D & H CANVAS February 2014 by Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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Covering Orange, Pike and Sullivan Counties, Beacon, Marlboro, & Ellenville

February 2014

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

Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen Sullivan County is alive and well in the winter. The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance has art exhibits, concerts, book readings and more. The Wurtsboro Board of Trade is holding its annual Winterfest. NACL Theatre is holding a two day symposium in Eldred as part of its two year ongoing “Weather Project”. In Loch Sheldrake there’s the incredible Live from the Met in HD series at SUNY Sullivan’s beautiful Seelig Auditorium with perfect viewing from all seats. There’s jazz, pop and country music in Hurleyville, Wurtsboro and Barryville and, as you may be noticing lately, the evergrowing number of offerings in Livingston Manor which, along with Narrowsburg, has become a year-round cultural and dining destination. Kudos to Bradley Diuguid, Executive Director of the Catskill Art Society (CAS). CAS is instituting a series of public tours, affording people a deeper look at the themes and subjects of its juried exhibitions in an in-depth guided tour. Participants are encouraged to make

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observations, ask questions, and experience the exhibit in a group environment, with an informed guide on hand to lead with behind-the-scenes information. The series begins on February 8 at 2:00pm with Bradley leading a tour of Reflective Surfaces which features the photography of Julia Forrest and Flora Hogman. Visitors of all ages are welcome to drop in. The tour lasts about 45 minutes. This event is free, and small donations will be accepted at the door. No reservations are required. For information, call the CAS Arts Center at 845-436-4227 or e-mail info@catskillartsociety.org Our friends across the Sullivan and Orange borders have much going on too, in Ellenville (concerts and old-fashioned movie matinees with popcorn), in Beacon (concerts and art exhibits at the Howland Cultural Center and Back Room Gallery, conveniently located next door to each other), and in Marlboro (a big birthday bash for a jazz great). Another series of classic movies is being held in Milford, complementing the Borough’s art and photography exhibits, and we could fill six newspapers with what our talented neighbors in Orange have wrought. Thanks to “all of you all” for making the land between (and across) the beautiful rivers significant, memorable, extraordinary exceptional and SMASHING!

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“Carlton, #2” by North East Watercolor Society member, Z.L. Feng

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Comedy is King at Jester’s

For the past few years, Corey Rodrigues has been racking up comedy competition victories around New England. Corey’s conversational storytelling tone puts audience members at ease and then, when their guard is down, he pummels them with punch lines. Rodrigues combines comedy from his own life and the lives of those around him. Mix that with a hilarious point of view and he’s able to “talk about just about anything,” he states. Within his first year of performing stand-up, Rodrigues led his own show at Boston’s wellknown Beantown Comedy Vault where he started Wicked Wednesdays. In 2008 he was the winner of the Catch a New Rising Star comedy competition. In 2009 he was a semi-finalist in the New York Comedy Contest. Rodrigues played a major role in R&B singer

Samson’s music video, appeared in a pair of Sam Adams commercials and a variety of cable television shows. Corey was a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival and was the winner of The Funniest Comic in New England Contest. He was always the center of attention with his impersonation of family members leaving them in tears at every gathering. He would often startle his childhood classmates by imitating a teacher or principal’s voice in the hallways. He became a part of his own short form improv troupe, Flaming Awesome. Referred to as funny, endearing, edgy, quick and exceptionally likeable when he is on the stage, Corey owns the crowd. Come out and see Corey at Jester’s Comedy Club, 109 Brookside Avenue, Chester, on February 8. Doors open at 8:00pm, showtime at 9:00pm. For information, call 845-345-1039.

Comedy & Dinner at the Castle

Jeff Norris has special skills. He can impersonate Archie and Edith Bunker, Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jack Nicholson. He was the 1997-2000 Black Belt Judo/East Coast Champion. He does stunt work and stage combat. He even owns his own full NYC Police Officer’s uniform.

He loves his pet dog, Takota, and he wants you to bring your pet human to The Castle Fun Center where he is headlining the Valentine’s Day Dinner Comedy Show. Tickets include show, dinner buffet, soft drinks, dessert and coffee; cash bar. All on February 14 at 7:30pm (show at 9:00pm) 109 Brookside Avenue, Chester. For more information: 845-469-2116. Tickets online at www.thecastlefuncenter.com

Downing Screens Borscht History

network television. When Comedy Went to School is a There is even a segment on Mickey documentary presenting an entertaining Freeman, the quintessential Borsch portrait of one of the greatest Belt comedian who played the smallest generations of comedians, including the bungalow colonies to the largest hotels. likes of Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Mort Sahl, Jerry Stiller, and Mickey Freeman He was a regular for decades at the comic pre and post-show haunts, Tilly’s host-narrator Robert Klein, all of whom Diner in Monticello (still alive and well) make appearances in the film telling and The Red Apple Rest in Southfields jokes and telling their stories, along with (gone but not forgotten), and achieved commentary by Dick Gregory, Amy notoriety as Private Zimmerman on Stiller, Larry King, Joe Franklin, Tania The Phil Silvers Show. Grossinger, Helen & Mark Kutsher, Amy Stiller “The interviews are saucy and Hugh Hefner and others. spirited, and the history is terrific.” NY The film, which includes a social and Daily News historical perspective, pays homage to The documentary runs from the Borscht Belt masters of disrespect February 15-18 at the Downing Film who brought their tumultuous, Center, 19 Front Street, Newburgh. irreverent clowning into the American mainstream during the early days of Dick Gregory For reservations: 845-561-3686.

Princess’ Comic Spouse at Palaia

Dead. While attaining only minimal “Squeeze Every Last Drop Of Fun mainstream success, it did become a cult Out Of Life With Laughter” (and great classic...though which cult is uncertain. wine)! when The Not Too Far From Dave Cooperman’s brand of Home Comedy Tour comes to Palaia physical yet thought-provoking comedy Vineyards! is tied to his interracial marriage. Dave Aaron David Ward has entertained loves to talk about what it’s like to marry audiences from New Hampshire to a CAP (Chinese-American Princess). California by getting them to laugh The comic triumvirate performs and think at his self-deprecating, socio- David Cooperman at Palaia, 10 Sweet Clover Road in Highland political, and culturally critical comedy. In 2008 Joe Pontillo produced his own Mills on March 1 at 8:00pm. For tickets: www. feature film, a zombie spoof entitled Street of the palaiavineyards.com or phone 845-928-5384.

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Movies a la 1940s in Ellenville

Once again, Shadowland Theatre is harkening back to its primrose youth when it was a thriving neighborhood cinema. Return to those golden days of yesteryear for a series of four Matinee at the The Shadowland classic movie programs. Series coordinator Ray Faiola adds that, “in addition to giving theater patrons a chance to rediscover the kind of programming that was typical of the 1930’s and 1940’s, we are also presenting our series on film. Rather than succumb to the current E-Z method of exhibition, Shadowland will be presenting these films on celluloid, using multiple projectors for changeovers (be sure and look for those little black dots in the upper right hand corner!) between reels. Beginning February 22 at 2:00pm with The House of Fear starring Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone, (see top photo) Matinee at the Shadowland will, according to Brendan Burke, artistic director of the theater, “give audiences young and old a chance to experience what going to the movies during the golden age of cinema was all about. In addition to a feature film, each Saturday matinee program will have original trailers, an animated cartoon, a comedy or musical short subject and a chapter of one of the great movie serials, Flash

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Gordon with Buster Crabbe.” As for Flash Gordon, “We began his escapades during our first series back in 2010 and will resume the serial with Chapter Seven. Many folks come back just to see how Flash will survive at the hands of his arch enemy Ming the Merciless,” says Burke. The program for February 22 will include: * Prevues of coming attractions, * A Woody Woodpecker cartoon, Fair Weather Fiends, * A musical short, Swingtime Holiday with Gus Arnheim & the Delta Rhythm Boys, (see photo) * A short comedy, Mr. Chimp to the Rescue, * Chapter Seven of the serial Flash Gordon, * The main feature The House of Fear, * POPCORN!!! Released in 1945, The House of Fear was the tenth of the Sherlock Holmes fourteen films based on the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Tickets are available at the Shadowland box office at 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. Discount series tickets are also available. To reserve seats, call 845-647-5511. The Matinee at The Shadowland series is sponsored by local Ellenville-Wawarsing businesses Aroma Thyme Bistro, Bullseye Appraisals, Chelsea Rialto Studios, Collier & Berger, Gaby’s Cafe, Il Paradiso, Kalter, Kaplan & Zeiger, Matthews Pharmacy, Peters Market, The Publik House, and Thornton Inc.

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Dinner-Concert to Benefit Literacy Volunteers Jazz vocalist, Donna Singer, a native and former resident of Sullivan County, will be performing with The Doug Richards Trio at a dinner-concert event to benefit Literacy Volunteers of Sullivan County. Donna is a graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, with formal training at the Juilliard School. She is on hundreds of radio stations world wide, as well as internet stations Pandora, Live365Radio, M3Radio.com, Soundcloud, ReverbNation and CDBaby to name a few. Bassist Doug Richards, pianist Billy Alfred, and drummer Mike Cervone of the The Doug Richards Trio combine their extraordinary years

of experience to create some of the most exciting virtuosic jazz to be heard today. The Literacy Volunteers of Sullivan County is a not-forprofit organization that provides a variety of free services to help people achieve personal goals through literacy. Through a trained corps of volunteer tutors, it is their mission to foster and enhance family literacy, assist adults functioning at low levels of literacy, and further proficiency in English as a second language. It will be held on February 21 at 6:00pm at Nadia’s Hungarian Buffet on 222 Main Street, Hurleyville. It’s a wonderful cause, a fun evening, and is expected to sell out early! For tickets, call 845-794-0017 or call Nadia’s at 845-693-5104.

Swamp Rats Invade Castle Fun Center

Since he was 6 years and a host of other stars. He old, Frankie Joe Daigle studied with the late Cajun has been fiddlin’ all over great, Rufus Thibodeaux. the United States and Frankie Joe & The abroad from the bayous of Swamp Rats will perform Louisiana to Carnegie Hall, at the Castle Fun Center, Lincoln Center to Farm Aid 109 Brookside Avenue, Rufus Thibodeaux and Frankie Joe Daigle and the Grand Ole Opry. Chester, for their Mardi In addition to performing at Farm Aid with the Gras Party on February 22 at 7:00pm. Allman Brothers Band, he has also recorded several For tickets: www.thecastlefuncenter.com or call albums and made appearances with Willie Nelson 845-469-2116.

Wurtsboro Music: Lose One, Win One

An open letter to the people of Wurtsboro from Sarah Rice of Broadway Concerts Direct: “We are taking a hiatus from our Wurtsboro concerts. We love you, our wonderful audience, friends that you have all become, and greatly appreciate your patronage over the last 11 years. We have loved performing in the beautiful Community Church of Wurtsboro and being part of the Wurtsboro Community. “Thank you to all who helped us with the concerts, especially the Helping Hand and we will certainly miss those wonderful home baked goodies and your smiling faces at the intermission. We hope that you will come to our other concerts in the area at Blooming Grove.” (see other story this page) And now, bringing the same kind of music to beautiful downtown Wurtsboro, but in a somewhat different format, are pianist Jake Lentz and vocalist Marilyn Kennedy. They have been entertaining people in the area for slightly less than 10 years at Giovanni’s Inn on Route 209 in beautiful South Wurtsboro. Marilyn will be back at Giovanni’s for February 14th’s Valentine’s Day dinner, and then they’ll both be back on Friday evenings when Giovanni’s re-opens in the spring. Jake will be performing on Valentine’s Day with Mickey Barnett’s country band at the Carriage House in Barryville.

Yes, they perform some country music, but they “specialize” in just about everything, songs from the beginning of the 20th century (including some piano ragtime a la Scott Joplin and The Sting) to the present. Their main thrust is American standards from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and films, but they also perform early jazz, early 50s ballads and 40s swing music a la Harry James and other popular bands of the era, some TV theme songs, and maybe a bit of Brubeck. They didn’t always perform together. Jake earned his credentials playing with swing bands, and even played lead alto sax with the Jimmy Dorsey band when Lee Castel was the leader. He came to Sullivan in 1967, after being with the Ice Capades as assistant conductor and arranger, and performed mostly in the Sullivan hotels. Marilyn also came up from the city. She and Jake met at Kutsher’s in Monticello where she was band singer and emcee. As noted, Jake does other gigs; he is also the pianist for the present-day Four Aces. Both are now performing together weekly on Sullivan Street. “We opened in January at La Piazzetta and we were a big hit,” said Jake. “A good time was had by all!” They’ll be at La Piazzetta Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm-9:00pm, where they will be doing all the styles of music as described above, right in the heart of Wurtsboro.

Broadway Comes to Blooming Grove

Fresh from its 11 year run in Wurtsboro, Broadway Concert Direct (BCD) will begin a new series in Blooming Grove with a witty and romantic evening, including songs by Porter, Brel, Kern, Rodgers & Hammerstein & Hart, Romberg, Webber and many more, performed by some of the best professional NYC talents in the musical theatre, concert and classical worlds. A recent addition to this remarkable cabaretstyle singing ensemble is Anne Tarpey, who told CANVAS, “I’ve been a healthcare executiveandleadership consultant for the past 20 years specializing in improving the patient and family experience in hospitals - however, my roots (and heart) remain firmly in theatre and music.” Tarpey first met BCD regular Rich Flanders in 1968 at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where “I was on scholarship from Dina Merrill and Cliff Robertson. Since then, and busy healthcare career time permitting, I’ve performed in many theaters in several states. Of note - and quite a lot of fun, was a one-woman Cabaret show I wrote, called Love, Lust and Quantum Physics. It was/is a funny and at times poignant show where I explored/taught the basics of Quantum Physics through Rodgers and Hart, Porter, Sondheim and

Helena Clare Pittman: Writing and Teaching

by Barry Plaxen

My first experience with Helena’s art was quite overwhelming. I visited the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville to see the permanent murals that she created (and painted with the help of her son, Galen) for the children’s section, and was bowled over by both the craft and the concept, the skillfully drawn and incredibly imaginative ideas for the characters. I was also bowled over by Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn, the book from which she will read excerpts at the opening reception of her art exhibit in Narrowsburg at the Delaware Arts Center, February 22 at 2:00pm. (see page 8). Though she has claimed that Ruthie Pincus is a book for young adults, I do not concur. I consider that to be a limited view. Yes, the novel certainly would inspire young adults. Yes, the novel has historical value in that it depicts what life was like under precise conditions during a specific time and place. But underneath the every-day events in Ruthie’s life runs a river, deep with emotion and fraught with universality. I found myself reading either one chapter at a time, or even just a couple of paragraphs at a time because I had constant, powerful emotional reactions and wanted the feelings to last and not dissipate by continuing to read. It took me months to read the book, and I preferred it that way. In it, I saw a multi-faceted Agon - a contest, a competition, a deeply rooted struggle - between

being cerebral vs. being artistic, believing in tradition vs. believing in inspiration, imagination, intuition and instinct, speaking in cliches vs. increasing one’s conceptions, going though life with blinders vs. expanding awareness, negative thinking vs. the positive, fear vs. trust, practicality vs. beauty, and self-deception vs. truth. All expressed with words (carefully selected? vs. streamed from consciousness?) that, like Helena’s mural, were skillfully crafted, colorful while being incredibly imaginative, and deeply moving. Besides her artwork, Pittman is, by profession, also a writer and educator. Her classes at Catskill

Brad Ross songs at the dandy, but now defunct, Danny’s on West 46th Street.” Tarpey and Flanders re-met last year, and were married in December (see photo). “One of the great joys of being with Richard is that he and BCD producer Sarah Rice gave me a push to start singing and performing again after a long hiatus. I’m loving every minute, have no intention of stopping ever again, and have now cut back my healthcare schedule to accommodate my rapidly increasing singing/performance schedule. “This is a real gift and wonderful time of life for me and for Richard!”. Isn’t it Romantic? Songs to Keep Our Love Alive starring Celia Berk, Rich Flanders, Rob Gardner, Joanna Morton Gary, Janice Hall, Mark Planner, Sarah Rice, (voice and theremin) Anne Tarpey-Flanders, and Eric Sedgwick on piano, happens on February 15 at 6:00pm, at the United Church of Christ, 2 Old Dominion Road in Blooming Grove, just off Route 94. Sushi and top notch pastry selections will be available for a donation at intermission. Tickets can be obtained at the door. For information: 410-908-1302.

