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Y o u r FR EE Mont hly Arts , Entertain me n t & B u y L o ca l G u id e

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

October 2014

Publisher’s Column

by Barry Plaxen In mid-September, Hudson Opera Theatre chorus, soloists and orchestra gave a powerful performance of Verdi’s Requiem Mass in Middletown (and if you see this mention in time, a second performance will be at Sugar Loaf PAC on September 28 at 3:00pm), a happy once-in-a-lifetime live happening in this area for this great work of music, but in a sad vein, conductor Ron De Fesi dedicated the performance to violist Valentina Charlap-Evans.

See page 27 for our memorial to Val. Our hearts go out to Val’s family and particularly to her spouse, oboist Joel Evans, who is “Soldiering on,” said Ruthanne Schempf. Stoutheartedly, in the wake of his wife’s passing, he will perform Bach’s Concerto for Oboe and Violin on October 10 at 7:30pm with Ruthanne and Emily Faxon for their Potluck Concerts in the Cornwall Presbyterian Church.

“How blessed we all are to have such friends and community,” Ruthanne said.

We have a new op-ed letter from Warwick historian Richard Hull on page 24, and an announcement of a new Orange County symphonic wind band on page 35.

I want to thank all the visual artists and

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the various “group venues” that participated in the Orange County Open Studio Tour in September. I managed to get to most of the locations the first three weekends. I saw an impressive amount of variety in what was on display and being created before my very eyes, but was even more impressed with the quality: outstanding sculptures, watercolors, oils, acrylics, photography, et al, and, unexpectedly, some powerful metal art (see page 11). I look forward to the last weekend of the Studio Tour, which will have happened the day after we pick up this issue for distribution.

October is a busy month ahead with many visits planned to Sullivan County, especially to Loch Sheldrake (see page 11).

And on that note, 2015 will be a very busy year ahead for CANVAS. We have regretfully delayed our 10th Anniversary “Celebration of the Arts” due to circumstances NOT beyond our control. It will have to be for our 11th Anniversary instead.

Stay tuned.

Writer’s Corner You can find opera, theatre and classical music reviews by J.A. Di Bello and Barry Plaxen at www.CatskillChronicle.com Sullivan County’s online newspaper.

Dear Editor, I wanted to say thank you so much. It’s articles and encouragement like that that keeps us going and keeps us producing fun,

new things for Newburgh Last Saturdays!

Kieth Nieto, 188 Liberte, Newburgh Dear Editor,

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Community Building Through The Arts ���14 In Memoriam: Valentina Charlap-Evans �27 May I Have A Word With You ����������������24 Meet Me in The Library ����������������������12-13 OP-ED: Goshen Gov’t Center ����������������24 Spotlight on Sugar Loaf Guild �����������������26 Whispering Pines ������������������������������������25

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“Speak Truth to Power” in Bethel

Speak Truth to Power is a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Stirring and insightful, the photographic exhibit from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights features powerful portraits of human rights defenders from around the world.

Speak Truth To Power features 50 portraits of leaders and activists by Pulitzer Prizewinning Sullivan County resident Eddie Adams (1933-2004). Among the courageous activists celebrated in Speak Truth To Power are Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Elie Wiesel. Works of art, these moving portraits are an introduction to issues as varied as political rights, nuclear disarmament, mental health, environmental activism, and children’s rights.

Kerry Kennedy, who interviewed the human rights defenders featured in the exhibit, calls the exhibition, “a sympathetic and strength-giving portrait of the power of personal resolve and determination in the face of oppression and injustice.”

Editor’s note: Be prepared to read. The gist of the exhibit is not just viewing the powerful photographs, which are superb works of art, but also reading the contents of the inspiring biographies of the subjects. Plan on up to two hours.

Adams’ barn is the location of an annual intense four-day gathering of top photography professionals, along with 100 carefully selected

Freedom Neruda; Ivory Coast; Free Expression

students, that he began almost 30 years ago.

Coincidentally, it is being held this month in his barn in Jeffersonville.

His legacy continues with the workshop and also the concerts by Sister Dianna Ortiz; Weekend of Guatemala / U.S.; Torture Chamber Music held in his Barn every July.

The exhibit is on display in the Museum at Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel through December 31.

Visit www.BethelWoodsCenter.org or call 1-866-781-2922 for more information.

Tree Drawings & Hypnosis for Birthing

Tree drawings provide insights as to who we are and allow personality to expand to fuller potential.

On October 3 at 10:00am you can relax with fun techniques and enjoy who you are and how George Toth you see yourself under the guidance of adult education enrichers, psychotherapists and hypnotists George Toth and Diana Underwood, at the Desmond Campus of Mount St. Mary College, 6 Albany Post Road, in the Balmville area of Newburgh.

For information: 845-565-2076.

Hypnosis is fast becoming one of the most effective methods to provide a stress free life.

It is one of the top methods to provide a calm more stress free approach to becoming pregnant as well as providing a soothing, more calming birth journey.

Hypnosis is rapidly becoming the top method of choice for non-invasive infertility assistance and can enhance the birthing experience as well. Hypnosis is an approach that can provide for wellness of being in all situations.

Diana Underwood, has many years of experience in the field of Maternal and Child Health. She has worked in the adoption

field, domestic and international, and has an empathy and understanding in the experience of navigating the steps to having a family and the concerns accompanying the Diana Underwood journey.

When women prepare for pregnancy they often focus on their physical body; they change their diet, take vitamins, increase their physical activity, etc. But conception and pregnancy do not only rely on a healthy body, but also on a healthy mind and spirit. Hypnosis can help you clear the past, help you let go of memories, core beliefs, past hurt, that stand in the way of your conscious procreation.

Register now for Diana’s seminar HYPNOSIS: Fertility and Birthing at the Healing Arts Studio, 75 Broadway, Newburgh on November 8 at 10:00am. A $10 donation is requested.

“Life is to be lived with as much grace and elegance of being as possible it would seem,” Diana states, “and so hopefully, this proposed seminar encourages not only wellness and healing, but joy and the Artful Way of Living.”

Call to register at Alternative Counseling: 845-534-2980.

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Sundays with Friends at Bethel Woods

Composer Karen LeFrak

Liang Wang

A very rare combination of instruments makes up the chamber ensemble for the last concert in the 2014 Sunday with Friends series at Bethel Woods. Once again, local music lovers are being treated to something quite special, something most listeners across the globe might never hear “live”.

The medium of oboe, horn, and piano trio includes the most distinctive-sounding woodwind instrument and the most versatile member of the brass family, together with piano.

This instrumental combination presents a rich tonal palette and can produce a wide range of textures, from delicate and transparent to full and orchestral.

This unique Bethel concert has music by well-known but not household-composer-names Carl Reinecke (who composed the most famous work for this instrumentation) and Jean Francaix, known for his woodwind chamber music. Also on the program are works by Alberto Ginastera (for piano solo), Saint-Saens (oboe-piano sonata) and an adaptation of selections from Bizet’s Carmen, plus a trio by Karen LeFrak.

LeFrak is on the New York Philharmonic

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Philip Myers

Joyce Yang

Board of Directors where she chairs its Music Policy and Special Events Committee and serves on the Executive and Education Committees.

She can perhaps best be described as a modernday Renaissance woman. Classical pianist, composer, children’s book author, philanthropist, breeder/shower of champion Standard Poodles.

Liang Wang (oboe) principal oboe New York Philharmonic, Philip Myers (French horn) New York Philharmonic principal chair since 1980 and Joyce Yang (piano) are the world class artists that curator and New York Philharmonic cellist Eileen Moon has asked to perform.

Yang came to international attention in 2005 as the youngest contestant at the Van Cliburn International Piano competition, winning the silver medal and sweeping additional awards for chamber music. This year, she completes her Rachmaninoff cycle (4 concertos) with Edo De Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

She is a frequent guest on NPR’s Performance Today and has performed with the New York Philharmonic.

For tickets to the October 26, 3:00pm concert, phone 1-800-745-3000.

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SUNY Orange Latin Jazz & Classical

Henry Pucho Brown has been on the jazz scene since his early teens.

By the age of 17 he was playing professionally with the Joe Panama Sextet.

Born in Harlem, he has traveled the world with various jazz bands but has lived in Middletown at least 40 years. In 2003, Brown was enshrined in the International Latin Music Hall of Fame, becoming just the second African-American so honored after Dizzy Gillespie. He brings his Latin Soul Brothers from NYC to play at SUNY Orange’s Great Room in Kaplan

Hall, Newburgh on October 8. The 6:30pm to 8:30pm event is Fiesta Mundial, and is sponsored in part by the English as a Second Language program.

For information call Cultural Affairs at 845341-9386 or email cultural@sunyorange.edu Come and enjoy this free concert!

Often dubbed as “the Hudson Valley’s Premier Jazz Orchestra”, The New York Swing Exchange (see photo) has continued to feature many of the region’s finest jazz musicians and educators for more than a decade.

An fourteen piece Big Band now under the leadership of Artistic Director Jim Briggs, its repertoire includes the most standard big band charts, unique arrangements, to brand

new works from today’s premier jazz composers.

The Big Band Jazz Fest features two Big Bands opening on October 18 with the Big Bang Jazz Gang at 7:00pm, followed by the New York Swing Exchange at 8:45pm in Orange Hall Theatre, Grand and Wawayanda Avenues, Middletown.

Students are admitted free.

Info at Cultural Affairs, 845-341-4891.

Pianist Jonathan Ogulnick plays Bach, Beethoven, Chopin & Gershwin in Kaplan Hall, October 26 at 3:00pm.

SUNY Orange Big Band Jazz Fest

Beethoven is Back in Newburgh

Newburgh Chamber Music (NCM) is now in its second year of presenting all sixteen of the Beethoven String Quartets performed by the astonishing American String Quartet (ASQ). The first concert of the 2014-2015 season will feature three more examples of the Master’s genius.

Daniel Avshalomov, the ASQ’s violist, introduces each work at the concerts and has told CANVAS, “The f minor Op. 95 was the first quartet Beethoven composed after his deafness became absolute. It is intense, compact, and very personal.

Because of anger, he did not permit himself the luxury of a slow movement here.

“Op. 18 no. 1 was his third (not first), and its slow movement is Beethoven’s musical depiction of the Tomb Scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

“Op. 59 no. 2 is the most “middle” of the Middle quartets. The advances in form, length, drama and impact since the Op. 18s are powerfully present in each movement.

Beethoven wrote that he was moved to write the slow movement while contemplating the night sky. And to honor his patron Count Razumovsky, the third movement quotes a well-known Russian folk song.”

The American String Quartet

The concert will also serve as a memorial to Valentina Charlap-Evans who passed in September. Valentina was on the Board of Directors of NCM and the violist for NCM’s Newburgh Chamber Ensmble and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet, both of which performed regularly for NCM. Internationally recognized as one of the world’s foremost quartets, Peter Winograd, violin; Laurie Carney, violin; Daniel Avshalomov, viola and Wolfram Koessel, cello perform on October 12 at 3:00pm in St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street.

Tickets may be purchased online at www.

NewburghChamberMusic.org and at the door.

Cecily Fortescue Memorial Concert

Most of you will percussionist who lives remember that WJFF’s in Tampa, Florida. His “Queen of Dead Air”, award winning music beloved potter and ranges from works for classical music DJ Cecily full orchestra to gamelan Fortescue, was also a ensemble to electronic violist. She loved to play music.

He currently and often would publicly teaches composition thank her instructor, and electronic music at Anastasia Solberg of the University of South the Music Institute Florida School of Music Cecily Fortescue of Sullivan & Ulster Osvaldo Golijov grew (MISU). up in an Eastern European Now Anastasia is thanking household in Argentina. He Cecily with a memorial concert: was raised surrounded by VIOLent PERseCution: Bach classical chamber music, to Sekhon - a clever title Jewish liturgical and klezmer “caps-setting” for a recital music, and the tangos of with Anastasia on viola and Astor Piazzolla.

Christopher Earley on Information and a bio on percussion.

Johann Sebastian Bach is At press time, the program not as readily available as it Anastasia Solberg will include a Bach Solo Cello is for Sekhon and Golijov.

Suite and, hopefully, a Bach solo piece, Bach does not have a website. either for cello or violin (we don’t know The concert is on October 23 at 7:30pm yet), played on marimba. UNIQUE!... in St. John’s Episcopal Church, 40 Market ...and Sekhon’s Compass for viola & Street, Ellenville. The concert is free and percussion and an adaptation for viola and donations will be thankfully accepted. marimba of Golijov’s Mariel for cello and All proceeds to the Cecily Fortescue orchestra.

Scholarship Fund.

Baljinder Sekhon is a composer and For information call 845-647-5087.

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Tattoo , Gift Shop , & Galler y in Warwick : Love Life!

Love Life Gallery, which opened in June of 2014, is a unique venue.

Owner and tattoo artist Matthew Leahy works on his craft in the back area of the large store, along with other tattoo artists.

There is a Gift Shop-Art Gallery with an Asian inspired theme and gifts of all types, from original Asian paintings and Thailand Traditional silk screens to natural body products. It is a meeting place and arts venue. Events have included jazz music and an Appalachian Trail photo exhibit.

“We handle an eclectic, eco-friendly collection of artwork both local to global,” writes Laura Laplace, Matthew’s Mom. “Handcrafted natural soaps and natural body cream that are great for tattoo care, to a large selection of piercing gages, metal work from Haiti and sugar skulls from Peru. All of our products are fair trade and many are made in the U.S.A. We strive to be a budget friendly shop with original paintings and artworks in all price ranges.

“Some of the artists have disabilities, their work is inspiring as well as beautiful. Nick, a young man with spastic cerebral palsy, creates beautiful abstract artwork with his feet.

“It was Matthew’s dream to have a shop that puts tattoo art in the mainstream instead of running the traditional old tattoo parlor.

He is very talented at bringing client’s ideas to life and re-creating old tired tattoo’s into

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new works of art. longtime CANVAS “Matthew grew up friend Judy Battista) in Vernon, New Jersey. has a group for young He had an allure for adults 16 and over tattooing long before for anyone struggling it was in vogue. In 7th with loss, feeling lost grade, after reading or overwhelmed. On some books on Indian Sundays, a suicide artwork, he decided prevention group to try the ancient meets in the shop technique on himself and a GLBT group and some friends meets monthly on until he got caught Mondays. by his mom! After “The shop name graduating high school came easily in Matthew (right) with brother Doug he paid for a 3 year full memory of Doug. His time apprenticeship at a popular tattoo shop knuckles had “Love Life” tattooed on them in West Milford, New Jersey and attended since he was 21. college in Newton receiving his Associates “On October 5, during Applefest, in Art and Psychology in May, 2004.

Love Life will have Chinese artists doing “Matthew finished his art degree at calligraphy and cartoonists in the store, and Ramapo University while working full time handcrafted items outside the shop, including tattooing in Suffern. His plan was to open a new wearable terrariums, and sugar skull shop like Love Life with brother Douglas,” earrings for Halloween. Twenty-five cents said Laura. “Unfortunately, a few months from each retail sale goes to the American after graduating in 2010, younger brother Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Douglas died tragically by suicide.

“On Pink Friday (October 10) Matthew “Matthew created DOUGLIFE, a will be doing Hope tattoos at a special price, foundation in memory of his brother. We offer so book an appointment!,” she concluded. after-hours space to community outreach Love Life is at 10 South Street, across the groups. We sponsor support groups and hope street from the Tuscan Café in Warwick. to include meditation groups, art for therapy, For further information, visit lovelifeny. etc. The Tish-4-Life foundation (hosted by com or call the shop at 845-544-7979.

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October at Dancing Cat

Jon Moodie, frontman of indie rock trio Jon and the Jones, resides in New York City, a far cry from his lifelong home in a quiet Catskills town.

Blogger Loren DiBlasi notes, “Armed only with a guitar and a powerful, enchanting voice, Jon Moodie is a genre-bending storyteller poised to make some serious waves. Equal parts blues, rock, indie, and even reggae, Moodie takes the notion of the folksy singer-songwriter and turns it on its head - and then some.”

By the end of 2012, Moodie found drummer Helen Destroy and bassist Brian Stanley, and they evolved quickly into a band. In 2013, Jon and the Jones were signed to BHiMG. Shlomo Franklin is an 18 year old songwriter from Bethel. Influenced by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Neil Young, he mixes blues, folk, and punk rock with 21st century angst.

Shlomo plays his original songs all over the state, so be sure to catch him while you can when he opens for Jon and the Jones on October 13 at 4:00pm at the Dancing Cat Saloon, 2037 Route 17B in Bethel.

For more information, call 845-583-3141.

Wallkill River School Features Bellvale & Late Bloomer Farms in October Artists from the Wallkill River School (WRS) have teamed up with farmers to bring cultural tourism to Orange County. Fifteen artists have been painting at 15 farms the past year. The artists are being featured in month-long shows at the WRS. The October 1-31 exhibit will feature Mary Mugele Sealfon and her interpretations of Bellvale Farm, and Michael Piotrowski’s works of Late Bloomer Farm. Meet the artists at the opening reception on October 11 from 5:00pm7:00pm.

The emerging artist is Diana McElroy.

Mary Mugele Sealfon Entranced by the Hudson Valley, Mary enjoys plein air painting, portraiture and still life in pastel and oil. She teaches at SUNY Orange and the WRS. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally and won numerous awards.

“Though I grew up amidst the amazing beauty of the San Francisco bay area, I find the Hudson Valley equally inspiring. With fellow plein air artists, I have been fortunate to discover many inspiring vistas such as those painted by the original Hudson River artists. Whether portrait or landscape, I prefer to work from life. Paintings are more alive when painted on location. Perhaps the joy of the experience is somehow transferred to the painting,” says Mary.

“Bellvale Beauty” by Mary Mugele Sealfon

Michael Piotrowski Feeding his creativity through sumi-e brush painting and a passion for Ikebana flower arranging, Michael studies Ikebana with a 97 year old Japanese Master. He is a 3 year member of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) and represented artist at the WRS since 2009.

Michael’s work is part of many private collections throughout the United States. His paintings are currently exhibited in monthly group shows at the WAA in Wurtsboro, frequent member shows at Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, and the Garrison Art Center in Garrison.

Diana McElroy Rockland County native Diana McElroy graduated from Nanuet High with every intention

Artwork by Diana McElroy

“Evening Sale” by Michael Piotrowski

of pursuing her career in the arts. Instead, family became her priority. Now that her children are raised, McElroy is finally focusing on her creative potential. She has amassed a body of work spanning charcoal still lifes, watercolors and oils.

Her years of painting and drawing are finally coming to fruition in her first solo show.

Featured in the Student Gallery: William Noonan’s Drawing Classes; and in the Members Hallway, the theme is (what else?) Farms!

