................................................ Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Oct 15 & 16, 5pm-7:30pm Haunted Halloween............................................................................Museum Village, Oct 22-24 Monster Mash The Big Read Costume Party ...................................................................... Golf Club at Mansion Ridge, Monroe, Oct 29, 7:30pm

storyelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Ravens & Wraiths”......Florida Library, Oct 14, 7:30pm FREE

theatre - dinner theatre “Murder at the Sock Hop” The Killing Kompany ............Knight’s Inn, Newburgh, Oct 9, 8pm “Accomplice” ..................................................................................Pavilion at LC, Oct 29-Nov 7

theatre - musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” ..............................................................................CTMW thru Oct 3 “Romeo and Juliet” adapted by Sarah Norris, w/rock music..........................SCCC Oct 15-17 “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” Try-City Stage .............................................. Erie Trackside Manor, Port Jervis, Oct 20-31

theatre - physical “Affectations” Dance Box Theatre, MD ..........................................................NACL Oct 2, 8pm “Floating Brothel” Gold No Trade Theater Company..............................SUNYO Oct 15, 8pm Parallel Exit from New York City................................................................NACL Oct 23, 8pm

Theatre - play “Yankee Tavern” ......................................................Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Oct 3 “Bathroom Humor” ..........................................................................................SCDW Oct 1-10 “Murder by Poe” The Big Read ............................................LC Oct 2, 8pm, MSM Oct 9, 8pm & First Presbyterian Church, Port Jevis Oct 15, 8pm ”The Diary of Anne Frank” ................................................................................LC Oct 9, 8pm “Los Tres Balceneros:”They Ride Like the Purple Haze”Air Pirates Love Radio Theatre .... Pavilion at LC, Oct 16, 8pm “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Auila Theatre Company ..............................LC Oct 23, 8pm Muder Mystery Dessert Theatre The Big Read “The Fall of the House of Kutsher”.............. Middletown Senior Center, Oct 24, 2pm “Dreamer Examines His Pillow” ........................................Liberty Free Theatre, Oct 28-Nov 7

October 2010

Delaware & Hudson CANV VAS

Octobe BW GMMT HCC

= Bethel Woods Center for the Arts = Grand Montgomery Chamber Music & Theater Series Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street, Montgomery 845-457-9867 = Howland Cultural Center, Beacon

MONDAY

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

TUESDAY

LC LMAC NCR NFL

WEDNESDAY

= Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts 845-469-2287 = Liberty Museum & Arts Center = Noble Coffee Roaster’s Cafe, Campbell Hall = Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street 845-563-3619

THURSDAY

Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pmTCinema

Poetry Reading Ted Gill Tuscan Cafe Warwick 7pm

= Neversink Valley Area = Palaia Vineyards, High = Palaia Vineyards Outdo = Paramount Theater, Mi

FRIDAY

Prose Reading...M. McConnell & T. Si

Prose & Poetry Reading“Poe In

Open Mic.....................................................

Open Mic ............................Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pm

Cinema ”Smooth Talk” SUNYO-HH 3:30pm

NVAM PV PVT PT

Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, 8pm Theatre - Musical ........“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” ........CTMW 8pm Music - Jazz.......John Simon et al ......Aroma Thyme, Ellenville 8pm

Music........................Rock the Mountain IV Music ......................................Al Westpha

Music - Jazz ............Chris Cubeta & the L

Poetry Reading ........Susan Lustig, Frank

Theatre - Play......................“Yankee Taver

Theatre - Play ..................“Bathroom Hum

Theatre - Musical ........“Dirty Rotten Scou

Theatre - Musical.....“Recycled Grease” ..

Cinema Oscar 2010 film NFL 6:30pm

Prose Reading Marty McConnell, Tristan Silverman Narrowsburg Library, 7pm

Opera-Concert Anne Tormela

Greenwood Lake Lib. 6:30pm

Poetry Reading “Power of Poe” Goshen LIbrary 7pm

Cinema 4 Poe Stories Goshen Lib., 1:30pm

Prose Reading “Spooky New York” Washingtonville Lib. 7pm

Poetry Reading ................Hudson River Poets ..................NFL 7pm Cinema..........................Black Bear Film F

Cinema............Reel Eclectic Film Series “Jaffa” ................TL 7pm Music ....................................Celtic Thunde

Open Mic ............................Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pm Music ..............................Henderson & Os

Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, 8pm Music - Jazz ....Scott Sharrard Band, Bria

Music - Jazz.......John Simon et al ......Aroma Thyme, Ellenville 8pm Theatre - Play ..................“Bathroom Hum

Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

14 Music ..................................Ladies Night Out ......................PV 7pm Music - Jazz..............Ryan Keberle Double Quartet ......Falcon 7pm

Festival Sugar Loaf Fall Festival Sugar Loaf

Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

Cinema “Shakespeare in Love” SUNYO-HH 3pm

Storytelling.........Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Lib., 7:30pm Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, 8pm Music - Jazz.......John Simon et al ......Aroma Thyme, Ellenville 8pm

Recreation..Night At Headquarters....Wash

Poetry Reading ........................Poetry Cafe

Music ......................................Robert Schif

Music - Jazz...................Sex Mob, Wu Li ...

Dance ......“Rhythm of the Dance” Nat’l D

Theatre - Play......“Murder By Poe” ......Fir

Theatre - Musical ....“Romeo & Juliet” w/ro

Theatre - Physical ..............“Floating Broth

20 Cinema Rod Steiger & Sydney Poitier TL 2pm

Cinema “Homeland: Four Pirtraits of Mative Action” SUNYO-HH 3pm

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

Cinema “Other People’s Money” SUNYO-HH 3pm

Open Mic Logans Well, Florida 9pm

Poetry Reading Ted Gill Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, 7pm

Delaware & Hudson CANV VAS

October 2010

Open Mic ..............................Audition Night ........................PV 7pm Music - Jazz..............Kevin Hays Trio ....The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music- Jazz...........Art Song Jazz ......Corner Cafe, Marlboro, 7:30pm Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, 8pm Music - Jazz.......John Simon et al ......Aroma Thyme, Ellenville 8pm

Poetry Reading“The Haunting of Howland” ....HCC 7pm

Recreation ........................Haunted Hallow Music - Latin..............Pucho & Latin Soul

Music ..................................Gregg Van Gel

Music - Jazz...Jay Collins & Kings County

Music - Classical.........Allen Yueh piano....

