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May 2012

In Loving Memory ~ Mary Evelyn Whitehill

Publisher’s Column In Loving Memory: Mary Evelyn Whitehill 3.9.1920 ~ 3.27.2012 The art world was changed with the death of Mary E. Whitehill of Newburgh on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.

Born on March 9, 1920 to David J. and C. Evelyn Pope Perrott, she was a Newburgh resident all her life. At her 80th celebration she observed that her life had so far been divided into stages of twenty years each: student, parent, librarian, artist. And the next stage? "A successful artist."

As a child Mary Evelyn was set on becoming an artist. Her great grandfather was the Hudson River artist, Thomas B. Pope. She attended Quassaick Hall, Abbott Academy and Wells College, where she said she chose watercolors "because this German professor was doing very abstract free-for-all American watercolors, totally different from the European style."

Married in 1943, she stayed at home to care for her four children and do local volunteer work. "I'd belong to everything – become president – League of Women's voters, Girl Scouts, Sunday School – you name it." In the 1960's she received her masters in Library Science and then worked at The Newburgh Free Library and the West Street School Branch.

Upon her retirement in 1985, M.E. began her art career in earnest. A prolific painter, her art has preserved forever much of the beauty of the Hudson River Valley. "When I first started to paint they were tearing down Newburgh and everything was disappearing. I really wanted to record some of the buildings." Many of her images are found today on greeting cards she started as a donation project. She truly

enjoyed depicting florals and landscapes. She loved painting outdoors, believing the world needs its nature and the world needs its art.

M.E. exhibited an enthusiastic love of life. People who met her didn't forget her; she made a vivid impression in her purple hat. Always interested in learning about people's lives and new ideas, at 70, M.E. bought her first computer, created her own website (www.mewhitehill.com- even writing her own "html" code), joined Facebook but not Twitter because "you were always told to avoid twits."

At 89 Mary Evelyn realized her dream of opening her own gallery, combining her marketing and business skills with her love of art. On her 90th birthday she arranged a celebration and benefit to help preserve Bannerman Castle, a scene she had painted many times. Her art will continue to inspire and share the joy Mary Evelyn had in creating her paintings.

Whitehill is survived by her sons Walter Whitehill of Newburgh, Brian T. Whitehill and his spouse David Domedion of NYC, daughter Joan Roth of Katonah, NY, grandchildren; a great grandson born March 20, 2012 and nieces and nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews. She was predeceased by son David H. Whitehill.

In her memory donations may be made to Hospice of Orange & Sullivan Counties, 800 Stony Brook Ct., Newburgh, NY 12550, or to the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & Highland, 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh, NY 12550.

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CANVAS writers tidbits Visit TheCatskillChronicle.com for Barry Plaxen’s reviews of operas in the Live from the Met in HD Series and Sullivan classical music concerts, in addition to other Sullivan County news in this interesting and informative online newspaper.

CANVAS contributor Barbara Adams (photo right) will be reading her poetry on May 6, at 8:00pm in the Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery, 73 Sullivan Street.

Admission is free, donations appreciated.

Barbara will also lead a new fun and informal discussion group, Poetry Circle, at the Newburgh Free Library on May 31 at 7:00pm.

CANVAS poetry calendar “overseer” Robert Milby (photo right) will be reading his poetry at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon on May 4 at 8:00pm.

CANVAS contributor Philip Ehrensaft (photo right) will be covering the May 12 opening of Storm King Art Center’s new exhibition Light and Landscape for the June CANVAS. One of the world's most distinguished and best-loved sculpture parks, Storm King provides space for some 100 large-scale works by such preeminent artists as Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy, Maya Lin, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, David Smith, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, among many others.

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Table of Contents Calendars Music, Lectures & Books Calendar pg 16 Category Calendar pg 17 May 2012 Calendar pgs 18, 19 Art & Photography Calendar pg 20 Children & Teen’s Calendar pg 20 Destinations Artists on Campus pg 8 Calvary Presbyterian Church Organ pg 26 Community Building Through The Arts pg 29, 32 Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players pg 27 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music pg 12 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra pg 10 Holistic Living pg 33 Lycian Theatre pg 24 Museums pg 3 NACL Theatre pg 30 Newburgh Chamber Music pg 9 Railroad Playhouse pg 11 SUNY Orange Newburgh pg 30, 31 The CANVAS Beat pg 35 Wigsticks pg 32 Destination: Chester/Sugar Loaf pg 24, 25 Destination: Cornwall pg 4 Destination: Ellenville pg 7 Destination: Florida pg 15 Destination: Goshen pg 7 Destination: Greenwood Lake pg 15 Destination: Middletown pg 31 Destination: Milford pg 6 Destination: Monroe pg 27 Destination: Montgomery pg 12, 13,14 Destination: Newburgh pg 8, 9, 10, 11 Destination: Pine Bush pgs 28, 29 Destination: Walden pg 21, 22, 23 Destination: Wurtsboro pg 34

The Museums Are Open for the Season!

Neversink Valley Museum of History and Innovation

Come on Babe we're gonna take a chance...

And all that jazz It ain't got sound, and no, it ain't got dance...

And all that jazz.

Start the car, I know a Deerpark spot...

Where the films are mute and the piano's hot...

And all..... that..... jazz

May Robson and Eugene Pallette (see photos), two faces familiar to movie buffs, can be seen in supporting roles in the silent film Chicago.

Drawn from the play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was in turn based on the true story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart, and her spectacular murder of her boyfriend, the 1927 film adds considerably to the material in Watkins' play, some additions based on the original murder, and some to Hollywood considerations.

The murder, which occurs in a very brief vignette before the play begins, is fleshed out considerably. Also, Roxie's husband Amos Hart has a much more sympathetic and active role in the film than he does either in the play or in the well-known musical.

For along time, the film was difficult to view, but a recent print was made available from the UCLA Film and Television Archive, enabling the film to play at festivals and historic theaters around the country.

A film screening of CHICAGO - the original silent version of the musical hit, featuring Ben Model on piano, will be held at the Neversink ValleyMuseum on May 9 at 7:30pm.

In addition to the regular D&H Canal exhibit, the 2012 exhibit is Portrait of a Family: Papers from the Westbrook Family from the 1700 and 1800s. It opens on May 25 and runs through November 25.

The museum is located at 26 Hoag Road in Cuddebackville. Phone: 845-754-8870.

in two indoor galleries and sculpture is displayed in the world renown meditative sculpture garden on the Waywayanda River.

Open through October on weekends & holidays from 11:00am to 6:00pm and Monday to Friday, 11:00am to 4:00pm, weather permitting, museum and garden admission is free.

Operated by Claske and her stepson, Lucas Franck, they also host summer Sunday chamber music concerts. Krista BennionFeeney and John Feeney (see photo above) will be joined by keyboardist Gregory Hayes, cellist

Myron Lutzke and others on June 3 at 5:00pm for a Benefit Concert of mostly Baroque music, including four minutes of Bach’s Cantata BWV 18 with four violas! The program is also expected to include Vivaldi’s Summer from the Four Seasons with Krista Bennion-Feeny soloing on violin and works by Biber and an

unknown composer, J.H. Schmelzer (c.1620/231680).

For directions and chamber-music concert schedule phone 845-986-4329, or email paceminterris@frontiernet.net.

regular Museum admission. Admission is free to children under 3 years.

To purchase tickets or for more information, call 1.866.781.2922 or visit www.BethelWoodsCenter.org.

Bethel Woods

Deerpark Museum

Four decades after the Woodstock festival, The Museum at Bethel Woods examines the work of artists Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick in a stunning retrospective exhibition, Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters, through July 22. The exhibit will highlight their contributions to rock and roll poster design and tell the tale of two artists’ storied careers, featuring work from both artists as well as an amazing collection of graphic art inspired by or satirizing the famous Woodstock posters.

This special exhibit brings together over 150 items that show the broad range of Byrd’s and Skolnick’s artwork: rock posters, posters for Broadway shows, television, movies, impressionistic oil paintings drawn from nature, fine-art compilations and sensitive photographs of erotic nudes. Lawrence adds, “I am really excited about this exhibition, not only because it brings David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick together for the first time, but because it will introduce their work to a broader audience and give them the recognition they both deserve.”

The special exhibition is included in the

The Town of Deerpark Museum, 25 Grange Road in Huguenot, will present a Pottery of the Upper Delaware Valley program on May 6 at 3:00pm. The presenter is Fred Assmuss of the Orange County Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. His topic will be Why pottery was needed and why it should be studied. The pottery was used by the Delawares, the Indian tribe that inhabited the regions along the Delaware River. It is said that as many as forty tribes acknowledged the Lenape as “grandfather” or parent stock. In 1720 they were conquered by the Iroquois, who dominated and harassed them until 1763.

For more information: 845-754-8070.

More museum news on page 14 Hill Hold Museum page 27 Museum Village

This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program administered by Arts in Orange.

Pacem in Terris “One man's work of art that aspires to be an oasis of quiet, of sanity, where spirit and nature may reconnect. Dedicated to what is Human in every human being.”

Pacem in Terris, a trans-religious space created by Frederick and Claske Franck, offers a simple, quiet place to visit and disconnect from daily life. Drawings, paintings and books by Frederick Franck are on display May 2012

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Destination.............................................................................Cornwall Stephen Walt Plays on a Sherman Walt

Principal clarinetist of the Albany and Berkshire Symphonies, Susan Martula, has also performed as concerto soloist with both orchestras and with the Cornell University Orchestra under the direction of Karl Husa.

In addition she has played with the Lake George Opera, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the American Symphony, and the New York Philomusica, among other venues, and performs as a chamber musician most notably in the Capital District and in Western Massachusetts. With the Albany Symphony she is heard on the Albany Records, the CRI, and the Nonesuch labels. Currently she is on the faculty of Williams College and Skidmore.

Stephen Walt is principal bassoonist with the Albany and Berkshire Symphonies and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble. He is Artist Associate in Bassoon and Director of Woodwind

Chamber Music at Williams College. He has been on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1999. He has performed with orchestras, opera companies and chamber music ensembles throughout the eastern United States, including performances with the Borromeo, Lark, Muir, and Shanghai String Quartets, among others. Mr. Walt plays on a Heckel bassoon made in 1950 for his father, Sherman Walt, the former principal bassoonist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The instrument is nicknamed "The Brussels," as it was exhibited at the 1958 World's Fair in that city as an example of German artisanship.

Martula and Watt are joining Music in Central Valley (MICV) producer and pianist Janice Nimetz for Music for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano.

On May 12 at 7:00pm, the trio performs a program of music by Brahms, Glinka, Hindemith, Gershwin, and Debussy free of charge with a suggested donation at the door.

The church, located at 12 Smith Clove Road, is handicapped accessible.

Call the church at: 845-928-6570.

Daniel Parrette Plays with a John Parrette

At the May Potluck Concert, Daniel Parrette is playng Copland's Clarinet Concerto arranged for clarinet and piano.

Daniel is one of the winners of the recent West Point Band’s annual Young Artist Concerto Competition, a 3rd generation clarinetist to play with the Band, after his grandfather, John R.Parrette, and his father John D. Parrette.

At the same concert, John D. (photo above)

is performing an arrangement for clarinet of Copland’s Violin Sonata, and soprano Carol Lundergan (photo right) is singing Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, a famous and very popular lied for the interesting combination of soprano, clarinet, and piano.

The concert will take place on May 25 at 7:30pm in the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street in Cornwall-onHudson.

cornwall / woodbury calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Society for Music, Potluck Concerts, & Peggi’s Place

All events are in Cornwall or Cornwall-on-Hudson unless otherwise noted

Museum

Art & Photography Exhibits Paul Gould Hudson Valley Gallery, ongoing Emily Waterfield photography Gary Hoff & Terri Clearwater paintings Clearwater Gallery, ongoing

Cinema “Pride of the Yankees” May 9, Noon “Russian Ark” May 31, 5:30pm Cornwall Public Library

Festival Brid’s Closet’s “Beltane Spring Festival” Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, May 5, 9am-6pm

Holistic Living Psychic Lisa Ann Private Readings The Trestle, May 20, 2pm-5pm

Lectures Frog Walk May 4, 7:30pm Toad Tales May 6, 10am The American Crow May 20, 10am Lucky Lady Bugs May 26, 10am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

World of Bees & Brook Trout Exhibit Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm Meet the Animal of the Week Sat & Sun, 2:30pm

HHNM Wildlife Education Center

Music Tall Tall Trees May 11 Swear & Shake Jun 1 Two Alices Coffee Lounge, 8pm

Music - Classical Susan Martula clarinet, Stephen Walt bassoon, Janice Nimetz piano Music in Central Valley May 12, 7:30pm Central Valley United Methodist Church Potluck Concerts “Made in the USA” Cornwall Presbyterian Church, May 25, 7:30pm

Opera - Video “Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel at Glyndeboune” Cornwall Public Library, May 20, 1pm

Recreation Discovery Quests Saturdays & Sundays, 9am-1pm HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

Children’s Activities Nature Strollers Tuesdays, 9:30am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center

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Jammin’ to Narrowsburg Jazz Beats

“The Laugh Tour” in a Nutshell

The Laugh Tour is now in its second hilarious season in Sullivan County's The Nutshell at Lake Huntington.The show on May 26 will feature: Emmy Award winner Kevin Meaney.

With a blend of lunacy that includes physical humor, impersonations, stylized caricatures of nightclub singers and his signature "man on the street" interviews, making people laugh has always been a top priority for Kevin. His first HBO special in 1986 catapulted him to the forefront of the comedy scene. In 1987 he made his debut appearance on, "The Tonight Show", was a special guest on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Letterman, Regis, Oprah and Conan.

Kevin is also an accomplished actor, having starred in the CBS sitcom Uncle Buck, and also had a featured role in the movie Big. In 2006, Kevin expanded his acting repertoire to appear

in the Broadway production of Hairspray as The Male Authority Figure, playing five roles - Mr. Pinky, Harriman F. Spritzer, The Principal, The Cop and the Flasher.

Kevin is also a successful writer and producer.

The Emcee / Host for the evening is Rich Kevin Meaney Kiamco; The Howard Stern Show, Sirius XM, Queer Eye, WE-tv.

Come out and have a good laugh on May 26.

It’s a 7pm mixer and a 8pm show.

The Nutshell is located at 6692 State Route 52 in Lake Huntington.

For information visit www.thelaughtour.com.

A Murder Mystery Dinner will take place on May 5 at 6:30pm at the meeting house of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern. This event will include a three-course buffet dinner and two-act Liberty Free Theatre Opens Season theatre production with the main course of The Liberty Free Theatre is partnering Home, a new play by Constance Alexander, the meal taking place between the two acts. with CROC (Citizens Reunited to Overcome that follows the journeys of two women as This “whodunit” will include opportunities Cancer) to enhance their Emergency Relief they struggle to overcome cancer. for attendees to obtain clues and interact Food and drink will follow the Fund with a fundraiser on May 11 at 7:30pm Among the many services CROC provides performance.

Call 845-292-3788 for reservations for the the Orange and Sullivan County communities, the Emergency Relief fund fundraiser. offers financial assistance to individuals and SCCC Kite Festival families affected by cancer.

The Sullivan County The evening's presentation will be The Way Kite Festival at

with the actors in their roles in order to deduce the identity of the perpetrator of the crime before the solution is revealed at the end. This event is open to adults and teenagers.

Admission to the dinner and show is $20 and reservations are required.

For information or to make reservations call Anne Beck at 845-496-6749 or Keith Jordan at 845-978-5620.

Vocalist and bassist Nancy Reed was born in Brooklyn. Her father, Marcus Wilbun was a jazz and classical pianist.

Her mother, Lillie Wilbun, sang opera and taught Nancy to sing. Her first professional performance Nancy Reed was at age 19. By age 22, Nancy was performing full time and has been working ever since.

Artistically consistent and always the consummate professional, Reed has kept busy performing in Japan with the Nancy Reed Jazz Show, Mexico's Cancun Jazz Festival with the Nancy and Spencer Reed Sextet, twenty one annual appearances at the Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival and at countless private and club engagements in the eastern Pennsylvania area where she resides.

Spencer Reed, guitarist and vocalist has been performing continually since 1972. Born and raised in New York City, Spencer toured with the USO throughout the Caribbean and Panama and after freelancing in New York settled in the

Poconos with Nancy. The two have performed often at the Deer Head Inn, a jazz landmark.

"Sweet" Sue Terry began her professional playing career at the age of sixteen, playing for church performances and musical Spencer Reed theater. She began playing jazz gigs while attending the Hartt School, a well-known music conservatory in Hartford. Though she was accepted as a classical clarinetist, her secret agenda was to study with the late jazz legend Jackie McLean, which she did for five years. The Hartt School elected her Alumna of the Year in 2001.

This trio of jazz artisans are part of the 2012 Spring Concert Series in the Tusten Theatre in “Sweet” Sue Terry Narrowsburg. They perform on May 26 at 8:00pm.