Editor’s Note: Orange Regional Medical Center, 707 East Main Street, Middletown, is also celebrating art and farms by exhibiting farm art from the WRS artists through October 31. Check it out!

And don’t forget! For some spooky Halloween fun, be sure to partake in the Candlelit Ghost Tour at the School’s headquarters, the historic Patchett House. There are no tricks, costumes or special effects on this ghost investigation! In some cases the truth is scarier than fiction! Be there (and beware!) on October 25 from 7:00pm-9:00pm.

The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery.

For further information, call 845-457-ARTS.

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DVAA: Where The Girls (and Boys) Are

The fall season with instrumental at the Tusten prowess to create Theatre includes music that is both independent film, playful and richly jazz, theatre, Irish satisfying. music and opera The Bostonthis year. based band Sponsored by performs October Delaware Valley 17 at 7:30pm in the Arts Alliance, Tusten Theatre in (DVAA) the series Narrowsburg.

“Long Time Courting” begins with a concert and CD release party on Award winning artist Emily (Polishook) October 4 at 8:00pm featuring the Kazzrie Thompson from Bucks County, PA brings Jaxen Quartet highlighting some of the tunes her art to this area for the first time, sharing her on their new release Quarternity, which includes colorful abstract textural interpretations of the music by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Lennie landscape in oil on canvas or panel, October 10Tristano (1919-1978).

November 1.

Tristano was a jazz pianist, composer and Emily will be at the Alliance Gallery in teacher of jazz improvisation. Historically Narrowsburg, along with her Mom, Joan important are: the first recorded free group Polishook, head of Pike County’s Come Paint improvisations, his preoccupation with atonality With Me plein air group, to welcome you on and Bach’s counterpoint, as well as his early October 10 from 7:00pm-10:00pm at a wine experimentations with recording techniques such and cheese reception. as overdubbing.

Three new one act plays, all set in New York, Following the concert, the audience is invited They Come and Come by John J. Kelly, A Good to a reception to meet the artists.

Stiff One by John Backe and J. Paul Porter’s Every Long Time Courting, an all-women Pair of Blue Jeans Was Like a Bullet make up Ah, supergroup, features flute, accordion, cello, fiddle New York - Fortitude, Frustration, Fantasy, an and vocals. These four talented women offer Act Underground Readers Theatre production an extraordinary blend of neo-traditional Irish, directed by Wendy Kaufman, on October 11, Scottish and American music that showcases 7:30pm and October 12 at 2:00pm in the Tusten each musician’s versatility, creativity, and Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg. mastery. Exquisite vocal harmonies combine For tickets and reservations: 845-252-7272.

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“Narcissism and The Self Portrait”

Today, a symptom of a growing narcissistic society is made apparent in the trend of taking images of oneself with a Smartphone, known as a “selfie.” However, images created by the self, for the love of self, such as those on social networks can also be seen as part of a long history of the self-portraiture genre.

Narcissism and The Self-Portrait, an exhibit in Newburgh’s Ann Street Gallery, investigates similar parallels between the camera phone “selfie” with those that occur in collage, ceramics, oil paintings, drawings, sculpture, or other artistic mediums that lend themselves to self-absorbed, visual replications of the self.

These self-portraits combine a quality of acute observation of physical characteristics that requires self-knowledge coupled with artistic

skill and technical bravura, qualities lacking in the cultural phenomenon of the Smartphone “selfie.”

The exhibit is on view through November 22 at the Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street, Newburgh.

For further information, call 845-784-1146.

Carlton Plummer, A.W.S. (American Watercolor Society), is published in 25 art books and leading art periodicals, and his own book, Create Dramatic Coastal Scenes in Watercolor, testify compellingly to why he is listed in “Who’s Who In American Art.” A recipient of over 200 national awards, Carlton made the transition from illustrator, combat artist and art teacher to a full-time studio artist in Boothbay, Maine.

In addition to judging the North East

Watercolor Society’s (NEWS) annual International Show in Kent, Connecticut, Carlton will bring his 50 years of teaching skills to a 3-day workshop on watercolor designed for all levels of students.

The workshop will consist of new ideas in water media, new ways to start and develop paintings, and fun methods to work with materials.

The workshop takes place October 14-16, from 9:30am-4:00pm at the Seligmann Center for the Arts, 23 White Oak Drive in Sugar Loaf.

For more information, call 845-469-9459.

“Double Self Portrait” by Richard Taddei

N.E.W.S. Workshop 2014 in Sugar Loaf

Parksville: Music & Art & Food!

Music & Food The Parksville USA Music Festival has changed its October event to a new date: October 11 at 7:30pm.

Lullabies, Serenades & Memories, “and all songs relating to that will be performed by The Lyric Quartet,” said singer-producer-chef Tom Caltabellotta. “A special guest artist, mezzo Emily Geller, (see photo) will be joining soprano Jenny Ribeiro, tenor Michael Celentano and myself (basso), and we will be accompanied by a new pianist, Christina Dinella.

“The presence of Emily will enable us to sing the Quartet from Rigoletto, some other quartets, and possibly a soprano-mezzo duet from Donizetti’s La Sonambula. We’ll do some serenades in Yiddish and in English, and Jenny will sing that old chestnut, Last Rose of Summer from the opera Martha, one of the most popular songs at the turn of the 20th Century.

“And tell your readers that folk song artist Lydia Adams Davis will be our Festival performer on November 2 at 3:00pm along with her band to celebrate Pete Seeger!

“And also tell them that now at some of our weekend dinners, Paul Gianicolla, a wandering minstrel, strums his guitar and walks around the tables telling stories and singing songs.”

Dead End Café, 6 Main Street, Parksville.

For dining reservations: 845-292-0400

Art & Food Ksenia Golubkov tells her story through the medium of her brush. Like Nabokov, she has experienced the life of an emigre, preferring exile to life under an imposed system.

Having grown up in Moscow, she left her homeland in 1981 to pursue a peripatetic artistic Batik by Ksenia career which took her to France, Portugal, Holland and the U.S. Ksenia studied art with her father, well known painter Philip Golubkov. She consolidated her education at the elite Moscow School of Applied Arts by earning an MFA in interior, texture, and furniture design.

It was there that she first learned about Batik, and started to experiment with this ancient art technique - combining it with all the elements of classical European painting.

Ksenia creates one-of-a-kind scarves as wearable art. Her pieces are marvels of draughtsmanship and color.

View her work in a solo show titled, Silk Art at Rolling River Café, Gallery & Inn through December 21.

For info, see Rolling River’s ad on page 14.

Pastels, Oils, Watercolors in Warwick

Born in Portland, Maine, Diane KominickOuzoonian studied art at the University of California at Santa Cruz. After graduating, Diane studied drawing and painting at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village.

For the past ten years, Diane has taught drawing at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh. She currently conducts private lessons in addition to workshops in pastel, drawing and watercolor at local libraries.

“Much of my work is done on site. First, I usually take a digital photo, then do some sketches. I like to work on several paintings at once, from different perspectives. After doing a pastel, watercolor or oil on site, I paint a larger version at my studio,” says Diane.

Diane is an active member in the North East Watercolor Society, Artists in the Parks and Warwick Art League and also

helps run a Warwick drawing group. Her work has been shown in more than 50 exhibitions throughout the United States.

Meet Diane at the opening reception for her exhibit at Caffe ala Mode, 1 Oakland Avenue, Warwick on October 12, 5:00pm-7:00pm.

The show runs through January 5, 2015.

For information, call 845-406-7452

Packed with music, nostalgia, and anecdotes about singers, actors, and composers, Academy AwardWinning Songs, presented by singer,-pianist-entertainer Mitch Kahn, explores and celebrates the legacy of the great American songwriters from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, The Gershwins, Dorothy Fields, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen, Burt

Bacharach, Hal David, Marvin Hamlisch, and Henry Mancini, to name just a few.

Registration is required for this free FAMILY Music Makers Concert Series event on October 12 at 1:00pm either in person or by telephone at 845-477-8377, ext.

101. Seating is limited. Donations are most welcome.

The Library is located at 79 Waterstone Road in Greenwood Lake.

Artwork by Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian

Go Back in Time at Greenwood Lake Library

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Life in The “Lost” Hamlet of Trapps

New Hope Artists Exhibit in Liberty

“Mohonk” Currier & Ives

With members of the Plattekill Historical Society, Robi smiling, as a farm wife w/ butter churn.

Photo by Ted Reiss

Two exciting presentations regarding communities on the Shawangunk Ridge are happening in October.

Author Robi Josephson’s in-costume lecture and photo presentation about the “lost” hamlet of Trapps recently presented in Cragsmoor (for more, google CANVAS December 2013, page 20), titled after her book co-authored with forest ranger Bob Larson, An Unforgiving Land, will be at The Walden House, 34 North Montgomery Street, presented by the Historical Society of Walden and the Wallkill Valley, on October 15 at 7:00pm.

For more information: 845-778-7772.

Prior to this very popular talk and slide show, Robi (pronounced Robby) will be at Mount St. Mary College for Enterprise & Courage: The Civil War Years at Lake Mohonk.

“This show is roughly divided into three sections,” explained Robi. “How John F. Stokes, a local farmer, wainwright, and land speculator, established the mountain hotel tradition at Mohonk; how families forged a living on the mountain (a condensed version of the Trapps program); and how local men experienced war in the South.”

Advance ticket reservations are required for the October 10, 10:00am presentation at the Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh (Balmville) as part of the College’s Adult Enrichment program.

Phone 845-565-2076 to register.

Linda Moore

New Hope Community, a private, notfor-profit organization providing support for individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, in partnership with the Liberty Library, will be exhibiting artworks by New Hope artists at the library.

This is New Hope’s third exhibit at Liberty Library. The eighteen works by eleven New Hope artists, with predominant media in watercolor and acrylics, include Walton Bauder, Laurie Chase, Stacey Drew, Wanda Green, Jay Kreinik, Robert Lichtenstein, Barbara Mazer, Linda Moore, David Mosner, Barry Rosenthal, and Joshua Santiago.

Two of New Hope’s most prolific artists, Babara Mazer and Linda Moore, will

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Barbara Mazer

have works on display. Mazer works in an expressive and bold abstract style, while Moore creates vivid pieces that are more whimsical in nature. Each of the artists have developed their own unique styles working in the New Hope Community art studio, part of New Hope’s Leisure Services department.

The October 16 opening reception, from 6:00pm-8:00pm, is open to all and will include light refreshments.

Patrons of the arts interested in purchasing artwork will be able to do so during the opening reception. The exhibit runs through November 24.

The Liberty Library is located at 189 North Main Street. For further information, call 845-434-8300, extension 318.

It’s Really About Gruoch ingen Boite

Hillary Egeland, Director of Special Events and Campus Activities at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake, is pleased to offer the community The Met Live! “We invite you to join us from Fall 2014 until early Spring 2015 for a wonderful Saturday afternoon experience.

“Come a half hour early, grab a complimentary cup of coffee and a snack and enjoy our speakers who will engage the audience in wonderful conversation as well as Q & A about the featured opera of the day in the beautiful Seelig Theatre.”

The season begins with Verdi’s exciting musical adaptation of The Bard’s Macbeth, the first Shakespeare play that Verdi adapted for the operatic stage.

“His musical transformation of Shakespeare’s play shines the spotlight so brightly on Macbeth’s ruthless and ambitious wife that perhaps the opera should be renamed in her honor. No one would buy a ticket to see Macbeth without asking who the Lady Macbeth was,” explains F. Paul Driscoll, editor of Opera News. “It’s an extraordinary

Anna Netrebko

Maria Callas

Leonie Rysanek

Shirley Verrett

opportunity for a singing actress.

She just gallops away with the show. Lady Macbeth’s famous sleepwalking scene is one of the great soprano showpieces,” said Driscoll.

“What’s interesting about the way Verdi sets this is that she’s so vulnerable at the beginning. She’s in this horrible waking dream where she can’t sleep but she also can’t wake up. She’s obviously a very powerful, intelligent, elegant woman - someone who is a logical queen. But she’s broken now. And there’s nothing that’s going to put her back together. I think this is a work of genius.”

Following in the footsteps of memorable singing actresses Maria Callas, Leonie Rysanek and one-time Orange County resident Shirley Verrett, Anna Netrebko is sure to thrill in the non-title role of librettists Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei’s version of “Gruoch ingen Boite (c.1020-1054), the wife of Mac Bethad mac Findlaích”.

See it on October 11 at 1:00pm. Tickets are available at the door. For information call 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

Center for Metal Arts: “Abstraccidents”

Zac Shavrick was born in 1987 and raised primarily by his father, Barry. Fascinated by his father’s work, Zac would join him in his metal shop where they welded together. By age five, Zac was welding on his own. By seven, he was fabricating entire sculptures. As he developed, his work was influenced by his world of games, fantasy novels and movies.

Sculpture by Zac Shavrick HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Sculptors Barry and Zac Shavrick will exhibit their largescale sculptures on the grounds of the The Center for Metal Arts (CMA) in a show titled, ABSTRACCIDENTS. Come and view this iconoclastic duo’s amusing, delightful, and sometimes unsettling works at the CMA, 44 Jayne Street, Florida.

For the closing date, call 845-651-7550.

College of Poetry: Bruce Spang

Bruce Spang’s recent book of poems, Boy at the Screen Door, was published this year by Moon Pie Press. He is the author of The Deception of the Thrush from Piscataqua Press and of earlier poetry collections, To the Promised Land Grocery and The Knot. He wrote the libretto for Charlie!, a musical drama about Charlie Howard, a young gay man, who was killed by three teenagers in Maine.

Spang was named third Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine in 2011.

A workshop with Spang will examine the use of imagery and figures of speech. After looking at how Flannery O’Conner used similes and

analogies in developing her characters and setting up the reader with expectations that she will later contradict, the group will study how contemporary poets lace their poems with similes that both create humorous counterpoints to what they are saying and force the reader to reconcile the meaning.

Bruce will offer a workshop and reading on October 4 at 1:00pm at the Seligmann Center for the Arts, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf.

After the workshop, Bruce is the featured Poetry on the Loose reader at 3:30pm.

For more information, call 845-469-9459.

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Meet: OrangeREADS

by J. A. Di Bello The written word, so prudently bound by bindings into pages, has come to replace traditional tablets of tongue and stone. The profound purpose of carefully chosen words is to transfer information, attitudes and customs from generation to generation. Consider in conjunction, the genres commonly known as historical fiction, historical biography and a type of literature kindly referred to as creative nonfiction.

The significance of literary compositions, biographies et al for the purposes named above is indisputable. They’re not used solely for particular information but frequently employed for purposes of literary allusion, with the intended purpose of defining character, setting and atmosphere. For numerous reasons, military conflicts and their intended and unintended consequences provide fertile ground for literary exploration.

Consider Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Leon Uris’ Exodus, Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, and without the slightest hesitation, James Jones’ debut

novel From Here to Eternity. Academics will continue to recite dispassionately the causes and consequences of historical military conflicts, but for the gross population it is solely through the type of literary composition considered in this space that unashamed, vicarious experiences become available, and allow the conscientious reader to participate in and share the experiences of others, i.e., the stench, horror and pain of the most horrific form of human conflict. Literature thus adds a sensuous dimension to the simplistic recitation of historical facts.

Add to the list of noteworthy, contributing publications listed above the story of Louis Zamperini, a native of Olean, New York and a decorated World War II (WWII) veteran. He remained until this July a unique individual.

His storybook life and adventurous military exploits captured the attention and creativity of the renowned writer Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit. Zamperini’s biography, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption published in 2010 and so effectively assembled by Ms. Hillenbrand, has remained on the New York Times’ Best Seller list for 187 consecutive weeks.

Zamperini, for all practical purposes, was a juvenile delinquent in a time and place when

Louis Zamperini (1917-2014) the term had little meaning or purpose. He broke into homes and found himself continually fleeing local police. Causality not withstanding, he qualified for the University of Southern California’s (USC) track team and became a noteworthy participant in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The expansion of the war overtook this world-class runner and Louis Zamperini became Lieutenant Louis Zamperini, bombardier on a not-so-fit B-24. His plane faltered and went down in the Pacific Ocean during a search and rescue mission. He and two others were the only survivors of an eleven man crew. In desperation they clung to a frail and drifting raft, in the middle of a major theater of World War II, the Pacific Theatre, 1943.

Lisa Hewel, prominent member of the

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Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden and Chairperson of Orange Library Association’s (OLA) OrangeREADS 2014 Committee has been laboring on an estimable and successful campaign. Laura Hillenbrand’s publication Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption will be the focus of this year’s OrangeREADS program. As in the past, Orange County’s 17 public libraries will provide their constituents with “the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their individual communities.”

Consecutive county-wide read projects have included: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (2008, The Big Read); The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (2010, The Big Read), Forever by Pete Hamill (2012, OrangeREADS), and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption as OLA’s 2014 OrangeREADS. Activities will run for five weeks, with a kick-off event labeled Run the Runway, a 5K Run, Walk and Festival to be held at the Orange County Airport, 500 Dunn Road, Montgomery on October 26.

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a “Salute to Veterans”, featuring letter and card writing campaigns for our troops, a collection of nonperishable food items and other goods for the Orange County Veterans’ Food Pantry and personal CARE packages to be sent to our troops and veterans in Castle Point and Montrose veterans hospitals on November 9 at the Galleria at Crystal Run, 1 N. Galleria Drive in Middletown.

A “canteen-style” dance with The Jazz Pioneers swing band will be held on November 22 from 6:00pm-10:00pm at the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street, Montgomery.

Admission to all activities is free.

Although Ms. Hillenbrand’s Unbroken...is able to stand alone as a tormenting tale of survival and heroism, it is best understood in the historical context from which it is extracted.

There are volumes to know and digest prior to embarking on Zamperini’s adventure of unimaginable peril and risk. One might start with research into the military strategies utilized in the Pacific Theatre prior to, during, and after WWII. Japanese culture, especially as it pertains to warfare, honor and treatment of POWs will offer additional insight into the conduct of Japan’s military, its enlisted men, officers, and population as a whole.

To a significant degree, look ahead to the war’s final act; it’s theatre and so symbolic and germane to the story of Louis Zamperini. The act is best described by author Lynne Olson who recently wrote: “On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally ended World War II by surrendering to the Allies aboard the American battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. As a reminder of Japan’s brutality to captured Allied soldiers, Gen. Douglas MacArthur placed two skeletal survivors of Japanese prisonerof-war camps - United States Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, whose troops had endured the infamous Bataan Death March, and British Gen. Arthur Percival, who surrendered Singapore - in the Japanese delegation’s direct line of sight.”

Now gather up and go to war with Lieutenant Louis Zamperini.

As if by design, there’s a post script: A brief and simple epilogue to the adventures and perils of Louis Zamperini appeared in print on Thursday, July 3, 2014. The New York Times reported quite plainly, as a simple matter of fact in its OB: “Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who as an airman during World War II crashed into the Pacific, was listed as dead and then spent 47 days adrift in a life raft before being captured by the Japanese and enduring a harsh imprisonment, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 97.”