Open Mic ............Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pm Music......................................Bruce Peron Music - Jazz.............Doug Wamble ..........The Falcon, Marlboro 7pm Music - Jazz....Ignacio Berroa, Eric Hobso

Theatre - Play.“Dreamer Examines Pillow”Liberty Free Th. 7:30pm Music - Classical........Potluck Concerts .... Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, 8pm Cinema ....................“Phantom of the Ope

Music - Jazz.......John Simon et al ......Aroma Thyme, Ellenville 8pm Dinner Theatre ......................“Accomplice

er 2010

a Museum, Cuddebackville hland Mills oor Tent iddletown

SCCC = Sullivan County Community College SCDW = Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, So. Fallsburg SUNYO (OCCC) = SUNY Orange (Orange County Community College) Orange Hall Theatre & Galleries, 845-341-4891,

ilvermanNarrowsburg Library, 7:30pm

Person” Pavilion at LC 7:30pm

.........Aroma Thyme Bistro, TBA

SUNYO-HH ST TL WAA

SATURDAY

Forum.......Our Natural Heritage: Indigenous Plants & Trees ........................SUNYO 11am-5pm Museum........................60th Anniversary Gala ..............................Museum Village, Monroe,TBA Theatre - Musical ......“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”..............................................CTMW 3pm & 8pm

V Festival ..Tuxedo Ridge, 7pm

Music ........................................Rock the Mountain IV Festival ..............................Tuxedo Ridge, Noon-10pm

l ....................................PV 7pm

Poetry Reading ......................................Robert Roth ..............................................7 West St., Warwick, 4pm

Liars Club ......The Falcon, 7pm

Music ........................................................Lazy Boys ............................................................................PV 7pm

k Laronca ..................HCC 8pm

rn” ................................ST 8pm

Music - Classical....................................Flute Force................St. Andrews Episcopal Ch., So. Fallsburg, 8pm Theatre - Play ......................................“Yankee Tavern” ........................................................................ST 8pm Theatre - Physical........................“Affectations” Dance Box Theatre ..............................................NACL 8pm

mor” ........................SCDW 8pm

Theatre - Play ....................................“Bathroom Humor” ..............................................................SCDW 8pm

undrels” ..................CTMW 8pm

Theatre - Musical.................................“Recycled Grease” ....................Southwinds Theater, Middletown, 8pm

...Southwinds, Middletown, 8pm

Theatre - Play ..........................“Murder By Poe” The Big Read............................................................LC 8pm Music - Jazz........................................The Paul West Trio ..........................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, 8pm

estival ............................Milford

er................................EHT 8pm

sinski ............................PV 7pm

Art Walk ............................Second Saturday in Beacon ............................................................Downtown, alll day Art Walk ..............Second Saturday in Sugar Loaf ..........................................Sugar Loaf, all day

= Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre 845-341-4891 = Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St., Ellenville 845-647-5511 = Thrall Library, Middletown = Wurtsboro Art Alliance

SUNDAY

Festival.................Mystic Music Fest Benefit ......Crystals Ctr, Wurtsboro 11am-6pm Recreation................A Taste of Montgomery ....Veteran’s Memorial Park, 1pm-4pm

Theatre - Play ......................................“Yankee Tavern” ................................................ST 2pm Theatre - Play ....................................“Bathroom Humor”........................................SCDW 2pm Music - Blues ..........................................Blues Festival ..........................................PVT 2:30pm Theatre - Musical ........................“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”..................................CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical...................................“Recycled Grease” ........Southwinds, Middletown, 3pm Music - Classical ............................“Voices of the Clarinet” ....................................WPJC 3pm Music........................................................Ellis Paul, folk ..........Morrison Mansion, OCCC, 3pm Music ........................................................Marc Cohn ....................................................BW 7pm Open Mic..................................................................................2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson 8pm Poetry Reading ................................Poetry in the Gallery ..........................................WAA 8pm

Festival ........................Sugar Loaf Fall Festival..............................................Downton Sugar Loaf

Cinema......................Black Bear Film Festival ......Milford, 10:30am-5pm

Cinema ......................Black Bear Film Festival ............................Milford Theater, 10:30am-11pm

Festival ..........................Sugar Loaf Fall Festival ....................Sugar Loaf

Opera - Cinema..................“Das Rheingold” Live from Met in HD ................................................SCCC 1pm Art Walk ..............................................................Art After Dark ........................................................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pm

Festival ......................Rustic Home Craft Festival ..........BW 11am-dusk Cinema...“The Perils of Pauline” ..Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 1pm

an Charette trio ....Falcon, 7pm

Recreation ......................................Candlelight Ghost Tour ..............................Montgomery Village Hall, 7pm

mor” ........................SCDW 8pm

Music ......................................................Straight Shot ..........................................................................PV 7pm

Theatre - Play ..................“Bathroom Humor” ......................SCDW 2pm

Theatre - Play ....................................“Bathroom Humor” ..............................................................SCDW 8pm

Music ......................................Steve Wells ..............................PV 2:30pm

Theatre - Play ..............................“The Diary of Anne Frank”................................................................LC 8pm

Music - Classical.SFC Shawn Herndon clarinet Egner Hall, West Point, 3pm

DInner Theatre................“Murder at the Sock Hop” ............................................Knight’s Inn, Newburgh, 8pm Music ........................................................Rhett Miller ..........................................................................BW 8pm Theatre - Play ..........................“Murder By Poe” The Big Read........................................................MSM 8pm

Art Tour ...Orange County North Artists Studio Tour ..........Northern Orange County Music - Classical..WCM & CAS Moveable Concert ....Lvngstn Manor CS & CAS, 3pm

hington’s Hdqrtrs, Nwbgh, 5pm-7pm Recreation.....Night At Headquarters ......................Washington’s Hdqrtrs, Newburgh, 5pm-7pm Art Tour...Orange Cty North Artists Studio Tour ......Port Jervis to Nwbgh e..................Florida Library, 7pm Open Mic....Heritage Coffee House ......................Hopewell Presby. Ch., Thompson Ridge, 7pm Music ........................................Bobby “Z”................................PV 2:30pm

ff ..................................PV 7pm Recreation ............................Candlelight Ghost Tour ..................Montgomery Village Hall, 7pm Music - Classic Pop......Janice Hall sings Marlene Dietrich ..GMMT 3pm .......The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm

Dance Co. of Ireland ....LC 8pm

rst Presby. Ch., Port Jervis, 8pm

Music ..........................................Groovy Tuesday............................................................PV 7pm Music - Jazz ....................Todd Sickafoose, Greg Klyma..................The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music.............Steve Vecchioti, Stuart Kabak, Joshua Sanders ............................NCR 7:30pm Music ..................Cindy Cashdollar & Steve James folk guitar ................................RITZ 8pm