Alagna at Downing

Art Society (CAS) in Livingston Manor have included A Lifetime of Stories: A Memoir Class, and coming up February 8 through March 15, Saturday Sampler, In the new video Little Italy, Roberta Alagna, 6 visual art sessions spotlighting 6 the most popular of today’s tenors, pays homage to the Italian American artists who different mediums. Each session fashioned the music of the 20th century, such will spotlight a as the essential Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra different medium: as well as pioneers such as Mario Lanza or the graphite, charcoal, eccentric Louis Prima. Little Italy goes beyond frontiers and oils, pastels, and more - for extends his homage to other artists of Italian the curious beginner or the practiced artist origin such as Nino Ferrer, Yves Montand, brushing up or branching out. Students Domenico Mondungo and Serge Reggiani will use still-life setups and landscape who contributed to spreading Italian musical photographs to unlock Degas’ and Cassatt’s culture throughout the world. Alagna has become a popular singer, without secrets of layering pastels, create dramatic values, approach oils from the ground up, renouncing the standards of the great operatic and make beautiful glaze and encaustic repertoire. He has managed to merge the two types of repertoire into a single career, which effects. And, at the Wallkill River School (WRS) in remains unique in today’s world. Come hear all of the above, and Cantu Montgomery, Pittman’s Illustrated Watercolor: Painting from a Flower classes begin on pi’ n’cavaddu bravu by brother Frédérico, at Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street, February 6. For information and to register, call CAS at Newburgh on February 23 at 4:00pm. For reservations: 845-561-3686. 845-436-4227 and the WRS: 845-457-ARTS. February 2014 Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 5

Wurtsboro Board of Trade Presents: Wurtsboro Winterfest 2014!

Chilling on the Penguin Ice Throne! (Winterfest 2013)

The Wurtsboro Board of Trade is happy to announce the return of Wurtsboro’s Winterfest on February 8, from 11:00am-4:00pm. There will be the amazing Ice Carving Competition in Veteran’s Park at 11:00am with judging at 2:00pm, along with the annual Bryan Stanton Memorial Chili Cook-Off in the Wurtsboro Fire House beginning at 11:00am, award ceremony at 3:00pm. The Wurtsboro Art Alliance will have

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Coloring in mittens with the Boys & Girls Club staff!

a new art exhibit as well as refreshments being served at the gallery. See page 7 for more. Face painting and children’s activities galore! The fun treasure hunt, (11:00am, drawing for the winner at 3:00pm) for kids of all ages, will include maps that will be given out to guide the day’s activities. Crystal Connection will offer psychic

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Ellen Kalish of Ravensbeard Rescue! photo by Richard Holloway

readings with Bill “The Wizard” Wiand, Palm & Tarot readings with Zoey, Aura Photography, and a Valentine’s Day sale. The BashaKill Area Association will be sponsoring their Birds of Prey show by the Ravensbeard Rescue Group at 1:00pm at the Community Church of Wurtsboro. Is shopping your thing? If so, then one

An ice sculptor chiseling away on one of the amazing ice sculptures!

pass down Sullivan Street is all you’ll need to whet your appetite! You’ll find many cozy shops tucked into the buildings along the main street containing a wide range of items such as antiques, pets, gifts, gardening needs, toys, and a myriad of other things. What a great way to spend the day as all shops and food establishments will be open! See ads on pages 6 and 7 for ideas. Visit www.wurtsboro.org for updates!

Wurtsboro Art Alliance: “Artist’s Choice” & Treasure Hunt “Goodies” for Kids

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The Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) kicks off its 2014 season with a group show which opens during Wurtsboro’s Winterfest 2014 celebration on February 8. The exhibit, Artist’s Choice, features works by WAA member artists. Represented artists

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WAA member inal” Sandy Spitze “Snowy Cardsenthal r o by Roberta R include: Patti Anderson, Melissa Arnott, Paula Spitzer, Gene Weinstein, Linda Wilkinson and enjoying an exhibit of original artwork made by local area artists. Baldinger, Carol Bronte, Janet Campbell, others. The gallery will be open all day from 11:00amThe exhibit runs through March 2. Cynthia Hall, Midge Monat, David Munford, Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, Nelson Pantoja, David Pendergast, Susan 4:00pm (73 Sullivan Street) during Winterfest Pendergast, Michael Piotrowski, Roberta and will be offering Treasure Hunt “goodies” for Noon-4:00pm. For information, email: info@waagallery.org Rosenthal, Eda Sanchez-Persampieri, Sandy the kids, and a place for people to warm up while toja

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You Say Tomato and I say Sfumato: Recent Works by Helena Clare Pittman

Editor’s note: For the August 2013 issue of CANVAS, we thought it might be interesting to have a mother, who is an artist, interview her son, who is also an artist. When Mom had an exhibit set up for February, we thought it might be fun to reverse the roles, and have son-artist interview mom-artist.

by Galen Pittman

What does the word Sfumato mean? Well I had to ask the artist myself, and the answer is in loose terms, a certain misty, hazy, atmospheric effect in painting where the points that edges begin and end cannot be perceived. When asked where this compelling concept for a quite rich and prolific body of work stemmed from, the artist revealed that the idea gradually evolved from helping a student in one of her painting courses to solve the problem of dealing with the space around, or in between the objects in a still life set up. As it was, there was nothing but a plain, white wall behind the objects in the still life arrangement. I know from my own experience that when faced with the task of painting objects that one knows well, it can be easy to not “paint what you see”, but instead paint what you think you see. More difficult yet, to communicate this way of approaching things to another who is in the beginning phases of painting. The on the spot, inspired solution to the teacher’s dilemma was to hang a print of a Monet painting behind the object on this plain wall as a compositional device that would interact directly with, and in effect, connect the still life objects. After doing a painting demonstration, and seeing the work of the master painter in her own work, this concept became more, and more intriguing,

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Helena experienced this and developed a life of its reaction to her paintings at a own. show at The Cutting Garden As the months passed, and in Sullivan County. However, the number of paintings, and the first time she actually saw master works being referenced this kind of reaction was at the grew, Helena Pittman began unveiling of her twelve panel to experience a direct link to mural at the Daniel Pierce the quoted paintings, as well Library in Grahamsville. as to the painter being quoted. The mural was painted to be “I think it was on a Vermeer, a permanent installation in when I began to see the the children’s book section, transitions between darks and and references more than 200 lights and I said, wow! That’s children’s book characters that what he was doing!” people have grown up with for This experience of quoting the masters was an “Flowers on Georgia O’Keeffe” generations. by Helena Clare Pittman The experiences accumulated undiscovered gem to Helena. “Painters study the and began to connect masters. I never did. Helena’s two very related It just wasn’t the way idioms together. “It was painting was being the first time I felt my oil taught in the 1960’s paintings were related to at Pratt. It was “just my work as a children’s paint! Find your own book illustrator. My way.” paintings now had an Helena was also element of illustration,” said Helena. taken aback by the Recently, Helena way that people became fascinated were engaged with “Flowers on Morton Salt” by with a painting that has her paintings. The Helena Clare Pittman resurfaced to the public way they recognized and enjoyed the quoted images. She could see consciousness: the painting of a gold finch by the viewer being pulled directly into the piece. Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt’s protégé. “In the

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beginning of the summer of 2013, I found the image. I was stunned by how modern it was. It looked like it had just been painted, but was done in the 1600s! Fabritius’ work is considered to be the link between Rembrandt and Vermeer.” Vermeer founded the Delft School. Fabritius’ interest in painting daylight preceded and influenced Vermeer’s work. “So I quoted a Rembrandt self portrait, Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, and Carel Fabritius’s Gold Finch, and as synchronicity would have it, the author Donna Tartt has recently written a novel using the title of Fabritius’ Gold Finch and people are now talking about it!” (The painting is currently on display at the Frick. Pittman took this as a sign that she was following the right track in her work, as Gold Finch is now becoming an icon). Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this artist, and see her rich, stunning, and inventive paintings in person! I say Tomato and you say Sfumato will run from February 22-March 15 at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. Helena will give a talk at the opening reception at 2:00pm on February 22 about her work, as well as her recent book Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn. Copies will be available for purchase. (See page 5 for more on Pittman’ s book and her art classes.) Be sure to visit www.helenaclarepittman.com where you can view a retrospect of her work, including several of Helena’s recent paintings. For information: 845-252-7576.

American String Quartet: From Tuxedo to Middletown

Winter in Orange County is a busy time for the American String Quartet (ASQ), the world class ensemble that has been presenting all the Beethoven Quartets in Europe, Israel, Manhattan and for Newburgh Chamber Music’s 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons. February 8 - Tuxedo “Two hundred years after his death, Beethoven is everywhere in the culture, yet still represents its summit.” Jonathan Biss For its first concert of 2014, Tuxedo Performing Arts Group has invited the ASQ to play an All Beethoven Concert. A special evening at The Tuxedo Club begins at 5:30pm with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, followed at 6:30pm by Beethoven’s Op. 95 in f minor # 11, Op. 18/3 in D Major # 3, Op. 59/2 in e minor # 8 and a dinner at 8:15pm. Since this will be a sold out event, tickets must be purchased in advance. For tickets, email info@ tuxedoperformingarts.org or call 845-351-3473. February 9 - Middletown ASQ violinist Laurie Carney is bringing pianist David Friend and composer Robert Sirota to Middletown for Music from 3 Centuries. Sirota, recently retired president of Manhattan School of Music, wrote a new sonata for Laurie. Along with Brahms’ Sonata #2 in A major and Messiaen’s Theme and Variations the program will include the Sonata and a talk about the writing of the work, the process of working on it, and what it’s like for performers to work with living composers. It takes place in Orange Hall Theatre, SUNY Orange, Middletown, on February 9 at 3:00pm.

Laurie Carney, Peter Winograd, Cynthia Phelps, Wolfram Koessel & Daniel Avshalamov

February 28 - Middletown ASQ’s other violinist, Peter Winograd, will give a master class titled A Career in Music, sharing his thoughts on growing up in a musical family, carving out his own career. and demonstrating on his 1675 Giovanni Maria del Bussetto violin on February 28 at 10:00am in Orange Hall, room 23. March 1 - Middletown Edited from “Parla” Gramophone website: “There are many similarities between Haydn and Mozart, two composers of genius. However, there is one genre that Haydn, the great creator of so many new forms (like the String Quartet and the Piano Trio) did not touch at all, namely the String Quintet (either for two violins - plus two violas and one cello or plus one viola and two cellos). On the contrary, Mozart’s Six Quintets occupy a paramount place in his magnificent output. “When Mozart came to compose these six magnificent works, the genre was still in its infancy. Boccherini came into this, by composing over a

hundred of such works, in different instrumentations apart the classic one (two violins, two violas and a cello). Michael Haydn composed some Quintets too. By the presence of an additional viola, the form provides a wider scope and a more complete as well as ample sound - an early outline of the romantic ideal. “Without any obvious difficulty, the divine Mozart indulges in this unexplored form of composition with a profoundly dramatic musicality, a feeling of musical color and a quality of the most refined tone, full of the most subtle nuances. In this genre, the wunder Wolfgang has attained the impossible, for over and above the principle of the form itself “Thanks to the way he uses the five instruments, he reveals an ability to transcend in such a way that is close to the human voice, being so capable of expressing the most intimate detail of the innermost emotions. In this way, a poignant tune will touch us fleetingly, a tender melody will charm, a harmony of joy will stir us, while time and space no longer

matter.” For their 4th appearance in Orange Hall Theatre, theASQ are setting aside their Beethoven scores and bringing a guest, “our distinguished colleague (and old pal), violist Cynthia Phelps,” explained ASQ violist Daniel Avshalamov. “Cynthia is joining us for Brahms’ Quintet in G, op 111 and Mozart’s Quintet in C Major, K.515.” Mozart in C Major and Shostakovich in c minor! The ASQ will also perform Shostakovich’s Quartet no. 8 in c minor. Written in just three days, it has a recurring theme through all the movements. The second movement has that brilliant, relentless driving force of Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue and the 3rd movement has a Danse Macabre quality taken to new depths, as said Lev Lebedinsky, “Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and he planned to commit suicide around this time.” The piece was written shortly after two traumatic events in his life: the first presentation of debilitating muscular weakness that would eventually (in 1965) be diagnosed as a rare form of polio, and his reluctant joining of the Communist Party. According to the score, it is dedicated “to the victims of fascism and war”. His son, Maxim, interprets this as a reference to the victims of all totalitarianism, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself. A different published dedication was imposed by the Russian authorities. Hear three masterworks by this superb ensemble in Orange Hall Theatre, March 1 at 3:00pm. For tickets: cultural@sunyorange.edu or phone: 845-341-4891.