Web music authority All Music Guide calls him “...an artist to be reckoned with.” A seasoned recording artist, multiinstrumentalist, eternal idealist and compassionate peace loving realist, Hastings-on-Hudson based Matt Turk is a veteran performer who has engaged audiences around the world, both as a rocking bandleader and an acoustic folk troubadour. He has shared the stage with Pete Seeger and opened for Judy Collins, The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple, The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart and more.

He has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Caribbean, appearing at festivals and venues including Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival, the Gathering of the Vibes, Atlanta’s Music Midtown, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Beacon Theatre and Brooklyn Bowl.

Catch Matt perform LIVE at Seven Freedoms Record Store for a FREE concert on October 11 at 2:00pm.

Seven Freedoms is located at 2136 Route 94, Salisbury Mills.

For information, phone 845-497-7005.

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Community Building Through the Arts River Health Impacted by Society’s Need for Energy Art is a powerful catalyst for environmental issues and positive change.

In the upcoming Catskill Art Society (CAS) exhibit, River and Biota, the works of eighteen artists bring awareness to the Delaware, Hudson, and Susquehanna rivers and the lives the rivers sustain as they coexist in the modern world.

The CAS independent jury panel selected to include River and Biota in their 2014 season based upon the quality of the work. Curator Naomi Teppich invited the artists specifically because of their everyday rapport with “the river” and their reaction to the bombardment of the river ecosystem. The exhibit focuses on the dichotomy of the rivers’ natural state to run wild and society’s need for “Polluting America” development and industry. by Brandi Merolla While not designed to be a political show, River and Biota allows the conscience of these artists to educate the public on the health of our rivers and surrounding communities.

Brandi Merolla’s piece speaks to river life

with Susan Handler

Artist David Channon’s painting, Love Bug, (see photo) portrays a striped love beetle encountering a fracking site. The bug sees that toxic discharge is running out of the containment pond and poisoning the forest. Love Bug uses its enormous strength to push the pipe back into the waste pond. Numerous depleted fracking sites fade out into the distance.

The exhibition will be held at CAS, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor October 11November 16.

An Artist Talk on October 11 at 2:00pm will be followed by a reception from 3:00pm5:00pm. The Weekend of Chamber Music will perform water music from 5:00pm-5:30pm Call 845-436-4227 for further information.

by Derek Leet WaterMusic is part two of a collaboration between Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM), the Catskill Art Society (CAS) and the Livingston Manor Central School (LMCS).

Inspired by the historic Zuber & Co. wallpaper murals installed in the school’s grand staircase, the Zuber Project began in 2010. The murals depict early 19th century scenes by French artist Jean-Jacques Deltil that include the Hudson River. WCM presents two performances with the LMCS students on October 11 & November 15, both at the LMCS and at CAS. The project brings together visual artists from around the country, WCM teaching artists and musicians, and students from LMCS in an exploration of the historical, cultural, environmental and human dimensions of WATER. The curriculum-integrated arts-education project with 5th and 6th grade students involves

activities in music, visual art and text across several subjects and students will see and experience water, largely taken for granted in the West, as the essential, irreplaceable resource that it is. Workshops across media will allow students to experience larger issues about water through the arts; they will experience art as an extension of those larger issues and they will collaborate to create their own works.

The Water Music concerts include excerpts from the Water Music of Handel; Wassermusik (Hamburg Ebb & Flow) by Telemann; Vocalise from Voice of the Whale by George Crumb; Metamorphoses After Ovid of Benjamin Britten; Deep River and other spirituals; Kajia Saariaho’s Cloud Trio; as well as watery music of John Cage, and a multi-media work from the students.

The concerts are open to the public.

For information: info@WCMconcerts.org.

Water Music for Water Art

that is now in peril due to fracking and the push for industrialization along the Delaware River (photo top right.)

Nancy Wells’ mixed-media wall relief speaks to the way humans clog and pollute the earth’s water and air systems, “Rorshach River”

by Naomi Teppich jeopardizing the lives of the land creatures, the sea species, the trees, and vegetation that share in the earth’s destiny.

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Barker’s Jazz at CAS

Jazz giant and Jeffersonville resident Thurman Barker is a well-known drummer, known for his time playing with Mighty Joe Young, Marvin Gaye, Bette Midler, and many others. A Bard College Jazz and Percussion teacher, he is also a noted composer.

His latest composition Memories of Things Past, is scored for woodwind quintet and vibraphone.

Barker will perform works on percussion and marimba with guitar accompaniment when the Catskill Art Society (CAS) presents Thurman Barker and His Band, on October 25 at 7:00pm.

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Main Street, Livingston Manor. Tickets are available for a suggested donation of $10.

Advance reservations are recommended as seating is limited.

For reservations, call 845-436-4227.

Music for Humanity Fundraiser

stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln To date, Music for Humanity Center and other famous concert has given 21 music scholarships venues. (most to youngsters in the MidThis exciting fundraising Hudson). “Music for Humanity concert is on October 18 at and I have the honor of being 7:30pm in the Montgomery selected by the Orange CountyArts Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street.

Council as the 2014 Champion of Doors open at 6:45pm for the the Arts,” said co-founder Barry silent auction.

Adelman, one of the dynamic General admission seats forces behind the organization are only $10 paid in advance. and its mission to help youngsters Reserved seating (first 4 rows) are pursue their studies in music.

Barry Adelman only $20 in advance. Tickets are For the Annual Concert and $5 more at the door.

Fund Raiser outstanding artists Tickets can be purchased at will perform, including John Outdoors, 6 Howland Street Cimino, winner of the International in Chester, or The New York Verdi Competition and the First School of Music, 42 Orchard International Pavarotti Voice Street in Walden, and online at Competition. He will perform http://musicforhumanity.org/ with pianists Jon Klibonoff and musicians/members/57/event.

Jennifer Chu, singers Christine php#event85 Clemmons-McCune, Sun Young “If we all give a little we can Chang and Steven Herring, make a big difference in the lives percussionists Brian Shank and of young musicians,” Adelman Matt Ward and cellist Hamilton John Cimino concludes.

Berry, all of whom have won For information, phone 845-469-0900. dozens of awards and have performed on the

Hirsu Plays Bach’s Solo Suites

Valentin Hirsu was born and in Bucharest. His attachment to his raised in Romania. His father was native and adoptive homelands, as a doctor. His mother was a concert well as his love for people and pianist who became a teacher music, is for me an inspiration.” when her children were born. She If good things come in threes, introduced her two sons to music Valentin Hirsu is one of them.

(Valentin’s brother is a violinist, a Hirsu is one of three New York former member of the Louisiana Philharmonic cellists who reside Philharmonic Orchestra). in the Warwick Valley.

Valentin started studying piano If good things come in threes, at age seven and a year later you can include three of Johann switched to the cello. His talent Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for Valentin Hirsu was soon apparent: he attended a Cello in your October concertschool that focused on music, performed Saint- going.

Saens’ Cello Concerto on national television If good things come in threes, you can hear when he was 14 years old, and appeared as Hirsu play Bach for “the modest price of free!” soloist with virtually all of the Romanian Bach’s solo suites are so widely desired to orchestras by age 18. be played that they have been transcribed for In 1974 Mr. Hirsu played for the eminent numerous instruments, including the violin, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, who encouraged him viola, double bass, viola da gamba, mandolin, to move to the United States so that they could piano, marimba, classical guitar, recorder, flute, work together. Mr. Hirsu arrived in New York electric bass, horn, saxophone, bass clarinet, City in 1975, and was so eager that he dialed bassoon, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, Piatigorsky at 8:00am the very next morning. ukulele, and charango!

“I didn’t know it was three hours earlier in Hirsu played with the Philharmonic for 32 California,” he recalls. “He was angry, and I years. He retired in 2009. One of the other was upset.” With his original plans having gone Warwick cellists introduced Hirsu to Howard awry, he auditioned six months later for an Garrett of the Grand Montgomery Chamber orchestral position and in 1976 began his first - Music Series and the result is that you can hear and only - job as a member of an orchestra: The these remarkable and difficult solo musical New York Philharmonic. works on October 19 at 3:00pm in the NY Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Montgomery Senior Center. Admission in Brey remarks of his colleague: “Valentin has free, thanks to the Village of Montgomery, the been a source of mordant humor and passionate Town of Montgomery and local businesses. intensity for the New York Philharmonic cello “I have played these suites all my life and section. I’ll never forget his search, during our want to share them with people,” Hirsu told historic trip to North Korea, for a North Korean CANVAS. musician he had known during his student days For more information: 845-467-9867.

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

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Maglione �����Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Open Mic w/Bryan & Erin Keegan ������������ Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown, Tues & Weds Senior Express Band ��������������Mulberry House Senior Center, Middletown, Wednesdays, 1pm-3pm Open Mic w/Joe Frazita or Steve Wells ������������������������� Blarney Stone, Warwick, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic w/Bob Keegan ���������������������������� Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 8:30pm Open Mic w/Eric Callari ��������������������������������������������������Eddie’s Restaurant, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Thursdays, 7pm Open Mic w/Chris Raabe Band ��������������������� Virgo’s Sip N Soul Cafe, Beacon, Sundays, 5pm-9pm Open Mic w/Jack Higgins ���������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 2, 7pm-11pm Open Mic “Out Loud Performance Party” poetry & music ������������ UpFront, Port Jervis, Oct 24, 7pm Karaoke w/live band �������������������������������������� Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Thursdays, 8:30pm Fridays at the Dead End jazz, country, blues, folk, etc. Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Fridays 6:30pm Sullivan County Songwriters Circle ���������������Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel. Saturdays, 3pm Saturdays at the Dead End jazz, country, blues, folk, etc. ����������Dead End Cafe, Saturdays 6:30pm Karaoke w/Bill Braine ����������������������������������������� 2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 3rd Saturday, 8pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano ������� La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal, Jake Lentz piano Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Musician’s Gathering w/Stacy Cohen �������������������Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ������������������Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Evan Teatum sing along ������������������������ Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 3, 7:30pm-10:30pm Groovy Tuesday �������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 4, 7:30pm-10:30pm Paul Guzzone ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Oct 4, 8pm Gayle Donnally ����������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 5, 2:30pm-5:30pm Bruce Perone ���������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 10, 7:30pm-10:30pm Feast of Friends Doors tribute band ��� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 11, 7:30pm-10:30pm Ray Longchamp ������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 12, 2:30pm-5:30pm Jon & the Jones indie rock, blues, Shlomo Franklin ������ Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Oct 13, 4pm Robert Schiff ����������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 17, 7:30pm-10:30pm TWD band with Ken Nicastro ������������ Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 18, 7:30pm-10:30pm Leo B. ������������������������������������������������������ Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 19, 2:30pm-5:30pm Jim & Michelle Ianucci ����������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 24, 7:30pm-10:30pm Hurley Mountain Highway ����������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 25, 7:30pm-10:30pm Devin Deversa ����������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 26, 2:30pm-5:30pm Palaia All Star Band ������������������������������ Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 1, 7:30pm-10:30pm Alec Phillips ��������������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 2, 2:30pm-5:30pm

clubs

Newburgh Library Camera Club ������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesday, 6pm St. James Camera Club ���������������������������������������������� St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Chess Club ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch ��������������������������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ������������������������������� Liberty Library, Tuesdays 10:15am Newburgh Knitting Club ���������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 6pm Knitting Group ����������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” ���������������������Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” �������������� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club ��������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting “Stitch and Bitch” ����������������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Knit/Crochet Club ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Circle ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Oct 20, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. �������First Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills,org The Music Lovers Group classical ������������������3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Electronic Music Meetup w/Neil Alexander ������������������������Newburgh Library, 3rd Thursdays, 7pm Ladies Night Painting Social ���������������������� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Thursdays 6:30pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ��� St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Newburgh Photography Club ����������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Oct 15, 6pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ��������������� Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm The Country Scrappers cardmaking, scrapbooking �Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Tuesdays, all day Scrabble Mania ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Highlands Spinning & Weaving ��������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Aug 10, 1:15pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill ��������������������������������������Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Trivia Night ������������������������������������������������������������Penning’s Pub & Grill, Warwick, Thursdays, 8pm UFO Support Group ���������������������������������������� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7:30pm Woodcarvers Guild ������������������������������������������������������ Museum Village, Monroe, Wednesdays, 7pm

masterclasses

A Peek into the World of Printmaking: Shellac Plates & Intaglio” Joan Mamelok ��������������������� SUNYO-OH Oct 1, 6pm “The Devices of Devising the Truth: Making Documentary Theatre About the World and Your Truth” Godfrey Simmons & Brandt Adams SUNYO-OH Oct 6, 1pm Water & Wildlife Series: “NYS Bald Eagle Restoration Project” Gene Weinstein ����������������������� SUNYO-OH Oct 25, 10:30am

demos

Spinning & Weaving Demo Ann Willis, fiber artist ���������������������������� Chester Library, Sep 29, 6pm Weaving & Painting Demos River Valley Artists Guild ��������� Port Jervis Library, Oct 5, 11am-4pm Glass Blowing Demo ������������������������������������������������Gillinder Glass, Port Jervis, Oct 18, 10am-3pm

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Concerts

OROD, Sweet Clementines and Rev Television Whiz Bang ���� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 1, 7pm Chris Beard blues �������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 2, 7pm Arlen Roth, Lexie Roth ����������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 3, 7pm Ed Palermo Big Band! Zappa & Rundgren. �������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 4, 7pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis blues, jazz, funk, swing, soul �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 5, 10am-2pm Rhonda Denét “From Jazz to Soul” ������������������������������������������ Cornwall Library, Oct 5, 2pm FREE Corey Dandridge & Friends’ World of Gospel ���������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27, 7pm Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers “Fiesta Mundial” Latin jazz & ethnic food �SUNYO-KH Oct 8, 6:30pm Chris O’Leary Band blues ����������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 9, 7pm Phil Vassar country ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 9, 8pm Marc Broussard ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 10, 8pm Matt Turk �����������������������������������Seven Freedoms Record Store, Salisbury Mills, Oct 11, 2pm FREE Shawn Colvin ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 15, 8pm Long Time Courting Celtic, American ����������������������������Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Oct 17, 8pm Noam Pikelny & Stuart Duncan bluegrass ���������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 17, 8pm John Hiatt & the Combo rock, blues ������������������������������������������������������ Bethel Woods, Oct 17, 8pm Simone Felice ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 18, 7pm Willa McCarthy Band blues, funk, r&b �������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 19, 10am-2pm Eric Person Quartet bop, blues, pop ������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Oct 19, 3pm FREE Duke McVinnie Band, Connor Kennedy ���������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 19, 7pm Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, The BK Project ��������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 24, 7pm Mike Baglione, Anne Loeb & Friends Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, Oct 25, 7:30pm Club d’Elf with John Medeski ��������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 30, 7pm Woodsongs Coffee House folk ���������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Nov 1, 6:30pm Lydia Adams Davis & The Band! Tribute to Pete Seeger ��� Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Nov 2, 3pm

Lectures

see also lectures on page 20

sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College

MSM-DC ������������������������������������������������������ Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �������������������������������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-KH ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh SUNYO-OH ���������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown SUNYO-RCSE �������������������� SUNY Orange, Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Middletown

“Studying the Civil War through Monuments and Memorials at West Point” David R. Siry ������ MSM-DC Sep 30, 6:30pm “The Electoral College: How We Got It, Why We Still Have It, and What Were the Founders Thinking?” Mark Weston SUNYO-KH Sep 30, 7:30pm “Sensible Tools & Techniques for Deconstructing Stress” Michelle Vina-Baltsas ������������������������� MSM-DC Oct 4, 1pm “Doodletown & Other Lost Hamlets” Elizabeth ‘Perk’ Stalter �������Newburgh Library, Oct 4, 2pm “Math in Nature: Fractal Hike” �����������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Oct 5, 1pm “Long Range Weather Forecasting and Global Warming” ������������������������� MSM-DC Oct 9,10am “AntARTtica: the Ultimate Art & Science project” Sam Bowser, Laura Von Rosk ����������������������� SUNYO-OH Oct 9, 7pm “Enterprise & Courage: The Civil War Years at Lake Mohonk” Robi Josephson ������������������������ MSM-DC Oct 10, 10am Fall Foliage Hike Carl Heitmuller ������� HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall, Oct 12, 10am “Fall-Scaping: Plants with Autumn Interest” Judy Boyd ������������ Thrall Library, Mdletwn, Oct 14, 6:30pm “Lung Health and Lung Disease – What You Need to Know” ������������������� MSM-DC Oct 15, 1pm “An Unforgiving Land Hardscrabble Life in the Trapps: A Vanished Shawangunk Mountain Hamlet” Robi Josephson Jacob T.Walden House, Walden, Oct 15, 7pm “Ghosts of the Hudson Valley” Linda Zimmerman ������������������������Florida Library, Oct 15, 6:30pm “Trends in Architectural Delineation” Richard Librizzi & Andrew Magnes ����������������������������������� SUNYO-RCSE Oct 15, 7pm “Crime Scene Forensics” Iris Dailey �������������������������������������������������������� SUNYO-KH Oct 16, 2pm “Crimes & Casualties: True Crimes of the Hudson Valley” Michael J. Worden ���������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Oct 16, 6:30pm “Planning Your Great Escape – Retirement” ��������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Oct 18, 10am “Evolution of the Grey Towers Landscape: Autumn in Cornelia’s Garden” Elizabeth Hawke ��� Grey Towers, Milford, Oct 18, 1:30pm “Nature at Night” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Oct 18, 6pm “LENR ~ The Promise of Clean and Affordable Energy” Thomas A. Wind ����������������������������������� SUNYO-RCSE Oct 20, 7pm “Israel and the Holy Land--Birth of Three Great Religions” Barry D. Kass ��������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Public Library. Oct 21, 6:30pm “Germany’s Wars of Conquest 1939-1943” Jennie Kiesling �����������Cornwall Library, Oct 21, 7pm “Slavery in America’s Birthplace: Rethinking the History of Concord, Massachusetts” ������������� Elise Lemire SUNYO-KH Oct 22, 7pm “Improving Relationships” M. Manson �������������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Oct 23, 1pm “Restore your Digestive Health Naturally – Heal your Gut” Lisa Renee Fogerty ������������������������� MSM-DC Oct 25, 10am “The Real Truth About Real Dairy” Toni-Jean Kulpinski �������������������������� MSM-DC Oct 27, 1pm “The New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Hudson Valley” Neil M. Maher ����������� SUNYO-KH Oct 29, 7pm Public Tour Series “River & Biota” B. Diuguid � CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Nov 1, 2pm

