D & H CANVAS December 2016

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Orange, Pike &Sullivan Counties, Marlboro & Ellenville

December 2016

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Publisher’s Column

by Barry Plaxen A New Epithet for CANVAS I recently greeted Studio Jewelry Artist Cathe Linton at an art exhibit reception at the Wisner Library in Warwick. When I told her that I was happy to see her out and about at an art reception, she replied, “We artists need to stick together...like glue.” Her face then brightened as if a bulb lit up over her head and she added, “Glue...like you! CANVAS is the glue that helps us stick together!”

Thanks Cathe, for the beautifully phrased acclamation/panegyric/homage!

New Great Singing & Comedic Actors Two wonderful new-to-me performers came to my attention in November.

Conductor Ron De Fesi introduced basso Nathan Resika to local audiences in his concert version of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin for Hudson Opera Theatre.

Resika is a magnificent singing-actor who easily combines beautiful singing with deeply emotional feelings behind each and every note, and makes them both one and the same.

Now THAT’s Music-Drama a/k/a Opera!

For her highly successful directing debut, Crystal Von Oesen had the smarts to cast John Klemeyer in the title role of The Foreigner for Cornerstone Theatre Arts.

New to Goshen audiences, this experienced Milford actor gave a superb performance, morphing from a meek and mild introvert to an outrageous and flamboyant conjurer. I laughed lots!

Holiday Donations Events in Pine Bush (pg. 8), Roscoe (pg.

28), Goshen (pg. 23), and Sugar Loaf (pg.

25), are requiring unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots for admission.

The Ritz Theatre in Newburgh is asking

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Cathe Linton

Nathan Resika

concert-goers to bring canned and nonperishable food donations for a discount on admission to the Neil Alexander and NAIL Solstice Celebration.

Holiday Specials A recipe for Roast Goose! (pg. 6).

A talk about Pope Benedict XVI’s book, The Infancy Narrative and the Zefferelli film FRUIT TREE PRUNING First frost in Sep. - Apr. Time to prune your fruit trees! 50 years experience. Blueberries & grapes too.

Bob’s Tree Service: 607-746-3365.

Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, The November issue was wonderful and the Cynthia Hall memorial that you all put together could not be better.

Cynthia’s nephew was at the gallery today and was so pleased to see her painting on the cover, he took a copy of CANVAS. We had a couple from Cornwall last weekend that had never heard of Cynthia, but read your paper and came to see her art!

Your paper is everywhere it needs to be!

Thanks again!

- Kitty Mitchell, Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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Jesus of Nazareth (pg. 5).

No less than 19 professional, community and youth choral groups performing classical and holiday music (pgs. 22-24).

And lots of bands, too. Big (pg. 11), Symphonic (pg. 19), Wind (pg. 31), Rhythm (pg. 10), Klezmer (pg. 27), Jazz (pg. 26), and Orange County’s Treasure: POLKA! (pg. 7).

Happy Holidays to ALL!

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On The Cover Yuletide Carolers at the Harness Racing Museum Photo by Chris Tully

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The First Great Opera of the 21st Century

by Philip Ehrensaft When Deutsche Grammophon released an exemplary DVD of the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin (Love From Afar) in 2005, I reviewed it for WholeNote Magazine under the title “The First Great Opera of the Twentieth Century?” A decade later, I’m writing about the upcoming December 10 Met Live in HD broadcast of L’Amour de loin without attaching a question mark to the title.

L’Amour de loin premiered at the summer 2000 edition of the Salzburg Festival to both popular and critical acclaim. Subsequent performances on both sides of the Atlantic ocean continue that acclaim.

L’Amour was synergized by a triple partnership of exceptional talent: Saariaho; who had carved a shimmering, independent path in Europe’s new music scene, but had never composed an opera; Amin Maalouf, a novelist and deserving winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, who had never written a libretto or even thought about it; and Peter Sellars, the enfant terrible of opera direction.

Sellars was involved in the nascent opera from day one. That included recruiting Maalouf, aiming at a synergy between the composer Saariaho and a librettist of high literary calibre that would run parallel to the synergies between Mozart and Da Ponte, or Richard Strauss and Hofmannsthal. Mission

accomplished: if he was still walking the planet, Victor Borge would struggle to get laughs from this libretto.

As of this writing, there are 3,768 opera DVD’s available in the USA. If I had to limit my opera DVD collection to 10 disks, Deutsche Soprano Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens, Baritone Grammophon’s L’Amour de loin would definitely be in the Borge, but never mind). It’s the real stuff of short list. It was filmed at the Finnish National opera: take an implausible plot and drive it with Opera in 2004, with Essa-Pekka Salonen, the music that probes the fundamental dramas and conductor who led the LA Philharmonic to big dilemmas of the human condition.

Maalouf’s libretto is first-class literature, league orchestral status, wielding the baton, Dawn Upshaw continuing the lead soprano and has been published as such. He limits the role that she premiered in Salzburg, and Sellars story to three characters: Rudel; the countess Clémence; and The Pilgrim. They’re backed directing. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Twelfth-century legends of the troubador by a Greek-inspired chorus. Rudel renounces Jaufré Rudel, Lord of Blaye, in France’s dissolute aristocratic life in favor of his Aquitaine region anchor the plot. Pilgrims’ and never-seen love from afar, but wonders in a crusaders’ accounts of the beauteous Countess thoroughly modern way whether he really Hodierna of Tripoli purportedly inspired feels anything or just has contact with words.

Rudel to join the Second Crusade in 1147. He also wonders whether love for the angel Rudel crosses the Mediterranean, falls deathly he doesn’t know would flourish in the flesh. ill at sea, and has one brief moment with his Clémence, in Tripoli, wonders the same.

The medieval legend gets peppered with distant love when the Countess descends from her castle to hold the dying troubadour in her 21st century angst and questions about clashes of civilizations, East and West. arms.

Saariaho’s colour-saturated music is sui Verdi could live with that (so could Victor

generis. She masters wide ranges of New Music, but never adheres to any particular school. Her composing has been described as “painting in musical colours.” There are simple chords, but tonal procedures are avoided. Musical colours trend towards a combination of high register sounds from brass and woodwinds coupled with somber and intense strings in lower registers.

Prerecorded electronic music is subtly blended in. Rhythm plays minimal roles. It’s abrupt changes in colour and dynamics that transform languid flows into emotional storms.

Canadian theater and opera director Robert Lepage has created a new production of L’Amour de loin for the Met. Lepage created the most recent and much debated Ring Cycle for the Met. Count me very much on the pro side: Lepage is not a new directorial import from film or Broadway. His track record in opera is long and distinguished.

Jay Quaintance, SUNY Sullivan’s Interim President, invites opera lovers to the beautiful Seelig Theatre, 112 College Road, Loch Sheldrake, on December 10 at 1:00pm. “We are so pleased to again be able to present the Metropolitan Opera at SUNY Sullivan.

The 2016-17 season marks our 7th year of our partnership with the Met to offer these live performances to the community and we hope for a great turnout to make this year a success.”

Tickets are available at the door.

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Wurtsboro Art Alliance: “Holiday Show”

Cabaret & Dinner, Parksville December 4

Erin Schwab

Pottery by Irene Pirelli and Pat Loggia

The Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) will celebrate the season by opening their annual Holiday Show on November 26 from Noon4:00pm at the John Nielson Gallery located at 73 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro.

Along with a large selection of artworks by their many artist members, the show will feature many smaller “giftable” artworks selling for $5 and up.

Items such as blank greeting cards with a reproduction of original art on the front, suitable for framing, jewelry, including hand crafted earrings and necklaces are being offered. Ceramics including vases, bird feeders, mugs, planters, and “whimsy sticks” for your garden all hand made by local artisans.

Framed and unframed photos will be offered by the WAA’s photo-artists, many of them expressing the beauty of the area in which we live.

“From Anne’s Kitchen” by Michael Piotrowski

The show opening coincides with Small Business Saturday, feel free to stop in “The Nielson” to browse the WAA’s wares and enjoy complimentary hot chocolate and cookies during the opening!

The exhibit highlights WAA members’ work in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media, drawings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, art cards and much more - there is something for everyone, so stop in and be sure to bring your holiday shopping list!

Regular hours are Saturdays and Sundays from Noon until 4:00pm with special holiday Friday hours from Noon until 4:00pm on December 2, 9 and 16.

The Neilson Gallery will close for the season on December 18.

“Wishing all, especially the staff of CANVAS, all the good that goes with the holiday season, and an “ Artful” New Year!” said WAA President, Brent Lyons.

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Michael Celentano Tom Caltabellotta

If it’s true that everyone loves a parade, perhaps it is more true that everyone loves La Boheme’s first act duet when Rodolfo finds Mimi’s tiny, frozen hand. Or, from a musical standpoint, everyone loves Puccini’s remarkably inventive and inspired chockablock of melodies that stir emotions within us.

Singing the Boheme duet for The Lyric Quartet are Erin Schwab and Michael Celentano. Basso Tom Caltabellotta will once again host the event and will be introducing a new pianist to the Quartet.

Erica Umhoefer is a musician, actress, and educator based in NYC. She was exposed to the arts early on, always performing for her family and peers. She went on to attend Susan E. Wagner High School in Staten Island where she flourished as an artist, primarily focusing on piano. At 16, she performed with singer Tony Bennett in collaboration with GAP for their holiday campaign.

Caltabellotta has re-invited guest artist Mariano Vidal to embellish the Quartet’s multi-varied performance-genre of opera,

Erica Umhoefer

Mariano Vidal

folk, Neapolitan and other International songs, operetta and Broadway tunes. “And, of course, there will be some holiday music,” said host/ basso/chef Caltabellotta.

A frequent Parksville guest, tenor Vidal made his debut with the Delaware Valley Opera in Don Pasquale, and followed with roles in The Merry Widow and in The Student Prince.

For the last of the Parksville USA 2016 Festival performances, Mariano will be singing, Tu scendi dalle stelle, which means, “You descended from the stars”. It was composed in 1732 by Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori, a prominent priest and philosopher.

It is the quintessential Italian carol and was traditionally accompanied by bagpipes. It has been recorded by tenors such as Pavarotti, Di Stefano, Bergonzi, and Sergio Franchi.

They will perform their always-fun, alwaystuneful, multigenred “cabaret” at the Dead End Café, 6 Main Street in Parksville, on December 4 at 3:00pm. Admission includes a full dinner buffet after the show!

For reservations: 845-292-0400.

Combining Book & Film for the Holidays

George Burke holds an event of “unfolding M.A. in History and Political significance for people Science and has been an today, with implications adjunct instructor at Mount for such issues as the St. Mary College since limits of political power 1990. A film enthusiast, and the purpose of he hosts the viewings at human freedom.” The the college’s Desmond book includes reflections Campus, and makes them Gypsy Rose Lee & Rosalind Russell on such matters as the even more enjoyable.

“The Trouble with Angels” (1962) significance of the Virgin Burke presents mostly Birth and the way nature was Hollywood classics, and for perceived in ancient pagan and December he hosts two events with Judeo-Christian cultures. religious themes: a Hollywood Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 comedy and a discussion using British-Italian television Pope Benedict XVI’s book miniseries directed by Franco Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Zefferelli which dramatizes the Narratives and Franco Zefferelli’s birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, award winning film, Jesus of and resurrection of Jesus. It stars Nazareth.

Robert Powell as Jesus, and Robert Powell On December 5 he’ll host The features an all-star cast of famous as Jesus Trouble With Angels. Directed American and European actors,

by Ida Lupino, it stars Rosalind including 7 Academy Award Russell as a Reverend Mother and winners: Anne Bancroft, Ernest Hayley Mills as a “nemesis on the Borgnine, Laurence Olivier, premises” of an all-girls Catholic Christopher Plummer, Anthony High School. It includes two fun Quinn, Rod Steiger and Peter supporting performances by Mary Ustinov.

Wickes and Gypsy Rose Lee. Desmond Campus is located at For a discussion on December 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh 19, he’ll use Pope Benedict’s Pope Benedict XVI (Balmville). book which presents the Nativity story as Both showings are at 9:30am. Register by not merely an event in the past, but as an phone: 845-565-2076.

Mozart, Debussy & Shostakovich at Atlas

Dmitri Berlinsky Nadya Meykson

Luke Fleming

“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” - Dmitri Shostakovich Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor was premiered with Shostakovich himself at the piano in Moscow in 1940 to great success. In 1941, it was awarded the Stalin Prize, which is somewhat ironic as Stalin was Shostakovich’s political arch enemy.

(In Shostakovich’s own words, he called his symphonies “tombstones for the victims of Stalin.”)

Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478 is considered the first major piece composed for piano quartet in the chamber music repertoire.

Debussy’s Sonata for violin and piano was the composer’s last major composition.

Violinist Dmitri Berlinsky is the youngest winner in the history of the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy, which led to his performance on Paganini’s own Guarneri del Gesú instrument, a privilege shared by only a handful of artists in history. In 2015 he performed for Shandelee Music Festival in Livingston Manor.

Violinist Nadya Meykson has performed

Timotheos Petrin V. Schwartzman

in venues including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, and London’s Royal Academy of Music.

Violist Luke Fleming, Founding Artistic Director of the Manhattan Chamber Players, a New York-based chamber music collective, has appeared locally with Weekend of Chamber Music at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor (2014) and Warwick’s Pacem in Terris (2015 and 2016).

Cellist Timotheos Petrin studies with Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic and renowned musician Peter Wiley, Guarneri Quartet cellist.

Pianist Victoria Schwartzman returns to Newburgh after her recent 2016 April and October concerts on Spring Street.

The five outstanding artists will perform Mozart, Debussy and Shostakovich for the Queen of the Hudson chamber series at Atlas Studios, 11 Spring Street, Newburgh on December 17 at 7:00pm.

Tickets are available online at www. queenofthehudson.org and at the door. A portion of ticket sales goes to Safe Harbors’ Green park project.

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Whispering Pines: Cooking with Chef Douglas Frey CHRISTMAS! Some legends claim that the Christian Christmas was invented to compete against December pagan celebrations. The 25th was not only sacred to Romans but also the Persians whose religion was one of Christianity’s main rivals. The Church eventually was successful in taking the merriment, lights, and gifts from the Saturanilia festival and bringing them to the Christmas celebration. The exact day of Christ’s birth has never been pinpointed.

Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98AD. In 350AD Julius I chose December 25 as the observance of Christmas.

To me, the Christmas feast isn’t just another meal; it’s an event! It’s a magical time when friends and family get together to share spicy cookies, tree trimming, and a richly laden table.

I’ve assembled a few ideas here to get you started.

For culinary questions or catering needs, call me at Whispering Pines Caterers: 845-647-1428.

EGGNOG 4 eggs / ½ c sugar 3 c milk / 1 T vanilla extract ½ c brandy / ½ t grated nutmeg / 1 c heavy cream

In saucepan, beat eggs & sugar until creamy.

In 2nd saucepan, heat 2 cups milk until hot.

Add egg mixture. Cook over low heat, stirring, 15-20 min. or until mixture reaches 170F and has thickened. Stir in remaining milk, vanilla, whisky, 1/2 nutmeg. Chill 3 hrs. In bowl,

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beat cream until soft peaks form. Fold into milk mixture. Ladle eggnog into punch bowl; sprinkle with remaining nutmeg.

ROAST GOOSE W/ STUFFING 1 loaf French bread, cut into cubes 1 c dried currants 4 apples peeled, cored and sliced 1 T dried thyme 4 T butter, melted 1 T olive oil 1 Wild Canadian goose / 1 onion, chopped 1 carrot, chopped / 1 stalk celery, chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced / 1 bay leaf 3 whole cloves / 1 sprig fresh thyme 1 sprig fresh marjoram / 1/4 cup white wine 1 teaspoon tomato paste / A/n chicken broth 1 T cornstarch / 1/4 c water Salt to taste / Ground black pepper to taste

For stuffing: combine bread, currants, apples, thyme, salt, pepper, butter/margarine. Wash goose, pat dry. Stuff, truss, and tie bird. Prick bird all over w/ fork. Heat oil in pan. Brown goose lightly on all sides; drain drippings. Set goose breast side up in roasting pan. Add little water, cover; roast at 375F for 1 hr. Combine onion, carrot, celery, garlic, bay leaf, cloves, fresh thyme, marjoram. Add vegetable mixture to pan.

Continue roasting uncovered 20-25 min. per lb, draining off fat at intervals. Add water as required.