Music - Classical..Todd Crow piano ..Central Valley United Meth. Ch,. 3pm Music - Classical ........Newburgh Concert Strings ..................KMM 3pm Music - Folk..........Buskin & Batteau ........Morrision Mansion, OCCC 3pm

ock music ..............SCCC 8pm Music - Classical.....Music of Our Time Delaware Valley Chamber Orch. ......................TT 8pm Music - Folk ..........................Basket Landing............................NACL 3pm

hel” ........................OCCC 8pm Theatre - Musica ....l.............“Romeo & Juliet” w/rock music ..................................SCCC 8pm Theatre - Musical ....“Romeo & Juliet” w/rock music..............SCCC 3pm Theatre - Play ..................Air Pirates Live Radio Theater ..............................Pavilion at LC 8pm Dance ................................Shen Yun Performing Arts ................................................EHT 8pm

ween ..Museum Village, Monroe

Brothers ..................BW 10am der ..............................PV 7pm

y Band....Falcon, Marlboro 7pm ............Monticello HS, 10:30am

Recreation ......Haunted Halloween ....................Museum Village, Monroe Opera - Cinema.....“Boris Godunov” Live from Met in HD ....SCCC Noon

Music ..................................Leilah Dione Ezra ..........Peach Grove Inn, Warwick, 7pm Music ......................................Duo Phonic ......................................................PV 7pm Music - Broadway, Opera....Julie Ziavras & John Cimino ....Auction:7pm, Show:8pm Music - Broadway, Opera, etc.Broadway Concerts Direct Wurtsboro Comm, Ch., 8pm Music - Jazz ..........Hugh Brodie & Cosmic Ensemble ....The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music - Latin ........................Los Lonely Boys ................................................BW 8pm Theatre - Play....................“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”............................LC 8pm

24 Recreation..............Haunted Halloween ............Museum Village, Monroe Theatre - Play..Murder Mystery Dessert Theater ..Mddltwn Senior Ctr, 2pm Music - Classical ......St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble ....Dia:Beacon, 2pm Music ......................................Paul Binotto ..............................PV 2:30pm Music - Classical ........Newburgh Concert Strings ................GMMT 3pm Music - Classic Pop..Music in the Age of Poe The Big Read ....NFL 3pm

Theatre - Physical..................Parallel Exit from NYC ................................NACL 8pm Comedy ..................................Jim Gaffigan ..................................................EHT 8pm

e ..................................PV 7pm

Symposium...9th Annual Catskill Preservation Conf.....LMAC 10am-8pm

Dinner Theatre ......“Accomplice”......................LC Dinner 6pm Show 8pm Cinema..“House on Haunted Hill” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 1pm on ..The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music......................Pamela Moore & George Meyers ....................................PV 7pm Dinner Theatre..............“Accomplice”............LC Lunch 1pm, Show 3pm .....Cornwall Presby. Ch. 7:30pm Music - Jazz ..............Edmar Castaneda, Szelrozsa ........The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Opera - Concert..“The Bad Boys” ....Union Presby. Ch., Newburgh, 3pm era” 1925 ................PT 7:30pm Theatre - Play. ........“Dreamer Examines His Pillow” ..Liberty Free Theatre, 7:30pm Music - Jazz, Rock, etc....West Point Concert Band, etc. Trophy Point AMph. 6pm

e”....LC Dinner 6pm, Show 8pm

Theatre - Play“Dreamer Examines His Pillow”..Liberty Free Th. 7:30pm Music - Folk............Mike & Ruthy......Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburgh, 8pm

October 2010

Delaware & Hudson CANV VAS

Art & Photography receptions

art EXHIBITS CAG ........................................................................Catskill Artists Gallery 36 Main St., Liberty 845-292-8967 CAS..........................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor DVAC ..............................................................................................Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg KMM..................................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh LMAC ..................................................................................................................Liberty Museum & Arts Center, MAC ............................................................................................Mountaindale Art Center & Sculpture Garden SUNYO ........SUNY Orange (Orange Cty. Community College) Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 WAA ..................................................................................................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance

art EXHIBITS Metal Works Sculpture Garden ..............................................................................MAC ongoing Paul Kean paintings & fun signs ..............................................Kean Artworks, Wurtsboro, ongoing Goshen Art League ....................................................Bare Fitness, 31 John St., Goshen, ongoing Imi Knoebel 24 Colors-for Blinky, 1977 ....................................................Dia: Beacon, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery..........................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Mike Jaroszko luminist........................................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing John, Paul & WIlliam Gould ”Print Mania”. art & photography ................KMM thru Sep 30 20 Artists ........................................................UpFront ExhibitionSpace, Port Jervis, thru Sep 30 Willard Schadt paintings....................................................................................DVAC thru Oct 2 CAG Members & Friends Show ..............................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty, thru Oct 3 “Best Works” ............................................................Marion Royael Gallery, Beacon, thru Oct 3 Diana Lesser & Todd C. Anderson “Painting the Still in Life” .................................................. The ARTery, Milford, thru Oct 4 Roberta Rosenthal paintings ......................Ellenville Hospital Healing Arts Gallery, thru Oct 8 Jack Thrombly “Meaning Forms” ..................................Falcon Gallery, Marlboro, thru Oct 12 “Memento Mori: Contenporary Vanitas Exhibition ......Ann St. Gallery, Nwbrgh, thru Oct 30 Mickie McMillen “From the Hudson Valley to Greece” Pine Bush Area Arts Council.............. Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru Oct 31 “The View From Here: Storm King at Fifty” ....Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, thru Nov 14 Sol LeWitt ....................................................................................................Dia:Beacon, thru Nov “Our Natural Heritage:Indigenous Trees, Beauty & Importance” ..........SUNYO thru Nov 3 “Our Natural Heritage: Indigenous Animal Wildlife in this Region” ......SUNYO thru Nov 3 Kate Ferrier & Pat Mohr Colorful Musings & Still Life in Muted Tones .................................. SUNYO Newburgh Campus, thru Nov 11 Robert Score Bicentennial Series, pen & ink ..........Di Bello Gallery, Montgomery, thru Dec 31 Marilyn Richter acrylics, Catherine Hagerty oils......Di Bello Gallery, Montgomery, thru Dec 31

