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March 2017

Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Marlboro & Ellenville

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

Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen This month there are many interesting and unique things happening in Orange, Sullivan, Pike and southern Ulster Counties: A performance and talk about composing songs for Shakespeare’s plays in Narrowsburg, Two different cinematic Sherlock Holmes’ in Chester and Ellenville, Kintsugi in Newburgh, A 20th Century harp in Florida, A chorale, celtic group and two drumming ensembles in Port Jervis, A symphony orchestra with five chorales in Newburgh, Milford’s mayor telling tales,

Hamlet on wry in Livingston Manor, Art demos galore in Montgomery, A ukulele contest in Washingtonville, An early Mozart opera in Loch Sheldrake, Two piano trios in one concert, both with the Opus no. 65, in Montgomery (Dvorak and Foote), Celebrating Shakespeare’s 400th birthday in Livingston Manor, Live from the Metropolitan Opera in Loch Sheldrake, Live from London’s National Theatre in Newburgh, Misattributed art in Shohola, Delaware Valley High School students’ art in Milford, Civil War narratives in Goshen,

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Letters to the Editor Tears of joy when I saw this image, [February 2017 cover] Sophia! I love Lincoln so much, and I am so happy that others will be able to see him the way I see him. This painting is displayed in the Columns Museum in Milford, where the Lincoln flag is. I was overwhelmed when I saw (or rather, *felt*) that flag; sounds a bit Victorian, but I felt as though I might faint. Such a powerful piece of history. Anyway, thank you so much! - June Ponte Please know that we are so grateful for the timely article and photo included in CANVAS, it was helpful as we headed toward the workshop on Hypnosis presented recently at Mount. St. Mary College Desmond Campus. Truly, we are so appreciative of your support. CANVAS is a treasure for all of us. - Diana & George, Alternative Counseling

What a beautiful tribute to Roanne in the February CANVAS! Thank you for letting me be part of it! - Adrienne Butvinick Thank you for the piece on “Remember The Night!” I love watching people discover this movie. Hope to make some new converts! - John DiLeo I have already sent a thank you message to my dear friend Joe DiBello for his beautifully written article, so now it’s your turn! I just wanted to tell you how much I like the article on the NEWS Member Exhibit and how grateful I feel for my other extra “appearances” in CANVAS! Wow! I really didn’t expect to see my name appearing on so many pages! Thanking you both again for your time and awesomeness! - Lana Privitera

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Irish and Celtic music in West Point, Newburgh, Florida, Cornwall, Salisbury Mills, Woodbourne and Port Jervis, Lectures on Eagles, Snakes, Beatles (sic) and Ghosts! Oh my, Public pianos in Goshen, ...and For Kids: Dusty the Read Dog in Florida! Again, I wish to extend heartfelt thanks to the various arts organization producers, employees and volunteers who worked diligently to get information to us on the many and varied events with which we are blessed! And, of course to our advertisers, who help keep the publication free. Please, please patronize them and let them know “you read about them in CANVAS!”

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Calendars

Art & Photography ��16 Books ��13 Category ��13 Children & Teen’s ��16 Demos, Lectures & Museums ��12 Music - Pop, Folk, etc., ��12 March 2017 Calendar ��14-15

Columns

May I Have A Word With You ��27 Wellness Modalities ��19 Whispering Pines ��18

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Amity Gallery, Warwick ��14 Angelo Marcialis, photographer ��8 ARTery Gallery, Milford ��23 Artists’ Market, Shohola ��23 Barryville Area Arts Association ��23 Black Dirt Storytelling Guild, Florida ��10 Caffe ala Mode, Warwick ��8 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��9 Chester Library ��26 Chris Parker Jazz Septet ��5 Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen ��14 Cynthia Harris-Pagano, artist ��20 Debbie Gioello, artist ��18 Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg ��7, 17 Delaware Valley High School Artists ��23 Downing Film Center, Newburgh ��20 Dream Center, Newburgh ��14 Dusty The Read Dog, Florida ��22 Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point ��4 Eric Banger & The Mashers ��24 Eric Person Quartet ��13 Florida Public Library ��22, 27 Four Seasons Chorale, Port Jervis ��4 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��25

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com ads@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 phone 845.926.4002 fax Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Goshen Art League �� 4, 22 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series � 11 Gravikord, Florida �� 27 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch. �� 21 Greenwood Lake Library �� 13 History of the Violin, Middletown ��6 Hudson Valley Jazz Trio �� 17 ICCC, Woodbourne �� 24 Innervision Wellness, Rock Tavern �� 19 Karen Corinne Herceg, poet ��3 Kintsugi in Newburgh �� 21 Lana Privitera, artist ��6 Milford Readers & Writers Festival �� 17 Mitchell Saler, artist �� 22 Mt. St. Mary College, Desmond Campus �7, 20 Music in Central Valley �� 26 Neave Piano Trio ��11 Newburgh Free Library �� 17, 19 North East Watercolor Society ��6 Oliver Olive-Eyes Grech, poet ��11 Opera Live from The Met in HD �� 10 Parting Glass Band, Salisbury Mills �� 24 Queen of the Hudson Chamber Music �� 20 Robert Trondsen, artist ��7 Ron Demuth, artist �� 23 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �� 24, 25 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �� 19 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 3, 5, 6 SUNY Orange, Newburgh ��5 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake �� 10 Tech World, Newburgh �� 21 Trattoria Marbella, Ellenville �� 24 Ukelele Contest �� 10 UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis �� 18 Village of Goshen �� 22 Wallkill River School, Montgomery ��8 Wisner Library, Warwick �� 10 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��4 Yaron Rosner, artist �� 25

Herceg’s New Poems on March 2, 26, 27 “Clutching her vision firmly in hand, Karen Corinne Herceg paints her inner world in such a vivid fashion that I was compelled to submerge myself in Out From Calaboose completely, and then not surface at all until I put down the last poem. Herceg brings us her life and all its many emotional truths, some ugly, some beautiful, but all revealed with restraint - so that by book’s end, we are left in wonder.” - Linda Gray Sexton. Out From Calaboose is a full-length work in five sections with edits by Linda Gray Sexton, bestselling author and daughter of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Anne Sexton. The poems explore personal healing as well as political, social and ecological awareness. “Out From Calaboose is a terrific and powerful book without a misplaced syllable. The poems across the five sections possess energy, a dispassionate passion and generosity in considering the source and sources of imprisonment. They encourage the reader to consider or reconsider his/her own sources of imprisonment by their power and sheer beauty.” - Richard Martin, Poet. A “calaboose” is a small jail that Herceg uses to symbolize our personal imprisonment from unhealed wounds. She imposes singular and universal imperatives making us aware that it is everyone’s obligation to address these

issues. “This is a remarkable work, a Virginia Woolf moment stretched into a book of poems, or a Whitman’s rumination that refuses to come to an end, enamored as it is by life’s ongoing rush.” - Yuyutsu Sharma, Himalayan Poet. A recipient of NY State grants, Herceg has been featured at major venues such as the NY Public Library, the Queens Museum, the Provincetown Playhouse, St. John’s University and Binghamton Community Poets with such renowned poets as Pulitzer Prize winners John Ashbery and Philip Schultz. Currently, Herceg is working with former wife of Muhammed Ali, Khalilah Ali, writing her memoirs. A book signing and reading with Herceg will take place on March 26, from 3:00pm5:00pm at the Seligmann Center, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. For information: 845-469-9459. A portion of book sales goes to charity www.love146.org fighting child trafficking and slavery worldwide. Also, Herceg is the featured poet on March 2 at 7:00pm at Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall (see ad page 11), and for Poetry at the Church on March 27 at 7:00pm in the Goshen Methodist Church, 115 Main Street. Call 845-294-5010 for information.

Two Party System - How It Began A conflict took shape in the Hamilton feared anarchy and 1790s between America’s first thought in terms of order; political parties. Indeed, the Jefferson feared tyranny and Federalists, led by Alexander thought in terms of freedom. Hamilton, and the Republicans Where Hamilton saw England (also called Democraticas an example, Jefferson, who Republicans), led by Thomas had been minister to France Jefferson, were the first in the early stages of the political parties in the Western French Revolution, looked to world. Unlike loose political the overthrow of the French groupings in the British House monarchy as vindication Hamilton & Jefferson of Commons or in the American of the liberal ideals of the colonies before the Revolution, Enlightenment. both had reasonably consistent and Louis Masur is Distinguished principled platforms, relatively Professor of American Studies stable popular followings, and and History at Rutgers University. continuing organizations. A graduate of the University at The Republicans, led by Thomas Buffalo and Princeton University, Jefferson, spoke primarily for he is a cultural historian who has agricultural interests and values. written on a variety of topics. They distrusted bankers, cared little Masur’s essays and reviews have for commerce and manufacturing, appeared in the New York Times, Louis Masur and believed that freedom and Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and democracy flourished best in a rural society Los Angeles Times. composed of self-sufficient farmers. They felt For SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs, little need for a strong central government; in Masur will lecture on Hamilton vs. Jefferson: fact, they tended to see it as a potential source the Rivalry that Shaped America (and locked of oppression. Thus they favored states’ rights. us into a two-party system) on March 6 at They were strongest in the South. 7:00pm in the Sandra and Alan Gerry Forum, Hamilton’s great aim was more efficient Room 010, of the Rowley Center for Science organization, whereas Jefferson once said, “I & Engineering, 10 East Conkling Avenue, am not a friend to a very energetic government.” Middletown. For information: 845-341-4891.

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Rhythm of The Dance in West Point

Rhythm of The Dance has heralded a new era in Irish entertainment, and is internationally rated as one of the most popular and busiest Irish step dance shows in the world. In a two hour dance and music extravaganza, the show is an inspiring epic, reliving the journey of the Irish Celts throughout history. Using modern art forms, this richly costumed presentation marries the contemporary and

the ancient. It combines traditional with the most upto-date stage technology. The show is a thousand year-old story, but executed with all the advantages of today’s performances. The performance features a live band, three tenors and 22 dancers, and takes place on March 5 at 3:00pm at Eisenhower Hall Theatre, 655 Pitcher Road, West Point. Call 845-938-4159 for tickets.

Don’t Let April Fool You!

Some historians believe the prankster yells “Poisson April Fools’ customs began d’Avril!” in France, although no one In Scotland, April Fools knows for sure. It may stem lasts two days. Victims of from a calendar change in 16th pranks are called “gowks” century France - the moving of (cuckoo birds). The second New Year’s Day from April 1 to day is known as Taily Day, and January 1 when the Gregorian pranks involving the backside calendar was adopted. People are played. who continued to celebrate The Wurtsboro Art New Year’s Day on April 1 Alliance (WAA) announces rather than the new date of Ceramic art by Patti Anderson their 2017 season opening on January 1 were referred to as “April fools” and April 1 with an exhibit titled, April Fool at the John Nielson Gallery, 73 Sullivan Street, others played tricks on them. In France, April 1 is called “Poisson Wurtsboro. The opening reception will be d’Avril.” French children fool their friends held on April 1, from 2:00pm-4:00pm. The show runs through April 29. by taping a paper fish to their friends’ backs. Visit WAAgallery.org for info. When the “young fool” discovers this trick,

4 Ensembles at 4 Seasons Chorale Concert

Americana/Folk/Irish Band, Emish

world music drumming youth ensemble The Four Seasons Chorale, under the Joyful Noise from St. Peter’s Lutheran Church,” said Brink. direction of Kathy Brink, will “The program will include a present Music Crossing the Atlantic, traditional Cameroon melody Praise music from Africa, the Caribbean, the Lord, a traditional Tiriki (from and the United States. Kenya) melody Vamuvamba, Hope The concert will feature Emish, a for Resolution - A Song for Mandela group with ties to Port Jervis, who and de Klerk which includes the have forged their own Americana folk anti-apartheid song Thula sizwe, a rock sound by colliding a background Kathy Brink traditional Zambian song, Bonse Aba of Irish, rock, and folk influences. Included in the program are several and some lighter fare, including arrangements movements of an arrangement by Guido of The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Turn the Haazen of Missa Luba, the Latin Mass sung in World Around by Harry Belafonte and Robert styles traditional to the Democratic Republic Freedman. Advance tickets for the April 2, 3:00pm of Congo, composed by Father Guido Haazen, a Franciscan friar from Belgium. It was concert in the First Presbyterian Church, originally performed and recorded in 1958, 60 Sussex Street, Port Jervis, may be ordered by calling 845-856-1231 and will also be when it became a best-selling LP album. “One of the highlights of the chorale’s available at the door. The church sanctuary portion of the concert will be African is handicapped accessible, and refreshments drumming by Maxwell Kofi Donkor with will be available at intermission. For more information, call 570-430-1755. members of his group Sankofa, as well the Maxwell Kofi Donkor & Sankofa

Goshen Art League’s “Hearts” & “Heroes”

Goshen Art League’s Hearts. Laura Bolle, who (GAL) exhibit, Keys to extends her heart by working My Heart, is “Not just for tirelessly to help rescue Valentines!” dogs, has painted a picture Once viewers visit this that expresses this passion exhibit they will notice that showing a beautiful dog not all the works feature a peering at the viewer. traditional Valentine’s Day Keys to My Heart: Unlock theme. GAL artists were Your Passion is at Goshen asked to submit works with Music Hall, 223 Main Street this theme in mind: Keys through March 27. to my Heart: Unlock Your GAL member Karen “Blue Hearted” by Peter Kopher E. Gersch has contributed Passion. Peter Kopher’s vibrant works in various mediums digital artworks portray that richly illustrate GAL’s pulsating hearts “captured February through April from a period of time, many exhibit theme of Heroes, years ago, when I suffered Muses, and Inspirations. through a long bout of a As featured artist in this broken heart.” group show, Karen has Some artists used the key included pieces portraying theme, integrating it with daring acrobats with whom chains and optic effects. Yes, she performed and two you will see hearts featured generations of family artists here, but other passion “A Soldier’s Vigil” by K. Gersch that inspired her. There are inspired works, as well. There is a painting by also many paintings by Karen and others Vaune Sherin showing a figure on a wooded commemorating those who serve in times of path in Minnewaska Park. Purples, reds, danger. browns and greens highlight this moment of The show, in honor of the people who heightened contemplation. devote themselves to safety, runs through Mitchell Saler is showing a beautiful April 20 at the 911 Emergency Services floral still life of downward sloping Bleeding Building, 22 Wells Farm Road, Goshen. 4

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Chris Parker Septet: New Compositions and Old Favorites

Chris Parker has been a professor of music at SUNY Orange for nearly 34 years. During those years, he developed and continues to direct the Jazz Studies program and thoughtfully imparts to his students the skills they will need as Matt Hong professional musicians. Parker is a fine example to them because not only does he teach classes of students and give individual lessons at the college, he plays solo or with bass in clubs, and with his quartet in concerts and summer festivals in nearby states as well as his native Oregon. Just as a visual artist always seems to have a painting or drawing in the works, Parker always has a new piece in the works as a very active composer of both jazz and contemporary classical music. His new pieces invigorate his repertoire and his older compositions are real favorites. On March 4 his outstanding musicians will play in SUNY Orange’s Orange Hall Theatre in Middletown. Parker has done a tremendous amount of work in preparation for this concert because all of the works were composed or arranged for septet. Half of the pieces are completely new while the other half is comprised of reworked older pieces which have been expanded for septet.