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cabaret

“Let’s Go to the Movies” ������������������������������������������Forestburgh Playhouse Tavern, Oct 10, 8:30pm The Lyric Quartet Parksville 2014 Music Festival ������� Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Oct 11, 7:30pm Broadway Concerts Direct cabaret, etc. ����United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, Oct 18, 6pm Mark Nadler “Crazy 1961” Bradstan Cabaret Series ���������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 18, 8pm

cinema

Adult Independent Film Night �������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm FREE “Edge of Tomorrow” Monday Night at the Movie ���������� Newburgh Library, Oct 20, 6:30pm FREE Lecture & Silent Film Screening ����������Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, Oct 1, 7;30pm Manhattan Short Film Festival.......... SUNYO Gilman Center Library, Middletown, Oct 2, 6:15pm Reel Eclectic Movie ����������������������������������������������������Thrall Library, Middletown, Oct 2, 7pm FREE “Rocky Horror Picture Show” �������������������������������������������Warwick Community Center, Oct 5, 6pm “The Man Who Knew Too Much” Hitchcock �������������������������Cornwall Library, Oct 8, Noon FREE World War I Film Series classic Hollywood films ���������������Ellenville Library, Oct 9, 6:30pm FREE “South Pacific” Rodgers & Hammerstein �����������������������������������Florida Library, Oct 12, 2pm FREE “A Will for the Woods” ���������������������������������������������Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Oct 12, 6pm Afternoon Movie ������������������������������������������������������Thrall Library, Middletown, Oct 15, 2pm FREE “Wuthering Heights” L.Olivier, M. Oberon ���� Mount St. Mary, Desmond Campus, Oct 16, 9:30am “The Bride of Frankenstein” Elsa Lanchester, dir. James Whale �������� Bethel Woods, Oct 19, 2pm “The Birds” Hitchcock ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 24, 7pm “Inequality for All” w/discussion �� Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, Oct 25, 7pm Neil Alexander’s “Scene Reseen” silent films with electronic music accompaniment ���������������������� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, Oct 26, 5pm & 8pm “Arsenic and Old Lace” Cary Grant ��������������� Mount St. Mary, Desmond Campus, Oct 28, 9:30am “The Wolf Man” Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr. �������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 31, 7pm “Rocky Horror Picture Show” popcorn included. ��� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Oct 31,8pm

comedy

Sandy Marks, Seymour Swan, Katie Schreiber ����������� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Oct 4, 8pm Isaacs & Baker, Kate Wolff �������������������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Oct 11, 8pm Kevin Meany, Joe Larson ��������������������������������������������� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Oct 18, 8pm Kevin James �����������������������������������������������������������������������Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Oct 18, 8pm Mike Gaffney, Joe Fernandez �������������������������������������� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Oct 25, 8pm Rodney Laney, Fred Rubino ����������������������������������������� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Nov 1, 8pm

dance

music - jazz

Brunch with the Jazz Cats ������������������������������� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 10am-1pm The Nanga World Trio w/Latin flare �������Cilantro Tapas & Bar, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 7pm Kazzrie Jaxen Quartet ������������������������������������������������������ Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Oct 4, 8pm Eric Person Duo ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Oct 5, 1pm FREE Tisziji Munoz Quartet w/ John Medeski ������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 5, 7pm Thunderhead Organ Trio ����������������������������� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, Oct 9, 8pm NO COVER The Eddie Henderson Quintet, Kathleen Grace ���������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 17, 7pm Big Band Jazz Gang & New York Swing Exchange SUNY Orange Hall, Middletown, Oct 18, 7pm The Mose Allison Project w/ The John Chin Quartet & Richard Julian The Falcon, Oct 11, 7pm Big Bang Jazz Gang “Monk & More!” ������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 15, 7pm Karen Mantler Trio ��������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 22, 7pm Todd Coolman Quartet ��������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 23, 7pm Thurman Baker percussion, marimba, guitar �����CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Oct 25, 7pm Pete Levin Project ������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 26, 10am-2pm Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble ��������������������� Iron Forge Inn, Bellvale, Warwick, Oct 26, Noon-3pm The John Menegon Quartet ������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 26, 7pm Nicole Henry �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 29, 7pm Ed Palermo Big Band’s HALLOWEEN! ���������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Oct 31, 7pm

opera

“Macbeth” Verdi, Live from the Met in HD �������������� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Oct 11, 1pm “Marriage of Figaro” Mozart, Live from the Met in HD �������������������� SUNY Sullivan, Oct 18, 1pm “The Masque of the Red Death” by Gladys Moskowitz �Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Oct 31-Nov 9 “Carmen” Bizet, Live from the Met in HD ���������������� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Nov 1, 1pm

poetry & prose readings

EXHIBIT: Sandra Graff (poetry) & Barbara Graff (paintings) “Pen and Print” ������������������������� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, thru Oct 2 Liberty Poetry Festival �������������������������������������� Liberty Museum & Art Center, Sep, 27, Noon-4pm Mike Jurkovic & Larry Sansone �����������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 2, 7pm Sandra Graff Pen and Paint Coffee House �����SUNYO Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Oct 2, 7pm FREE Hudson River Poets ������������������������������������������������������������������ Newburgh Library, Oct 2, 7pm FREE First Fridays Contemporary Writers ����������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Oct 3, 7:30pm FREE Marina Mati & Mike Jurkovic Calling All Poets ���� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Oct 3, 8pm Bruce Spang Poetry on the Loose �������������������� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Oct 4, 3:30pm FREE Christi Shannon Kline Poetry in the Gallery ������������������ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Oct 5, 7pm FREE “Theremin Ghosts!” Carl Welden Theremin, Robert Milby poetry Pine Bush Library,Oct 7, 7pm FREE

Bethel Wine Fest ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 4, 11am-4pm Liberty Harvest Festival �������������������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Oct 11, 10am-4pm CANVAS 10th Anniversary Art Celebration ����������������������������� Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 12, 1pm-5pm Pumpkin Fest ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Pine Island Park, Oct 13, 10am-2pm

Christopher P. Gazeent, Terence Chiesa, Robert Milby Poetry Cafe ���������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Oct 17, 7:30pm FREE “OUT LOUD Performance Party” poetry, music, etc. ���������UpFront, Port Jervis, Oct 24, 7pm FREE Poetry at the Church host: Ted Gill ������������������������� Goshen Methodist Church, Oct 27, 7pm FREE “A Night With Poe” prose, dramatic reading ���������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Oct 31, 6pm & 8pm Poetry on the Loose ������������������������������������������Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Nov 1, 3:30pm FREE Open Mic LGBTQ poetry night ���������������������������������������� Warwick Community Center, Nov 2, 6pm

Fundraisers

recreation - Dancing - Artwalks

“Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake” video �������������������Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Oct 15 & 19

fairs - Festivals

Woof Walk Cragsmoor Library Fundraiser ���������������������������� Cragsmoor Post Office, Oct 11, 10am CAS Arts Center Fundraising Dinner �����������������CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Oct 12, 7pm Dance-A-Thon for Breast Cancer ����������� Empire Dance Center, New Windsor, Oct 13, 10am-10pm

holistic events

Drumming Circle ����������������������������������Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Oct 3, & 17, 6:30pm FREE “Tree Drawings and You!” Diana Underwood & George Toth ���������������������������������������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Oct 3, 10am Psychic Fair �����������������������������������������������������������Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Oct 5, 11am-6pm James Van Praagh & Deborah King “An Evening of Spirit” �������� Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 9, 7:30pm “The History of Mysticism, Spiritualism & other Esoteric Phenomenon “ Nathan Rosenblum ��� Newburgh Library, Oct 28, 7pm

magic

Mike Super ��������������������������������������������������������������������������Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Oct 5, 3pm

Music - Classical

Verdi Requiem Ron De Fesi, cond., soloists & Hudson Opera Chorus Sugar Loaf PAC, Sep 28, 3pm Sunday With Friends Chamber Music Series �������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Sep 28, 2pm Guidonian Hand Trombone Quartet classical & jazz �������������������������Milford Theater, Oct 4, 5:30pm Potluck Concerts �������������������������Corwall Prebysterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Oct 10, 7:30pm NY Philharmonic Strings Tuxedo Performing Arts Group ����� Tuxedo Park private home, Oct 5, 4pm Gail Watson soprano, Sally Fenley piano ���������Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Oct 11, 6pm-9pm FREE American String Quartet Newburgh Chamber Music � St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Oct 12, 3pm Music for Humanity Fundraiser �������������������������������������� Montgomery Senior Center, Oct 18, 7:30pm Valentin Hirsu cello, Bach, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series ���������������������������������������������� Montgomery Senior Center, Oct 19, 3pm FREE “VIOLent PERseCution” viola & percussion, Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster ��������������������������� St. John’s Epsicopal Church, Ellenville, Oct 23, 7:30pm Liang Wang oboe, Philip Myers horn, Joyce Yang piano ������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 26, 2pm Jonathan Ogulnick piano ��������������������������������������������UNYO Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Oct 26, 3pm

Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra ���������������������� Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing ��������������������������������������������� MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 8:30pm, Dancing 9pm Discovery Quests �Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-1pm Thunder 102 Game Night benefits ����������������������������������Forestburgh Playhouse Tavern, Oct 3, 7pm Callicoon Art Walk ����������������������������������������������� Main Street Galleries & Shops, Oct 11, 5pm-9pm Candlelit Ghost Tour �������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill River School, Oct 25, 7pm Monster Jam’s Halloween Night ����������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 31, 7pm-10pm Cemetery Walk ������������������������������������ Grey Towers, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Milford, Nov 1, 1:30pm

storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild �������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Oct 9, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers “Memoirs #9” ����������������������������������CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Oct 18, 7pm Hudson Valley Storytellers ����������������������� Newburgh Library, Town Branch, Oct 22, 6:30pm FREE

theatre - Musical

“The Secret Garden” Just Off Broadway, Inc.”Arboretum Fundraiser �Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 11, 7pm “Side by Side by Sondheim” �������������������������������������Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Oct 17-Nov 2 “Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack” ��������������������������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 18, 8pm “Rent” Just Off-Broadway, Inc. ��������������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf PAC, Oct 24-26

theatre - Play

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” ������������������������������� New Rose Theatre, Walden, Sep 26-Oct 5 “Musings & Amusements” Leora Cassells ������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Sep 30, 6:30pm FREE “Love, Sex & the IRS” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Oct 10-19 “Underground Railroad Game” Groundswell Theatre Co. ������������NACL Theatre, Oct 11, 7:30pm “Ah, New York - Fortitude, Frustration, Fantasy” Act Underground Reader’s Theatre ��������������� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Oct 11 & 12 “Dispatches from (A)mended America” Above the Fold & Civic Ensemble ����������������������������������� SUNYO Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Oct 12, 3pm “The Police” Liberty Free Theatre ���������������� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Oct 17 & 18, 7:30pm “The Interrogation of Nathan Hale” Cornerstone Theatre Arts ������� Goshen Music Hall, Nov 1-16

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octobe BW ���� Event Gallery/Museum, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS Catskill Arts Society ���������������� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor CTMW Creative-Theatre-Muddy Waters ����������� Museum Village, Monroe DCAT ������������������������������Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel DEAD �����������������������������������������������������������������Dead End Cafe, Parksville DOWN �����������������������������������������������������Downing Film Center, Newburgh

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Music - Gospel Corey Dandridge & Friends FAL 7pm

Poetry& Music “Theremin Ghosts!”

Pine Bush Library, 7pm

Cinema “The Man Who Knew Too Much” Cornwall Library, Noon Music & Food “Fiesta Mundial” Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers SUNYO-KH 6:30pm

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Festival Pumpkin Fest Pine Island Park 10am-2pm

Cinema Afternoon Movie THRALL 2pm

Fundraiser Dance-a-Thon Empire Dance Center, New Windsor, 10am-10pm

Music Big Bang Jazz Gang FAL 7pm

Music - Folk-Rock-Blues Jon & the Jones, Shlomo Franklin DCAT 4pm

Dance Video “Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake” DOWN 7:15pm

Music - Gospel Corey Dandridge & Friends FAL 7pm

Music Shawn Colvin SLPAC 8pm

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A “Nature Stroller” discovers a painted turtle at the Museum of the Hudson Highlands!

Cinema “Edge of Tomorrow” NFL 6:30pm

Music - Gospel Corey Dandridge & Friends FAL 7pm

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Music - Gospel Corey Dandridge & Friends FAL 7pm

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Join Museum staff on a one-hour hike for “Nature Strollers”, a hiking group for families with babies, toddlers and young children. The program runs thru November 13.

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Cinema “Wuthering Heights” MSM-DC 9:30am

October 2014

Cinema.............................Reel Eclectic Film.................THRALL 7pm Music - Blues..................... Chris Beard..................................FAL 7pm Poetry................Mike Jurkovic & Larry Sansone............... NCR 7pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm

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Poetry Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

THURSDAY

Cinema........Manhattan Short Film Festival.....SUNYO-GCL 6:15pm

Music OROD, Sweet Clementines FAL 7pm

Theatre - Variety Show “Musings & Amusements” THRALL 6:30pm

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JEST ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Jester’s Comedy Club, Chest MSM-AQ ���������������������������������������������������������Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburg NACL ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� NACL Theatre, Highland La NCR �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell H NFL �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Free Libra NVM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackvi

Poetry & Music.Sandra Graff Pen&Paint CoffeeHouse.SUNYO-KH 7pm

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FAL �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro FPT ����������������������������������������������������������������Forestburgh Playhouse Tavern GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ���Senior Center, Montgomery GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts ����������������������������������� Goshen Music Hall HCC �����������������������������������������������������������Howland Cultural Center, Beacon IKE �������������������������������������������������������������������� Eisenhower Hall, West Point

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Storytelling Hudson River Storytellers Newburgh Library, Town Branch, 6:30pm Music - Jazz Karen Mantler Trio FAL 7pm

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Music - Jazz Nicole Henry FAL 7pm

Cinema...World War I Classic Film Series...Ellenville Library, 6:30pm Music - Blues...............Chris O’Leary Band...........................FAL 7pm Holistic...................... “An Evening of Spirit”.............. SLPAC 7:30pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm Storytelling.......Black Dirt Storytelling Guild..Florida Library, 7:30pm Music - Country..................Phil Vassar.................................. BW 8pm Music - Jazz....Thunderhead Organ Trio...Wherehouse, Nwbgh, 8pm

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Music................. No Music - Celtic-Ame Music - Rock-Blues

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PACEM ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Pacem In Terris, Warwick PEEC �����������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry PV ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills ROSE ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������New Rose Theatre, Walden SCCC SUNY Sullivan County Community College �������������������������������� Loch Sheldrake SCDW Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop................ Rivoli Theatre, South Fallsburg

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SCM ����������������������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SLGMN ����������������������������Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SLPAC ����������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center ST �������������������������������������������������������Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville STORM �������������������������������������Storm King Art Center, Mountainville SUNYO-GCL ������SUNY Orange, Gilman Center Library, Middletown

SATURDAY

SUNYO-KH �����������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh UUC ���������������������������������������Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern THRALL ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Thrall Library, Middletown TUST ������������������������������������������������������������������������Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg TWSS Just Off Broadway, Inc.,.........Theatre at West Shore Station, Newburgh WAA ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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Music - Jazz............. Jazz Cat Brunch................ DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Jazz-Funk....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis.... FAL 10am-2pm Open Mic...................Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle............DCAT 3pm Festival..................................... Applefest................................Warwick .......................Fridays at the Dead End.............. DEAD 6:30pm Poetry.....................................Bruce Spang......................SLGMN 3:30pm Holistic........Psychic Fair..Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, 11am-6pm ing Circle..Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, 6:30pm Theatre-Play..“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”..ROSE 4:30pm & 7:30pm Music - Jazz................... Eric Person Duo............ Florida Library, 1pm ........................ Arlen Roth, Lexie Roth........................FAL 7pm Music-Classical-Jazz.........Guidonian Hand.........Milford Theatre, 5:30pm Music-Zappa-Rundgren.......Ed Palermo Big Band................FAL 7pm Music - Jazz-Soul...............Rhonda Denét........Cornwall Library, 2pm Contemporary Writers.Narrowsburg Library, 7:30pm Music - Jazz..................Kazzrie Jaxen Quartet......................... TUST 8pm Magic..................................Mike Super.................................. IKE 3pm Marina Mati & Mike Jurkovic.................. HCC 8pm Comedy... Sandy Marks, Seymour Swan, Katie Schreiber.....JEST 8pm Music - Classical.......NY Philharmonic Strings......Tuxedo Park, 4pm ne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”..ROSE 7:30pm Music - Folk-Jazz-Blues.....Sloan Wainwright..............................FPT 8pm Cinema....”Rocky Horror Picture Show”..Warwick Comm. Ctr., 6pm Music...................................Paul Guzzone................................ DCAT 8pm Poetry........................Christi Shannon Kline....................... WAA 7pm Music - Jazz............... Tisziji Munoz Quartet..........................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play..“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”..ROSE 7:30pm

.......................Fridays at the Dead End.............. DEAD 6:30pm otluck Concets..Corrnwall Presbyterian Ch. 7:30pm ..............................Marc Broussard........................ SLPAC 8pm ............“Love, Sex & the IRS”.................... SCDW 8pm ................... “Let’s Go to the Movies”................. FPT 8:30pm

............ Milford Film Festival....... Milford Theatre, TBA ..................... Big Eddy Film Festival......................TUST TBA .....................”The Grocer’s Son”....Cornwall Library, 5:30pm .......................Fridays at the Dead End.............. DEAD 6:30pm ing Circle..Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, 6:30pm

e Henderson Qn., Kathleen Grace.............. FAL 7pm

................................ Poetry Cafe............ Florida Library 7:30pm

he Police” Liberty Free Theatre.......... NACL 7:30pm

.......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 8pm ............“Love, Sex & the IRS”.................... SCDW 8pm oam Pikelny & Stuart Duncan........... SLPAC 8pm erican ...........Long Time Courting...............TT 8pm s..............John Hiatt & the Combo............ BW 8pm

.......................Fridays at the Dead End.............. DEAD 6:30pm OUD Performance Party.UpFront, Port Jervis, 7pm .............................. “The Birds”.................................. BW 7pm ....................“Rent”........................... SLPAC 7:30pm .......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 8pm Louie & The Crowmatix, The BK Project.FAL 7pm

Night With Poe”..Grey Towers, Milford, 6pm & 8pm ............Fridays at the Dead End.............. DEAD 6:30pm under 102 Benefit Game Night............... FPT 7pm ...........................“The Wolf Man”.............................. BW 7pm alermo’s Big Band HALLOWEEN!...........FAL 7pm ONSTER JAM’S HALLOWEEN!.... NCR 7pm-10pm .......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 8pm he Masque of the Red Death”............ SCDW 8pm Rocky Horror Picture Show”.................... PV 8pm