Transfer cooked goose to platter, keep warm by covering loosely with foil. Skim off remaining fat in pan; heat drippings & vegetables on top of stove until mixture reduces. Stir in white wine, tomato paste, chicken broth. Simmer 10-15 min., strain gravy. If necessary, add little cornstarch mixed w/ water to thicken gravy.

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Three, NO! Four Ensembles Play as One!

For the 9th annual Community Holiday Concert at St. Johns, The MISU (Music Institute of Sullivan and Ulster) and SUNY Ulster String Orchestras will be joined by members of the Ellenville Chamber Players, a professional ensemble.

“They will be performing works

by Resphigi, Purcell and Biber, as Anastasia Solberg Bruce Jackson James Fitzwilliam violin bass organ well as introducing our youngest compared favorably with those of Corelli ensemble!,” announced MISU’s Director, and Vivaldi.

Anastasia Solberg.

The Adagio is Remo Giazotto’s purported The Chamber Players members will be discovery of a tiny manuscript fragment featured in two beloved works: by Albinoni, consisting of a few opening Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in G measures of the melody line and basso minor, Op. 6, No. 8, known as the Christmas continuo portion from an otherwise Concerto, was published posthumously in unknown Albinoni trio sonata that he said he 1714 as part of Corelli’s Twelve Concerti constructed based on the fragmentary theme.

Grossi, Op. 6, a year after the composer’s He copyrighted it and published it in 1958 death, and they then served to establish under a title which, translated into English, Corelli’s fame throughout Europe. His reads, Adagio in G Minor for Strings and music was key in the development of the Organ, on Two Thematic Ideas and on a modern genres of sonata and concerto, in Figured Bass by Tomaso Albinoni. establishing the preeminence of the violin, Join the community, college, youth and and as the first coalescing of modern tonality pro musicians on December 22 at 7:30pm and functional harmony. in St. Johns Episcopal Church, 40 Market The Albinoni Adagio in g minor for Street, Ellenville. violin, strings, and organ continuo is more Phone: 845-647-7084. recognizable to many people. While famous For post-concert dining, try Marbella in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly Ristorante, only five minutes away on remembered today for his instrumental Canal Street.

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Goshen Art League: “On The Rails” passengers, and rail lines The Village of Goshen that helped crisscross the was once located on nation. the Erie Railroad Main There is even a hobo Line, a major factor in puppet exhibited shown the economic growth of walking the rails as they Orange County. Goshen often did in the 30’s and still has vestiges of that 40’s to hop a train to a time including a treasured better place. Visit this 15 mile long Heritage Rail appealing show as the Trail, the village police housed in the old depot “End of Main Street, Tivoli” by Sheldon Marks GAL announces an “All and Railroad Avenue. They all help retain that Aboard!” for celebrating railroad traditions.

The show runs from December 7 through historic reference. Other municipalities in the February 6, with an opening reception on region share a similar history with rail lines.

To honor that aspect of local history, the January 24 from 7:00pm-9:00pm. Light Goshen Art League (GAL) will feature the refreshments will be available at Goshen art exhibit On the Rails: Works Inspired by Music Hall, 225 Main Street, Goshen.

Trains, Tracks and Depots. Artists were asked Visit www.GoshenArtLeague.weebly. to submit works inspired by train references, com for more information, or e-mail including bridges and trestles, train personnel, GoshenArtLeague@gmail.com

30,000 Hours of Work on Display in Shohola

The results of more than 30,000 hours of work will be on display this December. The work was a labor of love, as local artisans have been busy all year long crafting creations they hope will bring joy to others during the holiday season.

A small etching that took more than 80 hours to create, and a giant canvas completed in less than two hours...then there is hand-carved wooden folk art, polymer clay sculptures, jewelry, fabric art, ceramics, Zentangles, decorative tie flies, prints, and original art.

Plus, “re-purposed” creations made from things like lamp shades, fence posts, guitar

parts, and frying pans.

“What I love about our group holiday show,” says Nick Roes of the Artists’ Market Community Center, “is listening to the artists describe their process. People get a great gift for someone they love, but, also, they leave with the story of how the gift was created.”

There’s a free reception with complimentary refreshments and Holiday music on December 3 from 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Artists’ Market Community Center, 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola, PA. The show runs through December.

For information: 845-557-8713.

Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, Middletown

appear on The Grand Ole A question on TV’s game Opry. They were not only show Who Wants To Be the only polka music band A Millionaire? hosted by to appear, but the only band Regis Philbin was “Who to appear with brass! is America’s polka music No one has done more king”? Can you guess? for the polka field than this Well, the contestant won young Irishman from the $250,000 by correctly answering Jimmy Sturr!

Jimmy (center) w/ the Pokolenie Dancers little village of Florida.

Jimmy Sturr has put Jimmy Sturr & His together another spectacular show Orchestra have over 106 recordings; with his orchestra, the Jimmy the excellence of these recordings Sturr Singers, Matt and Elaine and has been recognized and rewarded featuring the exciting Pokolenie throughout the very competitive music Dancers. Jimmy’s Special Guest will industry. The fact that Jimmy Sturr & be the winner of NBC’S The Voice, His Orchestra is on the Top Ten list of the All-time Grammy Awards, has won Jermaine Paul Jermaine Paul.

Singer/ songwriter Jermaine Paul has toured eighteen Grammy Awards and has received more consecutive Grammy nominations that internationally as the opening act with 15-time anyone in the history of musical awards, has Grammy award winner, Alicia Keys. Jermaine made the music industry sit up and take notice. himself was nominated for two Grammys.

The concert takes place on December 3 at The band constantly attracts crowds of screaming, adoring fans wherever their travels 3:00pm at the Paramount Theatre, 17 South take them. One of the major events in Jimmy’s Street, Middletown. For tickets visit www. career came when the Orchestra was asked to middletownparamount.com or 845-346-4195.

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“Three Artists, Three Perspectives” in Warwick

“Tribulations” by Minjin Kung

“The pleasure of creating an expression that others can appreciate and relate to is one of the reasons I love art. At times I feel like a novice, which isn’t a bad thing since I’m constantly learning and progressing, getting closer to my goal of being able to render subjects and ideas to my satisfaction.

“This opportunity to exhibit with two other wonderful and accomplished artists is an honor for me. The differences in our work, I consider to be complementary, as each is a part of the whole. I invite you to come and experience a pleasure to the eye and mind.

Looking forward to meeting as many as can attend!”, says Sal Russo.

“My art is an appreciation of life, imagination, and a celebration of who and what I am: Korean, American, Christian, woman, mother, wife, sister, daughter, artist, nature lover, caregiver, and more. I like to

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“Dara Dancing” by Mary Mugele Sealfon

focus on creating and transcribing the world as I see it, making myself and others happy.

“I paint what I see: my town, my family, small snippets of my life. I paint what I want to see: places I have never been and places I would like to go, scenes, still life and arrangements that call to me to be brought to life. New materials, new environments, old masterpieces and faces of loved ones and strangers are all inspiration,” states Minjin Kung. Recently one of Minjin’s paintings, Afternoon at Village of Monroe was selected

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as an official town postcard of the Village of Monroe.

Mary Mugele Sealfon currently teaches at SUNY Orange. “Though I grew up amidst the amazing beauty of the San Francisco bay area and the Sierra Mountains of California, I find the Hudson Valley equally inspiring.

Whether portrait or landscape, I prefer to work from life. Paintings are more alive when painted on location. Perhaps the joy of the experience is somehow transferred to the painting,” states Mary.

Three Artists, Three Perspectives, an exhibit of work by Russo, Kung, and Mugele Sealfon, will be on display from December 1-31 at the Albert Wisner Public Library, One McFarland Drive, Warwick. An artists’ reception will be held on December 11, from 1:00pm-3:00pm.

For further information: 845-986-1047.

Toys for Tots!

The Crawford Arts Association (CAA) has announced its 3rd annual Toys For Tots / Winter Art Show with a special evening opening, the Toys For Tots drive, and a pasta dinner in conjunction with Town of Crawford, Pine Bush Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Marine Corps.

During the evening of December 3, from 5:00pm-8:00pm, Triptych by CAA those attending the artist, Sal Aiello festivities in the new Senior Center may find their way to the 2nd floor gallery in the next building (Government Center) to view the art work, nibble on sweet desserts, drink punch and enjoy listening to holiday tunes!

CAA artists will be in attendance to answer questions about their work and the CAA. The show runs through January 5 in the 2nd floor gallery of the Town of Crawford Government Center, Route 302, Pine Bush, opposite the High School.

For additional information, e-mail: salaiello93@gmail.com

Trains on Main Pull Back into The Manor

Gallery EVA is “Shimmering” in December

Trains on Main is the annual CAS Crafts pulling into Livingston Show in the Elevator Manor for its 9th year!

Gallery, featuring Bring the kids and enjoy unique handmade gifts this spectacular holiday for all tastes and types. treat.

Free candy and hot To kick off the chocolate for kids will Manor’s favorite local be on hand for the tradition, a special complimentary opening Grand Opening party reception. Everything is will be held for visitors to see for sale in this funky show! the miniature trains up close, talk Kids Workshops to the model builders, and enjoy On December 10 & 17 from free cultural events for all ages 1:00pm-4:00pm, CAS will host on December 10 at 11:00am holiday card and ornament(The trains run through making workshops for kids.

December 31).

These FREE classes are Amazing model trains and sponsored by CAS Kids. real historical artifacts will be Members’ Show on display at the Catskill Art CAS Member Shows are Society’s CAS Arts Center, presented twice annually to the CAS Laundry King, and “Sunlit Water” by Ann Higgins showcase artwork made by other businesses around current CAS members. the region. Visitors can The 2016 CAS Winter enjoy the show up close Members Show and Crafts or looking in the windows Show both run through even when shops are closed December 31. The CAS to experience the magical Art Center, is at 48 Main nostalgia of the season.

Street, Livingston Manor.

Crafts Show The Laundry King is At 1:00pm on December at 65 Main Street. Phone: “Car” by John Adams 10, CAS will host an opening reception for 845-436-4227. www.catskillartsociety.org

Artist Eva Drizhal issues and my sculptural has lived and worked in work focuses on these Callicoon for the last 35 ideas, since I create years. On April 2, 2016, plant and biomorphic she opened Gallery forms. I carve clay and EVA, at 35 Lower Main create wall and 3D Street, where she shows ceramic pieces inspired her work as well as the by fossils observed from work of other local Eva Drizhal, Nancy Wells, Hana Marritz, Naomi my travels to Western artists. December’s show, Teppich & Elise Freda. Photo by Jonathan Fox Canada and the U.S., Shimmering, will feature the art of more than and varied fungi that I observe in forests and 20 artists. along roadsides,” says Naomi Teppich.

“Rooted in European culture, my earlier “My paintings begin with looking out my work specialized in weaving, then illustrations windows at a dramatic, southern view of the and paintings. I expressed my political views Catskills. Morning’s mist envelopes the creek in black and white drawings. Obsessiveness for valley, mysteriously revealing and concealing. details led my creativity to 3D objects inspired Afternoon brings warm light and shadows by images of close-ups of nature, such as falling on the grid of fields and stonewalls. seeds, pollen, etc. I am working with paperclay Tall, inky trees contrast against glowing and other organic material, using all kinds of skies of dusk and twilight. Night brings rich acrylic colors to evoke in viewers not only darkness punctuated by stars and moons. My visual aspects, but also a touch,” says Eva. visual response to these elements of nature is “I love the alchemy of creativity. My work translated into the lines, gestures, atmospheric often appears as a poetic dance. I work in spaces and geometric shapes found in my watercolor, ink and conti-crayon, drawing, paintings. I use this vocabulary to find my printmaking, painting, sculpture, artist books, images during the process of making them,” doll making, digital collage and photography,” says Elise Freda. says Nancy Wells.

The December 3, 5:00pm-9:00pm opening A certified reiki master and children’s book reception will feature live music by Jan Turan author, Hana Marritz works in watercolor, and refreshments and snacks. The show runs painting, and sculpture. from December 3-January 1.

“My concerns are about environmental For information: 845-887-3202.

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New York Philharmonic Brass in Warwick

The Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation’s (HVPAF) Chamber Music Series, curated by Eileen Moon, Associate Principal Cello of the New York Philharmonic, kicks off Eileen Moon the 2016/2017 season of world class music in the Mulder Chapel at the Warwick Center. This first in a series of three chamber music programs will feature three Principal members of the New York Philharmonic along with world class pianist Lee Musiker.

Philip Myers, Principal Horn of the New York Philharmonic joined as Principal Horn in 1980. He made his solo debut during his first month with the Orchestra in the premiere of William Schuman’s Three Colloquies for French Horn and Orchestra, and has appeared as a Philharmonic soloist on numerous occasions under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, and André Previn.

Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic, was appointed

collaborated with premier artists in Classical, Opera, Jazz Pop and Broadway genres including: Joshua Bell, Tony Bennett, Andrea Philip Myers Joseph Alessi Christopher Martin Lee Musiker Bocelli, Chris Principal Trombone in 1985. He began Boc, Michael Bublé, Kristin Chenoweth, musical studies in his native California. Judy Collins, Michael Feinstein, Renée Before joining the NY Philharmonic, Alessi Fleming, Lady Gaga, Josh Groban, Marvin was with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Hamlisch, Marilyn Horne, Diana Krall, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and has Jerry Lewis, Seth MacFarlane, Wynton performed with the London Symphony Marsalis, Audra McDonald, Maureen Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, led by Pierre McGovern, Bernademe Peters, Buddy Rich, Boulez.

Sting, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor and Christopher Martin, Principal Trumpet Mel Tormé. of the New York Philharmonic, joins the New The program will feature both Classical York Philharmonic as Principal Trumpet in and Jazz favorites in the first half, and with the 2016–17 season. Currently in his 11th some Holiday Classics arranged for the season as principal trumpet of the Chicago quartet in the second half.

Symphony Orchestra, he has enjoyed a The concert will be held on December distinctive career of almost 20 years in many 11, at 7:00pm at the Mulder Chapel at the of America’s finest orchestras.

Warwick Conference Center, 62 Warwick Lee Musiker is a Grammy and Emmy award- Center Road, the perfect intimate setting to winning pianist, conductor, music director experience this exquisite music performed and arranger/orchestrator/composer. He has by four world renowned musicians.

For tickets, call the HVPAF Box office at 845-464-8723 or online at www.hvpaf.org Meet the artists at the HVPAF Gala every weekend when school meals Reception and Fundraiser which includes are not available. cocktails & hors d’oeuvres. Donation: $50.

In the fall of 2011 they expanded to include all public schools in Warwick Township, including Warwick, Florida and Greenwood Lake.

3D Rhythm of Life is a bilingual dance band for the 21st century and beyond led by drummer Michael Tate. Their music has been featured on Dancing with the Stars and other TV and radio presentations.

This annual concert features a collection of uplifting rhythmic tunes just right to start your holiday season!

For information, call 845-986-4517.

3D Rhythm of Life Performs in Warwick A community benefit concert of seasonal and pop music featuring the popular 3D Rhythm of Life band returns for its 4th annual performance on December 4 at 5:00pm at the Warwick Reformed Church, 16 Maple Avenue. The concert is free and honors the sponsors and volunteers of the Warwick area’s Backpack Snack Attack.

Backpack Snack Attack is an outreach program of the Warwick Reformed Church that feeds nearly 300 school children in Warwick Township. The church started this program in January 2009 to provide food for hungry school children to eat at home

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“Sugar & Grease”

“Suspensions” by Olivia Baldwin

Olivia Baldwin’s paintings reveal a commitment to process, an inclination toward movement and a dogged love for color. The paintings are physical, built from gestures and layers, wood she’s found. The paintings themselves are resolute and rich, they search, yes, but not for beauty. A clumsy line implies a figure, or a series of chopped strokes call forth a landscape, like a mountain falling into a river.

Sprawling geometric forms suggest a quilt, torn apart, sewn together, a raucous dance of creation, destruction, rebirth - and then there are the quieter ones - offering a breath, a gesture distilled.

Sugar and Grease, an exhibit of work by Baldwin, is on view through December 4 at Milkweed, Romers Alley, Sugar Loaf.

For info: www.milkweedsugarloaf.com

Port Jervis Council for the Arts: Winter!