Carl Maraghi

Doug Beavers

Tomoko Omura

Tony Marino

Portrait Master Class

Marko Marcinko

“The musicians who comprise the combination of instruments making Chris Parker Septet are outstanding,” possible a variety of interesting tone writes SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs color combinations. This unusual mix Coordinator, Dorothy Szefc. “Matt of instruments goes hand in hand with Hong is accomplished on alto sax and Parker’s eclectic mix of compositions clarinet; Carl Maraghi is awesome which range from Straight Ahead Jazz on baritone sax and bass clarinet; to Mambos and Tangos to Funk.” Doug Beavers is superb on trombone; All tickets except free student Tomoko Omura makes dazzling admission are available online at sounds on five-string violin; and Tony www.sunyorange.edu/arts_comm/ Marino on acoustic and electric basses Chris Parker ticketing.shtml for the March 4, and Marko Marcinko on drums are longtime 8:00pm concert in Orange Hall Theatre. In Parker quartet members who fulfill Parker’s addition, the box office opens at 7:00pm the goal of putting together an excellent ensemble evening of the performance for at-the-door with himself, Chris Parker, playing the baby purchase and for free student tickets. grand.” Orange Hall is located at the corner of (According to CANVAS jazz writer Phil Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues (GPS: Ehrensaft, “Marino and Marcinko’s main gig 24 Grandview Avenue), Middletown. is providing the rhythmic backbone for the Questions may be directed to cultural@ ensemble led by one of the world’s top sax sunyorange.edu and 845-341-4891. players, Dave Liebman.”) Also check out the Cultural Affairs website “The Septet,” Szefc continued, “uses a unique at www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.

Ward Lamb’s master class/ workshop Accenting the Personal will focus on portrait as expression and insight. “It will combine observation of the subject combined with intuition and a feeling we have to Bowie,” about our subject,” by“Homage Ward Lamb, on view he explains. “We in Mindy Ross Gallery through March 9. will use line, texture, and watercolor to emphasize form and color, depicting our opinion on the portrait at hand. We will use a character model and begin with one hour of shorter poses to warm up the participants’ skills and culminate with a 40 minute study that will combine charcoal pencil/ebony pencil drawing, and color wash.” If participants have charcoal pencils/ebony pencils, they should bring them although materials for class participation will be supplied. Participants must be 15 and older. Various levels of experience are fine. The master class/ workshop is free and open to the public, on March 7 at 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall, SUNY Newburgh. No registration is required. See ad page 5 for more information.

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The History of the Violin in Middletown The History of the Violin is a concert with Peter Winograd, violinist of the world class American String Quartet; Caterina Szepes, violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; and Jon Klibonoff, pianist, who will perform “favorite hits from the baroque through Peter Winograd the 20th century”, music by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, important contributions by Ravel and Franck, popular favorites by Kreisler and Massenet, and the spectacular and virtuosic Carmen Fantasy by Pablo Sarasate. “The total music with intermission is a little less than 90 minutes but I will be speaking before each piece to present any information about how this work influenced the evolution of the violin -- or just why I think it is important in the history,” explained Winograd. “We’ll also have a Q&A immediately following the performance.” Peter Winograd joined the American String Quartet in 1990. He gave his first solo public performance at the age of 11, and at age 17 he was accepted as a scholarship student at The Juilliard School. His mother was a professional pianist, and his father, Arthur Winograd, was the founding cellist of the Juilliard Quartet and a conductor of

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Caterina Szepes

Jon Klibonoff

the Hartford Symphony in Hartford, CT, where Winograd grew up. Caterina Szepes was born in Berlin, Germany, into a musical family. Her father was an opera singer and her mother a violinist. She has collaborated with many artists, including members of the Juilliard and American String Quartets. Jon Klibonoff has established a versatile career as orchestra soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music Tickets are available online at www. sunyorange.edu/arts_comm/ticketing.shtml for the March 12 at 3:00pm concert in Orange Hall Theatre. The box office opens at 2:00pm the day of the performance for at-the-door purchase and for free student tickets. See ad page 17 for more information.

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Watercolors Runneth Over Orange Hall Gallery is full The hour-long demonstration of watercolors now through is scheduled at the mid-point March 22. In addition to of the dual reception for her the 102 works displayed by show and the NEWS exhibit. the North East Watercolor Lana’s exhibit - Windows to Society (NEWS) on the main the Past - visually describes floor and Loft, thirteen works her connection to local by the judge of the show, history. “I feel an immense Lana Privitera, are being respect for the hard work and shown on the wall of Orange creativity of our forefathers, Hall Gallery Fringe. and feel compelled to preserve Lana Privitera paints in a for posterity the beauty hyper-realist style which makes and significance of family viewers stop in their tracks in heirlooms and historical farms amazement when they realize and buildings, [by] reproducing “Morrison Hall Tower,” that what they are viewing them faithfully for generations by Lana Privitera are paintings, not photographs. to come,” says Lana. She Her painting, Morrison continues, “My ultimate Hall Tower gives a goal is always to trigger trompe l’oeil effect to the each viewer’s private intricate roof, chimneys, recollections by filling and carvings in the their eyes with minute marble of the mansion details of the places and on the campus of SUNY things they love, helping Orange. them, hopefully, to bring The details in her forth sweet feelings and works are even more memories of happier extraordinary when days from their past.” “Bouquet with Spruce Forest,” by NEWS member Karl Volk viewers discern that Orange Hall is located the medium used is watercolor. During her at the corner of Wawayanda & Grandview demonstration, Texture Effects in Realistic Avenues, Middletown (GPS: 24 Grandview Watercolors, starting at 2:30pm on March 5, Avenue). she will explain how she controls watercolors. Call Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891.

“Fiber on Fire” in Narrowsburg

Born and raised in and materials. The color Honesdale, PA, sculptor is a joy to work with, for Ellen Silberlicht taught art when working in clay you at Honesdale High School don’t get to see the actual for 15 years before her recent color until the end of the retirement. process.” In 2015, Silberlicht was Her raku vessels are done diagnosed with breast during the summer months, cancer, and due to the since it is an outside “sport.” possible presence of mold in The pots are fired quickly in a clay, she could not continue hot kiln, and pulled out once working with clay. During it reaches 1800 degrees. The cancer treatment, she turned hot pots are placed directly to working with felt. in a large can filled with “Clay has always been my paper, and when the paper go to medium and lifelong “Global View” by E. Silberlicht flashes into flames, the lid passion,” she says. “But my curiosity of is placed on top of the can, which creates other materials fills in where clay can not. an oxygen-starved atmosphere. This causes One medium I have always been attracted to the glazes to become iridescent, and the is felt.” clay absorbs the carbon created, creating a She continued, “Wool fiber that has already blackened effect. “Once I have my collection been dyed is laid out on the table in my chosen of pots, I select the vessel that compliments pattern. With added warm water and soap, the idea I will be working on. I’m like a kid along with agitation, the fibers open up and in a candy store.” grab onto one another. The more massaging, Fiber on Fire, an exhibit of sculpture by the more the fibers cling and shrink together. Ellen Silberlicht, opens with a reception When you think you have done it enough, on March 31 from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the you haven’t. Felting is absolutely a lesson in Delaware Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery, patience.” 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. The exhibit Silberlicht inserts her felt creations into will be on view through April 29. her raku clay pots, displaying them playfully “My life continues to be joyous...entrenched out the top of the pots like floral creations. deep, in both clay and fiber,” she says. “I love the play and contrast of the textures For information, call 845-252-7576.

Robert Trondsen’s “Valleyscapes”

Robert Trondsen turned to landscapes received his degree in in the tradition of Advertising Art and the Hudson Valley Design at the State School but with a more University of New York contemporary painting and worked as a freelance style. These luminous artist in the advertising landscapes border on field in NYC. His work the ethereal mood of the in the advertising and tonalists. He is one of editorial fields has five artists contracted to included on-screen paint landscapes for the “Angus” by Robert Trondsen special projects for movies Dutchess County Land including Zelig, The Natural, Conservancy auction and was Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, represented in the Locust Grove and Kiss of Death. Projects 2009 Invitational Art Auction for Woody Allen’s Zelig are in at the Samuel Morse historic the permanent collection of the site, conducted by the James Museum of the Moving Image Cox Gallery in Woodstock. in New York. Robert was also chosen as As an illustrator he has one of the artists to represent done work for Life Savers, the United States in the U.S. Post Cereals, Lever Brothers, Consulate in Hong Kong as part Nabisco, Cigar Aficionado, “Yew Tree” by Robert Trondsen of the U.S. State Department’s Wine Spectator, Food Arts, Bell Atlantic, Art in Embassies Program. Citicorp, ABC Network, Revlon, Clairol, Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond World Broadcast News, North Shore Campus presents an exhibit of work by University Hospital, Special Expeditions, Trondsen entitled, Valleyscapes for their Guest and Union Camp. Trondsen has designed Artist Series at the Desmond Gallery. numerous company logos including the logo The opening reception is on March 12, from for The National Literacy Honors, an incentive 1:00pm-4:00pm at the Desmond Campus, 6 program created by TheAmerican Broadcasting Albany Post Road, in the Balmville section of Company and First Lady Barbara Bush. Newburgh. The show runs through April 13. Starting out as a still life painter, he later Call 845-565-2076 for information.

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Exhibits and Demos for Adults and Children

Artwork by Laura Bolle

“Marilyn’s Bouquet” oil, by Dennis Fanton

If you’re curious about the creative process, considering an art class, or want to meet local artists, come to the Wallkill River School (WRS) any Saturday in March from 5:00pm7:00pm. WRS Teaching artists are offering live demonstrations and also inviting the public to view an exhibit of their work. These teaching artists will be giving you a taste of what they teach in half hour demonstrations. Demos will be based on beginning oil, drawing from direct observation, watercolor basics and advanced, and many other topics. Artworks exhibited will be created by the teachers and are exemplary of what they teach in their classes. Children’s summer art program teachers will

also be featured each Saturday, demonstrating what each camp will be like. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and enjoy the process! “In terms of the exhibit, you can expect to see a robust and diverse collection of art from WRS teaching artists,” writes Assistant Gallery Director Liam Vogel. “Work displayed will consist of direct samples done in the workshops and classes offered by our instructors, as well as work done using the techniques taught in these classes. This exhibit gives attendees a unique glimpse into the creative process behind each teacher’s work, while offering a one of a kind look at the application and execution of the techniques used by our teachers.” All demos are free and open to the public, and refreshments are served. The remarkable

Children’s Fiber Arts, made in D. Femiak’s class

list includes loose and wild watercolor, realistic, highly-detailed watercolor, American impressionism, Hudson River School luminism, drawing from direct observation, acrylic painting, oil painting and “rusty” oil painting. For children, there will be demos in circus arts, fiber arts, pen & ink illustration and painting & drawing. See demo calendars for the subjects, artists’ names, dates and times on pages 12 and 16. The Teaching Artists and Children’s Instructors exhibits run from March 1-25. There is also a clay craft show in the Fine Craft Gallery on the 2nd floor, group show Winter through March 14, and Spring from March 15 - April 14 in the Hallway Gallery. The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street in Montgomery. For info: 845-457-ARTS.

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3 Themes, Warwick

Retired from an award winning career as both a music educator and a Jazz musician, Angelo Marcialis has now turned his creative muse towards the realm of photography. “I look forward to my continued growth in the visual documentation of the beautiful Hudson Valley. As my second artistic endeavor takes hold, my photographic proficiency is approaching the creative level that I achieved in my musical career. Photography allows me the opportunity to visually document my passion for hiking, biking and living in the Hudson Valley.” Three Themes: Hudson Valley - State Parks of New York - National Parks of Utah is the title of Angelo’s solo show at Caffe a la Mode, 1 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, thru April 14. A reception will be held on March 26, from 5:00pm-7:00pm. 10% of the proceeds will be donated to the Orange County Land Trust. For information call 845-986-1223.

The Bard, “Three Dimensions”, Selassie I, and “The Dog of Art” in Livingston Manor

A MOVIE! To be or not to be? To act or not to act? The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (read: jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a megabudget scifi movie. So in the stalwart (read: desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (read: even more desperate) version of the greatest play in the English tongue. What better way to celebrate Christmas than with the Bard’s gory tale of murder and revenge?

“A Midwinter’s Tale” (1995)

The Catskill Art Society (CAS) will present a screening of the film A Midwinter’s Tale (1995), featuring a talkback with programmer Bradley Diuguid, at 7:30pm on March 11. Part of the CAS Film Club series of screenings, this event will take place at the Laundry King, 65 Main Street, Livingston Manor. Writer/director Kenneth Branagh serves up Hamlet on wry with this silly salute to thespians. This romantic comedy took a

R to L: “Map for the Temporary Inhabitant: Orange Line”, collage by MaryKate Maher, “Overture, for Bob and Ray,” oil by Elizabeth Riggle; and detail from “Her Contour,” cable ties by Sui Park.

merry spin on Shakespeare’s best-known tale, featuring actors who later starred in Branagh’s classic (and much more serious) film version of Hamlet in 1996. Presented as part of the Year of Shakespeare at CAS, this film is rated R and contains some profanity and adult situations. TONS OF ART! MaryKate Maher’s work is based upon her interest in cairns, site markers and totems. She observes that the stacking of cairns, meant to mark a trail in the wild, is rather aesthetic for something meant to be practical. By using balance and hidden supports the work gives the impression that her objects defy the limits of weight and gravity. Sui Park’s work consists of 3-D flexible organic forms that are dynamic and possibly mystical and illusory. They can be interpreted in various ways including landscapes, living organisms and even social ideas and values.

