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Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Marlboro & Ellenville

September 2016

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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen Our thanks goes out to Susan Heywood, president of the Tuxedo Performing Arts Group, and treasurer Dale Mottola, their Committee and Friends, and all their many volunteers who have given us wonderful concerts since 2006. We were sorry to see their concerts end in July. They provided an enormous variety of music, dance and theatre in southern Orange and they will be missed by their many fans, which includes yours truly. Lose one, win one: Thanks to Nesin Cultural Arts and Sullivan County, Sullivan County now has a chamber orchestra! Check out page 22 to learn more about it. And speaking of orchestras, the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra has chosen its new Director, and he is taking the

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audience on a cross-country musical journey. See page 25. And then there’s the six piece Serenade Orchestra collaborating with the Storm King Art Center for a concert. See page 5. Get set for the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series’ 30th year! (pg. 27). Unique entrepreneuring in September includes a 1965 Orson Welles film (pg. 6), and the Towns of Deerpark and Mount Hope community events (pages 29 and 23). The summer theatre season comes to an end also, with performances in Ellenville, Forestburgh, Monroe, Goshen and South Fallsburg. Check the calendar on page 15. And, the Big Eddy and Manhattan Short Film Festivals are back in Narrowsburg and Newburgh! (pages 20 and 28). Thanks to all our contributors and collaborators who made this issue possible.

Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I read Joseph Di Bello’s bio on author Kate Seredy in the August 2016 issue and wanted to voice my appreciation. I have been intrigued by her ever since walking into the Montgomery Library and discovering her work on the walls and shelves. The librarians gave me a synopsis of who she was, but Di Bello’s article has really brought her to life for me. How I wish she were still alive - I would so want to meet and visit her; between our Hungarian and illustration roots, and love of country life. A really finely writ piece. - Karen E. Gersch, Montgomery Dear Editor, We wish to thank you for the recent highlight feature of the “Language of

Patterns” exhibition in CANVAS, as well as your continued support of the Ann Street Gallery and the Safe Harbors of the Hudson organization over the years. Each month we look forward to receiving and reading CANVAS, which keeps us up to date on all the wonderful cultural and artistic activities taking place here in Orange County. Thank you again, and we appreciate both your dedication to our arts community and the wonderful contribution CANVAS is making in keeping the arts alive in the minds and hearts of our Orange County residents. Best, - Virginia Walsh Director and Curator of Exhibitions Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh

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Calendars Art & Photography ��18 Books ��18 Category ��15 Children & Teen’s ��18 Demos, Lectures, Master Classes ��14 Music - Pop, Folk, etc., ��14 September 2016 Calendar ��16-17

Columns May I Have A Word With You ��19 Meet Me in the Library ��26

Stories Amity Gallery, Warwick ��7 ARTery Gallery, Milford �� 11 Artist Opportunity ��5, 12, 20 Barryville Area Art Association ��7 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts ��24, 31 Big Eddy Film Festival 2016 ��20 CAS Laundry King ��6 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��6 Chinese Moon Festival, Otisville ��23 Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen ��29 Country Quilters, Pine Bush ��3 Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel ��30 Daniel Giordano, Sculptor ��27 Dead End Cafe, Parksville ��4 Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg ��9 Downing Film Center, Newburgh ��29 Forestburgh Playhouse ��3 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��10 Gallery Eva, Callicoon �� 11 Goshen Art League ��8, 9 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ��4, 27

Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch. �� 25 Hurleyville Renaissance �� 31 Karen E. Gersch, artist �� 21 Karpeles Museum, Newburgh �� 28 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford �� 30 Liberty Museum & Arts Center �� 5, 22 Lumberland Cultural Series, Glen Spey 30 Manhattan Short Film Festival �� 28 Milford Readers & Writers Festival ��4 Milkweed, Sugar Loaf �� 21 Mt. St. Mary College Desmond Campus ��7 Museum Village Playhouse, Monroe ��5 NACL Theatre, Highland Lake ��4 Newburgh Free Library �� 27 Newburgh Last Saturday �� 28 Orange County Arts Council �� 22 Pacem in Terris, Warwick �� 19 Phillipsport Community Center �� 30 Queen of the Hudson, Newburgh �� 28 Ritz Theatre, Newburgh ��3 Scandinavian Craft Fair, Lackawaxen �� 10 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �� 10, 14 Serenade Orchestra ��5 Seven Freedoms Music, Montgomery �� 13 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville ��3 Shandelee Music Festival �� 24 Space Create, Newburgh �� 28 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville ��5 Sullivan Chamber Orchestra �� 22 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 12, 31 SUNY Orange, Newburgh �� 28 Sweet Tymes Cafe, Goshen ��9 Thrall Library, Middletown �� 13 Town of Deerpark Museum, Huguenot �� 29 Tuxedo Park Library �� 26 Unitarian Universalist Congregation. ��11 Wallkill River School, Montgomery �� 8, 32 Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� 23

Parents Strip Away Their Good Manners

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her brief satiric plays reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. Elizabeth Day from The Observer: “In late 2005, playwright Brendan Burke Yasmina Reza was approached by a German theatre director who wanted to commission a new work from her. “I said, ‘No, I’m tired, I’ve got too much [going] on; I don’t want to do it,’” Reza says, sitting in the corner of a darkened hotel bar in her native Paris. She gives a dismissive flap of her hand, as if reliving the refusal. But then, something happened to change her mind. “There was a little incident in the life of my son,” she says, refilling her cup of herbal tea from an Oriental-style teapot as she talks. “He was then about 13 or 14 and his friend was in a fight with another friend; they exchanged blows and my son’s friend had his tooth broken. A few days later, I met with the mother of this boy in the street. I asked her how her son was, if he was better, because I knew they’d had to do something to the tooth - they’d had to operate or something. And she said, ‘Can you imagine? The parents [of the other boy in the fight] didn’t even call me.’” “Reza looks at me steadily, brown eyes

unblinking, as if to underline the gravity of the situation. But then her mouth twitches at the corner and she breaks out into a wide grin. “It was suddenly, click! I thought, ‘This is an incredible theme.’” She almost bounces on her chair at the Mary McCann memory, her hair swishing as though mirroring her enthusiasm.” The resulting work was God of Carnage, one of the most popular and acclaimed plays of the last 10 years, and has now been made into a film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly and Jodie Foster as warring, middle-class couples who meet to discuss their children’s playground fight. Watch two sets of yuppie parents Live!, as they strip away their good manners and let the insults flow in this fast paced comedy that will you leave you shaking your head and wondering who the adults are. This winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy and Tony Award for Best Play runs September 16-October 2 at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street in Ellenville, starring Mary McCann (Little Children, Sleepers and The House of the Devil), Denna Reilly, James Taylor Odom and Brendan Burke, directed by Sean Patrick Reilly. For tickets: 845-647-5511.

Wolf Critton Howls at The Ritz

“I don’t want to be famous. I want to be heard.” So says Newburgh’s own - musician Wolf Critton. A singersongwriter and Newburgh Free Academy graduate with various collaborations and interviews with all forms of media, this street raised Iraq War Veteran is reaching the ears of thousands with his soulful sound of rock & blues. Wolf picked up the guitar as a soldier in Iraq. “I ended up losing all emotions and pretty much went numb just to cope with life and the things I was dealing with,” said Wolf. A friend gave

him a guitar and he began to express his emotions through music. What happens when two lone wolves meet? They make a pack! Percussionist Mike Colonna has become the heartbeat behind Wolf’s songs. “In my mind there is no one else on this planet that has flowed so effortlessly on stage and off with me, than Mike,” states Wolf. The wolf pack is now complete! Hear Wolf’s tunes on September 24, at 8:00pm in the Lobby at The Ritz Theatre, 109 Broadway, Newburgh. For tickets: 845-784-1146.

Drama in Forestburgh

Quilts in Pine Bush

Set in the deep south, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird sees racial injustice envelop a small-town community. Through courage and compassion, lawyer Atticus Finch seeks the truth, and his feisty daughter Scout and her brother Jem journey towards adulthood as they witness firsthand the damage caused by hatred and intolerance. To Kill a Mockingbird teaches us to be fair, tolerant, and just. Experience this magnificent story live at the Forestburgh Playhouse, August 30-September 4, sponsored by Jeff Bank. For tickets: 845-794-1194.

Walker Valley’s Country Quilters is holding a two-day quilt display, Scrap Happy at Thirty. The show will include guest speaker Susan Reich, author of several books about the history of quilts, a gallery talk and judged show, quilt related vendors, a craft supply sale, a block contest, a boutique with quilts and quilt related items for sale, demonstrations, door prizes, quilt appraisals by Susan Reich, and a raffle to support Pine Bush High School scholarships. The show is on September 24 & 25 from 10:00am-4:00pm at the Pine Bush High School, 156 State Route 302, Pine Bush. Food and beverages available for purchase.

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GRAND MONTGOMERY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES - 30TH YEAR! WE AREN’T MAILING OUR PROGRAM. PLEASE KEEP THIS AD. CONCERTS ARE HELD AT THE BEAUTIFUL SENIOR CENTER, 36 BRIDGE STREET, VILLAGE OF MONTGOMERY. ALL CONCERTS ARE FREE.

• Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 3pm Kariné Poghosyan, piano • Sunday, October 30, 2016 - 3pm Ruthanne Schempf, piano, Emily Faxon, violin and Joel Evans, oboe • Sunday, December 11, 2016 - 3pm Pine Bush Community Band • Sunday, January 8, 2017 - 3pm All Seasons Chamber Players • Sunday, March 12 - 3pm Neave Trio: Mikhail Veselov, cello, Anna Williams, violin and Evi Nakamura, piano • Sunday, May 7 - 3pm Steve Margoshes & Ada Janik Margoshes, Composers & Pianists, Wtih Guest Artists/Friends We started this series to offer fine music with fine musicians to the public in the Hudson Valley at no charge. We have no committees, boards, etc. We personally receive no money, but we do appreciate the joy so many people have at the concerts. I thank the help I get from the Village of Montgomery and Clerk Monserrat Stanley and her fine staff. Also a thanks to Judy Garrett, Bob Campbell, Barry Plaxen, Eric Hamblin, Ray Ricalde, Buddy Nelson, Mike Ford. - Howard Garrett, Co-Founder OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS WHO MAKE IT ALL POSSIBLE

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“The Chroma Key” in Highland Lake

Hilarious, strange, and upsetting, The Chroma Key is a 21st-century character study that is a dumpster dive through the 20th century’s cultural detritus. Beginning with the world’s most expressive case of car sickness, The Chroma Key lurches into territories one would only expect to encounter in cable TV’s unsurveyed peripheries: a noir scene all but spoken in black & white, a Socratic dialogue trapped inside a deranged game show, a menacing infomercial for a product with no obvious function, a martial arts training video that takes a tragic turn and keeps going, and a full-cast choreographed dance number/bodily resuscitation set to the theme song from St. Elmo’s Fire. All the characters in the play are inhabited

by the woman at its center, but her consciousness has itself been taken hostage by the countless stories, pictures, ads and songs it has let inside. NACL’s 2016 deep space residency program will conclude with The Chroma Key from New York Citybased Title:Point, written by Spencer P. Campbell, a play in which all of its events pass through the consciousness of the female protagonist, filtered through pop culture markers and clichés that she has internalized. Theresa Bucheister will direct. The play will be shown at NACL Theatre, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake, on September 24 at 7:30pm. For tickets: https://nacl.ticketspice.com/thechroma-key

“We plan to have fun, fun, fun until our daddy takes our T-Bird away, so come on Coney Island baby, see us under the boardwalk, or up on the roof, and get your ticket to ride the time machine back to the days of drive-in movies, egg creams, beehives and ducktail hair!” The Brooklyn Time Machine is a band made up of baby boomers recreating the music of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Paul (on drums) started as a doowop vocalist in the early days, spending time in a group with Bryan Hyland. Paul later took up drums as the doowop groups began to fade out. Jimmy on sax adds a whole new dimension to the sound. Jimmy has been playing for many years, having been a member of Hot Wax and the Satin Dukes. When not blowing into his

sax, he jump’s in on vocals, too. Dennis on guitar, keys and vocals spent many years in an oldies band, and nearly 20 years with 45RPM of Long Island, and played several times at Beatlefest. Mary on lead vocals and assorted percussions is the key to the band’s sound. She has done studio work, voice overs, some commercials and jingles. Mary enjoys covering some of her favorite girl groups of the 50s and 60s. Wayne, the newest member, has played guitar, bass, and ukulele for over 50 years. Yes, he is from Brooklyn! They perform for the Parksville 2016 Music Festival at the Dead End Cafe, 6 Main Street, on September 4 at 3:00pm. Tickets include a full dinner buffet after the show! For reservations, call 845-292-0400.

Milford’s first ever Readers & Writers Festival was organized by a group of community volunteers from the Upper Delaware River valley region, including writers and publishing industry professionals. The event will feature an impressive roster of best-selling authors. “Our tagline is: Readers. Writers. Conversation,” said Amy Ferris, a writer and one of the event’s organizers. “We want the festival to ignite a conversation between people who love to read books and people who write them.” Some of the weekend’s highlights include: Humans Collective, a dance and spoken word ensemble performance at the Milford Theatre (see photo); A Conversation with John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and

Evil, and Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Conversation with MK Asante, bestselling author of Buck: A Memoir as well as an award-winning filmmaker, rapper, and professor; and A Conversation with Gloria Steinem, legendary activist and writer whose most recent book, My Life On The Road, is a New York Times bestseller. Other parts of the September 30-October 2 festival will focus on gardening, cooking, Women Writing for Women, storytelling and children’s programs, conservation, a poetry slam, open-mic events, and a “pop-up” bookstore. There will also be programs on Milford’s Science Fiction legacy, presented by the Pike County Historical Society. Visit www.milfordreadersandwriters.com

Brooklyn DooWops in Parksville

Milford’s 1st Ever Readers & Writers Fest!

Theatrical Fun with “The Producers” The plot is simple: a At the 2001 TonyAwards, down-on-his-luck Broadway The Producers won 12 out producer and his mildof its 15 nominations (it mannered accountant come received two nominations up with a scheme to produce for leading actor and the most notorious flop in three for featured actor) history thereby bilking their setting the record for most backers out of millions of nominations and wins in dollars. history and becoming one Max proposes a scheme: of the few musicals to win “The Producers” - David Mossey, Step 1: Find the worst play in every category for which Gerard Weiss & Layla Boyles. ever written. it was nominated. Step 2: Hire the worst director in town. The Playhouse at Museum Village will Step 3: Raise two million dollars. continue its 21st season with The Producers, Step 4: Hire the worst actors in New York directed by Terri Weiss with musical direction and open on Broadway. by Brian Flint and choreography by Robin Step 5: Close on Broadway, take our two Evans for Creative Theatre-Muddy Water million, and go to Rio! Players, a non-profit organization that has been Only one thing goes awry: the show is performing in the mid-Hudson since 1978. a smash hit! Soaring to glorious heights of Performances are September 10-25 at the madness and hilarity, this musical skewers Playhouse, Route 17M, Monroe. Intermission Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it includes dessert consisting of apple pie, ice proudly proclaims itself an “equal opportunity cream, cheese, iced tea and coffee. offender.” Reservations are suggested: 845-294-9465.

Serenaded with Bon Bons at Storm King The Serenade Orchestra is David Cerutti viola, Keats Dieffenbach and Krista Bennion-Feeney violins, John Feeney bass (see photo), and RJ Kelley and Alexandra Cook, horns. “The Serenade Orchestra’s configuration of instruments was most commonly utilized for the socially oriented chamber music of the late 18th century and early 19th century. Mozart, Joseph and Michael Haydn, Sperger, Lanner, Strauss, Schubert and so many more prized the unique rhythmic punctuation, range, clarity and resonance of the double bass as the sole stringed basso instrument in this music,” said John Feeney. “We specialize in the divertimenti, cassations, marches, waltzes and, of course, serenades that were an integral part of the vibrant music-making from Mozart and Haydn’s day and beyond. This music was often performed outdoors, the standing musicians playing an introductory march as they approached the destination where they had been hired to provide music for festive

gatherings of all types. We perform with the same historical instruments originally used to play this music, imbuing it with warmth and intimacy of expression.” The ensemble has played often at Warwick’s Pacem in Terris and now they will be playing at the Storm King Art Center. “We’ll be playing Mozart’s “Lodron” Serenade K. 287, along with some other Bon-bons like the By the Beautiful Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss ll, and Hungarian Dance #3 by Brahms,” announced Krista. The six-movement Mozart Serenade (alternative title, Divertimento No. 15) was composed by Mozart in 1777 to commemorate the name day of Countess Maria Antonia Lodron, a family friend and member of the Salzburg aristocracy. The concert is on September 25 at 2:00pm. The concert is free, once admission to the museum grounds is paid. Storm King is located at 1 Museum Road, New Windsor. Phone: 845-534-3115.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: POETRY! Poets Wanted! Got poems? Poets are requested to submit original poetry for inclusion in the 7th Annual Liberty Poetry Festival/Reading to be presented at the Liberty Museum & Arts Center, 46 South Main Street on September 24 at 2:00pm. All poems must be original to the writers submitting them. Please remember to identify each poem with your name and address, and

include contact information: telephone and email. Submissions are needed as soon as possible. Area poets are invited to submit their work for consideration to be read at the festival no later than September 9 to Marilyn Laufer, P.O. Box 87, White Sulphur Springs, NY 12787 or via email: mfrumess@hvc.rr.com For submission requirements, call Marilyn at 845-292-6628. September 2016

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Remnants from the Borscht Belt Era

photographs by Marisa From entire expanses Scheinfeld, presents a of abandoned properties contemporary view of to small lots containing more than forty hotel and drained swimming bungalow sites. pools, the remains of the The Catskill Art Society Borscht Belt era now lie (CAS) and the Livingston forgotten, overgrown, and Manor Free Library vacant. In the absence of present photographer human activity, nature has reclaimed the sites, Marisa Scheinfeld with a “Guest Room, Tamarack Lodge, having encroached upon Greenfield Park, NY” by M. Scheinfeld reading and photo show at or completely overtaken them. Many of the the CAS Laundry King, 65 Main Street in interiors have been vandalized or marked Livingston Manor on September 3 at 2:00pm. by paintball players and graffiti artists. Each She will show selections from the upcoming ruin lies radically altered by the elements and book, which contains 129 photographs and a effects of time. selection of Borscht Belt ephemera. The book, The Borscht Belt, with essays by Stefan being published in October, will be available Kanfer and Jenna Weissman Josel and for pre-order. For information: 845-436-4227.