NEW art EXHIBITS Art Based on Edgar Allan Poe themes The Big Read ..........Executive Suite, Goshen, Oct 1-29 Joe Carroll & George Hayes: “Here and There”, Linda Lydecker............................................ Wallkill River School, Oct 1-31 “Dark Art” Student works The Big Read ............................Greenwood Lake Library, Oct 1-31 Student Art Show on Poe Themes The Big Read....................Newburgh Free Library, Oct 1-22 “Geometric/Abstraction/Color” ......................................................................WAA Oct 2-Nov 7 “It All Comes Out In The Wash: The Joys of Washday”, art & photography ............................ Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Oct 3-Nov 7 Linda Bayer Domanoski painting, Eric Baylin sculpture ..................................DVAC Oct 8-30 Orange County North Studio Tour Preview Weekend................................................................ Seligmann Estate, Sugar Loaf, Oct 9 & 10, Noon-5pm “What Was I Thinking” Art for Artists Themselves RedEft Gallery, Wurtsboro, Oct 16-Nov 13 “Glitter and Glass” 9 artists ..............................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty, Oct 16-Nov 21 “Utopis and Wallpaper” ........................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, Oct 16-Nov 21 Evan Schlomann “CTRLIMG” ........................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick Oct 17-Nov 20 “MGM Grand”................................................................Callicoon Fine Arts, Oct 31, Noon-5pm

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS CAS..........................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor HPG........................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, 224 Broad Street, Milford LC...............................................................Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” ....................................................ongoing Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown Historic Montgomery ....................................................Montgomery Village Museum, ongoing James Douglas Hiller, Donna Dolan Jacke, et al Nick Zungoli “Trifecta” ................................................Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, ongoing John, Paul & WIlliam Gould ”Print Mania”. art & photography ................KMM thru Sep 30 Julia Samuels “Brushed Barns” ..........................................................................HPG thru Oct 3 Kerri Brewer “Beer and Brats” ..........................................River Market, Barryville, thru Oct 3 “Visual Escapes” Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ................................................................ Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, thru Oct 8 Tillman Crane & Friends....................................................................................CAS thru Oct 10 “First Comes the Camera” 21 photographers ..............Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro, thru Oct 11 Catskills Preservation Exhibit ..................................Liberty Musem & Arts Center, thru Oct 31 LaVerne Black, Aleksey, Nuzhnov, Les Stone ....Rolling River Gallery, Parksville, thru Nov 28 Local Montgomery Artists & Photographers ........Di Bello Gallery, Montgomery, thru Dec 31

NEW photography EXHIBITs Mary Ann Glass, Christine Irvin, Rita Pignato ........................................................thru Sep 30 “Bellissima! 3 Women Photographers in Italy” Bank Square Coffee House, Beacon Lois Lipper “Largely Landscapes” ......................................................................KMM Oct 2-31 Quintet Photographers ......................................................................LC Galleries, Oct 8-Nov 16 Aggie Rizzo........................................................................................................ HPG Oct 9-Nov 7

Delaware & Hudson CANV VAS

October 2010

“Geometric/Abstraction/Color” ..................................................................................WAA Oct 2 TBA “It All Comes Out In The Wash: The Joys of Washday”, art & photography ...................................... Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Oct 3, 1pm-4pm Linda Bayer Domanoski painting, Eric Baylin sculpture................................DVAC Oct 8, 7pm-9pm Orange County North Studio Tour ............................Seligmann Estate, Sugar Loaf, Oct 8, 6pm-8pm Quintet Photographers ......................................................................LC Galleries, Oct 9, 2pm-4:30pm Joe Carroll & George Hayes, “Here & There” Linda Lydecker .......................................................... Wallkill River School, Oct 9, 3pm-6pm Aggie Rizzo............................................................................................................ HPG Oct 9, 6pm-9pm “Glitter and Glass” 9 artists ....................................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty, Oct 16, 4pm-8pm Evan Schlomann “CTRLIMG” ..............................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick Oct 17, 3pm-6pm Lois Lipper “Largely Landscapes” ..................................................................KMM Oct 23, 1pm-4pm “What Was I Thinking” Art for Artists Themselves ......RedEft Gallery, Wurtsboro, Oct 23, 6pm-8pm Catskills Preservation Exhibit ..................................Liberty Musem & Arts Center, Oct 31, 7pm-9pm

museum exhibits Meet the Animals ................................................................HHNM Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm The Sturgeon Swims through Time..................................................................HHNM Noon-4pm Grey Towers House Tours ..........................................................Weekends, Grey Towers, Milford Preservation of 19th Century Life, Village Tours ................................Museum Village, Monroe Montgomery Bicentennial Exhibit ................................................Montgomery Village Museum “Summer Camps of the early 1900’s in Pike County” ..............The Columns, Milford, ongoing Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ......................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives..........................................Hurleyville 60th Anniversary Exhibit Gala ..................................................Museum Village, Monroe, Oct 2 Armed With Needles-Sewing for Soldiers ..........................................................NVAM Ongoing Slavery ................................................................................................................KMM thru Dec 31

Books & Clubs Book Discussions The Big Read related to Edgar Allan Poe....Orange County Libraries, Oct 2-Nov 3 Book Discussion Poe Works, The Big Read ..............................Highland Falls, Library, Oct 5, 1:30pm A Lillian Jackson Braun Book Club ..............................................Jeffersonville Library, Oct 13, 6pm Book Discussion Great Books, Shared Inquiry Method of discussion ......NFL Oct 22 & 27, 11:30am Book Discussion “Killer View” w/Suzanne Christensen..............Newburgh Free Library, Oct 25, 7pm Book Discussion “Things Fall Apart” ........................................Narrowsburg Library, Oct 26, 4:30pm Book Signing Linda Zimmerman “Back from the Dead” ......Wallkill River School, Oct 29, 7pm-9pm Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip ....................................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am Walden Chess Club all ages, all level ........................Walden Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays 6pm Friday Night Chess ..........................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays 6pm Knit and Stitch ..............................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org.............................Last Sundays, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild ..................................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Listen to recorded classical music, open informal discussion follows. Photography Club ..........................................................................Walden Library, 2nd Mondays. 7pm Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop......................................2nd Monday, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church, Chester Scrabble Players ..................................................................................Walden Library, Thursdays, 6pm Science Cafe “How Evolution Happens: Lessons from Molecular Biology” ........................................ Diana’s, New Windsor, Oct 27, 7pm UFO United Friends Observer Society ..................................Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Oct 6, 7pm

Children and teens calendar HHNM HHNM IM PEEC

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall Interactive Museum, 23 Center St., Middletown Pocono Environmental Education Ctr, Dingmans Ferry

books Together Book-Talk kids & adults “Ben and Me” ......................Fallsburg Library, Sep 27, 7pm The Big Read books crafts, films etc., related to Edgar Allan Poe - kids & teens........................ Orange County Libraries, Oct 6-Nov 3 Storytime 2-5 yrs ..................................................................Jeffersonville Lib., Oct 19,26, Noon Storytime 2-5 yrs ....................................................................Narrowsburg Lib., Oct 20, 27, 2pm Storytime 2-5 yrs ........................................................................Callicoon Lib., Oct 21, 28, Noon