Elizabeth Riggles’ paintings address the idea of “the theater of the body.” The work is generated from what she calls “Sheet Music”, the continuous drawing of the bones of the human spine from left to right on rolls of paper. “Lij Tafari,” digital CAS will present painting by R. Patrick Three Dimensions, a group exhibition featuring artwork by the artists above from March 4-April 9. An Artist Talk will be held on March 4 at 2:00pm. Rohan Patrick’s work is about combining the new and the old, merging technology with decades of old photos. The subject of his most recent exhibit is Haile Selassie I, aka Lij Tafari Makonnen, Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor from 1930 to 1974. The Rastafari movement revered Haile Selassie as the returned messiah of the Bible. Patrick explores his subject through video, audio and in his digital imagery on paper, through the use of line and color. CAS presents iTraits of (H.I.M.) Haile Selassie I at the Laundry King, 65 Main Street from March 4-26. Albert Kresch’s aim and desire is to create a synthesis of structure and freedom,

“Abstract Still Life,” oil on linen by A. Kresch

and to make paintings that create their own light rather than imitate the observed light of nature. He is best known for landscapes and still life compositions painted with evocatively rhythmic forms and vibrant colors. Born in 1922, Kresch is a NY School painter who began his career at the Jane Street Gallery in the 40’s. Kresch won a Fulbright scholarship in 1953, aided in part by a letter of recommendation from Willem de Kooning. He was elected a member of the National Academy in 2005. CAS will present The Dog of Art, an exhibition of paintings by Kresch, in the Elevator Gallery at the CAS Arts Center from March 4-April 9. The opening receptions for all three exhibits will be held on March 4, from 3:00pm-5:00pm. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served. For information: 845-436-4227.

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The Second Breakthrough for Mozart’s Breakthrough Opera: Idomeneo by Philip Ehrensaft Mozart, at age 24, hit his stride as an acclaimed composer of innovative orchestral, chamber and choral music. Parallel advances in opera eluded him. That changed dramatically when Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, commissioned Mozart’s twelfth opera, Idomeneo, King of Crete, in 1780. Following Idomeneo’s 1781 premiere in Munich, Karl Theodor declared that: “No music has ever made such an impression on me. It is magnificent.” That was no idle statement coming from an aristocrat with a deep understanding of classical music and deep pockets to further the genre, including support of the best orchestra in Germany. Mozart’s first eleven operas ranged from an 11-year-old prodigy’s efforts to mid-career compositions. There were some successes along the way, especially the 1770 success of Mitridate, rè di Ponto when Mozart was only 14. But neither Mitridate nor others knocked the socks off the classical music world of late 18th century Europe. Idomeneo did knock socks right off, but the opera had an oddly abbreviated career. The initial three performances were only followed by a 1786 concert performance in Vienna. Mozart’s ground-breaking Idomeneo

was also the last great opera seria, the European aristocracy’s preferred “serious” opera genre focusing either on royal narratives or ancient mythology. As the 18th century was closing, opera audience tastes were shifting to more modern and democratic narratives - in no small part due to the path-breaking Mozart-DaPonte operas, beginning with Le nozze di Figaro in 1786. Idomeneo was the first step towards Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte. Mozart extended the orchestral palette beyond anything previously heard, ditto for innovations in musical structure, ditto for ensemble singing, ditto for the way the music drives the libretto. With Mozart’s pen, even the recitative becomes interesting. Idomeneo became an historical footnote until the post-World War II period. The ball started rolling in a different direction in the U.K. in 1951, when Glyndebourne presented the real deal 1781 version. Perhaps the biggest push came from the Met in 1982, when James Levine conducted a real deal revival featuring a dream cast that was

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY The ukulele is a member of the lute family of instruments. It originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian adaptation of the Portuguese machete, a small guitar-like instrument, which was introduced to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants, many from Madeira and the Azores. It gained great popularity elsewhere in the U.S. during the early 20th century and from there spread internationally. Open to musicians of all ages, St. Therese Classical Academy (STCA) will host a Ukulele Contest on March 18 at 1:00pm at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 18 Hallock Drive, Washingtonville. First prize wins $100; second place wins $50; and third place will receive $25. $10 admission includes a seat, a lei, and a voting card. Musicians are limited to 2 participants per act and must register at http:// www.stcacademy.org/events.html. A nonrefundable $10 fee must be received prior to the show. Registration closes March 16 at midnight. All proceeds go to the STCA Capital Campaign Fund to support the purchase of a permanent school building. Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

a brutal storm sailing home from the Greek conquest of Troy; his vow to Zeus to sacrifice the first living being he sees upon reaching the shore if Zeus will save him; that first living thing turning out to be his beloved son; and the princess of conquered Troy falling in love with the conquering Greek prince and very decent chap whom she’s supposed to hate; and the obsessively jealous schemer Elettra. Plus ça change... See Idomeneo Live conducted by Levine at SUNY Sullivan, 112 College Road in Loch Sheldrake on March 25 at 1:00pm. Tickets at the door.

Jane Austen: Alive & Well in 2017 Charlotte Brontë found Jane Austen’s work to be lacking in imagination. How surprised Brontë would be, then, to learn that Austen remains a consistent - and pervasive - presence in all aspects of popular culture, nearly 200 years after her death. From mashups such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, to Internet series such as The Lizzie Bennett Diaries, not to mention numerous academic studies of her life and work, it’s almost as if Austen never left us. In 200 Years of Austen: The (After) Life

of a Literary Icon on March 16, at 6:30pm, Jacqueline George, Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, will trace some of the major developments of Austen’s reputation, beginning with the immediate aftermath of her death in July 1817, and probe the following questions: Why does Miss Austen remain with us? What can her legacy tell us about literature, fame, and the relationships between books and people? Wisner Library, 1 McFarland Drive, Warwick: To register: 845-986-1047, ext. 3.

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heard across the planet thanks to the Met’s Saturday radio broadcasts. Beyond musical reasons for the post1945 rediscovery of Mozart’s seminal opera, a wider cultural context of renewed interest in mythology arose thanks to writers like Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers. There is indeed much to learn now from the ancient story of the king of Crete getting caught in

Irish Tales in Florida

Join members of the Black Dirt Storytelling Guild and special guest teller Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi for a celebration of Irish myths, legends, folk and fairy tales at the Florida Library’s Storytelling Café, 4 Cohen Circle, on March 10 at 7:00pm. Admission is free. Freshly-brewed coffee and homemade desserts will be served. Register at www.floridapubliclibrary.org or call 845-651-7659. For adults and teens over age 19. Have an idea for a Spoken Word program at FPL? They’d love to hear it. Contact Madelyn Folino at mfolino@rcls.org with your suggestion.

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Three Outstanding Piano Trio Compositions in Montgomery “‘Neave’ is actually a Gaelic name meaning ‘bright’ and ‘radiant’, both of which certainly apply to this trio’s music making.” - Robert Sherman, WQXR Radio. One of the finest emerging young chamber ensembles, the Neave Trio has been enjoying tremendous international success on concert series and at festivals worldwide. Trio members are graduates of the Yale, Manhattan, Mannes and Longy Schools of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Chopin Academy in Moscow. The Trio has been invited to perform for the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series and they will be playing the music of Dvořák, Foote and Piazzolla. Dvořák’s Piano Trio in f minor op. 65 can be called a hybrid of European classicism, post-Romanticism and Slavic nationalism. As the composer of solo concertos for each of the three instruments in the ensemble (two of them acclaimed masterworks, the third for piano - not such a success), Dvorák clearly had the skill to produce an idiomatic work. “In 1883, in an apparent effort to emulate the German style, Dvorák composed three movements that have a decidedly Brahmsian cast, and his natural sense of melody and structure served him well here. The recent death of the composer’s mother was surely

a factor in drawing from him a richness of expression.” - Dennis Bade, Associate Director of Publications for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Astor Piazzolla’s Los Estaciones Poreñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) are a set of four tango compositions written by Piazzolla, which were originally conceived and treated as different compositions rather than one suite, although Piazzolla performed them together from time to time. The pieces were originally scored for his quintet of violin (viola), piano, electric guitar, double bass and bandoneón. The Trio in B flat Major op.65 by early 20th century Bostonian composer Arthur Foote is one of three pieces on Neave Trio’s recently

Grech’s Wit & Wisdom

released CD on Chandos Label, American Moments. Noted for technically demanding piano writing, it was first performed in what is now the Gardner Museum in Boston. Foote was an early advocate of Brahms and Wagner and promoted performances of their music. A Harvard graduate and the first noted American classical composer to be trained entirely in the U.S., in some sense Foote is to music what American poets were to literature before Walt Whitman. CANVAS writer Derek Leet has a Foote fetish. “It is a rare occasion that we get to hear music by Foote in a local concert. It happens, but not often enough. Foote is sometimes dismissed by many because his music is Romantic and European in both construction and flavor - it has no discernible American sound - and, though very well-composed, inspired and enjoyable, it is not innovative. One has only to hear his Piano Quartet to know this composer is a master of melody and construction.” Anna Williams (violin), Mikhail Veselov (cello) and Eri Nakamura (piano) will perform the three works on March 12 at 3:00pm in the Mongtomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street. Admission is free. See ads below for pre & post concert dining options. For information : 856-457-9867.

Oliver Olive-Eyes Grech’s poems encompass a wide variety of topics, tones, methods, and modes. The only consistent things about his poetic style: it is always changing, always diverse. Grech’s poems and fiction saw their first publication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since then, he has edited and published a poetry periodical, taught the writing and delivery of verse, hosted an open mic series, seen print in several publications, and has been censored - which he sees as a (lamentable) badge of honor. Whether wielding poems or guitar (or toy xylophone!), he is a veteran featured performer of cafés, festivals, and cable broadcast, but is not adverse to sprouting impromptu creative performances wherever conditions are ripe. Grech will be the featured poet at the Montgomery Book Exchange, 13 Union Street, on March 14 at 7:00pm. Free admission. (Tip hat patronage appreciated.)

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Lectures - demos - museums

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock

sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus

sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis

HHNM �� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall MSM-DC �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC ��Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-GL ��SUNY Orange, Gilman Center Library, Middletown Campus SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh Campus SUNYO-OH ��SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown Campus SUNYO-RCSE �� SUNY Orange, Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Middletown Campus

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Lectures & Demos & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE)

Maple Sugar Tours ��HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, hourly Sugar Bush Tours Hike ��HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 11am, 1pm, 2pm “They Walked These Paths Before Us: Honoring the Indigenous History of Orange County” �� Evan Pritchard a/k/a Abachbahamitch in Mi’kmaq SUNYO-KH Feb 28, 7pm “What is a GMO?” Maire Ullrich Cornwall Presby. Ch., Cornwall-on-Hudson, Feb 28, 7:30pm FEE “Hamilton vs. Jefferson: the Rivalry that Shaped America” Louis P. Masur �� SUNYO-RCSE Mar 6, 7pm “Running Wild: Intelligence in the Pacific Theatre in WWII” ��Cornwall Library, Mar 7, 6pm “Vincent Van Gogh: Navigating the North & the Studio of the South” Laura Nicholls �� MSM-DC Mar 8 & 22, 1pm FEE “Liver Health, Your Cholesterol and Arthritis” Richard Huntoon ��MSM-DC Mar 8, 1pm Great Decisions Discussion group DISCUSSION ��Cornwall Library, Mar 8 & 29, 7pm “The Recovery of Hudson Valley Bald Eagles” Tom Lake ��MSM-DC Mar 10, 1pm FEE Creative Conversations DISCUSSION �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Mar 11, 2pm “Shakespeare Songs” Alex Sovronsky, music & talk performance �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, Mar 11, 2pm FEE “Entering the Dark Places of Outer Space ~ Galaxies, Exoplanets, Energy” �� Rosemary A. Millham SUNYO-RCSE Mar 13, 7pm Safe Harbors of the Hudson TOUR �� Safe Harbors, Newburgh, Mar 14, 9am “Celtic Spirituality” Sister Peggy Murphy ��MSM-DC Mar 14, 10:30am FEE “Our Food System from Producer to Consumer: What You Need to Know-What You Can Do” Kathy Lawrence SUNYO-KH Mar 14, 7pm “Medicare 101” Jim Farnham ��MSM-DC Mar 15, 6pm “200 Years of Austen: The (After) Life of a Literary Icon” Jacqueline George �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 16, 6:30pm “St. Patrick’s Day Snakes” ��HHNM Mar 17, 6pm FEE “Active Adventures: Intro to Mindfulness” �� PEEC Mar 18, 10:30am “Shakespeare’s Songs” Alex Sovronsky, music, talk, Q&A �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, Mar 18, 11am “The Beatles: From Liverpool to Abbey Road” Vincent Bruno ��Thrall Library, Middletown, Mar 19, 2pm “Oh, Happy Day!-Celebrate International Happiness Day” Joan Monk ��MSM-DC Mar 20, 3pm FEE “The History of the Women’s Right to Vote - Part 1” Charlie Ford �� Newburgh Library, Mar 21, 7pm “The Ghosts We Live With” Eileen MacAvery Kane ��MSM-DC Mar 23, 7pm FEE “GO, VAN GOGH!” Michael Norris �� Newburgh Library, Mar 22 & Mar 30, 7pm Woodcock Walk �� PEEC Mar 25, 6:30pm “Propagating Heirloom Perennials” John Story �Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Mar 26, 2pm FEE “Henry VIII: Power, Religion, Lust, Conflict, and Terror!” George Burke �� MSM-DC Mar 28, 9:30am FEE “Reading the Woods” Donald “Doc” Baynes ��MSM-DC Mar 28, 10am FEE “The Game Is Afoot: Sherlock Holmes In Film And Fiction” Wendy Galgan �� Chester Library, Mar 28, 6pm “The History of the Women’s Right to Vote - Part 2” Charlie Ford �� Newburgh Library, Mar 28, 7pm “12,000 years of Human Footprints ~ Leaving our Mark” Fred Isseks � SUNYO-GL Mar 28, 7pm “Black Holes and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night” Charles P. Holmes �� MSM-DC Mar 29, 10am FEE “Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp” Reverend E.T. Holland �� SUNYO-GL Mar 30, 7pm “Heritage of Wool & Its Connection to Local History” Marylin Jones �� Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Apr 2, 2pm FEE Demos See also ART DEMOS for kids on page 16 “Loose and Wild Watercolor” Dorrie Rifkin ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 4, 5pm WRS Children’s Classes Instructors ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 4, 5pm “Realistic, Highly-Detailed Watercolor” Lana Privitera ��Wallkill River School, Mar 4, 6pm “Texture Effects in Realistic Watercolors” Lana Privatera ��SUNYO-OH Mar 5, 2:30pm Glass Blowing ��Gillinder Glass Factory, Port Jervis, Mar 11, 10am-2:30pm FEE “American Impressionism” Dennis Fanton ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 11, 5pm “Hudson River School Luminism” Mike Jaroszko ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 11, 6pm “Drawing from direct observation” William Noonan �Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 18, 5pm “Oil painting” William Noonan ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 18, 5:30pm “‘Rusty’ oil painting” Gene Bove ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 18, 6pm “Acrylic Painting” Nancy Reed Jones ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 25, 5pm “Pet Portraits and Acrylics” Laura Bolle ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Mar 25, 6pm “What Makes It Jazz?” Larry Newcomb & Joe Tranchina Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 31, 7pm Master Class Ward Lamb “Accenting the Personal” portrait painting ��SUNYO-KH Mar 7, 5pm