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Festival..Liberty Harvest Festival.........Downtown 10am-4pm Opera - Live from the Met.....”Macbeth” Verdi...................SCCC 1pm Music.....................Matt Turk...Seven Freedoms, Salisbury Mills, 2pm Open Mic.....Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle............DCAT 3pm Music - Jazz................... Jazz Cat Brunch................ DCAT 10am-1pm Recreation-Art Walk........Callicoon Art Walk....Main Street, 5pm-9pm Festival.....CANVAS 10th Anniversary Arts Celebration.. SLPAC 1pm-5pm Theatre - Play............“Love, Sex & the IRS”.................... SCDW 2pm Music-Classical.Gail Watson & Sally Fenley.Back Room Gallery, Beacon, 6pm-9pm Theatre - Play.“AH N.Y. - Fortitude/Frustration/Fantasy”......TT 2pm Music.....................Saturdays at the Dead End............ DEAD 6:30pm Cinema........................... “South Pacific”............. Florida Library, 2pm Theatre -Musical............“The Secret Garden”........................SLPAC 7pm

Music - Jazz...........The Mose Allison Project......................FAL 7pm

Cabaret.............................The Lyric Quartet....................... DEAD 7:30pm

Theatre - Play.... “Underground Railroad Game”........ NACL 7:30pm Theatre - Play.“AH N.Y. - Fortitude/Frustration/Fantasy”.TT 7:30pm Theatre - Play............“Love, Sex & the IRS”.................... SCDW 8pm

Comedy....................Isaacs & Baker, Kate Wolff......................JEST 8pm

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Cinema........... Milford Film Festival....... Milford Theatre, TBA Opera - Live from Met....”Marriage of Figaro” Mozart......SCCC 1pm Theatre - Musical.......“Side by Side by Sondheim”... ST 2pm & 8pm Open Mic.................Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle......DCAT 3pm

Cabaret....Broadway Concerts Direct...United Ch. of Christ, Blooming Grove, 6pm

Music........................Saturdays at the Dead End............... DEAD 6:30pm Storytelling................. Yarnslingers Memoirs #9........................ CAS 7pm Music - Jazz.................... Big Band Jazz Fest................. SUNYO-OH 7pm Music.................................. Simone Felice................................... FAL 7pm Music - Classical... Music for Humanity Fundraiser.......... GMCM 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“The Police” Liberty Free Theatre.......... NACL 7:30pm

Theatre - Play............“Love, Sex & the IRS”.................... SCDW 8pm

Theatre-Musical.......“Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack”..................SLPAC 8pm Comedy............................... Kevin James.....................................IKE 8pm Cabaret..................... Mark Nadler “Crazy 1961”..........................BW 8pm Comedy..................... Kevin Meany, Joe Larson.......................JEST 8pm

Music-Classical..American String Quartet..St. George’s Ch., Nwbgh 3pm Theatre-Play.“Dispatches from (A)mended America.SUNYO-KH 3pm

Cinema..................... “A Will for the Woods”...................DOWN 6pm Fundraiser............... Fall Fundraising Dinner.......................CAS 7pm

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Cinema....................... Milford Film Festival....... Milford Theatre, TBA Music - Jazz................... Jazz Cat Brunch................ DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Blues-Funk... ...Willa McCarthy Band............. FAL 10am-2pm Dance-Video..... “Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake”.......DOWN 1:15pm Theatre - Musical.......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 2pm Theatre - Play............“Love, Sex & the IRS”.................... SCDW 2pm Cinema................ “The Bride of Frankenstein”.................... BW 2pm Music - Classical..........Valentin Hirsu cello......................GMCM 3pm Music - Bop-Blues-Pop.........Eric Person Quartet................NFL 3pm Music.............Duke McVinnie Band, Connor Kennedy.......FAL 7pm

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Open Mic........Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.........DCAT 3pm Music - Jazz................... Jazz Cat Brunch................ DCAT 10am-1pm Music.....................Saturdays at the Dead End............ DEAD 6:30pm Music - Jazz................ ...Pete Levin Project................ FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz....Thurman Baker percussion,marimba,etc....CAS 7pm Music-JazzHudson Valley Jazz Ensemble.Iron Forge Inn,Warwick Noon-3pm Cinema & Discussion......“Inequality for All”..............................UUC 7pm Theatre- Musical....................“Rent”................................ SLPAC 2pm Recreation..Candlelit Ghost Tour.Wallkill River School, Montgomery,7pm Theatre - Musical.......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 2pm Theatre - Musical....................“Rent”................ SLPAC 2pm & 7:30pm Music - Classical........Sunday with Friends wind trio........... BW 2pm Music -Folk... Mike Baglione, Anne Loeb & Friends...... NVM 7:30pm Music - Classical........Jonathan Ogulnick piano...... SUNYO-KH 3pm Theatre - Musical.......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 8pm Cinema-Electronic Music.Silent Horror Classic.Wherehouse, Nwbgh, 5pm & 8pm Comedy..................Mike Gaffney, Joe Fernandez....................JEST 8pm Music - Jazz..............John Menegon Quartet........................FAL 7pm

Opera - Live from the Met........”Carmen” Bizet.......................SCCC 1pm Open Mic..........Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.............DCAT 3pm Poetry..............................Poetry on the Loose........................SLGMN 3:30pm Music........................... Saturdays at the Dead End...................DEAD 6:30pm Music - Folk..................Woodsongs Coffee House......................SCM 6:30pm Theatre -Play......... “The Interrogation of Nathan Hale................. GOSH 7pm Theatre - Musical........“Side by Side by Sondheim”............................ ST 8pm Opera...................... “The Masque of the Red Death”...................SCDW 8pm Comedy...................... Rodney Laney, Fred Rubino........................ JEST 8pm

Music - Jazz............. Jazz Cat Brunch................ DCAT 10am-1pm Theatre - Musical.......“Side by Side by Sondheim”............... ST 8pm Opera............... “The Masque of the Red Death”............ SCDW 2pm

Theatre -Play......... “The Interrogation of Nathan Hale................. GOSH 2pm

Music - Folk......Lydia Adams Davis & The Band!............ DEAD 3pm Poetry...............LGBTQ Open Mic..Warwick Community Center, 6pm Poetry.........................Poetry in the Gallery........................ WAA 7pm

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ART & Photography receptions

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Art exhibits

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

Group Show ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones �������������Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden,ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery �����������������������������������������������Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography �������������������������� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings ������������� BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ����� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ����������������������� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Lana Privitera paintings ����������������������������������������������� Blazing Bagels Cafe, Montgomery, ongoing Furniture, sculpture, ceramics, woodburnings ����������Once A Tree, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Mitchell Saler “Meditations” ��������������������������������������������������� Berkshire Bank, Goshen, thru Sep 30 Joan Mamelok “Exploration” printmaking ��������������������������������������������������SUNYO-OH thru Oct 1 Sandra Graff (poetry) & Barbara Graff (paintings) “Pen and Print” ������SUNYO-KH thru Oct 2 Diane Green & Isaac Green Diebboll “Mother and Son: Paintings and Drawings” DVAA thru Oct 4 Ruth Hardinger & Lucienne Weinberger “Watch Your Step” ���������������������������������CAS thru Oct 5 David Link sculpture, Eleanor White playing cards & found objects ������ BAU, Beacon, thru Oct 5 Ellen Metzger O’Shea “Finger Lakes” �������������������������������RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Oct 5 Michele Jaffe & Linda Urcioli �������������������������������������������������� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Oct 6 Sam Bowser and Laura Von Rosk “AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World!” paintings, photography, woodcuts, artifacts, prints SUNYO-OH thru Oct 9 Liza Mills �����������������������������������������������������������������������Artology Gallery, New Windsor, thru Oct 10 Alexandros Megas “The Other Side” ��������������������������� Healing Arts Studio, Newburgh, thru Oct 11 Tom Gottsleben: What Goes Around Comes Around outdoor sculpture �������Bethel Woods, thru Oct 13

Doug Milne ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Elant at Goshen, thru Oct 13 “Farms” WRS members group show ����������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS thru Oct 14 Sculptures on Main Street �������������������������������������������������������������� Main Street, Beacon, thru Oct 15 “Shades of Gray” & Henry Syverson illustrator ����������� Crawford Gallery, Pine Bush, thru Oct 20 “Fay Wood sculptures “Artist of Excellence” ���������������������������������������������SUNYO-KH thru Oct 27 Maria Lago ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, thru Oct 28 Farm Art from the WRS ���������������������� Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, thru Oct 31 Juanita Guccione “Defiant Acts” ������������������������������������ Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Nov 1 Zhang Huan “Evoking Tradition” �����������������������Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, thru Nov 9 “Narcissism and The Self-Portrait” 27 artists ������������Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Nov 22 Ksenia Golubkov “Silk Art” batik �����������������Rolling River Cafe & Gallery, Parksville, thru Dec 21 Always Searching” (art rotates throughout the year) Michael Byro, Janet Howard-Fatta, & �������� Billie Robson, Craig Wettstein Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern thru Aug 2015

NEW ART EXHIBITS

John Peralo paintings ��������������������������������������������Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Oct 1-29 Mary Mugele Sealfon & Michael Piotrowski, Diana McElroy ������������������������������� WRS Oct 1-30 “Women Who Pastel” group show ������������������������������Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Oct 2-Nov 30 William Noonan’s Oil Classes ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ WRS Oct 1-30 Early 1900s Hollywood Vintage Decorated Crepe Designs Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Oct 3-31 “Outside the Box III” member group show ���������������������������������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Oct 4-26 Melinda Wallach “There’s a Method to her Madness” ����Old Stone House of Hasbrouck, Oct 4-26 Diane Boisvert “Assemblage” wall sculptures ����������������� Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, Oct 4-30 River Valley Artists Guild ������������������������������������������������������� Port Jervis Library, Oct 5, 11am-4pm Marie Liu & Randall Fitzgerald paintings & photography ARTery Gallery, Milford, Oct 6-Nov 3 Emily Thompson paintings �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� DVAA Oct 10-Nov 1 “A New Deal for Artists” artworks of the WPA ������������������������������������ SUNYO-KH Oct 10-Nov 20 Matilda Grech & Friends ������������������������������������������������������ Columns Museum, Milford, Oct 11-12 “River & Biota” group show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ CAS Oct 11-Nov 16 Contemporary Mixed Media Exhibition ������������������� CT Pop - Up Gallery, Callicoon, Oct 11-Nov Diane Kominisk-Ouzoonian paintings ������������������������������� Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, Oct 12-Jan 5 Debbe Cushman Femiak ������������������������������������������������������������������� Elant at Goshen, Oct 13-Nov 3 “Fall” members group show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS Oct 15-Nov 14 “Waterways & Wildlife” paintings, sculpture, photographs, etc. ������� SUNYO-OH Oct 16-Nov 23 “Expressions: The Artists of New Hope” ���������������������������������������� Liberty Library, Oct 16-Nov 24 David Nolan “Artist of Excellence” sculptures ���������������������������������������� SUNYO-KH Oct 30-Feb 5

Photography exhibits

Carol Mindnich �������������������������������������������������������������������������Caffé ala Mode, Warwick, thru Oct 1 Jan Tyniec & John Back ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������DVAA thru Oct 4 Nick Zungoli “Cuba Exhibit” ����������������������������������������Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, thru Dec 31

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Quintet Photographers ���������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 1-31 George Saines “Embrace a Square Mile”Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Ch., Middletown, Oct 10-19 “Artists’ Choice” �������������������������������������������������Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Oct 11-27 Marie Cavicchio ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Artology, New Windsor, Nov 1-14

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Sandra Graff (poetry) & Barbara Graff (paintings) “Pen and Print” ���� SUNYO-KH Oct 2, 7pm Diane Boisvert “Assemblage” wall sculptures ��� Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, Oct 4, Noon-2pm

Melinda Wallach “There’s a Method to her Madness” � Old Stone House of Hasbrouck, Oct 4, 6pm-10pm

Grand Opening Celebration �������������������������Once A Tree, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Oct 4, 7pm-10pm River Valley Artists Guild ��������������������������������������������������������Port Jervis Library, Oct 5, 11am-4pm Quintet Photographers ���������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Oct 9, 6pm-8pm Emily Thompson paintings �������������������������������������������������������������������������� DVAA Oct 10, 7pm-9pm “River & Biota” group show ������������������������������������������������ CAS Oct 11, Talk:3pm, Reception:4pm Matilda Grech & Friends ��������������������������������� Columns Museum, Milford, Oct 11 & 12, 1pm-4pm Mary Mugele Sealfon & Michael Piotrowski, Diana McElroy ����������������� WRS Oct 11, 5pm-7pm John Peralo paintings ������������������������������ Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Oct 11, 5pm-7pm Callicoon Art Walk ��������������������������������������������������������������Main Street Galleries, Oct 11, 5pm-9pm Early 1900s Halloween Vintage Crepe Designs ����� Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Oct 11, 6pm-9pm Marie Liu & Randall Fitzgerald paintings & photography ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, Oct 11, 6pm-9pm

“Artists’ Choice” �������������������������������������Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Oct 11, 6pm-9pm Diane Kominisk-Ouzoonian �����������������������������������������Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, Oct 12, 5pm-7pm “Expressions: The Artists of New Hope” ������������������������������������ Liberty Library, Oct 16, 6pm-8pm “Women Who Pastel” group show ������������������������Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Oct 25, 1pm-3pm Marie Cavicchio photography ������������������������������������������Artology, New Windsor, Nov 1, 4pm-7pm

Schools & Conservartories

“Under My Sombrero” ceramics, Pine Island farmers & kids ����Florida Library, Oct 26, 2pm-5pm

books - Discussions/Readings /siGNings

Book Lover’s Club ������������������������������������������������������������������ Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Book Discussion Group �������������������������������������������������������������� Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm Liberty Book Fair ��������� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Sep 27, Noon-4pm, Book Signings: Noon-2pm Tuesdays at Two Book Discussion “Elsewhere” by R. Russo ������������������ Newburgh Library, Sep 30, 2pm “How to Survive Life (and Death): A Guide for Happiness in this World and Beyond” ������������������������ Robert Kopecky Narrowsburg Library, Oct 3, 6:30pm

Hudson Valley Romance Writers over 9 authors ���������������������� Palaia Vineyards, Oct 4, Noon-4pm “Outside the Box III” member group show ���������������������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Oct 4, 2pm-4pm Larry Winters “Brotherkeeper” �����������������������������������������������Thrall Library, Middletown, Oct 7, 6:30pm “All That Is” by James Salter ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Cornwall Library, Oct 8, 7pm Scholars Book Discussion �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Oct 15, 7pm “Punishment Enough” Dave Miller ����������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Oct 15, 7pm “Lost Amusement Parks of New York City” Barbara & Wes Gottlock ������������������������������������������������������ Greenwood Lake Library, Oct 19, 1pm “The Night Strangers” by Chris Bohjalian ������������������������������������������������ Cornwall Library, Oct 23, 7pm Great Books Discussion ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Oct 24, 11:30am “Fire Towers of the Catskills: Their History and Love” Marty Podskoch ������������������������������������������������ Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, Oct 25, 2pm

Orange Reads “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand �����������������������Florida Library, Oct 23, 6:30pm Orange Reads “Unbroken” David McTamaney ������������������������������Newburgh Library, Oct 28, 2pm Orange Reads “Unbroken” ����������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Oct 29, 6:30pm

children & Teens Calendar

HHNM �����������������������������������Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH �������������������� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC �������������������������������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Books

“The Iron King” by Julie Kagawa, ages 12+ ��������������������������������Jeffersonville Library, Oct 2, 3pm

Cinema

Teen Movie Night grades 5-12 �������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE “Godzilla” PG13 ���������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Sep 27, 2pm FREE Family Matinee ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Oct 18, 2pm FREE “The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad” ����������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Oct 30,6:30pm

Museums

“Mastodons: Ice Age to Discovery” & Brook Trout Exhibit & Meet the Animal of the Week ����� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Grasshopper Grove Gateway to Nature Play ������������������� HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm Eco-Zone �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Oct 19, 1pm-4pm

recreation & Lectures - see also lectures on page 16

Painting Social for Children, Teens & Adults �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 3:30pm FREE Teen Drop-in visual art ��������������������Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Wednesdays, 1pm-3pm Nature Strollers families w/babies, toddlers, youngsters ������� HHNM Thursdays, 10am thru Nov 13 “Woolly Bears” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� HHNM-CoH Oct 4, 10am “Fall Birds & Water Fowl” Sharon and David Baker ������������������������������������ HHNM Oct 11, 10am Trick or Treat with Ichabod & Mr. Toad ������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 30, 5:30pm FREE

Theatre & storytelling

Minas-Brazilian Adventure grades 5-12 ���������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Oct 16, 11am “Ghost Stories” all ages, storytelling �����������������������������������Buckbee Center, Warwick, Oct 23, 7pm

museum Calendar Terwilliger House Museum �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits ��������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living ���������������������������������������������������������� Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing “Pollock’s Hotel - Architectural Photos & Artifacts” �������������������������Liberty Museum, thru Oct 11 “Pre 1900-1960s Footwear” ������������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, thru Oct 31 “D&H Canal” ����������������������������������������������������� Neversink Area Museum, Cuddebackville, thru Oct “Unpacked & Rediscovered” over 1300 artifacts � Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh thru Fall Swami Satchidananda: Woodstock Guru’s 100th Anniversary �Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Oct 13 “Celebrating Catskill Waters: Past & Present” Time&theValleysMuseum, Grahamsville, thru Dec 2015 “Charles Dickens & the Kyd” �������������������������������� Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Dec

Time & The Valleys Museum: “Catskill Waters”

An opening reception for the new exhibit, Celebrating Catskill Waters: Past & Present, and an intro to the Time & The Valleys Museum’s next project: re-creating a 1930s Catskill farm, will be held on October 9 at 4:30pm at the Museum, 332 Main Street in Grahamsville.

Speakers include Emily Lloyd, commissioner for NYC’s Department of Environmental Protection, and Congressman Chris Gibson.

The event includes photos, videos,

Local gals in swimsuits circa 1920s

artifacts and activities relating to Sullivan County’s waters. Visitors will learn where most of the County’s water comes from, play a guessing game with fishing lore, watch a video about Luxton Lake in Narrowsburg, learn about the evolution of swimsuit fashions, see the whoppers that have been caught by fishermen over the years, and a lot more.

The exhibit is a Sullivan Countywide collaborative project.

Call 845-985-7700 for information.

Poe Reading at Grey Towers for Halloween

Dramatic readings were a common form of entertainment for 19th century families. Selected works of Edgar Allan Poe were included in the Pinchots’ personal library collection.

The annual dramatic reading at Grey Towers features members of the American Readers Theatre Company (ART) in the Great Hall. The ART is a non-profit performing arts organization dedicated to promoting literacy through the art

of dramatic readings.

Tickets for Forevermore: A Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe at Grey Towers, 122 Old Owego Turnpike in Milford, will be presented on Halloween, October 31 at 6:00pm and 8:00pm and will include four selected works of Poe. The program is appropriate for high school age and older.