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DiLeo Hosts Screwball Comedy

During the Great Depression, there was a general demand for films with a strong social class critique and escapist-oriented themes. VOILA! The Screwball Comedy. The screwball format arose largely as a result of the major film studios’ desire to avoid censorship by the increasingly enforced Hays Code. In order to incorporate prohibited risqué elements into their plots, filmmakers resorted to handling these elements covertly. Verbal sparring between the sexes served as a stand-in for physical, sexual tension. The genre distinguishes itself for being characterized by a female that dominates the relationship with the male central character, whose masculinity is challenged. The two engage in a humorous battle of the sexes, which was a new theme for Hollywood and audiences at the time. Other elements are fast-pace repartee, farcical situations, escapist themes, and plot lines involving courtship and marriage. Screwball comedies often depict social classes in conflict, as in It Happened One Night (1934) and My Man Godfrey (1936). Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to Shakespeare’s comedies, French farces and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Other genres with which screwball comedy is associated include slapstick and bedroom farce. Screwball comedies reached their “outrageous” peak in the mid-40s with the films of writer-director Preston Sturges, who helped create one of the genre’s great unsung early masterpieces Easy Living (1937), which was directed by Mitchell Leisen. Leisen went on to direct another of the great

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Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert & John Barrymore in “Midnight”

unsung screwball comedies, Midnight, written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Wilder is a cowriter and the director of Some Like it Hot (1959), arguably not screwball by genre, but certainly screwball in every other sense of the word. The Upper Delaware GLBT Center initiated a free classic film series in January. Starring Claudette Colbert, DonAmeche, John Barrymore, MaryAstor, Monty Woolley and Hedda Hopper, Midnight is the fourth in the series hosted by John DiLeo, author of six books about classic movies. “I’ll be introducing the movies and conducting post-show Q&As,” said DiLeo. “The 1939 free film will start at 7:30pm on February 26 at 201 West Harford Street in Milford. Don’t enter the schoolhouse from the main entrance. From the street level, you go DOWN a few steps, LEFT of the main-entrance steps.” Additional information is available at www. udglbt.org and you can learn more about Milford’s Movie Maven and his movie books by visiting his website at www.johndileo.com

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Author, Fly-Fisher, & Reiki Master

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Milford’s Music in the Park Fundraiser

Its time again for Milford’s Music in the Park summer concert series fundraiser. Last year the series absolutely rocked. Regina Sayles, Abri, Heather Maloney, The Juicy Grapes and even a little Irish Invasion supplied by The Parting Glass and the Tara Minstrels had satisfied everyone’s thirst for great entertainment. And all for free! How was this all pulled off, you may ask. Well, it was a lot of hard work and a whole lot of support from the community, from the Borough, from individuals who love music, from musicians near and far, and from the generous businesses in the area. And it all started with a very well attended fundraiser in February of 2013. This year, the fundraiser is on February 21, 7:30pm at the Waterwheel Cafe, 150 Water Street

in Milford. The fundraiser will spotlight regional talent with the “entertaining Walt Edwards, the versatile Ernie Kara, the up and coming Amy Dewland, the amazing Celeste Aldridge, the smooth sounds of Ken Don Lowe Fox, teacher and all around talented musician Dan Engvaldsen, and the breakout artist of 2014 Don Lowe,” said a Festival spokesperson. If you want to grab a bite at the Waterwheel Cafe or just want to make sure you have a table for the night, call them at 570-296-2383 for reservations. See their ad below (left) for more information.

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Ex Libris Josephine and Louise

For those whose scholarly memories of high school Latin are barely kindled by the term “Ex Libris” and veterans of the Gallic Wars who recall only with vague accuracy the first words of De Bello Gallico, Ex Libris references the Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden and its growth as a multimedia learning center. The Library on Schofield Street, Walden, is a facility that by any other name would remain as constant, as diversified, and as relevant to the needs of its constituents as a young maiden of Verona was true to her new found friend. It was she, of course, who pondered and questioned the significance of a brand or a label: “What’s in a name?” Juliet is reported to have asked. Ginny Neidermier, the energetic, insightful, not to mention delightful, Director of the Josephine-Louise Public Library is one with a well-earned reputation of diligence and foresight. Walden’s present-day library consequently is referenced by a multitude of labels. It is a multi-media entertainment center, a pre-school story-time spot, a meeting site, a job-search location and a

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Novel Reads had its origin in October classroom for teaching the finer points of the 2013, as a resurrection of a previous book discussion group. The culinary arts, e.g., offering revitalized group was instruction in the technique designed to consider current of creating a garlic-basil fiction, non-fiction and infused olive oil. And, of literature that captured the course, and true to its root: fancy of the reading public. books, books and more Each selection would be books. There are volumes of the subject of intelligent fiction, non-fiction, e-books, and insightful discussion audio books, music, video, by interested readers. biographies as well as the When asked to describe the organizational categories circumstances surrounding established by Mr. Dewey. Lisa Hewel the demise of the initial Charting the course for an active, living library of the twenty-first group, Ginny Neidermier demonstrated century requires community involvement quite frankly, “Without a Friends group to and discretion, with a firm grasp of long- support some of the programs, it’s hard. standing, traditional purposes. To that end, We just did not have someone to devote the Lisa Hewel (see photo), a recent addition to time to running that...or the interest or the the professional staff of the Walden Library passion.” As mentioned, Lisa Hewel, officially (September ’13) has accepted the challenge of resurrecting the community book discussion joined the professional staff of the Josephinegroup with the formation of a group whose Louise Public Library in September of title and activities will hereafter be known as 2013, as Head of Circulation and Technical Novel Reads, an attractive title, considering Services. She clearly articulates her goal and function as it relates to Novel Reads. the use of the word “novel.”

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“The initial group, the two people, met in October to revitalize the discussion group. The first book was 11-23-63, by Stephen King. I thought that to be appropriate because of the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination. In December we read The Christmas Kid, and Other Brooklyn Stories, by Pete Hamil. Pete Hamil was a favorite with a lot of people because we did Forever with the “Big Read” and a lot of people know Pete Hamil from the Daily News and the New York Post.” It is refreshing to conclude that the initial organizational committee, consisting of Lisa and two additional interested parties, has grown significantly. The read for the immediate future is the People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks on February 27. Ripe for earnest discussion this provocative novel follows the adventures and discoveries of a young Australian book conservator who is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a 600 year old Jewish prayer book, which has been salvaged from a Bosnian library. Interest and passion? Present and accounted for!

A Benefit for The Valley Contemporary Dance Company

Zachary Kiernan

Dee Wright

Valley Contemporary Dance Company (VCDC) is a group of collaborative professional artists that tell stories creatively, using various artistic mediums to propel their ideas forward. Their mission is to combine dance with mediums such as film, music, spoken word, and video, incorporating local artists from the Hudson Valley. VCDC shares a home with The Hudson Valley Conservatory (HVC) of Fine Arts and The New Rose Theatre. Together, their working relationship helps Paige Cummings build strong artistic careers for young adults and provides the community with Buffalo and

Keely Wright

Ashley Saffioti Layne

professional productions in a variety of artistic genres. Under the artistic direction of Paige Cummings, VCDC is comprised of a core principal company, apprentices, students, and several guest artists. Paige began dance training in Beacon. She attended prestigious summer dance programs such as Eglevsky Ballet, New York State Summer School of the Arts with NYC Ballet, Brianski Ballet, and Martha Graham Summer Dance Intensives. She went on to earn her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from SUNY at holds a Master of Arts in Dance/

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Colleen Corbett

Movement Therapy and Counseling Psychology. She has danced with Ballet, Jazz, and Modern companies throughout her career. Paige has performed and taught both nationally and internationally. She is currently the Rehearsal Director of ASEID Contemporary Dance and is on faculty at HVC. VCDC Principal dancers are: Zachary Kiernan, Dee Wright, Keely Wright, Ashley Saffioti Layne and Colleen Corbett. Apprentice dancers include Sydney Amen, Claire Beebe, Veronica Hebbard, Rebecca Patsalos, Brooke Byrnes, Molly Donnellon â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just Be,â&#x20AC;? a fundraiser-performance that will benefit the VCDC will be held on February 15 at 7:00pm in the New Rose Theatre, 35 East Main Street in Walden. For information: 845-778-2478.

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Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock/ Latin sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

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Concerts

Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle �� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Saturdays, 3pm-5pm “Lord of the Strings” works of J.R.R. Tolkien, music, poetry, art ��Fallsburg Library, Jan 30, 7pm FREE

Jay Collins & The Kings County Band, Jim Hayes Band jazz, rock, blues ��Falcon, Jan 31, 7pm Brewster Americana, Little Sparrow Woodsongs Coffeehouse �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Feb 1, 6pm Ed Palermo Big Band CD Release Party Zappa, rock, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 1, 7pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 2, 10am-2pm Chris Cubeta & The Liars’ Club rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 6, 7pm Electric Skye Hudson Valley Jazz Festival, jazz, funk, r&b, pop, w/Dancing �� Pennings Farm & Market, Warwick, Feb 8, 7pm Frank Tetler Hudson Valley Folk Guild �� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Feb 8, 7:30pm Stephen Clair + The Millionaires and The Stacks blues, roots The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 9, 7pm Bob Stump & The Blue Mountain Band blues, roots �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 9, 10am-2pm Casey Erdmann Group ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 13, 7pm Alexis P. Suter Band’s Valentine to The Falcon gospel, blues The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 14, 7pm Winter Blues Festival �� Sullivan County Community College, Feb 15, 8pm Saints of Swing w/ Rene Bailey swing, R&B, Latin �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 16, 10am-2pm KJ Denhert with Geoff Gallanteurban folk, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 20, 7pm Joe Caro & The Met Band blues, jazz, fusion ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 21, 7pm Milford Music Festival Fundraiser ��Waterwheel Cafe, Milford, Feb 21, 7:30pm Frankie Joe Daigle & Swamp Rats’ Mardi Gras Cajun � Castle Fun Center, Chester, Feb 22, 7pm Cyrille Aimee & the Guitar Heroes world, pop, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 23, 7pm Larry Campbell Quartet w/ Teresa Williams country, folk, blues Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 28, 7pm

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar due to space limitations.

Open Mic w/Bryan & Erin Keegan �� Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown, Tues & Weds Open Mic w/Joe Frazita or Steve Wells �� Blarney Stone, Warwick, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic w/Bob Keegan �� Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Wednesdays Open Mic w/Eric Callari ��Eddie’s Restaurant, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic �� Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 20, 6pm Open Mic “Out Loud Performance Party” poetry & music Port Jervis Community Ctr, Feb 22, 7pm Karaoke w/Bill Braine �� 2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 3rd Saturday, 8pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano �� La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm Musician’s Gathering w/Stacy Cohen �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Hurley Mountain Highway classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 1, 7pm-10pm Gayle Donnelly �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 1, 7pm-10:30pm Steve Wells ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 2, 2:30pm-5:30pm Evan Teatum Karoke �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 7, 7pm-10pm Nick Morrizo �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 7, 7pm-10:30pm T.W.D. w/Ken Nicastro classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 8, 7pm-10pm Joe Frazita �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 8, 7pm-10:30pm Robert Schiff ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 9, 2:30pm-5:30pm Piet Koster �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 14, 7pm-10:30pm Groovy Tuesday classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 15, 7pm-10pm Music for Humanity �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 15, 7pm-10:30pm Gregg Van Gelder Band �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 21, 7pm-10pm Kevin Ege �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 21, 7pm-10:30pm Leo & The Lizards classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 22, 7pm-10pm Sojourn �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 22, 7pm-10:30pm Ray Longchamp ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 23, 2:30pm-5:30pm Acoustic Dirt classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 28, 7pm-10pm

T h e C A N VA S B e a t !

Country in a Tux Guitarist Stephen Alexander Angelone of Newburgh presents The Stephen Alexander Band in Tuxedo this month. Angelone studied music theory at Orange County Community College and has been playing guitar for thirty years, bass twenty years, and banjo five years. He also plays harmonica, sings, and dabbles in the cello. His strongest influences have been Steve Howe, Van Halen, Segovia, and Chet Atkins. His overall musical influences are attributed to a diverse list of bands such as Yes, Primus, Led Zeppelin, Richard Wagner, and the great Johnny Cash. 14

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with Tina Piaquadio The musicians in Angelone’s band form a well-seasoned, versatile group, each of them able to play multiple instruments. He has Kris Pushlar on bass and vocals, and Mike Randolph, a teacher who studied music at Nashville’s Belmont University is on guitar, bass, banjo, and mandolin. Steve DiGiovanni is on drums, percussion, and vocals, Ron Pavia on keys and vocals, and Fooch Foocheti, who studied music

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Lectures / demos / master classes/Symposium GLL ��Greenwood Lake Library MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC ��Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-GCL ��SUNY Orange Middletown, Gilman Center Library SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

lectures

“Owl Prowl” ��Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jan 31, 7pm & Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Feb 1, 7pm “The Truth about Vaccination” ��MSM-DC Feb 3, 1pm “Walkway over the Hudson-Past, Present & Future” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Feb 4, 7:30pm “Vietnam Vignettes” ��MSM-DC Feb 6, 1pm “Write and Self-Publish Your Non-Fiction Book Now!” ��MSM-DC Feb 6, 1pm “Celtic Reminders in Today’s Spain” ��MSM-DC Feb 6, 1pm “Sophie Tucker” ��MSM-DC Feb 7, 1pm “Animal Tracking” outdoor lecture �� PEEC Feb 8, 10am “Let’s Stop Just Surviving and Start Thriving!” ��MSM-DC Feb 10,1pm “Solar System In Your Pocket” w/Brian Levine ��SUNYO-GCL Feb 10, 6:30pm “Cultivating Freedom in the Hudson Valley: James F. Brown” w/Elaine Hayes �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Feb 11, 7:30pm “Bladder Health” with Dr. Huntoon ��MSM-DC Feb 12,1pm “Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended”: Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for Freedom �� w/Louis P. Masur SUNYO-GCL Feb 13, 7pm “The Herbs of General Washington” w/Marguerite Dunne ��Subtle Energies, Chester, Feb 16, 1pm “Cacti & Succulents” Green Thumb Garden Series �� GLL Feb 16, 12:30pm “Setting the Record Straight – Part 2” ��MSM-DC Feb 17, 1pm “Interesting Women of the Wild West” ��MSM-DC Feb 18, 10:30am “Cities of Romance: Paris, Florence, Rome & Venice” Barry Kass �� GLL Feb 18, 6:30pm “Wildlife Encounters” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Feb 18, 7:30pm “Can a Declining America Remain a Dominant Superpower?” �� w/ Ray Raymond SUNYO-GLC Feb 19, 7pm “A Perfect Storm: College Funding, Your Retirement, and Soon-to-be Aging Parents” �� MSM-DC Feb 20, 6:30pm “Seashell Magic: What Do Seashells Say About Your Life” ��MSM-DC Feb 21, 10am “Vaughn Monroe” ��MSM-DC Feb 21, 1pm “Out of Africa: The Beat Goes On” lecture & concert �� Newburgh Library, Feb 23, 3pm “Dating Tips for Women Who Forgot How to Date and Want Love After 50” MSM-DC Feb 24, 1pm