Film and Talk: “Chimes at Midnight”

it was hailed as a critical Chimes of Midnight triumph and a standout (1965) is a Shakesperean among adaptations of wintry lament for the Shakespeare to film. “death of Merrie England,” Join the viewing and with Orson Welles’ talkback with Bradley “plump Jack Falstaff” Diuguid on October 1 and the forces of life and at 7:30pm in the CAS love versus Keith Baxter’s Laundry King, 65 Main icily ruthless Prince Hal, Street, Livingston Manor. with John Gielgud’s King “Chimes at Midnight” set, 1965 Henry the moral center. Co-starring Jeanne This event is free and open to the public, and donations will be accepted at the door. Phone Moreau and Margaret Rutherford. One of the last films Welles would direct, 845-436-4227.

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“Adrenaline Honey” in Livingston Manor Curator Robin Winters: at the same instance. “I am writing this note in “I hesitate to interpret any of consideration of my choice of the works in this exhibition or Marianna Rothen and Mike to give any clues as to content. Osterhout to install and exhibit I quote Susan Sontag from her their work in the galleries of the text Against Interpretation: Catskill Art Society. “Real art has the capacity to “I have chosen the make us nervous. By reducing aforementioned artists because the work of art to its content and I do not fully understand their then interpreting that, one tames “Untitled #2, In Despair,” work and they make me curious. the work of art. Interpretation by Marianna Rothen I see two serious art practices makes art manageable, and two mature bodies of conformable.” In this regard work. I work on the notion I have no interest in making of intuition and trust when you (the reader/viewer) organizing an exhibition. comfortable. I am more I am a partisan. It is my interested in the questions curatorial style to give the you ask yourselves. I do not artists full authority over the separate myself from either selection and installation of the artists or the audience. I Mike Osterhout’s “Blood,” the works. It is like publishing Photograph by Samm Kunce. ask that when you look at the a new novel sight unseen and being surprised work you do not disassociate yourself from the and educated by the outcome. world we find ourselves in.” “I am interested in artwork that is in conflict CAS presents Adrenaline Honey, featuring with itself as well as its viewing audience. The artwork by Marianna Rothen and Mike works of Marianna Rothen and Mike Osterhout Osterhout, curated by Robin Winters at the do this very thing. A passive aggressive CAS Arts Center, 48 Main Street, Livingston beautiful anger and dissatisfaction is at play. Manor from September 3 - October 10. “Play” perhaps is the operative word as the CAS will host an Artist Talk on September artists play with notions of identity, context and 3 at 3:00pm, followed by an opening reception expectation. I chose the title Adrenaline Honey from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. because the works are both sweet and shocking For more info, see CAS ad below.

“Visions of Spain” in Shohola

It’s hard to overstate the at their Museum in New York impact that Spanish culture City. has had - not only in the arts, It’s taking place through the but on Western civilization in month of September, with a general. free reception on September Visions of Spain is a special 3, from 4:00pm-6:00pm event and exhibit sponsored at the Artist’s Market by the Barryville Area Arts Community Center, 114 Association, in collaboration Richardson Avenue, Shohola, with The Hispanic Society of PA. America to celebrate Hispanic In addition to the Heritage month. The Society presentation, the Museum is sending their Museum Department of the Society Department Registrar, “Provinces of Spain, Valencia” will highlight images from Stephanie McClure, up to the their collection for a standing by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida mountains with a PowerPoint presentation on exhibit that will be on display at the Artist’s the murals of Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, which Market weekends in September. are entitled Visions of Spain and are on display For information: 845-557-8713.

“Once Again” at Amity Gallery, Warwick

Artists Roslyn art history at SUNY Fassett and Linda Purchase. Rahl Nadas exhibited Nadas has an their paintings and MFA from Alfred sculptures together University and has fifteen years ago in taught at SUNY Atlantic Gallery in Orange, in public NYC. They chose schools and in her to show their work studio. Her one of a together because they kind pottery forms believe their work and sculptures will Art by R. Fassett Sculpture by L. Nadas be on display at the echoes each others. Once Again, the title of their exhibit showing gallery. “I create with clay in a spontaneous weekends in September at the Amity Gallery, way. By using form, texture, space, line, will bring them together once again! movement, color and light, my works become Fassett has combined pencil drawing and personal statements based on laws of chance. watercolors of women in motion interwoven I expect viewers to translate in their own way with paintings of some of the favorite flowers whatever they may see,” said Linda. growing in her garden - delphinium, parrot Once Again will open with a reception on tulips and scarlet poppies. She is a graduate September 10, from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the of the Cooper Union and is a member of the Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Prince Street Gallery. She has taught African Warwick. For information: 845-258-4396.

Fabric & Paper Collages at MSMC

and surface design, Hudson Valley artist, photography, travel Susan Minier’s brightly memories, and the colored fabric and paper patterns, colors, and collages are a blend of textures of the landscape; abstract and decorative ordered and chaotic, real art with a synthesis and imagined. of vibrant colors and Susan’s work has been engaging magical featured in Cloth, Paper realities. Her themes are & Scissors magazine, often landscapes where and two of her fabric crisply contoured forms “Green Meadow Farm” collages were published are replete with subtle fabric collage by Susan Minier in a children’s art textbook, Perfect Match, in tonal transitions of varying hues. “Since the 1990’s, I have enjoyed being Singapore in 2010. She enjoys sharing her techniques by leading a full-time artist working in fabric and paper collage and paint. I love the fun, challenge and workshops at Mount Saint Mary College adventure of creating brightly colored, intricate Desmond Campus for Adult Enrichment, landscapes. Using collage and faux painting 6 Albany Post Road in Newburgh, where she techniques, I have also made custom floor will be having a solo art show and reception cloths, table runners, and placemats. To share on September 25 from 1:00pm-3:00pm. my techniques, I enjoy leading workshops in Susan’s work will be on display through the these areas,” said Susan. end of October. Susan is inspired by contemporary fiber Call 845-565-2076 more information. September 2016

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The Wallkill River School of Art in September

“Bull Stone House” by Lana Privitera

Originally from Spain, Lana Privitera graduated in 1983 from the Fine Arts School of Zaragoza. After working in advertising, she moved to the U.S. in the early 90s. Lana’s colorful watercolors of New Jersey farms and towns won her a following and recognition in the Tri-State area, being the recipient of numerous awards. Today, she is a Signature Member of the North East Watercolor Society, and the American Artist Professional League. An art educator, Lana teaches watercolors from her studio in Pine Bush and at the Wallkill River School (WRS) in Montgomery. Rick Parenti began drawing as a young child and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. Rick’s art education background includes drawing, painting, sculpting and 3-D design. His love of designing with wood grew into a

“Wallkill River” by Rick Parenti

successful business, Wood Join Company. Rick studied sculpture with well-known international sculptor Najim Checham, and pastels with WRS founder Shawn Dell Joyce. His work has changed and grown with his skills, and he is being featured in a solo show as both a painter and sculptor at the WRS. Born in Austria, Mimi Werner emigrated to the Hudson Valley as a young child. She developed an early interest in art from her parents as one of her earliest memories was that of watching her father at work as a studio photographer. With her discovery of the translucent, luminous qualities inherent in watercolor, she began to delight in creating botanical images that capture their vibrancy, form and transient beauty. Mimi incorporates a variety of techniques learned from many inspiring

Artwork by Mimi Werner

teachers on both coasts. Among them, she has found Janet Campbell of the WRS most helpful and supportive of her development. Her work is now expanding to include landscapes, animals and portraiture. As a member of the WRS since 2013, Mimi has enjoyed expert instruction, critique, camaraderie and fun. Mimi is the School’s Emerging Artist for September. Her solo show will be in the workshop room. View the artworks by all of the above September 1-30 at the WRS. The Hallway theme is Floral (thru Sep. 14) and Water (Sep 15-Oct 14) and the Upstairs Gallery will feature Children’s Art. Meet the artists at the opening reception on September 3, from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Admission is free at WRS, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. For info, call 845-457-ARTS.

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New Goshen Exhibit Goshen Art League (GAL) will hold a New Members Exhibit 2016-II. “The number of artists who have joined GAL since March 2016 warrants a second “Purple Pansies Bouquet” by Natasha Kogan new member exhibit this year,” explained Julissie Saltzberg, current GAL president. “We’re excited to showcase these visual artists who work in various media. We even have a fabric artist in the mix!” “Olly” by Jennifer Leonard The exhibit will run from September 1-October 31 at the Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street, with a reception September 13 from 7:00pm9:00pm. Additional weekend and evening hours will be announced on the GAL Facebook page during the run of the exhibit.