Lectures Making E.A.Poe T-shirts Debbie Lane - Teens - The Big Read ..........Monroe Lib., Oct 5, 5pm Falling Leaves Tree ID 10 yrs and under..........................................................PEEC Oct 9, 1pm

Museum Meet The Animals ..........................................HHNM Cornwall-on-Hudson, Weekends, 2:30pm ”The Sturgeon Swims Through Time”..............HHNM Cornwall-on-Hudson, Daily, Noon-4pm Hands on Exhibits ......................................................................................IM Sundays, 2pm-4pm

Music & Prose “The Awakening Tales”by Ann Krupski & Kazzrie Jazen ............................................................ Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, Oct 9, 5pm

recreation & Halloween Discovery Quests hiking trails ..........................................HHNM Cornwall Weekends, 9am-4pm Nature at Night ....................................................................................................PEEC Oct 2, 6pm Candlelight Ghost Tour ............................................Village Hall, Montgomery, Oct 9 & 16, 7pm Night At The Headquarters & Museum Night Watchman Tours ................................................ Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Oct 15 & 16, 5pm-7:30pm Haunted Halloween ..........................................Museum Village, Monroe, Oct 22-24, 11am-4pm Haunted Hay Rides ................OC Farmers Museum, Montgomery, Oct 22-24, 7:30pm-11:30pm PEEC A BOO non-scary family oriented trail ........................................PEEC Oct 30, 4pm-7pm

Destination: Wurtsboro Wurtsboro Calendar Art & Photogrpahy Exhibits “Geometric/Abstract/Color” Wurtsboro Art Alliance - Oct 2-Nov 7 “First Comes the Camera” thru Oct 11 “What Was I Thinking” Oct 16-Nov 13 Red Eft Gallery “Fire and Ice” by Marlene Wiedenbaum

The Red Eft Gallery is presenting First Comes The Camera thru October 11. Some works are "pure" photographs, some combine photographs with other media, and some refer to or are inspired by photographs; but all of the artists create works which challenge, delight, and surprise. “This is an exciting show and one which offers special insights into the creative process,” says curator Phil Sigunick. A show entitled What Was I Thinking will run from October 16 thru November 13. A “behind the scenes look” at work twenty-one artists don't necessarily do for public consumption. and is sometimes playful, sometimes experimental, always personal. This is art made by the artists for themselves, “a rare opportunity to see the more intimate side of the artist's process and definitely not to be missed!”, continued Sigunick. The artists' reception is on Saturday, October 23rd, from 6pm to 8pm. Red Eft is located at 159 Sullivan Street,

Poetry Reading Poetry in the Gallery Wurtsboro Art Alliance - Oct 3, 8pm Music - Broadway-Opera-Operetta Broadway Concerts Direct-Oct 23, 8pm Wurtsboro Community Church

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Much is in the news and on TV about the above date and the various Mayan, Hopi, et al predictions. On October 26 at 6:00pm, Dr. Bill and Sue Wiand will be expounding on the Earth Changes that you have been heatring about, at the Crystals Center in Wurtsboro..

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Destination: South Fallsburg The Force is with Us Thanks to a grant from of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance & New York State Council of the Arts, Flute Force, a group of female flutists, is offering the New York premiere of composer Richard Arnest's Jacobs Ladder, along with music by Telemenn, Stravinsky, Eugene Bozza and “Force” member Elizabeth Brown, who will be performing her own composition for the Music at St. Andrews series on October 2 at 8:00pm in St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Route 42 in South Fallsburg, Reservations are required for this free performance. 845-292-8967. New Kids Library Program The Fallsburg Library is taking part in a program in cooperation with Sullivan County Community College and The New York Council for the Humanities. Together-Book Talk for Kids and Parents program offers a forum for parents and their 9-to-11 year old children to come together to talk about books and ideas at their local library. The sessions alternate between picture books and novels, all of which explore key themes in American life such as courage, freedom, and being American. The Fallsburg Library is located at 12 Railroad Plaza in South Fallsburg. For more information and to register beforehand phone 845-436-6067. Dinner and refreshments will be provided.

The Farce is With Us Called “the masters of modern farce” by The New York Times, the team of Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore are among

the most produced playwrights in the world for over three decades. Billy and Jane have been honored by the Red Cross for their humanitarian work and also by the New Jersey Education Association for their work with high school theater students. They also sponsor full and part-time scholarships for students of technical theater at New Jersey’s Brookdale Community College, having put over 30 students through college since the scholarship program began in 1997. Billy Van Zandt fell in love with Lucille Ball and her brand of physical humor back in junior high, which launched him into writing and starring in a series of plays Jane Milmore, who began her career as an actress, began her writing collaboration with Billy with the 1979 play Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. Jane has created and developed mny television series. Their play Bathroon Humor is being staged by the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop at the Rivoli Theater in South Fallsburg on weekends from October 1 thu October 20, followed by Dracula, October 22-31. Phone: 845-436-5336 for reservations.

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DESTINATION...Newburgh - Marlboro John Moultrie has his passport in order, and will be travelling from his stint at the helm of the Paramount Theatre in Middletown to the Newburgh Free Library on October 16 for his 1:00pm Cooking with John series which will involve how to make sushi. He says it’s “a fun and interactive program.” Recipes and samples will be given out. Register at 845-563-3619 or 845-563-3618.

See what awaits you as you follow the night watchman on his rounds in the old museum and headquarters at historic Wa s h i n g t o n ' s Headquarters, 84 Liberty Street, on October 15th and October 16th from 5:00pm thru 7:30pm. Tours approximately every half hour. Reservations are necessary. Call 845-562-1195 to reserve a tour. Children 6 and under are free.

Newburgh City Historian Mary McTamaney has her passport in order and will stroll through the Old Town Cemetery with you on Saturday, October 23 at 2:00pm in the graveyard where Edgar Allan Poe proposed to his fiance Sarah. This unique event is part of The Big Read celebration. Learn about the history of the cemetery and Poe’s thoughts on melancholy and death. Check out the Newburgh Free Library and all other Orange County libraries for the many events hosted by the Orange Library Association. You won’t need a passport and you won’t have to travel to Italy to hear tenors, baritones and basses portraying some intriguing evil characters from great operas at a benefit for Opera Company of the Highlands’ 2nd fund raiser of the season at the Union Presbyterian Church in Balmville for Halloween on October 31 at 3:00pm. For information: 845-562-5381.