“Unconditioning the Mind Thorugh Education” Jaap Sluijter ��SUNYO-OH, Feb 25, 7pm “A Bright Future fo the Electric Car” w/David Nolan �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Feb 25, 7:30pm “Motown & the Civil Rights Movement” Tom Ingrassia ��Thrall Lib., Middletown, Feb 27, 6pm “Hudson River Lighthouses” Kevin Woyce ��GLL Mar 2, 1pm

demos

“Warm Winter Food” w/Sara Cox & Jennifer Fierro �� GLL Feb 6, 6:30pm Glass Blowing Demos & Factory Tours �� Gillinder Glass Factory, Port Jervis, Feb 8, 10am-3pm 40 Artists Live Demo WRS Art Teachers �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Feb 8, 5pm-7pm “Skies, the Eyes of a Landscape” w/Arthur Gilmore �� SUNYO Orange Hall, Feb 15, 2:30pm

master classes

Jazz Master Class Donny McCaslin �� SUNYO-OH Rm, 23, Jan 31, Noon Chet Gordon “A Photographer’s Life” ��SUNYO-OH, Feb 17, 6:30pm Chris Parker, Chris Vadala & other Parker Quintet musicians “For the Love of Jazz” �� SUNY-OH Feb 21, 11am Megan Campisi “Acting & Physical Theater” �� SUNY-OH Feb 26, 1pm ”Communications in the Hudson Valley” w/panel �� SUNYO-KH Feb 27, 11:30am Peter Winograd “A Career in Music” �� SUNYO-OH Rm 23, Feb 28, 10am

Symposium

“Harnessing the Power of Science, Art and Community” NACL’s The Weather Project �� Highland Senior Center, Eldred, Feb 15 & 16

at New Paltz, is on pedal steel and fiddle. Foocheti is accredited for his gold record, a Butthole Surfers tune on which he played pedal steel. They are currently signed on with a UK based independent label, Nub Country Music, and their music has made its way into film and television. Bugsy’s Boogie has been placed in three independent films and three reality TV pilots. Trailer Park Blues has been placed in two independent films and two reality TV pilots. Three other songs have been placed in independent films as well.

When asked what one can expect from seeing his band perform live, Angelone replied, “Loose, fun, high energy, quality musicianship...eclectic originals - from traditional country to rap.” Want to check them out? On February 15 they will be at the Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center, 581 Route 17A West in Tuxedo at 7:00pm. They also look forward this month to the release of their current CD, Italian Cowboy, and a gig in Nashville as well. You can sample their music on line at reverbnation. com/stephenalexanderband.

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cinema

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Midday Movie �� Fallsburg Library, Tuesdays & Thursdays, Noon FREE “Enough Said” �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Feb 3, 1pm FREE Reel Eclectic Movie �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Feb 6, 7pm FREE “An Evening with Kevin Nealon” �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Feb 8, 8pm “Remember the Titans” �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Feb 10, 1pm FREE “Lumumba” intro w/Greg Geddes ��Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange Newburgh, Feb 11, 11am “High Society” �� Cornwall Library, Feb 12, Noon, FREE “Bus Stop” �� UDGLBT Center, Milford, Feb 12, 7:30pm FREE “When Comedy Went To School” �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Feb 15-18 “The Butler” ��Newburgh Library, Feb 15, 1pm FREE “Temple Grandin” �� Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh, Feb 18, 6pm Afternoon Movie �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Feb 19, 2pm FREE “Hannah Arendt” intro by Mark C. Gagnon ��Cornwall Library, Feb 20, 5:30pm FREE “The House of Fear” Matinee Series ��Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Feb 22, 2pm “Little Italy, Roberto Algana” �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Feb 23, 4pm Monday Night at the Movies ��Newburgh Library, Feb 24, 6:30pm FREE “Midnight” �� UDGLBT Center, Milford, Feb 26, 7:30pm FREE ”Numen” �� Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, Feb 28, 7pm

comedy

Open Mic ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester. 2nd Friday Mitchell Walters, Fred Rubino, Michael Bennett ��Jester’s Comedy Club,. Chester, Feb 1, 8pm Corey Rodrigues, Joe Currie ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Feb 8, 8pm Jeff Norris Valentine’s Day Dinner Comedy Show �� Castle Fun Center, Chester, Feb 14, 7:30pm Chris Roach, Dennis Rooney ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Feb 15, 8pm Sandy Marks, Gerrold Benford ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Feb 22, 8pm Chris Monty, Tina Giorgi �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Mar 1, 8pm The Not Too Far From Home Comedy Tour �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Mar 1, 8pm

festival

Winterfest 2014 ��Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, Feb 8, 11am-3pm Presidents Day Weekend reenactments, music, talks, crafts �� Washington;s Headquarters, Newburgh, Feb 15-17, Noon-4pm

holistic events

Concert: An Odyssey into the Heart Via the Power of Collective Voice �� SUNYO Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Feb 28 7pm

museums

Sculpture Exhibit �� Dia: Beacon, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum ��Ellenville, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living �� Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing “The Final Days of the Civil War” ��Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Apr 27 Washington’s Birthday Celebration �� New Windsor Cantonment, Feb 15 & Feb 17, 10am-4pm Washington’s Birthday Celebration �� Knox’s Headquarters,. New Windsor, Feb 16, 10am-3:45pm

music - Broadway - tin pan alley - cabaret

Broadway Concerts Direct �� Blooming Grove United Church of Christ, Feb 15, 6pm

music - Classical

Potluck Concerts ”Happy Birthday, Herr Mozart” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jan 31, 7:30pm Bill Owens trumpet & Craig Williams organ �� West Point Cadet Chapel, Feb 2, 3pm American String Quartet �� The Tuxedo Club, Feb 8 , 6:30pm Laurie Carney violin David Friend piano, “Music from 3 Centuries” �� SUNY Orange Hall, Middletown, Feb 9, 3pm Frederic Chiu & Andrew Russo duo pianists ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Feb 9, 4pm Newburgh Chamber Music Ensemble �� Ellenville Library, Feb 16, 2pm FREE Gilles Vonsattel piano ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Feb 23, 4pm Potluck Concerts ”Romance” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Ch., Cornwall-on-Hudson, Feb 28, 7:30pm American String Quartet w/Cynthia Phelps viola ��SUNY Orange Hall, Middletown, Mar 2, 3pm

music - jazz

Bruch wiht the Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 10am-1pm Electric Skye Hudson Valley Jazz Festival �� Wildfire Grill, Montgomery, Jan 31, 7pm Kaitlyn Fay Quintet “A Concert for Lovers” ��Greenwood Lake Library, Feb 4, 6:30pm FREE Hugh Brodie’s 81st Birthday Celebration! ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 7, 7pm Steve Carlin guitar, Sam Morrison, sax & flute ��Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, Feb 9, 2pm Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub guitars �� Ritz Lobby Newbuirghm, Feb 15, 7pm Ben Flocks CD Release “Battle Mountain” ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 16, 7pm Donna Singer & The Doug Richards Trio Nadia’s Hungarian Buffet, Hurleyville, Feb 21, 6:30pm Chris Parker Quintet ��Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, Feb 21, 8pm Akie Bermiss vocals, keyboard ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Feb 23, 10am-2pm Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble �� The Dautaj, Warwick, Feb 28, 8pm Thurman Barker Quartet, Little Sparrow �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Mar 1, 6pm

opera

“Rusalka” Dvorak, Live from the Met in HD �� Sullivan County Community College, Feb 8, 1pm ”Turandot” Puccini (video) Arena at Verona �� Cornwall Library, Feb 16, 1pm FREE “Prince Igor” Borodin, Live from the Met in HD ��Sullivan Cty Community College, Mar 1, Noon

poetry & prose readings

Tony Pena Poetry on the Loose �� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Feb 1, 3:30pm FREE Poetry Night Alyta Adams, Host: Robert Milby �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 6, 7pm Hudson River Poets �� Newburgh Library, Feb 6, 7pm FREE Guy Reed & Susan Konz Calling All Poets ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Feb 7, 8pm Shorts and Sweets for Sweethearts Big Sky Productions, dinner & show �� United Methodist Church, Monticello, Feb 15, 6pm Poetry Cafe John Douglas, Ernie Sherman, Robert Milby ��Florida Library, Feb 21, 7pm FREE “OUT LOUD Performance Party” poetry, music, etc. �� Port Jervis Community Ctr, Feb 22, 7pm FREE Poetry at the Church Host: Ted Gill ��Goshen Methodist Church, Feb 24, 7pm Poetry on the Loose �� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Mar 1, 3:30pm FREE

recreation

Line Dancing �� Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Thursdays 7:30pm Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dessert Social �� Neversink Valley Museum, Feb 9, Noon-4pm The Dating Game �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Feb 14, 7pm-10pm “Bohemian Bash” Fundraising Dinner �� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Feb 22, 7pm

storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Strange, But True” ��Florida Library, Feb 13, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers Memoirs �� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Feb 15, 7pm, “Into the Dark Forest” music & theatrical verse ��Healing Art Studio, Newburgh, Feb 22, 7pm

theatre - musical

“Beauty and the Beast” �� Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point, Mar 2, 3pm

Chris Parker Quintet Loves Jazz

At the end of the day, after a two hour master class on February 21 at 11:00am in Orange Hall room 23 by Professor Chris Parker of SUNY Orange and Professor Chris Vadala of the University of Maryland Chris Parker and the other members of the Chris Parker Quintet Chris Vadala discussing music as a Gillespie, Thelonius Monk and the like from the profession - discipline, early 1940’s onwards. composing, playing, When Rob Thomas plays with the Quintet, teaching and demonstrating the experimental and fusion elements spice up their instruments, a concert his consummate neo-bop improvisations. When titled For the Love of Jazz he’s not doing any of the above, Thomas is busy will happen at 8:00pm in as a tenured professor at the Berklee College of Orange Hall Theatre. Music. The Quintet, featuring Rob Thomas The drummer and bassist in Parker’s band are saxophonist Chris Vadala Marko Marcinko and Tony Marino respectively. and comprised of pianist Their main gig is providing the rhythmic Chris Parker, violinist Rob backbone for the ensemble led by Vidala, one of Thomas, bassist Tony the world’s top sax players. Marino, and drummer, One of the country’s foremost woodwind Marko Marcinko, will artists, Poughkeepsie native Vadala is in demand play a mix of original Latin, as a Jazz/Classical performer, educator and writer. funky and straight ahead jazz His column on woodwind doubling appeared tunes selected from Parker’s Tony Marino regularly in the Saxophone Journal for over new CD Full Circle. 10 years, and he has authored articles for many Chris Parker is a top flight other magazines. He also has the honor of being Jazz composer as well as included in a new publication, The History of the class act pianist. Parker is Top 40 Sax Solos (1955-1998). also a consummate neoThese five top-tier Jazzmen will set the walls bop pianist, playing within of Orange Hall Theatre in Middletown abuzz. a framework launched For information: cultural@sunyorange.edu or by the Jazz revolution of 845-341-4891. Students admitted free. Marko Marcinko Charlie “Bird” Parker, Dizzy February 2014 Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 15

Februar BW ��Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS �� CAS Arts Center, Catskill Arts Society, Livingston Manor DAC ��Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg DCAT �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel DOWN �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh EHT �� Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY “Artists of Excellence” is on view at SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, (foyer of Mindy Ross Gallery) thru March 20. Linda Rahl-Nadas displays clay and stoneware works. Bill Graziano (see photo left) exhibits metal and wood sculptures.

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

3 Cinema “Enough Said” Wisner Library, Warwick, 11am

Festival Washington’s B’day Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Noon-4pm

NFL �� NVM ��Nev PEEC ��Pocono Environme PT �� PV �� RITZ ��

THURSDAY

FRI

Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Music - Jazz..........Electric Skye. Music - Jazz..Scott Wendholt, Adam Kolker Quartet.FAL 7pm Music...Jay Collins & Kings Coun Music-Poetry-Art...”Lord of the Strings”..Fallsburg Lib. 7pm

Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering.......Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Music - Classical...Potluck Concerts.

Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Poetry................ Hudson River Poets............. NFL 7pm Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Music - Jazz....Hugh Brodie’s 81 Cinema.........Reel Eclectic Film........Thrall Library, 7pm Music.....................................Nick Poetry.......................Alyta Adams................... NCR 7pm Poetry.................................Guy R Music - Rock.Chris Cubeta & The Liars’ Club.FAL 7pm

Music - Jazz Kaitlyn Fay Quintet Greenwood Lake Library 6:30pm

Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering........Dancing Cat, Bethel,7:30pm

“Ribbon Sky” by Janet Howard Fatta on view at Elant in Goshen Feb. 11-25

Cinema “Lumumba” SUNYO-KH 11am

Cinema “Remember the Titans” Wisner Library, Warwick, 11am

FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, Senior Center, Montgomery HCC ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon JCC �� Jester’s Restaurant and Comedy Club, Castle Fun Center, Chester MSM-AQ �� Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh NCR �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Cinema “When Comedy Went to School” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 2pm

Cinema “High Society” Cornwall Library, Noon

Cinema “Bus Stop” UDGLBT Center, Milford, 7:30pm

19 Cinema Afternoon Movie Thrall Library, Middletown, 2pm

Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Music - Gospel-Blues.Alexis P. Suter Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Recreation..........................The Dating Music............... Casey Erdmann Group............FAL 7pm Music................................Piet Ko

Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering.......Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

Storytelling..Black Dirt Storytelling Guild...Florida Lib. 7:30pm

Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Cinema.......”Hannah Arendt”..Cornwall Library, 5:30pm Open Mic............... Open Mic Night........ NCR 6pm-9pm Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Music - Urban folk.KJ Denhart, Geoff Galante.FAL 7pm

Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering.......Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

Comedy.Valentine’s Day Show & Din

Music-Jazz..Donna Singer & Doug Rich

Poetry Cafe.John Douglas, Ernie S

Music - Blues-Jazz-Fusion..Joe C Music................................Kevin E Music - Jazz...................Chris Pa

Cinema “Temple Grandin” SUNYO-KH 6pm

Cinema “Glory” Wisner Library, Warwick, 11am

Cinema Monday Night at the Movies NFL 6:30pm

Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Poetry Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

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February 2014

26 Cinema “Midnight” UDGLBT Center, Milford, 7:30pm

Holistic-Music.......Interactive Mu Cinema.........Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Music - Country-Folk-Blues......La Recreation............... Line Dancing................... JCC 7pm Cinema...........................”Numen

Open Mic....Musician’s Gathering.......Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

Music - Classical...Potluck Concerts.