“Christmas at Manza Farm” by J. Kehlenbeck

“Winter Stream” by Demetre Bove

Art and About, sponsored by the Port many fascinating problems to solve. I am Jervis Council for the Arts will present: still learning and creating!” Susan Miiller received Orange Arts Grants Winter Solstice December in 2014 & 2009 for Deerest 14-February 8.

Deerpark: an invitational Winter Solstice! It’s the show of the area artist’s darkest day of the year when decorations of fiberglas deer. the sun reaches its most Susan has been teaching southern point in the sky. faculty at SUNY since After this, days start getting 1999. Her work is included “longer,” and daylight begins in many important public to increase. Celebrate winter and private collections. with this exhibit which will NEW! Deerpark Town feature paintings and pastels Hall: President of the that celebrate the visual River Valley Artists Guild beauty of winter and those (RVAG), Joan Kehlenbeck cold wintry days when snow fills the air and icicles glisten “Winter in the Valley” by S. Miiller has shown her oil and pastel works regionally in the sun. Winter brings and includes local, historic holidays, family, ice skates buildings / scenes in her and sleds or curling up by paintings. This show also a fire with a book and hot includes various RVAG cocoa! artists curated by Joan.

NEW! City Hall: The exhibits can be seen Marlaina Donato is a at: Bon Secours Hospital, multimedia artist whose 1st floor cafeteria: 160 E work encompasses painting, Main Street, Port Jervis; photography, music, writing Mayor’s Office in City and holistic health. She has Hall: 20 Hammond Street, shown her work in many solo Port Jervis; Deerpark exhibitions in PA, VA and Town Hall, 420 Route 209, NJ. Marlaina works in waterbased media, traditional oil “Sycamore Moon” by M. Donato Huguenot.

Be sure to visit the Port Jervis and pure pigment pastel.

NEW! Bon Secours: Demetre Bove says Council for the Arts website at: www. of her oils: “Making art has always been a PortJervisCouncilForTheArts.org for further part of my life. Creating art is difficult with information.

Bradley Big Band Back in Port Jervis!

The Port Jervis Council for the Arts (PJCA) invites you to tap your toes and enjoy a complement of jazz / swing instrumentalists and vocalists as they perform favorites from the Great American Songbook.

Back by popular demand, the tri-state community welcomes back The Dan Bradley Big Band for a swingfully fabulous concert at which the PJCA will hold two raffles: a Holiday Basket and an original Santa The Dan Bradley Big Band performing at Claus painting by local artist Deerpark Reformed Church, 2015 Joan Kehlenbeck, recipient cookies!) following the of the Orange County Arts concert on December 9 at Council’s 2016 Individual 7:00pm in the beautiful, Artist Award. historic Deerpark Reformed From a one to ten piece Church, 30 East Main Street, band specializing in swing, Port Jervis. dixieland, jazz, classic blues, The inclement weather date rock and motown, The Dan is December 11 at 3:00pm.

Bradley Bing Band has been The church side entrance is swingin’ since 1992! Three handicapped accessible. vocalists, two saxes, two Discount tickets are trumpets, trombone, piano, available in advance by mail bass, guitar and drums, with and at participating Port a wide variety of music and dance styles, this Jervis shops. band is sure to quench your dancing thirst!

Visit www.PortJervisCouncilForTheArts.

Raffle winners will be announced at the org for the list, or call 845-856-6741.

Meet-the-Musicians reception (serving Tickets are also available at the door. the church members’ famous homemade Students admitted free.

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An Artist’s Response to Human Rights, Middletown & Newburgh

“Solidarity” by Cornwall Central HS student Grace White, shown in Mindy Ross Gallery

After the horrors of World War II, millions of people were dead, homeless, and starving.

Cities throughout Europe and Asia were in ruins. In April of 1945 delegates from fifty countries met in San Francisco with the hope of preventing future wars. The Charter preamble they wrote began with “We the peoples of the United Nations are determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war...” Three years later in Paris the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all the

regions of the interpretation world. of the Universal December 10, Declaration of 1948: the General Human Rights Assembly of the through their United Nationals literary and visual adopted General artwork.

Assembly SUNY Orange Resolution 217A, campuses in the Universal Middletown and Declaration of Newburgh will Human Rights. host An Artist’s The Declaration Response to was the first Human Rights. international The public is recognition that all invited to see the human beings have artwork and meet fundamental rights the artists as well and freedoms. as listen to music “World Rights” by eight Minisink Valley 2016 is the 68th High School students, shown in Orange Hall Gallery provided by high Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration school musicians. of Human Rights. The work for implementing Participating High Schools include Resolution 217A continues one event at a John S. Burke Catholic High School, Pine time.

Bush High School, Cornwall Central High In its 6th year, the Orange County Human School, Middletown High School, Storm Rights Commission in collaboration with King School, Warwick Valley High School, Cultural Affairs at SUNY Orange and the Minisink Valley High School, Port Jervis High Orange County Arts Council, will provide School, Monroe-Woodbury High School, and a platform for 11th and 12th grade Orange Washingtonville High School.

County high school students to express their The SUNY Orange Middletown campus’

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“The Price of Trafficking” by MonroeWoodbury HS student Stephanie Alifano, shown in Mindy Ross Gallery

opening reception takes place on December 4, at 1:00pm in Orange Hall Gallery. The Newburgh campus’ opening reception is on December 6 at 6:00pm in the Mindy Ross Gallery. Emmanuel Johnson, a senior at Newburgh Free Academy, will play piano for the December 6 reception in Kaplan Hall in the Foyer of the Mindy Ross Gallery.

The exhibit runs from December 1-18.

Mindy Ross Gallery is located in Kaplan Hall at the corner of Grand and First Streets (GPS: 73 First Street) Newburgh. Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues (GPS: 24 Grandview Avenue) Middletown.

For info: Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891.

It’s that time of year, again! The wild rumpus of shopping, decorating and cooking begins!

BRICK ENGRAVINGS OF LOVE

Memorialize a loved one, a pet, an occasion or other in the brick walkway on the Newburgh Waterfront. Order a personal engraved brick capturing the essence in words and symbols, etched forever, to cherish.

Trestle, Inc. can now lay your bricks in one of three sections: Regular, Heroes, or Pet sections. Order a second brick to take home or to give to a loved one.

For information, phone 845-565-1052 or visit www.trestle.org for an order form.

THREE MONTHS OF GIFTS Give a gift that lasts - well, at least for the summer months.

Subscriptions to Forestburgh Playhouse’s 2017 season entitles your loved ones to witness professional theatre, both musicals and plays, from Sherlock Holmes to Fanny Brice to Conrad Birdie, to - not one, but two - Disney productions, and more!

Single show certificates are also available.

You give the gift, they pick the show!

Founded in 1947, the Forestburgh Playhouse is the oldest continuously operating professional summer theatre in New York State. The Playhouse employs professional actors with Broadway or other major credits, as well as a resident company of non-union professionals (the fabulous “res-co”) who earn credit toward their own eventual membership in Actors’ Equity Association.

For a season schedule, see ad pg 22.

Get your holiday gift certificates at www. fbplayhouse.org or call 845-794-2005.

AND GIFTS FOR THE KIDS Forestburgh Playhouse has gift certificates for its upcoming 2017 Children’s Theater Production Madagascar: A Musical Adventure. Kids can take a journey out of the zoo and onto the stage with their favorite crack-a-lackin’ friends from the blockbuster DreamWorks film: Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto the stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime. Based on the animated motion picture, Madagascar: A Musical Adventure follows them as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar.

Unique Gifts For The Holiday Season

Children’s Theater performances are every Thursday & Saturday at 11:00am all season long.

FANTASY HAIR GIFT CERTIFICATES

The Wig Shop & Boutique at Fantasy Hair is a professional hair replacement studio specializing in wigs, hair replacement and fashion headwear. Fantasy Hair carries only the finest in high quality wigs, accessories and wig care products.

The boutique offers hair replacement and wigs for men and women in a private, intimate setting. The hair replacement services focus on people suffering from male pattern baldness and Alopecia, and wigs for people suffering from medically caused hair loss such as chemotherapy.

Owner Patricia Morris offers scarves, turbans, and a large variety of fashion headwear.

All fittings are by private appointment at her boutique: 190 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro.

Gift certificates are available for the holiday season. Call 845-888-0739, and see ad on pg 4 for more information.

intuitive and comprehensive knowledge base.

Each session is as unique as each individual and becomes a sanctuary for personal transformation. She offers a variety of healing techniques to restore harmony and balance as well as bring about physical, emotional, and spiritual well being.

Located in Rock Tavern, Debra’s Innervision Wellness offers gift certificates for her therapeutic massages and healing modalities which include Reflexology, CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki/Reconnective Healing, Violet Alchemy, and Sound Healing with Tuning Forks, Crystal Bowls, and Vocal Toning.

845-496-1513. www.debrasheafe.com CERAMICS MADE WITH LOVE As you write out your “not so naughty” and “nice” lists, Judy Duboff and the artisans of Amity Arts Pottery invite you to shop with them for beautiful, one of a kind, handmade ceramics at their annual Pottery Holiday Show & Sale. You will be able to find that special “something”, from tree ornaments, bowls, figurines and mugs to jars.

The event begins December 3 from 5:00pm-

8:00pm for an evening of refreshments, art and shopping. The show & sale continues December 10, 17 & 24, 10:00am-Noon.

The studio is located at 1711 Route 17A in Florida. Phone 845-651-1170.

PRACTICAL MAGICK

For your pagan and wiccan friends, (and non-pagan/non-wiccan friends!) why not stop in at Practical Magick, a one-stop-shop for everything magickal!?

Owner Denise Griggs offers everything from incense, sage, stones, tarot cards, handmade pendulums, ink & quills, and jewelry! You can even buy someone a reading!

Practical Magick is located at 62 Wood Road & Kings Highway in Sugar Loaf.

Call 845-469-MAGK (6245).

And don’t forget to support our local artists!

Many of our local art galleries have small, low priced artworks - perfect for gift giving!

COLLECTIBLES & MUCH MORE

Newburgh’s Landmark Collectibles at 87 Liberty Street has 1940s Christmas ornaments and faux fur coats! Owners Regina Angelo and Holly Johnston have a lovely shop where one can browse antiques, collectibles, and reproductions of paintings, along with Newburgh memorabilia.

MASSAGE & HOLISTIC GIFT CERTIFICATES Give the gift of health.

Massage boosts the immune system by increasing blood circulation, bringing oxygen and nutrients to the muscles that aid in healing, while flushing out toxins through the lymphatic drainage system.

Debra Sheafe is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Multi-Dimensional Healer with over 20 years experience as a massage therapist and Reiki master/teacher. Debra responds to each client’s needs with an

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Lectures - demos - museums

sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus HHNM �����������������������������������Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall MSM-DC ������������������������������������������������������ Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �������������������������������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-KH �����������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh Campus SUNYO-OH ��������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown Campus SUNYO-RCSE �����������SUNY Orange, Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Middletown Campus Lectures & Demos are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE)

“French and British Nineteenth-Century Painting to 1863” Mary Lawrence ������������������������� MSM-DC Nov 29, 10am FEE “How to Avoid the 7 Biggest Mistakes Women Make About Money” Kevin Ellman ���������������������� MSM-DC Nov 30, 6:30pm “The Making of the 19th Amendment” C. Ford ������������������������������������ MSM-DC Dec 1, 8, 15, 1pm Winter Ecology HIKE �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Dec 3, 1pm “Make Me an Instrument of your Peace” Sr. Virginia Wilkinson ����������MSM-DC Dec 5, 1pm FEE “Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine” Marc Grossman ������� MSM-DC Dec 9, 10am FEE Creative Conversations DISCUSSION �����������������������������������Artists’ Market, Shohola, Dec 10, 2pm “Storytelling Through Podcasting” Zac Stuart-Pontier and Marc Smerling ������������������������������������� Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, Dec 10, 4pm “Effective Communication Strategies” Alzheimer’s Association �������������������������������������������������������� Crawford Library, Monticello, Dec 12, 6:30pm Safe Harbors of the Hudson TOUR ����������������� Safe Harbors’ Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Dec 13, 9am “Knitting Generations Together” J.Monk �������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Dec 14, 11am FEE “Goal Setting for the New Year” Richard Huntoon ��������������������������������������� MSM-DC Dec 14, 1pm “Color Me Happy” Bill & Sue Wiand ��������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Dec 16, 10am FEE “The Infancy Narratives” George Burke Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Dec. 19, 9:30am FEE Demos Glass Blowing ����������������������������������� Gillinder Glass Factory, Port Jervis, Dec 10, 10am-2:30pm FEE Homemade Pasta w/Chef Nicole Karr ������������������������������������������������� Chester Library, Dec 17, Noon

Museums

Woodstock Festival History ���������������������������������������������������������� Museum at Bethel Woods, ongoing “Black Diamonds and the D&H Canal” ����������Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, ongoing “History of the Lenape Native Americans” �����Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville, ongoing “Tunnels, Toil and Trouble:New York City’s Quest for Water” and “Rondout-Neversink Story & Water and the Valleys” Time &The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing Knife Making History ��������������������������������������������������������������� Wawarsing Knife Museum, Napanoch “Unpacked & Rediscovered “ ��������������������������������� Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, ongoing Muiltiple Sullivan County Exhibits ��������������������������Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, thru Dec The Adams Family ������������������������������������������Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Dec 30 “This Way to the Ferry” ���������������������������������������Crawford House Museum, Newburgh, thru Dec 31 Ellenville Museum 50th Anniversary Party Terwilliger House, Ellenville, Dec 10, Noon-3pm FREE “Christmas with The Ellisons” ��������������������������� Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate, Dec 10, 5pm-8pm

“Christmas with The Ellisons” For two Christmases, John and Catherine Ellison shared their home with the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army.

Over the winter of 1780-81, General Henry Knox, his wife Lucy and their children, also named Henry and Lucy, were there, while two years later it was General Horatio Gates and his military family of aides de camp who shared in the season’s festivities.

Tour the elegantly appointed 1754 Ellison house decorated for Christmas and staffed by Revolutionary War era costumed interpreters on December 10 from 5:00pm-8:00pm.

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“May you and yours see the return of many happy Christmasses and New Years and may each bring you an occasion of joy and peace - especially of that peace which passeth understanding and which this world can neither give or take

away.”

Open House at Knox’s Headquarters is on December 29 when the Ellison Mansion is open for tours at 10:00am, 11:00am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm and 3:00pm. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion.

Knox’s Headquarters is located at 289 Forge Hill Road, in Vails Gate, just one halfmile south of the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site.

For info: 845-561-1765, extension 22.

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Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock

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Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �������� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity folk ������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Frank Carillo & The Bandoleros roots-rock ��������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 1, 10pm Lindsey Webster soul r&b ���������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 2, 7pm Arthur Moon & Iris Lune rock �������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 2, 7pm Malcolm Bruce & Band �������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 3, 7pm Luis Mojica & The Rainbow Tentacles ������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 3, 7pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis blues, jazz, funk ������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 4, 10am-2pm 3D Rhythm of Life Band ������������������������������������������������������� Warwick Reformed Church, Dec 4, 5pm The Americana Music Sessions ������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 4, 7pm Joe Louis Walker & Friends, w/‘King’ Solomon Hicks blues �����The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 5, 7pm Buffalo Stack, Jeremy Baum’s JB3 Trio blues, rock, r&b ������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 8, 7pm Thunderblast w/Somerville, Iron Cowboy & Cathy Paty ���� Rockland House, Roscoe, Dec 9, 8:30pm Cuboricua Salsa Band �������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 10, 7pm Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound, gospel, blues � The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 11, 10am-2pm Joe Louis Walker & Friends, w/Johnny Feds �����������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 12, 7pm Connor Kennedy & Minstrel ��������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 15, 7pm Annual Christmas at The Falcon Benefit ������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 16, 7pm Feast of Friends Doors tribute ������������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 16, 10pm Ed Palermo Big Band w/Napoleon Murphy Brock ��������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 17, 7pm Neil Alexander & NAIL Winter Solstice Concert �����������������Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Dec 17, 7:30pm The Marc Black Omelette Quartet blues, rock, soul �������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 18, 10am-2pm Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism soul �����������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 18, 7pm Joe Louis Walker & Friends, w/Joe Nott ������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 19, 7pm Slam Allen’s Holiday Soul-a-bration! ������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 22, 7pm Popa Chubby, Nalani & Sarina ����������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 23, 7pm Nalani & Sarina ������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 23, 8pm Bernard “Pretty” Purdie’s Holiday “IN” ������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 24, 7pm Joe Louis Walker & Friends w/Vanessa Collier �������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 26, 7pm Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word & new music ���������� The Falcon Underground , Dec 28, 7pm Latin Jazz Express Puente ������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 29, 7pm Pat O’Shea ������������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 29, 10pm Bobby Harden & The Soul Purpose Band �����������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 30, 7pm Daby Touré Afropean ��������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 30, 7pm The Chris Bergson Band w/Ellis Hooks blues, soul ��������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 31, 9pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano ��������Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Robert Kopec & Solo Bajo jazz ����������������������������������������� Dos Amigos, Fair Oaks, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ���������������������Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals � Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk ��������������������������WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Jeff Krolick piano and vocals ������������������������������������ Marbella Ristorante, Ellenville, Saturdays, 7pm Open Mic New Hope Community �����������������������������Frankie & Johnny’s, Hurleyville, Dec TBA, 6pm Jack Higgins and Friends ���������������������������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 2, 7:30pm Pinkish Floyd tribute ban ��������������������������������������������. Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 3, 7:30pm Songwriter Sessions - Host: Casey Erdmann ��������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 7, 7pm Whitney Road Band celebrates Christmas ������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 9, 7:30pm Hurley Mountain Highway ����������������������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 10, 7:30pm Skye Jazz Trio �����������������������������������������������������������������Iron Forge Inn, Warwick, Dec 11, Noon-3pm Channel Drifters ���������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 16, 7:30pm Songwriter’s Anonymous ��������������������������������������������������������� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Dec 17, 2pm Palaia All Star Band 10th anniversary party �������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 17, 7;30pm Ray Longchamp ����������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 18, 2:00pm Roots & Blues Sessions ������������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Dec 21, 7pm Palaia All Star Jam �����������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 23, 7:30pm David Krai & Amy ������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 30, 7:30pm New Year’s Eve with the TWD band ������������������������Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Dec 31, 8:30pm

New Documentary: “Ellenville, NY”

John Hazard is a cinematographer with a long resume involving documentary films.