Museums

Woodstock Festival History ��Museum at Bethel Woods, ongoing 12

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Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity folk ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Alexander Wu & ZigZag Quartet Latin, Live from Lincoln Center �� Cornwall Library, Mar 2, 6:30pm FREE Lucky Peterson blues, Nalani & Sarina ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 2, 8pm Nalani & Sarina soul, rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 2, 8pm Upstate Rubdown neo-Americana, Smalltalker ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 3, 7pm Sons of Pitches country, jazz ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 3, 8pm Alexis P. Suter Band gospel, rock, New York School of Music All-Stars ��The Falcon, Mar 4, 7pm Pat O’Shea roots, rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 4, 7pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 5, 10am Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 6, 13, 20, & 27, 7pm Mbongwana Star Afrobeat ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 9, 7pm Charlie Hunter jazz, blues, fusion ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 10, 7pm Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra rock looping �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Feb 10, 8pm Alex Sovronsky “Shakespeare Songs”, music & talk performance �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, Mar 11, 2pm Soñando! salsa ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 11, 7pm Ceesar: Classic R&R Show ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 11, 7pm Paul Maloney folk ��Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. Mar 11, 7:30pm Mighty Spectrum Band ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 11, 7:30pm Willa & Co. blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 12, 10am The Trio of OZ w/Omar Hakim & Rachel Z jazz, rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 12, 7pm Island Head Reggae ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 17, 7pm Bernard “Pretty” Purdie & Friends funk rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 18, 7pm Middle Blue jazz, funk ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 18, 7pm Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word, hip-hop. new music �� The Falcon Underground, Mar 22, 7pm Women of Folk: the New Revival w/Sloan Wainwright & Nicole Zuraitis neo-folk Falcon, Mar 23, 7pm Augie Meyers w/Cindy Cashdollar & Frank Carillo soul, rock The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 24, 7pm Feast of Friends LATE SHOW Doors & more ��The Falcon Underground , Marlboro, Mar 24, 10pm Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band blues, rock, Akie Bermiss � Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 25, 7pm Peter Florance & The New Kings, w/Albi Beluli �Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Mar 25, 9pm The Moonlights �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 26, 10am Mark Hummel’s Golden State Lone Star Revue blues harmonica � Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 29, 7pm Dylan Doyle Band blues, rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 30, 7pm Stephen Clair & Co. rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 30, 7pm The Funk Junkies ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 31, 7pm Fred Zepplin rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 31, 7pm “Music Crossing the Atlantic” Four Seasons Chorale, Emish, Kofi & Sankofa, Joyful Noise drummers � First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis, Apr 2, 3pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Robert Kopec & Solo Bajo jazz ��Dos Amigos, Fair Oaks, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic �� Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals �Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk �� WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Jeff Krolick piano and vocals ��Marbella Tratorria, Ellenville, Saturdays, 7pm Open Mic New Hope Community �� Frankie & Johnny’s, Hurleyville, Mar TBA, 6pm Songwriter Sessions open mic ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 1, 7pm Ken Nicastro, Gregg Van Gelder & Vinnie ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 3, 7:30pm Feast of Friends Doors Tribute Band ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 4, 7:30pm Erol Ogut �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 5, 2pm Boom Boom Shake bellydancing, music & more ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 10, 7:30pm Gary Adamsom �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 12, 2pm Petey Hop: Roots & Blues Sessions open mic ��Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 15 & 29, 7pm Jack Higgins & Friends ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 17, 7:30pm Songwriters Anonymous open mic �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Mar 18, 2pm Stone Flower Santana Tribute Band ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 18, 7:30pm Evan & Alan �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 19, 2pm Dan Zlotnick ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 24, 7:30pm Hurley Mountain Highway ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 25, 7:30pm Artie Tobia �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 26, 2pm Don Lowe ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Mar 31, 7:30pm

Museums cont.

Terwilliger House Museum �� Ellenville, ongoing “Tunnels, Toil and Trouble: New York City’s Quest for Water” and “Rondout-Neversink Story & Water and the Valleys” Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Multiple Sullivan County Exhibits �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours �� Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing Knife Making History...............................................................Wawarsing Knife Museum, Napanoch “The History of Baseball” �� Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru April “Unpacked & Rediscovered “ �� Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, ongoing TBA �� Museum Village, Monroe, Mar 18-19, Noon-4pm FREE

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

Second Saturday ��Sugar Loaf, Mar 11, 5pm-8pm Newburgh Last Saturday ��Newburgh, Mar 25, 4pm-8pm

Cinema

“Mildred Pierce” Joan Crawford ��UDGLBT Center, Milford, Mar 1, 7pm FREE “Something to Sing About” James Cagney + selected shorts ��Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Mar 4, 2pm “Persuasion” Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 6, 1pm FREE Monday Night Movie �� Newburgh Library, Mar 6, 6:30pm FREE “Mary Poppins” Julie Andrews, Dick van Dyke ��Cornwall Library, Mar 8, Noon FREE Saturday Matinee Movie �� Newburgh Library, Mar 11, 2:30pm FREE “A Midwinter’s Tale” dir. Kenneth Branagh ��CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Mar 11, 7:30pm “The Wolfpack” �� Cornwall Library, Mar 12, 1pm FREE “A Shine of Rainbows” Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 13, 1pm FREE Independent Film Night ��Greenwood Lake Library, Mar 14, 7pm FREE “The Quiet Man” John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara � Mount St. Mary, Desmond Campus Mar 16, 10am “Brooklyn” ��Florida Library, Mar 16, 6pm FREE “The Scarlett Claw” Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce + selected shorts �Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Mar 18, 2pm “Mr. Holmes” Ian McKellen, Laura Linney �� Chester Library, Mar 18, 2pm FREE “Florence Foster Jenkins” Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 20, 1pm FREE “The Hound of the Baskervilles” �� Chester Library, Mar 20, 6pm FREE “The Notebook” �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Mar 22, 3pm FREE “Queen of Katwe” Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 27, 1pm FREE “The Gold Rush” Charlie Chaplin + selected shorts ��Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Apr 1, 2pm

Comedy

Yannis Pappas �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Mar 4, 9pm Mikael Gregg, Mike Spiers ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 9, 8pm Mike Burton �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Mar 11, 9pm Joey Callahan �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Mar 18, 9pm Shannon Cooke & Vinny Mark ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 23, 8pm Rich Guzzi hypnotist �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Mar 25, 9pm Cory Kahaney �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Apr 1, 9pm

Dance

Chris Parker Jazz Septet ��SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown, Mar 4, 8pm Jazz Jam ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 8, 7pm Hudson Valley Jazz Trio ��The Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, Mar 10, 7pm Brian Kastan & Friends ��Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Mar 11, 7:30pm FREE bigBANG ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Mar 16, 7pm Eric Person Quartet �� Greenwood Lake Library, Mar 18, 2pm FREE Dave Liebman’s Expansions Honors COLTRANE �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 19, 7pm Wolff & Clark Expedition �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 26, 7pm

Opera

“La Traviata” Verdi, Live from the Met in HD ��SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Mar 11, 1pm “Idomeneo” Mozart, Live from the Met in HD ��SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Mar 25, 1pm

Performance Art

“12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens” Kintsugi ��Tech World, Newburgh, Mar 4, Noon-6pm FREE

Poetry Readings

Open Mic Poetry �� Marbella Trattoria, Ellenville, Tuesdays, 7pm FREE Milkweed Poetry ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 6:30pm Karen Corinne Herceg ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 2, 7pm Host: Hayden Wayne ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Mar 4, 3pm FREE MEGAPHONE: Beyond Nadja: Women Surrealist Poets in Latin America �� Susan Aberth & Melanie Nicholson Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Mar 12, 2pm “Poetry of the American Renaissance” book discussion Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 14, 6:30pm Oliver Olive Eyes Grech �� Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery, Mar 14, 7pm FREE Robert Milby �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Mar 22, 6:30pm Hudson River Poets ��Newburgh Library, Mar 23, 7pm FREE “The Doll Collection” ten poets �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 26, 1:30pm FREE Karen Corinne Herceg book reading & signing ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Mar 26, 3pm Karen Corinne Herceg Poetry at the Church �� Goshen Methodist Church, Mar 27, 7pm FREE Annie Christain and Magdalen Radovich ��Stillwater Gallery, Jones Farm, Cornwall, Mar 31, 7pm

Recreation, Dancing

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

Rhythm of the Dance Celtic ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Mar 5, 3pm “Eventide: The Shape of Sunset” The River Flows Two Ways �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Mar 18, 6:30pm Small Plates Choreography Festival ��Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Mar 31& Apr 1, 8pm

Storytelling

FundrAIsers

“History Alive: The Civil War” Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Goshen Music Hall, thru Mar 5 “Death at the Disco” dinner-theatre ��Pamela’s-on-the Hudson, Newburgh, Mar 4, 6pm

Keys of Goshen �� Limoncello, Goshen, Mar 10, 6pm Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Delancey’s Restaurant, Goshen, Mar 11, 2pm-4pm

Music - Classical & Band/Bagpipes

Neave Piano Trio Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Montgomery Senior Center, Mar 12, 3pm FREE Peter Winograd & Caterina Szepes violins, Jon Klibonoff piano “The History of the Violin” �� SUNYO-OH Mar 12, 3pm Ben Larsen cello, Martha Cargo flute, Queen of the Hudson Series Atlas Studios, Newburgh, Mar 18, 7pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra “From The Other Side” �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Mar 18, 7:30pm Potluck Concerts “Monuments of Music” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Mar 31, 7:30pm The Scottish International Tattoo band, bagpipes, dance ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Apr 1, 8pm Victoria von Arx & Janice Nimetz, pianists, Music in Central Valley �� Central Valley United Methodist Church, Apr 2, 3pm FREE

Music - Irish - Celtic

The Parting Glass Band Celtic �� Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Brian Conway fiddle & John Walsh guitar & vocals �� Newburgh Library, Mar 12, 3pm FREE Eric Banger & the Mashers “The Irish Diaspora” �� International Center for a Culture of Compassion, Woodbourne, Mar 12, 3pm The Gravikord Duo Irish Night ��Florida Library, Mar 15, 6:30pm FREE Brian Conway fiddle & Brendan Dolan flute, piano, etc. �� Cornwall Library, Mar 19, 2pm FREE “Music Crossing the Atlantic” Four Seasons Chorale, Emish, Kofi & Sankofa, Joyful Noise drummers � First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis, Apr 2, 3pm

Music - jazz

Live Jazz Brunch with The Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 11am Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Eric Person Band ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Skye Jazz Trio ��Iron Forge Inn, Warwick, Feb 26, Noon-3pm Shirley Crabbe Salute to Ethel Waters �� Newburgh Library, Feb 26, 3pm FREE

Storytelling Slam, open mic Milford Readers & Writers Festival ��UDGLBT Center, Milford, Mar 4, 7pm Black Dirt Storytelling Cafe Irish Tales ��Florida Library, Mar 10, 7pm

Theatre - plays

Books: discussions / readings / Signings Book Lover’s Club ��Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group �� Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Fiction & Foodies ��Mamakating Library, 2nd Thursday, 7pm Book Discussion Group ��Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm “Girl With a Gun” by Amy Stewart, w/ Patty Sussmann �Newburgh Lib. Town Branch, Feb 28, 2pm Book Talk Cafe �� Newburgh Library, Mar 4, 2pm “Hedy’s Folly” by Richard Rhodes �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 7, 2pm “Pomegranate Soup” by Marsha Mehran ��Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Mar 9, 6pm “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Mar 13, 1:30pm “The Story of a New Name” by Elena Ferrante, w/Jess Gerson �� Newburgh Library, Mar 15, 7pm “It Happens in the Dark” by Carol O’Connell �� Cornwall Library, Mar 15, 7pm “Are You Somebody?: The accidental memoir of a Dublin woman” by Nuala O’Faolain �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Mar 22, 4pm “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith ��Florida Library, Mar 23, 6:30pm “The Secrets of Midwives” by Sally Hepworth �� Cornwall Library, Mar 23, 7pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Mar 24, 11:30am “Out From Calaboose” by/w/Karen Corinne Herceg, poems �Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Mar 26, 3pm Tuesday at Two Book Discussion w/Patty Sussmann �� Newburgh Library, Mar 28, 11:30am “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu” by Joshua Hammer ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 29, 6:30pm “Chasing Willie Mays” by Paul Kocak ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 30 6:30pm

Eric Person Quartet, Greenwood Lake Since coming to NYC from St. Louis, MO in 1982, Eric Person has notched an impressive resume performing with jazz legends such as Dave Holland, McCoy Tyner, John Hicks, Donald Byrd, Wallace Roney and Houston

Person, to name a few. The Eric Person Quartet will perform Jazz tunes at the Greenwood Lake Library, 79 Waterstone Road, on March 18 at 2:00pm. FREE admission. For info: 845-477-8377. March 2017

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

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Poetry Milkweed Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Please check the schedule for Art & Photography Receptions, pg. 16 “Guided Meditation” led by Joy Robertson, w/crystal bowls, gong, chimes, drum, and other instruments. March 14 at 6:30pm, The Dream Center, Newburgh

Cinema “Persuasion” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Poetry Marbella Trattoria, Ellenville 7pm

Cinema Monday Night Movie Newburgh Library 6:30pm

Poetry Oliver Olive-Eyes Grech MONTBK 7pm

Cinema “A Shine of Rainbows” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Music-Gospel Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency FAL-7pm

Cinema “Florence Foster Jenkins” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Poetry Marbella Trattoria, Ellenville 7pm Cinema Independent Film Night Greenwood Lake Library, 7pm

21 Poetry Marbella Trattoria, Ellenville 7pm

Cinema “The Hound of the Baskervilles” Chester Library 6pm

Cinema “Queen of Katwe” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Poetry Karen Corinne Herceg Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm Music-Gospel Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency FAL-7pm

Cinema “Mary Poppins” Cornwall Library, Noon

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

THURSDAY

Music - Livecast, Latin.Alexander Wu & ZigZag Quartet C . ornwall Lib. 6:30pm Poetry....................... Karen Corinne Herceg..................... NOBL 7pm Music - Blues.........Lucky Peterson, Nalani & Sarina ...........FAL 7pm Music - Soul-Rock.......... Nalani & Sarina ..........................FAL-U 8pm

Music - Irish The Gravichord Duo Florida Library, 6:30pm

Music - Afrobeat............ Mbongwana Star .......................FAL 7pm Comedy................. Mikael Gregg, Mike Spiers ...........FAL-U 7pm

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Poetry Marbella Trattoria, Ellenville 7pm

March 2017

Cinema.......................... “The Quiet Man” .................. MSM-DC 10am Music - Jazz......................... bigBANG ...................................FAL 7pm

Cinema “The Notebook” THRALL 3pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Music-Blues Harmonica Mark Hummel’s Golden State Lone Star Revue FAL-U 7pm