Music - Jazz..Hudson Valley Jazz E

ry 2014

��Newburgh Free Library versink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville ental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry ��Paramount Theater, Middletown �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills �� Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh,

SCCC ��Seelig Auditorium, SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake SCDW ��Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SCM ��Sullivan County Museum,. Hurleyville SLGMN �� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf ST �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville SUNYO-KH �� Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh

IDAY

SUNYO-OH ��Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, Middletown TT �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg TWSS ��Just Off Broadway, Inc., Theatre at West Shore Station, Newburgh UUC ��Unitarian Universalist Congregation Meeting House, Rock Tavern WAA �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance WPCC ��West Point Cadet Chapel

SATURDAY

Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm .........Wildfire Grill, Montgomery, 7pm Poetry................................................. Tony Pena..............................SLGMN 3:30pm nty Band, Jim Hayes Band..FAL 7pm Music - Americana-Folk.......... Brewster, Little Sparrow............................ SCM 6pm ....Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm Music - Zappa-rock-jazz............Ed Palermo Big Band................................ FAL 7pm Music..............................................Gayle Donnelly.................... NCR 7pm-10:30pm Comedy...............Mitchell Walters, Fred Rubino, Michael Bennett......... JCC 8pm

Opera......................“Rusalka” Dvorak, Live from the Met in HD.......... SCCC 1pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Music - Classical..................... American String Quartet..The Tuxedo Club, 6:30pm 1st Birthday Celebration....FAL 7pm Music - Jazz.................Electric Skye...........Pennings Farm & Market, Warwick 7pm k Morrizo.............NCR 7pm-10:30pm Music..................................................Joe Frazita........................ NCR 7pm-10:30pm Reed & Susan Konz...........HCC 8pm Music - Folk.......................................Frank Tetler..................................UUC 7:30pm Comedy...............................Corey Rodrigues, Joe Currie......................... JCC 8pm Comedy............................ “An Evening with Kevin Nealon.........................PT 8pm

Band Valentine to the Falcon.FAL 7pm g Game..............................PV 7pm-10pm

oster....................NCR 7pm-10:30pm

nner.Castle Fun Center, Chester, 7:30pm

Cinema..........................“When Comedy Went to School”... DOWN Noon

Festival.....Washington’s B’day Festival..Washington’s Headquarter’s Newburgh, Noon-4pm

Cinema............................................. “The Butler”.......................................NFL 1pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Prose & Dinner..”Shorts & Sweets for Sweethearts”.United Meth. Ch. Monticello, 6pm

Storytelling................................ Yarnslingers Memoirs..............................CAS 7pm Music - Jazz................... Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub guitars................... RITZ 7pm Music.......................................... Music for Humanity................ NCR 7pm-10:30pm Music.........................................Winter Blues Festival............................ SCCC 8pm Comedy.............................. Chris Roach, Dennis Rooney........................ JCC 8pm

SUNDAY

Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Blues...............Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis.......FAL 10am-2pm

Music - Classical.Bill Owens trumpet & Craig Williamsorgan.WPCC 3pm

Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Bluegrass..Bob Stump & Blue Mountain Band.FAL 10am-2pm Recreation..Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dessert Social.NVM Noon-4pm

Music - Jazz............. Steve Carlin & Sam Morrison ............DAC 2pm

Music - Classical..Laurie Carney violin David Friend piano.SUNYO-OH 3pm

Music - Classical.....Frederic Chiu & Andrew Russo...........HCC 4pm Music - Roots..Stephen Clair, The Millionaires & The Stacks..FAL 7pm

Music - Jazz..........................Jazz Cat Brunch..........DCAT 10am-1pm

Music - Swing-R&B-Latin..Saints of Swing, Rene Bailey..FAL 10am-2pm Festival...Washington’s B’day..Washington’s Hdqrters, Newburgh, Noon-4pm

Opera - Video..................”Turandot” Puccini....Cornwall Library 1pm Music - Classical..Newburgh Chamber Music.Ellenville Library, 2pm Music - Jazz....................Ben Flocks CD Release................. FAL 7pm Cinema...........”When Comedy Went to School”........DOWN 7:15pm

Cinema......”The House of Fear”, Flash Gordon & selected shorts...........ST 2pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm hards Trio..Nadia’s Buffet, Hurleyville, 6:30pm Music - Jazz...........................Akie Bermiss..................FAL 10am-2pm Sherman, Robert Milby.Florida Lib 7pm Storytelling & Music..”Into the Dark Forest”...Healing Art Studios, Newburgh, 7:30pm Caro & The Met Band.........FAL 7pm Poetry & Music...”OUT LOUD Performance Party”...Port Jervis Community Center, 7pm Music...................”Out of Africa: The Beat Goes On”.........NFL 3pm Ege......................NCR 7pm-10:30pm Music - Cajun...Frankie Joe Daigle & Swamp Rats..Castle Fun Center, Chester, 7pm Music - Classical..................Gilles Vonsattel.........................HCC 4pm Recreation..Bohemia Bash” Fundraising Dinner..CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, 7pm Cinema.....................“Little Italy, Roberto Alagna”.......... DOWN 4pm arker Quintet..........SUNYO-OH 8pm Music.................................................... Sojourn.......................... NCR 7pm-10:30pm Music - World,Pop,Jazz..Cyrille Aimee & Guitar Heroes.....FAL 7pm Comedy............................. Sandy Marks, Jerrold Benford........................ JCC 8pm

usical Journey........SUNYO-KH 7pm Opera.................. “Prince Igor” Borodin, Live from the Met in HD.....SCCC Noon arry Campbell Quartet........FAL 7pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm n”.........................................UUC 7pm Poetry.........................................Poetry on the Loose......................SLGMN 3:30pm Music - Classical.American String Quartet&violist.SUNYO-OH 3pm ....Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm Music - Jazz............... Thurman Barker Quartet, Little Sparrow.............. SCM 6pm Theatre - Musical............ “Beauty & the Beast”.................... EHT 3pm Ensemble..The Dautaj, Warwick, 8pm Comedy...................The Not Too Far From Home Comedy Tour................PV 8pm Comedy.................................. Chris Monty, Tina Giorgi............................ JCC 8pm

February 2014

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

canvas category calendar sponsored by Wurtsboro Art Alliance & Wallkill River School

Listings on this page are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Art exhibits

CAS �� Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DAC ��Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg MSM-DC �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH ��SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WRS �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery Group Show �� Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery �� Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings ��BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ��Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture �� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Becky Cornell ��ARTBOXstudio, Pine Bush, ongoing Desmond Campus Art Instructors Group Show �� MSM-DC thru Jan 31 “Small Works in a Big Way” Artists in the Parks group show �� Bear Mountain Inn, thru Jan 31 Robert Ferruci Contemporary American Folk Art ��RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Feb 2 “Challenge” SUNY Orange Art Professors group show ��SUNYO-OH thru Feb 4 Goshen Art League ��SUNYO-OH thru Feb-7 B&W �� WRS thru Feb 14 “Natural Selection” group show �� DAC thru Feb 15 “Nancy Reed Jones �� Elant at Goshen, thru Feb 11 Jeffrey Jenkins “Brushes, Planets, Misfits & other Collections” installation �� DAC thru Feb 28 Phil Rachelson “From Brooklyn to Shohola” ��The Forge, Milford, thru Feb 28 Crowd” Outsider’s Studio Collective, group show ��Green Door Magazine, Liberty, thru Mar 1 Linda Rahl Nadas ceramics & Bill Graziano sculptures, “Artists of Excellence series” �� SUNYO-KH thru Mar 20 Susan Hope Fogel “Warwick Inspirations” ��Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, thru Apr 6 “Wonder & Mystery” group show ��Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern, thru Aug 2014

NEW ART EXHIBITS

WRS Teacher’s Exhibit �� WRS Feb 1-15 Vaune Sherin �� WRS Feb 1-25 Catharine DeMaio �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Feb 1-28 Robert Breese ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Feb 1-28 Sean Keady ��Greenwood Lake Library, Feb 1-28 Len Di Virgilio watercolors ��Artology, New Windsor, Feb 2-15 Washingtonville Art Society ��Weathervane Clubhouse, Washingtonville, Feb 7, 5pm-8pm “Artist’s Choice” Winterfest Exhibit group show ��Wurtsboro Art Alliance Feb 8-Mar 2 North East Watercolor Society �� SUNYO-OH Feb 9-Mar 21 Janet Howard-Fatta ��Elant at Goshen, Feb 11-25 Louise McCutcheon & Adult Drop-in Exhibit �� WRS Feb 15-25 “Night” group show ��WRS Feb 15-Mar 14 Bucky Pizzarelli ��Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, Feb 15-Apr 7 Soul Collage �� Healing Art Studio, Newburgh, Feb 21, 6pm Helena Clare Pittman “You Say Tomato and I Say Sfumato: Quotations” ��DAC Feb 22-Mar 15 WRS Fundraiser ��WRS Feb 26-Mar 1 Joe Splendora “Splendorascapes” �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 1-22 Sullivan ARC “Expressions 2014” ��DAC Mar 1-29 Christopher Vernale “Child’s Play and Wherever You Go” �� CAS Mar 1-Apr 6

photography exhibits

Seasonal Members Show �� Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, thru Jan 31 Tom Doyle �� Leo’s Italian Restaurant, Cornwall, thru Jan 31 Marilyn Laufer “Wildlife Photos” �� Liberty Library thru Feb 19 Julia Forrest & Flora Hogman “Reflective Surfaces” �� CAS thru Feb 23 Anne Cecille Meadows “Wanderings” ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, thru Feb 28 Colin Greenly “Sixty Years of Seeing” digital images, sculpture, drawings ��SUNYO-KH thru Mar 14 Jason Houston “Conservation Journal” ��Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, thru Apr 6

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Nancy Hopping “Wildlife” �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Feb 1-27 “You’ve Gotta Love It” group show ��Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Feb 8-Mar 2 Chet Gordon “A Photographer’s Life” �� SUNYO-OH Feb 17-Mar 19

ART & Photography receptions

Nancy Hopping “Wildlife” ��Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Feb 1, 5pm-7pm Len Di Virgilio watercolors ��Artology, New Windsor, Feb 2, 1pm-5pm Washingtonville Art Society ��Weathervane Clubhouse, Washingtonville, Feb 7, 5pm-8pm “Artist’s Choice” Winterfest Exhibit group show ��Wurtsboro Art Alliance Feb 8, 11am-4pm WRS Teacher’s Exhibit, Vaune Sherin �� WRS Feb 8, 5pm-7pm “You’ve Gotta Love It” group show �� Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Feb 8, 6pm-8pm North East Watercolor Society ��SUNYO-OH Feb 15, 1pm-4:15pm Bucky Pizzarelli �� Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, Feb 15, 8:30pm Chet Gordon “A Photographer’s Life” ��SUNYO-OH Feb 17, 5pm-6:30pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

February 2014

Soul Collages ��Healing Art Studio, Newburgh, Feb 21, 6pm-8pm Helena Clare Pittman “You Say Tomato and I Say Sfumato: Quotations” paintings � DAC Feb 22, 2pm

Louise McCutcheon & Adult Drop-in Exhibit �� WRS Feb 22, 5pm-7pm Christopher Vernale “Child’s Play and Wherever You Go” �� CAS Mar 1, (talk:2pm) 3pm-5pm Joe Splendora “Splendorascapes” �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 1, 3pm-8pm WRS Fundraiser �� WRS Mar 1, 4pm-7pm

books - Discussions & readings

Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm “San Miguel” by T.C. Boyle ��Cornwall Library, Feb 5, 7pm Mother-Daughter Book Discussion ��Newburgh Library, Feb 6, 7pm “Skeleton Hill” by Peter Lovesey ��Cornwall Library, Feb 19, 7pm “The Prestige” by Christopher Priest, Milennial Club �Crawford Lib., Monticello, Feb 20, 6:15pm “Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn” w/Helena Clare Pittman ��DAC Feb 22, 1pm Tuesday at Two Book Discussion ��Newburgh Library, Feb 25, 2pm “Our Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity by Following Your Dreams” �� w/Tom Ingrassia & Jared Chrudimsky Thrall Library, Middletown, Feb 27, 4pm Book Chat & Chocolate “Escape” by Barbara Delinski ��Cornwall Library, Feb 27, 7pm Great Books Discussion ��Newburgh Library, Feb 28, 11:30am

clubs

Chess Club �� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess ��Narrowsburg Library, Friday 6pm Knit and Stitch �� Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ��Liberty Library, Tuesdays 10:15am Knitting Group �� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting “Stitch and Bitch” �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Knit/Crochet Club ��Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters �� Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Club ��Newburgh Library, Feb 11 & 25, 7pm Knitting Circle ��Florida Library, Feb 24, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ��Last Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills,org The Music Lovers Group classical ��3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop �� St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild �� Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm 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 Woodcarving Guild �� Museum Village, Monroe, Wednesdays, 7pm

schools & Conservatories

Veterans from Senior Drop-in �� WRS Student Gallery, Feb 15-25

children & Teens Calendar

HHNM ��Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH �� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson

Books

“Red Glove” by Holly Black, TEENS ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Feb 5, 5pm “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl, grades3-5 �Crawford Lib., Monticello, Feb 19, 5pm “Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn” TEENS & adults, Helena Clare Pittman ��DAC, Feb 22, 1pm “Steampunk Sweets” cook w/Faith Crisanto, grades 5-12 �Greenwood Lake Library, Feb 26, 5pm

cinema

Teen Movie Night grades 5-12 ��Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm “The Lady and the Tramp” �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Feb 15, 2:30pm “The Mighty Ducks” �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Feb 22, 2:30pm

Museums

“Mastodons: Ice Age to Discovery” & Meet the Animal of the Week �� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Eco-Zone �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Feb 1 & 23, 1pm-4pm

Music & Dance

West Indian & American Music, Song, Dance all ages �� Newburgh Library, Feb 1, 11am

recreation & Lectures

“Great Big Super Heroes” art, comedy, all ages ��Newburgh Library, Feb 1, 3pm Celebrate Groundhog Day �� HHNM-CoH, Feb 2, 10am “Lovey Dovey for Valentine’s Day” birds �� HHNM Feb 8, 9:30am & 11am “Birds of Prey” Ravensbeard rescue group �� Wurtsboro Community Church, Feb 8, 1pm “The Bobcat” �� HHNM Feb 9, 10am “Bear Necessities: Black Bears” �� HHNM Feb 15. 10am “Reptiles as Pets?” �� HHNM-CoH Feb 22, 10am

Monticello Gets Graduate’s Book

Sonia Pressman Fuentes has been a leader in many feminist organizations, and received numerous awards for her prestigious career in law. She was one of the founding members of the National Organization of Women. In 1963, she testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in favor of the Equal Pay Bill, and in 1965 joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as the first woman lawyer in its Office of the General Counsel. Fuentes is a 1946 graduate of Monticello High School, and was one of ten inaugural inductees

to the Monticello Central School District’s Hall of Distinction. Eat First - You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You tells Fuentes’ story, starting with her family’s immigration from Nazi Germany. She tells about her life as an immigrant growing up in the Catskills, her educational and professional experiences, and how she became a champion of feminism. The Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library received a donated copy of Fuentes’ memoir, from publisher, Xlibris Corp. The library is located at 393 Broadway, Monticello. For information: 845-794-4660

Born to musical parents, Kaitlyn Fay started learning basic music theory and how to play the piano by age 4. By the time she was 12 she excelled at playing the flute and had taught herself to play the alto saxophone in order to join the school jazz ensemble. While earning her Master’s degree, Fay opened for jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli with her Ella Fitzgerald Tribute Ensemble as part of the 35th annual Jazz Room Concert Series at William Paterson University. As part

of that same series, Kaitlyn also performed with the WPU Vocal Jazz Studio as the opening act for the Count Basie Orchestra. The Kaitlyn Fay Quintet will perform favorite jazz standards on February 4 at 6:30pm at the Greenwood Lake Public Library for the award-winning Music Makers Concert Series. The library is located at 79 Waterstone Road, Greenwood Lake. For further information, call 845-477-8377, ext. 101.