Phone 845-252-7272 for tickets.

UpFront Birthday!

Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake is being held on May 5 from 10:00am to 4:00pm with live music, food, inflatable bouncy houses, craft vendors, raptors, and FREE kites for the First 200 Kids!

For information: 845-434-5750, ext. 4377

Upfront celebrates 5 years with a Spring Opening that will run through May 31 featuring the art of 32 artists and the newly added Wendell M. Upchurch Room!

UpFront Exhibition Space is located at 31 Jersey Avenue in Port Jervis. For information, contact Gordon Graff or Debbie Raia at 845-856-2727.

Murder Mystery Dinner in Rock Tavern

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Destination.................................................................................Milford DiLeo Does it Again!

Local author John DiLeo will be having a signing for his newly published film book Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, his fifth book about films from Hollywood's Golden Age. Screen Savers II is DiLeo's threepart "grab bag," beginning with his extensive essays about ten remarkable and underappreciated movies, as in the first Screen Savers, and representing a variety of genres and stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart and Ginger Rogers.

Part Two collects and categorizes posts from DiLeo's film blog screensaversmovies.com, containing his

musings on classics revisited, sleepers and stinkers, films old and new, plus his memorial tributes to Hollywood notables.

Part Three might be called a delayed bonus round to DiLeo's 1999 quiz book, with all-new matching quizzes designed to challenge and entertain the most serious movie lovers.

The event will take place on May 6, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Patisserie Fauchere, 403 Broad Street. In addition to signing books, Mr. DiLeo will offer a program of film clips representing some of the movies featured in his book.

For information, call 570-409-1246.

HPG’s May Exhibit The Highlands Photographic Guild’s (HPG) May Artist of the Month will feature photographer Bruce Frazier.

The show is titled Night Light and will be on view from May 12 - June 8. The opening reception on May 12 is from 6:00pm-9:00pm at the Guild, 224 Broad Street.

For information, visit www.brucefrazier.com.

For information on HPG call 570-296-2440.

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Lectures

Various Artists ongoing Greg Hecho Broad Street Coffee House

“Wildflower Walk” May 6, 9am Pocono Environmental Education Center

Bob Hartman, Richard Apgar, Frank Shuback, Phil Rachelson “Into The Woods” thru May 5 Emily Stern May 12-Jun 3 The Forge

John DiLeo film clips & book signing Patisserie Fauchere, May 6, 2pm

“New Visions” 40 artists The ARTery, thru May 7

Barbara Dachowski Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 1-31 Opening Reception May 5, 5pm-7pm

Comedy “2012 Wigsticks” May 19 (see pg 32) Milford Theatre, Teens & Adults: 3pm, Adults: 9pm Forsythe Fountain, Savannah, GA by Bruce Frazier

Pike County Choral Society members

sets and in brand new choral arrangements by Osborne with the PCCS. The concert will conclude with the world premier of five of Ken's songs arranged for chorus by Osborne.

The concert is on May 12 at 7:00pm at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 321 Fifth Street.

For info: email: pccs.milford@gmail.com.

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Music - Classical Pike County Choral Society w/ special guests Ken & Julie

Allen Levine “Beauty in Flight” thru May 11 Bruce Frazier”Night Light” May 12-Jun 8 Highlands Photographic Guild

Art After Dark Receptions May 12 The ARTery, 6pm-9pm Highlands Photographic Guild, 6pm-9pm The Forge, 6pm-8pm Broad Street Coffee House, 7pm-9pm

Pike County Choral Society’s Musical Bouquet A treat for Mom - just in time for Mother's Day, the Pike County Choral Society (PCCS) presents its spring concert A Musical Bouquet.

This mix of old and new features works by Randall Thompson, William Billings, C. Hubert Parry, Yehezkel Braun, and two well-known local composers, accompanied by organist Henry Repp.

The audience will be treated to a performance of the poetry of Robert Frost set to original music by Charles D. Osborne, internationally acclaimed composer and Artistic Director of the PCCS. Special guests are local folk favorites Ken deAngelis and Julie Ziavras. Ken and Julie will perform Ken's original folk songs in solo

milford & DIngmans Ferry calendar Art & Photography Exhibits

Kindred Spirits

Composer David Amram and poet Janet Hamill are the featured guests at a screening of the Jack Kerouac film Pull My Daisy.

Yosef Feigelson’s Kindred Spirits 2012 season opener will take place in the Milford Theatre on June 2 at 7:30pm, followed by concerts in the summer and fall.

For more information: 570-296-7429.

Church of the Good Shepherd, May 12, 7pm

Open Mic Broad Street Coffee House, Fridays, 7pm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Children’s Events Youth Entertainment Program Broad Street Coffee House, Fridays 5pm-7pm,

EcoZone! May 5, 10am-Noon & 1pm-3pm Pocono Environmental Education Center

Destination..........................ellenville Destination..................................Goshen Improv Nation at Shadowland

Led by Saturday Night Live alumna Denny Dillon, IMPROV NATION is a company of gibberish talkers, conceptual tightrope walkers, off-the-cuff scenemakers and ridiculous risk takers - in short, a daredevil ensemble of actors who improvise comedy and drama right before your (and their) very eyes. They have presented their totally unscripted evenings to delighted audiences at venues throughout

the Hudson Valley.

Troupe members are Dillon, Jason Downs, Davis Hall, Mikhail Horowitz, Nicole Quinn, Sophia Raab Downs, and David Smilow.

Denny Dillon studied improv with Viola Spolin, pioneer in the field and author of Improvisation for the Theatre. While a cast member of SNL, during its ’80-’81 season she also worked with Del Close, co-founder of Second City Improv.

A Tony-nominated actress, she won a CableACE award for HBO’s hit series Dream On, and her film credits include Saturday Night Fever, Ice Age, and United 93.

Last season she appeared at Goodspeed Musicals with PILOBOLUS in the role of Sponge in a musical version of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach directed

by Broadway’s Graciele Danielle.

IMPROV NATION comes to the Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal Street, on May 5 at 8:00pm.

For reservations and ticket information, call 845-647-5511.

For information about the Shadowland Theatre, visit www.shadowlandtheatre.org.

Choral Society’s 2012 Spring Concert

After more than fifty successful years, the Orange County Classic Choral Society (CCS) continues to play a significant role in the cultural, educational and aesthetic environment of the Hudson River Valley. The singers, from age 19 to 90, mature teens to seasoned seniors, come from within Orange County and beyond.

CCS is a year-round resource for choral musicians and grateful audiences.

CCS began informally in the summer of 1959 when the Reverend Samuel Reinke, pastor of the Blooming Grove Congregational Church (now the Blooming Grove United Church of Christ) invited singers throughout the community to join in the performance of Handel’s Messiah in celebration of the church’s 200th anniversary. The conductor was West Point (United States Military Academy) musician, Larry Newland. Encouraged by the very successful experience, the singers decided to gather once again in the following year to prepare another program.

Since that casual beginning in 1959, the Orange County Classic Choral Society has become revered as the Hudson Valley region’s foremost community choral arts organization.

Classic Choral Society has the pleasure and responsibility of engaging many of New York Hudson Valley’s finest instrumental musicians

to serve as members of the Society’s orchestra each season The Society’s 2012 Spring Concert, featuring music by Schubert, Mozart and Luigi Cherubini will take place on May 5 at 7:00pm in the First Presbyterian Church, 33 Park Place.

For information call 845-928-6462.

Goshen Calendar Exhibits John F. Gould thru May 21 Mike Jaroszko May 21-Jun 18 Elant at Goshen

Music - Classical Classic Choral Society First Presbyterian Church, May 5, 7pm

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Theatre - Play “Waiting for MacArthur” Cornerstone Arts Alliance Goshen Music Hall, Jun 2-17

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A Labor of Love: Mount Saint Mary’s Artists on Campus

by Courtney Pagliaro & Derek Leet

Regina Fortunato is the chair of the committee for Mount Saint Mary College’s Artists on Campus event, which is new and innovative this year. She and her volunteer committee have created an “all new and innovative event for the 36 year old art show.

Besides being held under a well-lit tent, affording the artworks (and people) protection from rain or too much sun, they have arranged for A Taste of Greater Newburgh to be part of the festival, affording attendees culinary art in addition to fine art and photography.

It all started when Newburgh resident Joe Benzinger and his wife, new to the Hudson Valley, were disappointed by the lack of outdoor art shows in the area.

In the mid-70's, Benzinger went to Father Joseph McTigue, the director of the Center for Community and Educational Services at “The Mount”, of which Benzinger was a committee member. Benzinger told Fr. McTigue of his frustration with the outdoor art shows that were few and far between.

Benzinger suggested that the Mount sponsor an art show, and as he puts it, "that's how it

all started".

Sister Frances Joseph Egan, who was the director of the library at the time, was very interested in the idea as well. Because of the Sister's love of arts, she had been hosting arts and crafts exhibitions at the library and had acquired a mailing list of local artists.

The first Show in June of 1976 attracted 45 artists showing their works. But this first outing did not go smoothly. It rained midafternoon and Benzinger, Sister Frances and Father McTigue were introduced to the challenges of holding an outdoor art exhibit.

But there was no raining on their excitement.

They even found humor in the rain and termed it "Irish Humor" because Father McTigue was of Irish descent. Despite the conditions, the founders of this show felt that they were on to something, that there was enough interest in this area to make this an annual event.

The show developed slowly from an exhibit of a few artists displaying strictly fine art to the show of scores of artists and photogrpahers that it is today. A judged section was added a few years after the first show. One of the later additions was a cash award for Judged Section winners.

Artists Step up to Support Historical Society

The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands will host its biennial Feast of the Arts Art Auction on May 6 at 2:30pm at the Newburgh Brewing Company, 88 Colden Street.

The event will offer a Live Auction by Celebrity Auctioneer Susan Hawvermale (see photo), a Silent Auction, and Chinese Auction (penny social) of original works by local artists, accompanied by an array of culinary delights prepared by local cooks and restaurants, as well as ale brewed right on the premises and wine from Brotherhood

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Winery.

Newburgh Brewing Company partners Christopher Basso, Charlie Benedetti, and Paul Halayko will host the event in their refurbished building, which last produced paper boxes, but is being completely outfitted as a brewery with a tasting room and family restaurant.

The fourth floor restaurant area will be the site of the Feast of the Arts art auction and it features panoramic views of the Hudson River and Newburgh's Historic District.

Tickets for the Feast of the Arts are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

For information or to purchase tickets, please phone 845-561-2585.

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Fr. McTigue died in 1981. The Show's committee decided to start a collection for the college and named it in his honor. Each year art is added to the collection from participants in the Artists on Campus Show and Sale. Sr. Egan, whose tireless work and support will be remembered, died about 20 years ago. The 'Best in Show' award is named in her honor.

Benzinger retired from the committee a few years ago.

And now over 35 years later, Mount St. Mary's College is proud to host the annual Artists on Campus Show and Sale once again with the help of the volunteer committee.

The Artists on Campus show runs from 11:00am to 4:00pm and the Taste of Greater Newubrgh happens from 12:30pm to 2:30pm

“Wine and Roses” by Gayle Clark Fedigan

Mount St. Mary College College is located at 330 Powell Avenue.

For information about Mount Saint Mary College’s Artists on Campus event and the Taste of Greater Newburgh event, phone: 845561-0800.

“Wetlands on Stone Church Road”

by Elaine Ralston

Give the Gift of a Brick!

“Father Bill” with students from NFA

Trestle, Inc., a Newburgh community Arts group conceived by Father William Scafidi (Father Bill), places Memorial Bricks on Front Street at an annual celebration.

Any event can be celebrated and memorialized: Birthdays, Graduations, Weddings, Anniversaries, you name it. And, of

course, bricks In Memoriam of dear loved ones.

Now is the time to order your bricks for the 2012 placement.

To obtain a Brick form call 845-565-1052 or download one at www.trestle.org.

Trestle, Inc. thanks each and every donor for their continued support!

...................................................................Newburgh Joel Evans Honored by “Friends” on Mother’s Day!

This year's Newburgh Chamber Music’s Mother's Day Concert honors oboist Joel Evans and his many years of beautiful performances and musical contributions to the Hudson Valley's musical ensembles, from New Paltz to Ellenville to Poughkeepsie to Newburgh to Cornwall and elsewhere!

“I'm so happy to be playing this concert with my wife Valentina (Charlap-Evans) and our long time friends Carole Cowan and Susan Seligman,” Evans told CANVAS. “Ironically, our program involves music written by composers for their friends!

“A piece by JC Bach was written for his oboist friend Johann Christian Fischer. One by Mozart written for his friend Friedrich Ramm of the Munich Orchestra, and one by Malcolm Arnold, written for his friend Leon Goosens, the great English oboe soloist.

“The Oboe Quartet in b by John Christian Bach is one of the earliest in what would become a common instrumentation in Western Art Music, and is also one of John Christian's more well-known works. Composers like Mozart and Britten would later write works for this combination, and those have since become standards in the repertoire. It represents some of JC Bach's most clever and graceful compositions, in my opinion.

Valetina Charlap-Evans, Joel Evans, Susan Seligman & Carole Cowan

“The Quartet was likely written for the great oboe virtuoso Johann Christian Fischer, who was a great friend and colleague of J.C. Bach's.

Fischer's wonderful portrait, painted by Thomas Gainsborough, hangs in Buckingham Palace!

“The overall feel of the Quartet is elegant and courtly. The phrases demonstrate a graceful arch and follow regular intervals, a mark of the Classical style. It's lack of a slow movement shows that the standard fast - slow - fast structure was still a developing concept. There are however some subtle references to JS Bach's ideas such as orchestration and some use of imitation and dissonance. As one of the first works in the genre of the oboe quartet, it is a formidable and beautiful piece that is a joy to perform.

“Mozart’s Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370, was written in early 1781. In the previous year, 1780, Mozart was invited to Munich to visit Elector Karl Theodor, who had commissioned his opera Idomeneo for a carnival celebration.

While in the city, Mozart renewed his acquaintance with Friedrich Ramm, the great virtuoso oboist of the Munich Orchestra.

Apparently Mozart (and many of the wind players of that orchestra) enjoyed a bit of darts, pool and adult beverage at a popular local establishment. This wonderful oboe quartet, dedicated to Ramm, was a result of Mozart's happy time spent with the woodwind section of this outstanding Bavarian orchestra.

“We'll end the program with the Oboe Quartet by Malcolm Arnold (composer of the Oscar winning score to Bridge on the River Kwai). This charming three movement work is in the "English pastoral style" with melodic references to rural charm, summer gardens, picnics and all the good things we have to look forward to in the coming months.”

The concert is on May 13 at 3:00pm in St. George’s Church, 106 Grand Street, across from the Library parking lot.

For tickets call 845-562-1861.

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Russian Rapture Indeed: Pianist Kariné Poghosyan is Back!

by Philip Ehrensaft

Some people run early and run both fast and beautifully. The exceptionally accomplished young pianist Kariné Poghosyan, who will perform Rachmaninov's landmark second piano concerto with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) on May 12, is just such a person. Poghosyan made her professional debut in her native Armenia when she was fourteen, moved to the USA to do her B.A. in California, went on to do her doctorate at the the eminent Manhattan School of Music, and then joined the MSM's faculty.

And, by the way, Poghosyan completed her doctorate in only two years, a feat last accomplished at that rigorous conservatory twenty years previously. And that was accomplished while she traversed the demanding first career steps of a concert pianist.

Those first career steps included performances at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall.

If you did not hear Poghosyan perform Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra last year, introduce yourself to the intensity and precision of her playing by going to YouTube.

Enter "Kariné Poghosyan" in the search box, and you get a nice list of live videos of

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Poghosyan performances that are available on YouTube.

Upon sampling these videos, I quite understand why the Newburgh Symphony chose the title Russian Rapture for their May 12 concert at Mount St. Mary College's Aquinas Hall, at 7:30pm. Poghosyan's playing is, indeed, rapturous.

The videos also demonstrate why Poghosyan has become a pride and joy for ArmenianAmerican communities. Hers is a classic immigrant success story: arrive, work very hard and very smart, and work your way up. New York City and London are the two global classical music capitals that attract top talent from all over the world. These musicians become New Yorkers or Londoners, but

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globalization also means that they maintain active performance ties with their countries of origin. So Poghosyan is also a pride and joy in Armenia, the promising youngster who went to America and became a Manhattan School professor and Carnegie Hall performer in record time.

Complimenting the Rachmaninov concerto, we'll hear another rapturous Russian warhorse, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, the "Pathetique." That term warhorse is meant as a compliment: Tchaikovsky's splendid sixth symphony draws audiences decade after decade because the music is, in fact, downright splendid.