Music - Neo-America Music - Country-Ja

Fundraiser............. Storytelling.........Bl Music - Jazz...Hudso Music - Jazz-Blues Music - Rock Loopi

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Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio.Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm Mark Von Oesen, director “History Alive: Civil War Shorts”, Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen Music Hall through March 5

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Spoken Word-Music POELODIES FAL-U 7pm

Music-Gospel Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency FAL-7pm

Cinema “Mildred Pierce” UDGLBT 7pm

HURL �� Hurleyville ICCC �� International Center for a Culture of Compassion, W IKE �� Eisenhower Hall JOKER �� Joker’s Comedy C JONES �� Stillwater Gallery, Jones Far KARP �� Karpeles Museum

Music-Jazz Jazz Jam FAL-U 7pm

Music-Gospel Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency FAL-7pm

DVAA �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro FAL-U ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Goshen Music Hall GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series ��Montgomery Senior Center GWL ��Greenwood Lake Library

23 Cinema............... “Bridge Over the River Kwai” .MSM-DC 10:30am Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets ........................ NFL 7pm

Music..Women of Folk: New Revival w/Sloan Wainwright & Nicole Zuraitis.FAL 7pm

Comedy..............Shannon Cooke & Vinny Mark .............FAL-U 7pm

30 Music - Blues-Rock.......Dylan Doyle Band ..........................FAL 7pm Music - Rock................Stephen Clair & Co. .....................FAL-U 7pm

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MICV Music in Central Valley ��Central Valley United Methodist Church MONTBK �� Montgomery Book Exchange MSM-AQ �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville NESIN ��Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, Monticello NFL ��Newburgh Free Library

FRIDAY

NOBL �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PW ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills RITZ ��Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh SCCC ��Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake SCDW Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SHAD ��Shadowland Stages, Ellenville

SATURDAY

Performance Art.............Kintsugi...Tech World, Newburgh, Noon-6pm Cinema......... “Something to Sing About” + shorts......... SHAD 2pm Poetry........................ Host: Hayden Wayne...................... KARP 3pm Dinner Theatre...“Death at the Disco” P . amela’s-on-the-Hudson 6pm

ana.....Upstate Rubdown, Smalltalker.............FAL 7pm Music - Gospel-Rock.Alexis P. Suter Band, NY School of Music All-Stars.FAL 7pm azz........Sons of Pitches ....................FAL-U 7pm Music - Roots-Rock............Pat O’Shea ............................FAL-U 7pm Theatre - Play .........“History Alive: The Civil War” ....... GOSH 7pm Storytelling .........Storytelling Slam & Open Mic ........ UDGLBT 7pm Music - Jazz............ Chris Parker Jazz Septet..........SUNYO-OH 8pm Comedy...........................Yannis Pappas.........................JOKER 9pm

SUNDAY

Music - Blues............Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis ...... FAL10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Theatre - Play .........“History Alive: The Civil War” ....... GOSH 2pm Dance - Irish.............. Rhythm of the Dance ....................... IKE 3pm

Opera - Live from the Met.......“La Traviata” Verdi.............SCCC 1pm Fundraiser.Cornerstone Theatre Arts.Delancey’s Restaurant, Goshen 2pm ....Keys of Goshen..........Limoncello, Goshen 6pm Music & Talk............... Shakespeare Songs........................DVAA 2pm lack Dirt Storytelling Cafe....Florida Library, 7pm Cinema....................Saturday Matinee Movie................. NFL 2:30pm on Valley Jazz Trio..Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, 7pm Music - Salsa....................... Soñando! ................................FAL 7pm s-Fusion........Charlie Hunter ................FAL 7pm Music - Rock................ Classic R&R Show ....................FAL-U 7pm ing........Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra .FAL-U 8pm Music - Jazz.Brian Kastan Trio.Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, 7:30pm Cinema....................... “A Midwinter’s Tale”.............. CAS-LK 7:30pm Music........................Mighty Spectrum Band .................. PW 7:30pm Comedy............................. Mike Burton...........................JOKER 9pm

SLGMN ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown UDGLBT �� Upper Delaware GLBT Center, Milford UUC ��Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern

Music - Blues.................... ....Willa & Co. .................. FAL10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Cinema...........................“The Wolfpack”......... Cornwall Library, 1pm Poetry..Beyond Nadja: Women Surrealist Poets in Latin America.SLGMN 2pm Music - Irish.........Eric Banger and the Mashers ............... ICCC 3pm Music - Classical............Neave Piano Trio........................GMCM 3pm Music - Classical........“The History of the Violin”.....SUNYO-OH 3pm Music - Irish......... Brian Conway & John Walsh.................. NFL 3pm Music - Jazz-Rock........Trio of OZ w/Omar Hakim & Rachel Z .FAL 7pm

...... Island Head Reggae ..........................FAL 7pm Cinema................ “The Scarlett Claw” + shorts............... SHAD 2pm Cinema............................. “Mr. Holmes”............. Chester Library 2pm Dance................... The River Flows Two Ways ........ SLGMN 6:30pm “Wild Realm” Music - Classical.....Ben Larsen cello, Martha Cargo flute..ATLAS 7pm on view March 4-26. Music - Funk-Rock.....Bernard “Pretty” Purdie & Friends....FAL 7pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Opening reception: Music - Jazz-Funk............. Middle Blue ..........................FAL-U 8pm Music - Irish.Brian Conway & Brendan Doyle...Cornwall Library, 2pm Music - Jazz...Dave Liebman’s Expansions Honors COLTRANE ....FAL 7pm March 4, 5pm-9pm Music - Classical.Greater Newburgh Symph.Orch..MSM-AQ 7:30pm at Amity Gallery, Music - Folk.................Music for Humanity.................. NOBL 7:30pm Warwick Music - Jazz.......Eric Person Trio .The Wherehouse, Newburgh,9pm Comedy........................... Joey Callahan..........................JOKER 9pm

Opera - Live from the Met.......“Idomeneo” Mozart............SCCC 1pm ugie Meyers w/Cindy Cashdollar & Frank Carillo...FAL 7pm Music - Blues-Rock..Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band.FAL 7pm Feast of Friends LATE SHOW ...........FAL-U 10pm Music..Peter Florance & The New Kings w/Albi Beluli . DCAT 9pm Comedy..................... Rich Guzzi, hypnotist................... JOKER 9pm

Christain and Magdalen Radovich .JONES 7pm ........ The Funk Junkies ..........................FAL 7pm .............Fred Zepplin ..........................FAL-U 7pm Potluck Concerts..Cornwall Presby. Church 7:30pm ll Plates Choreography Festival .......... RITZ 8pm

Cinema.................. “The Gold Rush” + shorts.................. SHAD 2pm Music - Dance. The Scottish International Tattoo................ IKE 8pm Dance............Small Plates Choreography Festival .......... RITZ 8pm Comedy........................... Cory Kahaney.......................... JOKER 9pm

Music..................................The Moonlights ....................FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music - Jazz.......Skye Jazz Trio.. Iron Forge Inn, Warwick, Noon-3pm Poetry........“The Doll Collection”....Wisner Library, Warwick, 1:30pm Music - Jazz............ Wolff & Clark Expedition ...................FAL 7pm

2 Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music - Classical...Victoria von Arx, Janice Nimetz pianos...MICV 3pm Music - International.FourSeasons Chorale,etc.FirstPresby.Ch.PortJervis, 3pm

March 2017

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Canvas category calendar

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

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

Group Show �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ��Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Lisa Strazza paintings, John Strazza photographs �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing “Politicked Off” group show ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, thru Mar 5 “Lovers and Visionaries” group show �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Mar 5 Linda Eklund, Rob Rayevsky, Pietro Spica, Les Stone �� Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, thru Mar 5 Ward Lamb “Figurative Works” ~ recent drawings and paintings ��SUNYO-KH thru Mar 9 “The Nude” group show �� Regal Bag Studios, Newburgh, thru Mar 11 Mitchell Saler “A Palate for Landscape” �� Tasty Eats Restaurant, Middletown, thru Mar 12 “Winter” group show �� WRS thru Mar 14 Louisa Waber: New Painting and Drawing �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Mar 19 North East Watercolor Society Members’ 2017 Show ��SUNYO-OH thru Mar 22 Lana Privitera “Windows to the Past”, watercolors ��SUNYO-OH thru Mar 22 “Visual Duets: Partners in Life & Art” curated by Nancy Lew Lee �� DVAA thru Mar 25 “Kaleidoscope of Perspectives” group show ��Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Mar 25 “Keys to My Heart ~ Unlock your Passion” Goshen Art League ��Goshen Music Hall, thru Mar 27 “Winter Solstice” Port Jervis Council for the Arts: Art & About series “Kindred Spirits” �� Judith Weiss Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria & Lauryn de Leeuw Mayor’s Office & Joan Kehlenbeck and RVAG members Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, thru Mar 31 Kirill Leshiner, Mitchell Saler, Frank Shuback, Marylyn Vanderpool ��Silvio’s Villa, Warwick, thru Apr 4 Terry Murray “Simply Human” sculptures �� SUNYO-KH thru Apr 21 “Heroes, Muses and Inspirations” Goshen Art League �� 911 Emergency Management Office, Goshen, thru Apr 20

NEW ART EXHIBITS

WRS Teaching Artists, Children’s Classes Instructors & Clay Craft Exhibits �� WRS Mar 1-25 Paul Gould oils, William Gould photography ��Leo’s Pizzeria & Restaurant, Cornwall, Mar 1-31 Angelika Roos paintings �� Greenwood Lake Library, Mar 1-31 Group Show �� Gallery Eva, Callicoon, Mar 4-26 Rohan Patrick “Digital Portraits” ��CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Mar 4-26 “Women in Art” �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Mar 4-26 Zoe Cone, Julia Grosso, Rebecca Pry “Wild Realm” ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Mar 4-26 MaryKate Maher, Sui Park, and Elizabeth Riggle “Three Dimensions” ��CAS Mar 4-Apr 9 Albert Kresch “The Dog of Art” paintings ��CAS Mar 4-Apr 9 Ron Demuth paintings �� Gallery @ Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 4-Apr 27 Spring Group Show ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 4-Apr 30 “Expressions 2017” SullivanArc ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Mar 10-24 “Language of Our Youth” Delaware Valley HS Students �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Mar 10-Apr 3 Robert Trondsen “Valleyscapes” ��Mount St. Mary Desmond Campus, Balmville, Mar 12-Apr 13 “Spring” group show ��WRS Mar 15-Apr 14 Judith Beringer Hraniotis “The Hudson Valley From Pen To Brush” ��SUNYO-KH Mar 16-May 19 Yaron Rosner “Late Bloomers” ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Mar 25-May 7 “Expressions 2017” SullivanArc �� DVAA Mar 31-Apr 22 Eileen Silberlict mixed media ceramics �� DVAA Mar 31-Apr 29 Portrait and Figure Exhibit, group show. ��WRS Apr 1-22 “April Fool” group show �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1-29

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Tiffany Smith “Plant Life” ��Space Create, Newburgh, thru Mar 10 Angelo Marcialis “Hudson Valley-State Parks 0f New York-National Parks 0f Utah” �� Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, thru Apr 14

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Paul Gould oils, William Gould photography ��Leo’s Pizzeria & Restaurant, Cornwall, Mar 1-31 St. James Camera Club ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 1-31 “Through Our Lens” Creative Photographers of the Hudson Valley ��Newburgh Library, Mar 8-TBD 16

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ART & Photography receptions

Terry Murray “Simply Human” sculptures ��SUNYO-KH Feb 25, 4pm-6pm Tiffany Smith “Plant Life” closing reception ��Space Create, Newburgh, Feb 25, 6pm-9pm Mitchell Saler “A Palate for Landscape” ��Tasty Eats Restaurant, Middletown, Mar 4, 2pm-4pm MaryKate Maher, Sui Park, and Elizabeth Riggle “Three Dimensions” �� & Albert Kresch “The Dog of Art” paintings CAS Mar 4, talk:2pm, reception:3pm-5pm Rohan Patrick “Digital Portraits” ��CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Mar 4, 3pm-5pm “Women in Art” �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Mar 4, 4pm-6pm Ron Demuth paintings ��Gallery @ Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 4, 5pm-7pm Group Show �� Gallery Eva, Callicoon, Mar 4, 5pm-9pm Zoe Cone, Julia Grosso, Rebecca Pry “Wild Realm” �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Mar 4, 5pm-9pm St. James Camera Club ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 5, 1pm-3pm North East Watercolor Society 2017 Show, Lana Privatera �� SUNYO-OH Mar 5, 1pm-4:15pm Angelo Marcialis “Hudson Valley-State Parks 0f New York-National Parks 0f Utah” �� Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, Mar 6, 5pm-7pm “Through Our Lens” Creative Photographers of the Hudson Valley ��Newburgh Library, Mar 8, 6pm “Expressions 2017” SullivanArc �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Mar 10, 4pm-6:30pm Susan Minier “Cut It Out” collage paintings �� Cornwall Library, Mar 11, 1pm-3pm “Language of Our Youth” Delaware Valley HS Students ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, Mar 11, 6pm-9pm Robert Trondsen “Valleyscapes” ��Mount St. Mary Desmond Campus, Balmville, Mar 12, 1pm-4pm Spring Group Show �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 18, 5pm-8pm Yaron Rosner “Late Bloomers” �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Mar 25, 4pm-7pm Angelo Marcialis photography, State & Federal Parks Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, Mar 26, 5pm-7pm Eileen Silberlict mixed media ceramics ��DVAA Mar 31, 7pm-9pm “April Fool” group show ��Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1, 2pm-4pm Portrait and Figure Exhibit, group show. ��WRS Apr 8, 5pm-7pm Judith Beringer Hraniotis “Hudson Valley From Pen To Brush” �� SUNYO-KH Apr 29, 4pm-6:30pm

Schools & Conservatories

Budding Artists ��Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing “Language of Our Youth” Delaware Valley HS Students ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, Mar 10-Apr 3

Children & Teens Calendar

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

ART dEMOS

“Circus Arts for Children “ Karen Gersch ��WRS Mar 4, 5:30pm “Fiber Arts for Children” Debbie Femiak ��WRS Mar 11, 5:30pm “Pen and Ink illustration for Children” Liam Vogel ��WRS Mar 18, 6:30pm “Painting & Drawing for Children” Nicole Asendorf ��WRS Mar 25, 5:30pm Books

“The Third Wheel” by Jeff Kinney, ages 8-12 ��Newburgh Library, Mar 11, 3pm “Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong” by Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks, teens �� Newburgh Library, Mar 15, 6pm “The Fossil Girl” by Catherine Brighton, kindergarten, grades 1&2 �� Cornwall Library, Mar 16, 4:15pm “The Lemonade War” by Jacqueline Davies w/Martha LaVallee, grades 3 & 4 �� Cornwall Library, Mar 21, 4:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs ��Greenwood Lake Library, Wednesdays, 6pm FREE Saturday Family Movie ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE “Storks” �� Florida Library, Mar 4, 2pm FREE “Trolls” ��Florida Library, Apr 1, 2pm FREE Entertainment

Live Bird Show by Ravensbeard �� Community Church, Wurtsboro, Feb 11, 1pm FREE “Storyfaces” storytelling & face painting, 2-10yrs Greenwood Lake Library, Feb 25, 10:30am FREE Museums

Meet the Animal of the Week �� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm “Birds On The Wing” interactive exhibit �� HHNM-CoH Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Little Eco Explorers: “Eagles” �� PEEC Feb 4, 1pm Eco-Zone Discovery Room �� PEEC Mar 4 & 19, 1pm-4pm Recreation & Lectures

“A Sugaring Off Celebration” tour, special crafts, games, story telling �� HHNM Mar 4, 11am-3pm Maple Lane Tours ��HHNM Saturdays & Sundays Noon & 3pm “Active Adventures: Little Eco Explorers: Foxes” �� PEEC Mar 19, 10am “Science of Sports” Steve Tomecek, teens ��Greenwood Lake Library, Mar 25, 1:30pm

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY The Newburgh Free Library (NFL) is seeking entries for its annual Community Art Show. Entries may be brought to NFL from March 27-31. The non-juried art show is open to all adult artists in the greater Newburgh area and will run April 3-21 in the NFL Lobby Gallery, 124 Grand St. There is no entry fee. Entries will be judged in 6 categories: oil or acrylic, pastel, watercolor, photography, graphic or mixed media and sculpture. Ribbons will be awarded for first, second, third and

honorable mention in each category, as well as Best in Show. Artists may submit one entry not previously exhibited in a library art show. All work, except sculpture, must be properly framed and ready to hang and all work must be accompanied by a signed waiver. For entry forms, stop by or call the library, 845-563-3619 or 845-563-3645 or visit www. newburghlibrary.org and click on “Programs”. The library’s main number: 845-563-3600.