For information, call 570-296-9625.

Showcasing the growing art, music and retail community in the picturesque hamlet of Callicoon on the Delaware, the hamlet will have its first Art Walk on October 11 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm.

During the Art Walk, retailers, galleries and restaurants will be open until 9:00pm.

The inaugural Art Walk, which is FREE to the public, will turn Callicoon into a lively

and varied art and music venue.

A map will be available at all participating retailers and galleries highlight the locations of exhibiting artists. Visitors will easily navigate the Art Walk route and enjoy light refreshments and live music along the way.

All art will be available for purchase and the majority will remain on display through November.

The Sugar Loaf Fall Festival will be held on October 11, 12 and 13 from 10:00am6:00pm. It is the perfect place to spend the weekend watching the leaves turn colors, getting a breath of fresh cool air, and enjoying the festival filled with dozens of crafters from the tri-state region.

There will be whole line up of live music in the Bertoni Garden. The entertainment schedule will include a range of styles such as blues, classic rock, folk and more. Many bands are local and write their own songs.

The hamlet of Sugar Loaf is a community of creative craftspeople, artists and specialty shops nestled under Sugar Loaf Mountain. Surrounded by apple orchards and horse farms, it has had a distinguished reputation as a crafts community for over 250 years. Many of these artisans live and work in the original barns and buildings that date back as early as the 1700’s.

Sugar Loaf has an outstanding selection of

handmade art, crafts and gifts. There are many unique shops offering you a broad range of goods from paintings, photography, stained glass, handmade soaps, pottery, jewelry, woodworks, leather, candles, crystals, gemstones, floral arrangements, herbs and teas; even a little practical magic if you dare.

Our visiting food vendors will have treats like kettle corn, sausage and pepper, roast beef sandwiches, ice cream, local honey and more.

There will be fun for the kids with a kid zone.

For information call 845-978-3918.

1st Callicoon Art Walk

Moskowitz’ New Music-Drama

The Masque of the Red Death was originally published as a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero’s attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms.

A new music-drama adaptation of Poe’s story was created by composer Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz with dialogue by Sally Gladden.

“I am attracted to subjects with social consciousness. My previous chamber operas accomplish this through satire,” explained Ms. Moskowitz. Her opera The Fountain of Youth portrays the folly of people who make the same mistakes when given a chance to be young again. In Chicken Little, The Sky is Falling! the animals personifying humans, react capriciously to the rumor that the sky is falling. The motif of The Masque of the Red Death, running away to hide in Prospero’s castle, can be interpreted today, as any of the things that threaten society: climate change, atom bombs, AIDS, and ebola.

Masque’s genre is called music-drama because, “There is dialogue, as in music-perdrama, the ancient form that preceded opera.

Poe’s poetry is part of the music-drama and is sung as ballads, not arias. There is also music

Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz

for a chorus.

“The story is much more relevant and important than those of many operas. The music is conventional with a renaissance flavor, which is when it takes place.”

The collaboration between the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop and the Delaware Valley Opera was Moskowitz’ idea. “I wanted to attract people who go to opera and people who go to theatre and bring them together. Hopefully this production will also go to the schools since students do study Poe. And they’ll be exposed to what musicdrama is,” she concluded.

The collaboration between the two Sullivan County groups will be at the Rivoli Theatre, 5243 Forestburgh Road (Route 42) in South Fallsburg from October 31-November 3 and at the Tusten Theatre 210 Bridge Street in Narrowsburg from November 7-9.

Visit www.scdw.net for tickets or phone 845-436-5336 for Rivoli info.

For tickets to Narrowsburg performances phone 845-252-7272.

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Hank Syverson: A Retrospective

Hank Syverson was drawings, the more an American cartoonist they might lose. I think and illustrator, who that’s one of the things I contributed cartoons enjoyed most about the regularly to The “xerox era” of handSaturday Evening Post, drawn animation: the This Week and many drawings could be loose other periodicals. The enough to still show “Little men” and later erasures and not even “Little woman”, or have to be “closed off” what Hank called “the (in the digital era, this Mr. & Mrs. Syverson by TAK, 1998 happy neighbors” in his cartoons were inspired became basically impossible). Those little gaps by watching his young son, Jeffrey, playing in of freedom in the lines still make me smile. baggy-footed pajamas around the house. These “The other quality Syverson’s work typifies figures became his signature in his cartoons. for me is simplicity. Simplicity is one of the In 1939, Hank gave up an apprenticeship most difficult things to achieve and has as in commercial art to join Walt Disney’s studio much to do with knowing what to leave out in California where he worked on Fantasia, entirely (and what to merely imply) as it has to Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, The Reluctant do with what to leave in.” - Will Finn, American Dragon and Saludos Amigos as an animator. animator, voice actor, and director.

When he was mustered out of the service, he Syverson died in 2007 leaving behind a became a regular contributor to The Saturday wealth of material, original drawings and Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, The New paintings stretching back from his earliest days Yorker, Argosy and many others. Hank also as an artist in Minnesota. The Crawford Art worked with Pan American Airlines designing Association’s new exhibit Hank Syverson: commercial and print advertisements.

Illustrator & Cartoonist - A Retrospective, runs When inspiration ran low during his career, through October 20 at The Crawford Gallery Syverson would lock himself in his studio in of Fine Arts, 65 Main Street, Pine Bush.

Pine Bush, where he lived throughout his life, The show contains a fraction of his work and play the violin. and should be seen by all those who have been “One of the qualities I find magnetic about witness to his cartoon genius throughout the Syverson (and many others) is the spontaneous years. feel of his art. The more you could add to these For more information, call 845-744-2551.

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Shadowland Show Sings Sondheim

with all of it tied together by Side by Side by Sondheim is the Narrator who explains what a clever revue title taken from a show the songs are from, and in song from Company (Side by Side some cases provides background

by Side). on why a song was written. As Perhaps the show could be the cast enters they sing Comedy retitled, Early Sondheim, as you Tonight, and then Love Is in the will hear great songs from Stephen Air, and then the Narrator explains Sondheim’s early shows West Side that the later song was the original Story (w/Leonard Bernstein’s opener for Forum but was dropped music), Gypsy (w/Jule Styne’s music), A Funny Thing Happened Stephen Sondheim in favor of the more explicit lyrics of Comedy Tonight. There are on the Way to the Forum (his first unknown songs that were cut from musical for which he wrote both the original Braodway shows, music and lyrics) and Anyone Can and the songs that are included Whistle (Angela Lansbury’s first have varied from production to Broadway musical appearance in production. which she wowed audiences with In 1977 Ned Sherrin was sher charisma and her high kicks nominated for a Tony for Best ala 30s-40s dancer-comedienne Featured Male Actor in a Musical, Charlotte Greenwood). but none for his “Continuity” Song from the start of his “midperiod” shows, Company, Follies Lesley McKinnell Sherrin is the creator of the show’s and A Little Night Music, among from “Honky Tonk concept.

Highway” will return The sophistication, wit, insight others, are also included. for “Sondheim” and genius of one of Broadway’s You’ll even hear a song he wrote for The Mad Show with composer Mary most innovative and influential artists is at Rodgers, daughter of Richard Rodgers, the heart of this tribute to Stephen Sondheim. composer of Once Upon a Mattress, and A sure delight for all musical theatre lovers, mother of Adam Guettel, composer of The it is an added extra attraction to Shadowland Light in the Piazza, and another song that Theatre’s 2014 season, where it will run Sondheim wrote with Adam’s grandfather from October 17 to November 2 at 157 Canal Street, Ellenville.

Richard Rodgers for Do I Hear A Waltz?

For tickets: Box Office: 845-647-5511.

The musical is in the form of a revue,

WPA Exhibit at SUNY Orange

The Works Progress projects and buildings constructed Administration (WPA) was one of in the Hudson Valley, on October the many programs invented in the 29 at 7:00pm in the Great Room 1930s by the federal government’s adjacent to the Gallery.

“New Deal.” WPA artists made On November 20 at 11:00am paintings, sculptures and murals. in the Great Room, award-winning By allowing artists to continue folk singer/guitarist creating art and make a living wage, Tyler Westcott the federal government fostered (photo right) will the beginnings of a community of present Folk Music: American artists which eventually The Voice to the dominated the art world after World People of the Times.

“Japanese Garden”

by Roy Kadowski War II and made New York And also City and the U.S. the new on November 20, Chris center of the art world.

Norton, executive director Through the generous of Livingston Arts, will lead cooperation of Livingston a conversation-discussion Arts in Mount Morris, on the significant mark the New York, artworks WPA had on American arts commissioned by the WPA while referring to artworks during the Great Depression in the exhibit. This program are on display in the Mindy will take place in the gallery “Old Fish Wharves, Rockport” Ross Gallery, Kaplan Hall, from 3:30 to 4:30pm.

by Thomas C. Cole SUNY Orange, Newburgh, from October 10Then, that evening starting at 6:30pm, Norton November 20. will lend insight into the impact on culture the The College’s Cultural Affairs office is WPA had on the youthful, economically strained complementing the exhibit, A New Deal for United States. A closing reception will follow.

Artists ~ Artworks of the WPA, with a concert and Kaplan Hall is at the corner of Grand and two lectures.

First Streets, Newburgh. Secure and free parking The New Deal: The Civilian Conservation can be found in the garage under Kaplan Hall, Corps in the Hudson Valley for which Dr. Neil accessed via First Street.

M. Maher will speak on, is about the New Deal Questions may be directed to cultural@ work relief program with special emphasis on the sunyorange.edu and 845-341-9386.

“Always

Searching” in Rock Tavern

“Promise of Tomorrow” by Billie Robson

“Edge of the Marsh II” by Janet Howard-Fatta

A semi-permanent yearly exhibition titled Always Searching runs through August 2015 in the gallery at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern (UUCRT) with new works by the artists rotating throughout the year.

Featured in the new exhibit are four local artists.

Before canvas, before paper, stone was the blank slate. Michael Byro’s work is inspired

by Neolithic cave paintings. His works, in their purposeful simplicity, pay homage to that fact.

Janet Howard-Fatta draws us into the magnificence of places we might walk by every day. “In all of my paintings I strive for some kind of beauty that compliments God,” she states.

The titles of Billie Robson’s works: Serenity, Beyond, and Promise of Tomorrow, point to

some of the questions she is trying to answer through her unusual and stirring pieces.

You can just be in the spaces and places Craig Wettstein’s photographs depict, and the mystery becomes welcoming as you settle in.

“These works seem to evoke a gentle, or sometimes jarring awakening into that ‘ahha’ moment. Yes, here we are, and in some new way, because of the artists’ visions, we see glimpses of why,” says curator Roberta Green.

View the exhibit Sundays, Noon-1:00pm, during other public events at the UUCRT, and by appointment throughout the year.

The UUCRT is located at 9 Vance Road, just off Route 207 in Rock Tavern.

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OP-ED: Orange County Gov’t Center Having fought the county legislature without success to preserve the Rudolph building, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is only one reasonable solution to the three-year legislative debate over our Government Center’s future.

It should be sold, put on the tax rolls, restored to its former status as a world landmark and repurposed as a world-class center for the arts.

A leading American architect has offered to purchase it and even to assist in the design of an entirely new and more efficient government center alongside it. This historic landmark building would continue to attract tourists but also transform Goshen and our county into an important cultural destination. While politicians scramble to lure gamblers to our communities, they miss an opportunity to attract cultural icons as well.

This golden opportunity also makes sound financial sense. It enhances local employment to both construction workers and future occupiers of the buildings. It entails a less complex

reconstruction project and saves taxpayers millions of dollars. It provides space for artists to create and to exhibit their work. And it ensures the restoration and revitalization of Goshen - one of our state’s most architecturally diversified historic communities.

This win-win situation makes common sense. Why do elected officials dither? Do they lack vision, imagination, courage, decisiveness and business sense to move forward? Costly partial demolition and reconstruction defaces one of our architectural treasures and dishonors fellow citizens who in the early 1970s crafted a new constitution, devised a new form of more representative county government and gave physical expression to their dreams by constructing a world-class building. Sadly, their successors want to demolish it.

- Richard Hull African History & Civilization Professor at NYU and Warwick’s Town Historian

Artist Opportunity Arts in Orange (AiO) Artist Grant (AG) in the amount of $1,500 are available to Orange County resident artists.

AiO AGs are granted to artists in all disciplines. Projects developed and presented by the artist must include a dynamic public component through active participation and/ or production of the project occurring within

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Orange County between December 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015.

Application Deadline 4:00pm, October 15, 2014. Late applications will not be accepted.

Arts in Orange, P. O. Box 1145, Pine Bush, NY 12566.

For information: 845-956-0005

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May I Have A Word With You...Language and its Oddities with Carol Pozefsky More Than Just Elementary, Watson Sherlock Holmes had a lot more to say than that overused one liner, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant fictional detective also spoke the following words: “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.”

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive to the logical faculty.”

“Eliminate all other factors and the one which remains must be the truth.”

“I think that there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”

Naughty, Naughty!

Dickson’s Word Dictionary includes a chapter called Sexy Words; its subtitle, A Lusty Lexicon.

Andromania: Excessive sexual desire in the female.

Cataglottism: A lascivious kiss. (Known as a French kiss back in the day).

Brocage: A pimp’s wages. (A golden oldie dating back to Chaucer).

Infibrulate: To fit with a chastity belt.

Pomogenarian: A dirty old man. This was the prize-winning coinage in a syndicated newspaper competition.

Bloopers Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn: “Yes, my wife’s hands are very beautiful. I’m going to have a bust made of them.”

Art critic John Hemming Fry: “Certainly no man or woman of normal mental health would be attracted by the sadistic, obscene deformations of Cezanne, Modigliani, Matisse, and Gaugin.”

MGM producer Irving Thalberg to his boss, Louis B. Mayer when offered the film rights to Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With The Wind: “Louis, forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel.” Irving Thalberg

Absurdist Farce

Whispering Pines Oktoberfest Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on October 12, 1810. The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event.

Horse races in the presence of the Royal Family marked the close of the event. The decision to repeat the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of Oktoberfest.

The festival was eventually prolonged and moved to September for better weather conditions. Today, the last day of the festival is the first Sunday in October.

Here are two of my Oktoberfest recipes!

Wiener Schnitzel a la Holstein 1lb 1/2 inch thick boneless veal inside round; pounded thin salt & pepper 1 cup flour 2 eggs beaten with 2 tablespoons milk 2 cups fine dried bread crumbs 6 teaspoons clarified butter 4 jumbo eggs 1 fresh lemon 4 teaspoons capers 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley leaves

Cooking with Chef Douglas Frey 8 anchovies, cut in half Season veal chops, flour, egg wash, and bread crumbs with salt and pepper.

Dredge veal slices in flour. Dip each chop in egg wash, letting excess drip off. Dredge chops in seasoned bread crumbs, coating completely.

Add 1/4 cup oil to 2 large skillets. When oil is hot, add 2 chops to each skillet. Pan-fry chops 2 to 3 minutes on each side, or until golden. Remove pan and drain on paper towels.

Clean out one skillet. Add 4 tablespoons butter; place over medium heat. When butter melts, crack eggs into pan. Season with salt and pepper.

Place veal chops on each serving plate. Lay a fried egg on top of each.

Add remaining 2 tablespoons of butter to the pan and melt. Slice lemons in half and squeeze juice into the pan with capers. Cook for 1 minute.

Spoon sauce over the eggs. Criss-cross 2 anchovy halves over each egg and garnish with parsley.

German Chocolate Cake 4 oz German sweet chocolate 1/2 cup boiling water 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 4 egg yolks 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten 1 tsp vanilla 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt 1 cup buttermilk Melt chocolate in boiling water.

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy; add egg yolks, vanilla, and chocolate.

Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.

Fold in egg whites. Pour into three 9” pans, lined on bottoms with wax paper.

Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes. Frost tops with Coconut Pecan Frosting.

Coconut Pecan Filling & Frosting 1 cup evaporated milk 1 cup sugar 3 egg yolks 1/2 cup butter 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/3 cup coconut 1 cup chopped pecans Combine all except coconut and pecans in saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, about 12 minutes.

When mixture thickens, remove from heat. Stir in coconut and pecans. Cool until spreadable.

Remember, for all of your culinary questions, personal chef services or catering needs, I can be reached at whisperingpinescaterers@gmail.com or by phone at 845-647-1428.

Written in 1958 by Polish playwright Slowomir Mrożek (1930-2013), The Police takes place in a mythical country where all opposition to the state has disappeared, and the last remaining political prisoner is to be released. Rather than face the prospect of retiring, the chief of police decides to create an enemy of the state by ordering one of his officers to commit political crimes.

Mrożek was a dramatist, writer and cartoonist.

He joined the Polish United Workers’ Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People’s Republic of Poland, and made a living as political journalist. He began writing plays in the late 1950s. His theatrical works belong to the genre of absurdist fiction, intended to shock the audience with non-realistic elements, political and historic references, distortion, and parody.

Directed by Paul Austin, Artistic Director of Liberty Free Theatre, The Police, postponed from September, will be performed on October 17 and 18 at 7:30pm at the NACL Theatre.

NACL Theatre is located at 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake.

For tickets: www.nacl.org or by phone 845557-0694.

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Jester’s Comedy Club in October

Kate Wolff is a stand-up comedian whose humor is honest, slightly self-deprecating yet positive and high energy.

Kate has no shame when it comes to talking about being a single mother, her divorce, and being a teacher.

She is a new cast member on Tru Tv’s World’s Dumbest, and NickMom’s Night Out on Nickelodeon. Kate also has two shows on parentsociety.com, and was recently featured in the Huffington Post.

She performs almost every night at clubs throughout Manhattan.

Al Isaacs and Scott Baker are not just

comics, they are two of the quickest thinking entertainers around today. By getting the audience involved with all aspects of the show, they make a theater filled with strangers feel like a living room with close friends! A unique interactive experience, audience members shout out suggestions, provide sound effects, and even play roles on stage.

Get a kick out of Kate, Al and Scott on October 11 when they perform at Jester’s Comedy Club, 109 Brookside Ave., Chester at 8:00pm.

For information: 845-345-1039.

Meet Llareggubians in Amity

Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Dylan Thomas (photo) that was later adapted for the stage and film.

Welsh place names often begin with "Llan" (meaning Church more correctly, a holy site). In Thomas’ “play for voices” an omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing village Llareggub (“bugger all” backwards.)

They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands;

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Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town awakens and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.

A reading of Under Milk Wood, takes place at the newly opened Amity Gallery on October 18 at 7:00pm, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick.

For information: 845-258-6030.

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Spotlight On Sugar Loaf sponsored by The Sugar Loaf Guild

An Evening of Spirit in Sugar Loaf

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center is presenting medium, clairvoyant, teacher, producer, and best-selling author, James Van Praagh on October 9 at 7:30pm along with Deborah King, the Master Healer, spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author.