For pre-concert listening, I would start directly at the source: Rachmaninov's own 1929 extraordinary performance of his second concerto with the iconic Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. While Rachmaninov recorded all four of his concertos for RCA, and RCA makes these available as a

budget 2-CD set, I would go for the Naxos Historical remastering of these h i s t o r i c a l performances, also at a budget price because the Naxos version is produced by the remastering wizard, Marc Obert-Thorn, with state-of-the-art technology. It can be ordered in the U.S. via Barnes & Noble.

For an exemplary modern recording, go to Stephen Hough's performances of all four Rachmaninov piano concertos, with Andrew Litton conducting the Dallas Orchestra, on the Hyperion label. To quote classicstoday.com: "This is the best set of Rachmaninov piano concertos ever recorded." It's currently available at a discounted sales price at www.archivmusic.com, which carries America's most complete inventory of classical music recordings and DVD's. To boot, these are SuperAudio CD's which can be played both on regular CD players or, to great effect, on decks that can handle SACD. The GNSO’s pre-concert Shacklett Preview will begin at 6:30pm, one hour before the concert. For tickets: 845-913-7157.

.................................................................................................Newburgh Community Theatre on Liberty

Liberty Street is home to a very special kind of “community theatre.” The performances can be labeled “interactive” because the actors perform right in front of you as you walk through an historic site.

They offer you characterizations of a revolutionary soldier who buys tools for General George Washington’s dental problems, a French pastry shop owner who might let you sample her baked goods, a security guard making his rounds, and a landlady coming to collect her rent from the General (and maybe gossip about George and Martha).

Washington’s Headquarters at 84 Liberty

Street offers tours weekends from 10:00am- 4:30pm, but on New York State Heritage Weekend, May 19 and 20, and Memorial Day Weekend May 26 and 27, the special “performances” will take place at 1:00pm and 3:00pm.

For information, call 845-562-1195.

Irish Folk Singing on Water

Following a winter in Brooklyn consumed by writing and recording new songs for their upcoming album, Dublin altfolk duo The Guggenheim Grotto (GG) will return to the road this month playing headlining dates along the East Coast and into the Midwest.

The Guggenheim Grotto, featuring Kevin May (vocals, keyboard) and Mick Lynch (vocals, guitar, ukulele, stompboard), first charmed audiences on the Dublin songwriter circuit, where they played alongside artists like Damien Rice and Glen Hansard. The keen lyrics, spoton vocal harmonies, and straight-up musicianship on the band's debut album, Waltzing Alone, won immediate critical acclaim. Their first promotional single, Told You So, quickly reached No.12 on the Irish National Airplay chart, while the album’s opening track Philosophia raced to No.1 on the iTunes Folk chart and remained there for weeks. When, two years later, GG released their sophomore album, Happy the Man as an iTunes exclusive, it, too, quickly reached the No 1 spot.

Ultimately, Kevin and Mick adopted Brooklyn as their new home base, and led their devoted listeners even further, with The Universe is Laughing, the band's 2010

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Art & Photography Exhibits

Museum Exhibit

Martha Zola, Stuart Sachs, Meadow “Energy Recital” Kaplan Hall, OCCC, thru May 4

Sigmund Freud manuscripts Karpeles Manuscript Museum, May 3-Aug 31

Music

Kelly Patton Caffe Macchiato

Guggenheim Grotto May 4, 9pm Jack Grace May 27, 8pm Railroad Playhouse

Ralph Aiello photography “Hudson Valley Landscapes & Sacred Places” Karpeles Museum,thru Jun 3

Music -Tin Pan Alley Tom & Sandy Doyle “A Tribute to Les Paul & MAry Ford” Newburgh Library, May 6, 3pm

Artists on Campus Mount St. Mary College, May 20, 11am-4pm

Music - Classical

Book Discussions “World War Z” Underground Books May 21, 7pm

Great Books May 23, 7pm & May 25, 11:30am Newburgh Free Library

Cinema “Contraband” May 7, 6:30pm Newburgh Library

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Mount St. Mary College, May 12, 7:30pm Newburgh Chamber Ensemble & Joel Evans St. George’s Episcopal Church, May 13, 3pm Newburgh Symphonic Chorale St. George’s Episcopal Church, Jun 3, 3pm

Comedy

Poetry Reading

Locomotion Series Railroad Playhouse, May 26, 8pm The Guggenheim Grotto performs at the Railroad Playhouse on May 4 at 9pm!

release. The album was filled with infectious tunes and intelligent lyrics that danced along the edge of irony, yet maintained a sweet innocence and faith in the promises of the universe.

The GG’s performances never disappoint. Kevin’s cheery and selfeffacing banter is grounded by Mick’s quiet force. Musically, the two are ideally matched vocally, and Mick's jazz-inflected, sometimes dulcet, sometimes peppy, melodies work gorgeously with Kevin's thoughtful and subtly seasoned lyrics.

Their influences run from The Beatles to Leonard Cohen to Radiohead to The Smiths, with "point-on harmonies and honest, observational lyrics," according to NPR, while the Times-Union reports them

Hudson River Poets May 3, 7pm Donna Spector & Mary Makofske May 15, 7pm

Poetry Circle May 31, 7pm Newburgh Free Library

Festival “Feast of the Arts” Art Auction Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands

Newburgh Brewing Company, May 6, 2:30pm “A Tase of Greater Newburgh” Mt. St. Mary College, May 20, 12:30pm-2:30pm

"attracting comparisons to Simon and Garfunkel from the worldwide music press with their smart guitar lines and even smarter lyrics."

The Guggenheim Grotto will be making a special stop, headlining at The Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh on May 4 at 9pm before heading out on their national tour.

The Railroad Playhouse is located at 27 S. Water Street.

For ticket information call 845-565-3791 or visit www.rrplayhouse.org.

Recreation Volunteer Fair May 5, 11am-3pm NY State Heritage Weekend May 19 & 20 Memorial Day Weekend Events Washington’s Headquarters, 1pm & 3pm

Theatre - Play One Act Play Festival Railroad Playhouse, May 11, 12, 18, 19, 8pm

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7-7 Playmaking Festival Railroad Playhouse, May 25, 7pm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Children’s Storytelling David Gonzalez Railroad Playhouse May 27, 3pm

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Meet Jason Cutmore: Pianist and Author

In a world where a Monday evening gracefully gives way to Friday's dawn, the fading of time is not a cause of wonder. It's merely a sobering fact. In support, consider that on Sunday, the 20th of May, the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series will conclude its 24th season.

To conclude an already note-worthy season, Howard Garrett has secured the internationally famed pianist Jason Cutmore, for what promises to be a passionate interpretation of the work of Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) and Manuel de Falla (1876-1946). With appropriate gratitude and recognition to Howard Garrett, each musical season in the Village of Montgomery has been an extension of the previous and each a quality notch or two above its predecessor.

The concerts are extraordinary events and, as stated, remain the product of Montgomery's Howard Garrett, a man who has dedicated himself to the promotion of cultural awareness through music. "Let him

step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away," Henry David Thoreau.

"Jason Cutmore has performed piano recitals and collaborative concerts throughout North America, Europe and India, winning praise for his "brilliant technical finesse" and "deep emotional penetration" (Offenbach-Post, Germany), and for the "charismatic generosity of communication in his music." (The Telegraph, India). Fortunately for the Montgomery audience, program choices for this year's concert are filled with emotion and passion.

Selected first is Cerdaña, the acclaimed work of Déodat de Séverac. It is a suite described as Five Picturesque Studies for the Piano, composed during the first decade of the 20th century. It reflects the strong beliefs of regionalism held by de Séverac.

The style is lively and sometimes a joyous reflection of romantic impressionism at the keyboard. Each of the five pieces describes

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a portion of a journey to a region of Southern Europe known as Cerdaña. It is a location that sits on the French-Spanish border between Marseilles and Barcelona, in the legendary Pyrenees. It is the flavor of France with the spice of Spain.

Bravo!

It is further anticipated that the selection list will include compositions of Manuel de Falla, considered by Chester Novella to be the greatest Spanish composer of the 20th century. An Andalusian by birth, de Falla's works include many chamber, instrumental and orchestral works, an opera, and ballets.

Interestingly, the Britannica considers Falla to have been an advocate of efforts to purify the traditional Flamenco, calling it "cante primitivo andaluz."

Jason Cutmore's recent CD Piano Music

by Manuel de Falla contains an exciting interpretation of de Falla's Andaluza. And for a preview of what's to be expected at this season-ending finale. Google Jason, turn up the volume and listen to Andaluza

and the Dance of Terror. Finally, and for additional information on this intriguing topic, one may read an article written by Cutmore, entitled Andaluza: From Inspiration to Interpretation, published in the American Music Teacher.

The free concert is at the Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street on May 20 at 3:00pm.

For more information: 845-457-9867.

...........................................................................................Montgomery “Moments of Creation” at WRS

Ulster resident and luminist artist Marilyn Richter began studies at the Wallkill River School after receiving a degree in natural science illustration. She uses the inspirational landscape of the Hudson Valley and the rich heritage of the Hudson River School to express her own unique view of the environment she now embraces. Working primarily in acrylic, she often paints from memory rather than plein air or photographs, allowing the richness of the remembered landscape to drive her paintings and infuse them with a romantic interpretation accessible and appreciated by anyone who has ever visited the region.

Sandra Faland Spitzer grew up in Brooklyn and currently lives in Orange County. Her artistic ability was noticed at an early age, and she was honored to paint backdrops for performances at Bay Ridge High School.

Spitzer studied painting in Europe, capturing the Norwegian landscape for many years, where she could often be found painting on the side of the road, capturing the majestic mountains, lakes and falls of the Norwegian Fjords. Spitzer calls the Norwegian landscape a “smorgasbord of scenic delights.”

Spitzer runs an art studio upstairs above the

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“Misty Mohonk” by Marilyn Richter

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galleries at the Wallkill River School, and can be found painting there most days. “Art opens up so many possibilities; like a new journey or a distant memory,” she states.

Elizabeth Torrence is the emerging artist for May. She has always been creative, and received much of her early training from her husband who was a portrait artist. He convinced her that she could also paint portraits, and encouraged her. Torrence took a drawing class with her two

closest creative girlfriends taught by Shawn Dell Joyce at the WRS. The class really opened her mind, and helped her to put on paper the beauty she visualized in her imagination.

Today, Torrence paints in grisaille (French for “Grey scale”) and captures the values from dark to light in her paintings before adding color. Her portraits now border on the sublime, as she captures the spiritual essence of her subjects in each painting.

Moments of Creation; the May exhibition at the Wallkill River School Art Gallery on Route 17K, will have its opening reception on May 5, 5:00pm-7:00pm. For info: call 845-457-ARTS.

The Wolfgang Gallery’s May exhibit will feature the work of Gallery owner Mikey Teutel in an exhibit titled Tying the Room Together.

The opening reception will be held on May 12 from 6pm-8pm.The show will run through June 5.

The gallery is located at 40 Railroad Avenue.

For information call 845-769-7446.

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Destination....................................................................Montgomery Montgomery's Eat This! Bakery

by J. A. Di Bello "It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, ..." but for many it makes life's journey worthwhile. The proud new owners of Montgomery's bakery, Randi Green and Josh Thiele have recognized this critical element of human frailty and the new Eat This! Bakery on Clinton Street, will now, bless the stars, be open seven days a week! For many this may appear to be an event of light consequence, but for those who savor the scent and taste of fresh baked semolina and still warm, sinfully scrumptious cupcakes the experience transcends the

mundane and approaches the next level.

The exterior bakery will appear the same, but follow a trustworthy nose and enter an attractive, remodeled bakery with its adjoining cheese shop. The casual visitor will discover inviting cafe tables and a tantalizing display of cow and sheep milk cheeses, imported from Spain, Ireland, and Italy et al. Available also and not to be forgotten are hot and iced coffees and fresh iced tea. So pull up a chair, take a seat and read the current issue of CANVAS while enjoying a cup of coffee, a fresh slice of gourmet cheese and a warm semolina.

Orange County Executive Edward A. Diana and Commissioner Richard Rose of the Orange County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department welcome the Historic 15th New York Volunteer Cavalry (NYVC), also known as “The Red Neck Ties,” to Hill-Hold Museum for their annual Civil War weekend.

Civil War Weekend attendees will be able to: Tour Union and Confederate camps and talk with soldiers about their life .

Participate in drills and get the feel for what it was like to be a new recruit in camp.

View scripted battle re-enactments each day,

complete with artillery and cavalry.

Watch artillery drills and firearms demonstrations.

Complete the day with a candlelight tour of the soldiers’ camp life at night.

Visitors beware - you may be questioned about your loyalty!

In 1993, the 15th New York Volunteer Cavalry was reactivated in order to preserve Civil War history. This popular re-enactment event is scheduled for May 19 and May 20 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

For information call 845-615-3833.

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Museums

Mike Jaroszko luminist James Hiller photography James Douglas Gallery, ongoing

Farmers’ Museum, opens May 12 Hill Hold Museum, opens May 19 Brick House Museum, opens May 19

Mike Jaroszko & Marilyn Richter, Liz Torrence, and “Florals” Wallkill River School, May 2-29 Reception: May 5, 5pm-7pm

Middletown Concert Chorale First Presbyterian Church, May 12, 7:30pm

Nancy Reed Jones, Marilyn Vanderpool, Marge Morales “3 Voices, 3 Visions, 3 Mediums” thru May 4 Mikey Teutel “Tying the Room Together” May 7-Jun 5 - Reception May 12, 6pm-8pm Wolfgang Gallery

Lecture & Panel Discussion

Music - Classical

Jason Cutmore piano Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series Senior Center, May 20, 3pm

Poetry Reading Christopher Gazeent May 2, 7pm Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

Recreation

“How to Publish Your Work” Wallkill River School,May 19, 4pm

Village-Wide Yard Sale May 19 Veterans Memorial Parade May 28, 11am

Newburgh’s Alice Dickinson (1956-2012) took an art class at the Wallkill River School (WRS), during her last month of life. For her, the creativity of the class helped to soothe the pain and anguish of dealing with terminal cancer. Alice recently passed on, but her artwork remains and is testament to her spirit. In a last selfless act, Alice’s obituary called for donations

in her name to be sent to the WRS for scholarships available to terminal cancer patients to take any art class they choose.

If you or someone you know has received a terminal diagnosis and may benefit from art classes, call: 845-457-2727.

Send donations to: Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St., Montgomery, NY 12549.

WRS Honors Alice Dickinson

Destination...............................................greenWood Lake Library Continues to Celebrate Titanic’s 100th Anniversary

Join Titanic Historian Denise Vanaria and commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the April 15th, 1912, sinking of the Titanic, at the Performance Showcase presentation of Titanic: Love, Life & Loss featuring Vanaria as Helen (Nellie) Andrews, on May 12 from 1:00pm-2:30pm, at the Greenwood Lake Public Library, located at 79 Waterstone Road.

Vanaria takes you back in time with "Nellie," as she recounts her early life in Victorian society and later when she meets and marries, Thomas Andrews, Jr., the Titanic's Chief Designer. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will celebrate a life of promises, dreams, accomplishments and then the ultimate tragedy!

Vanaria appears in authentic Edwardian wardrobe from her extensive private collection. She is one of the largest Victorian/Edwardian clothing collectors on the East Coast. All garments have been handrestored by Vanaria. She is consultant on Edwardian Fashion to numerous museums and entertainments.

A resident of the State of Florida, Vanaria has been active in the Titanic community for over twenty years and has worked in film with Robert Ballard. She was costume consultant for the Broadway show, Titanic the

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Music Leigh Jonaitis & Larry Newcombe Great American Songbook Jun 3, 1:30pm

Theatre “Titanic: Love, Life and Loss” w/Denise Vanaria May 12, 1pm

Denise Vanaria

Musical, and has worked many years with Titanic Historian and explorer, G. Michael Harris, at Titanic, The Experience in Orlando, Florida. Vanaria is also active in the Belfast Titanic Schools Project, the Nomadic Preservation Society, the British Titanic Society, and the Belfast Titanic Society.

Seating is limited; early registration for this free event is highly suggested. Young Adults (Grades 7 & up) are also invited to attend.

Guests are encouraged to dress in Titanic theme for the program.

Phone: 845-477-8377, ext. 101.

Destination..........................................................................................florida Florida’s One-Day Pottery Exhibit

Warm weather is just around the corner bringing with it many reasons to check out Florida’s pottery. Amity Arts Pottery Workshop’s Annual Spring Exhibit takes place outdoors on May 5 from 10:00am to 4:00pm (rain date, May 6 10:00am to 4:00pm).

Enjoy exploring through exquisite items produced by people who love what they do.

All of the clay artists have either studied with Judy Duboff or work out of the studio and will display original, practical, whimsical and exquisite examples of their work in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and textures to spark your imagination and inspire your creative side.

You will find clay vessels to hold warm soothing beverages, flowers, condiments or snacks; dishes, bowls, platters and trays; decorative images on ornaments, candle holders or home adornments arranged in visually balanced and aesthetically appealing settings to inspire and warm the soul.