Broadway actor, violinist, and composer Alex Sovronsky has composed and performed original music for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions including As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labours Lost, Twelfth Night, and Henry VIII. Sovronsky was born and raised on Long Island. He started taking classical violin lessons at age 3. His first exposure to Shakespeare was watching Kevin Kline’s Hamlet on television

and he’s been hooked on Shakespeare ever since! Sovronsky presents an educational performance entitled, Shakespeare Songs on March 11 at 2:00pm for the Salon Series at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. The program will combine music and talk. Alex will discuss the unique challenges of composing music for professional Shakespeare productions, followed by an audience Q&A and reception. Phone: 845-252-7576.

Salon Series: Savronky’s Shakespeare Songs

Hudson Valley Jazz Trio in Chester His fluid melodic J. Brunka style, steeped in has performed in the jazz tradition, almost every style continues to inspire of music in every fellow musicians type of venue, and listeners has recorded for worldwide. major record Producer/ labels and small drummer Steve independent J. Brunka Jeff Ciampa Steve Rubin projects, and has performed with many great Rubin’s yearly (every August) Hudson musicians you’ve probably never heard of as Valley Jazz Festival takes place in several well as grammy-winning and platinum-selling towns in the Greater Hudson Valley. He has artists. invited Brunka to join with him and Ciampa Contemporary Jazz Guitarist Jeff Ciampa, for a Hudson Valley Jazz Trio performance nonpareil among superb artists deserving wider on March 10 at 7:00pm in the Rustic recognition, has worked and toured with some Wheelhouse, 39 Main Street, Chester. of the most demanding practitioners, including For info: www.hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org or vocalists Harry Belafonte and Jon Lucien. call 917-903-4380.

Milford Mayor Sean Strub is Telling Tales A group of community volunteers, including writers and publishing industry professionals from the Upper Delaware River valley region, organized The Milford Readers & Writers Festival in 2016. The inaugural event included feminist, activist, and author Gloria Steinem. Following its first celebration of authors, books, and their fans last fall, the Festival extends its brand with a community storytelling program with a featured author and open mic segment. The March event’s featured writer is Sean Strub, mayor of Milford. This new offering, co-sponsored by TriVersity, is hosted by Ruby Lynn Willis, a local performance artist. Curated for an adult audience (attendees/participants must be 18 or older), the program will include a storytelling

Slam and an open mic segment for storytelling recitations. “A Slam is a creative competition,” explains Ms. Willis. “Each performer will be allotted seven minutes to tell us a story based on the monthly theme. The story must belong to the teller, be original and true. No prompts or props allowed. The audience will vote on its favorite piece and prizes will be awarded.” Both published authors and novices alike are welcome and encouraged to participate. The first of 2017’s ten installments is on March 4 at 7:00pm, at the TriVersity Center (formerly the UDGLBT Center), 201 East Harford Street in Milford’s Historic Old Schoolhouse Building, Lower Level. A donation of $5 is suggested. Visit www.milfordreadersandwriters.com March 2017

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Whispering Pines: Cooking with Chef Douglas Frey! Pig Day: March 1! An event held annually in the U.S. to celebrate the pig, National Pig Day is observed on March 1, 2017. The holiday celebration was started in 1972 by Sisters Ellen Stanley, a teacher in Texas, and Mary Lynne Rave of North Carolina. According to Rave the purpose of National Pig Day is “to accord the pig it’s rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man’s most intellectual and domesticated animals.” The holiday is most often celebrated in the Midwest. National Pig Day includes events at zoos, schools, nursing homes, and sporting events around the U.S. It is also recognized at “pig parties” where pink pig punch and pork delicacies are served, and pink ribbon pigtails are tied around trees. The question of whether the holiday is a time to honor pigs by “giving them a break” or to appreciate their offerings (spare ribs, bacon and ham) is an open question. Anyway here’s a few of my favorite hog recipes for you to enjoy! Got questions? Send me an email: doubledgoatfarm128@gmail.com CANDIED BACON • ½ lb. thick cut bacon (¼” thick) • ½ cup packed light brown sugar • ½ cup chopped pecans • ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper • 4 tbsp. pure maple syrup

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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line cookie sheet with foil. Place baking racks on top of foil. Cut bacon in half to make shorter pieces. Lay pieces on baking racks. In bowl, combine light brown sugar & pecans. I used a fork to break up pecans. Add cayenne pepper. Mix. Pour in maple syrup. Mix. Spoon mixture onto bacon, and bake for 20-25 min. Remove from oven to let cool and crisp up! SOUTHWEST PORK TACOS • 1 lb. thin-cut boneless chops, 1/2” thick, cut into strips • 1 tablespoon honey • 1 tablespoon olive oil • 1 teaspoon lemon juice • 1 teaspoon soy sauce • 1/2 teaspoon ground chipotle pepper (or smoked or plain paprika) • 8 small corn tortillas, warmed • 1 cup shredded romaine lettuce • 1 cup pico de gallo • Sour cream or crema to taste In medium sized bowl combine honey, olive oil, lemon juice, soy sauce & chipotle pepper; whisk. Add pork to marinade; let sit 15 min. Heat skillet over high heat. Add slices of pork to skillet; cook 1-2 min. on each side, flipping w/ tongs in the middle of cooking. Once cooked, place pork on plate and reserve. Arrange 8 tortillas on platter. Sprinkle each with equal amounts shredded lettuce & pico de gallo. Place a few pieces of pork on top of each taco; top with sour cream or crema if desired.

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UpFront’s Spring Show: Debbie Gioello Debbie Gioello has been and techniques. Her largera member of UpFront than-life butterfly series (a Exhibition Space since the favorite of many!) are vivid gallery opened its doors. Her and colorful using acrylics various collections of art are and varnish in a multiple on display every month. glazing technique. She is not Debbie is currently showing limited to any one style - she a collection of twelve aquatint also works in watercolors, mono prints not shown at the etchings and photography gallery before. The series in both impressionist and utilizes an etching procedure representational styles. to develop a plate for printing. Debbie has been showing The zinc plate is etched to “Motherhood” by D. Gioello her art professionally since produce a pitted surface to hold 1970, and has been featured in the ink. An image is placed on juried group shows in the tri-state the plate before it processes area and across the country as through the etching press. The well as international invitational image covers the inked surface. shows. Her work is currently The result is a white image on the represented in the permanent surface of the paper, and is used collection of the Hudson River only once, producing a one-of-aMuseum, Bronx Museum of the kind mono print. Arts, Queens Cultural Center and As a fashion designer and many more. professor, Gioello authored See Debbie’s new aquatint multiple fashion design and mono prints at UpFront’s textile books published by “Naiad” by D. Gioello members’ group Spring Show, Fairchild Publication and contributed March 4-April 30. An opening reception fashion-related articles to magazines. She is will be held at the gallery, 31 Jersey Avenue, also recognized for the patents she received Port Jervis on March 18, from 5:00pmfor her inventions. 8:00pm. For information, call 845-754As an award-winning artist, Debbie 5000. Visit www.debbiegioello.com for expresses herself in multiple mediums more about Debbie.

Wellness Modalities: CranioSacral Therapy by Derek Leet Craniosacral therapy (CST) was developed by John Upledger, D.O. in the 1970s, as an offshoot osteopathy in the cranial field, or cranial osteopathy, which was developed in the 1930s by William Garner Sutherland. Cranial osteopathy, a forerunner of CST, was originated by osteopath William Sutherland (1873–1954) in 1898–1900. While looking at a disarticulated skull, Sutherland was struck by the idea that the cranial sutures of the temporal bones where they meet the parietal bones were “beveled, like the gills of a fish, indicating articular mobility for a respiratory mechanism.” According to The Upledger Institute, “CranioSacral Therapy is a very gentle technique to help detect and correct imbalances that may cause sensory, motor or neurological dysfunction. The conditions that respond well to CranioSacral therapy include headaches, migraines, TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic neck and back pain, and motor coordination impairment. “Practitioners of both cranial osteopathy and CST assert that there are small, rhythmic motions of the cranial bones attributed to cerebrospinal fluid pressure or arterial

pressure. The premise of CST is that palpation of the cranium can be used to detect this rhythmic movement of the cranial bones and selective pressures may be used to manipulate the cranial bones to achieve a therapeutic result. However, the degree of mobility and compliance of the cranial bones is considered controversial and is a critically important concept in craniosacral therapy. “Every day your body endures stresses and strains that it must work to compensate for. Unfortunately, these changes often cause body tissues to tighten and distort the craniosacral system. These distortions can then cause tension to form around the brain and spinal cord resulting in restrictions. This can create a barrier to the healthy performance of the central nervous system, and potentially every other system it interacts with. Fortunately, such restrictions can be detected and corrected using simple methods of touch.” Rock Tavern Innervision Wellness practitioner Debra Sheafe (see ad page 7) says, “I like to use Cranial Sacral combined with other modalities such as reflexolgy for TMJ, migraines, unwinding, and balancing out the body. I usually incorporate it into every session along with acupressure points... the body rhythm can always use balancing.”

Don’t Sell Shadowland’s Shorts Short

Shadowland Stages, Hardy, and chapters five the premiere professional through eight of Adventures Equity theater in the of Captain Marvel, plus Hudson Valley, is warming a short 40s film about the up the winter months with importance of staying its sixth series of Matinees healthy for the war. Andy at Shadowland classic Devine and Broderick movie programs. Return Crawford star in it, (Andy with them to those golden Devine is a ‘don’t be like days of yesteryear for a this’ example) with coLaurel & Hardy in “Liberty” (1929) series of four vintage feature films, stars Lon Chaney Jr, Robert Stack augmented with an entertaining array and Mary Wickes. of rare short subjects. Matinees at Shadowland, according “We’ve got a very eclectic to Brendan Burke, Artistic Director collection of films this year,” says of Shadowland Stages, “continues to series coordinator Ray Faiola. “In give us a chance to keep the theater addition to the enticing feature films, open prior to our Main Stage season, our accompanying short subjects and it continues to offer young and Mary Wickes are, for the most part, ones that have not been old alike a chance to experience the type of shown in decades. And, of course, we continue movie-going experience that has long since to present our events entire on celluloid rather disappeared from the mainstream.” than use digital projection.” Tickets are available at the box office at 157 Cartoons and shorts star Woody Woodpecker, Canal Street, Ellenville. For more information Popeye, Mickey Mouse in the classic or to reserve seats, call 845-647-5511. Trailers Steamboat Willie - the first Disney cartoon for each of the features and a list of the film with synchronized sound and a musical score - shorts can be seen at Shadowland’s website: and Andy Clyde, who had the longest running www.shadowlandstages.org series in the history of short-subjects. Clyde’s Matinees at Shadowland is sponsored by Columbia output alone ran second only to the numerous Ellenville-Wawarsing businesses. films of The Three Stooges. A veteran of the See ad below for the list of full-length Mack Sennett Studios, Andy was a trained features in which Cagney dances, Holmes & professional at the art of slapstick comedy. Watson solve a mystery, and Chaplin makes a And, of course, there will be Laurel and dainty meal out of a shoe.

Fiddle + Guitar

Brian Conway, Irish-American Sligostyle fiddler, performs with a grace and force that are steeped in tradition but distinctively his own. Well known in the Irish/Celtic community, Conway has won numerous All-Ireland fiddling competitions, and has been called one of the best fiddlers of his generation. John Walsh, New York-born and Irelandraised, took up guitar at a young age and was surrounded by a rich musical heritage in Kilkenny where he learned music of all kinds. Enjoy traditional Irish music with Conway on fiddle and Walsh on guitar and vocals on March 12 at 3:00pm when they perform at the Newburgh Free Library auditorium, 124 Grand Street. Admission is free. For information: 845-563-3600. March 2017

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Heresy at the Downing Film Center Daughter, farm girl, find it was to lead to visionary, patriot, kinghis own canonisation whisperer, soldier, with the Nobel prize leader, victor, icon, for literature. “The radical, witch, heretic, Nobel prize has been saint, martyr, woman. a hideous calamity for “George Bernard me,” he wrote. “It was Shaw’s Saint Joan is a really almost as bad as dialogue between the my 70th birthday.” He ancient and the modern was told, however, that worlds. We are shown if he refused the prize Joan’s posthumous of £7,000, the money Gemma Arterton as Joan rehabilitation as an would mysteriously example of a modern show trial, and her disappear into Scandinavian bureaucracy. So original court hearing as one of history’s he formally accepted it and used all the money terrible state trials. “Joan was killed by the to create a foundation for the translation Inquisition,” Shaw wrote in 1931. “The of Swedish works into English (beginning Inquisition is still with us.” with Strindberg). That foundation still exists “Perhaps Shaw had a sense of what was today.” soon to happen in Hitler’s Germany. He - Michael Holroyd, The Guardian, 2007. believed that when a country fell too far From the torment of the Hundred Years’ behindhand with its political institutions you War, the charismatic Joan of Arc carved a were likely to get dictatorships, and when you victory that defined France. Shaw’s classic get dictatorships you will get secret tribunals play depicts a woman with all the instinct, zeal dealing with sedition and political heresy - and transforming power of a revolutionary. like the Inquisition. Directed by Josie Rourke and starring “Woe unto me when all men praise me!” Gemma Arterton, the National Theatre Live exclaims Joan. Shaw greeted his own in HD presentation will be shown at the popularity with similar scepticism. He had set Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street, out in his play to rescue Joan from sentimental Newburgh on a March date TBD. posthumous canonisation and restore her Visit www.downingfilmcenter.com or call original heresy in all its strength - only to 845-561-3686 for information.