Paintings & Sculpture in Narrowsburg “Paintings” Phillip Gabrielli “I make paintings because I can’t think of anything else to do,” says Phillip Gabrielli, who will be exhibiting warmly lit and deeply shadowed “Still Life with Apples” trompe l’oeil still by Phillip Gabrielli lifes portraying fruit, flowers, wooden boxes, and classically-inspired mini paintings. “I did my undergraduate work at Harvard, where, at the time, there were no studio courses. The chairman of the Fine Arts Department in the Fogg Museum explained to me, ‘The Reverend Board of Overseers does not consider painting to be the occupation of a gentleman.’ They were, of course, correct,” says Gabrielli. After completing his MFA at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Gabrielli returned to Tuscany and Rome off and on through the 1980s and 90s. He now lives and works in an old reconstructed hay barn in Sullivan County. He returns as often as possible to his house in the centro storico of Siena.

“Empty When Full” Matt Nolen “As a painter, architect, and storyteller, clay provides the means by which I can marry my loves: the painted surface, 3-dimensional form and narrative content. Ceramics gives me the language “Squeeze” by Matt Nolen to communicate my stories to a world audience,” says Matt Nolen, a studio artist living and working in NYC and Narrowsburg. Trained as a painter and architect, Nolen’s work includes sculptural objects and architectural installations using clay and mixed media. Both artists will exhibit their work from September 2-24, (Phillip exhibits in Alliance Gallery & Matt’s work is displayed in the Loft Gallery) and both share an opening reception: September 2, 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. For information: 845-252-7576.

Arts Building Through The Community Who promotes his Goshen candy store and ice cream parlor with a sign that says: “Gimme the chocolate and nobody gets hurt!”, along with a special promo: “Buy an egg cream and get a frozen devil dog for a nickel”? David Seligmann does. In July 2016, entrepreneur Seligmann opened a combination candy store and ice cream parlor, the title of which, Sweet Tymes, refers to the “Good Old Times”. And now he has a business plan that will help enhance arts awareness among his future customers. Seligmann is promoting a forthcoming café, a “Decadent Dessert Lounge for Events & Parties” based on his growing up during the “good old times” and experiencing Jahn’s ice cream parlor in Oceanside, NY and their special “kitchen sink”, a bowl of scoops of ice cream with toppings of just about everything BUT the kitchen sink. On a porch above Sweet Tymes at 159 W. Main St., David saw the possibility to expand his present business by adding tables and chairs for people to take their ice cream outside in warm weather and dine in a relaxed atmosphere. The porch fronts an empty venue, which he immediately envisioned as a café. “The café is an interesting space, providing something to do after dinner,” he explained, “especially if you don’t drink, as all night spots in Goshen are bars. We’ll have cultural events such as poetry readings, and acoustic guitar music evenings, too. And since art is transient, always changing, we’ll be working with the Goshen Art League (GAL). They will be curating exhibits for us.”

A “Kitchen Sink”

“In this region we are rich in artists and greatly lacking in adequate venues,” said GAL’s Gloria Bonelli. “How exciting to have a venue and proprietor who is truly eager to showcase local arts and artists. Too often, arts administrators and presenters are merely tolerated. It is exciting to feel wanted and to know that we will have a true collaborator in presenting our many gifted artists.” Since there is no food preparing on premises, food will be catered mostly from local Goshen caterers. The space seats about 20 people. “It brings businesses and arts together,” David explained, “as events in the café can be booked by business groups, sports groups, private parties, etc., and visual art will be on display, and they’ll hear about the performing arts that would be taking place there also.” At press time, the new “arts” café is slated to open in mid to late September. “After speaking with them [GAL], I got another idea,” David said, “to have their artist members paint my café chairs like they did with those beautiful pianos that have been placed in various downtown Goshen locations.” Hmmm. A delicious idea! September 2016

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Norwegian Delights in Lackawaxen 10:00am-3:00pm at the The national bread in Lackawaxen Volunteer Norway is lefse, a flat Fire House, 774 Route bread which does not 590, Lackawaxen, PA. require an oven for cooking Lunch and snacks will - it’s cooked on a griddle. be served at the fair, and Made with potatoes, flour, Norwegian foods are butter, and milk or cream, available for sale, as well as special tools are used to crafts, sweaters, giftware, prepare lefse, including jewelry, and more. long wooden turning sticks The Bernt Balchen and special rolling pins Lodge participated in with deep grooves. Other the Norwegian Parade popular Norwegian foods include meatcakes, lamb, Handmade Norwegian Quilt in Brooklyn in May, 2016, honoring the signing of Norway’s cabbage stew, and cod. Mark your calendars for the annual Sons constitution in 1814 and their eventual of Norway Bernt Balchen Scandinavian independence from Sweden in 1905. For information call 570-729-7628. Craft Fair scheduled for September 10,

Animal Portraits in Lords Valley “My goal is to give you hand. I just sit quietly a better understanding of and watch,” says nature the wildlife around us, photographer Nancy using my photography Hopping. as a teaching tool. Many Nancy returns to people fear what they the Gallery at Chant don’t understand. Just Realtors in Lords maybe, through my Valley for a September photography, you can 1-October 27 exhibit see how wildlife interacts of her animal portrait and communicates with photographs. each other. Meet Nancy (who is “Yoga Bear Cub” by Nancy Hopping “My blog is an ongoing photo journal of not only a photographer, but also a master flywhat is around me. Humming birds on flowers fisher, author, and reiki healer!) when she is on that I have planted, migrating birds that have hand to meet and greet visitors at the opening stopped by to eat the native fruit I grow on reception, September 3, 5:00pm-7:00pm. my land just for them, black bears that stop by The Gallery at Chant Realtors is located at for a swim in my casting pond. I never know 631 Route 739, Lords Valley, PA. who will stop by. I am ready with camera in For information, phone 570-775-7337.

Art + Magic in Sugar Loaf Artist Jesse Bransford’s synergies between the magical work to date represents an intentions of both systems. ever-sharpening focus on art’s Recognizing the historically relationship to magic. Bransford charged and magical aura of the believes that this relationship Seligmann farm, Bransford has not represents a crucial space for a only made art objects that function contemporary reconsideration magically, but is also explicitly of what it is to be human. making magical gestures that An exhibit of Bransford’s function artistically. If successful, work, titled Nomina Magica the overall installation creates (Latin for “magical names”) a series of spaces, portals and focuses especially on two windows into magical ways of magical systems: Icelandic experiencing art. magic as seen through “Hills Become the Sun” An associate professor of art at contemporary seiðr practices, and by Jesse Bransford New York University and the chair Indian yantra forms, especially as described in of the Department of Art and Art Professions, the Mantramahodadhi. Bransford has lectured widely and is coWhile seemingly as far flung as two systems organizer of the biennial Occult Humanities of thought could be, both geographically Conference in New York. and culturally, the magic they both profess Nomina Magica opens with a reception on share striking similarities, relying heavily on September 24, from 6:00pm-9:00pm at the visual meditation forms and so-called sacred Seligmann Center, 23-26 White Oak Drive, geometry. Bransford’s aim in working with Sugar Loaf. these two traditions is to draw out syncretic The exhibit is on view through January 9. overlaps between the forms and to create For information, phone 845-469-9459 10

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“Lightness” at Gallery EVA, Callicoon

Visual artist Eva Drizhal has lived and worked in Callicoon for the last 35 years. On April 2, 2016, she opened a new art gallery in Callicoon named Gallery EVA where she shows her artistic work as well as the work of other creative local artists.

years back. I feel blessed to have worked with so many different mediums, and I hope you enjoy my work the way I often do.”