Each artist expresses his or her own unique style and personality in creating these clay images that speak to the heart and come from their own hands.

Highlights include Duboff’s very colorful

Mexico-inspired creations; the advanced design and glazing techniques of Mickey Haglund, and the mystical feminine facial images of Heidi Bilezikian. Emma Gonzalez-Laders offers a variety of very earthy table settings, ornaments, trays, vases and vessels. Diane Arcieri sculptures and JoAnn Quattrone’s healing balms and ointments, displayed in her clay vessels, Melissa Peterson offers berry bowls and butter keepers, and Vicki Botta offers handpainted natural speckled stoneware. Other

Florida’s Stories

artists include Lynne Ratti, Christine Jacobsen, sculptor Bob Breuer, Carol McKay, Susanna Hatenboer and KC Marcin.

Quantities are limited and you won't want to miss the chance to get that one special gift that stands out from the rest.

Amity Arts Pottery Workshop is located at 480 Route 17A in Florida.

For information about the exhibit and sale, or for workshops and classes, you can phone 845-651-1170.

Adults over the age of 16 are invited to the Florida Library’s monthly Black Dirt Storytelling Guild meetings to tell a story or "just listen."

Meetings are the second Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. “Curiosity” is the theme for the May 10 gathering.

The library is located at 4 Cohen Circle, behind the Village Hall.

Call for a bookmark that lists meetings and special events for this theatrical art form.

Phone: 845-651-7659

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lectureS / DEmos / SymposiumS / Forums /Master Classes

Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock

sponsored by Hannah Brooks, MD, FACS

sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

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

MASTER CLASS Judith Pearce flute......................................Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Apr 30, 5pm Wildlife & Nature Photography Stephen J. Davis ......................................Eldred Library, May 1, 3pm MASTER CLASS Kenneth Hamrick piano ................Nesin Theatre, Monticello, May 1, 5pm & 7pm “How to Plan a Vegetable Garden” Kate Honders Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, May 3, 7:30pm "Finding the World in Your Backyard; Archaeological Dig at Ashokan" Andy Angstrom ................

Buckbee Center, Warwick, May 3, 7pm Frog Walk ..............................................................................................................HHNM May 4, 7:30pm Wildflower Walk ..........................................................................................................PEEC May 6, 9am Toad Tales..................................................................................................................HHNM May 6, 10am John DiLeo film clips re “Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies” ......................................

Patisserie Fauchere, Milford, May 6, 2pm “Pottery of the Upper Delaware Valley” Fred Assmuss ......................Deerpark Museum, May 6, 3pm “Brazil’s Grand Savannah: A Trip to the Pantanel” Bill Fiero ............................................................

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, May 10, 7:30pm “The Many Faces of Warwick's Architectural Heritage; A Conversation Complemented By Slides Richard Hull & Michael Bertolini Buckbee Center, Warwick, May 17, 7pm “How to Publish Your Work” 4 panel experts ................................Wallkill River School, May 19, 4pm The American Crow ..............................................................................................HHNM May 20, 10am “We the People: Reclaiming our Historic Authority” Paul Cienfuegos ..............................................

Ritz Theater, Newburgh, May 24, 6pm "What Are We Missing At Our Archaeological Sites? [A Critical Lens To Interpret Remnants of Mistucky, a pre-Warwick Lenape Settlement]." David Johnson ..........Buckbee Center, May 24, 7pm Lucky Lady Bugs ..................................................................................................HHNM May 26, 10am “Managing Your Money Wisely” ........................................................................................May 29, 7pm "Popular Wilderness Imagery in 19th Century Warwick Life" Robert Schmick ................................

Buckbee Center, Warwick, May 31, 7pm

books Book Lover’s Club ........................................Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm Book Signing & Film Clips John DiLeo “Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies” ..

Patisserie Fauchere, Milford, May 6, 2pm Book Discussion “Why Read Moby Dick” w/Kevin McFadden ....................................................

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, May 30, 7:30pm

Paul Cienfuegos Lectures at the Ritz

“I led dozens of First Steps in Dismantling Corporate Rule workshops across the U.S to create the possibility of real democracy in the US,” says Paul Cienfuegos, a workshop leader, lecturer, writer, bookseller and Engaged Citizen.

“Since as far back as I can remember, I have been passionate about social change, and have devoted most of my adult life to this important work.”

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Reclaiming our Historic Authority,” relating to the movement to dismantle corporate constitutional rights, will be given in the Ritz Theater Lobby on May 24 at 6:00pm.

The Ritz is located at 107 Broadway, just off Liberty Street, in Newburgh. For info: 845-784-1199.

May 2012

FAL........................................................................................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro

Akie B. & The Falcons ..................................................................................FAL May 3, 7pm Dennis Newburg..............................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 4, 8pm Guggenheim Grotto alt folk-pop ..............................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, May 4, 9pm Howard Fishman Group, Vickie Russell ............................................................FAL May 5, 7pm Livingston Taylor folk-pop-gospel- jazz ......................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 5, 8pm Country Joe McDonald Tribute to Woody Guthrie ..........................Bethel Woods, May 5, 8pm The Dan Brother Band, Paul Stark and 2 guests ........Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 5, 8pm JB/s Soul Jazz Brunch w/Connor Kennedy & Lee Falco ......................FAL, May 6, 10am-2pm Joe Fiedler’s Big Sackbut ..................................................................................FAL May 10, 7pm Ed Palermo Big Band w/Rob Paparozzi ..........................................................FAL May 11, 7pm Drew Kelly ....................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 11, 8pm Tall Tall Trees ..................................2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-on-Hudson, May 11, 8pm Wilderlands ..................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 12, 8pm KJ Denhart ................................................................................................FAL May 13, 10am-2pm Suzanne Vega ..................................................................................Bethel Woods May 13, 7:30pm CC&H ..................................................................................................................FAL May 17, 7pm Dirt Simple............................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, May 18, 7:30pm Chris Bergson Band ............................................................................................FAL May 19, 7pm The Speckers fiddlers ................................................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 19, 8pm IS ....................................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 19, 8pm Tres Amigo Spring Extravaganza w/Jonathan Batiste & Jesse Scheinin ......FAL May 25, 7pm Third Degree ................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 25, 9pm Talent Show ............................................................Main Street Stage, Liberty, May 26, 1pm-5pm Nailed Shutt ..................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, May 26, 8pm The Saints’ Swing Dance Night! w/Dance Lessons ..........................................FAL May 27, 7pm Jack Grace ..............................................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, May 27, 8pm Mike Baglione, Anne Loeb & Friends ....................Neversink Valley Museum, May 28, 7:30pm Jim Campilongo Electrio Trio w/Stephen Crump & SNL Band’s Shawn Pelton, Kyle Miller FAL May 31, 7pm Dennis Newburg, ..........................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Jun 1, 8pm Swear & Shake ....................................2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jun 1, 8pm Red Molly folk ................................................................Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jun 2, 8pm New Kings ........................................................................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 2, 8pm

Open Mic & Coffee House/cabaret Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ................................................Eddie’s Roadhouse, Warwick, TBA Music & BBQ Buffet ............................................Hoot Owl, Pine Bush, First Tuesdays, 8pm Open Mic........................................................................Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Stacy & Friends Musicians Gathering ..................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, 8pm Live DJ ........................................................................................Hoot Owl, Fridays, Pine Bush

Judi Silvano Performs for the Falcon

Jazz jammer Judi Silvano will perform at the Falcon on May 13 at 7:00pm in a performance titled Indigo Moods along with renowned jazz instrumentalist Joe Lovano.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. Check out Judi’s ad on page 36..

For more information call 845-236-7970.

CANvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation, Monroe ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon Beacon Galleries....Downtown Beacon, May 12, all day to 9pm Art After Dark Milford Galleries................................Downtown Milford, May 12, 6pm-9pm “Artists on Campus 2012” ............................Mount Saint Mary College, May 20, 11am-4pm Pine Bush Area Art Walk & Spring Fair ............Main Street, Pine Bush, May 26, 9am-3pm

cinema “The Interrupters” ....................................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Apr 30, 5pm & 8pm Reel Eclectic Film Series........................................Thrall Library, Middletown, May 3, 7pm FREE “Spellbound” Hitchcock ........................................................................Bethel Woods, May 4, 7pm “Contraband” ..................................................................Newburgh Library, May 7, 6:30pm FREE “Pride of the Yeankees” ..................................................................Cornwall Library, May 9, Noon “Chicago” silent film, w/Ben Model, piano ..Neversink Museum, Cuddebackvile, May 9, 7:30pm “West Side Story” ................................................................................Bethel Woods, May 11, 7pm Afternoon Movies ................................................Thrall Library, Middletown, May 16, 2pm FREE “The Sting”............................................................................................Bethel Woods, May 18, 7pm “Rumblestrips”........................................................................NACL Highland Lake, May 26, 7pm “North By Northwest”Hitchcock......................Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 26, 7:30pm “Russian Ark” w/Jeff Watson ....................................................Cornwall Library, May 31, 5:30pm

Joel Evans & Newburgh Chamber Ensemble Newburgh Chamber Music ..................................

St. Geroge’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh, May 13, 3pm Jason Cutmore piano, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series................................................

Montgomery Senior Center, May 20, 3pm FREE Delaware Valley Choral Society & Symphony Orchestra “Mostly Mozart”..................................

Drew United Methodist Church,. Port Jervis, May 20, 4pm Potluck Concerts “Made in the USA” ................Cornwall Presbyterian Church, May 25, 7:30pm Newburgh Symphonic Chorale..................St. George’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh, Jun 3, 3pm Benefit Concert John Feeney, Krista Bennion-Feeny et al Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jun 3, 5pm

music - jazz Purchase Jazz Orchestra ......................................................................................FAL May 4, 7pm Warwick Historcial Society & Jazz Festival FundraiserBuckbee Center, Warwick, May 6, 4pm Nicole Henry Band w.Steve Cardenas & Kevin Hays ........................................FAL May 6, 7pm Greg Osby 5..........................................................................................................FAL May 12, 7pm Judi Silvano’s “Indigo Moods” w/Joe Lovano & CD Release Event ..............FAL May 13, 7pm Cameron Brown’s Dannie’s Calypso ................................................................FAL May 18, 7pm Tillery w/Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato & Becca Stevens ......................FAL May 24, 7pm Pilc Moutin Hoenig..............................................................................................FAL May 26, 7pm Nancy & Spencer Reed w/Sweet Sue Terry ....................................Tusten Theatre, May 26, 8pm

comedy Michael Somerville ..............................................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, May 5, 9pm Johnny Rizzo, Alex Barnett ..............................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, May 12, 9pm “2011 Wigsticks” Upper Delaware GLBT ................................Milford Theatre, May 19, 9pm Locomotion Series ............................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, May 26, 8pm Kevin Meaney, Leah Bonnema ........................The Nutshell, Lake Huntington, May 26, 8pm

dance All-County Dance Celebration ........................Paramount Theater, Middletown, Apr 29, 3pm

Festival SUNY Sullivan Kite Festival ..............SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, May 5, 10am-4pm FREE WJFF Foodstock ............................................................Villa Roma, Callicoon, May 5, 11am-3pm Cinco De Mayo Mexican msuic, food, dance ..................La Polt Park, Liberty, May 5, Noon-5pm “A Taste of Greater Newburgh” ....................Mount St. Mary College, May 20, 12:30pm-2:30pm

Museums Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ........................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives ............................Hurleyville. ongoing Civil War Artifacts ....................................................................Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing “Coming of Age at Woodstock: Jason Laure” ..................Museum at Bethel Woods, thru May 31 “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters”..............................Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Jul 22 Frederick Franck Sculpture Garden and Galleries ........Pacem In Terris, Warwick, thru October Rondout & Neversink watershed areas ........Time & the Valley Museum, Grahamsville, thru Oct Storm King Sculpture Park............................Storm King Arts Center, Mountaindale, thru Nov 25 Sigmund Freud ........................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, May 3-Aug 31 “Light and Landscape” ............................Storm King Arts Center, Mountaindale, May 12-Nov 11 Farmers’ Museum ................................................................................Montgomery, opens May 12 Hill Hold Museum ................................................................................Montgomery, opens May 19 Brick House Museum............................................................................Montgomery, opens May 19 “Portrait of a Family: Papers from the Westbrook Family from the 1700 and 1800s” ..............

Neversink Valley Museum, May 25-Nov 25

Music - Broadway - Film - Tin pan alley - Opera - Operetta “Songs of Spring” Broadway Concerts Direct..............Wurtsboro Community Church, TBA, 8pm Tom & Sandy Doyle A Tribute to Les Paul & Mary Ford ..Newburgh Library, May 6, 3pm FREE

music - classical Classic Choral Society & Orchestra ....................First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, May 5, 7pm SUNY Orange Community Orchestra ....................Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 5, 8pm Julliard and USMA Band Trombone Ensembles ..Cadet Chapel, West Point, May 6, 3pm FREE Pike County Choral Society........................Church of the Good Shepherd, Milford, May 12, 7pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Young-Ah Tak, piano ....................................................

Mount St. Mary College, May 12, 7:30pm Susan Martula clarinet, Stephen Walt bassoon, Janice Nimetz piano ..........................................

Music in Central Valley Cental Valley United Methodist Ch., May 12, 7:30pm FREE Middletown Concert Chorale ..............First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, May 12, 7:30pm St. John Lutheran Curch, Middletown, May 19, 7:30pm St. Andrews Epsicopal Church, Walden, May 20, 3pm

opera “Aida” Hudson Opera Theatre ......................United Presbyterian Church, Middletown, Jun 2-10

opera - Video Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel at Glyndebourne” ............Cornwall Library, May 20, 1pm FREE

poetry & Prose readings Hudson River Poets ....................................................Newburgh Free Library, May 2, 7pm FREE Christopher Gazeent ......................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, May 2, 7pm First Friday Contemporary Writers prose ................Narrowsburg Library, May 4, 7:30pm FREE Dan Wilcox, Robert Milby......................................Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, May 4, 8pm Alyta Adams Poetry on the Loose ................................7 West Street, Warwick,. May 5, 4pm FREE Barbara Adams Poetry in the Gallery ..........................Wurtsboro Art Alliance, May 6, 8pm FREE New Poetry Series ..........................................Ruthie’s Restaurant, New Windsor, May 9 & May 23 Donna Spector & Mary Makofske ............................Newburgh Free Library, May 15, 7pm FREE Glenn Werber host ..............................................Bank Square Coffeehouse, Beacon, May 16, 7pm Third Saturday Poetry Series ................................Wisner Library, Warwick, May 19, 3pm FREE Poetry Night ............................................................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, May 29, 7pm Barry Wallenstein w/Steve Carlin guitar ....................7 West Street, Warwick, Apr 28, 4pm FREE Poetry at the Church ..............................................Goshen Methodist Church, May 28, 7pm FREE Gabriela Garcia Medina ..........................................Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Newburgh, May 2, 7pm 8th Annual Timothy Munford Memorial Awards Ceremony........Cornwall Library, May 5, 1pm Surrealist Cabaret poetry, prose, music etc. ........Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, May 25. 7:30pm Poetry Circle w/Barbara Adams ................................Newburgh Free Library, May 31, 7pm FREE

Recreation (adults, Teens & Children - see also kid’s recreation page 18) NY State Heritage Weekend Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, May 19 & 20, 1pm & 3pm Memorial Day Weekend Special Visits ....Washington’s Headquarters, May 26 * 27, 1pm & 3pm 80th Anniversary of Temple Hill Day w/USMA Hellcats ......................................................

Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor Cantonment, May 28, 3pm

storytelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Curiosity” ........................Florida Library, May 10, 7:30pm FREE

theatre - Play “You’ve Got Hate Mail” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ....................................................

Sullivan County Musuem, Hurleyville, thru May 6 “The Uninvited” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players..............................................................

Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, May 4-20 Mystery Whodunit & Dinner............Universalist Unitarian Cong., Rock Tavern, May 5, 6:30pm “The Way Home” Benefit for CROC ..................................Liberty Free Theatre, May 11, 7:30pm One Act Play Festival..............................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh May 11, 12, 18, 19, 8pm “Titanic” Love, Life and Loss” ........................................Greenwood Lake Library, May 12, 1pm “Herb Marks Freelance: Make Me An Offer I Can Refuse” Air Pirates Radio Theatre ............