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Queen of The Hudson: Cello + Flute Verylittlehasbeencomposed for the duo combination of cello and flute. There have been incorporations of this combination into larger ensembles, more notably those of flute, cello, piano (Weber Trio); flute, violin, viola, cello (Mozart Flute Quartets); two flutes and cello (W.F. Bach); and flute, violin, and cello (Haydn’s London Trios), but almost nothing exists exclusively for the combination of the two outside of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Assobio a Jato (Jet Whistle). Involved in the Pieces of Eight project are an exceptional gathering of eight composers from a variety of cultural, geographical and generational backgrounds, spanning three continents, and over four decades.

They hail from the country’s finest conservatories and universities, including Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, Harvard, Yale and Oberlin, and include Fulbright recipients. Their works have been performed by major symphony orchestras across the globe, in addition to groups including the Chiara, American, Ethel and Blair string quartets, Windscape Ensemble, and Decoda. Ben Larsen (cello) and Martha Cargo (flute) will perform their and Villa-Lobos’ works for the Queen of the Hudson chamber music series at Atlas Studios, 11 Spring Street, Newburgh, on March 18 at 7:00pm. For tickets: www.queenofthehudson.org or at the door.

Nudes in Newburgh

A group exhibition titled The Nude at Regal Bag Studios in Newburgh runs through March 11. Noted area artist and art instructor Cynthia HarrisPagano is one of the many area artists exhibiting. “This exhibit is very special for me. The classic style of painting the figure in my North Light Atelier

is close to unique in this area,” she told CANVAS. “I am looking forward to showing two of my nude oil paintings in The Nude exhibition.” Regal Bag Studios is located at 195 Front Street, Newburgh. www.facebook.com/ chrisdavisongallery Photo: “Bridget’s Back” by Cynthia Harris-Pagano.

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra: “From the Other Side” Kintsugi in Newburgh by Derek Leet Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, Op 11 does not offer the same clear and innate accessibility as a completely balanced work of genius. After an unimpressive first movement, you get what can be considered one of the ultimate masterpieces of the 20th Century, Barber’s Adagio movement. Words cannot describe the Adagio’s perfection and beauty, nor its ability to reach into the depths of the soul in a way unlike any music that has preceded or followed its creation. After being immersed in the power of Barber’s glorious creation, one wants nothing else. It’s time for ingestion. Time to savor the emotions and feelings and let them continue wafting through us. But Barber unwisely composed another movement which is, at the least, anti-climactic and unwanted. Evidence of its unnecessariness is the fact that he kept revising the last movement because it “didn’t work”, instead of just giving the world the Adagio by itself, which happened later. In 1938 Barber sent an orchestrated version of the Adagio for Strings to Toscanini who returned the score without comment, which annoyed Barber. Toscanini then sent word through their mutual friend Gian-Carlo Menotti that he was planning to perform the piece and had returned it simply because he had already memorized it. It was reported that Toscanini did not look at the music again until the day

before the premiere, and it and typically exploited subsequently became the with great relish by other beloved masterpiece it is composers. By contrast, today. Fauré’s Requiem is rooted The Greater Newburgh in a deeply felt humanity Symphony Orchestra and focuses on the serenity (GNSO) will perform a of eternal rest. special concert that will “To complement this offer an “extraordinary work, we will perform evening of music that is Schubert’s famous certain to uplift the spirit Unfinished Symphony, and speak to the soul,” which is imbued with an according to Music Director indefinable sense of the Russell Ger. From The beyond, as well as Barber’s Other Side features three elegiac Adagio for Strings.” famous pieces that look noted Mr. Ger... beyond death in very ...and if I may play on Maestro Ger in action. different ways, and mark Mr. Ger’s words: If Fauré’s Photo by Mimi Estes. Ger’s inaugural performance combining the Requiem is “the genesis for the program, Symphony with a chorus and vocal soloists. then Barber’s Adagio is the ‘genius for the The upcoming March performance, which program’. was recently added to the 2016-2017 schedule, From the Other Side will be presented provides an opportunity for Maestro Ger to March 18 at 7:30pm at Mount Saint Mary showcase his skills as a choral conductor. The College’s Aquinas Hall (arrive at 6:30pm for GNSO’s Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, the concert preview by Gordon Shacklett). under the direction of Peter Sipple, will be Tickets can be purchased online: www. joined by five other Orange choral groups newburghsymphony.org or at the door. “The genesis for this program,” Mr. Ger Children and students are admitted free; explained, “is Fauré’s beautiful Requiem, student ID required for age 18 or older. Please which is unlike any other. He omits the note: this additional concert is not included in most dramatic section of text, the Dies Irae, 2016-2017 GNSO season ticket subscriptions. which is the depiction of the Days of Wrath Call 845-913-7157 for information.

Kintsugi, or “golden joinery”, an ancient Japanese art, is the interwoven philosophies of wabi-sabi, which means “to find beauty in broken things or old things”. A live art performance will represent the first manifestation of the 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens project to take place away from the Whitney Museum proper. Throughout the day, broken plate pieces will be reconfigured and glued back together into a new form that contains the remnants of many. This ‘living works-showcase’ parallels the work done in Tech World, reconstructing pieces and part of computers creating a like-new and usable computer, with that which is happening in the City of Newburgh, envisioning a moving forward as a unified whole. Stop by Tech World as it celebrates its first anniversary by presenting Tech Art (a Ferry Godmother production) on March 4, Noon to 6:00pm, at 113 Liberty Street, Newburgh. Phone:845-563-0792.

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“You Can Keep Your Fiddle & Your Bow, Give Me a P-I-A-N-O Oh Oh!” Irving Berlin In Spring of 2016, Goshen Mayor Kyle Roddey proposed a version of a public art project based on one he had come across in Denver, while visiting his sister. The Keys of Goshen featured functional pianos, decoratively painted or appliquéd by area fine artists and placed in public spaces throughout the Main Street business district of the Village for strollers to enjoy and play. The interactive Keys of Goshen, a collaboration among the Village, Illuminate Goshen, the Orange County Arts Council, and administered and executed by the Goshen Art League was a resounding success. “From the beginning, there was palpable community support by many eager donors of pianos,” says photographer/piano artist William O’Keefe. “The success of the project couldn’t be overstated. Not a day would pass without members of the community enjoying, playing, or listening to these wonderful pianos. All the music created a charm to the Village.” Among League members was cabinet member Gloria Bonelli, whose art administration and organizational skills would prove key ingredients to bringing the project to the next level. As Keys of Goshen project director, Bonelli negotiated for a fair honorarium and materials fee for the artists, wrote up the prospectus, took to social media in order to publicize the application process, and

gathered 3 judges and facilitated the anonymous adjudication process. “I was thrilled to be able to put my skills to use in acting as liaison between the League and the Village and I enjoyed helping to facilitate the process throughout. We could not have wished for a more happy outcome.” And so, the mayor has proposed Keys of Goshen 2016 artists and production team Part II for summer/ fall of 2017. As with the first time, the initial how many pianos can be refurbished for step in building such a project is to raise 2017. Piano technician, Joseph Cacheiro of funds. Money was raised by auctioning off the 2016 pianos in October, once their useful Florida lovingly refurbished and maintained outdoor life had come to an end. Every single the 2016 pianos. This time, he and Roddey piano received one or more bids and was sold. will travel to homes and other places to All who are interested in supporting and/or “audition” pianos for Keys II. “We were donating to Keys II are welcome to attend a amazed and delighted at how well the pianos fundraising event on March 10 at 6:00pm held up,” said Cacheiro modestly - neglecting at Limoncello restaurant, 159 Main Street, to give voice to the fact that his artistry is Goshen. The amount raised will determine as integral to this project as are the gifts the

“A Palate for Landscape” in Middletown In 2009, Mitchell and beauty of nature, and Saler graduated with an the tranquility, drama, and Associate Degree in Visual sublime that can be found Arts from SUNY Orange, in the landscape. Over a where he presently works dozen of his realistic oil as a Graphic Artist and paintings are included Technical Assistant in a new show, which for the Cultural Affairs features landscapes of the department. In 2011, he local area and beyond. received a Bachelor of A Palate for Landscape, Fine Arts in Painting and “Summer Afternoon” by Mitchell Saler. the title of Saler’s solo Drawing, summa cum exhibit, is on display at This landscape was inspired by a laude, from SUNY New painting by the artist’s grandmother. Tasty Eats restaurant, 211 Paltz. He is a represented artist at the Wallkill Monhagen Avenue, Middletown through River School, the Membership Chairman of March 12. the Goshen Art League, and a member of A meet-the-artist-reception is scheduled the Orange County Arts Council and the for March 4, from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Middletown Art Group. Email mitchellsaler@mitchellsaler.com Saler is inspired by the vastness, grandeur, for additional information.

“Dusty the Read Dog”

Dusty is a therapy and certified R.E.A.D. (Reading Education Assistance Dog) dog, a wellmannered Shetland Sheepdog who promotes confidence as he sits patiently listening to children read a book to him. “READ dogs help inspire confidence in reading by ‘listening’ to a child read one-on-one,” according to his owner Barbara Babikian. For an hour on one Saturday morning each month, Dusty visits the Florida Public 22

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Library to read with any child who signs up. Each reading session is 15 minutes. Dusty’s next visit is on March 18. Call 845-651-7659 to set up a personal appointment for your child to read a favorite book to Dusty. Children may bring their own books or choose one from library shelves that are filled almost to the ceiling of the Leona Harter Children’s Room. The program is open to children of all reading levels.

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painters bring to it. Once the money is raised, the pianos are donated, and the technician begins his work. Now the time has come for the call for submissions to go out. As in 2016, the 2017 artists of Keys II will be commissioned based on applications that include sketches of their proposed work. As requested by the Village, one of the pianos must have a theme that is based on Goshen historical and/or architectural aspects. Once that first commission is decided upon by the judges, the remaining pianos can feature any original family-friendly designs the artists may choose to create and submit. Current Goshen Art League president, Linda Stein is brimming with excitement and anticipation over the coming version of Keys of Goshen. “Kyle appreciates that among our members are many of the finest visual artists of the region,” says Stein. “Any artist who is a member before the March 24 deadline is welcome to submit an application to be considered for the Keys of Goshen II project.” Stein urges all area artists to have a look at the prospectus for Keys II, which can be found on the Goshen Art League website. Linda also reminds artists that collaborating groups, as well as individuals are eligible to apply for a commission. www.goshenartleague.com

Yes, It WAS Painted by a Female Artist!

Future Picassos Exhibit in Milford

It’s a pretty safe bet It is running concurrently that the very first pottery, throughout the month of textiles, baskets, painted March - Women’s History surfaces, and jewelry were Month - alongside the work created by women - and of contemporary female women have never stopped artists. You’ll learn, for creating since. But in the example, how and why the haystack of the recorded work of Caroline Louisa History of Art, women are Daly hung for almost the needles. 50 years in a Canadian Each year, we discover a gallery, attributed to a male less and less surprising fact merchant and politician about pieces of classical who never even painted. art: though claimed by a Even though her work was man to be his work, modern signed, “CL Daly”! technology confirms the “Sometimes, historians real artist was a woman. In have their suspicions a few instances, this was about misattributed art, but done lovingly - perhaps “Susanna and the Elders” by Artemisia can’t know for sure,” says by a father who knew his Gentileschi. This painting was attributed Joan Standora, Chair daughter’s work would be to Artemisia’s father, Orazio, until 1977. of the BAAA Executive taken more seriously if signed by a man. Committee. “Other times, our technology has But many times, it was malicious. Aging allowed us to uncover a ‘smoking gun’, such male artists often took on young female as the painted over signature of the true female “apprentices” - after which the male artists’ artist.” work became surprisingly new and exciting. An opening reception, including a brief Almost as often the male “mentor’s” work presentation, and examples of art stolen by and became stale again, once the apprentice went misattributed to men is being held on March off on her own. 4 from 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Artists’ Market The Barryville Area Arts Association Community Center, 114 Richardson Avenue, (BAAA) has curated an exhibit of framed Shohola. For information: 845-557-8713. prints that traces the history of Women in Art. The show runs through March 26.

The ARTery Gallery or Julia Thompson who is preparing to welcome plans to become an art the present art students of teacher. Delaware Valley High Commendable for School (DVHS) in March. their strong emphasis on In its 6th year, the gallery the arts, DVHS and its presents the creations of the students participate in and up and coming artists from win awards at exhibits and the local high school. The competitions throughout members of the cooperative the state. It’s no wonder, gallery are always excited as the works are of such a to see what the students high quality and variety: will come up with each jewelry, pottery, painting, year and the community drawings, photography, really enjoys it, too! computer graphics, The exhibit brings out sculpture, printmaking, many family and friends collage, assemblage and to support and encourage textiles are shown each Artwork by Reiley Weems the project, which gives year! the students a real life Come and view experience of showing the work of the future their work at a gallery. Picassos at the ARTery The works are mostly for Gallery, 210 Broad sale and the prices can be Street, Milford. The remarkably low. There is Language of Our Youth always a possibility that exhibit will be on display one can pick up a piece from March 10-April from a future famous 3. The public is invited artist, such as Reiley to a meet-the-artists Weems who will be reception on March 11 Artwork by Julia Thompson “artist of the week” on from 6:00pm-9:00pm. WVIA PA Public Television airing in March, For information: 570-409-1234.

Enjoy a delicious meal, and then take an artwork home! Leo’s Cornwall location presents: “Oils by Paul Gould & Photographs by William Gould,” through the end of March!