Amy Goff “As far as my process of creating goes, it really depends on the type of art I am Monart Renaud creating. I often just go with the flow. I “I was born in St. Marc, first find my source of Haiti. For the past 40 years, inspiration, whether it is I have been traveling, something I physically see, painting and exhibiting. I or often a feeling or mood have been influenced by that I experience (with my the various places that I more abstract work). live in. My husband and “When I create a more I started to travel...Saudi realistic painting, I often Arabia, Lebanon, Greece, reference photography or Ethiopia...to Philadelphia, an actual physical object Los Angeles, Washington and begin by sketching DC, and my current a rough outline of what residence: New York City. I intend to paint. I then “It was against the begin to paint blocking teachings of the Holy in larger shapes of color Koran to create human and then keep working the Artwork by Monart Renaud faces on canvas. I started various shapes or subject working with cubes on canvas and inside matter, refining and fine tuning until I am of each cube I would create a scene of a completely satisfied with the end results. place that inspired me. My travels have “It is rare for me to go back to a painting truly informed my never ending path as an once I initially stop, especially my abstract international artist. I create impressions of work...it is often started and completed in the countries that I lived in. one sitting, even if it takes ten-plus hours. In “I discovered “Etching” while I enrolled my more detailed work I do tend to stop and at Hunter College in New York City some start as needed and it can often take days,

Organic World Fusion in Rock Tavern

Heartwood is an organic world fusion ensemble featuring multicultural rhythms and melodies. The hauntingly beautiful sounds of Native American flutes blend with world percussion and guitar to create harmony from diversity. The group is comprised of Julie & Alvin Harris, Celine Daly, Maxwell Kofi Donkor and Chuck & Theresa Trella. Flutes are played by Julie, Celine, and Alvin. Celine and Julie also conduct healing sound baths combining Himalayan bowls, crystal bowls and flutes. Both Julie and Alvin are accomplished drummers and perform with Master Drummer Maxwell Kofi Donkor and his West African

Artwork by Amy Goff

weeks, if not months to complete.” Gallery EVA’s latest exhibit entitled Lightness, will run from September 3-30. Meet the artists featured in the show: Scott Klee Clark, Michael Roberto, Monart Renaud, Eva Drizhal, E. Morisot, and Amy Goff at the opening reception on September 3 from 5:00pm-9:00pm. The reception will also include live music by Jan-Turan. Jan-Turan is an all acoustic alternative / new wave music duo comprised of Ramona Jan and Andre Turan. Gallery EVA is located at 35 Lower Main Street, Callicoon. For information, contact Eva Drizhal at 845-887-3202. Follow Gallery EVA on Facebook by searching for “Gallery EVA”

drumming and dance band, Sankofa. Julie and Al co-facilitate the SongCatchers Flute Circle in Sugar Loaf. Chuck and Theresa have been church musicians and composers for over 35 years, played in rock bands, and have been active in community theater productions. The Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, will feature Heartwood on September 10 at 7:30pm. Open mic performances will be available to all. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation is located at 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern. For information, phone 845-978-5620. September 2016

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Art Exhibits & Lectures About Our Feathered Friends

to curious ibises. The lighting and use of color display the depth of his experience and talent. Sundwall will be on hand for his reception combined with the reception for the BIRDS: Enduring Feathered Creatures. In addition, he will be giving an art master class on painting birds on September 28 at 6:30pm entitled Paint Birds? Paint Gesture ~ Painting Birds in Oil in Orange Hall Gallery Fringe. The reception for this wide-ranging educational show is scheduled for September 16 from 5:30pm-7:45pm during which “Great Blue Heron” by Joseph Sundwall pianist Manny Carrasquillo Visitors to Orange Hall will play jazz standards and Gallery at SUNY Orange modern jazz. will enter a world of birds. The Bird Lecture Series The exhibit on view, Birds are extremely diverse BIRDS: Enduring Feathered as they encompass the most Creatures, will offer large living species, approximately birds, small birds, songbirds, ten thousand. water fowl, domesticated To broaden one’s fowl, indigenous, exotic, in knowledge and understanding 115 paintings, photographs, of these creatures, five drawings, collages, and lectures are planned during sculptures in realistic as well the timeframe of the exhibit. as abstract depictions by 51 All the lectures will take artists. “A Pair of Cardinals” by J. Sundwall place in Orange Hall Gallery To further experience art through and all will start at 7:00pm. ornithology, acclaimed artist Joseph Sundwall John James Audubon and The Birds has installed a seventeen piece exhibit of oil of America: Nationalism and the Roots paintings ranging in size from very small to of Conservation in the Early Republic: very large of many kinds of birds in likewise September 21. A lecture by Kerry Dean diverse habitats. Friends of a Feather ~ Bird Carso, PhD, is chair and associate professor of Paintings by Joseph Sundwall is on exhibit in art history at SUNY New Paltz. Orange Hall Gallery Fringe. The Changing Ecology of the Hudson River Noted for his portraits, Sundwall brings a Flyway: September 27. A lecture by Tom naturalness to the birds on which he focuses Lake, Estuary Naturalist for the NYSDEC’s from diving seagulls to egrets and herons Hudson River Estuary Program and Editor of about to take flight to carefully hidden bluejays the NYSDEC Hudson River Almanac.

Wood, Mermaids & Paintings in Milford

series capture Mermaids After years of working trapped in two worlds. with wood, John Capanna Mermaids are stargazing, embarked upon a journey that floating, and longing in Carol’s included a course with master drawings on paper or prints furniture maker JD Lohr, Native with fabric, tough leather, or American woodcarver Russell manta ray skin tails. Beebe, and Russian woodcarver College professor, Broadway Leonid Zakurdayev. The result Woodwork by J. Capanna set designer, book illustrator, is a very personal and intimate commercial graphic artist, collaboration between artist junior high school teacher, and nature. “I try to keep all and now an independent artist, my work as organic and natural Al Rosser has devoted his as possible. If you over work a entire career to art. His keen piece of wood, it tends to lose eye and wry sense of humor its inherent natural beauty.” infuse his works with life and John’s enthusiasm for wood has grown into a passion that he “Stargazer” by C. Margreither evoke smiles. His sculptures capture movement, emotion credits with helping to save his and attitude. sanity, if not his life. Burning View the works of the above over 90% of his body in an artists at the ARTery Gallery, industrial accident in 1979, his 210 Broad Street, Milford, life has been a journey of self September 8-October 3. An discovery and recovery. opening reception will be held Carol Margreither explores Mermaids as a metaphor for her “Dancers” sculpture by A. Rosser September 10, from 6:00pmown journey as a woman. Her recent collage 9:00pm. For information: 570-409-1234. 12

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Three additional lectures will occur in October. Check the October CANVAS. Also, a poetry evening on local poet’s reactions to the bird exhibit through poetry is being planned. Artist Opportunity Autumn in the Hudson Valley, an exhibit of paintings, photographs, drawings, and

sculptures demonstrating visually artists’ perceptions and reactions to the beauty of the Hudson Valley, particularly in the fall, also depicting harvest activities, will run in Orange Hall, October 25-November 20. Interested artists should contact with images by October 3: cultural@sunyorange.edu or phone 845-341-4891.

Colleagues: Hidden Talents 2016

of SUNY Orange from Last year’s various departments Colleagues: Hidden across the college’s Talents art show was so two campuses to successful that SUNY uncover and spotlight Orange’s Cultural their artistic sides. It Affairs has called upon is exciting to view the the college community creativity and artistry in to do it again this year. the college community. Many employees who Artists include Renee exhibited last year are Arnold, Laurie Burns, showing new works. Artur Charukhchyan, And several employeeDominguez artists who were not “Wisteria in Tuscany” by Mitchell Saler Martin participants in last year’s show, are, in fact, very Ball, Colin Duryea, Randi Eisman, Kirsten pleased to be sharing their works by displaying Elwood, Kirsten Gabrielsen, Sarah Gardner, Oluwafiropo Margaret Ibitoye, Susan Miiller, them in Colleagues: Hidden Talents 2016. Paintings, photographs, collages, fabric art, Arthur Ramos Jr., Mary Roth, Mitchell Saler, stitchery, and jewelry will be on view August Mary Mugele Sealfon, and Samantha Seeley. Orange Hall is located at the corner of 29-October 1 in Orange Hall Gallery Loft. A reception, which is free and open to the public, Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, will take place September 13 from noon to Middletown (GPS: 24 Grandview Avenue). Questions may be directed to cultural@ 2:00pm. The exhibit brings together staff and faculty sunyorange.edu and 845-341-4891.

Vinyl Is Final: Seven Freedoms Music Center, Montgomery

by A. J. Petrosillo

My brief visit to an obscure and sorta petite corner of Montgomery’s business district aroused multiple memories. Each soared, one by one, through a well-worn mind. It happened on Railroad Avenue (#22) where there’s a fascinating little business, Seven Freedoms Music Center, owned by a most a gracious and indulgent Marc Giammarco. Though soft-spoken and unassuming, Marc is a noted musician, performer and recording artist. Music in its various disguises became a part of his life when relatives sat him down for the purpose of listening to the music of some of the most notable recording artists of the time, e.g., an aunt who cherished show tunes, an uncle who revered county and western, and another uncle who cherished American jazz artists. The degree to which this activity was by design or happenstance remains a subject of speculation. But an important fact remains: music became a vital component of Marc’s life. And for Marc, the die was cast! His attraction and skills were rewarded by a scholarship to the prestigious Berkeley College of Music in Boston. As a prominent music school, there’s an emphasis on the study of modern American music, especially jazz. As a matter of note, the school’s alumni include Diana Kroll, Bradford Marsalis, Quincy Jones and, of course, Marc Giammarco. Marc’s emphasis in study were piano and percussion, but his interest expanded further to include the science and mechanics of the recording industry. The theme of his establishment, Seven Freedoms Music Center, is the Healing Power of Music Recordings. To that end Marc’s past and current involvement covers the multi faceted music industry. He acts as a writer, performer, recording artist, and currently has a popular CD, Music, The Wisdom 1 Sessions.