In addition to the regular art show, Lois Lipper, photographs, and the ongoing document exhibit, Slavery, at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, a special performance will be given by the Newburgh Chamber Strings on October 17 at 3:00pm as a benefit for the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, featuring Arnold Schonberg’s (pictured here) masterpiece Transfigured Night. Admission is free and donations are accepted at the door. Please see PAGE 4 for program details. And another benefit will take place at the Ann Street Gallery on October 24 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, the 2nd Annual High Tea Party Fundraiser, Enjoy the afternoon tasting a fine selection of teas from Harney & Sons and assorted sandwiches and desserts, while listening to live chamber music by violinist Amanda Leddin. In conjunction with the Memento Mori: Contemporary Vanitas Exhibition on display in the gallery, a lecture will be held

on the genre of "vanitas" painting by Kirstin Lamb, artist and professor at Brown University. A raffle drawing and tea leaf readings will add to the entertainment. For more information on and required reservations for the tea party, or regarding the Ann Street Gallery, contact Virginia Walsh, Director at 845-562-6940 ext. 119. The Ritz Theater and La Bella Strings, in association with the Bardavon, honor legendary guitar maker Tom Humphrey with a continuing series of performances. On October 16 at 8:00pm, the Ritz will welcome Cindy Cashdollar with Steve James. Cashdollar is one of the foremost steel and dobro players in the country. National Public Radio listeners can catch Cashdollar’s frequent guest appearances on Garrison Keillor's live radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. James is a well known name among devotees of contemporary acoustic folk and blues. His instrumental versatility on guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, mandolin, and guitar-banjo has made him a favorite on the Country/Blues scene. Phone: 845-784-1199.

Nestled in the Yellow Bird Building. along the festive Newburgh Waterfront, near many fine restaurants, and the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry, Downing Film center invites you to experience film in a setting unlike any other in the Hudson Valley. Betty Hutton and John Lund (The Perils of Pauline) and Vincent Price (House on Haunted Hill) are among the Hollywood celebrities in a new film series, Sunday Matinee at the Downing. Showings include shorts and other surprises, and fresh popcorn. Seats are large and comfy. On October 10 (Perils), OCCC Encore program and Mount St. Mary College film instructor, Frank Kieck, will lead a Q&A. And to celebrate Halloween on October 31, come in costume, win prizes, enjoy House on Haunted Hill and snack on cider and donuts. Reservations are necessary. Phone:845561-3686 and 1-800-974-8592.

Jazz great Hugh Brodie can be seen and heard at The Falcon along with The Cosmic Ensemble on October 23 at 7:00pm. Phone 845-236-7970 For The Big Read in Orange County libraries this month, Lydia Adams Davis will perform songs of Edgar Allan Poe’s time at the NFL on October 21 at 3pm. Ruthanne Schempf accompanies.

Young Palettes on the Hudson Funded by Orange County Executive, Ed Diana, the “Banner Project” was a Newburgh School System contest for which elementary school kids created artworks for the Hudson River Quadricenntenial. Some of the winning art can now be seen on lamposts along Colden Street at the foot of Broadway near the Newburgh Campus of Orange County Community College. More of the students’ artworks will be added later. People can donate to this worthy cause to help with the transferring of the drawings and paintings for permanent installation. For information, email info@trestle.org..

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Live from the Met in HD: A "New" Viable Medium. By Derek Leet When opera was created, it was available to its admirers "live" for their viewing and listening pleasures. Then came recordings and people could listen to opera on their phonographs. This was followed by opera singers performing on radio enabling people to hear a live performance at home. And then came televised performances with live opera both heard and seen at home. The advantages and disadvantages of all of the above should be obvious to any opera observer/listener. After watching the Live from the Met in HD series at Sullivan County Community College I began to realize that this was a new medium that offered something none of the above could offer. No live in-theatre performance, no reading a libretto along with listening to a recording, no watching a live performance on TV at home with its distractions and tiny subtitles offers what Live in HD can: Opera as Drama. I have always held to the uncommon belief that opera was first and foremost "theatre". After all, if the situations and characters are not believeable, why watch? Stay home and listen to a recording. 99% of the world scoffs at that perception and dismisses me with "everyone knows opera is music first and foremost. Period!" With the conservatory training available to singers today, most opera singers are now singing-actors. We see that with Live in HD as we multi-task ourselves - watch them close up while our ears digest the music, watch them and digest the music while the words flash across the screen, be aware of the music juxtaposed with the titles as we watch the actors and hear them sing. (And why not multi-task ourselves since opera is a collaboration of multifaceted crafts?) I realized that, as a medium, Live in HD was its own "message" at an “HDcast” of Aida. During a vocal passage, a paean to her lover, Aida was singing in a major key. But when the words of a negative comment flashed across the supertitles screen I heard a measure written in a minor key. Certainly Verdi agrees with me. For him to write that way, the drama surely took precedence over the music. It dictated to him what to compose, rather than have him go on with a “happy” major-key melody. I had always wondered why the third act

of La Boheme bored me "live", Thanks to an HDcast while reading the excellently translated English Rene Pape supertitles, I was entranced with the underlying behavorial aspects in Boheme's third act and it was no longer tedious to watch as drama. And neither was Eugene Onegin, an opera I never liked "live" or on recordings. But the superb acting and excellent titles made the opera "work" for me dramatically. And because of that, it worked musically too for the first time. My realization really had its strongest reaction with last season's Turandot. Anyone can write a melody. Giacomo Puccini, Jerome Kern, Hank Williams or the girl next door. Carried a bit farther, anyone who writes classical music can write an aria. And in the case of Turandot there is a lovely aria titled Tu che di gel sei cinta, sung by “Liu” I have seen Turandot many times but it was only through the magic of Live in HD that I came to realize that the genius of Puccini is not in that aria. Talent, yes. Genius, no. His genius lies in the 10 minutes or so before the aria for which he composed gloriously beautiful dramatic (“non-aria”) music. Because I was multi-tasking I saw that we, the audience, weren’t the only ones observing Liu, and therein lies the magic of Live in HD. It has always seemed a contrived moment when the tenor kisses the icy princess Turandot and she instantly "melts". It never worked for me. This time I was able to notice Turandot watching and listening to Liu. I realized that HERE Puccini and his librettists planted the seed of the "melting of Turandot". You could see the energy of the loving words being uttered by Liu in that 10 minute section affecting Turandot and preparing her for the forthcoming kiss. Her surrender then became beliveable and gave the sacrifice of Liu’s life even more poignancy than before. It is all there in the drama, thanks to HD. Live from the Met’s new season at Sullivan County Community College begins in October with showings of Wagner's Das Rheingold and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with Rene Pape. Phone: 845-434-5750, ext. 4472 for tickets.