The Millennial Book group is a new discussion group for people in their 20s and 30s, and meets once a month at the Crawford Library. The group encourages young adults to try new genres of literature, and connect with other people with similar interests. The first three discussion books have centered on magic and fantasy, and the next three will be humor books. The book for February will be The Prestige by

Christopher Priest. The novel received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best fiction and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. For more information, call 845-7944660 ext. 8, or by email at jgoldfarb@ rcls.org. Ideas and questions can also be posted to the library’s Facebook and twitter pages. The Crawford Library is located at 393 Broadway, Monticello. Call 845-794-4660.

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Sharing Poetry...with Food

28) Altya Adams will be host Local poet, author, and Milby’s guest at Noble Coffee host of various area poetry Roasters, 3020 Route 207 on readings, Robert Milby, has February 6 at 7:00pm. hosted 26 poetry series in New Adams hosts her own poetry York State since 1995, and has (and music) OUT LOUD read onstage over 1,000 times performance party / open mic in 6 states. at the Port Jervis Community Milby will don his instructor Robert Milby Center, February 22 at 7:00pm. hat for the Northeast Poetry For Noble Coffee info call 845Center’s College of Poetry, 294-1056. For Port Jervis info call offering a short survey of winter 845-856-6972. poems by well-known poets. Then Milby has two weeks to Participants will then compose get to Florida (after co-hosting in original winter-themed poems and Beacon and New Paltz) to host the share aloud. Florida Library’s Poetry Café The class, titled, Shoveling where you can enjoy coffee and Words in Winter, will be held at the homemade desserts on February Seligmann Center for the Arts, 21 at 7:00pm with guest poets John 23 White Oak Drive, in Sugar Loaf Douglas and Ernie Sherman, on February 1 from 1:00pmAlyta Adams followed by an open mic, at 4 Cohen Circle in 3:00pm. Milby then has five days to get to Campbell Florida. Phone: 845-651-7659 All poetry events are for adults over age 16. Hall where Port Jervis poet (and artist, see page February 2014

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Yarnslingers Sling Memoirs

Yarnslingers Memoirs is a special project sponsored by the Catskill Art Society. Nine Yarnslingers were chosen through a jury process to write their memoirs over the course of a year. Yarnslingers memoir writers will read one chapter of their personal story each month. The audience will be invited to make anonymous critiques, and some stories will be published in Green Door Magazine. Readings begin on February 15 at 7:00pm at the CAS Arts Center. See ad this page for location and information.

Yarnslinger’s Ramona Jan (center front) wants YOU to come, listen, remark, & Enjoy!

DVAA Salon Series: Steve Carlin & Sam Morrison

Produced by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Salon Series events are meant to be informal and comfortable, with opportunities to chat with the artists. Composer/guitarist Steve Carlin, writes passionate compositions and melodies, exposing his world music influences playing electric or acoustic guitars. Steve has played with groups ranging from 17-piece orchestras to duos and has performed and recorded as a soloist. He describes his recently released Explorations, as a collaboration wherein percussionist Chacho Ramirez and bassist Tony DeCicco add their own interpretations to his compositions to create musical “conversation.” Sam Morrison is a jazz saxophone and flute player/composer whose credits include being a member of the Miles Davis Band. He has played

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2 Day Symposium on Sustainability

Sullivan Alliance for individual consumer Sustainable Development choices to business (SASD) is partnering with initiatives, climate-smart NACL Theatre and the planning and robust Town of Highland on The advocacy for enlightened Weather Project, a two-year climate policy,” says SASD exploration of all things Co-Executive Director relating to the weather. Carol Roig. For the The centerpiece of symposium, NACL will SASD’s collaboration highlight the climate theme Brett Keyser, NACL; Carol Roig & Stephen with NACL will be a Stuart, SASD; Tannis Kowalchuk, NACL; & with entertaining interludes free two-day symposium Andy Boyar, Supervisor, Town of Highland of original performance. featuring distinguished scholars and practitioners The symposium is scheduled for February 15 with expertise in climate science, agriculture, & 16 at the Highland Senior Center, Route 55 architecture, energy, building science, public in Eldred. Registration is free, but required. health, planning, economic development, the All attendees are encouraged to bring a dish to faith community and local government. share for a communal lunch. “Our goal is to inspire informed action, from For reservations. sasdonline@gmail.com

Ingrassia to Enthrall at Thrall over adversity. Among those

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with many legendary jazz greats like Gil Evans, Al Foster, Buster Williams, and Billy Hart. Carlin and Morrison open the 2014 Salon Series on February 9 at 2:00pm, at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. For tickets and information: 845-252-7576.

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Middletown native Tom Ingrassia, who worked for Mary Wilson of The Supremes for 5 years, as well as for and with many other artists of that era, brings a “behind-the scenes” reality to all of his programs. On February 27 at 4:00pm, Ingrassia will be joined by co-author Jared Chrudimsky for a Meet the Authors Reading & Book Signing for One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity by Following Your Dreams, which captures the inspirational stories of 16 people from all walks of life who have triumphed

profiled are Mary Wilson (see photo) Scherrie Payne of The Supremes and June Monteiro of The Toys. At 6:30pm Ingrassia will present Motown & The Civil Tom Ingrassia & Rights Movement which Jared Chrudimsky will trace the rise and success of Motown during the Civil Rights era, and the significant impact Motown and its artists had on culture, society and politics in ‘60s America. Middletown Thrall Library is located at 11-19 Depot Street, Middletown. Call 845-341-5454.

Whispering Pines with Executive Chef, Douglas P. Frey

Love Your Pet Day! February 20

As an animal lover, I was undoubtedly thrilled when I learned February 20th is “Love Your Pet Day”! On all accounts, my pets are doused with love and affection daily. But adding a little extra something doesn’t hurt, right? After all, we’ve got Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and Christmas to spoil our loved ones, so why not dote on your pooch, kitty, feathered or reptilian friends once a year! Hey, we all enjoy a home cooked meal, so why should pets be any different? And if you’re looking for a fun way to pamper your pup, maybe take him out to the clip and curl so he can show off his shiny coat to the neighborhood hounds. There’s nothing cuter than a freshly bathed pooch, looking and feeling their best. It’s as if they glow! If you’re not a four legged friend fan, and prefer the company of feathers; and if you’re crafty, you could make little Tweedy a nifty new toy. Anyway, here are a few recipes for your “loved ones”. Flea Terminator Dog Treats

3 cubes beef bouillon 1 1/2 cups boiling water 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 cup cornmeal 2/3 cup brewers’ yeast 2 tablespoons garlic powder 2 egg yolks

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Dissolve beef bouillon cubes in boiling water, set aside. Grease cookie

sheets. 2. In a large bowl, stir together the whole wheat flour, corn meal, brewers yeast, and garlic powder. Add the yolks, then gradually pour in the bouillon water while stirring. Mix thoroughly to form a firm dough. On a floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes using cookie cutters. Place cookies one inch apart onto cookie sheets. 3. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, then turn the oven off, and leave the cookies inside for at least 3 hours or overnight to harden. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

Peanut Butter and Banana Dog Biscuits

1 egg 1/3 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup mashed banana 1 tablespoon honey 1 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup wheat germ 1 egg white, lightly beaten, for brushing

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Lightly grease a baking sheet. Stir together egg, peanut butter, banana, and honey in medium bowl; blend thoroughly. Stir in flour and wheat germ; mix well. Turn dough out onto a floured board and roll to 1/4 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with a cookie cutter, place on prepared baking sheet, and brush tops with egg white. Bake biscuits in preheated oven until dried and golden brown, about 30 minutes, depending on size. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.

Questions? Whispering Pines Caterers: 845-6471428 or email: whisperingpinescaterers@gmail.

Valentine’s Day Concert in Ellenville By popular request, the Newburgh Chamber Music Ensemble returns to Ellenville for the Sunday Concert Series at Ellenville Public Library & Museum, In the late eighteenth century, the term serenade was not necessarily Carole Cowan, Susan Seligman, Valentina Charlap-Evans & Marcia Gates associated with a piece directed toward a lover. including four quartets. Beethoven’s Serenade for flute, violin & viola in This Valentine’s Day Concert will include the D major, Op. 25, follows the pattern of Mozart’s Beethoven Serenade (he wrote a sonata, trios, great serenades in that it opens and closes with and a variety of “themes” for flute ensemble) and fast movements, and includes a slow movement one of Mozart’s quartets for flute and strings. and minuets. The concert is on February 16, 2:00pm, and Interestingly, Mozart had an antipathy towards the library is at 40 Center Street. Admission is the flute. But because of the fashions of the free. “Well behaved children are welcome!” time, he composed a good deal of flute music, For information: 845-647-5530.

Blues Festival in Loch Sheldrake

Son of jazz-rock fusion guitar legend Larry Coryell and author/actress Julie Coryell, Murali Coryell began playing drums at age 8. In his early teens, “I was into the music of Led Zeppelin. My dad told me if I wanted to hear some REAL blues to get B.B. King’s Live At The Regal, which to this day, I consider one of the greatest recordings ever made. The emotion and sadness in B.B. King’s voice and guitar really spoke to me. That’s when I first picked up a guitar.”

Murali joined a jazz ensemble at college, studied classical guitar and graduated with a degree in music theory and composition. An encounter with Jimi Hendrix when he was 3 years old inspired one of Coryell’s signature songs, a rock blues extravaganza I Was in the Room With Jimi. SUNY Sullivan’s Winter Blues Concert featuring Coryell’s band will be in the Seelig Theatre, February 15 at 8:00pm. Call for tickets: 845-434-5750, ext. 4472.

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Holistic Living

Soul Collage at Healing Arts Studio

“I have my Bachelors degree in Metalsmithing card may be as I meditate on it. As Seena Frost and Jewelry from SUNY New Paltz,” said says, the images you choose will show your Allison Sassano. “For ten years I worked as an parts - like your nurturer, your organizer, your artist making one of a kind jewelry and sculpture. dancer, or your scared inner child. These images My work showed nationally and internationally. will represent the archetypes who may seem larger than life, mysterious, and Currently, there are some pieces of mythic. These images represent the my art in a permanent collection archetypes that have chosen you at the Racine Museum of Art and who are guiding you. These in Wisconsin. After leaving the are the Great Ones who weave your art world, I became a massage local story into the larger story of all therapist, energy healer, and a creation. mother. However, I still needed a “Making these cards has been a creative outlet. very personal journey that I never “Somehow, I came across the imagined I would share with the book Soul Collage by Seena Frost. public. I am honored that Lisa I had always love doing collage and Gervais of Healing Arts Studio this seemed like the perfect way to considers them worthy of an explore spiritual, psychological, and emotional aspects of myself through Astro Girl by Sassano exhibition and it is my hope they a creative process. The Soul Collage process will inspire others to dive into the Soul Collage involves mixing intuition with imagination to process and fall in love with the many beautiful, make a visual journal that is a reflection of our scary, ugly, and fascinating parts that make us many faceted selves. Images are intuitively into the precious beings that we are.” Get to Healing Arts Studio, 75 Broadway gathered from magazines then, almost magically, in Newburgh on February 21 from 6:00pmcome together to create each card. “I often will be surprised by what comes 8:00pm and find out who your guides are! For information phone 520-609-1866. together and what the deeper meaning of the

The Herbs of General Washington

General George Washington faced the British who, at that time, had the world’s greatest army. During the winter at Valley Forge, Washington’s troops were mostly volunteer militia, ill clad, unschooled, undernourished, and facing hunger and disease. With only the right use of medicinal herbs, he fed his men and kept them well. In a lecture about the herbs of General Washington, herbalist Marguerite Dunne will provide some medical history about the Revolutionary War, present the Colonial Army’s materia medica, and describe the colonial wife’s healing practices. A question and answer period will follow, and all herbal and nutritional questions will be addressed. While practicing as a medicinal herbalist for over 30 years, Dunne (see photo) earned

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a BA in Sociology/English, a double master’s degree in Education, and certification in herbology. She has lectured, written articles, made media appearances, and has her own radio program every Sunday on WTBQ 1110 AM and 93.5 FM (WTBQ. com) from noon to 12:30pm, The Urban Herbalist. Marguerite is profiled as the featured herbalist in the recently published book, The New Healers (Vista Publications) by Dr. Barbara Stevens Barnum. Come celebrate our patriotic and herbal heritage on February 16 at Subtle Energies, 1136 Kings Highway, Chester (south of Sugar Loaf) from 1:00pm-2:30pm. To register and purchase tickets, call 845-534-8971 or email urbanherbalist33@ hotmail.com

Meet Thomas Caprino: Musician, Composer If generalizations are assigned to carry the burden of setting the scene, one can be reasonable and comfortable concluding that January nights in and around Orange County are frequently frigid, repeatedly windy, and often downright uncomfortable. On a recent evening of the month described, a fresh and talented young musician was creating a contradictory atmosphere at the Noble Coffee Roasters Café in Campbell Hall. Comfortably seated at the piano was Thomas Caprino, instrumentalist, composer and student of classical and chamber music composition at the famed Juilliard School. Classical composition is a challenge few experience. Fewer are even remotely aware of the creativity and application of technical skill required. However, for an aspiring artist/performer, when asked with whom he would most wish to perform, he stated unequivocally: Johann Sebastian Bach. “He’s the father of Western music, the father...,” Thomas Caprino repeated, stating firmly the word “Father” with convincing determination. For a theme of broad inclusion, one need look no further than Caprino’s second selection of musicians with whom he would love to perform: Stephen “Stevie” Ray Vaughan.