Presently included in his retail determined my career path. I knew, record store on Montgomery’s I just knew for sure, I was destined Railroad Avenue is a performance to be an out-west cowboy; I would studio, where Saturday afternoons ride the range with Roy and Gene will shortly be devoted exclusively promoting law, order and the to performance. American way! I found there vinyls, vinyls and It was the records. They were more vinyls, dated and brand new the determining clue. Two brittle, in sealed jackets, all with those 78 rpm flat discs each made of a memorable and attractive album material using a shellac resin. The covers and a few 78s thrown in first and initially my cherished for good measure. And all for sale. Marc Giammarco favorite was Vaughn Monroe’s This was music reborn, the way I once knew Ghosts Riders in the Sky. The second 78 was it, sensuous and available. Without a spirited another popular tune from that year, Bing amount of publicity, there’s been a low key Crosby’s Mule Train. Strangely, my fondest resurgence, a new found interest, in the music memory of those popular 78s is the flip side and the process. What’s required to hear music of the Crosby recording, Dear Hearts and this way? Or more accurately: What is the Gentle People, with lyrics inspired by the great appeal of those “ol’ fashioned records?” Stephen Foster. On a personal level, it must have been But my miniscule and cherished collection Christmas 1949. Yes, ‘49 I am sure. For me that of 78s soon became vinyls, and then cassettes year was special. I received a cherished gift: and 8-tracks and recently stereophonic a Victrola, the plug-in kind. This was not an compact discs, CDs and MP3s! What’s what elaborate or fancy Victrola. In truth it was just a here anyway? Now my simplified assortment simple record player (aka phonograph, suitcase consists of CDs, LP vinyls and, of course, 78s. style) with two records. There’s no rhyme or reason, just hundreds of I long questioned the true intention of that recordings ranging from Richard Tucker and gift. Were my parents actually interested in Leontyne Price’s Butterfly to Bill Haley and developing my appreciation of music? Were His Comets’ Rock Around the Clock, the iconic they like Marc’s aunt and uncles? After all, theme to the 50s film, Blackboard Jungle. As those were my formative years. Or was it a purpose more devious? If you must know, there were at that time new arrivals, “bundles of joy,” in my comfy little home. Cute but smelly. And I suspect it would have been helpful to Mom if the active seven-year-old, once accustomed to being an only child, were now occupied! Anyway, there’s nothing devious in the evidence. And the only clear and legitimate reason was a case of well-intentioned parents attempting to reinforce a respected vocation. Know for sure, at that time I had already

a hoarder or collector, I knew of the attraction. The stimulation that spurs today’s buyer of vinyls has been rediscovered! Seventy-eights and the new vinyl 33s are alarmingly seductive and coy in their ability to and deliver the sensual pleasures. To experience the healing power of music to its fullest requires conscious and deliberate preparation before play. Think for a moment of how the act begins by holding and touching the recording carefully by its smooth edges, using just the tips of your fingers. The disc is carefully placed on the turntable, noting with care the placement of the record’s center opening and the insertion of turntable’s center spindle, tall or short it remains the sine qua non of the preparation that’s needed to enhance the final event. And then it’s time to make the relationship complete. The needle or stylus descends slowly and deliberately into the rotating groove. That’s it! It’s the conscious and deliberate actions and considerations before play that enhance healing and the ultimate pleasure. New listeners have discovered what the select few knew in the beginning. The aural pleasure of fine music is enhanced by the sensual processes of seeing and touching the record, after removing its cover, to lay it flat on a prepared turntable. It’s just another way of knowing “the healing power of music.”

M O NTGO ME R Y - DI N I N G & S H O P P I N G

Bluegass Band to Enthrall at Thrall The R. J. Storm and Old School band seeks to entertain and give the audience Bluegrass Band creates an experience that they a refreshing musical can take home and experience for all to recount at the supper enjoy. Bringing together table. R. J. says, “there tasteful instrumental is no greater honor then musicianship, rich to know that you have harmonies and an put on a great show and energetic stage presence, that, with the audience, you can tell they enjoy you have made lasting Left to right: R.J., Steve & Pete playing great music in their own unique and memories that will be talked about tomorrow.” innovative Bluegrass style. Weaving together They have appeared with artists such as Pete the steady rhythm of the guitar (Pete Prieto) Seeger, Tom Chapin and many others. along with both classic and bluesy-melodic Enjoy energetic, artistic, and engaging style banjo picking (R. J. Storm), supported bluegrass music at Thrall Library, 11-19 Depot by the big sound of the double bass (Steve Street, Middletown, when the R.J. Storm Taylor) and classic old time fiddle work & Old School Bluegrass Band perform on (Ambrose Verdibello) the vocals sail out at September 25, from 2:00pm-4:00pm. the audience and the story of each and every Free and open to the public, the concert will song grips you. be held in the community meeting room on the Drawing from good old Lester and Earl, as second floor of the library. well as the worlds of blues, jazz, and rock, the For information, call 845-341-5454. September 2016

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Lectures - master classes - demos

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

Pond Explorers �� PEEC Aug 27, 10am FORUM “The Preservation Forum & Conference “The Catskills - Miami Beach Connection” �� Liberty Museum & Art Center, Aug 28, 10am-7pm “Selling on eBay” Rick Feingold ��Thrall Library, Middletown, Aug 29, 6pm The Brooklyn Time Machine doo-wop �� Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Sep 4, 3pm “Presidents on Film” Ernest Giglio �� MSM-DC Sep 6, 6:30pm “Finding Immigration and Naturalization Records” Mary Colbert ��MSM-DC Sep 7, 1pm “On Growing Garlic” CCE Master Gardener ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Sep 8, 6pm “What is Islam?” R. Hosein �� MSM-DC Sep 8, 6:30pm “Staging Tips for Selling Your Home” Claudia Jacobs ��MSM-DC Sep 9, 1pm “History of Ellis Island” Jeffrey Dosik ��MSM-DC Sep 9, 2pm “Estate Planning with a Heart-The Family Love Letter” Jane McCarthy �� MSM-DC Sep 10, 10am FREE Neversink History Afternoon ��Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Sep 10, 1pm “The Art of Validation” Jennifer Circosta �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Sep 10, 1pm Creative Conversations DISCUSSION �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Sep 10, 2pm “Fungus Among Us” �� PEEC Sep 11, 10am “Fairy Tale 101: What Every Grandparent Needs to Know” Joan Monk MSM-DC Sep. 12, 11am Safe Harbors of the Hudson TOUR �� Safe Harbors/Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Sep 13, 9am Meet the 2016 Alice Curtis Desmond Award Winner Kimberly Sabatini ��MSM-DC Sep 13, 10am “Zoonotic Diseases: When Animal Diseases Spill Over to Humans” John Albarino �� MSM-DC Sep. 13, 6:30pm “Building a Strong Immune System” Richard Huntoon ��MSM-DC Sep 14, 1pm FREE “Adding Raw Food to your Diet” Johanna Sophia �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Sep 14, 6pm “The Erie Railroad and the Graham Line” Bob McCue �� Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, Sep 14, 7pm DISCUSSION “Climate Geopolitics” ��Cornwall Library, Sep 14, 7pm “The Peace & Freedom Beyond Complaining” Cary Bayer ��MSM-DC Sep 15, 10am “Fall Warblers” �� PEEC Sep 17, 8am Park History TOURS ��PEEC Sep 18, 9am-4pm “Learn How to Live in Abundant Health” Toni-Jean Kulpinski ��MSM-DC Sep 19, 1pm “Four Perfect Pebbles, My Holocaust Story -- A Message of Perseverance, Determination, Faith and Hope” Marion Blumenthal Lazan SUNYO-RCSE Sep 20, 11am “Mysterious Hudson Valley Stone Sites” Linda Zimmerman Thrall Library, Middletown, Sep 20, 6pm “John James Audubon and The Birds of America: - Nationalism and the Roots of Conservation in the Early Republic Kerry Dean Carso SUNYO-OH Sep 21, 7pm Character Day Jean Monk ��MSM-DC Sep 22, 3:30 FREE “FDR and the Post Office” Anthony Musso ��MSM-DC Sep 26, 10am “Teshuvah-Spiritual Renewal at the High Holidays” Sharon Rosen ��MSM-DC Sep 26, 1pm “In Liberty: Justice for All” NACL & Bethel Woods ��Downtown Barn, Liberty, Sep 26, 6pm-9pm “Fozes, Coyotes & Bears, Oh My & In My Backyard” ��Cornwall Library, Sep 27, 6pm “The Changing Ecology of the Hudson River Flyway” Tom Lake ��SUNYO-OH Sep 27, 7pm SCIENCE CAFE “Gene Editing” Evan Merkhofer �� La Casa Vicina, New Windsor, Sep 28, 7:15pm FEE “Genealogy & Researching Your Family History” Gordon MacAdam �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Sep 29, 6pm Readers & Writers Festival �� Milford, Sep 30-Oct 2 Master Classes THEATRE: “The Greatest Tool: Your Imagination” Carlo Adinolfi ��SUNYO-OH Sep 19, 1pm Paint birds? Paint gesture. ~ a master class on painting birds in oil Joseph Sundwall �� SUNYO-OH Sep 28, 6:30pm “Music as my Life’s Work” Andrew Ranaudo, pianist �� SUNYO-OH Oct 3, 10am demos Cooking Demo Johnny Ciao ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Sep 22, 6pm

You’re Invited! - Surreal Masquerade Party

Everyone needs a break from reality and the Surreal Masquerade Party is the ideal antidote! Don’t be afraid to step out of character, throw on a different hat, maybe slip on a mask, or transform with an outrageous costume. The evening will be full of the unexpected. Pop-up performances of dance and music, tarot card readings, surreal games, and of course, a Graveyard Salon, take place on September 17, from 7:00pm-10:00pm at the Seligmann 14

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Center, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. Last year was a success and this year promises to be even more so as once again Kurt Seligmann is honored. A leading Surrealist artist of the 20th Century, Kurt grew up in Basel, Switzerland where the country’s largest Fasnacht (carnival) celebration occurs. Many scholars believe the mysterious figures in his paintings are a reflection of this annual tradition. Call 845-469-9459 for more info.