For Nova, he shot the story of the supernova discovered by astronomers in Chile. For Discovery, he has photographed stories on volcanoes in Columbia, human sacrifice in ancient Peru, desert life among the Tuareg in Niger, migrating sand dunes in Mauritania, and the 5,000 year old “iceman” in Balzano, Italy. For National Geographic, he has been to Egypt on 6 different projects. He was the cinematographer when archeologists took

King Tut out of his tomb and put him into a CT scan machine. For the New York Times, he shot pieces on Mayan pyramids in Belize, beached whales in the Bahamas, and disappearing glaciers on Kilimanjaro.

Ellenville, NY, his new documentary highlighting President LBJ’s “groundbreaking” Ellenville visit in 1966, introduced by Town of Wawarsing Historian, Bucky Green will be shown on December 10 at 3:00pm at the Ellenville Library, 40 Center Street.

Admission is free. For info: 845-647-5530.

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Arts & CraftS open Tours Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Second Saturday ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Sugar Loaf, Dec 10, 5pm-8pm Newburgh Last Saturday ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh, Dec 31, 4pm-8pm

Shirim’s Klezmer “Nutcracker” Kindred Spirits Arts ���������������� Milford Theatre, Dec 10, 5:30pm Irish Tenors Christmas ������������������������������������������������Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Dec 11, 3pm Holiday Lights with Francine & Joel ��������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Dec 17, 2pm FREE Winter Solstice Concert with Neil Alexander ��������������� Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Dec 17, 7:30pm

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Music - jazz

The Lyric Quartet A Grand Holiday Musical Feast ����������Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Dec 4, 3pm

Cinema

Saturday Matinee �����������������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE “Miracle on 34th Street” Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara �����������Bethel Woods, Dec 3 & 4, 4pm “The Trouble with Angels” Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills ���������������������������������������������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Dec 5, 9:30am “Ellenville NY” documentary w/talk by Bucky Green ������������� Ellenville Library, Dec 10, 3pm FREE “Second Mother” (2015) in Portuguese ������������������������������������ Cornwall Library, Dec 11, 1pm FREE “Hell or High Water” ���������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Dec 12, 6:30pm FREE “The First Day in May” ������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Dec 13, 6:30pm FREE “One Special Night” Julie Andrews, James Garner ������������� Cornwall Library, Dec 14, Noon, FREE “Suicide Squad” Will Smith, Viola Davis �������������������������Newburgh Library, Dec 17, 2:15pm FREE “Mamma Mia!” ����������������������������������������������������������Thrall Library, Middletown, Dec 21, 3pm FREE

Comedy

Joey Kola ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Dec 3, 9pm Pat DaBiere, Lauren Turczak, Dee Watson ����������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 8, 8pm Rich Guzzi ������������������������������������������������������������������������Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Dec 10, 9pm Chris Roach ���������������������������������������������������������������������Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Dec 17, 9pm Mikael Gregg, Shannon Cooke, Jen McMullen, Jerrold Benford Falcon Underground, Dec 22, 8pm

Festivals & Fairs

Holiday Craft Boutique �������������������������������Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Nov 27, 10am-3pm Holiday Market arts, crafts, food �����������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Dec 3 & 4, 11am-4pm Holiday Market arts, crafts, food, music entertainment �������������Ellenville, Dec 4, 11, 18, Noon-4pm Sugar Loaf Holiday Celebration ���������������������������� King’s Highway, Sugar Loaf, Dec 10, 11am-5pm Trains on Main Exhibit ���������CAS Arts Center & CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Dec 10-31

holiDAY Events Listings are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Amity Arts Holiday Craft Show & Sale ������������������������������������Amity Arts, Florida, Dec 3, 5pm-8pm & Dec 10, 17, 24, 10am-Noon.

Annual Theme Tree Exhibit �����������������������Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Dec 4, 2pm-4pm.

Christmas Candlelight Tours �������������������Hill-Hold Museum, Campbell Hall, Dec 10 & 11, 17 & 18 Milford Holiday House Tour ����������������������������������������������GLBT Center, Milford, Dec 10, 3pm-7pm Holiday Decoration Open House Middletown Garden Lovers ������������������������������������������������������������� Morrison Mansion, Middletown, Dec 10 & 11, 17 & 18, 1pm-5pm Newburgh Candlelight Tour 10 homes ������������������� Crawford House, Newburgh, Dec 11, Noon-5pm

Music - chorales classical & holiday

Warwick Valley Chorale ���������������������������� Grace Episcopal Church, Middletown, Dec 2, 7pm FREE Delaware Valley Choral Society ��������������������������������� Milford United Methodist Church, Dec 4, 2pm Evergreen Chorus, Varsity Choir & Jazz Voices ����� Harness Racing Museum, Goshen, Dec 8, 7pm Warwick Valley Chorale ����������������������������������United Methodist Church, Goshen, Dec 9, 7pm FREE Sullivan County Community Chorus � Immaculate Conception Ch., Woodbourne, Dec 11, 2:30pm FREE Middletown Concert Chorale ������������������������ St. John’s Lutheran Church, Middletown, Dec 11, 3pm Classic Choral Society �������������������������������First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, Dec 11, 4pm FREE Newburgh Symphonic Chorale �������������������������������St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Dec 11, 4pm Warwick Valley Chorale ������������������������������ St. Stephen’s RC Church, Warwick, Dec 11, 4pm FREE Middletown Concert Chorale �������������������� North Congregational Church, Middletown, Dec 17, 7pm Classic Choral Society �������������������United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, Dec 18, 4pm FREE

Music - Classical

Potluck Concerts “Holiday Apprehension” ���������� Cornwall Presby. Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Dec 2, 7:30pm Maybrook Wind Ensemble Classical, Broadway, Holiday �������������������������������������������������������������� Grace Episcopal Church, Middletown, Dec 9, 7:30pm FREE & Cornwall United Methodist Church, Cornwall, Dec 10, 8pm FREE & Maybrook Senior Center, Dec 17, 7:30pm FREE SUNY Orange Symphonic Band ����������������������������Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Dec 10, 7:30pm HVPAF Chamber Music Series NY Phil. brass trio & piano Mulder Chapel, Warwick, Dec 11, 7pm Queen of the Hudson Chamber Music ����������������������������������� Atlas Studios, Newburgh, Dec 17, 7pm MISU Orchestra & Ellenville Chamber Players ��������� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Dec 22, 7:30pm

Music - holiday See also Schools & Conservatories

West Point Band “A West Point Holiday” �����������������������Eisenhower Hall, Dec 3 & 4, 1pm FREE Jimmy Sturr Christmas Show 2016 ������������������������� Paramount Theater, Middletown, Dec 3, 3pm Francine and Joel Zelnik “Holiday Lights” ��������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Dec 4, 2pm FREE The Lyric Quartet “A Grand Holiday Musical Feast” ������Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Dec 4, 3pm Pine Bush Community Band ���������� Graham’s Presbyterian Church, Pine Bush, Dec 5, 7pm FREE & Montgomery Senior Center, Dec 11, 3pm FREE

Live Jazz Brunch with The Jazz Cats �����������������������Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, Noon Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �������� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Eric Person Band �����������������������������������������������������The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Trio �������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 1, 7pm Joe Lovano’s Birthday Bash! ��������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Dec 9, 7pm The Dan Bradley Big Band ��������������������������������Deerpark Reformed Church, Port Jervis, Dec 9, 7pm Rhythm Rising Latin Jazz ���������������������������������������The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 10, 7pm Brian Kastan & Friends ��������������������������������� Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Dec 10, 7:30pm FREE Jazz Sessions ������������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 14, 7pm bigBANG improvs ��������������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Dec 15, 7pm Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble ������������������������������ Warwick Valley Community Center, Dec 16, 8pm

Opera

“L’Amour de Loin” Saariaho, Live from the Met in HD ��� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Dec 10, 1pm

Poetry

Open Mic Poetry �����������������������������������������������Marbella Ristorante, Ellenville, Tuesdays, 7pm FREE Milkweed Poetry �������������������������������������������������������������Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 6:30pm Barbara Adams & James Cotter �������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Dec 1, 7pm Host: Hayden Wayne �����������������������������������������������Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Dec 3, 1pm FREE Host: Walter Pahucki ����������������������Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery, Dec 13, 7pm FREE “Poetry and Power- Inspired Words” �����������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Dec 18, 6pm Hudson River Poets �����������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Dec 22, 7pm FREE Walter Worden Poetry at the Church �������������������������Goshen Methodist Church, Dec 26, 7pm FREE

Recreation, Dancing

Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra �������������������������Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing (Ballroom) �������������������������������� MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 7:30pm, Dance 8pm

Storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Twilight Tales” ����������������������� Florida Library, Dec 8, 7:30pm FREE

Theatre - plays

“A Christmas Carol Murder” The Killing Kompany, w/dinner ����������� West Point Club, Dec 2, 8pm “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)” �������������������� Shadowland Stages, Dec 2-18 “A Christmas Carol” dramatic reading ������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Dec 3 & 4 “I’m Getting Nuttin for Christmas” & “Miracle On 34th Street” ���������������������������������������������������� Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Dec 9-11 “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote, American Readers Theatre ������������������������������������������� First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis, Dec 9 & 11

Schools & conservatories

School listings are not included in our centerspread calendar.

“Nutcracker” Hudson Valley Dance Center of Warwick �����������������������Sugar Loaf PAC, Dec 4, 2pm Evergreen Chorus, Goshen HS Varsity Choir & Jazz Voices ������������������������������������������������������������ Harness Racing Museum, Goshen, Dec 8, 7pm “Nutcracker” Holiday Show ������������������������������ Orange County School of Dance, Monroe, Dec 9-11 Valley Central Performing Arts Holiday Carols & Festiva Music � Montgomery, Dec10, 11am-3pm Delaware Valley High School Chamber Choir ������������������ Grey Towers, Milford, Dec 10, Noon FREE Dingmans Delaware Elementary School ��������������������������Grey Towers, Milford, Dec 10, 2:30pm FREE SUNY Orange Madrigal Singers ������������������������ Morrison Hall, Middletown, Dec 10, 3pm FREE “The Nutcracker” Hudson Valley Conservatory �������������������� New Rose Theatre, Walden, Dec 15-18 “The Nutcracker” Marya Kennett Dance Center Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Dec 17, 1pm & 6pm SUNY Orange Chamber Ensemble ������������������������� Morrison Hall, Middletown, Dec 17, 6pm FREE MISU Orchestra & Ellenville Chamber Players ��������� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Dec 22, 7:30pm

Books: discussions / readings / Signings Book Lover’s Club ���������������������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group ������������������ Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Fiction & Foodies ����������������������������������������������������������������� Mamakating Library, 2nd Thursday, 7pm Book Discussion Group �������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett �����������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Nov 29, 2pm “A Touch of Stardust” by Kate Alcott �������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Dec 1, 7pm Great Books Discussion ���������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Dec 2, 11:30am “It Was Me All Along: A Memoir” by Andie Mitchell w/Matt Pfisterer Thrall Library, Middletown, Dec 6, 3pm Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis ���������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Dec 7, 7pm Handmade Pasta Cookbook by/wNicole Karr ������������������������������������� Chester Library, Dec 17, Noon “The First Rule” by Robert Crais �������������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Dec 21, 7pm December 2016

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decemb 7FREE �����������������������������������������Seven Freedoms Record Store & Music Cafe, Montgomery ATLAS ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Atlas Studios, Newburgh BW �����������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS CAS Arts Center ��������������������������������������������������� Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor CAS-LK ���������������������������������������������������������������������������CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor DCAT �������������������������������������������������������������� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel

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by Kim Pearce Paintings of Grey Towers runs Dec. 3 thru the Holiday season at the Pinchot Mansion

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Cinema “The Trouble With Angels” MSM-DC 9:30am

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Music - Blues Joe Louis Walker & Friends. w/‘King’ Solomon Hicks FAL 7pm

DEAD ���������������������������������������������������������Dead End Cafe, Parksville DEER ��������������������������������� Deerpark Reformed Church, Port Jervis DOWN �������������������������������������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh DVAA ����������������������������������������� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg FAL �������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro FAL-U �����������������������������������������The Falcon Underground, Marlboro

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Poetry: Milkweed Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Music - Holiday Pine Bush Community Band Graham’s Presby. Ch. Pine Bush 7pm

12 Cinema “Hell of High Water” Newburgh Library 6:30pm

13 Cinema “The First Day in May” Greenwood Lake Library, 7pm

Music - Blues Joe Louis Walker & Friends. w/Johnny Feds FAL 7pm

Poetry Host: Walter Pahucki MONTBK 7pm

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Poetry Walter Worden Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm Music - Blues Joe Louis Walker & Friends w/Vanessa Collier FAL 7pm

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Cinema “One Special Night” Cornwall Library, Noon

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Photo by Susie Schmeider Caffe ala Mode, Warwick through January 25

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Cinema................... Reel Eclectic Film Series............... THRALL 2pm Music - Jazz..... .Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Trio ...............FAL 7pm Poetry............... Barbara Adams & James Cotter............. NOBL 7pm Music - Rock-Roots.. .Frank Carillo & The Bandoleros .FAL-U 10pm

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Music - Rock..........

Music - Classical...P Theatre - Play.....“E Dinner Theatre..........

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Music - Jazz.........J Music - Swing...........

Music - Classical...W Music - Holiday....Evergreen & Goshen HS Choirs...HARNESS 7pm Theatre - Reading.

Music - Blues-Rock-R&B.Buffalo Stack, Jeremy Baum’s JB3 Trio.FAL 7pm Cinema & Talkback Storytelling.....Black Dirt Storytelling Guild...Florida Library, 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“E Theatre - Play.....“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm Theatre -Play.........

Comedy....Pat DaBiere, Lauren Turczak, Dee Watson....FAL-U 8pm Music - Classical-Holida Music.............Thun

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Dance........................... “The Nutcracker” .......................ROSE 7pm Music....................Connor Kennedy & Minstrel ..................FAL 7pm Music - Jazz Improvs........... bigBANG................................FAL-U 7pm

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Music............... Fou Music - Jazz.....Hudso Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio.Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm Theatre - Play.....“E Theatre - Play.....“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm Music - Doors........