Vaughan, aka SRV, an instrumentalist and composer, is noted as one of the initial forces responsible for the popular resurgence of the blues, during the late 1980’s. His eclectic style incorporated techniques from “different musical genres and specific performers, e.g., Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix.” Any discussion with Thomas Caprino reveals his sincere and unflinching dedication to music performance, as well as composition. His first instrument is the trombone, a member of the brass family. Further, the multi-talented Thomas is proficient on tenor and bass trombones, the piano, guitar, (acoustic and electric) the violin and the trumpet. It is quite evident to those who listen closely that passion isthefierycatalystthataccompaniesenviable performance. The source of motivating passions may be found in the environment or maybe the air or perhaps it’s something in the water. In this case it appears to be Tom’s early years, the formative years. Somewhere around the time of fourth grade, a time that occurs simultaneously with the complexities of long division, Tom began a lasting, passion-filled relationship with the trombone. Once in high school,

he found himself in a situation with an older musician who introduced him to the keyboard, the piano to be specific, and prophetically the pentatonic scales. They are most closely associated with the musical concept of the “Blues” and especially with improvisational presentations. The development of Tom’s keyboarding skills and its relationship to the characteristics of his performance provide an interesting narrative. “I’d been playing the trombone for about five years,” Tom relates as he addresses his developmental stages, “and I was always interested in the piano and I was now more exposed to the piano because I was rehearsing with a summer band and we rehearsed in rehearsal rooms that had pianos. Before that I didn’t have access to one. It was there I met the older jazz percussionist, I spoke of earlier. He played the piano and started to show me some easy pentatonic blues kind of stuff and I got very interested in playing it so I asked my mom if I could take lessons. Lessons lasted about two and one-half years and I have been using it as a tool ever since to write lyrics and to compose music.” As passion for one’s particular artistic form of

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expression frequently distorts the realities of day-today living, Thomas Caprino is not a candidate for the well-known school of starving artists. His recent employmenthistoryinthefieldofmusiccomposition and performance is wide and one that reveals his multiple talents. He currently is a member of the Tappan Zee Bridgemen, where he is noted for his tenor and bass trombone mastery. He has also been a part of the orchestra at the Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center, as well as the Woodstock Playhouse featuring performances of Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, and A Christmas Carol. In an equally challenging vein Thomas composed Lament for Trombone Quartet a noticed composition performed by the popular and rather unique The Guidonian Hand in NYC during the 2013 season, and has transcribed and arranged Honeysuckle Rose for Three Trombones for Paul Pollard of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. As Orion races - this writer prays - through the skies of a windy, wintery wonderland, those interested in following a young, multi-talented, performing artist would be wise to peruse the lineup at local venues for Thomas Caprino. Best bet: check with the folks at Noble Coffee Roaster’s Cafe, 3020 New York 207, Campbell Hall - 845-294-1056. Not scheduled for February, but frequently performing there will be Thomas Caprino.

Art, Art & More Art! Do you see it? Yes, the ad on the right.

A FREE TWO HOUR ART CLASS AT THE WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL!!! There are a myriad of mediums to pick from for your free 2 hour class: Beginning Drawing a.k.a I Can’t Even Draw a Stick Figure, Painting by Knife, Crocheting, Beginning Painting, Intermediate/Advanced Drawing, Beginning Watercolor, Basic Drawing, Acrylic, Sewing, Pastel Painting, Oil Painting, Portraiture, Impressionism, Batik. Check out Rhythms of the World: Global Percussion & Hand Drumming too!

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Wallkill River School’s Myriad of Art Exhibits

February is a mixed-bag month for the Wallkill River School’s (WRS) exhibits with a variety of dates for a variety of exhibits in a variety of galleries! Vaune Sherin’s art is in the Emerging Artist Gallery February 1-25 with a February 8 reception. Vaune Sherin is a true Orange County daughter. A long term resident of Maybrook, she graduated from Orange County Community College, and received a BA from Binghamton University with a concentration in painting. Her early experience was in the art department of a silk screener for the garment industry. Sherin painted two murals this year in the children’s room of the library in Maybrook. She has also painted numerous sets for the Valley Central High School performing arts department over the past ten years. Here she found a sense of community among the hard working students, faculty and volunteers. This is her first solo show at the WRS. A Teacher’s Exhibit featuring all the teaching artists of the WRS will take place in the main galleries from February 1-15 with live demonstrations at the February 8, 5:00pm7:00pm reception. Forty artists who teach classes at the WRS, are inviting the public to the live demonstrations. These artists will be creating artworks using art

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techniques varying from traditional oil, pastel, acrylic, and watercolor painting, to palette knife painting and portraiture. The public is welcome to enjoy free drinks and hors d’oeuvres while mingling with working artists. Artists who will be demonstrating live include: Jaruwan Ponmak (batik), Shawn Dell Joyce (pastel), William Noonan (oil), Dennis Fanton (oil), Cynthia Harris-Pagano (portraiture), Nicole Asendorf (multi-media), Mike Jaroszko

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(Luminist Oil), Janet Campbell (watercolor), Nancy Reed Jones (acrylic), Debbe Femiak (fiber arts), George Hayes (palette knife), Gene Bové (oil), Michael Piotrowski (oil), and many others. From February 15-25 the Student Gallery will feature Veterans from the Senior Drop In and in the Main Galleries, a Senior’s Exhibit with the works of Louise McCutcheon and the artists from her Tuesday Adult Drop In group. This exhibit features veterans who attend free classes at the WRS. These talented vets range

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from represented artist Robert Oliver and his storybook-beautiful paintings to Ray Parker and his self-taught surrealist imagery. McCutcheon calls her style of painting “Realistic Impressionism”, and especially enjoys painting landscapes of the beautiful Hudson River Valley. Over the years, she has attended workshops of nationally known watercolorists and has exhibited in many shows. At present she is a member of the Middletown Art Group, and is a Signature Member of the North East Watercolor Society. The reception for this exhibit will be held on February 22 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Following all the February 25 exhibit closings will be The 100/$100 fundraiser! A preview will be held from February 26-28 with a reception on March 1, 4:00pm-7:00pm. Here’s how it works: Buy a ticket for $100 and choose from over 100 works of art by local artists when your number is called. It’s a fun event, catered by cooking class teacher Korey Findley, serving local wines, all for a great cause...funding the scholarships for the children’s Summer Camp program at the WRS offering free art, cooking and gardening classes to local children! The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. For information: 845-457-ARTS.

Community Building Through the Arts with Susan Handler

The Ability to Think Unconventionally In an interview on Fostering Innovation in the 21st century economy, Theresa Reid, Executive Director of ArtsEngine, stated that top-tier universities such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford are re-examining their commitment to the arts. The primary reason for this change of heart is due to a worldwide demand for creativity. In a global economy, a key differentiator for businesses and for national economies is creativity and the innovations that result from it. “Many of the fastest-growing jobs and emerging industries rely on workers’ creative capacity, and the ability to think unconventionally.” Astonishing work can be produced utilizing creative skills. The Creative Process is inherent in the arts. For non-artists honing this skill, learning how to imagine the unimaginable has become essential in the world of business and science. Creativity can take many forms. It appears that the only rule is that there are no hard and fast rules concerning the sources of creativity. Motivation and being in the flow are key to creative production. In the arts, creative production is defined as artmaking, and art-making requires knowledge and the skill of creative thinking. For artists this is an organic process. Whether working in the visual,

Conservancy (Flora and Fauna Artistic Botanical Cataloging) and the National Park Service (Arts Afire) at the Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen. For information on creativity as a resource tool for problem solving and innovation visit www. btrads.com or call 570-729-0016.

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Colorbots workshop led by Thomas Bosket in New York City

Making poetry objects in the “Words in the Woods” program in Callicoon

performance, technological, or literary arts, artists are natural problem solvers. Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman told the New York Times “I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers. Poets are our original systems thinkers. They look at our most complex environments and they reduce the complexity to something they begin to understand.” Personally, I have served as a creative problem solver consultant with a biomass electrical generation company. Interestingly, the arts have a new role in this century. We are the Creative Thinkers, and this is a skill that is valuable in other fields. There is presently an international movement to teach the art of creativity. Artist and Parsons

School of Design instructor Thomas Bosket and internationally recognized poet Laura Moran have started a new business that helps organizations and communities outside of the arts connect with artists who are versed in creative problem solving. B-Trads, also known as Beautiful Traditions, offers professional development workshops for teachers, health-care professionals, managerial teams, municipalities, and natural resource organizations. As visiting artists, they teach students in public, private, and vocational schools the value of the creative process. On February 8, 22, and March 16, B-Trads will be offering three workshops in Callicoon as well as a 2014 summer series with the Delaware Highlands

“Culture is more than decoration; culture is the very fabric of humanity, integral to how we move throughout our days. How can arts and humanities transcend and mend a community’s compartmentalized state of economics, history, ecology, government, education, social issues? Where does how we live meet what we create?” People will leave the BTrad workshops with the tools to begin to understand how their unique skills and point of individuality connect with their larger community and how their community can benefit from arts-integration. February 8, 10:00am: Introduction to Art is Living February 8, 11:00am-1:30pm: Beautiful Traditions 1: Language & Art February 22, 11:00am-1:30pm: Beautiful Traditions 2: Poetry & Drawing March 16, 9:00am-4:00pm: Full Day Beautiful Traditions Immersion Workshop. Call 570-729-0016 for registration and location. Visit: www.btrads.com

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SUNY Orange: A Photographer’s Travels

Chet Gordon has been a photojournalist for 25 years. He’s worked as a staff photographer at four New York City metro area newspapers and as a photo editor at the NY Daily News. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association. A former U.S. Marine, Gordon served in the mid80’s. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he’s worked in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, Jordan, Kosovo, Albania, Gaza, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Russian Federation, Venezuela, Paraguay and Afghanistan. He routinely mentors young photographers and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya. Gordon will teach a master class at SUNY Orange that will give a broad combination of the many aspects of his work in photography: capturing images of people and scenes in his extensive travel, location lighting for

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portraiture and sports, photojournalism and sports in action, and his volunteer work. In addition, he will include time to show cameras, strobes and other equipment, as well as answer questions. “It is a real opportunity to view these works and attend the master class and be

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able to ask questions of Chet Gordon. “He is an expert and is willing to share his knowledge of equipment and technique and he is a caring individual who has given countless hours to Operation Smile. In addition, his working vacations are the norm during which he voluntarily accompanies humanitarian relief efforts to natural disasters and medical “Kenya” mercy missions. photo by Chet Gordon “The framed photographs that comprise the show are his favorites. They give a glimpse into the man within,” says Dorothy Szefc, Cultural Affairs Coordinator. The master class will be held in Orange Hall Gallery, Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown, on February 17 at 6:30pm. The exhibit featuring Chet’s work will be on view from February 17 to March 19, also in Orange Hall Gallery, with a reception before the master class on February 15, 5:00-6:30pm. For information, call Cultural Affairs at 845341-4891.

NEWS 2014 Show

“Winter Song” by Rose Yannuzzi

100 paintings are on display for the North East Watercolor Society (NEWS) 2014 Members’ Show February 9-March 21 in Orange Hall Gallery. At the opening reception on February 15, 1:00pm-4:15pm artist Arthur Gilmore (photo right) will give a demonstration titled Skies, the Eyes of the Landscape at 2:30pm and the Award Presentation follows at 3:45pm. Music will be provided by piano and flute duo Geoff Hamburg and Tom DeCelle from 1:00pm-2:30pm. See our upcoming March 2014 CANVAS for a Women’s History Month story honoring NEWS co-founder Matilda Gretch.

“Prayerformance” in Newburgh

“Into the Dark Forest is an intimate, exhilarating and magical ride...Nicole Manmieri has mastered an art where few dare to tread; her performance comes from the inside out… We are captivated till the last song is done.” Eric Wolf, host, Art of Storytelling show. Into the Dark Forest is a one-woman show. Through original songs and theatrical verse, Manieri shares her healing journey as a woman dedicated to living a life authentic to her own heart and soul the mess, the beauty, the confusion, the grace. It weaves through intimate stories of her experiences, her vivid dreamscape

and playful imagination. It spans from the deeply personal to the archetypal patterns of growth and transformation. On February 22 from 7:00pm-9:00pm, Lisa Gervais of Healing Arts Studio will present the “Prayerformance” at her studio, 75 Broadway in Newburgh. For tickets and further information about Into the Dark Forest: 520-609-1866.

Len DeVirgilio paints 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. (See Len’s work on right). An exhibit of his work is on view at Artology, 318 Blooming Grove Turnpike, New Windsor through February. 15 An opening reception will be held on February 2 from 1:00pm-5:00pm. For information: 845-391-8686.

Editor’s note: Stay tuned for the March issue of CANVAS with more about the Artology studio.

Spotlight On: Sugar Loaf Guild

18th Century Furniture: A Whimsical Wonderland

Seascapes & Landscapes at Artology

18th Century Furniture is a wonderland of whimsical handmade folk crafts balanced with brilliantly handcrafted reclaimed barnwood furniture. Every single handmade item in their store has special meaning to them and will, in turn, have special meaning to you! Additionally, they offer one of a kind hand sewn toddler clothes, accessories and other sensations. “We are Peter & Manon Von Uchtrup living in a 300 year old home with two barns on the premises...true farmhouse living at its best with egg laying hens and all! We specialize in handmade one-of-akind furniture made from 100-200 year old reclaimed Canadian barnwood and one of a kind folk crafts and hand-sewn specialties. All furniture is made on premises by Peter in one of the barns and our sewing studio is on the second floor of our other barn,” says Manon. Their story started when Peter was just 16 years old and worked with Walter Kanon of The Barnsider Restaurant in Sugar Loaf outfitting the ceiling with barnwood beams. Later, in 1985, Peter opened a shop at 68 Wood Road designing and handcrafting pieces of barnwood furniture crafted from the Canadian barnwood. It was there in Canada where Peter met Manon. They were married three months later. Manon learned to speak English while working in Peter’s furniture shop.

After 8 years at 68 Wood Road, Peter bought a 300 year old house at 58 Wood Road with an original Sears & Roebuck house on the premises. It is that house that became the current 18th Century Furniture store. 18th Century Furniture at 58 Wood Road, is not in the center of Sugar Loaf, so you absolutely must walk a few more steps and treat yourself to this one of a kind shopping experience. “We welcome you to explore our lifestyle, our handmade work and our passion,” said Manon. For more information: 845-469-5159.