September 2016

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock

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Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Irish Night Celtic �� Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 27, 7pm FREE Gavin DeGraw, Andy Grammer & Aaron Tveit ��Bethel Woods, Aug 28, 7pm Acoustic Companion country, rockabilly, folk Bandstand, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Aug 30, 7pm FREE Slam Allen ��Rock Hill Farmers Market Park, Aug 31, 6:30pm FREE Johnny Nicholas & Hellbent w/Cindy Cashdollar root, blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 1, 7pm Soñando! Latin dance �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 2, 7pm Rhythms Rising ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 2, 7pm The Vine Brothers ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sep 2, 8pm Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams roots, rock, Bill Buttner �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 3, 7pm Natalie Forteza jazz, pop ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 3, 7pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 4, 10am-2pm The Brooklyn Time Machine doo-wop ��Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Sep 4, 3pm Dan Bern roots, rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 7, 7pm Jay Stollman Band w/Matt Schofield blues, rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 8, 7pm Slam Allen’s Birthday Party blues, Tom “THE SUIT” Forst & Band �� The Falcon, Sep 9, 7pm Petey Hop & Friends ��The Falcon Underground, Sep 9, 7pm Joe Planck and Steve Agostini �� Seven Freedoms Acoustic Cafe, Montgomery, Sep 10, 2pm FREE Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 10, 7pm Dylan Doyle Band blues ��The Falcon Underground, Sep 10, 7pm Heartwood world-fusion, Hudson Valley Folk Guild �� Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, Sep 10, 7:30pm Don Henley �� Bethel Woods, Sep 10, 8pm The Blues Farm blues harmonica ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 11, 10am-2pm Connor Kennedy & Minstrel roots, rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 15, 7pm New Swing Sextet Boricua dance �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 16, 7pm Breakneck Annie.......................................... Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, Sep 17, 7pm Hudson Valley Bluegrass Express, JB Bones Americana Phillpsport Community Center, Sep 17, 7pm John Tropea Band jazz, blues, fusion �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 17, 7pm The Trapps roots, rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 17, 7pm Sultans of the String Celtic, world, Gypsy, etc. Kindred Spirits Arts Milford Theatre, Sep 17, 7:30pm Willa McCarthy Band blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 18, 10am-2pm Petey Hop host, roots & blues sessions �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 21, 7pm Chris O’Leary Band blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 24, 7pm John Waite & the Axeman w/Leslie Dinicola �� Bethel Woods Sep 24, 7pm Wolf Critton rock, blues �� Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Sep 24, 8pm RJ Storm & Old School Bluegrass Band �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Sep 25, 2pm FREE Too Human jazz, blues, pop, r&b ��Newburgh Library, Sep 25, 3pm FREE Sylvia Tyson (of Ian & Sylvia) & Scarlet Rivera folk, rock violin The Falcon, MarlboroSep 25, 7pm Choban Elektrik; OrnâmatiK: Max’s New Hat Balkan Dance � The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 29, 7pm Maria Muldaur, “The Inimitable!” �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 30, 7pm “The McCartney Years” �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Oct 1, 8pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano ��Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Lillie Howard & Company jazz �� Billy Joe’s Ribworks, Newburgh, Wednesdays, 8pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Albi Beluli ��Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Thursdays, 9pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals � Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk ��WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Don Lowe �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 2, 7:30pm David Walton Band ��The Arnold House Barn, Livingston Manor, Sep 2, 8pm Hudson Valley Grape Jam ��Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Sep 3 & 4, 2pm-10pm Alice Leon ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 5, 2pm-5pm Songwriter Sessions open mic ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 7, 7pm Old Friends �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 9, 7:30pm-10:30pm Groovy Tuesday �� Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Sep 10, 7pm-10pm FREE Jim Hays Band ��Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Sep 11, 2pm-5pm New Hope Community Open Mic �� Frankie & Johnnie’s, Hurleyville, Sep 12, 6pm Rob Schiff �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 16, 7:30pm-10:30pm Songwriters Anonymous open mic ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, Sep 17, 2pm Stone Flower Santana Tribute �� Palaia Winery Outside, Highland Mills, Sep 17, 2pm-5pm FREE Evan Teatum & Alan Battiato �� Palaia Winery Outside, Highland Mills, Sep 18, 2pm-5pm Gregg VanGelder Duo �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 23, 7:30pm-10:30pm Hurley Mountain Highway ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 24, 7:30pm-10:30pm FREE Whitney Road Band �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 30, 7:30pm-10:30pm

Area Chorales Want YOU!

Born to Sing? Not sure? Now’s your chance! Area chorales are now preparing for Holiday concerts. Why not join one in your area? It’s fun and rewarding and spiritually uplifting! Don’t be shy!

Google for information: Classic Choral Society (Blooming Grove) Delaware Valley Choral Society (Milford) Middletown Concert Chorale Sullivan County Community Chorus Warwick Valley Chorale

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

Goshen Art Walk �� Goshen, Sep 2, 6:30pm-10pm Second Saturday ��Sugar Loaf, Sep 10, 5pm-8pm Newburgh Last Saturday ��Newburgh, Sep 24, 4pm-8pm Newburgh Open Studio Tour �� Sep 24 & 25

cabaret

The Brooklyn Time Machine doo-wop ��Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Sep 4, 3pm Lee Lessack & Johnny Rodgers “Live in Central Park (Revisited) - Simon & Garfunkel” �� Bradstan Cabaret Series Bethel Woods, Sep 17, 8pm Nicholas Rodriguez “That Seventies Show” �� Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 15, 8:30pm Patti Greco Sunshine ��Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 17, 8pm Wigsticks “DTOUR Drag Show” �� Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 24, 7:30pm

cinema

“The Guys” Sigourney Weaver, Anthony LaPaglia, discussion w/George Burke �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Sep 9, 9:30am “Peace, Love and Misunderstanding” ��Phillipsport Community Center, Sep 10, 7pm FREE “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” ��Cornwall Library, Sep 11, 1pm FREE Adult Independent Film Night ��Greenwood Lake Library, Sep 13, 7pm FREE “Dirty Dancing” ��Cornwall Library, Sep 14, Noon FREE Big Eddy Film Festival ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Sep 16-18 “Unity” ��Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Sep 19, 7:30pm & Sep 21, 2pm “Captain America - Civil War” Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr �� Newburgh Library, Sep 19, 6pm FREE “Woman of the Year” Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn ��Thrall Library, Sep 21, 3pm FREE “Canonization” documentary/discussion w/George Burke �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Sep 22, 9:30am Manhattan Short Film Festival �� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Sep 24, 7pm “Poster Girl” discussion w/VET2VET’s, Everett Cox Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Sep 29, 7:30pm “Chimes at Midnight” dir. Orson Welles.............. CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Oct 1, 7:30pm

comedy - Burlesque

The Slipper Room burlesque, acrobatics & variety �� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Sep 3, 8:30pm Harris Stanton, Petey Deabreu, Rich Kiamco The Laugh Tour The Heron, Narrowsburg, Sep 4, 8pm Ryan Paevey & Wil Devry �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Sep 9, 8pm Talent the Comedian, AJ Johnson �� Holiday Inn, Middletown, Sep 10, 10:30pm Jeff Duncan ventriloquist, “Perfectly Unbalanced” ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Sep 17, 5pm Billy Garan, John Iavarone �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Sep 17, 9pm Brad Lowry, Adrienne Tapalucci �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Sep 24, 9pm Teddy Smith �� Joker’s Comedy Club, Chester, Oct 1, 9pm

festivals & Fairs

Rosehaven Alpaca Festival �� Bethel Woods, Sep 4, 11am-4pm Sons of Norway Bernt Balchen Lodge Craft Fair � Lackawaxen Fire House, Sep 10, 10am-3pm FREE General Montgomery Day ��Downtown Montgomery, Sep 10 Harvest Festival �� Bethel Woods, Sep 11, 18 & 25, 11am-4pm Big Eddy Film Festival ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Sep 16-18 Moon Festival China Arts ��Pavilion, Mount Hope Park, Sep 17, 5pm-8pm FREE Orange County Music & Arts Festival Orange County Arts Council �� Orange County Choppers Cafe, Newburgh, Sep 18, 1pm-5pm Town of Deerpark Annual Open House hat exhibit, one-act play, drum & fife corps, etc. �� Deerpark Museum & Grange, Huguenot, Sep 18, 11am-4pm Harvest Festival �� Palaia Winery Outside, Highland Mills, Sep 24, Noon-6pm Milford Readers & Writers Festival ��Milford, Sep 30-Oct 2