Pavilion at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf, May 19, 8pm 7-7 Playmaking Festival ..........................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, May 25, 7pm “The Little Dog Laughed” SummerStar Theatre......Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, Jun 1-10 “Waiting for MacArthur” Cornerstone Arts Alliance......................Goshen Music Hall, Jun 2-17 May 2012

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May CTMW EHT FAL GLL GMCM HCC

= Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players, Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe = Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point = The Falcon, Marlboro = Greenwood Lake Public Library = Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, Senior Center, Montgomery = Howland Cultural Center, Beacon

MONDAY

30 Cinema “The Interrupters” Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 5pm & 8pm Poetry Reading Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

HHNM JCC LC MSM NCR NFL

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

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Poetry Reading Gabriela Garcia Medina SUNYO-KH, 7pm

Music & BBQ Hoot Owl, Pine Bush, 8pm

Poetry Reading Christopher Gazeent NCR 7pm

NRT NVM PEEC PT PV RRP

= Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall = Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester 845-345-1039 = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287 = Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh = Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 845-294-1056 = Newburgh Free Library

THURSDAY

3 Poetry Reading ................Hudson River Poets....................NFL 7pm Cinema...Reel Eclectic Film Series ..Thrall Library, Middletown, 7pm Music ..............................Akie B. & The Falcons ..................FAL 7pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

= New Rose Theatre, 35, East M = Neversink Valley Museum of H = Pocono Environmental Educa = Paramount Theatre, Middletow = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mi = Railroad Playhouse, Newburg

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Open Mic ............Broad Street Coffee

Prose Reading.First Friday Contemporary W

Cinema..........................“Spellbound” HItc

Music ............................Purchase Jazz Orc

Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited Theatre - Play....................“You’ve Got Hate

Music....................Dennis Newberg ........D

Poetry Reading ..............Dan Wilcox, Robert

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Cinema “Pride of the Yankees” Cornwall Lib., Noon Cinema “Chicago” silent film NVAM 7:30pm

Please check the schedule for Gallery Art and Photography Opening Receptions

Poetry Reading Ruthie’s Restaurant New Windsor TBA

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Poetry Reading Donna Spector & Mary Makofske NFL 7pm

16 Cinema Afternoon Movie TL 2pm Poetry Reading Bank Square Coffeehouse Beacon, 7pm

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10 Music ..........................Joe Fiedler’s Big Sackbut ..............FAL 7pm Storytelling......Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Library 7:30pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Open Mic ......Broad Street Coffee

Cinema ..............................“West Side Sto

Music ................Ed Palermo Big Band w/R

Theatre - Play.“The Way Home” CROC be

Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited

Theatre - Play..................One Act Play Fes

Music.........................Drew Kelly..............D

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Music.......................Tall Tall Trees........2 A

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Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee

Music ............................................CC&H ................................FAL 7pm Cinema ....................................“The Sting”

Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited” ..................CTMW 8pm Music - Jazz ........Cameron Brown’s Danni

Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music.........................Dirt Simple ........Danc

Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited

Theatre - Play..................One Act Play Fes

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Music..Tres Amigos Spring Extra

Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee Music - Jazz..Tillery w/Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato & Becca Stevens ..FAL 7pm

Cabaret.........Surrealist Cabaret....Seligma

Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Classical.....Potluck Concerts ..C

Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm Theatre - Play................7-7 Playmaking Fe Painting by Sandy Spitzer

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Recreation 80th Anniversary of Temple Hill Day New Windsor Cantonment, 2pm Poetry Reading Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

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Music.....................Third Degree ..............D

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Open Mic ..........Broad Street Coffee

Cinema...........................“Russian Ark” ............Cornwall Library, 5:30pm Prose Reading.First Friday Contemporary W

Poetry Reading ..........Poetry Cirlce w/Barbara Adams ............NFL 7pm Music.....................Dennis Newberg ........D Music..................Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, Kyle Miller ....FAL 7pm Music......................Swear & Shake ......2 A

Theatre - Play...“The Little Dog Laughed ..

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Writers ..Narrowsburg Lib. 7:30pm

chcock ........Bethel Woods, 7pm

chestra ........................FAL 7pm

d”............................CTMW 8pm Mail” ........................SCDW 8pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

t Milby ..........................HCC 8pm

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Rob Paparozzi ............FAL 7pm nefit Liberty Free Theatre, 7:30pm

d”............................CTMW 8pm

stival ..........................RRP 8pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

lices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 8pm

= Sounds Asylum, 59 North Street, Middletown = Sullivan County Community College, Seelig Theater = Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville = Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville = Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Orange, Newburgh = Orange Hall, OCCC, SUNY Orange, Middletown 845-341-4891

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Festival ..........SUNY Sullivan 22nd Annual Kite Festival ..............SCCC Lawn, 10am-4pm Festival ................................Cinco De Mayo........................La Polt Park, Libetry, Noon-5pm Poetry Reading........TImothy Mumford Memorial Awards Ceremony ........Cornwall library 1pm Poetry Reading ..............................Alyta Adams ..............................7 West Street, Warwick, 4pm Theatre & Dinner ......................Mystery Whudunit ..................................................UUC 6:30pm Music - Classical....................Classic Choral Society ..........First Presbyterian Ch. Goshen, 7pm Music - folk, jazz ........................Livingston Taylor ............................................................TT 8pm Theatre - Play..............................“The Uninvited” ......................................................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play ..........................“You’ve Got Hate Mail” ....................................................SCDW 8pm Music - Classical ..........SUNY Orange Community Orchestra ................................................PT 8pm Music ................Country Joe McDonald’s Tribute to Woody Guthrie ..................Bethel Woods, 8pm Music ............................................Dan Brother Band........................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy ........................................Michael Somerville ............................................................JCC 9pm

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Art Walk ........................Second Saturday ..............................Downtown Beacon, all day Theatre - Play...................“Titanic: Love, Life and Loss” ..................................GLL 1pm Art Walk ............................Art After Dark ..............................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pm Music - Classical.Middletown Concert Chorale First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, 7:30pm Music - Classical.....Pike County Choral Society..............Church of Good Shepard, Milfrod, 7pm Music - Jazz ..................................Greg Osby 5 ..............................................................FAL 7pm Music - Classical..........Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra ..........................MSM 7:30pm Music - Classical.......Music in Central Valley ..........Central Valley United Methodist Ch., 7:30pm Theatre - Play..............................“The Uninvited” ......................................................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play ........................One Act Play Festival ......................................................RRP 8pm Music ..............................................Wilderlands ........................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

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Recreation....NY State Heritage Weekend ......Washington Hdqrts., Nwbrgh,1pm & 3pm

= Thrall Library, Middletown = Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern = Wurtsboro Art Alliance = The Wherehouse, Newburgh = West Point Cadet Chapel

SUNDAY

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Music..JB’s Soul Jazz Brunch w/Connor Kenney & Lee Falco ......FAL 10am-2pm

Theatre - Play....................“You’ve Got Hate Mail” ......................SCDW 2pm Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited” ..........................CTMW 3pm Music - Classic Pop ..........Tom & Sandy Doyle ............................NFL 3pm Music - Classical...Julliard & WP Band Trombone Ensembles ....WPCC 3pm Music - Jazz.Warwick Hist. Soc. & Jazz Fest Fundraiser ....Buckbee Center, 4pm Music - Jazz.....Nicole Henry Band w/Steve Cardenas & Kevin Hays ......FAL 7pm

Poetry Reading ....................Barbara Adams ..............................WAA 8pm

13 Music........................................KJ Denhart..........................FAL 10am-2pm Music - Classical ....Newburgh Chamber Music ....St. George’s Church. 3pm

Music - Jazz..Judi Silvano’s “Indigo Moods” w/Joe Lovano......FAL 7pm Music ....................................Suzanne Vega ..........Bethel Woods, 7:30pm

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Art Walk...Artists on Campus 2012” ..Mount St. Mary College, 11am-4pm

e House ..................Milford, 7pm Comedy ..............................“2011 Wigsticks” ..................Milford Theatre, 3pm & 9pm Festival..”A Taste of Greater Newburgh”Mount St. Mary College, 12:30pm-2:30pm ..................Bethel Woods, 7pm Poetry Reading ..............Third Saturdays Series ..........Wisner Library, Warwick, 3pm Opera - Video..Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel at Glyndebourne ..Cornwall Lib., 1pm

ie’s Calypso ..............FAL 7pm Music - Classical.Middletown Concert Chorale St. John Lutheran Chruch, Middletown, 7>30pm Recreation NY State Heritage Weekend ..Washington Hdqrts., Nwbrgh,1pm & 3pm cing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 7:30pm Music ................................Chris Bergson Band ..............................................FAL 7pm Music - Classical ............Jason Cutmore piano......................GMCM 3pm

d”............................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Live Radio ....Air Pirates Radio Theatre ..........................Pavilion at LC 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited” ..........................CTMW 3pm stival ..........................RRP 8pm Theatre - Play ......................“The Uninvited” ............................................CTMW 8pm Music - Classical..Middletown Concert Chorale ....St. Andrew’s Epis. Ch., Walden, 3pm Theatre - Play..................One Act Play Festival ............................................RRP 8pm

Music - Classical......Delaware Valley Choral Society ..Drew United Meth. Ch. Port Jervis, 4pm

Music - fiddlers ......................The Speckers ..........Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, 8pm Music................................................IS ......................Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

avaganza ....................FAL 7pm

e House ..................Milford, 7pm

ann Center, Sugar Loaf, 7:30pm

Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm

estival ........................RRP 8pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 9pm

e House ..................Milford, 7pm

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Art Walk.....Pine Bush Area Art Walk & Spring Fair ......Main St., Pine Bush, 9am-3pm Recreation....Memorial Day Events ..Washington;s Headquarters, Nwbrgh,1pm & 3pm

Music ......................................Talent Show ........Main Street Stage, Liberty, 1pm-5pm

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CInema..................................“Rumbletrips” ......................NACL Highland Lake, 7pm Recreation Memorial Day Events ..Washington’s Headquarters, Nwbgh,1pm & 3pm Music - Jazz ....................Pilc Moutin Hoening ..............................................FAL 7pm Music & Dancing ....The Saints’ Swing Dance Night! ..................FAL 7pm Cinema............................“North By Northwest”..........................................PT 7:30pm Music........................................Jack Grace ..................................RRP 8pm Comedy ............................Locomotion Series ..............................................RRP 8pm Music - Jazz..................Nancy & Spencer Reed, w/Sweet Sue Terry..............TT 8pm Music ......................................Nailed Shutt ..............Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Comedy..............Kevin Meany, Leah Bonnema ..........Nutshell, Lake Huntington, 8pm

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Music - American Songbook..Leigh Jonaitis & Larry Newcombe ..GLL 1:30pm

Theatre - Play ........“Waiting For MacArthur”..................Goshen Music Hall, 7pm

Theatre - Play.......“Waiting For MacArthur” ................Goshen Music Hall, 2pm

Writers ..Narrowsburg Lib. 7:30pm Opera...................“Aida” Verdi ............United Presbyterian Church, Middletown, 7pm Music - Classical...Newburgh Symphonic Chorale ................St. George’s Ch., 3pm ancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Folk ..............................Red Molly ........................................................TT 8pm Theatre - Play...“The Little Dog Laughed ..................Orange Hall, Middletown, 3pm

lices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 8pm Theatre - Play. ..............“The Little Dog Laughed ........Orange Hall, Middletown, 8pm Music - Classical........Benefit Concert ......................Pacem in Terris, Warwick, 5pm

...Orange Hall, Middletown, 8pm Music ........................................New Kings............................Dancing Cat Saloon, 8pm Opera..................“Aida” Verdi ..........United Presbyterian Church, Middletown, 7pm Poetry Reading........................Poetry in the Gallery..................................WAA 8pm

May 2012

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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CANvas category calendar sponsored by Mary Evelyn Whitehill

ART exhibits CAG ..................................................................................................................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty CAS......................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor DAC ........................................................................................................Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg GLL ............................................................................................................................Greenwood Lake Library NFL ................................................................................................................................Newburgh Free Library OSH..........................................................................................Old Stone House, Hasbrouck (Woodbourne) SUNYO ..........................................SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 SUNYO-KH..........................................................................................SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall UUC ......................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Gallery 917-613-3489 WAA ..............................................................................................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance WRS ..................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery 845-457-2787

Carolyn Duke pottery ..............................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Mike Jarozsko luminist paintings ............................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Lisa Strazza ............................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Kelly Patton ............................................................................................Caffe Macchiato, Newburgh SUNY Orange Student Art Exhibition ....Orange Hall Gallery, SUNYO, Middletown, thru May 3 Martha Zola, Stuart Sachs, Meadow “Energy Recital”............................SUNYO-KH thru May 4 Bob Hartman, Frank Shuback, Richard Apgar, Phil Rachelson ..The Forge, Milford thru May 5 Sullivan County High School Art Show ..................................................................CAS thru May 6 Chris Sanders “Exactly” illustrations ..............................RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru May 6 “New Visions” 40 artists ................................................................The ARTery, Milford, thru May 7 “Imagine the Sound of Peace” ceramic bells by David Greenbaum plus 8 artists ..........................

Brook House Gallery, Barryville, thru May 20 5th Year Anniversary & Spring Opening ......................UpFront Gallery, Port Jervis, thru May 31 “Homage to Kurt Seligmann” multiple surreal artists Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Jun 15

Emily Stern paintings....................................................................The Forge, Milford, May 12, 6pm-8pm Bruce Frazier “Night Light” photography ..........................................................HPG May 12, 6pm-9pm Doug Craft ....................................................................................................................DAC May 18-Jun 9 Middletown Art Group Spring Exhibition, Mary Mugele Sealfon “The Sky’s the Limit” ..................

SUNYO May 20, 1pm-4pm Orange County Month Exhibit multiple artists ............Seligmann Studio, Sugar Loaf, Jun 1, 6pm-9pm

clubs Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip................................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels Josephine-Louise Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays, 6pm Friday Night Chess ....................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch ........................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitters & Crocheters Crochety Knitters ......................................Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10am Knimble Knitters ..................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10:15am Knitting Circle ....................................................................................Florida Library, May 21, 6pm Knitting Group ................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, May 25, 6:30pm Knitting knitters and beginners “Stitch & Bitch” ..Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org......Last Sundays, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild ..............................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ................................2nd Monday, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester Country Quilters Guild............................................Mondays, all day, Walker Valley School House Science Cafe ““An Inconvenient Conversation:Psychologies of Climate Action” Melissa Everett, Diana’s, New Windsor, May 23, 7pm Scrabble Players................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Thursdays, 6pm Scrabble Players ............................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ............................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Woodcarving Guild....................................................Valley Cabinets, Harriman, Wednesdays, 7pm

New art Exhibits Barbara Dachowski ............................................................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 1-31 “Signs of Spring” 15 artists ......................................................WVFA Gallery, Warwick, May 4-31 Lawrence Gregorek art & photography ....................................................................OSH May 5-27 Mikey Teutel “Tying the Room Together” ................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, May 7-Jun 5 2012Middletown Art Group Spring Exhibition ........................................SUNYO May 11-Jun 19 Mary Mugele Sealfon “The Sky’s the Limit” pastels & oils ......................SUNYO May 11-Jun 19 CAS Silent Auction Benefit Show ......................................................................CAS May 12-Jun 9 Emily Stern paintings ..................................................................The Forge, Milford, May 12-Jun 3 “Light and Landscape” sculpture ..............Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, May 12-Nov 25 Doug Craft ............................................................................................................DAC May 18-Jun 9 Artists on Campus....................................Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, May 20, 11am-4pm Mike Jaroszko ..................................................................................Elant at Goshen, May 21-Jun 18 Orange County Month Exhibit multiple artists ..............Seligmann Stuidio, Sugar Loaf, Jun 1-30

photography exhibits FOV ........................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon HPG....................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford KMM..............................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown James Hiller ..............................................................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Harry L. Goldman “Fotography Plus”..................................Andromeda Gallery, Florida, ongoing John Strazza ..........................................................................Strazza Art Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Allen Levine “Beauty in Flight” ............................................................................HPG thru May 11 Charles Maraia ”An Unfamiliar Place” ..............................................................DAC thru May 12 Ralph Aiello “Hudson Valley Landscapes and Sacred Places," ............................KMM thru Jun 3

School and Conservatory Habitat for Humanity Talent Show ..Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, New Windsor, May 5, 6pm SUNY Orange Chamber Ensemble..................................Morrison Hall, Middletown, May 6, 3pm SUNY Orange Symphonic Band ............................Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 12, 8pm SUNY Orange Choir & Madrigal Singers ..........Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, May 13, 3pm

Children and teens calendar Lectures & Recreation - adults & children, see page ??

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

comedy “2011 Wigsticks” teens 14+ and adults, Upper Delaware GLBT......Milford Theatre, May 19, 3pm

museums Meet the Animals .. ........................................................HHNM CoH Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm World of Bees and Brook Trout Exhibits ........................HHNM-CoH, Fri, Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm

FESTIVAL SUNY Sullivan Kite Festival................SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, May 5, 10am-4pm FREE

Music “Chinese Music: Yihan Chen” grades 2-6............................Bethel Woods, May 6, 12:30pm FREE “Big Drum / Small World” Jazz Reach ..................................Bethel Woods, May 18, 11am FREE

New Photography Exhibits Bruce Frazier “Night Light”................................................................................HPG May 12-Jun 8

Recreation EcoZone!................................................................................PEEC May 5, 10am-Noon & 1pm-3pm Nature Strollers..........................................................................................HHNM Tuesdays, 9:30am

Art & photography receptions “Signs of Spring” 15 artists ..................................................WVFA Gallery, Warwick, May 4, 5pm-8pm Barbara Dachowski ........................................................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 5, 5pm-7pm Lawrence Gregorek art & photography ........................................................................OSH May 6 TBA Mikey Teutel “Tying the Room Together” ..............Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, May 12, 6pm-8pm

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theatre - musical “The Wizard of Oz” ............................................................................Lycian Center, May 19, 11am David Gonzalez Storytelling ......................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, May 27, 3pm

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by Derek Leet

This spring’s Middletown Concert Chorale itinerary includes performances in one city and two villages. The opening concert is in Montgomery, followed by performances in American composer Middletown and the Ysaye M. Barnwell final destination: Walden.