Music Jazz Sessions FAL 7pm

Cinema “Mamma Mia” THRALL 3pm

Music - Blues Joe Louis Walker & Friends w/Joe Nott FAL 7pm

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Cinema “The Infancy Narratives” MSM-DC 9:30am

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GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts �����������������������������������������������������Goshen Mus GWL ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Greenwood Lake L HARNESS �����������������������������������������������������������������Harness Racing Museum, G IKE ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Eisenhower Hall, West JOKER ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Joker’s Comedy Club, C MISU Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster �����St. John’s Episcopal Church, Elle

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Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Spoken Word & Music POELODIES FAL-U 7pm

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Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets ........................ NFL 7pm Music............ Slam Allen’s Holiday Soul-a-bration! ...........FAL 7pm Music..................Po Music - Classical.MISU & Ellenville Chamber Players.MISU 7:30pm Music.....................

Comedy..Mikael Gregg, S.Cooke, J.McMullen, J.Benford..FAL-U 8pm

Music - Tito Puente........Latin Jazz Express .......................FAL 7pm Music..................................Pat O’Shea .........................FAL-U 10pm

Music........ Bobby Music - Afropean...

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MONTBK ����������������������������������������������������������Montgomery Book Exchange MSM-AQ ������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh NACL ���������������������������������������������������������������NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NFL ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Free Library NOBL ������������������������������������������������ Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PARA ����������������������������������������������������������� Paramount Theater, Middletown

FRIDAY

Warwick Valley Chorale.Grace Epis.Ch. Mdltwn, 7pm ......... Lindsey Webster ...........................FAL 7pm ...Arthur Moon & Iris Lune .................FAL-U 7pm Potluck Concerts..Cornwall Presby. Church 7:30pm Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm . “A Christmas Carol Murder” ...West Point Club, 8pm

Joe Lovano’s Birthday Bash! .................FAL 7pm ..........Dan Bradley Big Band........................DEER 7pm Warwick Valley Chorale.United Meth.Ch., Goshen, 7pm .........“A Christmas Memory” .......... PRESBY 7pm k.....“The Burmese Harp” ............. CAS-LK 7:30pm Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm ........Two Holiday Plays ...................... SCDW 8pm ay.Maybrook Wind Ensemble.Grace Epis.Ch. Mdltwn 7:30pm nderblast...........Rockland House, Roscoe, 8:30pm

........ “The Nutcracker” .......................ROSE 7pm urth Annual Christmas Benefit ..............FAL 7pm on Valley Jazz Ensemble..Warwick Val. Comm. Ctr. 8pm Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm ......... Feast of Friends ......................FAL-U 10pm

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PHILL ������������������������������������������������������������������������Phillipsport Community Center PRESBY ������������������������������������Marsh Hall, First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis PW �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills RITZ ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh ROSE �������������������������������������������������������������������������������New Rose Theatre, Walden SCCC ����������������������������������Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake

SATURDAY

Theatre - Reading..“A Christmas Carol..Grey Towers, Milford, 11am & 2pm Fair..................................Holiday Market..................... BW 11am-4pm Cinema.................Movie Matinee....Crawford Library, Monticello, 1pm Music - Holiday.............. West Point Band............................. IKE 1pm Poetry.....Host: Hayden Wayne....Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, 1pm Theatre - Play...“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” S . HAD 2pm & 8pm Music - Holiday... Jimmy Sturr Christmas Show................PARA 3pm Cinema....................“Miracle on 34th Street”....................... BW 4pm Music........................Malcolm Bruce & Band........................FAL 7pm Music - Rock....Luis Mojica & The Rainbow Tentacles ...FAL-U 7pm Comedy...............................Joey Kola................................... IKE 8pm

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Festival......Sugar Loaf Holiday Celebration...King’s Hwy, Noon-5pm Cinema.............Movie Matinee........Crawford Library, Monticello, 1pm Opera - Live in HD....... “L’Amour de Loin”........................SCCC 1pm Cinema.................... “Ellenville NY” documentary.......Ellenville Library 3pm Music - Comedy...Shirim’s Klezmer “Nutcracker”..Milford Theatre, 5:30pm Music........................ Cuboricua Salsa Band.........................FAL 7pm Music - Latin Jazz............Rhythm Rising .........................FAL-U 7pm Music - Jazz.Brian Kastan Trio.Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, 7:30pm Music - Classical....SUNY Orange Symphonic Band ....PARA 7:30pm Music - Classical-Holiday..Maybrook Wind Ensemble..Cornwall United Meth.Ch. 8pm Theatre - Play.....“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm Theatre -Play................Two Holiday Plays ...................... SCDW 8pm Comedy.............................. Rich Guzzi.............................JOKER 9pm

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Cinema.....Movie Matinee....Crawford Library, Monticello, 1pm Music - Holiday............Holiday Lights with Francine & Joel G . WL 2pm Dance........................... “The Nutcracker” ........... ROSE 2pm & 7pm Cinema.......................... “Suicide Squad”........................ NFL 2:15pm Music - Classical.Middletown Concert Chorale.North Cong.Ch, 7pm Music - Classical.Queen of the Hudson Chamber Music.ATLAS 7pm Music.........Ed Palermo Big Band, Napoleon Murphy Brock ...FAL 7pm Music..Neil Alexander & NAIL Winter Solstice Concert ... RITZ 7:30pm Music - Classical-Holiday..Maybrook Wind Ensemble..Maybrook Senior Center, 7:30pm

Music - Folk.................Music for Humanity.................. NOBL 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ...... SHAD 8pm Music - Jazz.......Eric Person Trio .The Wherehouse, Newburgh,9pm Comedy.............................Chris Roach...........................JOKER 9pm

SCDW Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop �����Sullivan County Museum SLGMN ��������������������������������������Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SUNYO-KH ��������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh SUNYO-OH ����������������������������������� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown THRALL ��������������������������������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown UUC ������������������������������Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern

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Music - Blues,Fusion.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis ..... FAL10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Fair..................................Holiday Market..................... BW 11am-4pm Fair.......................Holiday Market..... Downtown Ellenville, Noon-4pm Music - Holiday.............. West Point Band............................. IKE 1pm

Music - Classical..Delaware Valley Choral Society....United Meth. Ch., Milford 2pm

Music - Holiday....... Francine and Joel Zelnik .............. THRALL 2pm Theatre - Play......“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ..... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Reading......... “A Christmas Carol” .Grey Towers, Milford 2pm Cabaret - Holiday......... The Lyric Quartet......................... DEAD 3pm Cinema....................“Miracle on 34th Street”....................... BW 4pm Music..3D Rhythm of Life Band...Warwick Reformed Church, 5pm Music................ The Americana Music Sessions ...........FAL-U 7pm

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

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Fair.......................Holiday Market..... Downtown Ellenville, Noon-4pm Cinema..........................“Second Mother” ...... Cornwall Library, 1pm Theatre - Play......“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ..... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play...............Two Holiday Plays ...................... SCDW 2pm

Music - Classical.Sullivan County Chorus.Immac. Conception Ch., Woodbourne 2:30pm

Music - Holiday...Pine Bush Band..Montgomery Senior Center, 3pm Music - Holiday..... .......Irish Tenors Christmas .................. IKE 3pm Music - Classical.Middletown Concert Chorale.St.John’s Luth.Ch, 3pm Theatre - Reading.........“A Christmas Memory” .PRESBY 3pm & 7pm Music - Classical.Classic Choral Society.First Presby Ch., Goshen 4pm Music - Classical.Newburgh Symphonic Chorale.St. George’s Ch.,4pm

Music - Classical.Warwick Valley Chorale.St.Stephen’sRC Church, Warwick 4pm

Music - Classical.HVPAF Chamber Music.Mulder Chapel, Warwick, 7pm

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Music - Blues-Rock.The Marc Black Omelette Quartet .FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Fair.......................Holiday Market..... Downtown Ellenville, Noon-4pm Dance........................... “The Nutcracker” .......................ROSE 2pm Theatre - Play......“Every Christmas Story Ever Told” ..... SHAD 2pm Music - Classical.Classic Choral Society..United Ch.of Christ, Blmng Grv 4pm Poetry............. Poetry and Power- Inspired Words.............. BW 6pm Music - Soul..........Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism ..................FAL 7pm

CANVAS wishes all a very HAPPY HOLIDAY!

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opa Chubby, Nalani & Sarina .................FAL 7pm Cinema.................Movie Matinee....Crawford Library, Monticello, 1pm .......... Nalani & Sarina ..........................FAL-U 8pm Music................Bernard “Pretty” Purdie’s Holiday “IN” ..FAL 7pm

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Harden & The Soul Purpose Band ........FAL 7pm Cinema................Movie Matinee....Crawford Library, Monticello, 1pm ..............Daby Touré .................................FAL 7pm Music - Blues-Soul.......Chris Bergson Band w/Ellis Hooks!...... F . AL 7pm

Painting shown: “City Hall Tree” by M.E. Whitehill (Tree design by Regina Angelo)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! December 2016

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sponsored by Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School & Wurtsboro Art Alliance CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Art exhibits

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

Group Show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ���������������Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ������� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �������������� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery ������������������������������������������������ Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ����������������Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Lisa Strazza paintings, John Strazza photographs ��������������������� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show ��������������������������� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Scott Michael Ackerman ������������������������������� Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-on-Hudson, thru early Dec “Newburgh-Beacon Ferry” photographs, paintings, documents, video, memorabilia ����������������������� Crawford House Museum, Newburgh, thru Dec Olivia Baldwin “Sugar and Grease” ����������������������������������������������Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, thru Dec 4 Goshen Art League “Bountiful Harvest” �������������������������������������������Goshen Music Hall, thru Dec 5 Bill Rabsey found objects sculpture, Liza J Smith -Simpson paintings �������� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Dec 5 “Art in Sixes” ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� DVAA thru Dec 23 Juried Artist and Maker Market �������������������������������������������� Space Create, Newburgh, thru Dec 24 “Plein Air All Seasons” ������������������������������������ Gallery @ Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Dec 27 Charles Lang, Alice Sipple “Dialogs” �������� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, thru Dec 30 CAS Winter Members Show & Craft Show ������������������������������������������������������������ CAS thru Dec 31 Linda Eklund, Rob Rayevsky, Pietro Spica, Les Stone ���Rolling Rover Cafe, Parksville, thru Dec 31 Crawford Arts Association Toys For Tots/Winter Art Show �������Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru Jan 5 Jesse Bransford “Nomina Magica” ����������������������������������� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Jan 9 Jacqui Doyle Schneider “Then and Now: Thrown Pottery over 35 Years” ���������������������������������������� Artists of Excellence series SUNYO-KH thru Jan 28 “Movement in Nature” Orange County Arts Council. ������ Storm King Golf Club, Cornwall, thru mid-Feb

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Holiday Show ������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Nov 26-Dec 18 “An Artist’s Response to Human Rights” ���������������������������� SUNYO-OH & SUNYO-KH Dec 1-18 Linda Fay Berger, Brenda Harburger + group show, + “Holiday Themed Art” ��� WRS Dec 1-30 Gad Nusinov paintings ����������������������������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Dec 1-31 Holiday Pastel Paintings group show ��������������������Leo’s Pizzeria & Restaurant, Cornwall, Dec 1-31 Minjin Kung, Sal Russo, Mary Mugele Sealfon “Three Artists, Three Perspectives” ���������������������� Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 1-31 Holiday Show art, crafts, jewelry �������������������������������������������������� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Dec 3-25 “Shimmering” group show ���������������������������������������������������������� Gallery Eva, Callicoon, Dec 3-Jan 1 “Come Paint With Me” artists, and others �������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Dec 3-Jan 1 Goshen Art League “On the Rails” ������������������������������������������������� Goshen Music Hall, Dec 7-Feb 6 Small Works Instructors’ Art Show paintings, sculpture, jewelry, photography ������������������������������ Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Dec 11-Feb 3 “Winter Solstice” Port Jervis Council for the Arts’ Art & About series ����������������������� Dec 14-Feb 8 Demetre Bove & Susan Miiller Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria & Marlaina Donato Port Jervis City Hall Council Chambers & Joan Kehlenbeck and RVAG members Deerpark Town Hall “Small Paintings” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS Dec 15-Jan 14

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale ���������������������������������������������������� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Mark Loete “Catskill Fly Tying: The Art of Artifice” ������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wulff Gallery, Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, thru Nov 30 Grey Villet “Rights, Race & Revolutions” ����������������������������� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31 Susie Schmieder ������������������������������������������������������������������������Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, thru Jan 25

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Rayanne Rysinger ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS Dec 1-30 Pike Imaging Council group show ����������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Dec 3-Jan 1

ART & Photography receptions

Holiday Show �������������������������������������������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Nov 26, Noon-4pm CAS Winter Members Show ���������������������������������������������������������������������������CAS Nov 26, 3pm-5pm Juried Artist and Maker Market ����������������������������������Space Create, Newburgh, Nov 26, 3pm-5pm “Come Paint With Me” artists, and others ����������������������� Grey Towers , Milford, Dec 3, 2pm-5pm Holiday Show art, crafts, jewelry �������������������������������������� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Dec 3, 4pm-6pm Crawford Arts Association Toys For Tots/Winter Art Show ��������Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, Dec 3, 5pm-8pm Amity Arts Holiday Craft Show & Sale ���������������������������������� Amity Arts, Florida, Dec 3, 5pm-8pm “Shimmering” group show �������������������������������������������������� Gallery Eva, Callicoon, Dec 3, 5pm-9pm “An Artist’s Response to Human Rights” �������SUNYO-OH Dec 4, 1pm-3pm & SUNYO-KH Dec 6, 6pm-8pm 18

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CAS Annual Crafts Show �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������CAS Dec 10, 1pm Linda Fay Berger, Brenda Harburger & Rayanne Rysinger ��������������������� WRS Dec 10, 5pm-7pm Minjin Kung, Sal Russo, Mary Mugele Sealfon ����������Wisner Library, Warwick, Dec 11, 1pm-3pm Small Works Instructors’ Art Show paintings, sculpture, jewelry, photography ������������������������������ Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Dec 11, 1pm-3pm Goshen Art League “On the Rails” �����������������������������������������Goshen Music Hall, Jan 24, 7pm-9pm

Schools & Conservatories

Budding Artists ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing

Children & Teens Calendar

HHNM ����������������������������������Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ������������������� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ������������������������������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Books

“Owl Moon” grades 1 & 2 ��������������������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Dec 1, 4:30pm “Dog Days” by Jeff Kinney, ages 8-12 ��������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Dec 10, 3pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs ��������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Wednesdays, 6pm FREE Saturday Movie ������������������������������������������������ Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE “Miracle on 34th Street” Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara ��������� Bethel Woods, Dec 3 & 4, 4pm Entertainment

“I’m Getting Nuttin for Christmas” & “Miracle On 34th Street” ��������������������������������������������������� Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Dec 9-11 “Into the Light” Vanaver Caravan ������������������������Ellenville High School Auditorium, Dec 17, 3pm Museums

Discovery Quests ����������������������������������������������HHNM Saturdays & Sundays thru Nov 13,10am-4pm “Marvelous Moths” �������������������������������������HHNM-CoH Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Meet the Animal of the Week ����������������������������HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Eco-Zone Discovery Room ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ PEEC Dec 4, 1pm-4pm “Nighttime Navigators” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� HHNM-CoH Dec 17-18 Recreation & Lectures

Yule Log Celebration lecture, scavanger hunt, crafts ��������������������������������������� HHNM Dec 3, 10am

Clubs calendar Bridge Club ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 6pm Newburgh Library Camera Club ����������������������������������������Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesday, 6pm St. James Camera Club ������������������������������������������������ St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Chess Club ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Chess Club �������������Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 3rd Saturday, 10:30am & 4th Tuesday, 5:30pm Chess Time ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, 3rd Thursday, 4:30pm Friday Night Chess ������������������������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Cooking the Books cook book discussion �Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, 3rd Thursday, 6:30pm Knit and Stitch ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” �������������������������������� Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10:15am Knit & Stitch Club ������������������������������Newburgh Library Town Branch, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6;30pm Knitting Group ������������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” �����������������������Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knit & Crochet Circle �������������������������������������������������������������������Florida Library, 3rd Tuesdays, 6pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” ���������������� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club �����������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting, Crocheting, Crafts “Stitch and Bitch” ����Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Sundays, 1pm Knit/Crochet Club �����������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters ���������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ���������First Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Group classical �������������������� 3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Electronic Music Meetup w/Neil Alexander “Wired Wednesdays” ��Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesdays, 7pm Needlework Club ������������������������������������������������������Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Saturdays, 1pm Ladies Night Painting Social ������������������������Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Thursdays 6:30pm Painting Social �����������������������������������������������Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 3:30pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ����� St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Creative Photographers of the Hudson Valley ����������������������� Newburgh Library, 1st Thursday, 6pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ����������������� Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm The Country Scrappers cardmaking, scrapbooking �� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Tuesdays, all day Scrabble Mania �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill ����������������������������������������Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Trivia Night �������������������������������������������������������������Penning’s Pub & Grill, Warwick, Thursdays, 8pm UFO Support Group ����������������������������������������� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7:30pm Woodcarvers Guild ���������������������������������������������������� Museum Village, Monroe, 1st Wednesday, 7pm

SUNY Orange Symphonic Band Flute soloists Laura Martellaro, Judy Bracco, Holly Dunn (photo not shown) and Kerry Maloney will perform an arrangement of Euday Bowman’s 12th Street Rag, written by band conductor Joe Martellaro, when the SUNY Orange Symphonic Band holds Laura Martellaro Judy Bracco Kerry Maloney its winter concert on December the musicals Hairspray and West 10 at 7:30pm at the Paramount Side Story are also on the playlist.