The awe-inspiring Van Praagh bridges the gap between two planes of existence, that of the living and that of the dead by providing evidential proof of life after death via detailed messages.

Van Praagh’s popularity began in the early ‘90s, on the NBC morning talk show The Other Side. He went on to author New York Times bestselling books such as Ghosts Among Us, Talking to Heaven, Reaching to Heaven and Healing Grief. For five seasons, Van Praagh was the co-executive producer of CBS’s Ghost Whisper starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Deborah King is a New York Times bestselling author, energy healer and spiritual teacher. She has developed her powerful gifts through nearly three decades of global study.

Through her numerous books, live workshops, TV appearances, and her popular Hay House Radio Show, Deborah has guided tens of thousands of people to tap into a higher level of consciousness, trust their intuition, and heal themselves in a way they never thought

possible.

Deborah’s bestsellers, Be Your Own Shaman and Truth Heals take you on unique journeys into the powerful esoteric world of healers, sages, and shamans. Her most recent book, Entangled in Darkness: Seeking the Light, is a trip into the maze of the psyche and an enlightened path out.

During the 3-hour event you will enjoy: discovering the process of mediumship; a guided healing and enlightened group meditation; and random messages given to audience members from guides, family and friends in spirit. James will select people in the audience to participate in the calling of spirits.

Be sure to purchase your tickets early for this one-night-only event. Tickets at Ticketmaster locations and online at www.ticketmaster. com.

VIP tickets include a meet and greet with both James and Deborah along with a personal chakra reading by Deborah.

See www.sugarloafpac.org for more.

In Loving Memory: Val loved music and loved to play music as much as anyone I have ever known. She took every job seriously, from weddings, church choir, chamber music, to orchestral concerts, and was always beautifully and thoroughly prepared. Her students were very devoted to her because of her musical insights, patience, kindness, attention to detail, and high expectations.

In addition to the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, she was an important part of many musical organizations in the Hudson Valley including the Kairos Ensemble, the Pone Ensemble for New Music, and Newburgh Chamber Music.

She was a generous, loving, and thoughtful friend and colleague of over thirty years, I still remember our wonderful times as roommates in Puerto Rico at the Casals Festival in the 80s. She was very devoted to Joel (Evans) and to her family.

Val fought her cancer bravely, and the fact that she played in a concert with us at SUNY New Paltz only four days before she died is a testament to her will to live and her love of music.

I will miss Val terribly.

Carole Cowan, NCM president Valentina was so full of fierce determination and life that it’s very hard

Valentina Charlap-Evans

to accept she’s gone from Part of Val’s enormous this plane. She played many presence in our musical roles: violist in orchestras community was that she and chamber groups; was a committed organizer. beloved by her husband She performed that function Joel, her family, church and to such a degree that losing friends; a devoted teacher; her will feel catastrophic to organizer (member of several some. She also had strong organization’s boards); opinions and made them gardener, photographer, and known in such a way that frequent traveler to Europe. one would automatically She was also a marvelous react with “Of course! iconographer; a skill which How could one imagine was excruciatingly detailed, otherwise?” a sort of spiritual labyrinth. Valentina Charlap-Evans She was one of the busiest She was fearless, tough, people I have ever known. patient and kind. But I remember her sweet, She played in several regional orchestras, cheerful voice and giggling at a good silly involving very long commutes, served story. The best viola jokes were from Val! on several orchestra committees over the Val had another gift, PPK, or, “preferential years, taught, and also ran a busy wedding parking karma.” She could arrive at a job music quartet business. She used her time and a parking spot would somehow appear during chemo to research repertoire for fairly close to the door. It was uncanny...and programming. noticed by others. When Emily (Faxon) and She was deeply involved in her church, I arrived at her funeral services, cars had too (Russian Orthodox), which meant a spilled out of the lot and along the street. serious number of services. Add to all this However, we pulled into the lot and lo, there her commitment to her family...Joel, her was a spot close to the sidewalk. parents, her sisters, nephews, nieces, aunts...

Thanks, Val! May you find heavenly and you have a daunting picture. ensembles eager and welcoming.

I once asked her why she played in so Ruthanne Schempf, Friend & Colleague many orchestras, given that orchestral

playing is damaging for string players’ playing. (It really is; it messes up one’s pitch and intonation because one can’t hear one’s self. Orchestra playing requires a lot of repair practicing.) She answered, “Because I get a chance to play my viola!”

When she was diagnosed with cancer, she did not slow down; she seemed to take on more. She performed just 4 days before her death, and was still teaching a day and a half before. She expected to return.

She could be very kind. She gave me zillions of rides, for which I was grateful; they allowed me to hear about her life and family concerns. I was honored to teach her standard shifting; Joel’s cars were standard and after that she could drive them too.

She enjoyed clothes shopping. (I don’t.)

When we were in a quartet together, her choices often defined our performance dress.

I remember the year of sequins! And, oh boy, her concert shoes. She once suggested for a spring concert “tea-length floral dresses, on a cream base”, and I knew she had just bought such an item…which was, of course, perfectly beautiful.

I did not realize until she was gone how many things in my life I do with her in my mind. It’s hard to grasp a world that does not have her in it.

Emily Faxon, Friend & Colleague

Two Tales of Two Monsters LIVE in HD

Medea Terrible things breed in broken hearts.

Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace.

It’s time enough!!! She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.

Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) takes the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell.

See Medea get her revenge by committing a monstrous act LIVE in HD at the Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street, Newburgh on October 6 at 7:15pm and October 8 at 1:30pm.

Call for reservations: 845-561-3686.

Frankenstein National Theatre Live’s thrilling broadcast of Frankenstein returns to cinemas for a limited time, due to unprecedented audience demand. Danny Boyle’s acclaimed production of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic makes a triumphant return to Cineworld. The broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horrorstruck maker, meeting with cruelty wherever he goes. The friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jonny Lee Miller.

And it’s at Downing, October 26 and 27 at 7:15pm and October 29 at 1:15pm, Live in HD. Reservations are strongly suggested.

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A r t for Ne wbu r gh La s t S atu r d a ys

Healing Arts Studio & Space Create perhaps a way that I am inadvertently trying “Being self-taught, I am constantly looking to cleanse myself of past hardships. Each new to the masters of times gone by medium I use and each new to learn from and for inspiration piece I create unfolds another in the constant development of flower petal. Today, I focus both my skills and imagination. on surrealism and symbolism.

This charcoal series is dedicated I study elements from nature to that inspiration from and spirituality and present Michelangelo,” Rich Hanlon. it in a way that portrays the “Life and our bodies can interconnectedness of us all often feel like heavy matter. while infusing a dreamlike This can lead us to perceive that quality rich in color.” we are stuck, rigid, and dense.

For more information, call When we replace this idea with 520-609-1866. positive imagery that inspires Artwork by Stephanie Eichelberger healthy function, fluidity and SUNY Orange, Newburgh space, our movement and lives On October 25 from can find grace.” Kelly Siegel.

4:00pm-7:00pm, the Mindy Rich Hanlon’s A Study on Ross Gallery will be open Michelangelo and Kelly Siegel’s for viewing A New Deal for Embodiment Through Imagery Artists ~ artworks of the WPA, Dual Art Exhibit and Reception artworks commissioned by the is at Healing Arts Studio, 75 Works Progress Administration Broadway, on October 25 from during the Great Depression.

6:00pm-8:00pm for Newburgh Folk music will be performed Last Saturdays. in the Gallery Foyer by Dr. Pete Prior (or after) to the above, Soscia & Friends. In addition, drop in at Space Create at 115 “A Study on Michelangelo” the sculptures of Fay Wood

by Rich Hanlon Broadway between 5:00-8:00pm will be on view in the Foyer as to see Stephanie Eichelberger’s exhibit, part of the Artists of Excellence series.

Transcendent.

“My work has taken a surreal direction; each Karpeles Manuscript Museum piece is another look into my subconscious, Pastel is a medium that originated in Europe

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in the 15th century. It employs pure powdered pigments pressed together into a stick with a gum binder and has an extraordinary range of color intensity, producing work of great subtlety of tone. Among the most famous masters of this challenging material in the 19th century were Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, and Renoir.

Pastels are usually thought of as delicate, soothing shades of color, but the women included in the group show at Karpeles Museum reveal how bold a composition rendered in pastel can be. The artists whose dynamic pastels are on display reveal both the sensitivity and the dynamism of which the medium is capable. In powerful landscapes and elegantly composed still lifes, the virtuosity of their work demonstrates the range of effect the exacting medium permits.

The artists represented in the show have exhibited their work widely throughout the country. .

“Fall Marsh” by Gayle Clark Fedigan

The public is invited to meet the Women Who Pastel at an artists’ reception at the Karpeles Museum on October 25, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh.

The exhibit runs through November.

Visit www.karpeles.com for information.

Music for Last Sunday & 2nd Thursday

On October 26 at The 8:00pm it’s powerhouse Wherehouse it’s another electric jazz with installment of Scene Thunderhead Organ Reseen, Neil Alexander’s Trio in The Wherehouse, exploration of electronic featuring Joe Gil music for Silent Films, (trombone & effects), Neil part of the Wherehouse’s Alexander (keyboards) Thunderhead Organ Trio Shocktober Celebration. and Jason Furman (drums Two shows, 5:00pm and 8:00pm feature a & samples). No cover. silent horror classic (Film TBA).

The Wherehouse is at 119 Liberty Street.

And for “Second Thursday”, October 9 at Phone: 845-561-7240.

HELLO DOWNING! Live from London in HD Halloween Crepe Images & Music in Beacon

Thrilling, audacious and totally original, Matthew Bourne’s legendary production transforms one of ballet’s best-loved stories into a stylish, witty, poignant, contemporary tale.

For Bourne, Swan Lake had a particular appeal: “I could see an opportunity to create a human story, with the potential for great dramatic power and range, indulge my satirical and Matthew Bourne’s male swans in his “Swan Lake” humorous leanings as well than a ballerina in her white tutu.” as create whole suites of abstract movement Since its November 9, 1995 world premiere to some of the best dance music ever written. at Sadler’s Wells, Bourne’s breathtaking and Irresistible!” sexy version of Swan Lake has become the Perhaps best-known for replacing the longest running ballet in London’s West End traditional female corps de ballet with a and continues to thrill audiences throughout menacing male ensemble, Bourne blends the world. dance, style, humour, spectacle, character A video presentation of the innovative ballet comedy and mime to create a provocative will be shown at Downing Film Center, 19 and powerful Swan Lake for our times.

Front Street, Newburgh on October 15 at The most talked about innovation in this 7:30pm & October 19 at 1:00pm. production is the casting of a male dancer in Seating is limited. For tickets: 845-561the coveted role of Odette/Odile known as 3686.

The Swan. “The idea of a male swan makes The Downing Film Center is excited complete sense to me,” says Matthew. “The to present broadcasts from the National strength, the beauty, the enormous wingspan Theatre in London. Coming in October and of these creatures suggests to me the November, are Frankenstein, Skyfall, and A musculature of a male dancer more readily Streetcar Named Desire.

A music concert with soprano Gail Watson and pianist Sally Fenley will complement the opening reception of an exhibit featuring vintage Halloween decorated crepe designs at Back Room Gallery on October 11 from 6:00pm-9:00pm. View the crepe designs while listening to live music!

“I am the solo singer, accompanied on piano by Sally, who also joins me in singing some of the pieces, too,” says Gail. “We will perform an eclectic mix of popular, sometimes jazz/ popular music classics, and some light Broadway show songs with a little bit of semi-

Gail Watson & Sally Fenley

classical music (excerpts from The Merry Widow for example.)

Crepe decorated cloth designs are rare Halloween collectibles.

The companies that made crepe paper, such as Dennison and American Tissue Mills, found that they could, using the same paper, create costume accessories at very little additional cost.

Many of the images, which showcase designs from the early 1900’s, will adorn the walls in the gallery from October 3 - October 31.

The Back Room Gallery is located at 475 Main Street in Beacon.

For further information, call Back Room at 845-838-1838.

Trestle , Inc . Honors Peter Cody

Trestle, Inc. will be placing this year’s newly “minted” memorial bricks at the Newburgh waterfront in October. The program of the day will honor Peter Cody, (see photo) one of the artists who painted Trestle, Inc.’s Waterfront Mural Project.

A long time resident of Newburgh, Cody maintained a creative practice and

exhibited his art for over 40 years. His twin brother will join mural creator Garin Baker and other artists who assisted Baker on the creation of the murals for the Bricklaying Ceremony.

The memorial bricks are a tourist attraction, seen and read throughout the year by residents and visitors to the site on Front Street..

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WAA: “Outside the Box III”

The Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) presents their third annual Outside The Box art exhibit from October 4-26.

This annual October show is becoming a favorite WAA tradition. The exhibit theme is meant to encourage a wide range of artistic expression and media and to free artists to explore new directions, themes and subject matter in their work.

“All the represented artists have an opportunity to create and display works of art that may be different in color and style. It’s a show where each artist’s creativity will come forth in a different way. This show should be quite exciting to see,” says WAA president Sandy Spitzer.

Originating in 2012 as the brainchild of toothpick artist Nelson Pantoja and fellow WAA members, the first Outside The Box exhibit, dubbed Extreme, sought to depict edgier fare, including works of social and political commentary. It drew inspiration from, among other things, Halloween. Non WAA member guest artists were

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invited to exhibit their work in an attempt to give the exhibit a very different look and feel.

While not always ‘extreme,’ Outside the Box promises a lively, fresh look, and certainly some surprises.

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 Wurtsboro Art Alliance has had very successful shows and our art classes have done very well this year. Now that our gallery has expanded in size, we are reaching out to local artists to become members,” concluded Sandy.

There will be an artists’ reception, free and open to the public, on October 4, from 2:00pm-4:00pm.

The Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery is located on two floors at 73 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro. Off-street parking is available by the lower floor.

For further information, email: info@waagallery.org

Native American Sweat Lodge

Native American Sweat Lodge Children are welcome to participate. If Kacike (chief) for Maisiti Yukayeke Taino; children do not feel comfortable entering the a tribe of the Taino Nation, lodge, some people may be Roman Guaraguaorix designated as babysitters. If a “Redhawk” Perez was born child feels uncomfortable in the in the mountains of Kiskeya sweat lodge after entering, they (Dominican Republic). He is can leave the lodge between an accomplished indigenous rounds.

Taino artist, lecturer, storyteller, For information call 845drummer, singer and respected 888-2547.

Inspired by the sounds of Taino spiritual leader.

Astria He now facilitates and leads instruments (log drums, shell, Creating a massive dynamic gourd rattles, conch shells) such ceremonies as Vision Redhawk also does presentations amplification network, Master through song & dance.

Quest, Lodges and Taino Teachers will connect all ceremonies.Redhawk has done the participants for a special presentations on Northern evening with Australian and Taino native teachings at powerhouse spiritual teacher, universities, public schools, Astria on October 25 at The Peabody Museum, 7:00pm.

Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Master Teachers and The Smithsonian Native will create a huge vortex of American Museum. He is one grounding and centering energy of the developers of a rights that will power down into the of passage program for young Earth Heart and then stimulate men in El Puente, and a certified a giant wave of crystalline fire starter for the White Bison energy through the people and Astria recovery program. into the Earth chakra.

Meet Roman at a traditional Native American Within this huge energy field, Metatron will Sweat Lodge ceremony on October 4 at 2:00pm. create a global Merkaba for the awakening of The ceremony is a gathering that gives attendees humanity and the opening of the star gates for an opportunity to focus on their lives and our higher consciousness. planet. Join in on the sweat lodge or spend quiet Register by calling Crystal Connection, 116 time by the sacred fire.

Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro: 845-888-2547.

“Matilda and Friends” at The Columns

with her and the other artists,” said Artists Anna Creegan, Marie Stella.

Fluhr, Ruth Hartmann, Leslie Pike County Arts & Crafts Parkin, Stella Provenzano, co-founder and art pioneer Matilda Julie Sherwood, Madeline Grech has been a life member Tully, Philomena Vardaro, and of the Art Students League of Katherine Worthington are New York City for 67 years. Her joining together for a special twopaintings are in numerous private day exhibit: Matilda & Friends. and corporate collections, and she All of the artists above meet is an exhibiting member of too weeklyandstudyundernotedartist many arts organizations to name.

Matilda Grech. At these weekly There is even a Matilda Grech Day meetings, the artists “Loosen up, “On the Rocks”

by Stella Provenzano in Port Jervis! Need we say more? eat, and discuss art and the world,” Everyone is invited to view art while enjoying says exhibiting artist Stella Provenzano. The art being shown was created by artists who have all refreshments from 1:00pm-4:00pm on October been guided by Matilda. “Matilda is our mentor 11 and 12 at the Columns Museum, 608 Broad and she shares her gift with us. We are enriched Street in Milford.

For more information, call 570-296-8126. by her guidance, and I feel very fortunate to work

T he Ou t door s for ARTer y i n O ct ober

Marie Liu, an outdoor enthusiast and oil painter, brings her love for the natural world to her easel. Her new landscape paintings of woods and waterfalls are intended to transport and envelope the viewer, while sharing the healing powers of nature.

Randall FitzGerald is a photographer, painter, printmaker, and digital artist. He has been creating fine art for over 45 years, using a variety of different media including photography, oils,

acrylics, watercolors, encaustics and collagraphy.

His love of the natural world has permeated both his professional and artistic life.

Come and enjoy a wine and cheese opening reception for Marie and Randall’s exhibit at the Art by Marie Liu ARTery Gallery on October 11 from 6:00pm-9:00pm.

The show runs from October 9-November 3.

TheARTery Gallery, 210 Broad Street, Milford.

For more information, call 570-409-1234.

T he Gu idonian Hand B eckons You

In Medieval music, the Guidonian hand was a mnemonic device used to assist singers in learning to sight-sing. It is closely linked with Guido of Arezzo, a medieval music theorist who wrote a number of treatises. The Guidonian hand is closely linked with Guido’s new The Guidonian Hand is Mark Broschinsky, Will Lang, Sebastian Vera and James Rogers. ideas about how to learn music, including See the Quartet perform Musical Odyssey, hexachords, and the first western known use of works

by Haydn, Albrechtsberger, Brown, and solfege.

Monk on October 4 at 5:30pm at the Milford The Guidonian Hand Trombone Quartet Theater, 114 East Catherine Street, Milford. gives a fresh voice to classical repertoire, For more information call 570-409-1269. juxtaposing music of the past with new works.

Black Bear Film Fest

In early 2000, a group of culturally minded, creative types huddled around a smoldering fire in an attempt to survive the frightful February freeze. Actually, the bit about the creative types is true but it really took place in a cozy tavern (by the fire).