The program incorporates an interesting mix of known and prettymuch-unknown works.

Known to most people in the Western World is Olde English composer Thomas Morley the haunting Londonderry Air a/k/a Danny Boy. There are many versions of the lyrics, but the most popular was written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally

written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the Londonderry Air in 1913.

Assuming the Chorale will be using his lyrics, this time when you hear it - do not think of a sweet old Irish mother singing to her son.

Picture instead an Irish lass at the time when under England’s iron fist, all the young, educated Irish men, and the strong and sober young Irish men, were deported to New Zealand to work themselves to death for the British and make it easier for England to subdue the Irish and forestall any uprisings (HA!)

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Canadian composer Steven Hatfield

American composer Rollo A. Dilworth

British composer Eric Whitacre

Picture this young teenage lass saying to her laddie that she..... “will be here in sunshine or in shadow” “'tis you must go and I must bide” “if I am dead, as dead I well may be” “for you will bend and tell me that you love me. And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me” and you will hear more depth and meaning in the song than you have ever heard before.

Many of the other songs on the program are inspired by earth, water and fire, so the concert is titled The Elements: A concert of Choral Delights.

For the more

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John Rutter

American composer Steven Sametz

American composer Eric Williams Barnum

unknown works, there is music by Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre, Steven Hatfield, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Steven Sametz, Eric Williams Barnum and Rollo A. Dilworth, in addition to Norwegian composer Ola Gjello music by popular choral composers Thomas Morley and John Rutter.

Some of the songs will be accompanied by the Tessura String Quartet and some of the Quartet instrumentalists will accompany other songs.

For the concert locations and times see the calendar on page 17 or the Chorale ad on page 32.

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Meet Nathaniel Philbrick: Author, Teacher, Lecturer, Historian language and alliteration found as Melville Read Moby Dick? will be held at the library on Have you read Herman Melville's Moby Dick? So many - especially English majors will respond, "Of course." Truth be known, this literary assignment from the list of required high school readings was frequently circumvented by the masses and the, "Of course" reply should be taken to mean that the CliffsNotes (formerly Cliffs Notes) version of this great American Novel was casually consumed. Others by chance saw the movie with Gregory Peck and believed it to be "a reading." A worthy digression here is to note that CliffsNotes can now be purchased and downloaded in a PDF format on the internet.

For those who sinned and seek absolution, attention is to be given to Kevin Mc Fadden, noted scholar and lecturer, currently of Mount Saint Mary College. He will guide a discussion group designed to consider Nathaniel Philbrick's most recent nonfiction publication, Why Read Moby-Dick?

For a novel packed to the gunwales with American history, culture and the essentials of Western literature, any serious consideration of Moby Dick would be incomplete without

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McFadden. There is nothing placid about this slim volume; it is an intense and forceful prod toward the "one book that deserves to be called our American Bible." He, Philbrick, passionately wants Americans to actually read Moby Dick, believing it to be an allegory of this great nation's history and future!

In retrospect, missing Moby Dick while in high school may not have been the catastrophic event many imagine. In Philbrick's opinion, "it's best to come to books like Moby Dick and Shakespeare after we've had some life experience." It is the combination of Melville's own experiences whaling combined with what was going on in America, the Civil War approaching, that cause the book to be relevant in all times." And in Melville's words, "I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

To this writer's knowledge, few have devoted significant time to Melville's poetry. "Good poetry" emphasizes Philbrick, "is about creating an emblematic and surprising scene that opens up new worlds." Note the visually descriptive

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treats his reader to a night on the sea. "...while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude: on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.

Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial;"

"The poetry of Melville's writing, when read aloud is spoken prose."

To carry the metaphor of nautical tragedies a step further the issues and terms mentioned here are but the tip of an iceberg exposed to all who go down to the sea with Herman Melville. It is the Josephine-Louise Public Library that broadens its well-earned reputation as a literary oasis in the Wallkill Valley.

With Director Ginny Neidermier at the helm (sorry), Kevin McFadden's discussion of Why

May 30 at 7:00pm.

Thar She Blows!

Young Adult Fiction by: J. A. Di Bello The Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden is a serious contender in the fast paced world of relevant media. As indicated by the clatter and clang generated by Susan Collins' Hunger Games, the YAF genre, i.e., literature for readers 12 and older, has taken the publishing world if not by surprise, by storm. As most are aware the novel is the first of a trilogy that has sold 23 million copies!

Furthermore and contrary to popular belief, the publication of YAF titles has increased by over thirty percent in the last four years. At the Library in Walden, Director Ginny Neidermier has displayed the insight and leadership skills necessary to sustain the interest and attention of young adults. In April she recognized the enthusiasm generated by the publication and scheduled a book discussion on book one. An additional book discussion is scheduled for the second book of the trilogy, Catching Fire, May 15 at 6:30pm at the Library.

.........................................................................Walden Walden calendar sponsored by Walden Business Association

Book Discussion

Music - Classical

“Why Read Moby Dick” Kevin McFadden Josephine-Louise Library, May 30, 7:30pm

Middletown Concert Chorale St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, May 20, 3:00pm

Lecture - Demo “How to Plan a Vegetable Garden” w/Kate Honders May 3, 6pm “Brazil’s Grand Savannah: A Trip to the Pantanel Bill Fiero May 10, 7pm Josephine-Louise Library

Music Open Mic & Den Series NY School of Music, May 25

Magic Tree Story Time 5yrs and up May 29, 6:30pm Josephine-Louise Library

Recreation Chess Club Mondays, 6pm-8pm Chess Club Saturdays, 10am-2pm Scrabble Club Thursdays 6pm-8pm Knitting Group Thursdays, 6:30pm Josephine-Louise Library ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Poetry Reading Kenn Nesbitt, May 4, 4:30pm Josephine-Louise Library ages 5yrs & up

Student Recitals Hudson Valley Conservatory throughout May

Family Event “Flower Power” Sara Mayes May 11, 4:30pm Josephine-Louise Library

Walden’s Acoustic Night by: J. A. Di Bello Rosie Rion, the energetic Operations Manager, Events and Programs Coordinator at the New York School of Music, confirms the school to be the focal point of events in the revitalized downtown area of Walden.

Tuesday night in particular is acoustic night at the School's Quarter Note Café, a live music series bound to please the entire family.

The café features a dinner special each

Tuesday, with professional bands from the area. Check it out. The school's website contains a preview of lineups: www.nyschoolofmusiconline.com. Also, on the 25th of May the NY School of Music will continue its popular Open Mic Den Series.

Registration for the popular Rock Camp continues at a quickened pace, as summer approaches.

Registration forms are available online at www.nyschoolofmusiconline.com.

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Lycian!

Explore the enchanting land over the rainbow where dreams really do come true! Follow the yellow brick road on a fun-filled musical journey and share Dorothy's fantastic adventures in the wonderful world of Oz! American Family Theatre (AFT) performs in over 300 venues each year. AFT’s award winning productions reflect a critically acclaimed commitment to full-scale presentations that involve the skills, talent and creativity of outstanding directors, designers,

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composers, performers and technical personnel.

On Lycian’s mainstage you will find favorites: Dorothy, Glinda, the Wicked Witch of the West, the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin man, all singing and acting for you and your kids’ (and grandkids’) pleasure.

Hmmm. Will Toto be there, too? Go and see!

Presented by Kings Theatre Company, The Wizard of Oz comes to Sugar Loaf on May 19 at 11:00am. This show will be fun for the whole family! For tickets: 845-469-7412.

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The Seligmann Center for Surrealism will continue to show a recently opened exhibition curated by Jonathan Talbot and Jessica Lawrence through mid-June titled Homage to Kurt Seligmann. It will remain open and available to the public until June 15.

The Seligmann Center for Surrealism is housed at Swiss-American artist Kurt Seligmann’s former estate, located at 23 White Oak Drive. It is supported by the Orange County Citizens Foundation.

For information call 845-469-9459 or email bonnie@occitizensfoundation.org.

Shown on right: “Kurt” by Lisa Zukowski

.........................................................................Chester - Sugar Loaf

by Naomi Kennedy Surrealism, a cultural movement founded by André Breton in 1924, uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility. It is one of the most significant artistic developments of the last century influencing not only trends in painting and sculpture, but also genres such as music videos and advertisements.

January 2, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Kurt Seligmann, the first European surrealist émigré in America.

Seligmann, a radical artist with a powerful body of work, created a community of innovative artists and attracted people like Marcel Duchamp and Charles Henry Ford to Sugar Loaf, after escaping Fascism in Europe.

The second event in the series Surreal Cabaret, celebrates Seligmann and the history and future of surrealism on May 25 at 7:30pm, with performances by poets, musicians, and visual artists, in Sugar Loaf.

"We have a very interesting array of people participating in this event," said David Horton, co-producer of Surreal Cabaret, who will perform as Dr. Thelonious Tinker in the The Four Grape Theory of Human Functioning. A live demonstration of Tinker's Creation Vibration Booster will be presented.

Surreal Cabaret in Sugar Loaf

Horton's media spans photography, digital media, artist's books, installation, and performance. His work is in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art. William Seaton, conceiver and co-producer of Surreal Cabaret, will perform Sound Poems read live to the accompaniment of an array of projected images. Seaton directs the Poetry on the Loose Series and teaches at the North East College of Poetry. His poetry, reviews, translations, and essays have recently appeared in Poetry Flash, Chiron Review, Adirondack Review, Gander Press Review, Burp, and Chronogram.

James Antonie and Michael Sean Collins will present The Alchemist, a ritualistic performance piece along projected images, showing the process of transformation and the discovery of the philosopher's stone. Collins has performed in film, television, radio, and theatre, as a poet, actor, performance artist, and photographer. Antonie is a multi-media artist who has exhibited extensively.

Holly Fairbank and John Toth will present The Nurse's Back: Apparitions on a Landscape, a performance-installation piece inspired by Salvador Dali. Fairbank is a choreographer and

dancer. Toth is a sculptor/digital artist whose performance. Participants are limited to 5 installations have been presented at venues such minutes each and will surprise the audience and as Brooklyn Museum and Lincoln Center. themselves with an impromptu piece. "This Kevin Garaghty, Larry Portner, and Steve surrealist styled performance with automatism Roe, three members of COPE, (Council of is fun and exciting," said Horton.

Poetic Experimentation), will perform the The Surreal Cabaret has been made possible with Conference. Steve Roe, the founder of COPE, the cooperation of the Orange County Citizens will perform in an excerpt from, and variation Foundation. Remembering Kurt Seligmann on, Robert Ashley's opera, That Morning with David Horton and others at the Seligmann Thing; a strange erotic encounter is described gravesite may be viewed on YouTube. while a dancer performs to live music. Al Admission is free, donations will be accepted Margolis of Pogus Productions will perform and refreshments will be served. The Seligmann as the musician.

Center for Surrealism is located at 23 White Oak There will be no rehearsals for this Drive. For information call 845-258-4620. chester / sugar Loaf Calendar sponsored by Orange County Citizens Foundation

Cabaret

Orange County Month Exhibit Jun 1-30 Reception Jun 1, 6pm-9pm Seligmann Center

Surrealist Cabaret May 25, 7:30pm

Comedy

Theatre - Play

Michael Somerville May 5 Johnny Rizzo, James Oakes Alex Barnett May 12 Rising Star Conedy Showcase May 18 Keith Anthony, Chris Clarke May 19 Rich Ramirez Jun 2 Jester’s Comedy Club, 9pm

“Herb Marks Freelance: Make Me An Offer I Can Refuse” Air Pirates Radio Theater Pavilion at Lycian Centre, May 19, 8pm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Exhibits

Children’s Theatre

Homage to Kurt Seligmann Collages Seligmann Center for Surrealism, thru Jun 15

“The Wizard of Oz” Lycian Centre, May 19, 11am

Comics Rise at Jester’s

Chris Havison

Ryan Dalton

It is not always “business as usual” at Jester’s Comedy Club. In addition to the regular stand-up evening, last month there was a combination of a one-man show, offBroadway play and dinner-theatre.

This month there is also a Rising Star Showcase hosted by Chris Havison with

Teddy Love

Jerrold Benford

Ryan Dalton, Teddy Love, Jerrold Benford, Eric Albert, Stephanie Vanacore, Johnathon Swift and Paul Byrne.

They are joining forces with Troy Mattessich to make a live filmed recording of the evening’s insanity on May 18 at 9:00pm. Doors open at 8:00pm.

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Soaring While Seated in an Organ Loft

by Kira Lamarre Herbert New and improved seems to be a catch phrase defining the better choice. Facelifts and teeth whitening treatments suggest that aging is something to be battled. So what would make something old the better choice? The answer is a custom designed speaking voice expertly crafted to live in a unique space. The answer is the pipe organ at the Calvary Presbyterian Church in Newburgh.

The 1937 Calvary Presbyterian Ernest M. Skinner and Sons organ needed more than a facelift. At first glance, the organ did not reveal the slow and tragic decline of its innards. Like in Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame, the bell tower hid a terrible secret. It had allowed water to seep into the church undetected and damage the choir section of the organ. This historic treasure was now a voice in jeopardy.

The repair work to the organ mirrors abdominal surgery. Its intestines and windpipes have been exposed and made visible. Climbing into the organ loft to witness this renovation is like entering an operating room littered with contractors' toolboxes, dust covered scaffolding, and leaning ladders. Rather than glaring surgical lights, the balcony is softened by the stain glass window's cobalt blue and magenta glowing hues. Peering in between solid oak panels, ductwork, metal pipes and wooden boxes presents a confusing image of industrial innards.

If this were a factory, it would spew gray smoke that would darken the sky and cause people to choke, but these innards are the windpipes and the vocal cords of the Calvary organ. What they spew is a perfectly crafted, voice-inspiring imagination, leading the congregation and causing people to soar beyond their seats.

Prior to climbing the dusty, winding stairs to the organ loft, Gordon Shacklett, Calvary's organist, led the way through the Frederic Withers-designed Gothic church as he explained the significance of the historic organ. Harriet Emigh Brown gave $20,000 as a gift to the church she loved. She was the wife of a retired judge and her gift paid for the entire construction of the organ. The organ was

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Gordon Shacklett at the organ

dedicated on December 5, 1937. The new organ was to be designed to allow full view of the stained glass window. It was Ernest M. Skinner who finally secured the approval of the trustees to complete the job. Legend has it that the trustees were concerned about Mr. Skinner's advanced age and that he proved his strength and youthful capabilities by doing a handstand.

No facelift necessary! His creative and innovative mindset is the hallmark of his organs.

"He was a magician at voicing," said Russel Oliver of Skinner. “He has made significant contributions to the school of American organ design and construction.”

The congregation at Calvary Presbyterian Church has been working with organ expert and artist, Russel Oliver, of the Oliver Pipe Organ Co. in Kerhonkson, to rebuild this treasure. The Russel Oliver Calvary organ has four divisions, three controlled by the manual keyboards (hand) and one controlled by the pedalboard (feet). The organ has a total of 2, 178 pipes and one 32 foot pedal stop whose tone is so low, you feel its voice in your chest more than

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in your ears. The organ contains many hallmark innovations that were unique to Skinner such as the Flugelhorn pipe, the erzahler (storyteller) stop and the flute celeste stop. The focus of the renovation thus far has been on the choir division, which sustained the most damage.

Retaining the original voice of this magnificent pipe organ is a celebration of the organ's incredible orchestral capabilities, as well as holding on to a treasured piece of musical history. It is hard not to appreciate the artistry of Skinner and the glorious voice of this organ. If you have been looking for an opportunity to travel, simply visit the Calvary Presbyterian Church and listen to Gordon Shacklett as he makes the organ speak her voice. You will be carried from your seat to heavenly places where

all time is lost. New and improved slips away and your spirit soars.

If readers are motivated to contribute, they have an “Organ Fund,” to which tax-deductible donations could be designated.

Send your donation to: Calvary Presbyterian Church, 120 South Street, Newburgh, New York 12550. Be sure to mark donation: Organ Fund.

Kira Herbert has written for CANVAS celebrating musicians in several capacities. This is the first time she has written about an instrument. More typically, she can be found writing with her students at the Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School. Writing this article reminded her that great treasures are often hidden in humble surroundings and taught her that you can fly from this earth while seated in an organ loft.