Theatre.

SUNY Orange Students with a The four soloists are all members current ID, active military personnel of the Symphonic Band, which and students under 12 years of age blends the musical talents of SUNY will be admitted free. Tickets can Orange students and members of the community, all under the direction Joe Martellaro be purchased at the door or online: www.middletownparamount.com of Joe Martellaro.

The concert is sponsored by the College’s The remainder of the evening program will include Poet and the Peasant by Franz von Arts and Communication Department. The Suppe, Fate of the Gods by Steven Reineke, Paramount Theatre, located at 17 South Street Take Off by Daniel Weinberger, Carol of the in Middletown, is universally accessible.

For more information, call the Arts & Bells by Andrew Wainwright, and Prairie Dances by David Holsinger. Selections from Communication Dept. at 845-341-4787.

Jazz Returns to Bellvale

Gabriele & Joe V. Tranchina

Bob Rosen

Robert Kopec

Rubin, a master drummer, Steve Rubin, the creator “rotates” his ensemble with of the Hudson Valley Jazz Hudson Valley keyboardists, Festival, is bringing his Skye bassists and vocalists. On any Jazz Trio back to the Iron given Sunday, you might find Forge Inn for the new Jazz Joe Vincent Tranchina or Brunch Series.

Dave Smith on keyboards, Bill Nestled at the foot of Mount McCrossen, John Arbo, Eric Peter in the Bellvale section of Steve Rubin Lemon, Robert Kopec, Mark Warwick at 38 Iron Forge Road, it’s an ideal setting, located on the site of an Hagan, or J. Brunka bassists, Bob Rosen or historic forge in a revolutionary era home built Todd Williams on sax, sometimes the very in 1760. The music is just the right approach popular Gabriele Tranchina on vocals. And for enjoying blueberry pancakes, salmon, eggs always, Rubin on drums. benedict, portebello mushrooms or any of the The season begins on December 11, from other sumptuous choices available.

Noon-3:00pm. Call 845-986-3411.

POET / WRITER OPPORTUNITY! Poetry and Short Fiction Wanted!

The Upper Delaware Writers Collective is calling for poets and writers to submit work for a literary event to take place on February 25 at 2:00pm at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. The reading is part of the Salon Series hosted by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance. Writers who have been accepted will be invited to read their piece at this event, and their poem or story will be printed in the program.

The event is called Bring on the Thaw, and the prompt for writers is the word “Melt.”

All shades and meanings of the word are

welcome, such as melting snow and ice, “melt” as it relates to cooking, to love, to having a “melt down,” and so on.

Submit up to two prose poems or short fiction pieces (up to 1,000 words) to mogreene53@gmail.com or mail paper copies to Upper Delaware Writers Collective, 1258 Crystal Lake Road, Narrowsburg.

There is no submission fee. The deadline is January 16. Include your name, phone number and email on every page of each submission. Applicants will be notified of jury selections in late January.

For information call 845-252-7506.

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Desmond Campus Instructors’ Small Works Art Show

“Still Life with Artichokes” by C. Harris-Pagano

Len DeVirgilio is skilled in painting both landscapes and seascapes in the traditional watercolorist style. He is an avid sketcher, and enjoys the beautiful landscapes that the Hudson River has to offer to use in his watercolors.

Jodi Yeaple-King works with oil and acrylics, illustrations, tole painting, fiber arts, metal sculpting, and jewelry.

Pattie Eakin works with oils and watercolors. Pattie was named best artist in the Hudson Valley by Hudson Valley Magazine in 2010r.

In addition to watercolor, Gayle Clark Fedigan has tried oil, pen & ink, gouache, acrylic and just about every other 2D media, but she finds pastel endlessly fascinating!

Cynthia Harris-Pagano specializes in oil and pastel portraits in her North Light Studio in Otisville.

Oilist Esther McHenry’s artistic work ranges from interpretive pieces to still life. Part

Sculpture by Bob Breur

of McHenry’s passion for art stems from the joy of watching a work develop over time.

Jewelry by Michele Dixler Susan Minier creates colorful aside from being artists? They and engaging collage art using are all art instructors at Mount fabric, paper, and paint.

Saint Mary College’s Desmond Sunwha Gil works with Campus, and will have a small Oriental ink brush painting. works art show opening on Michele Dixler is a jewelry December 11, from 1:00pmand accessory designer, and also 3:00pm! works in textiles / quilts.

This small works art show, Eli Sloves has been a including paintings, jewelry, professional photographer since photographs and sculpture, is a 1981. His style is both traditional Art by Esther McHenry great way to support local artists and contemporary. and purchase lovely gifts for the holidays Bob Breur works in clay sculpting and which are right around the corner! woodcarving. His work is both intricate in The show runs through February 3. detail and graceful in pose, each with a singular While you are at it, enjoy viewing the all inclusive message portrayed from head to Desmond house decorated for the holidays: 6 foot.

Albany Post Road, Newburgh (Balmville).

What do all of the above have in common For information call 845-565-2076.

Candlelight Tour

This year’s Candlelight Tour sponsored by the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands (HSNBH) takes place on December 11 from Noon-5:00pm.

As usual, the tour will commence at the historic headquarters of the HSNBH, the Captain David Crawford House. The Society has decorated the Crawford House with beautiful natural greens, fruits, holly, wreaths, trees, flowers, ribbons and bows. The decorations are selected to represent how a family like the Crawfords might have presented their house to the public during a Christmas and holiday season back in the 1800’s. Each fireplace is decorated with a separate display of natural greens and flowers. The dining room becomes a haven for homemade candytrees and sugar cookies. The magnificent cantilevered staircase will be entwined with ropes of garlands and bows creating a dramatic sweeping presence in the main hallway.

“This year’s tour includes 10 different homes each selected for a different reason,” says Russell Lange, a member of the committee.

“Either they’re architecturally important, or they have a fabulous view of the river, or they’re on fabulous grounds. The person that currently lives there could be an artist or someone who has a wonderful collection; there are different reasons why we would include someone.”

For tickets: www.newburghhistoricalsociety. com or at the door, 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh.

* Take home some good food and maybe a painting, too!

View “Holiday Pastels” by a variety of artists at Leo’s Cornwall location through December! *

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Greetings From The Wallkill River School of Art, Montgomery

The end of fall and arrival of winter brings new artworks to the Wallkill River School (WRS). Solo shows by expressive watercolorist, Linda Fay Berger, and expressionistic oil painter Brenda Harburger will be on display. Emerging Artist Rayanne Rysinger will be featured in a solo exhibit of her photographs in the workshop room.

Retired from her career as a Neonatal R.N. and Army Lt. Colonel at West Point, Cornwallon-Hudson resident Linda Fay Berger has plunged into her second career as she devotes her time to spoiling her grandchildren and creating works of art in oil, acrylic, watercolors and photographs. Born to an artistic family, her father was a photographer and mother was into arts and crafts of all varieties. Linda won many contests throughout school for her self taught art. Marriage and a prestigious West Point posting brought her to the Hudson Valley to raise her two daughters.

Linda has childhood memories of the Sussex County farmland that provide the inspiration for many of her landscapes. Her seven years in Sedona, Arizona brought her more celestial inspirations. Currently a represented artist at the WRS, she enjoys more classes to expand her horizons. Linda’s style varies from whimsical to landscapes, cityscapes, flowers, and much more.

Artwork by Linda Fay Berger

Brenda Harburger pursues her art through oil, watercolor and sculpture of still life, landscape, figure, portraits of humans and pets. Her original career goal was to be an art director, but circumstances took her on a different creative path as a new product marketing manager for Fortune 500 companies in NYC - developing an particular expertise in the highly esthetic fragrance market. Moving to Sullivan and Orange Counties, she opened her own advertising agency with her husband and, with that, did indeed become an art director for 25 years. Now retired, she has dived into her very earliest creative passion: fine arts.

“My style might be called contemporary impressionalism, or impressionalistic realism.

Exceptional works of art elicit an emotional

Artwork by Brenda Harburger

reaction. With my watercolors, I have developed a very fluid, loose, watery, organic style which merges the subject, mood, gesture, the line, color and medium together - touches a tender spot within the viewer.

“In oil, my style is less fluid and more realistic, with specific focus on a compelling fresh view of the grace of life - pointing subject, color, texture, line, shapes and composition, all to this end. In sculpture, 3-dimension linear, undulating grace in metal is my only drive,” states Brenda.

Rayanne Rysinger has never let physical disabilities stop her, or define her abilities in the creative field. She is a Renaissance gal who dances, writes and has an eye for photography.

She wrote and illustrated a children’s book

Photograph by Rayanne Rysinger

about life on an Orange County farm, and also wrote lyrics for a music CD. Rysinger is an accomplished dancer in spite of physical impairments that would daunt most people.

Her perseverance and talents earned her the 2015 Inspirational Artist award from the Orange County Arts Council. This will be her first solo show in 2016.

The exhibits run from December 1-30, with an opening reception on December 10 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Refreshments will be served.

The WRS Upstairs Gallery will feature Holiday themed art, while the Hallway theme will offer small paintings for $100.

The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street in Montgomery. For information:845-457-2727.

MO NTGO M E RY B USI NE SS SE R V I C E S

YOUR AD HERE! $30 - 1 time $150 - 6 times ($25 per) $300 -12 times ($25 per)

(Add $10 for color)

Call 845-926-4646

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Chorales

qrnznq It’s Chorale Time again, when our community choruses perform their annual Holiday concerts. As you will see, though they are called “Holiday” concerts, the music being performed is a wonderful variety of classical music compositions: masses, carols, cantatas, gloria excerpts, psalms, magnificats, alleluias, etc.

“Because the holiday season, especially Christmastime, is so special to so many, it’s always my hope that folks find the perfect music program that will enhance their holiday,” said maestra Janiece Kohler of the Classic Choral Society & Orchestra.

“This year is no different. One glance at performing arts calendars for this month shows there might be something special for just about everybody. It’s gratifying to see so many choices, and even more gratifying to know Classic Choral Society is a significant part of it all!”

This year some of the chorales have enhanced their programs by inviting youth choruses, a barbershop chorus, and a drum group to perform along with them... ...and two chorales are performing Charpentier’s Christmas Mass.

from around 1690 and was probably composed for the great Jesuit church of St. Louis in Paris, where Charpentier (see photo) held the important post of maître de musique.

The use of popular carols in church music had long been an accepted practice. In England carols were more often sung than played, but in France noëls figured prominently in the substantial French organ repertoire. The liturgy of Midnight Mass permitted the singing and playing of these Christmas folksongs, and by Charpentier’s time quite complex instrumental arrangements were commonplace.

Very little of Charpentier’s music was published during his lifetime. In common with a number of his colleagues, he suffered greatly from the stranglehold exerted on Parisian music by his illustrious but unscrupulous contemporary, Jean-Baptiste Lully. Only in the late twentieth century has Charpentier’s music seen a substantial revival, with a consequent re-assessment of his true place in French music.

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traditional Latin mass texts, Marc-Antoine Charpentier uses musical material drawn from thenpopular Christmas carols for his Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas),” said Newburgh conductor Peter Sipple.

“What results is, in the words of one scholar, an excellent example of seventeenth century musical craftsmanship. Charpentier maintains the flavor of the carols’ melodies and keeps instrumental timbres simple, dance-like, and delightful.”

Conducted by Sipple, the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale is comprised of 3035 singers. It was created fifteen years ago by the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. The group sings both a cappella and with accompaniment.

For Charpentier’s Mass, and for the several French carols that follow, two flutes, strings and continuo will accompany for the chorale’s concert on December 11 at 4:00pm at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh.

Tickets at the door. Parking is available across the street.

GOSHEN & BLOOMING GROVE Conducted by Janiece Kohler, the Classic Choral Society & Orchestra will also perform Charpentier’s Mass for its 57th Annual Winter Concert.

Kohler’s program highlights also include music by Bach (Cantata BWV 142 “A Child is Born to Us”) and by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) who was the most famous composer in 16th-century Spain, and one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Palestrina and di Lasso. Victoria was not only a composer, but also an accomplished organist and singer as well as a Catholic priest.

Kohler will also conduct Magnificat in G

by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). The text is the traditional Magnificat, and it is scored for choir and orchestra. “The music is strong, extremely expressive, a little florid, and wonderfully singable,” says music publisher

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Performances are December 11 at 4:00pm in the First Presbyterian Church, 33 Park Place, Goshen, and December 18 at 4:00pm in the United Church of Christ, 2 Old Dominion Road, Blooming Grove.

Admission is free and donations are welcome. For further info: 845-713-4543.

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The Delaware Valley Choral Society will be performing Christmas Around the World Part 2 with a variety of carols from all over the globe, including Spain, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Africa, Great Britain, and the United States. Works from notable composers such as Sergei Rachmaninov, Morten Lauridsen, and Harry Simone are featured in a variety of genres ranging from the Renaissance to Classical to Romantic and the modern era.

Instrumentalists include an African drum group and student musicians from the Delaware Valley High School Music Program. Also featured will be the Dingman Delaware Children’s Choir directed by Brian Krauss which will join the Choral Society in selected carols.

The Society incorporates aspiring musicians from the area as well as professional musicians to bring major works of music to our community.

The December 4, 2:00pm concert will be at the United Methodist Church, 206 East Ann Street. (A December 3 concert will be in Sandyston, NJ.) Tickets may be purchased in advance by contacting Helen Monisera at 845-856-5696, Diane Fornoff at 570-2965333, or Jeffrey Fornoff at 570-267-8773.

Tickets will also be available at the door.

Contact Jeffrey Fornoff at Jeffrey.marc. fornoff@gmail.com for more information.

For pre or post concert dining, see WaterWheel & Apple Valley ads, page 27.

GOSHEN The annual Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame’s 41st Holiday Concert will benefit the The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve

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Toys for Tots Program. Museum nonmembers who bring a new unwrapped toy receive a $1.00 admission discount.

Goshen High School’s Varsity Choir (top photo) and Jazz Voices Ensemble will return for their 15th concert on this special occasion, and the Evergreen Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, will share a selection of holiday favorites performed a capella, barbershop style.

The evening will end with lively audience participation in the concert’s annual version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Arrive early to enjoy the holiday tree trimmed with horsey ornaments, tour the Museum with its festive halls and stalls, and check out the new exhibits. After the concert Edie Haughney of Amerprise Financial Services in Montebello, will be providing a holiday dessert table for the enjoyment of all.

As seating is limited, it is recommended to reserve as soon as possible for the December 8, 7:00pm concert in Haughton Hall, 240 Main Street. Phone: 845-294-6330.

If unable to attend the concert, drop off a new unwrapped toy in the Museum’s main lobby from now until December 15 between 10:00am and 5:00pm daily.

WOODBOURNE

The theme for the Sullivan County Community Chorus’ (SCCC) 40th Annual

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Winter Concert, under the direction of Kevin Giroux (photo right) is Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Present, & Looking to the Future: Celebrating 40 years of Choral Tradition in Sullivan County! with special guest performers from the Nesin Cultural Arts Center: the Young Children’s and Treble Makers Choruses, directed by Amy Phillips. The Winter Concert will also feature the Sullivan Chamber Singers, comprised of members of the Chorus.

Remembering the Past: In this section of the concert, they will perform music that “was performed at SCCC’s very first concert,” said Giroux, “as well as music that SCCC founder Martin Banner edited himself and had published from his many trips to Europe scouring numerous boxes found in monastic basements, library cellars and closets...you name it. Marty went there to find music gems that had been hidden from sight for centuries. He told me that the first piece he did 40 years ago were selections from Poulenc’s Gloria...and that’s how we will start our celebration!”