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Art and Music Unite in Utopia

This composite photo shows the murals to the left and right of the main stairwell at Livingston Manor Central School.

Walk into almost any school lobby today and it's likely to be fairly institutional and plain-looking, with bare walls, cold floors and harsh lighting. But walk into the lobby at the Livingston Manor Central School (LMCS), and it's like time-travelling to a century past. One look skyward, to the left and to the right of the grand marble central staircases, and it's clear why. (see photo) Six panoramic murals that portray a utopian ideal of America reside there, three on each side of the ornate balustrades, surrounded by enormous, carved-oak wall borders, soaring high above the ground floor. The wallpaper murals, titled "Vues d'Amerique du Nord," were designed in 1834 by Jean-Julien Deltil, and blockprinted by the renowned Zuber et Cie wallpaper company in France. Close inspection of the works reveal a typical 19th-century European view of America as an ideal and perfect society, where all races and classes of people were imagined to be equal and free. Art enthusiast and Weekend of Chamber Music artistic director Judith Pearce was struck by the imposing panels when she first encountered them a few years ago, and by how unusual it seemed to

find them installed a small, rural public school. But the Livingston Manor School was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), President Franklin D. Andrew Waggoner Roosevelt's New Deal answer to the Great Depression, and it wasn't unusual for an agency designed to bring hope and renewal to America to integrate the arts into its projects. The school and its Zuber panels opened to the public in 1939, more than 100 years after the idealistic "Views of North America" murals were created. Taking inspiration from the historic panels, a unique exhibition and concert series is slated to begin opening day of The Catskill Art Society's (CAS) open call exhibition, Utopia: the Real and the Ideal in the Pursuit of Social Democracy. Works in response to the Zuber panels by 13 contemporary artists were chosen for the exhibition. In creating the concert series, dubbed Music in America: 1780 to 2010, Pearce said, "We agreed that our musical interpretation of "Utopia" should be in the

context of music as a significant element of life as it was back then. Looking at the experience of the Europeans who came over to America in the late 18th and 19th centuries, music was crucial to their idea of a utopian society." WCM presents two 'moveable concerts' at 3pm October 16 and November 6, aptly beginning with early music under the Zuber panels in the school lobby, and then moving to the nearby CAS for contemporary music, surrounded by new works at the gallery. On October 16, music for the first half in the school lobby presents Haydn, Corelli, Pleyel and Francis Hopkinson, who, in his dedication of his Seven Songs to George Washington in 1788, called himself "the first Native of the United States who has written a Musical Composition." The second half of the concert at CAS presents the world premiere of American composer Andrew Waggoner's "5 Singles." Of the music composed for the WCM and the CAS, Waggoner says "The jumping-off point for each [miniature] was a different painting in the series of varied, sometimes hallucinatory, always imaginative responses to the wonderful Zuber wall panels in the Livingston Manor school. I love the vitality of these pieces, their unfettered re-imaginings of the originals." This part of the program also includes music by Steve Reich and Henry Cowell. Flutist Judith Pearce, violinist Sunghae Anna Lim, oboist Matt Sullivan, cellist Caroline Stinson and harpsichordist Kenneth Hamrick perform. Baritone Anthony Turner joins them in November. For more information: 845-436-4227.

Free For Fall The Liberty Free Theatre has begun work for its Fall season after a brief hiatus. Artistic Director, Paul Austin, has returned from playing Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen for the Centenary celebration of the world-famous Physics Dept. of the University of Oklahoma. Dana Priebe, (seen here) Marshall Shnider and Gabriel Sloyer will begin rehearsals for Tony and Pulitzer recipient John Patrick Shanley’s The Dreamer Examines His Pillow. Tentative dates at press time were October 28 thru November 7. The theatre will present a double bill of Albee’s The Sandbox and Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape shortly thereafter. For information: 845-292-3788.

Tennanah Lake Art Susan Moody Ward of The Outsider's Studio Collective is hosting a group art show entitled H2O, October 9 thru October 30. The exhibition showcases the work of local artists exploring water as an element, ingredient, source of life and natural beauty. The show takes place in the Boat House Cafe, Lake's End, in Tennanah Lake. The work featured will re-envision, depict, or employ water as a medium in itself. Opening Reception, October 9, from 2pm thru 5pm. For information 607-498-4496. 14

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Dining Out - Dining In at Lycian Centre For some time now, the patrons of Lycian Centre have indicated to the powers that be (Richard and Susan Logothetis and the Board of Directors, King’s Theatre Company) that they would be interested in dining at the Centre prior to seeing a production. This is not an uncommon wish, as other surveys have indicated similar wishes on the part of many theatre and concert-goers to dine in-theatre.. And so the Lycians considered “food in conjunction with a show? Let’s try it”. Enter: a new dinner-theatre program to complement the many successful venues at Lycian: the Main Stage, the Pavilion, the free summer ourdoor concert series Music on the Lawn and the indoor/outdoor summer theatre, Theatre by the Lake.. Enter: Rupert Holmes, an AmericanBritish composer, singer-songwriter, musician and author of plays, novels and stories, best known for his number one pop hit Escape (The Piña Colada Song) and the song Him, which reached the number 6 position on the Hot 100 U.S. pop chart, both in 1979, and Drood Rupert Holmes (originally The Mystery of Edwin Drood); and his 2007 Drama

Shandelee Pianist Returns Allen Yueh performed for the Shandelee Music Festival in 2004 at the age of twelve and again in 2006. He returns on Friday, October 20 for a 10:30am performance in to Monticello High School . The public is welcome. Start the day off with music! Phone: 845-439-5519 or 845-439-3277. CANVAS DIRECTORY

Desk Award-winning book for the Broadway musical Curtains. Holmes’ thriller Accomplice was chosen to open the series BUT there were set requirements that needed amending for the Lycian Pavilion. Enter: Orange County Toursim director Susan Cayea. Thanks to a longstanding two-generation family friendship with the Holmes family, she was able to arrange for him to assist with a new set design plan and for him to appear at a rehearsal in Sugar Loaf to speak with the cast of Lycian’s inaugural dinner-theatre presentation. So instead of a “dining out” column, this is our “dining in” column. Enter: Beth Boylan proprieter of Country Courtesy Caterers of Goshen. Having used Boylan’s services at previous events, the Lycian directors cast her company in the role of meal preparers for the six performances of Accomplice that begin on October 29. Keeping it simple, traditional dinners will be buffet-style with a somewhat lighter fare of salads and sandwiches for the Sunday matinee lunches. Meals include desserts, coffee, iced tea, and water. Show includes thrills, chills, fun and lots of surprises. Call 845-469-2287 for tickets.