Music for Brass Ensemble & Organ

On May 6 at 3:00pm, Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic will lead the renowned Juilliard Trombone Choir in a concert of modern masterpieces and transcriptions of traditional favorites for the unique sound of trombone ensemble in the acoustical environment of the Cadet Chapel.

The Choir will join forces with the USMA Band Trombone Ensemble and will also join Craig Williams, USMA Organist/Choirmaster who plays the chapel pipe organ - the world’s largest pipe organ in a house of worship! The trombones and organ will join in a transcription of music from Star Wars. The concert is free and

open to the public.

West Point’s Cadet Chapel is a gothic cathedral structure built between 1908 and 1910 Joseph having celebrated its Alessi centennial this past year.

The centennial of the organ is being celebrated this year in a series of concerts including this one. The organ consists of over 23,500 pipes and is heard by literally thousands of visitors every year.

Due to security requirements at West Point, check www.westpoint.edu/special before leaving for the concert. Phone: 845-938-2784.

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Dorothy Macardle (see photo) was born in Ireland in 1889 into a wealthy brewing family, famous for their Macardle's Ale. When the republican movement split in 1921-22 over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, MacArdle sided with Éamon de Valera and the anti-Treaty Irregulars. She was imprisoned by the fledgling Free State government in 1922, during the Civil War, and served time in both Mountjoy and Kilmainham Gaols.

While working as a journalist with the League of Nations in the 1930s she acquired a considerable affinity with the plight of pre-war Czechoslovakia. Consequently she differed with official Irish government policy on the threat of Nazism, Irish neutrality during World War II, compulsory Irish language teaching in schools, and deplored what she saw as the reduced status of women in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.

Macardle’s 1942 novel, The Uninvited, was the basis for the 1944 movie of the same name and was subsequently adapted into a play by Tim Kelly.

Kelly was born in Massachusetts in 1932. His first stage play was Widow's Walk, published in the 1960. In 1995, he became a member of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He died suddenly in 1998.

Ruth Hussey, Ray Milland & Gail Russell in “The Uninvited” (1944)

There are few theater companies that can boast a sustained operation over many years here in the Hudson Valley. Creative Theatre was incorporated in 1978. In 1998, after a "trial marriage" highlighted by a joint production of Arsenic and Old Lace, it was decided to merge Muddy Water Players and Creative Theater into one operation.

Directed by Terri Brockmann, Kelly’s adaptation of Macardle’s novel is the season opener for Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players. The mystery will run from May 4 through May 20 in The Playhouse at Museum Village, on Route 17M. For tickets and more information phone 845294-9465.

Arrow Park Sculpture Garden is 40!

The lodge at Arrow Park was built in 1909 at the height of the arts and crafts movement in America, built with amazing attention to detail using local materials, and situated above a 52 acre lake. Arrow Park, itself, was established in 1948 as a place of rest and recreation for slavic families from the inner cities who had no green space.

In 1972 a poet's garden was completed at Arrow Park. It includes massive busts of Alexander Pushkin, Taras Shevchenko, Yanka Kupala and Walt Whitman. Pushkin, Shevchenko and Kupala busts were gifts from their respective countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) and the Whitman statue was commissioned by the Park and was sculpted by Bruno Luchessi. (see photo on right).

These poets were chosen because they were committed to the fundamental humanitarian issues of: peace on earth, freedom from slavery and oppression, and the brotherhood of all people everywhere.

For the garden’s 40th anniversary, “we are going to have readings and songs from all of the poets read in English and their native languages,” said park owner Julia Kole, “followed by a polka concert in the pavilion for our Arrow Park Lake and Lodge Rededication of Sculpture Garden on May 27.

Slavic food and drink will be served.

The park opens at 11:00am and the program begins at 2:00pm with Pushkin and Whitman scholars honoring sculptor Luchessi. Jimmy Sturr and his Orchestra will join the party at 4:00pm.

Arrow Park is located at 1061 Orange Turnpike.

For information call Julia at 845 545 0502.

monroe calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning & Preservation

“The Uninvited” Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players ........Playhouse at Museum Village, May 4-20 Free Admission Day..............................................................................................Museum Village, May 5 Taste of Monroe-Woodbury ......................................................Museum Village, May 20, Noon-2:30pm Zerbini Family Circus....................................................................................Museum Village, May25-28 Rededicatin of Sculpture Gargen Festival ............................................Arrow Park, May 27, 11am-6pm

Free Admission Day

Museum Village opened its 2012 season on April 14. “The Museum is looking forward to a great season," said general Manager, Michael Sosler. “And we will have many many new surprises for our visitors during the year!"

May 5 is Free Admission Day at the Museum! Take advantage and come and meet Harri - one of the three complete Mastodons in the world!

For more information: 845-782-8247.

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Pine Bush Chamber of Commerce’s Spring Fair 2012

The Pine Bush Area Chamber of Commerce is having their Main Street Spring Fair, which will include an Art Walk, on May 26 from 9:00am-3:00pm. The Rain Date is May 27. There will be art, music, food and games! This is also the day of the Town Wide Yard Sale, so it will be a very busy day in Pine Bush!

Artists at press time include: C. Clement Beck, Mickie MacMillan, Marcia Shotzberger, Reha Demirer, Arty Tea Party, Terry Decker, Debra Femiak, Natalie Medina, and Lisa O'Gorman. As of this writing, businesses who are hosting an artist include: R.J. Smith Realty, Pine Bush House, Mitchell Performing Arts Center, the Cultural Center, and Quimby Driveway.

Music will be at the Gazebo, and includes musicians Not Just Country Line Dancers.

Jason Coppola of iDJ Solo is donating the sound system for the day!

The Community Organizations participating are the Pine Bush Fire Department, Pine Bush Relay for Life, Pine Bush Ambulance Corp, Pine Bush Area Arts Council, and Marsha Jones with Child ID. For information email Ellen Quimby, of the

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Painting by Mickie MacMillan

Arty Tea Party “Layered Birdhouse”

Pine Bush Chamber of Commerce. at pinebushchamberofcommerce@gmail.com.

And: On May 16 at 6:00pm there will be a Chamber Mixer with the Goshen Chamber at the Catholic War Veterans.

And on May 19 join the Chamber for the Main Street Clean-Up! Meet at All Things Delicious at 8:00am sharp!

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Not Just Country Line Dancers will make an appearance for the Spring Fair!

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Healthier Dogs Prompt Community Festival The sense of celebration that communities and residents feel during a festival is often at the heart of a successful event.

Bark in the Park, a Susan Handler day for honoring and caring for your dogs, is an opportunity for the Pine Bush community to show tourists that their hometown understands that pets have a positive impact on their lives. On Saturday, June 2 from 10:00am to 4:00pm, healing art practitioners, visual artists, crafts people, musicians, local pet businesses, and food vendors will come together to support free pet information that will facilitate sustainable healthy dog programs in the home.

Dogs enjoy a unique relationship with humans unlike any other domesticated species. New research even shows that dog owners may have better health than those without. "There's definitely a relationship between the exercise you do with your pet

and the Walker Valley Marching Band, dog and human games, contest and prizes, a petting zoo and pony rides, delicious food for both species, a costumed pet parade, and art vendors selling wares. The Canine Stitch will be offering customized collars and leashes.

This event is being organized by the Pampered Pet and sponsored by many

small businesses in the town of Pine Bush.

All proceeds go to the Humane Society of Walden. $10 rabies shots will be available.

Come feel the warmth of true community spirit!

For additional information about vendor booths and the event, email pamperedpetgrooing@gmail.com or call 845-744-5587.

and the psychological and physical benefits for you," states Dr. Katherine Miller, Assistant Science Advisor at the ASPCA. "There's research showing people who have physical ailments or have been hospitalized and have a dog at home tend to recover more quickly and express more satisfaction with their lives."

In the process of receiving health information for their pets, the residents, visitors, and animals that attend Bark in the Park will enjoy cultural and musical benefits, and good old fashion belly laughing fun for the whole family. WRWD 107.3 will be at the event along with a DJ

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Happy 66th Birthday Middletown Art Group!

Arts & Agriculture: “Nourishing Body and Soul” sponsored by Wallkill River School & Gallery, Montgomery

“Determined” by Renee Buckheit

The Middletown Art Group (MAG) celebrates its 66th birthday with its 2012 Middletown Art Group Spring Members' Exhibition at Orange Hall Gallery, SUNY Orange. The exhibit will be on view May 11 through June 19 and will display nearly 90 artworks in a variety of media: watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, graphite, collage, mixed media, photography, and sculpture.

The exhibition will be judged by awardingwinning artist Clayton Buchanan of Newburgh. Awards will be presented during the reception which takes place on May 20 from 1pm to 4pm.

The name “Middletown Art Group” [MAG] sounds exclusive to Middletown residents.

However, members of MAG not only come from Middletown; they also reside in other parts

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“Orchids” by Mitchell Saler

of Orange County as well as Ulster, Sullivan, Dutchess, Sussex, and Pike Counties. Originally established to offer artists, craftsmen, art teachers, and students opportunities for exchanging ideas and providing an atmosphere in which to improve individual skills, the organization continues this mission and, in addition, presents at the monthly meetings, demonstrations explaining various media such as watercolor, oils, pastels, fabric collage, batik technique, and framing.

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“Irisis” by Jane Koeck

Exhibit co-chairs are Joyce V. Garrett and Anne W. Kelly, longtime MAG members who are also co-vice-presidents of the organization.

Jill Constantino is president and Jeannette McGee and Ann Marie Morales-Ear serve as secretary and treasurer, respectively.

For information call 845-341-4891.

NACL Theatre in Highland Lake is launching a CSArts program that follows the model of the farm CSA wherein an Tannis Kowalchuk in NACL’s individual or production of “Struck” family can buy a share in the theatre at the beginning of the season and, as an invested CSArts member, reap the benefit of local arts produce. Members receive a season pass for all events at the theatre for the entire season.

NACL artistic director, Tannis Kowalchuk says, “Art feeds the soul. It attracts creative people, increases business and property values, and spawns a domino effect of energy that engages a younger generation. Art and artists are essential in creating sustainable and vibrant communities. And, like any local business that contributes a unique service to the local economy, the support of residents, both full and part-time, is essential. In this case, the slogan “Buy Local” also refers to local art.”

The film Rumblestrips opens the NACL season May 26 at 7:00pm.

For a season program, phone 845-557-0694.

Destination...........................................................................middletown Summerstar Theatre & “The Little Dog Laughed”

Playwright and screenwriter Douglas Carter Beane, who was born in WilkesBarre, PA, often writes works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor. He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for the Broadway production of Xanadu and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical in 2007.

In 2011, Beane was hired to 'doctor' the book for Sister Act (the musical) for which he and the co-authors received a Tony nomination. Beane is also the artistic director of the Drama Department Theater Company in New York City.

Beane’s comedy The Little Dog Laughed was originally produced off-Broadway at the

Second Stage Theatre in NYC in 2006. It transferred to Broadway and ran for 112 performances and was was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.

The title is a reference to the fictional short story written by Arturo Bandini in John Fante's Ask The Dust. The same title is also used for a fictional play that appears in Agatha Christie's Three Act Tragedy.

Summerstar Theatre is presenting the play in Orange Hall Theatre on Grandview and Waywayanda Avenues from June 1-10.

It is directed by Max Schaefer, Professor of Theater and Speech at SUNY Orange Middletown campus.

Tickets may be purchased online at: www.summerstartheatre.com.

Middletown calendar Cinema

SUNY Orange Symphonic Band Paramount Theatre, May 12, 8pm SUNY Orange Choir & Madrigal Singers Orange Hall Theatre, May 13, 3pm Middletown Concert Chorale St. John Lutheran Church, May 19, 7:30pm

Exhibits SUNYO Student Art Exhibition thru May 4 Middletown Art Group & Mary Mugele Sealfon “The Sky’s the Limit” Orange Hall Gallery, May 11-Jun 19 Reception: May 20, 1pm-4pm

Opera “Aida” Verdi Hudson Opera Theatre United Presbyterian Church, Jun 2-10

Theatre - Play

Music - Classical

“The Little Dog Laughed” SummerStar Theatre Orange Hall Theatre, Jun 1-10

SUNY Orange Community Orchestra Paramount Theatre, May 5, 8pm

Sealfon Contemplates Clouds at SUNYO Exhibit

and played it on the guitar I left behind when I went to New York. I never saw him again. He died a month later in a car accident just before his seventeenth birthday.

Editor’s note: Sealfon’s exhibit The Sky’s the Limit is in Orange Hall Gallery from May 11 to June 19, with an opening reception on May 20 from 1:00pm-4:00pm.

For further information, call Cultural Affairs at SUNY Orange at 845-341-4891.

by Mary Mugele Sealfon

Why do I love painting clouds?

Perhaps it is the challenge of capturing constant change. The rest of the landscape remains relatively still, though the light across it changes. But clouds can be like mountains running across the plains.

Sky without clouds can be boring. It is the cloud filled skies that make the most spectacular sunsets. Their changeability allows your imagination to wander. It’s like a Rorshach test: "What do you see?"

When I got my pilot's license, I learned to identify various types of clouds. Avoid anvil head cumulonimbus (thunderheads)! When flying near mountains, lenticular clouds can be wind indicators. I loved flying above fair weather clouds, watching their shadows cross the landscape. ‘A warm down quilt you could pull over you, but you knew if you reached out it would dissolve and float away.’

Like the Hindu god Shiva, a creator and

SUNY Orange Chamber Ensemble Morrison Hall, May 6, 3pm

Reel Eclectic Film Series Thrall Library, May 3, 7pm Afternoon Movie Thrall Library, May 16, 2pm “North By Northwest” Hitchcock Paramount Theatre, May 26, 7:30pm

Pianist Poyerd

Beverly Poyerd of Washingtonville will play jazz, classical, and contemporary music at the May 20 reception for two SUNY Orange exhibitions from 1:15pm to 3:45pm.

See stories on this page and page 30.

“Clouds” by Mary Mugele Sealfon

destroyer, clouds bring life-giving water and deadly tornadoes. Last year the northeast suffered horrible floods. This year's drought finds me yearning for rain.

As a child living on a hill across from San Francisco, I loved watching the fog (Stratus cloud) roll in over the Golden Gate, slowly covering the city until it lapped at my feet and flowed over me. The smell of the Eucalyptus trees intensified as the moisture loudly dripped off the leathery leaves in the muffled landscape.

I've looked at Clouds (Life, Love) from Both Sides Now, a song by Joni Mitchell, is full of poignant metaphors. Years ago, I was home in California for Christmas and my brother sang

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Community Building Through the Arts with Susan Handler

More “Mostly Mozart”

Drag Comedy Ensemble Address Bullying

Bullying and harassment is now recognized as being an epidemic in our schools.

The United States Civil Rights Commission released a federal response in 2011 on Peerto-Peer Violence and Bullying. One of the Commission’s three specific findings states, “The current federal civil rights laws do not protect students from peer-to-peer harassment that is solely on the basis of sexual orientation.” Theatrical Director Patrick Kearney, and performers Mark Silverstone and Timothy Morrell of Wigstock, a New York City non-profit transgender theatrical company in existence since 1985, are addressing this topic as art advocates for social justice. They are using their creative capital to create a culture of respect in educational institutions and town communities for students who are struggling with the public’s response to their gender identity and sexual orientation.

Collaborating with The Upper Delaware Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Center (GLBT) and Safe Haven's Rallying Youth Organizers Together (RYOT), the team is producing the fundraiser, Wigsticks Fairy Tales, a Drag Comedy Show for teens, parents, educators, and community members. In a safe

format, the comedy production will address discrimination, and the multiple physical and emotional issues facing transgender and gender nonconforming youth due to bullying.

The Milford business and residential community has provided support for previous Wigstock, GLBT Center, and RYOT collaborations. These organizations are aware of the mounting research that shows that the targeting of bullies of transgender and gender nonconforming students is pervasive and affects their health, school attendance, performance, and success in adulthood. Moreover, the rate of suicide attempts is shocking.

The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey reported that 41 percent of the 6,450 teen and adult respondents to the survey had attempted suicide compared with the estimated 1.6 percent of the general public. With statistics as disturbing as these, the partnering non-profits believe that it is essential to provide safe havens for GLBT youth to discuss the difficulties facing them.

On May 19 at the historic Milford Theatre there will be a 3:00pm PG 14 years and over performance of 2012 Wigsticks, followed by a Q&A, and a 9:00pm adult performance with your favorite fairytale characters followed by a dance party at the Tom Quick Inn. For tickets and further information visit www.Wigsticks.org.

The Delaware Valley Choral Society (DVCS) and Symphony Orchestra will be performing a Mostly Mozart concert at 4pm on May 20 at Drew United Methodist Church located at 49-51 Sussex Street in Port Jervis.