Celebrating the Present: “This next section will feature songs that will put a smile on your face; and why should we not smile; we have lots to celebrate!,” Giroux continued.

Looking to the Future: “This section will feature the Treble Makers (the future of choral singing) singing with the women of the SCCC. The music will have a New Age feel, a definite futuristic sound; not an eerie one, but one that either paints a picture in your mind based on the title, or one that evokes feelings and emotions.

“Magnificat (by Francesco Durante) is our major work for this concert, a very accessible multi-movement piece.”

They will perform on December 11 at 2:30pm at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 6317 Route 42, Woodbourne.

Performances of the SCCC are made possible in part with funds from the Sullivan County Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

In appreciation of the 40 years of support from the community, there will be no admission charged, however, free will donations will be graciously accepted.

Immediately following the performance, there will be a reception open to all attending the concert.

In case of inclement weather, the “snow date” will be December 18, 2:30pm.

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For information, call 845-439-4458.

MIDDLETOWN

Mozart’s Mass in C Major was completed in 1779 in Salzburg. Mozart had just returned to the city after 18 months of fruitless job hunting in Paris and Mannheim, and his father Leopold promptly got him a job as court organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral.

The KV 317 mass appears to have acquired the nickname “Coronation” at the Imperial court in Vienna in the early nineteenth century, after becoming the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations as well as services of thanksgiving.

It was famously performed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in 1985, with Pope John Paul II leading the proceedings, and Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna

Philharmonic Orchestra. The Mass is the master composer’s most famous religious work, and a testament to his musical creativity.

The Middletown Concert Chorale (MCC) is in its 20th year, now under the direction of Danielle Cornacchio (see photo right) and accompanied by Boyd Herforth organist (photo below). For its 2016 Winter Concert series

The Winter’s Night, the concert features Mozart’s Coronation Mass and great holiday music including Baby It’s Cold Outside, the Hallelujah Chorus and other works. MCC also always features entertaining cabaretstyle solos by chorale members.

Hear them sing at St. John’s Lutheran

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A light reception follows after each concert and guests will get to meet the chorale.

For information contact: Rob Abramson at 845-386-4398 or Wendy McNutt, President, at 914-391-7524. www.middletownconcertchorale.weebly. com/ WARWICK, MIDDLETOWN, GOSHEN

The Warwick Valley Chorale has been making music for more than 75 years. A volunteer organization of more than 100 voices, the chorale has sung at locations around Orange County as well as Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center many times.

Programs are under the direction of esteemed director, Professor Emeritus from Orange County Community College, Stanley Curtis, and gifted accompanist Gail Johnson.

The over 100 voices will perform The Joys of Christmas, musical treasures from Bach, Handel and Vivaldi to John Rutter and Irving Berlin, plus many more favorite songs and carols of the season.

Concerts are on December 2, 7:00pm at the Grace Episcopal Church, 58 North Street, Middletown, December 9, 7:00pm at the United Methodist Church, 115 Main Street, Goshen, and December 11, 4:00pm at St. Stephen’s RC Church, 75 Sanfordville Road, Warwick.

Free admission to all concerts. Donations greatly appreciated. www.warwickvalleychorale.org COMBINING CHOIRS WITH HOLIDAY EVENTS MIDDLETOWN There will be Merriment in the Mansion with Movies and Music during the weekends of December 10-11 and 17-18 when the 24

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Middletown Garden Lovers showcase their annual holiday decorations at Morrison Hall on the Middletown campus of SUNY Orange.

Visitors to Morrison Hall those four days will see a selection of their all-time favorite holiday movies come to life in each of the stately mansion’s five first-floor rooms. This year’s decorations will feature Home Alone 2 in the salon, A Christmas Carol in the music room, Elf in the foyer, Polar Express in the library and Holiday Inn in the dining room.

The College’s 22nd annual Holiday Open House will be open from 1:00pm to 5:00pm each day. Admission is free. Volunteers will be on hand to assist visitors along this selfguided tour.

Holiday performances will augment the Open House. The Madrigal Singers will showcase their talents at 3:00pm on December 10, while the SUNY Orange Chamber Ensemble will perform at 6:00pm on December 17.

Donations will be accepted for the Peter Alberghini Inspirational Scholarship.

Alberghini, a long-time SUNY Orange employee and advocate for Orange County residents through education, civic work and mental health programs, originated the Holiday Open House as a way for the local community to enjoy Morrison Hall.

The Holiday Open House is jointly sponsored by the College, the SUNY Orange Foundation and the Garden Lovers.

For information, call Mary Roth at 845341-4179.

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Grey Towers National Historic Site, will offer guided holiday tours of all three floors of the decorated mansion daily from December 5-December 17, at 1:00pm and 3:00pm.

The 1886 mansion, formerly the home of Gov. Gifford Pinchot, founder and first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, will once again be decorated by members of the Milford Garden Club. These special holiday tours

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bring visitors to all three floors of the mansion; the upper floors usually are not open to the public for tours.

On December 10, there will be two free musical performances of holiday favorites by members of the Delaware Valley High School Chamber Choir, who will perform in the Great Hall at Noon, and students from Dingmans Delaware Elementary School will perform outdoors in the Visitor Pavilion at 2:30pm.

In addition to the guided Holiday Tours, visitors can enjoy a Holiday art and photo exhibit and sale, featuring plein air paintings by artists of Come Paint With Me and a juried show of photographs taken by members of the Pike Imaging Council, all creatively depicting Grey Towers and the landscape.

Art work can be purchased through the Grey Towers Heritage Association.

For information or in case of inclement weather, call 570-296-9630.

SUGAR LOAF Multiple Warwick singing ensembles will participate in Sugar Loaf’s Holiday Celebration.

Members of the Warwick Valley Chorale, Warwick Valley High School Women’s Choir, the Warwick Valley High School

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Meistersingers, and the Jubilate Warwick Youth Choir will sing “mostly carols”.

Jubilate (pronounced yoo-bih-LAH-tey see picture above) is a vibrant, co-ed choir of talented, dedicated youth in grades five through twelve.

Jubilate has performed at Carnegie Hall, local houses of worship, public concerts, community events, St. Paul’s Chapel at Ground Zero, and a Sussex Skyhawks baseball game.

The Jubilate choirs have also performed with the Classic Choral Society as well as accomplished artists in the pop, bluegrass, folk, rock and classical music genres. The Jubilate liturgical choir performs regularly at Christ Church in Warwick.

The ensembles will perform on December 10 in hourly, segments from 12:30pm to 4:45pm. www.sugarloafnewyork.com

“Art in Sixes” in Narrowsburg

Celebrating its 12th year, Art in Sixes has become the Delaware Valley Art Alliance’s (DVAA) premier year-end art event. It features artwork in a wide range of studio mediums such as painting, drawing, sculpture, fiber, ceramics, and photography from artists in Sullivan County and the Upper Delaware River region.

Fun Facts about DVAA’s Art in Sixes The number of works in the show has grown every year since its first version in 2005 with 98 artworks. This year, there are 585 submissions by 174 artists!

Since 2015, all artwork must be no larger than 6 inches in any direction, not including frame or base - giving the exhibit a beautiful

cohesive look.

Every year, the jury has an overwhelming job of choosing what works will fit in the show. They use a clear plastic 6”x6” square to measure each work as it is being submitted.

“Because anyone can submit, the exhibition brings in a variety of creative people,” said gallery director Rocky Pinciotti, who developed the idea for the show. “For many artists, working that small is a refreshing new challenge. From the shopper’s point of view, the prices are affordable for the holidays!”

The exhibit runs from through December 23 at DVAA’s Alliance Gallery, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg.

For information, call 845-252-7576.

Ritz: Solstice Celebration & Food Drive The winter solstice was perhaps the most important date on many ancient calendars.

Prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge and Newgrange (in Ireland) indicate the day with remarkable precision.

From 2008 to 2011, Neil Alexander & NAIL presented an Annual Winter Solstice Concert & Canned Food Drive at various venues. This “non-denominational” seasonal event tapped into the traditions of family, togetherness, caring for our neighbors while offering a chance for contemplation and reflection. This year the tradition returns to the Lobby at the Ritz Theater, 109 Broadway, Newburgh.

Alexander and NAIL plan an evening of original music and jazz masterpieces within his Newburgh neighborhood, exploring deep grooves, majestic soundscapes, and infusing it all with a spiritually themed positive message. The performance will include original compositions by Alexander, plus select “spiritually themed” works by known composers such as John Coltrane, John McLaughlin, Bill Evans and more.

With reverence for the seasonal traditions of giving, concert attendees are encouraged to bring canned and non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. Guests donating a minimum of 3 separate food items will receive a $5 discount.

Since 1997, Neil Alexander & NAIL continue a commitment to the future of jazz and improvised music, incorporating a diverse stylistic palette and fierce musicianship, skillfully blending modern and traditional

forms with experimental concepts and electronic music: http://www.nailmusic.com NAIL features outstanding musicians Todd Isler (drums & percussion), Brian Mooney (bass) and Premik Russel Tubbs (saxophones), along with special guests (TBA).

NYC based performer Premik Russell Tubbs is a composer, arranger, producer, and accomplished multi-instrumentalist, equally adept in Jazz, Pop, R&B, World and Experimental genres. Premik performs on various flutes, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, wind synthesizers and lap steel guitar.

Brian Mooney is an accomplished bassist and the driving force behind Piktor’s Metamorphosis, an ensemble playing Jazz-Fusion classics by Return To Forever, a jazz fusion group founded by Chick Corea. His unique ability to groove inside this complex music makes him an ideal choice to help bring Alexander’s electric music to life.

Drummer, teacher and author Todd Isler is based in New York City, where he has been active in the jazz and world music scenes for over 20 years. He has two recordings under his own name, as well as his book You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This, which utilizes the South Indian Rhythm System to help musicians ground and expand their sense of rhythm.

Come on December 17, at 7:30pm to celebrate, help chase away the darkness, welcome back the sun, and enjoy an evening of great live music full of reflection & passion while helping the Hudson Valley community.

Plenty of parking around the corner in the Ann Street lot. www.safe-harbors.org

Celebrate the Holidays in Sugar Loaf!

The Sugar Loaf Community Foundation is sponsoring a Sugar Loaf Holiday Celebration on two weekends in December.

DECEMBER 4 There will be the 5th annual “Toys for Tots” Operation stop at Anne Marie’s Deli on December 4 from 2:00pm-2:45pm, collecting donations of unwrapped new toys for the “Toys for Tots” holiday giving program. Anne Marie’s Deli will be giving out hot chocolate and candy canes outside! Visit www.facebook. com/operationtoytrain.

At 2:00pm, the Youth Ballet Company of the Hudson Valley Dance Center of Warwick presents The Nutcracker. This magical interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s ballet features young professionals from around the county as well as local students. Beautiful sets, lights and costumes enhance this classic fairytale. This event, located at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, promises to be an entertaining and heartwarming experience for the whole family.

DECEMBER 10 Santa will be available for pictures on December 10 from 11:00am-Noon at SLPAC before the horse and wagon rides. Join in for a raffle and view local artwork, and a hot chocolate bar will be available as well!

Additional activities include horse and wagon rides with Santa, and the Methodist Church will host a Meet Santa and will have crafts in

Santa’s Horses! Photo by Mary Endico

the Fellowship Hall all day, and a tree lighting.

Throughout the day there will be carolers from various Warwick singing ensembles. All events are free for the community.

December 10 is also Sugar Loaf Second Saturday when participating businesses extend their hours to 7:00pm.

Exposures Gallery extends its hours from 7:30pm to 9:00pm for live jazz with Brian Kastan and Friends. Each month recording artist Kastan is joined by a changing cast of Grammy winning and noteworthy jazz musicians.

Come out for an amazing intimate experience. You never know who will show up! Free to the public.

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Honoring Schuller, Motian & Coleman at Joe’s Birthday Bash!

Father & Sons: Gunther, Ed & George Schuller

“Move over, Pavarotti; the greatest Italian tenor...isn’t Luciano, but Lovano.” - Will Friedwall / Village Voice.

An ideal Joe Lovano performance might be one that sounds good with New York’s advanced-harmony killer elite, but that could be effectively cut and pasted over a trap beat or a string quartet or scale exercises or traffic sounds.

Long ago he developed a tenor saxophone sound for his temperament. His starting place is bebop’s complex language, but he seems to be listening to something underneath language and style, something that could be well illustrated by jazz but isn’t specific to it.

Lovano’s latest CD, Classic! Live At Newport (2016), was recorded with Hank Jones, George Mraz and Lewis Nash, and is Lovano’s final recording for Blue Note.

Wrapping up a storied career, with his 20th Blue Note album as leader and his 25th overall, the album release coincided with Joe’s appearance at the 2016 Newport Jazz

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Festival. part of the ground-breaking “Joe has deep connections Paul Motian Trio (along with the history and evolution with Bill Frisell) that served of Jazz through some of the as a seminal force and most important personalities inspiration for the several of the past decades,” says generations of musicians.

Judi Silvano. “He has Marilyn Crispell, a pianist had personal relationships living in Woodstock, had a throughout his lifetime long history playing with with Gunther Schuller, Paul Paul Motian and will be Motian and Ornette Coleman part of celebrating Motian’s repertoire from the past 30 and his musical development years. from working with them has “Joe first met Gunther been profound. Each of them HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOE! Schuller in Boston during passed recently (Motian in 2011 and Schuller and Coleman in 2015) so his Berklee College of Music studies, where he is celebrating their music on this occasion Joe now holds the Gary Burton Chair in Jazz of his own birthday. It’s a family affair, with Performance. This program will include Joe assembling musicians who also had close several of Gunther’s arrangements from Joe’s Grammy nominated album Rush Hour of the associations with the three Maestros.

“Joe started playing with Paul Motian in mid-90’s. Gunther’s sons, Ed Schuller on 1981 and toured the world as part of a Quintet bass and George Schuller on drums as well which also featured Ed Schuller and then as as myself as vocalist [Judi Silvano] who were

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Ornette Coleman

Marilyn Crispell

all part of the recording session, will join in celebrating Gunther’s pen for Joe Lovano’s signature sound.

“Joe’s admiration for the genius of Ornette Coleman led to an invitation to sit in with his band over the last 10 years of his life.

The songs and improvisational concepts of Coleman will be represented with the addition of trombonist Dan Silverman, Judi’s big brother, including songs and improvisations

by Silvano with a special appearance of Judi’s nephew Peter Silverman on Didgeridoo (a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians).

“This will be a unique concert celebrating the spiritual power of music; something we all need as nourishment especially in this season.”

Celebrate on December 9 at 7:00pm with these Jazz Greats and some surprise guests at The Falcon, 1348 Rte 9w, in Marlboro.

Phone: 845-236-7970.

Visit http://www.joelovano.com/

“Holiday Lights” in GWL and Middletown

Together, Francine Evans and Joel Zelnik possess over 20 years of performing achievement.

Francine and Joel were competitors of TV’s America’s Got Talent, and they participated in the 2015 Guinness World Record Longest Variety Show at the Metropolitan Room in New York City. They perform over 125 engagements annually.

Take a break from seasonal preparations

and enjoy Holiday Lights, a lively musical presentation by Francine, a singing actress and Joel, a world class jazz pianist.

Welcome the winter holidays with song on December 4 at 2:00pm in Thrall Library and December 17 at 2:00pm in the Greenwood Lake Library. Free admission. Advanced registration in person or by phone is required for Greenwood Lake: 845-477-8377.

Klezmer king Dave Tarras (1897-1989) anticipated the need for klezmer interpretation of the classics when he recorded a version of Enesco’s Romanian Rhapsody. “Many classical pieces have strong folk roots and make interesting pieces when played in a folk style without pretension,” notes clarinetist Glenn Dickson.

“The Satie Gnossiennes adapts nicely to the rhythms of the turkisher, the hora, and the khosidl (Jewish folk dances) with almost no alterations. Chopin’s Prelude #4 in e minor has been transformed into a lovely Jewish waltz. Brahms’ Hungarian Rhapsody was a natural conversion into which we incorporated little Jewish improvisations (doinas). Mahler’s Symphony # 1 contains a khosidl, and so why

not a Klezmer Nutcracker since Tchaikovsky’s suite shares Russian roots with klezmer music?”

Led by Dickson, Shirim, a klezmer band, is nationally recognized for their traditional playing and their pioneering crossover projects. They have performed with the Philadelphia Pops Orchestra, at the Montreal Jazz Festival and at Lincoln Center.