The scene was Milford, PA, a mountainside Mecca for professionals and vacationers alike.

The idea hatched on that February afternoon was a film festival. The Black Bear Film Festival (BBFF). Their mission: To support and promote innovative, independent films.

BBFF will celebrate its 15th anniversary on October 17, 18 & 19 at the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catherine Street. 570-409-0909.

HPG: Artists’ Choice

The Highlands Photographic Guild (HPG) was establishedin2006as a cooperative gallery for contemporary photographers to “Catskill Chairs” exhibit and sell their by Norma Bernstock work. The gallery provides a gathering place for working artists and the public to share information with the photographic community in a creative environment.

The HPG will exhibit, Artists’Choice, a group show, from October 11-October 27.

The opening reception is on October 11, 6:00pm-9:00pm.

The HPG is located at 224 Broad Street, Milford. For information: 570-296-2440.

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Disabled Painter? NOT!

John Peralo of Hemlock Farms is the featured artist at the Gallery at Chant Realtors in Lords Valley during October with a show featuring his latest works.

Peralo is a prolific painter who works in oil, pastel and graphics. Whether from the American West to sports figures, lighthouses and fishermen, the paintings communicate and spark the imagination of the viewer.

He has been painting for many years. “It is more than just a hobby,” he says.

Hold onto your hats!

Though color-blind, Peralo has been able to use his mediums to produce just the right color effects in his paintings.

The artist’s works have been shown at galleries in New York and New Mexico. He is not a

“Huntsman” & “Fly Fishing” by John Peralo

stranger to the Gallery at Chant Realtors where he has exhibited in both group and solo shows.

Meet-the-artist on October 11 from 5:00m7:00pm at Chant’s Gallery, 631 Route 739 in Lords Valley.

For more information call: 570 773-7337.

Lost Amusement Parks of NYC

Barry Plaxen sold frozen Coney Island is an iconic custard!) and Freedomland symbol of turn-of-thein The Bronx, which was century New York City, the largest amusement park but many other amusement in the world. parks entertained millions Join authors Barbara each year, including the & Wes Gottlock at wooden coasters of Fort the Greenwood Lake George in Manhattan, the Library, 79 Waterstone beer gardens and circus Road, on October 19 from atmosphere at North Remnant Of Rockaways Playland Beach in Queens, and the fireworks displays at 1:00pm-2:30pm where they will celebrate these wonders and discuss their declines.

Starlight Amusement Park in The Bronx.

Registration is required for this free adult By the second half of the century, all these parks disappeared, culminating with the demise program: 845-477-8377 ext. 101.

Seating is limited; early registration suggested. of Rockaways Playland in Queens, (where

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RVAG: “Our 1st EVER Arts & Craft Fair!”

Did you know the River Artist Evelyn Kish Valley Artists Guild designs everything from (RVAG) will be holding its pine crafts, wearable art, first Arts and Crafts Fair?

Barkloth pillows and quilts, Come and celebrate this vintage fabrics and antique unique event! lace items.

Paintings, pastels, Barbara Liemer works weavings, crafts (and in fusing glass and even home baked goods!) welding found objects created by artists will be into decorative art pieces. available at affordable She is a “self taught “Nightfall” by J. Standora prices. There will also be a old-time frustrated artist” live painting and weaving and expresses a sense of demonstration. adventure, creativity and The artists are Daniela playfulness in her work.

Cooney, Joan Kehlenbeck, Joan Standora is a Ph.D. Evelyn Kish, Barbara psychologist who has Liemer, Joan Standora worked as an art therapist and Elva Zingaro. in an addiction treatment Joan Kehlenbeck is the center. Now, she has returned President of RVAG. She has to her preferred medium, oil shown her oil paintings and painting, and is “enjoying Artwork by D. Cooney pastel drawings regionally and is well-known in the expression of non-verbal but meaningful the area for her demonstrations and workshops. messages to the eye and heart.”

Working mainly from observation, Joan includes Pike County artist Elva Zingaro is originally important local historic buildings and scenes in from Yorktown Heights, New York. Her work is her work. oil on canvas, primarily landscapes. She generally Daniela Cooney was born in Switzerland and likes to feature expressive color and brushwork moved to New York at an early age. She takes her in her landscape imagery. inspiration from around her home in the Hudson The Fair is on October 5 from 11:00amValley, painting in water soluble oils and acrylics. 4:00pm in the Port Jervis Free Library’s Her love of animals and natural landscapes is parking lot, 138 Pike Street, Port Jervis. prevalent in her vibrant paintings.

Call 845-754 8232 for more information.

Grand Opening of “Once A Tree”, Unique Galler y

by Naomi Kennedy

Stephen Adler and Richard Harrison are the owners of Once A Tree, the newest addition to Cornwall-on-Hudson; a gallery filled with unique handcrafted furniture, sculptures, handmade ceramics, beautiful intricate woodburnings, handmade soaps, lotions, and candles.

Once A Tree opened on July 4, just in time for the town’s parade. “This is such a great town and wonderful opportunity. Ever since our idea developed, every person I’ve spoken with has been so cooperative and helpful. They wanted us to succeed and be part of their town,” said Stephen.

Stephen and Richard would like to represent people from the village and town of Cornwall, and the Hudson Valley. “There’s a lot of local talent. As long as the work is organic natural creativity, and the quality is there, we would be proud to represent any type of artist,” said Richard.

Stephen has thirty years of sales, design and custom craftsman experience. His desire is to bring stunning art to the public; the driving force behind Once A Tree.

Richard creates Harry Potter style wands (Harrison Wand Making), “beautiful pieces of exotic and imported work,” says Stephen. These hand-carved wands are used as artifacts and something that can be played with imaginatively.

“I started making it for my children years ago and it’s grown into a small cottage industry,” Richard joked.

He earned degrees in Set and Costume Design

the quality of work they will be and FineArt from SUNY at Oswego. exhibiting. “The folks in our store His company, Capital Scenic, Inc., are at the top of their art and craft. produces set designs for theatres.

We represent a deep well of strong Since 2000, he has painted props for talent from the Greater Hudson the Blue Man Group, and recently Valley whose works illustrate a love did the installation for Cabaret at and profound respect for the natural Studio 54 in Manhattan. world,” said Richard H. The unique furniture displayed Presently (and indefinitely) on in the store is created by Richard view are sculptures created by Bob Johnson of RJ Originals in Wands by Richard Harrison Breuer; artwork with Garnerville, and Stephen fine, intricate details. who helps in the process.

He describes his work This live edge and free to be “clues to the inner edge furniture that leaves workings of my subjects the natural edge of the tree with their motivations both intact is produced from physical and emotional.” local wind fallen trees Ceramist Cathy L. such as: Box Elder Burl, McErlean-Goddard’s Ash and Black Walnut of Na-Na-Kin-La-Ty and Maple; species of Box Elder Burl Table by R. Johnson Pottery & Tile Works trees that won’t be seen is also an exhibitor.

Her pottery, forever in this area. With over forty tile, ceramic furniture, ceramic years of custom woodworking instruments, and sculpture are utilized experience, Richard J. is a master with good design principles and craftsman whose hand-milled pieces functionality, as well as aesthetics. are exceptional in quality.

Come and enjoy a refreshment at Stephen, Richard H. and Richard a grand opening celebration for Once J. have always collaborated. They a Tree on October 4 from 7:00pmsee each other every day in their 10:00pm. shops which are right next to each “Madam X” by Bob Breuer For more information, call Richard at 914-490other, and off and on for the last 5 years have 2000; or stop in and visit Once A Tree, 220 Hudson worked together.

Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Both Stephen and Richard H. believe in

Artology in October

Portfolio Day: Free!

High school juniors and seniors who are thinking about a career in the arts can bring in their portfolio for a free, no-charge review

by Colleen McGowan for “Portfolio Day” at Artology on October 25 and November 22, from 1:00pm-4:00pm Artology student and by appointment.

Colleen McGowan isConnor McEwen, age 17 an MFA painting candidate at CUNY Lehman.

Adults with Developmental Disabilities Adults with developmental disabilities can come to Artology to create art during an open studio format class. This means that participants may “drop in” and do not need to pre-register for a class or series of classes.

The cost includes all materials, instruction and guided practice to complete a painting.

October dates for the workshop are October 11 and October 18, from 1:00pm-3:30pm.

Editor’s Note: Artology was named Member of the Month in September by the Orange County Arts Council.

Congratulations Artology!

Artology Studio is located at 318 Blooming Grove Turnpike, New Windsor.

For more information call 845-391-8686.

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“Dispatches

from (A)mended America”

Dispatches From (A)mended America is a documentary play that has been performed OffBroadway. At various junctures in the play’s development it has been performed at Brooklyn and Queens Colleges, various theatre companies and several New York public libraries.

Immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, Brandt Adams and Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. (photo) decided to travel throughout the South asking people a simple question: “What does the election of a Black man as President of the United States mean to you?”

From this question sprang a multitude of perspectives. And since the interviews were done before President Obama’s inauguration, they serve as a lasting document of a time when U.S. voters were still “inhaling” from the results.

From these interviews, Adams and Simmons weave a tapestry of the cultural and political fallout from the election, and through the prism of race, learn more than they ever thought they would about their relationship as friends and theatremakers.

And with the rancor and recrimination that has become a fact of our public discourse the past 5+ years, Dispatches helps us remember

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the hope and promise we all felt on November 5th, 2008. The play is immersive, there is no fourth wall.

A staged reading version, presented by Above The Fold & Civic Ensemble, will take place in Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Kaplan Hall on October 12 at 3:00pm. Doors open at 2:00pm.

No credit cards. Students admitted free.

SUNY Orange’s Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand and First Streets, Newburgh. Secure and free parking can be found in the garage under Kaplan Hall and accessed via First Street. Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu and 845-341-9386.

Simmons and Adams will teach a master class in Orange Hall Theatre on October 6 at 1:00pm: Making Documentary Theatre About the World and Your Truth. See ad page 35.

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Bradstan Cabaret Series in Bethel

Mark Nadler is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist, tap-dancer and comedian.

His recent off-Broadway hit, I’m a Stranger Here Myself (taken from a Kurt Weill song), has been honored with the 2013 Nightlife Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Broadway World Awards.

The show was presented in Adelaide, Australia, where it was nominated for the prestigious Helpmann Award. Additionally, Mark Nadler’s Broadway Hootenanny has become a staple of the Adelaide Festival, where Mark has performed an unprecedented

six times.

Mark has played Town Hall and in almost every significant nightclub in New York City and Los Angeles, notably, four seasons at Sardi’s (where a caricature of Mark hangs among the other famous faces).

Mark co-wrote, directed and starred in Schnozzola, a tribute to Jimmy Durante for the “Reel to Real” series.

Nadler performs Crazy 1961 for the Bradstan Cabaret Series at Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel, on October 18 at 8:00pm. For tickets: 866-781-2922.

Just Off Broadway: “The Secret Garden”

Just Off Broadway, Inc’s (JOB) fundraiser for the Orange County Arboretum was slated for September 7, but was canceled minutes “into a monsoon at the Arboretum,” said JOB’s Ed Romanoff.

Marni Raab “Lightning, 40 mph winds, downpour, and power blackout... really scary.”

The fundraiser, Broadway musical The Secret Garden, stars Craig Schulman (Broadway’s Les Miserables, Phantom, Jekyll

& Hyde) as Archibald, and Marni Raab (Broadway’s Christine in Phantom) as Lily.

The show is rescheduled for October 11, 7:00pm at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Highway.

Craig Schulman Directed by AndrewGlant-Linden, Patrick R. Hoagland is music director/accompanist and Joyce A. Presutti and JOB are the producers.

Tickets online at www.sugarloafpac.org or call 845 831-6346.

Veterans’ Project: “Leaving Theater”

by Mary Makofske

The Veterans’ Project: Leaving Theater at the Warwick Arts Festival on July 23 was part play, part veteran-civilian dialogue, part participatory drama - theater in its richest sense.

The 20 minute play was written collaboratively by actors, veterans, and producer Fay Simpson of New York City’s Lucid Body Lab. The action begins with combat, an attack that wounds one soldier, and moves through the alienating process of being mustered out, into the isolation, anxiety, and anger that often plague vets. Alice Chang, the main character, turns to drugs and alcohol to numb herself, and a bar brawl lands her in jail. She spirals downward until she contemplates suicide.

At that point, Simpson stops the play to ask, “What is happening here? Are there any places along the way when this might have turned out differently?”

Audience members, some veterans, some civilians, offered suggestions, and Simpson invited them to enter a scene as a character and “re-write” the lines. Members of the audience stepped up to the challenge. One woman, taking the role of a counselor who had not connected with the troubled vet, gently said, “You look so...unsettled. What can I do for you?”

The actors, staying in role, replied extemporaneously with great skill. Brenna Palughi, playing a soldier who lost her leg, when asked if she might have reached out more

to Chang, said, “You got to be able to take care of yourself before you can take care of someone else. It’s that air mask thing.”

The staging of the play gave it a feeling of dance: a marching sequence, the combat scene, the bar fight, the last scene when Chang’s comrades line up behind her saluting as she raises a weapon to her head. In a unique twist, the times the vet lost control were done in slow motion, rather than the expected swift action of violence.

The last component was a brainstorming session on changes that would make veteran re-assimilation easier.

The cast includes Everett Cox, Jenny Pacanowski, and Kennedy Melchiona (veterans); Thiago Felix, Benjamin Thys, Hwalan Shub, and Brenna Palughi (actors).

The Veterans Project: Leaving Theatre is a high-caliber, dynamic and engaging theater piece made up of actors and veterans. The material used for the production is based on veteran/civilian group forums hosted throughout the year to glean out the major issues affecting the reintegration process of veterans. The 20-minute performance is

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followed by a 40-minute session engaging the audience in finding solutions, or even stepping into the theatre piece to change the results.

The goal of The Veterans Project: Leaving Theatre is to cultivate an essential dialogue about underlying issues in the veteran community, stimulate positive change, bridge the communication gap between veterans and civilians, and provide a safe place to conceptualize possible solutions and plans of action.

Breaking down the wall between actors and audience, Leaving Theater provides a moving experience for veterans and civilians.

The play will be at the Wallace Center of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park on November 23.

If interested in arranging a production, email Fay@lucidbody.com.

For Instrumentalists: Within the last few months, several musicians who played with the SUNY Orange Symphonic Band decided to establish a new wind band in the wake of my departure, and this new group, presently named the Artisans' Wind Ensemble, is currently rehearsing under my direction at the senior center in Maybrook, New York on Thursday evenings from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

We are seeking musicians of all ages from the lower Hudson Valley region who play woodwind, brass and percussion instruments and are able to perform intermediateto-advanced level compositions written for concert band and wind ensemble, which will include transcriptions of orchestral works from all eras in addition to new works by established and upcoming composers, as well as the standard repertoire for wind band.

We envision holding our first concert sometime in mid-November.

For those who are interested in joining us, I can be contacted by phone at 845-978-0617, or e-mail: klscomus@aol.com.

Kevin Scott, Middletown

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Old Stone House : Melinda’s Madness Method

Many artists use traditional oils, while others will chip away at huge hunks of marble. A few employ somewhat more peculiar media, such as scraps of old packaging, broken bits of plastic, the inner parts of shattered machines, and other assorted flotsam and jetsam.

Melinda Wallach, whose mixed-media work will be displayed at the Old Stone House of Hasbrouck, will use “almost anything” in her art, especially “modern garbage,” the discarded debris of contemporary life. “One of my passions is to look at mundane objects, especially things that have been thrown away,” she explains, and “re-purpose them as elements in pieces of art.”

Because viewers will likely linger on those small, unusual elements - indeed, she challenges them to identify the origin of each component - she titles the show There’s a Method to Her Madness, reminding them to open their eyes wider, step back a bit, and contemplate the larger integrated piece.

Born on Long Island, Ms. Wallach’s early artistic endeavors dealt with silk, cotton and wool creations. One grandfather had painted in oils, the other had been a naval architect who also worked in sculpture and drawing, and her mother created collages and painted furniture.

Her own career, though, led her into nursing, and a BA in psychology. She later became a medical writer in the pharmaceutical industry, co-authored books on women’s reproductive health, and spent several years freelancing.

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Then, more recently, her art career blossomed. She began studying in earnest while living in Florida, joining ArtServe of Fort Lauderdale and exhibiting in group shows there and throughout the area.

She took Masters Level workshops with internationally known artists Genie Appel, Eydi Lampasona and Wolf Kahn, and worked privately with Betty Edwards, whose 1979 best-seller, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain set new standards throughout the art world.

Her artistic plan, so to speak, was to avoid at all costs having any artistic plan. “I start a piece without an end goal, letting the work speak to me as it evolves, and discovering whatever the creative, intuitive process shows me. I’ll blend elements of realism with abstraction, using pastels, acrylics, oil, collage, mixed media, and sometimes those ‘found’ objects.”

There are visible influences in her art from Austria, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Bali, plus dozens of other spots she has visited, along with signs of her enthusiasm for pueblo pottery, graffiti, Chinese calligraphy, and even images

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from the Hubble Space Telescope.

When not traveling, or wintering in the south, she shares a Loch Sheldrake home with her husband, amid a substantial selection of her own ingenious art. An enthusiastic practitioner of meditation, she often ponders modern physics and astronomy because “they reveal how our universe works, how energy manifests every object, thought and action, and how we see only the tip of the iceberg, with most of existence going on under the surface.” Viewing her art, she hopes, may well make visible some measure of what’s normally so hidden.

Her exhibition opens with a reception from 6:00pm-10:00pm on October 4, to be catered

by Chef Austin from the Grant House Country Inn in Bethel. The art can be viewed thereafter through October 26.

The Old Stone House is located at 282 Hasbrouck Road, Woodbourne. For information and directions, visit www.

TheOldStoneHouseOfHasbrouck.org For more information call Melinda at 954815-9398.

From Jazz to Soul

Rhonda Denét is a New York City based jazz/soul vocalist who blends classic and contemporary favorites with her inspiring original music. Since 2007 Rhonda has been performing regularly with her band The Bad Cats, as the lead vocalist for the Kazz Music Orchestra and with several other regional projects.

In addition, Ms. Denét manages Silver Fox Songs, a performance series specifically developed with older adult populations in mind.

The goal is to improve their quality of life by providing professional live music to facilities and organizations that celebrate them. Each showcase features a collection of jazz and/ or soul standards from the 1930s through the 1960s, paying tribute to song stylists from Ella Fitzgerald to Aretha Franklin.

On October 5 at 2:00pm, Denét will present her unique interpretations of these classic songs accompanied by the Silver Fox Songs trio, which includes guitar, sax/flute and percussion, for a free concert at Munger Cottage, located up the hill directly behind the Cornwall Library, 395 Hudson Street, Cornwall.

Call 845-534-8282 for more information.