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BLOOMINGBURG - Industrial property with old farmhouse. Needs work. 3.6 acres, pond, view of Shawangunk Ridge. $249,999. Easy FOR RENT - RETAIL SUGAR LOAF store for rent. 250 sq.ft. $700 access to Routes 17 & 17K. 845-926-4646. including utilities, ideal for artisan. Main street (10/10) of SUGAR LOAF, New York arts and crafts TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE - TOWN OF village. Call 845-469-6808. (10/10) WALLKILL - Handyman Special - 3 bedroom, 1&1/2 bath Townhouse. Cental HELP WANTED Location Town of Wallkill off 211, near ADVERTISING SALES - CANVAS has openings shopping. Good investment property. Vinyl for commissioned sales reps. In addition to Orange siding. All appliances. Needs work. By owner. & Sullivan Counties, we cover neighboring hamlets As is, $140,000 or best offer. Call 845-649of Beacon, Marlboro, Matamoras, Milford, Walker 0340 and leave message. (10/10) Valley and Ellenville, 845-926-4646. SERVICES LIMOUSINE - PINE BUSH Pine Bush Taxi. PSYCHOTHERAPY Local and NYC area airports, etc. Courteous FORESTBURGH psychotherapist, formerly and prompt service. Competetive prices. 845Manhattan, with appreciation for your artistic 283-8294. (10/10)

CANVAS DIRECTORY PERFORMANCE VENUES

Opera Company of the Highlands Staged and Concert Performances “The Bad Boys” October 31, 3pm Union Presbyterian Church, Balmville 845-496-9626

Air Pirates Radio Theater Exclusive Live Radio Theater Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf 845-469-7563 www.airpiratesradiotheater.com

DINING

Downing Film Center Independent, Classic & Foreign Films 19 Front Street, Newburgh 845-561-3686 www.downingfilmcenter.com

Corner Cafe Homemade Food, Bakery Items Jazz Events, Book Exchange The Plaza, Route 9W, Marlboro 845-236-1550

CANVAS DIRECTORY BUSINESS SERVICES Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd General Practice Law 555 Hudson Valley Ave., New Windsor 845-561-0550 Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation Municipal & Private Monroe. 845-893-0134 www.HudsonValleyPlanning.com

LIBRARIES Newburgh Free Library Information & Inspiration 124 Grand St., Newburgh 845-563-3600 www.newburghlibrary.org

Peggi’s Place Over 30 years experience in Hair Care 238 Main Street, Cornwall 845-534-3351

MUSEUMS Museum Village A Living Museum of 19th Century Life 1010 Route 17M, Monroe 845-782-8247 www.museumvillage.org

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS Di Bello Gallery Art, Photos, Crafts, Montgomery Memorabilia 3 Wallkill Avenue, Montgomery 845-457-2773

Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts Music-Theatre-Cinema-Art Exhibits King’s Highway, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 www.lyciancentre.com

Hudson Street Cafe 237 Hudson Street Cornwall-on-Hudson 845-534-2450 www.hudsonstreetcafe.com

Artist’s Corner Watercolor Essentials Robert J. O’Brien AWS NWS will teach a waterolor workshop sponsored by the North East Watercolor Society in conjunction with their 34th Annual International Exhibit. The class is open to all abilities and will focus on the essential techniques necessary to produce a good watercolor painting. Basic watercolor techniques will be reviewed. Students will explore composition and value patterns and their relationship to the painting process. Subject matter will include, landscape, florals and close focus motif. To register: 607-637-3412.

Physical Theater Acting Workshop Megan Campisi will give a workshop on the LeCoq techinque of physical theater. Tannis Kowalchuk of NACL theatre in Highland Lake explains, “the LeCoq technique is similar to our technique in that it is a very structured training that can manifest in various theatrical bodies and companies and then play out in a variety of styles of performance. But we start physically when we build shows (as do the Lecoq folks) and it gives us devised theatre creators a foundation since we usually do not start with scripts.” Campisi’s workshop will be at OCCC on Oct. 13 at 2:30pm. For info: 845-341-4891.

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Music and Food, A la Carte and Potluck Two of Orange County’s ongoing chamber music series take place in Central Valley and Cornwall-on-Hudson. Music, A La Carte Janice Nimetz, producer of Music in Central Valley often presents concert performers who are aligned with major colleges throughout the U.S. Her first concert of the season features Vassar faculty member and wellknown concert pianist Todd Crow. Pianist Crow has been widely acclaimed for performances in North and South America and Europe. He made his Todd Crow Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the American Symphony in 1992 and his London orchestral debut at the Barbican Centre with the London Philharmonic in 1986. He has also been heard in recital or in chamber music at Washington’s National Gallery of Art, London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The October 17, 3:00pm concert will be at the Central Valley United Methodist Church, 12 Smith Clove Road. The concert is free to the public with a suggested donation at the door. The church is handicapped accessible. Refreshments are served. For information phone 845-928-6570.

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Music, Potluck Pianist Ruthanne Schempf and violinist Emily Faxon co-host the Potluck Music Series. Here, potluck refers to the performers and repetoire. Major area professionals, including West Point Chamber Musicians, perform here “when available”. It is always fun to show up at the Friday night concerts and see who will entertain you. Singers, string quartets, alto sax and tromboine duos, choirs, soloists, piano trios, et al are possible at anytime. The first concert of the season, themed “variety”, will be on October 29 at 7:30pm in the Corwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Food, A la Carte & Potluck Looking for a place to dine prior to the concerts? Just 21 minutes from Music in Central Valley and across the street from the Potluck Concerts at 237 Hudson Street is our advertiser (see below) Hudson Street Cafe. This delightful eaterie is open for dinner Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 9:00pm, and Sundays until 2:00pm. Every day chef/owner Donna Hammond mixes her own special recipe. “It all starts with flour, but ends up as a heavenly tasty treat that we call the Daily Scone. But come fast, ‘cause I only make a few and they go fast.” A la Carte: How about some buttermilk fried chicken. a burger, pasta, burrito, soup with bagel chips, and there’s always a kid’s menu and delicious food for carnivores, vegetarians, vegans and for those with gluten, dairy and other food allergies, and whenever possible, they serve locally

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At the Hudson Street Cafe the food is always delicious no matter what your dietary preference.

grown and organic foods. Potluck: Daily specials, of course. This writer personally recommends the Cafe and its outdoor (season permitting) sidewalk tables. Just by accident one day I happened by for lunch, ordered a BLT/avocado wrap and enjoyed the freshly prepared food. Bacon never tasted so good. Mmmmmm. But, I’ll miss the daily scones. I live too far away.