They bring their Nutcracker to Milford for Kindred Spirits Arts on December 10 at 5:30pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catherine Street. For tickets visit www. kindredspiritsarts.org or phone 570-409-1269.

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Possibly burial.” David Lardner reviewing Panama Hattie (1942).

“Tragic opera is just another disaster aria.”

- John H. Clark.

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“Swans sing before they die... ‘twere no bad thing.

Should certain persons die before they sing?” - Samuel Hedda Hopper Taylor Coleridge.

“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of piano recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.” - George Bernard Shaw.

“I can hold a note as long as the Chase Manhattan Bank.” - Ethel Merman.

JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS WOLFGANGUS THEOPHILUS MOZART ...was Mozart’s full name at baptism.

In 1777 at age 21, Mozart fell in love with German soprano, Aloysia Weber. She spurned him and he married her sister Constanze.

An anagram of Wolfgang Mrs. Mozart Amadeus Mozart is ‘A famous German waltz god.’

Austrian Composer Gustav Mahler’s last word before he died was ‘Mozart’.

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Two Fundraising Events in Milford

The Upper Delaware GLBT Center, Inc. (UDGLBT) has announced two fundraising events for the holiday in Milford. The premier event is the UDGLBT’s inaugural Milford Holiday House Tour to be held on December 10, 3:00pm-7:00pm. The tour is a self-guided decoration tour of 8 Milford homes, and begins at the UDGLBT Center, 201 W. Harford Street, where participants will pick up tickets and maps.

For advance tickets, visit www.udglbt.org.

Leading up to the Tour is the Holiday Wreath Raffle. Through December 9, Milford

area merchants are displaying wreaths that have been made by the merchant or an artist.

Raffle tickets are available at each location displaying a wreath and can be used for a chance to win any of the wreaths. The wreath that has the most raffle tickets sold will earn the Community People’s Choice Award.

All the wreaths will be on display at the UDGLBT Center on December 10 for one last chance to win your favorite wreath.

The day will culminate with the UDGLBT Holiday Party at 8:00pm at the Best Western in Matamoras. All are welcome.

Bring a Toy to Roscoe for ThunderBlast!

Giving Tree,” said Thunder 102, Paul Ciliberto, Scancarello & General Manager Sons, Formaggio and Market and China City Manager of of America Thunder 102. have announced “We were another with ThunderBlast, Somerville Cathy Paty & Iron Cowboy thrilled with showcase performances by Somerville the amount of toys that our ThunderHeads donated at last year’s ThunderBlast. It’s and Iron Cowboy, featuring Cathy Paty.

ThunderBlast is free, but “The Toy is heartwarming to realize that each and every The Ticket.” Bring a new unwrapped toy toy represents a happier Christmas for a to benefit Toys for Tots and the M&M child.”

It takes place on December 9 at 8:30pm Auto Group Mission, “No child in Thunder Country should be without a toy for the at the Rockland House 159 Rockland Road Holidays” as well as the Boys & Girls Club in Roscoe. Entertainment starts at 8:30pm.

Podcast Storytelling in Livingston Manor

Filmmakers Marc Smerling and Zac StuartPontier will talk about “story telling through podcasting” on December 10 at 4:00pm in the Wulff Gallery at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) 1031 Old Rte 17 in Livingston Manor.

The presentation is sponsored by Morgan Outdoors.

Podcasts are digital audio files available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player.

Stuart-Pontier is a Sullivan County native and the son of CFFCM Executive Director Glenn Pontier. Smerling is a fly fisherman.

They created the Emmy Award winning HBO series The Jinx and are now collaborating on a podcast series Crimetown.

Stuart-Pontier’s new film Bleed for This (actor Miles Teller, director Ben Younger) opened at theaters around the country on November 18. Crimetown debuted November 20. For information and to hear the trailer, go to https://gimletmedia.com/show/crimetown The conversation between Zac StuartPontier and Marc Smerling and the audience is free, but the numbers are limited.

Light refreshments will be served. Call CFFCM at 845-439-4810 for reservations.

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Heckelphone Music in Cornwall

Evans, Faxon & Schempf

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The heckelphone’s sister instrument, the bass oboe, is in resonance with that of the bass flute in the flute family and the bass clarinet in that family: an instrument pitched an octave below the principal instrument of its genre.

Composer Robert Rønnes is a Norwegian classical bassoonist, and is a member of the Society of Norwegian Composers. His works have been performed in many countries around the world and are constantly attracting a wider audience.

The Hudson Valley’s Master-oboist, Joel Evans, will bring his bass oboe to the next Potluck Concert and join with pianist Ruthanne Schempf for Rønnes’ Nocturnes for Heckelphone.

In addition, Schempf, pianist Margaret Small and violinist Emily Faxon will perform works by Schubert, including his lovely Sonatina in D for violin and piano, a graceful work that is more Mozartian than Beethovenesque.

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Dr. Margaret Small

Pianist Janice Nimetz will perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C, Op. 2 no.3. It is dedicated to Haydn and is often referred to as Beethoven’s first virtuosic piano sonata. It is both the weightiest and longest of the three Opus 2 sonatas, presenting many difficulties, including difficult trills, awkward hand movements, and forearm rotation.

“In addition to the above,” said Schempf, “for the season we’ll have our usual Holiday singalong! And there might be a little something else, because as Fats Waller said, “one never knows, do one?”

The concert is on December 2 at 7:30pm in the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Tickets are available at the door. An ice cream and cake reception follows the concert.

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Community Building Through the Arts with S us a n Han d l e r Psychological and medical New Rose Theatre, 35 Main Street in Walden, research has revealed that an intergenerational community theatre dancing can do wonders for which produces some of the finest theatrical your mental, physical, and productions in the Hudson Valley. emotional health. Dance Set to the music of Tchaikovsky, HVC’s activates the brain’s sensory “cracked-up” version of The Nutcracker is and motor circuits, while choreographed by Dee Tabitha Wright. music stimulates the Combining various brain’s reward centers. dance styles into one As audience members, cohesive and humorous we are able to enjoy the ballet, Ms. Wright’s results of dancers’efforts, work has been described such as the classic fairy as brilliant. She takes tale Christmas ballet, this traditional tale and The Nutcracker. creates a whimsical The story focuses on world of big top youngMarieStahlbaum’s characters. favorite Christmas toy, “The production the Nutcracker. The is definitely family toy comes alive and, oriented, because who after defeating the evil doesn’t love a carnival?

Mouse King in battle, There’s a lot of color the Nutcracker whisks and energy, so I think her away to a magical HVC’s “The Nutcracker”, December 15-18 it’s a fun night out where kingdom populated by dolls. everyone can enjoy it,” said Wright. “If you’re One of the most unique interpretations of looking for something different and you want Alexandre Dumas, père’s adaptation of the to laugh and have a good time, this is the show 1816 story by E.T.A. Hoffmann is produced to come see.” by the Hudson Valley Conservatory (HVC) For information on this year’s Nutcracker in Walden. The production involves children which runs the weekend of December 15-18, and community adults and is performed at the call 845-778-2478.

Eat Your Fruitcake in Ellenville, Virginia!

Yes, Virginia, you can have your fruitcake and eat it, too.

Instead of performing Charles Dickens’ holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) Christmas traditions from around the world: Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, seasonal icons from ancient times to pop-culture, and every carol ever sung, in a madcap romp!

“The play accomplishes the small miracle of making all Christmas myths seem both utterly ridiculous and absolutely essential.”

- Orlando Weekly.

This is a fun, fast-paced comedy that is perfect for the family. Even the tiniest theatergoers will giggle their way through this zany show that includes the Grinch, Rudolph, Frosty, and good ol’ George Bailey among others!

Get into the Christmas spirit December 2-18 at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville.

For tickets, call 845-647-5511.

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Into the Light! is a collaborative dance/ theater production. It features dancers and musicians with masks and puppetry in the comingof-age story about a girl named Lucia.

Lucia is radiant and full of spirit in the summer of her youth. But as the dark season descends she finds herself falling into depression. In the throes of despair, Lucia is pulled from Death’s clutches by a special friend who happens to be a bear. Lucia and the Bear then set out together on a journey of discovery to find how people of many cultures have survived through the

darkest times.

The production honors holiday traditions such as Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Santa Lucia, Diwali, and the Winter Solstice.

The Ellenville Public Library & Museum will present Into the Light! performed by the Vanaver Caravan & Arm-of-the-Sea Theater and special guest singers, Carrie Chapman and Annie Money a/k/a Barely Lace on December 17 at 3:00pm in the Ellenville High School Auditorium, 28 Maple Avenue. Children under 10 free.

For more information: 845-647-5530

“Into the Light!” in Ellenville

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History in Hurleyville: Meet Dr. Frederick Albert Cook

by Judith Wink I brake for regional museums. Over the years, my husband Michael and I have been to dozens. They have items unique to their area, lovingly displayed by people who are genuinely interested in what they’re doing. Any major art museum will have a couple of Renoirs and a Rodin or two, but only at the Pike County Historical Society in Milford will you find a flag stained with Lincoln’s blood. And only at the Sullivan County Historical Museum in Hurleyville, will you find a whole room devoted to Dr. Frederick Albert Cook.

Michael and I saw an exhibit about the rise and fall of the great Catskill resorts, and photos of Jennie Grossinger with everybody you’ve ever heard of. We saw the Stephen Crane Room. We saw an eye-opening exhibit about Sullivan County’s history (seems the first white settler was a Spaniard named Gonsalus). And we saw the Frederick Cook room.

Born in Hortonville in 1865, Cook worked his way through medical school by delivering milk door to door in a horse-drawn wagon.

Glass milk bottles had just come into use; young Fred designed a wagon that would transport them safely. Medicine was his livelihood, but exploration was his passion. He traveled with Robert Peary across northern Greenland; took part in the ghastly Belgica expedition; was

the first to circumnavigate, and later climb Mt. McKinley. And in 1909 he returned from his latest expedition announcing that he was the first man to have reached the North Pole.

This last claim got him in trouble.

He was as nearly as possible lynched by the Peary Arctic Club and the National Geographic Society, both of which had backed Peary’s 1908-9 expedition, both of which insisted that Peary had made it to the Pole and Cook hadn’t come close. Cook fought back. By 1923 he had bigger problems.

He was sentenced to 14 years in Leavenworth for stock fraud; for selling shares in an oil company whose lands had no oil. He had just about settled into his cell when wells were dug on those lands and oil gushed forth. You’d think Cook would have been released at once, with an apology from the court, but no, he stayed in jail until 1930. Ten years later, on his deathbed, he was pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt.

A few years earlier, he had made a recording for posterity. Here’s how it ended: “I told the truth. I state emphatically that I, Frederick A. Cook, discovered the North Pole.”

After an hour or so at the museum, you believe him. You’re also ready to strangle his critics. Among its other functions, the museum is the headquarters of the Frederick A. Cook

Society, and these people are passionate about him. The Frederick Cook Room, opened in 1974, tells the story of his life, with emphasis on the 1909 near-lynching and recent efforts at vindication.

I came away with boundless admiration for this resourceful, dauntless man. Here’s just one reason: as horrible as it was, the Belgica expedition of 1897-9 would have been far worse without him. The Belgica set out to explore and map part of the Antarctic coast. The ship sailed too far south too late in the season. In February, 1898, eighteen officers and men were trapped in the ice. They had the distinction of being the first humans to spend a winter in the Antarctic, and it was a distinction that every one of them would gladly have foregone. Equipped with all the wrong food and inadequate clothing, they endured 13 months of cold, dark hell, made worse by anemia and scurvy. With the leader and his second-in-command paralyzed by depression, Cook took over. As expedition doctor, he got everybody to eat fresh, underdone penguin and seal meat, not as food (nobody could stand the taste) but as medicine. This cured the scurvy and the anemia. In March, 1899, he organized a team of sailors to saw, chop and blast through the ice. Liberated, the

Belgica sailed north. Three sailors went mad, one officer died, but Cook had saved the rest.

Did he make it to the North Pole? For that matter, did Peary? By now, Peary’s claim has been exploded. His mileages were impossible, his logbooks were sketchy, and he brought back little besides his bare word to prove that he’d been to the Pole. But over the last few decades, explorers and scientists are more persuaded

by Cook’s claim, his account of the journey and his descriptions of the landscape, and are convinced that he couldn’t have made it up.

One thing that makes Cook a particularly attractive human being is his attitude toward the Eskimos who helped him make the trip. One hundred years ago, no sane man would have gone anywhere in the Arctic without help from the natives. Peary bullied these people when he wasn’t patronizing them. “They are people of peculiar temperament, very much like children, and should be handled like children, firmly, but gently.” Now here’s Cook, describing his two companions as they approached the Pole: “E-tuk-i-shook and Ah-we-lah, though thin and ragged, had the dignity of the heroes of a battle which had been fought through to success.”

Not children. Heroes.

If you have the slightest interest in any of this, go to Hurleyville. The museum is located at 265 Main Street. Acres of material, literally, are waiting for you.

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Maybrook Wind Ensemble Expands

“It is my hope that the Maybrook Wind Ensemble will become Orange County’s premiere community wind band, performing a wide variety of music ranging from original compositions to sterling transcriptions of orchestral works for concert band, to the best arrangements of well-known pieces from Broadway shows and Hollywood film scores.” - Kevin Scott, Music Director.

After two years of concerts in Maybrook, with brief journeys in Florida and Warwick, Scott and his band members gave their first 2016 Holiday concert in Goshen on November 20, and this month will perform in Middletown, Cornwall and Maybrook.

“We hope that our expansion concerts will augment our audiences in Orange County, as well as entice musicians who have been hiding and wish to play in a new wind band,” he concluded.

The December concerts will feature a new work by the very prolific wind band composer Ray Braswell entitled As Falls the Snow, as well as two selections, A Fresh Aire Christmas and The Holly and the Ivy arranged by Chip Davis for his famous band Mannheim Steamroller, an American Neoclassical new-age music group that is

known primarily for its Fresh Aire series of albums, and for its modern recordings of Christmas music.

Other works will include Classical: Leo Delibes’ March and Cortege of Bacchus from the ballet Sylvia; Holiday music: Jesse Ayers’ Fanfare and Carol for Christmas, Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque; and Film and Broadway: Selections from Stephen Schwartz’s The Prince of Egypt and Ira Hearshen’s arrangement of Symphonic Dances from Fiddler on the Roof.

Concerts are at the Grace Episcopal Church, 58 North Street, Middletown on December 9 at 7:30pm, Cornwall United Methodist Church, 198 Main Street on December 10 at 8:00pm, and at the Maybrook Senior Center, 2 Senior Way on December 17 at 7:30pm.

The concerts are free, with a goodwill offering taken at intermission. www.maybrookwindensemble.org

Pine Bush Community Band

In 1982, a small group of local musicians formed the Pine Bush Community Band.

Today, under the direction of Robert G. Groth, the tradition continues, and the small group has grown to a full concert band.

Funded in large part by the Town of Crawford, in addition to free public concerts, they use some of their funding to purchase instruments that you would otherwise not hear in a community band. For example,

in recent years, the band has been able to acquire its own tympani (large copper drums), bass drum, drum set, cymbals, bass clarinet, keyboard and sound system.

The Pine Bush Community Band Holiday Concerts will take place on December 5, at 7:00pm at Graham’s Presbyterian Church, 29 New Street, Pine Bush and on December 11 at 3:00pm at Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street, Montgomery.

Admission is free for both concerts.

Twilight Tales in Florida

The Black Dirt and offer storytelling Storytelling Guild programs to the people of (BDSG) is dedicated to the the Hudson Valley. following goals: The next BDSG event To preserve and promote features Twilight Tales the art of storytelling and Stories for early night falls, story listening. endings of all kinds and the Members of the BDSG To inspire the discovery ambiguity and obscurity of of the storyteller within each person. dusk, dawn and the half-light of old tales and To encourage the collection of oral history times gone by.

Come to the Florida Library, 4 Cohen and local history.

To explore the history and development of Circle on December 8, 7:30pm to listen or stories from around the world and...To establish share your own stories! Admission is free.

W A L D E N - B USI NE SS SE RV I C E S

YOUR AD HERE! $30 - 1 time $150 - 6 times ($25 per) $300 -12 times ($25 per)

(Add $10 for color)

Call 845-926-4646

December 2016

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Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

December 2016