The program includes Mozart’s very popular Exsultate Jubilate, the final movement of which is his famous Alleluia, sung by professional soprano soloist, Jocelyn Lieberfarb, a new member to DVCS. Also on the program is Mozart’s Fantasy in F minor performed by Craig Williams, (see photo) Organist and Choirmaster of the Cadet Chapel, United States Military Academy at West Point, where he plays the world’s largest church pipe organ and directs the Cadet Choir.

Callicoon Storytelling

Music for Kids in Livingston Manor

The Indigo Wizard’s Awakening Tales, allegories for children, are set in a magical glen where gentle, talking animals and a very kind and wise wizard experience many adventures together. Along the way, they learn respect – for self, others and the environment – as well as empathy, kindness, and the value of cooperation.

Livingston Manor-based composer Ann Krupski (see photo) created the original orchestral score and produced the two-CD audio book. The audio book is based on the book by the same name, written by Paula

Matthew.

“Miss Ann” will share songs and stories from the Tales on May 5 and on May 12. She will focus on musical themes and instruments used in the audio production.

Both programs will run from 10:00am to 10:45am at the Livingston Manor Library, 92 Main Street. Registration is suggested.

Phone 845-439-5440.

Cafe Devine

Youngsville-based storytelling group Yarnslingers will hold their next performance on June 1 at 6:30pm in Cafe Devine, 33 Lower Main Street in Callicoon.The theme is Religious Recovery and/or Discovery without any Preaching! For information: 845-887-3076.

“Blue and Other Thoughts” at Karpeles Museum Artist Diane Churchill has a long and distinguished career in the region and beyond.

She has exhibited extensively in New York City and elsewhere in the state, and her work has been presented in solo shows in California, North Carolina, and New Jersey.

It has also appeared in Mexico, Spain, and France and has been included in the U.S. Art in Embassies exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia.

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characterized by figuration but rather focus on an exploration of pure form and a gestural sweep of fluid motion. Deceptively simple in structure, they convey an impression of spontaneity informed, as she has explained, by the rhythmic flow of the stream that runs by her Garnerville, N.Y. studio.

In 2002 Churchill was the founder and director of the International Children's Tile Project, a permanent installation of tiles by children from the U.S., Israel, Switzerland, South Africa, Mexico, and Morocco, in the Bronx’ Van Cortland Park. Her work is in

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many public collections, including those of Bellevue Hospital and Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City and Grolier Publications in Danbury, Connecticut.

The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on June 9, 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Karpeles Museum, 94 Broadway in Newburgh, across from City Hall. The show runs through July 29.

Admission is always free. Visit online: www.karpeles.com.

See May 23 on page 18 for a color photo of her work.

The concert concludes with Mozart’s Requiem performed with full orchestra, chorus, and solo artists Alejandra Garrido (soprano), Patricia Ruggles (alto), Kirk Dougherty (tenor), and Wayne Walters (bass). The chorus and orchestra will also includes talented students from the Delaware Valley School District with special help and thanks to David Swinehart and Richard Horst of the music department.

Tickets may be obtained in advance at the Drew United Methodist Church, or Upriver Home at 202 Broad Street in Milford. Tickets may also obtained from Helen Monisera by phone at 845-856-5696 or by email at amonisera@hvc.rr.com.

Holistic Living sponsored by Brid’s Closet, Cornwall Richichi Voted About.com's Best Intuitive Artist & Tops Online Vote!

Internationally acclaimed artist and Hudson Valley local, Linda Richichi, now holds a distinction few other painters can claim; Best Intuitive Artist for 2012 in the About.com Readers' Choice Awards.

About.com is owned by the New York Times and is best known as an online source for information and advice that pertain to everyday living. The site consists of a number of topic areas, Holistic Healing being one of them and the category Richichi was nominated in for this year's award. Overall, there were 23 winners in the Holistic Healing arena. Voting was on-line from the middle of January until the end of March. Richichi competed against four other Intuitive Artists from across the United States, winning hands-down with over 80% of the votes.

Although Richichi is best known for plein air landscapes and portraits, her ability to paint what she feels, letting the energy of the unseen move through her, has been an influence since she started drawing as a child. According to Richichi, "I thought every artist tapped into the muse. That is how I defined it. I would find metaphors in my paintings and they would teach me something. As a teen, I drew images like that

with ease!" Realizing not everyone related to how she painted and people around her rolling their eyes when she spoke of it, Richichi kept this gift to herself while building her reputation as an award winning artist/painter.

One of the turning points was a visit to the Nicholas Roerich Museum, the famous Russian mystic and painter. Taken by the bright palette of color Roerich employed, Richichi was inspired to do the same. Once she decided to "let her color go", she found her inner vision could no longer stay unseen. While painting a skyscape, a woman appeared accompanied by what looked to be angels coming down a staircase. "It was as though I had opened up something that I had kept blocked, which was true! All those years keeping quiet, too afraid to reveal the intuitive within me." Titled In the Night Sky, this painting marked Richichi finally, openly taking her place as an Intuitive Artist.

Over the past few years, Richichi has been exploring and sharing her spiritual works, soul portraits and more recently goddess vision paintings. Being an Intuitive Artist isn't just a kind of art for Richichi, but something much more. "I want my art to assist and empower others. To encourage them to go for their

Arts & Agriculture: “Nourishing Body & Soul” sponsored by Wallkill River School & Gallery, Montgomery

Herbal Medicine & Earth Spirit Teachings From Robin Rose Bennet’s website: I am a writer, green witch, herbalist, a wisewoman...one who loves the earth and gives voice to the healing wild food and medicine plants which surround us and a teacher of WiseWoman Healing Ways of Herbal Medicine and Earth Spirit teachings.

Common plants are our teachers. Weeds and wild flowers show us the joyful abundance and generosity of (our true) nature. They freely share their gifts of food, medicine, beauty, and wholeness.

CANVAS FARM DIRECTORY Abundant Life Farm Biodynamically grown organic vegetables Walker Valley 1-866-993-8932 x13

It is my pleasure to help women and men remember our ancient and global heritage of Wisewoman Healing Ways; ways of compassionate intuition, nurturing ourselves and our unique rhythms, magical rituals celebrating the cycles of life, death and rebirth, and honoring the sacred web of life.

Join Robin on June 3 at 2:00pm for a Wild Weed Walk around Rogowski Farm.

Learn about edible, healing, and medicinal plants.

Rogowski Farm is located at 329 Glenwood Road in Pine Island.

Reservations are suggested.

For information call 845-544-5379.

A Goddess Workshop with artist Linda Richichi potential by seeing what their higher self has for them." Her goddess vision workshops are designed to do just that. Richichi feels that the goddesses are here with us now more than ever helping us all. "The goddesses want to embrace and embody our gifts and our higher selves, reminding us how awesome we are." Each month, her workshops focus on a goddess and her energy. From Aphrodite and her energy around love, to Kali who gives us the confidence to get through the dark aspects of ourselves to Lakshimi, the goddess who invites abundance into our lives. The workshops allow participants to manifest the goddess energy through collage, embracing that particular goddess and what she can bring to their life.

Richichi's soul portraits are another example of how her art reaches out to the individual's higher self. Working with just a name, a conversation over the phone or a photo, Richichi can capture the essence of that person. Not their physical features but their spiritual aspects.

These come to her in symbols or images and even words. "It's much like channeling, watching my hand go, not knowing what it is going to do next. I feel as though the energy travels into my solar plexus, up through my heart and down my right arm. My mind is not engaged in it at all!” Is it a far cry from the traditional portraits Richichi used to paint? "A number of years ago, I did a traditional portrait for someone and in the background painted a bridge and other images that I felt just needed to be there. The woman asked how I seemed to know her so well even though we had only met for the portrait. Turns out those images really meant something to her. Back then, I had no idea." Now Richichi calls it for what it is, a soul portrait.

For information about Richichi's upcoming workshops, events and gallery openings visit www.lindarichichi.com. To purchase her goddess cards visit RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon.

Holistic Calendar UUC .............................................................................................................. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern

Psychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes ......................................................UUC 1st Tuesdays, 7pm Beltane Spring Festival ............................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills Mar 5, 9am-6pm Message Circle..........................................................Spiritquest Healing Center, Slate Hill, May 18, 7pm Dinner and Reading w/Lisa Ann..........................The Trestle, Cornwall-on-Hudson, May 20, 2pm-5pm Wild Week Walk Robin Rose Bennett ......................................Rogowski Farm, Pine Island, Jun 3, 2pm

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Destination.........................................................................Wurtsboro The Wurtsboro Art Alliance’s May Member’s Show

An exhibit of artwork by members of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance will be on display beginning May 5 thru June 10, at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery. The exhibit will include paintings, drawings, watercolors, photography, sculpture and ceramics created by Wurtsboro Art Alliance members.

The opening reception, free and open to the public, will be held on May 5 from 2:00pm6:00pm.

Represented artists include: Patti Anderson, Melissa Arnott, Linda Bartle, Janet Campbell, James Carney, Denney Frye, Lynn Garrett, Cynthia Hall, Diane Knoll, Dorothy Langseder, David Munford, John Neilson, Lisa O'Gorman, Nelson Pantoja, Michael Piotrowski, Roberta Rosenthal, Sandy Spitzer, Christopher Suckow, Leslie Waxtel, Gene Weinstein, Linda Wilkinson, Katie Wong, Walter Worden, and others.

The Wurtsboro Art Alliance is a non-profit community arts group founded in 2006 to encourage and promote art and artists from the regional area. Inquiries and new members are always welcome. The Gallery is located at 73 Sullivan Street.

For information email info@waagallery.org.

“Trapps at Mohonk” by Linda Bartle

WAA President Exhibits in Livingston Manor

Grahamsville painter David Munford is a member of the Catskill Art Society, the Wallkill River School and is currently president of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance.

Mountain Views is a selection of Munford’s landscape paintings on exhibit at the Livingston Manor Library. The exhibit includes fifteen paintings depicting scenes of the Catskill Mountains and the Shawangunk Ridge. The exhibit will run through May. The Livingston Manor Library is located at 92 Main Street across from the firehouse. For information call 845-439-5440.

“Deer Skull” by David Munford

W.A. Resident “Cooks” in Fair Oaks

There will be a Tail-gate Party and two movies at the Fair Oaks Drive-in Theater on May 25, beginning at 7:00pm.

Get free goodies from WA (Wurtsboro Area) resident “Larry” before 7:30pm. Just ask for him at the gate! Bikes and friendly dogs are okay. Bring a chair and/or blanket! The expected first feature is Men In Black 3 starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. The second movie is to be announced. Rain date: May 26.

Drive-in is on Route 17M off of Route 17, exit 118 (Fair Oaks). Help keep the drive-in open.

Call 845-888-4414 for information.

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Wurtsboro calendar sponsored by Consignium

Exhibit Wurtsboro Art Alliance May 5-June 10

Music - B’way-Opera-Pop Broadway Concerts Direct Wurtsboro Community Church, May TBA, 8pm

Recreation Big Breakfast Benefit American Legion, May 12, 8am-11am

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Karpeles Presents: Sigmund Freud Arguably no one has had a more profound impact on contemporary thought than Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the Austrian neurologist known as the father of psychoanalysis. From the publication of his book Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, in which he shocked the world with his analysis of dreams as disguised manifestations of repressed sexual desires, through his division of the mind into the id, the ego, and the superego, published in 1923, Freud's ideas revolutionized the Western World's perception of human experience and thought.

Violently disputed by some psychologists and psychiatrists and fervently embraced by others, his controversial ideas have had an unequaled influence on society and culture.

The Karpeles Museum will present an exciting selection of documents on the work and life of Sigmund Freud, including pages from his manuscripts and remarkable letters to colleagues and friends about his theories and his personal life. There is a letter about his narrow escape from the Nazis in Vienna in 1938 and another about the political issues of German National Socialism in Austria.

Included is a personal letter (in English, of which, along with German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, he had a complete command) about the success of his 1916 book Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, and of the popularity of his ideas in the U. S. in the 1920s. In other letters,

with

Tina Piaquadio

Local Music Scene With a Dash of Flamenco Flavor

written between 1902 and 1909, Freud candidly discusses his own dreams of falling, flying, and appearing naked in public. The exhibition affords a unique opportunity to see the ideas of this revolutionary thinker written in his own words and his own hand.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is located at 94 Broadway, across from City Hall, in the City of Newburgh. Admission is always free.

Visit online: www.karpeles.com.

Hellcats Perform in New Windsor

To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the awarding of the Purple Heart to 138 World War I veterans, the Hall of Honor and the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site will host an event “on the very grounds where these awards took place in 1932.”

A musical performance by the Hellcats, presentations and a Purple Heart award ceremony are all parts of the program on Memorial Day, May 28 at 2:00pm at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, 374 Temple Hill Road in New Windsor.

Visit the website at: www.thepurpleheart.com to learn more or call 845-561-1765, ext. 28.

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Greg Melnick, a solo performing musician, has been playing guitar for over 25 years. He had his first lesson at age 4, bought his first electric guitar at age 15, and has been performing ever since. He traveled the world for several months in the mid 1990's, and spent some time in the Catalonia region of Spain. Although in the early years his interest originated in rock music, in 1996 while visiting Spain he heard Flamenco for the first time and it changed everything.

Flamenco is a Spanish style of improvisational music played on acoustic guitar. An untrained ear can usually identify Flamenco because of its lively rhythm and deep, expressive movements. The dramatic strumming and percussive fingering are telltale signs of the style.

This is the music that captivated Greg.

Eventually he began taking Flamenco lessons in New York City. In 2005, tired of dealing with Corporate America, he walked away from a promising career and traveled to Spain to fully immerse himself in the world of Flamenco.

At this time, Greg was not formally trained in music theory. However, very little traditional Flamenco music is written, but rather passed on hand to hand, mostly because attempting to read this style often results in misinterpretation. He spent a great deal of time in Andalusia where he sought out other musicians to learn from, and often traded Blues guitar lessons for Flamenco lessons. "…We'd sit down for a bit, I'd teach them some blues and they'd teach me Flamenco.

Greg Melnick

Throw in a few beers, and we'd make a night of it!" explains Greg.

Experiencing the original culture of Flamenco was a large part of the purpose for his travels, but not his sole purpose. Greg has also visited several other countries in Europe and Asia. The most valuable advice he received came from a tour guide in Asia who repeatedly told him to seize the moment. "So many unexpected great things have happened simply because I decided to bring my guitar with me somewhere," he says.

Greg continues to study Flamenco, and is currently learning music theory. Though much of his performing is improvisational, some he has written himself. "True Flamenco is 100% improvised. My goal is to be able to do that!" he says.

Greg performs May 5 at the Beltane Festival at Palaia Vineyards in Highland Mills, and May 20 and 21 from 2:00pm5:00pm at Applewood Winery in Warwick.

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BUSINESS SERVICES Dependable Maintenance Co. Lawnmowers, Tractors, Snowblowers Serving Orange County 845-374-2425

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“The Beauty of Spring” at Bear Mountain

CAS Sullivan County High School Art Show The Catskill Art Society (CAS), in partnership with SC BOCES, is having their annual CAS Sullivan County High School Art Show, an exhibition of work by Sullivan County High School students at the CAS Arts Center, 48 Main Street in Livingston Manor. The exhibit will be on view through May 6.

The exhibition, appearing throughout the gallery, presents the work of high school students from all eight of the county’s districts Watercolor by Nina Zheng (Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manor, each year. This year’s winner is of a watercolor Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan West and Tri- painting by Nina Zheng from Livingston Valley) plus student work from SC BOCES. Manor Central School.

CAS hosts an exhibition postcard contest For information: 845-436-4227.

An Unfamiliar Place at Alliance Gallery

“Spring on the Marsh” by Bruce Thorne

The Beauty of Spring exhibit will be the second exhibit of the Artists in the Parks Gallery, in the newly renovated Bear Mountain Inn. The exhibit runs through May. AIP is a group of dedicated and talented artists working in a variety of mediums, all sharing an inspiration and love for the outdoors. The group creates their individual pieces within the 20 park and eight historic sites managed by the Parks Commission.

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"Harriman Park" by Mary Mugele Sealfon

Paintings, photographs, and woodwork by a range of talented artists in the Hudson Valley are on exhibit and for sale at the Inn. The theme of this exhibit is the beauty of spring in the Hudson Valley.

For information about AIP, call President “Nouvelle Windows” (archival pigment print on aluminum substrate) is part of “An Unfamiliar Place,” photographs by Charles Maraia at Alliance Gallery.

Lita Thorne at 845-781-3269.

An Unfamiliar Place, an exhibit of Alliance Gallery is located at the Delaware For information about Bear Mountain Inn, 55 Hessian Drive, Bear Mountain call photography by Charles Maraia will be Arts Center at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. shown at Alliance Gallery through May 12.

For more information call 845-252-7576.

845-786-2731.

May 2012