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Poetry & Pasta: Trattoria Marbella by Sharon McKane In Ellenville, a former tobacco and cigar manufacturing plant from 1860 has been restored to host Trattoria Marbella. The interior restoration was recently completed. I saw the potential prior to completion and I have since been advised that it looks great! I met with Chef Luis Diaz a few weeks ago and learned he has a few delectable ideas to enhance your dining experience several evenings a week. Trattoria Marbella is closed on Mondays, but on Tuesday evenings, Chef Luis opens his doors at 5:00pm for Poetry and Pasta Night. Poets begin reciting their poems at 7:00pm. It is an open mic, therefore, any poet can sign in and read their original poetry. Mark my words: poetry, pasta and FREE COFFEE all night works for both poets and patrons alike! And there is NO cover charge. Start writing those poems or share your collection of poetry, one Tuesday night at a time! Contribute to a night of culture and fine cuisine or sit back and relax; enjoy your evening of Poetry and Pasta at Trattoria Marbella! Wednesday nights: Bring Your Own Vinyl. Yes! Bring your favorite records and they

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will be spun while you enjoy a culinary treat. If you still have those old vinyl records bring in the ones you love, grab some friends, tell them to bring their favorite vinyl or come in to listen to yours. Step back in time while you enjoy fresh pasta and dessert - and the coffee is free all night long. Saturday nights, starting in April: Live Music. Check the schedule on Facebook. What makes for a spectacular evening at Trattoria Marbella is enchanting poetry, spinning vinyl, live music and of course Chef Luis’ astounding specialty: freshly made pasta - and it’s not your ordinary pasta - it is Tagliatelle and Risotto. View his photos of drying pasta on the rack on Facebook; along with other delectable menu items. Be sure to end a perfect evening by asking for Chef Luis’ Italian cheesecake or cannoli! I know this reporter is going to plan a full evening at Trattoria Marbella for pasta and poetry night. I may even recite a poem or two! Trattoria Marbella is located adjacent to Shadowland Theatre at 151 Canal Street, Ellenville. For information visit https://www. facebook.com/trattoriamarbella/ or call 845647-9269. See ad below for 10% off coupon!

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“Eventide” in Sugar Loaf The River Flows Two Eventide is a quartet Ways is a collaboration between two moving bodies, a between dancer Ophra Wolf musician and the sun. Through and musician Craig Chin. a performance, viewers Together they create siteexperience the sunset in a state of heightened awareness to photo by A. Apolinario responsive performances. Guest dancer Sarah Simon will join them their senses and their environment. Movement of both music and dancers amplify one’s for Eventide: The Shape of Sunset at the perception of the subtle shifts of light, texture Seligmann Center, 23 White Oak Drive, and mood that so often escape consciousness, Sugar Loaf, on March 18 at 6:30pm. The making for a deeply relaxing and contemplative performance will be followed by a potluck, so bring a dish to share! For info: 845-469-9459. experience of site-specific performance art.

Eric Banger & The Mashers, Woodbourne

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the Concert at the Barn series at the International Center for a Culture of Compassion (ICCC), 2299 Ulster Heights Road, Woodbourne, will feature a concert by Eric Banger and the Mashers on March 12 at 3:00pm. Taking inspiration from the figure of St. Patrick himself, originally a humble immigrant from western Britain, the band will explore the theme of migration. Influenced by Irish folk bands such as the Clancy Brothers, the Dubliners and the Pogues, and drawing upon the monumental print collections of 19th century Irish traditional music, the band plays a combination of raucous drinking songs, touching folk ballads and energetic

jigs and reels. Many songs capture the trauma of the immigrant experience as well as its opportunities - both the acute sense of loss and longing in leaving friends and family as well as joy at finding peace in new surroundings. The band consists of vocalist Jeff Doolittle on guitar, fiddler Anastasia Solberg, singer Liza Doolittle & Zach Brandman on mandolin. For tickets: 917-399-8354. Kids are free.

The Parting Glass Band, Salisbury Mills

played in Green Velvet, The Parting Glass is and The Bearded Lady. an Irish, Scottish and Vocalist Kevin Newfoundland traditional McComb plays guitar, song, often sung at the end uke, and banjo. He is a of a gathering of friends. brass and string repairman, It was allegedly the most and has played in the Irish popular song sung in Newfoundland, Scotland Parting Glass Band: Patti, Al & Kevin rock group Emish. Versatile Patti Gessner: flute, vocals, tin and Ireland before Robert Burns wrote Auld whistle and percussion: “My roots are from Lang Syne. The Parting Glass Band is an Irish trio Cork. I am a teacher, shopkeeper, pianist, who present a musical tour of melodies, mother of 4, and wife (of Al). I have sung familiar to the Irish in the “Old Country” and Irish music my whole life. This is my first their immigrant sons and daughters here in official band outside of the band I raised.” They perform Thursdays from 7:00pmthe Hudson and Delaware Valleys. Owner of Al’s Music Shop in Port Jervis, 10:00pm at Loughran’s Irish Pub, 10 Al Gessner, who plays flute and accordion, Schoolhouse Road, Salisbury Mills.

Works Inspired by Nature, Lords Valley

Ron Demuth (1934-2015) shared Lord Byron’s sentiment about the natural world: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more. The youngest of four children, Ronald T. Demuth was born in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1958 with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. After serving in the Army, he taught at Stanford University in Sunnyvale, California. Ron left teaching to pursue work as a nuclear engineering specialist. His work included lecturing in Japan and Germany as well as participating in the investigation of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. Following retirement he moved to Cape Cod where he began painting watercolors. In 2002, Ron and his wife Anne relocated to Charleston, South Carolina where Ron began experimenting with oil painting. In 2012, Ron and Anne moved to Dingmans Ferry where Ron continued his explorations in painting. The bold shape and colors of Demuth’s works are creative expressions of the rural landscape that so often inspired his creativity. Ron’s travels, which included visits to the United Kingdom, Europe and Scandinavia, served as

inspiration for many of his paintings. Reversing the traditional method of applying color to white canvas, Ron often painted nature’s brilliancy on an underlayment of black. Working in a Primitive Impressionist style, Ron’s bucolic landscapes convey a reverence for the majesty found in nature. His work speaks of man’s ability to align with the natural world as well as to find serenity among its beauty. Anne Demuth will curate a show and sale of her late husband Ron Demuth’s oil paintings for the Gallery at Chant Realtors in Lords Valley in March. A reception in celebration of the artists’ life is scheduled for March 4 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. The show runs through April 27 at the Gallery at Chant, 631 Route 739, Lords Valley, PA. For info: 570-775-7337. Visit http://rondemuth.com/

“Late Bloomers” in Sugar Loaf

Yaron Rosner’s paintings appear as if from dreams. A series of large-scale, richly painted portraits depict subjects Rosner describes as “living on the side of life.” A middle aged shirtless man stands staring at the viewer, an iguana perched on his neck, in a space between fear and confrontation. Rich in symbolism, humor, and contradiction, Rosner’s paintings portray both strength and fragility; a young man reveals a wound, a woman holds a drooping bouquet, another man cradles a turtle. Affinity for reptiles aside, there is purpose in Rosner’s pairings and dreamlike as they are, one sees oneself in the paintings. Each subject is surrounded by a different variety of blooming flower, stitched together and thus charged. Neither background nor wallpaper, the flowers speak to electricity and DNA, forming a kind of protective sphere. Both the subjects and their accompanying flowers are imagined, yet Rosner knows them intimately and each carries a story. The portraits of Late Bloomers might call to mind the grand paintings of the wealthy or politically influential, though Rosner presents a

canon of his own, capturing darkness amidst whimsy, drawing heroes from the shadows. Rosner is a multimedia artist. Born in Israel, Rosner graduated from the photography department at the Neri Bloomfield School of Design in 1989. Following his studies, Rosner moved to Paris where he spent several years working as a commercial photographer. He later returned to Israel to teach photography at WIZO College of Design. In 1998, Rosner and his family moved to Sugar Loaf and opened Rosner Soap. In the last few years, Rosner has returned to his artistic roots, painting figurative works with an engaging touch of symbolism. Rosner has exhibited his work in many solo and group exhibitions in Israel, Germany, France, Turkey, and the U.S. Late Bloomers, a new exhibition by Yaron Rosner, opens March 25 with a reception from 4:00pm-7:00pm at Kurt Seligmann’s Studio at the Seligmann Center, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. The show is on view through May 7. For information: 845-469-9459.

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2 Hands and 4 Hands in Central Valley The composers featured on the next Music in Central Valley program show the evolution of the classical style into romanticism. Two works of exceptional beauty for solo piano include the Variations in F Minor by Haydn, a gem and masterpiece both in the composer’s output and in the piano repertory, and Sonata in E Major, #30, Op. 109, by Beethoven, a late work, another masterpiece, whose final movement is also a set of variations that begins with a lovely theme and develops into a final variation of grand proportions. Mozart’s Sonata in F Major for piano, four hands, K. 497, is a noble work of Mozart’s maturity and on par with his greatest orchestral and chamber compositions. Concluding the program is the Fantasy in F Minor by Schubert. Among the great masterpieces of the four-hand repertory and reflecting the influence of Mozart, this work is orchestral in nature and offers some of Schubert’s most sublime melodic invention. SUNY Albany’s Victoria von Arx is an active performer of piano and chamber music.

She is the author of several scholarly articles. Her book, Piano Lessons with ClaudioArrau:AGuide to his Techniques and Philosophy, draws on her extensive studies with two protégés of Claudio Arrau and is available from Oxford

University Press. Area pianist Janice Nimetz (photo right) has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the Hudson Valley and Capital District, and has appeared as soloist at Weill Recital Hall and in venues throughout New England. Janice is now a piano mentor for Songcatchers, Inc. in New Rochelle, which offers a music-arts program unhindered by socio-economic barriers and committed to community building. In addition she is on the piano faculty of Rockland Conservatory. The program takes place at Central Valley United Methodist Church, 12 Smith Clove Road, Central Valley, on April 2 at 3:00pm. No tickets are required but there is a suggested donation at the door. The church is handicapped accessible. For information, phone 845-928-6570.

Elementary Sherlock Holmes in Chester Immerse Yourself in Sherlock Holmes at the Chester Library’s Film & Fiction Series.

FILM Mr. Holmes is a 2015 crime drama mystery film, directed by Bill Condon, based on Mitch Cullin’s 2005 novel Hattie Morahan & Ian McKellen A Slight Trick of the Mind. The film stars Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes, Laura Linney as his housekeeper Mrs. Munro, and Milo Parker as her son Roger. Set primarily during his retirement, the film follows a 93-year-old Holmes who struggles to recall the details The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939 FICTION of his final case while his mind begins to On March 28 at 6:00pm, Wendy Galgan, deteriorate. Chair & Associate Professor, English Dept., See it on March 18 at 2:00pm. St Francis College, Brooklyn, will present a The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third special presentation, Sherlock Holmes in Film of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur and Fiction for the Chester Library Book Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Group. All are welcome. Holmes. It tells the story of an attempted Made possible with funding from murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, Humanities New York Speakers Program. diabolical hound of supernatural origin. The Library is located at 1784 Kings Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Highway. For information: 845-469-4252.

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Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in The Final Problem, and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character’s eventual revival. It has been made into two major films, in 1939 and 1959. (A French version Chien-des-Baskervilles appeared in 1932.) The 1939 adaptation starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce will be shown on March 20 at 6:00pm. Admission to both films is free.

Gravichord: From Florida to The Met On September 15, 2016, Florida resident Bob Grawi officially transferred ownership of a Gravikord, one of his original instruments, to the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art. The new American harp, invented by Grawi, will be featured in the museum’s musical instrument gallery when it re-opens in early 2017. “This is personally very exciting for me,” says Ken Moore, Curator Emeritus of the Musical Instruments Department. “I met Bob nearly two decades ago when he loaned us a Gravikord. Since then, I’ve always wanted to include the instrument in our permanent collection.” Motivated by his deep love of polyrhythmic music, Grawi spent many years developing the Gravikord, which is based on the West African Kora, a traditional acoustic folk instrument. In the early 70s, Grawi went to see a traditional instrument at the Met, but since he had no acceptable answer to the question, “For what academic institution are you currently engaged in doing ethno-musicological research?” he was denied access to see the Kora in their collection. Grawi then decided to start designing his own instrument which ironically will now occupy a place of its own in that very same museum! Through trial and error, design and redesign, he worked non-stop

over the next decade and in 1986 finally received a patent for his own unique musical instrument. “It took me many years and progressing through four different original designs to finally make an instrument in the real world that was satisfactory.” Since the advent and subsequent exposure on the internet, there are now Gravikord players around the world including China, Australia, Japan, Spain, Canada, England, France, Germany, Austria, and the U.S. “When I first picked up the instrument, there were no teachers,” sums up Grawi. “It was like learning to walk and every step took me to a new place. Even now, after many years, when I sit down to play, it’s still a mystery, it’s still magical.” Together with his wife Pip Klein on flute and percussion, The Gravikord Duo has performed at venues worldwide. The Gravikord Duo will entertain with a one hour performance celebrating traditional Irish music on the Gravikord, flute and various percussion instruments on March 15 at 6:30pm in the Florida Library, 4 Cohen Circle. Guests will enjoy tea and fresh baked soda bread, prepared on-site by Pearl Kearns, after the musical performance. To register: 845-651-7659.

May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky

Dazzling movie star Lana Turner, nicknamed “The Sweater Girl”, was reportedly discovered while sitting at an L.A. soda fountain. Modern day scouts might do better searching for talent on the eight exalted Ivy League campuses. “O’er the stands of flaming Crimson, Harvard banners fly.” Matt Damon watched those Harvard banners, as did Tommy Lee Jones, Elisabeth Ashley Judd Shue, Mira Sorvino, Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Conan O’Brien. “Where’er upon life’s sea we sail: For God, for country and for Yale.” Jodie Foster, Edward Norton, Oliver Stone, Liev Jodie Foster Schreiber, Paul Giamatti, and Claire Danes were Yalies one and all. Cornell University is “High above Cayuga’s waters” and singing its alma mater were Cornellians Jane Lynch, Bill Bill Maher Maher, and Jimmy Smits. “What is the one team that always wears the crown? It’s that Royal Bengal Tiger down

in Princeton town!” Rooting on the Princeton Tiger were Brooke Shields, Dean Cain, and David Duchovny. “Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater, through the storms of time abide!” Julia Stiles Dean Cain is a loyal Columbian, along with Art Garfunkel, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Casey Affleck, Maggie and brother, Jake Gyllenhaal. Maggie’s a graduate, Jake left before Art Garfunkel graduation. “Glory to Dartmouth, loyal we sing.” Joining the Dartmouth chorus: Michael Moriarty, Connie Britton, Aisha Tyler, astronaut Alan Shepard, and Mindy Paling. “We are ever true to Brown, Aisha Tyler for we love our college dear.” Emma Watson, John Krasinski and Laura Linney attended Brown, as did Leelee Sobieski, John F. Kennedy Jr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr. “Hail Pennsylvania, noble and strong, to thee with loyal hearts we raise our song.” Joining in the toast to U. of Penn: Elizabeth Banks, John Legend, Dr. Oz, Melissa Rivers, Candice Bergen and Trump half sisters, Ivanka and Tiffany.

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