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The Animating Force in Nature

Numen, (defined as the animating force in nature), is a 75-minute documentary film focusing on the healing power of plants and the natural world. Featuring stunning footage of medicinal plants and thought provoking interviews, Numen is for herbalists, gardeners, medical practitioners, plant lovers, and everyone concerned about human and environmental health. It offers an introduction to the following topics: whole plant medicine, ecological medicine, environmental toxins, the limits of allopathic medicine, spirit and healing, and more. The film presents a sobering view of conventional

healthcare and the dangers of environmental insults, as well as a vision of safe, effective and sustainable medicine. It offers stories about how individuals have improved their own health and well-being and provides concrete steps for viewers to do so as well. Hosted by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UUC) at Rock Tavern, 9 Vance Road, (Off Route 207), Rock Tavern, Numen will be shown in the UUC Meeting House on February 28 at 7:00pm. A $5 - $10 donation is requested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For further information call 845-569-8965.

“Matters of the Heart” in Port Jervis

The Shop, a custom tattoo Saler, Becca Bichof, Brian L. studio in Port Jervis, is presenting Frazier, Alyta Adams, Sue a “Valentine’s Day Party & Art Jenkins, Brian Grives, Carol Exhibit” at UpFront Exhibition Grives, Scott Bramble, Woody Space titled Matters of the Heart Wodock, Rachel Follweiler, on February 15 from 6:00pmNoel Margarel, Lori Ann 10:00pm. Cotill Brunetti and others. Artwork in a variety of media In addition to art, there will be will reflect on the theme of love or food, drinks, music, prizes and the lack thereof! giveaways at the exhibit and The exhibit will display works party! “Bleeding Heart” by Robert Kraese, Sean Addy, UpFront is located at 31 by Mitchell Saler Alex Zahorsky, Corrie Grant, Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis. Eric Brociuos, Barbara Ann Kraese, Mitchell For further information 845-856-2727.

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“Solid & Lasting...Like a Brick”

Trestle, Inc.’s main fundraising project, which supports its mission for the expansion of art and culture in Newburgh, is the once-a-year laying of commemorative bricks in front of the murals on Front Street, along the Newburgh waterfront. Recently, they received a letter from Joseph Catania, Jr., which, in our opinion, deserves to be published. It so beautifully expresses the writer’s feelings and the importance of giving children a sense of belonging and participating. “Over the past several years my family has purchased these sidewalk bricks, many bricks. Most of them carry the names of young people, Mural project artist Garin Baker speaks at the 2007 Trestle, Inc. dedication ceremony some very young. We come down to the waterfront with the grandkids and show them an affirmation that there is energy and promise here; that progress, improvement, and hope their names engraved in the persist; solid and lasting like bricks, set in the walk, here on a brick. the waterfront in Newburgh. “Our bricks are a statement They sense they are part of of patient belief in Newburgh something. I like that. and its citizens. That’s why I “When my and my wife’s like our bricks.” parents, and their parents, made Orders for bricks are now their life here in Newburgh, coming in for the Octrober bricks were part of the fabric 2014 placement. Anyone can of this area. The brickyards order a brick. Messages can were just north of here. The be commemorative, personal, Rev. Bill Scafidi at the Brick barges and trains that carried Walkway 2006 ceremony historical, about people or Newburgh bricks across the events - even humorous. Use region coursed the ground and water in our view your imagination. Compose your own 3 line (13 today. Those bricks were commerce, building, spaces each line) brick or bricks. and progress. For more information call: 845-565-0844. “Setting the names of our family in the bricks, (note: website is under re-construction.) set in the walk, in this landscape of Newburgh, is

Loving Live Music at Penning’s

Tell your friends and family in back of the market, the band sets Peoria, Wichita, Roswell, Tacoma, up under the pergola, and voila! Macon and elsewhere to go to www. You have “Pennings Farm Market” tlkn.co/jazzfm/ny-state-unitedtransformed into “Pennings Pub & airlines for information on how to Grill”! win a six night break in New York Pennings’ Marketing Director, State this summer, courtesy of 2014 Pub Manager, and Special Events J. Brunka; bass ILoveNY and United Airlines, Coordinator Kaitlyn LeLoup told offering return flights and a packed CANVAS, “Pennings Pub & Grill schedule of exciting activities offers craft beer, wine, our own which includes two VIP tickets to hard cider, and farm to table fare in the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival a casual setting. Our menu changes (HVJF) in August! seasonally allowing us to use the However, there is no need for most local ingredients possible Ed Littman; guitar you to wait until August for world from produce grown right here on class jazz. Steve Rubin of the HVJF the farm to local grass fed beef. brings top artists to the Valley all year “We offer a “Trivia Night” long. Besides a planned February every Thursday at 8:00pm and live concert by the Skye Jazz Trio at the music every Friday and Saturday, Iron Forge Inn in Bellvale, Electric November through August.” Skye will perform at Pennings Steve Rubin; drums Check out their calendar of Farm Market, Route 94 and Warwick Turnpike events at penningsfarmmarket.com and see in Warwick, “performing a danceable mix of their facebook page for a list of beer on tap! jazz, classic R&B, funk and a whole lot more,” Electric Skye is J. Brunka on bass, Ed said Rubin. Littman on guitar, Rubin on drums and Dave In case you weren’t aware, Pennings Farm Smith, keyboardist (photo not shown). “For Market has showcased live music (everything the “Electric Skye” version of my group, we from alternative, folk, rock, to jazz) for two incorporate music by Herbie Hancock, Stevie and a half years. The indoor farmer’s market Wonder, The Meters, The Beatles, as well as jazz transforms into an evening bar and restaurant standards, most done with “a bit of funk” so as to with live music when Pennings’ staff roll the provide for dancing,” added Steve. food carts out to provide more space, and set up They perform on February 8 at 7:00pm. tables and seats for patrons. The bar is along the Admission is free! Call 845-986-1059.

Happy Birthday Hugh Brodie!

Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Illinois Jacquet were just a few of the musicians that were in his dreams as a boy. Little did he know that he would be playing with Jacquet in the 1980’s. Yet, even before he could afford his 3 dollar lessons, Hugh Brodie would fantasize about becoming one of the great jazz musicians. In the 80’s Brodie landed a gig with Jacquet. But, after only a few years with him, Brodie decided that he needed to play his own music. He has studied astral projection and applied it to music. This combination of astrology and music has made his first CD Unforgettable Sax very popular in Europe. His second CD, Song’s

For Anu, explores ancient earth travelers and their religions, some of which are still around today. He has developed his own peaceful beliefs that have become integral to his music, centered around a “no hate” policy and the fact that the three most important things that you can say to a person are “thank you, please, and sorry.” Now he is celebrating his 81st birthday on February 7 at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. Doors, bar and restaurant open at 5:30pm with music at 7:00pm. No tickets. No cover. Donations encouraged. For information, call 845-236-7970.

For more than half a century, Jazz musician Bucky Pizzarelli has been a part of the fraternity of musicians who have kept mainstream and traditional Jazz alive. Ed Laub has been playing the guitar for more than fifty years and has performed with such artists as Gene Bertoncini, Martin Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and Kenny Rankin. Safe Harbors of the Hudson/Ritz Theater will

present a concert with Ritz Theater Honorary Chair Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub followed by an artist’s reception that includes wine and food and a viewing of Bucky’s art. The art will be on view through April 7. The concert and viewing are on February 15 at 7:00pm in the Ritz Theater Lobby at 107 Broadway, Newburgh. For tickets and information: 845-784-1199.

Pizzarelli’s Music and Original Art

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Meet WJFF’s Carol Pozefsky

Carol Pozefsky has always been interested in language and its oddities. “When my brother was about 8, I heard him disagreeing with my father on an issue. My father made a statement and my 4 year old ears heard my brother say, “well, be that as it may, Daddy...” Because of his intonation I understood the phrase, thought it was smart and wonderful, and from then on I wanted to talk like my brother. “When I was barely a teenager, my brother, who is the best extemporaneous speaker I have ever heard, was at Harvard. He invited me there to listen to a discourse among my brother and his friends. Afterwards, I longed to elevate my own teenage discourse and be able to talk and think like that and be in a world that had those phrases that he used. I aspired to that higher level of discourse.” After a stint as the Albany correspondent for 1010WINS-NY, she was an anchor for radio newsrooms in Albany and for the CBS and NBC radio networks. Now she is “her own boss” at Northeast Broadcasting, a news service supplying stories to radio stations. When she moved to Sullivan County in 2004, “I wanted to get to know the community. My world was radio and people told me they thought highly of WJFF. I approached WJFF’s Christine Ahearn with an idea, a notion I had

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of just having fun with words. I put together a tape for her and she said “yes”. “I would check out the hundreds of books on word derivation, on poetry, Latin and other foreign phrases, etc. I’d go to websites and see lots of humor in the last words of celebrities, in headline juxtapositions, in menu prose, and other curiosities. “And it runs in my family. My younger son is known throughout cyberspace for his superb skills at Scrabble. He, too, loves words.” Carol is proud to be a patron of American Friends of the Royal Naval Museum and a member of the Civil War Round Table of NY. And, “I played the cello and I am involved with the Jussi Bjorling Society.” Every Thursday at 10:00am you can hear her five minute program on WJFF public radio, Take My Word For It. It is also available on WJFF’s archives, so you can listen at home at your convenience on the computer. Her most recent accomplishment is May I Have A Word With You, and it is the title of her forthcoming monthly contributions to CANVAS. She will soon be explaining lexilogica, nyctalopia, morology, the derivation of ‘ham actor,’ and will bust your gut with drivers’ explanations of their car accidents. Look for her humorous and edifying tidbits. We thank you Carol.

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Table d’Hôte: Dinner, Stories & Jokes

Shorts & Sweets for Sweethearts includes short stories, silly jokes and songs about love and romance read by Carol Montana (top right) and De Lois “Cookie” House (bottom right) of Big Sky Productions. “This dinner-theatre experience, will hopefully include a special treat - love songs performed by the incredible Patti Greco Sunshine, who wowed attendees at the Shorts & Sweets for the Holiday Season in December,” said Montana. “Guests will be served salad, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and vegetables, iced tea,

lemonade, coffee or hot tea, and the entertainment begins while guests enjoy delectable homemade desserts. “ The special Valentine’s fundraiser is on February 15 at 6:00pm in the United Methodist Church of Monticello, 445 Broadway. Tickets are available in advance or at the door. Everyone is welcome, including singles. Parking is available in the church parking lot, the driveway for which is accessible from North Lakewood Avenue. Just follow the signs. For information call 845-985-7783.

Valentine’s Day Desserts Benefit NVM

All of your chocolate wishes can come true at the Neversink Valley Museum’s Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dessert Social Many delicious varieties of chocolate and other desserts will be available. Choose from three irresistible desserts. In addition, the Museum will offer fresh, handcrafted chocolate candies and other sweet treats bundled in festive Valentine’s Day packages for sale at the event. Items are reasonably priced and make perfect gifts “for all of your favorite sweethearts!” This event is to raise funds for the Museum, which will open the 2014 season in April with

a new exhibition, Then and Now around the D&H Canal, featuring “then” photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the D&H Canal reigned supreme in the region, and “now” photographs by Andrew Chattaway, taken in or near the same locations. Beverages are free. All items are available for takeout or to enjoy at the D&H Canal Visitor’s Center on February 9, Noon-4:00pm. The museum is at 26 Hoag Road, right off Route 209 in Cuddebackville. For information call 845-754-8870.

A Rusalka and A Polovstian

What’s a Rusalka? In Slavic mythology, a rusalka is a female ghost, water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon. According to some traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerize them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death. In other versions, the rusalka is an unquiet dead being, someone who died violently and before their time, such as young women who commit suicide because they have been jilted by their lovers, or unmarried women who are pregnant and must live out their designated time on earth as a spirit. That may sound a bit dreary for an afternoon at the opera, so be aware that Dvorak’s opera Rusalka contains somewhat more palatable elements which also appear in The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and in the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. For Live from the Met in HD, February 8 at 1:00pm, Renée Fleming (see photo) will sing the title role as the water nymph who has fallen in love with a human prince and wants to become

human so they can embrace. Dvorak’s ninth opera contains one of the most exquisitely beautiful arias ever conceived: Hymn to the Moon. What’s a Polovtsian? Many people know that Stranger in Paradise from the Broadway musical Kismet is based on Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances. Well, those dances are from his opera Prince Igor, adapted from a 12th-century epic prose poem that gives an account of a failed raid against the Polovtsians, nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation. Born in 1976 in the city of Ufa, then the capital of the Soviet republic of Bashkiria, bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov (see photo) began acting in his father’s stage and film productions at age four. Since making his La Scala debut in 2001 at only 25, Abdrazakov has become a mainstay at leading houses worldwide. Borodin’s epic comes to the Met for the first time since 1917 with Abdrazakov in the title role, Live from the Met in HD, March 1 at Noon. The new production is a psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop. See these two superstars at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake. For information 845-434-5750, ext. 4472.

Original Civil War Documents at Karpeles

No event in the history of the United States has been as traumatic, or as significant in defining the nation, as the civil war that raged from 1861 to 1865. The conflict began when seven slave states in the South seceded from the union and declared themselves the Confederate States of America because of President Lincoln’s opposition to the extension of slavery into the U.S. territories. The war cost more than 600,000 lives and virtually destroyed the economy and infrastructure of half the country. Included in a Karpeles Manuscript Museum exhibition are such unique documents and manuscript pages as: A draft of the official Constitution of the Confederate States of America. The so-called “Counter-Emancipation Proclamation,” a document signed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis rejecting Lincoln’s proposal to end slavery. A page from the original manuscript of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s

Thomas Nast’s engraving of a Virginia battlefield scene.

autobiography. The agreement declaring the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863, a turning point in the Civil War. The official death certificate of Abraham Lincoln. The Museum is located at 94 Broadway in Newburgh. Admission is always free. Visit www.karpeles.com or call 845-569-4997 for more information.

Beauty & The Beast in West Point

The romantic Broadway musical for all generations, Disney’s Beauty & The Beast is coming to West Point. Based on the Academy Award®-winning animated feature film, this eyepopping spectacle has won the hearts of over 35 million people worldwide. The classic musical love story is

filled with unforgettable characters, lavish sets and costumes, and dazzling production numbers including Be Our Guest and the beloved title song. Enjoy the show on March 2 at 3:00pm at Eisenhower Hall Theatre. For tickets call the box office at 845-938-4159.

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