fundraisers

Fullerton Cultural Center Crafters Showcase and Sale, book exchange, Mansion tours, etc. �� Fullerton Mansion, Newburgh, Aug 27, 11am-5pm Westchester Medical Center Children’s Hospital Hudson Valley Grape Jam Music Festival �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Sep 3, & 4, 2pm-10pm WJFF Foodstock �� Villa Roma Golf Clubhouse, Callicoon, Sep 24, 11am-3pm Zylophone Kids multiple bands �� Palaia Winery Outside, Highland Mills, Sep 25, 1pm-5:30pm Orange County Cancer Services Program YWCA’s BRAzaar brazART �� Newburgh Brewery, Sep 29, 5:30pm

museums Museum listings are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Woodstock Festival History ��Museum at Bethel Woods, ongoing “Black Diamonds and the D&H Canal” ��Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, ongoing “History of the Lenape Native Americans” ��Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum ��Ellenville, ongoing “Tunnels, Toil and Trouble: New York City’s Quest for Water” and “Rondout-Neversink Story & Water and the Valleys” Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours ��Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing Knife Making History ��Wawarsing Knife Museum, Napanoch “Unpacked & Rediscovered “ ��Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, ongoing “The Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts” ��Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug 31 “Borscht Belt”, “Early Sullivan County” �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, thru Dec

“This Way to the Ferry” ��Crawford House Museum, Newburgh, thru Dec 31 Civil War Re-enactments ��Museum Village, Monroe, Sep 3 & 4 Community Appreciation Day tours, music, ice-cream social �Grey Towers, Milford, Sep 24, FREE

Music - band

West Point Band Labor Day Celebration �� Trophy Point Amph. West Point, Sep 3, 7:30pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ��Town of Crawford Park, Sep 11, 2pm FREE

Music - Classical - Indian

Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players ��Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 27, 8pm Peter Kolesar guitar, Music of Spain �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Sep 3, 4pm Reiko Futing piano & Nani Futing mezzo-soprano, Queen of the Hudson series �� Atlas Studios, Newburgh, Sep 3, 7pm Jay Gandhi bansuri, Amit Kavthekar tabla ��Shanti Mandir, Walden, Sep 4, 4pm Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra inaugural concerts ��Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Sep 10, 7pm & Liberty Museum and Arts Center, Sep 11, 3pm The Manhattan Chamber Players ��Pacem in Terris, Warwick, Sep 11, 5pm Hermitage Piano Trio Shandelee Music Festival �� Bethel Woods, Sep 15, 8pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Mt. St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh Sep 17, 7:30pm The Serenade Orchestra ��Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Sep 25, 2pm Karine Poghosyan piano, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music series �� Senior Center, Montgomery, Sep 25, 3pm FREE “Embrace” Cristiana Pegoraro classical piano & Danilo Rea jazz piano �� Shandelee Music Festival Bethel Woods, Sep 29, 8pm Andrew Ranaudo piano “Music of Three Centuries” ��SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Oct 1, 8pm

music - jazz

Live Jazz Brunch with The Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, Noon Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Liberty Jazz Festival �� Liberty Museum & Art Center, Aug 27, 7pm Alan Brodbent & Sheila Jordan ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 28, 7pm Brian Kasten Trio ��Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Sep 10, 7:30pm FREE OC/DC ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 4, 7pm Dave Stryker’s Eight-Track ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 11, 7pm 09/14 Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground: Host, Doug Weiss Joe Pass Quartet Music of Oscar Peterson �� Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, Sep 18, 3pm Paul McCandless + Charged Particles ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 18, 7pm “Embrace” Cristiana Pegoraro classical piano & Danilo Rea jazz piano, Shandelee Music Festival �� Bethel Woods, Sep 29, 8pm

poetry

Milkweed Poetry ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 6:30pm Margaret McCarthy “A Vision and a Verse” photography & poetry exhibit �� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, thru Oct 8 Barbara Adams, James Cotter �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Sep 1, 7pm Ken van Rensselear ��Bears & Cubs Bagel Den, Wurtsboro, Sep 11, 6pm FREE Ernie Sherman ��Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery, Sep 13, 7pm FREE Liberty Poetry Festival �� Liberty Museum & Art Center, Sep 24, 2pm Hudson Valley Poets ��Karpeles Museum, Sep 24, 2pm Magdalen Radovich Poetry at the Church ��Goshen Methodist Church, Sep 26, 7pm FREE Poet Gold’s “POELODIES” poetry, music �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 28, 7pm Hudson River Poets �� Newburgh Library, Sep 29, 7pm FREE Sharon Lewis, Hayden Wayne �� Clearwater Gallery, Jones Farm, Cornwall, Sep 30, 7pm

recreation, Dancing

Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra ��Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing (Ballroom) �� MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 7:30pm, Dance 8pm Surreal Masquerade music, dance, performance, etc. �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Sep 17, 7pm

storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “School Days” ��Florida Library, Sep 8, 7:30pm FREE Storytelling Cafe ��Florida Library, Sep 23, 7pm FREE

theatre - MusicalS

“8-Track: The Sound of the 70s” ��Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, thru Sep 11 “The Producers” by Mel Brooks, Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Museum Village Playhouse, Monroe, Sep 10-25 “Fame - The Musical” music by Steve Margoshes ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Sep 23, 8pm

theatre - plays

“To Kill a Mockingbird” �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 30-Sep 4 “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop �� Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Sep 9-18 “Re-release Party” (The Golden Record) ��NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Sep 10, 7:30pm “Murder at the Sock Hop” The Killing Kompany, dinner-theatre ��West Point Club, Sep 16, 8pm “God of Carnage”by Yasmina Reza �� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Sep 16-Oct 2 “Talley’s Folly” by Lanford Wilson, Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Goshen Music Hall, Sep 17-Oct 2 “The Chroma Key” ��NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Sep 24, 7:30pm “A View From the Bridge” by Arthur Miller, Young Vic Theatre Live in HD �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Sep 26, 7:15pm September 2016

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

septemb 7FREE ��Seven Freedoms Record Store & Music Cafe, Montgomery BW ��Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS CAS Arts Center �� Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor CTMW Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe DCAT �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel DEAD �� Dead End Cafe, Parksville

MONDAY

Please check the schedule for Art & Photography Receptions, page 18

Poetry Bill Fellenberg Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

TUESDAY

DOWN �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh DVAA �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro FAL-U ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro FP ��Forestburgh Playhouse FT �� Forestburgh Tavern

WEDNESDAY

Theatre - Play’ “To Kill a Mockingbird” FP 2pm & 8pm

Theatre - Play’ “To Kill a Mockingbird” FP 8pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Music - Roots-Rock Dan Bern FAL 7pm

13 Cinema Adult Independent Film Night Greenwood Lake Library, 7pm Poetry Ermie Sherman MONTBK 7pm

Cinema “Captain America -Civil War” NFL 6pm

Music - Roots-Blues.......Johnny Nicholas & Hellbent ..........FAL 7pm Poetry.................Barbara Adams, James Cotter.............. NOBL 8pm Theatre - Play.......... “To Kill a Mockingbird”......................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical.....“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 8pm Music...................................Albi Beluli............................... DCAT 9pm

Cinema “Dirty Dancing” Cornwall Library, Noon

Music - Roots-Rock..... Jay Stollman Band ...........................FAL 7pm Storytelling.....Black Dirt Storytelling Guild...Florida Library, 7:30pm Theatre - Musical.....“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 8pm Music...................................Albi Beluli............................... DCAT 9pm

Music - Roots-Rock.......Connor Kennedy & Minstrel ..........FAL 7pm Music - Classical........ Hermitage Piano Trio.......................... BW 8pm

Cabaret.........Nicholas Rodriguez “That 70s Show”.........FT 8:30pm Music...................................Albi Beluli............................... DCAT 9pm “Harness Racing Museum, Goshen” by Bruce Young. Goshen Art League exhibit, see page 8.

Music Jazz Sessions w/Doug Weiss FAL-U 7pm

Cinema “Unity” DOWN 2pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

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Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio.Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

Cinema “Woman of the Year” THRALL 3pm

Cinema “Unity” DOWN 7:30pm

THURSDAY

7 Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm

“Saint Acisclus” by Pedro de Mena. Enjoy viewing Spanish art while listening to 480 year old Spanish guitar music by Peter Kolesar on September 3, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, at the Artists’ Market Community Center, 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola, PA. See page 7.

GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Senior Center, Montg GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Goshen Mus IKE ��Eisenhower Hall, West JOKER ��Joker’s Comedy Club, C LMAC �� Liberty Museum & Art C LUMB �� Lumberland Town Hall, Glen

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22 Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm Music...................................Albi Beluli............................... DCAT 9pm

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Music Roots & Blues Sessions w/ Petey Hop FAL-U 7pm

Poetry Magdalen Radovich Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Theatre Live in HD “A View from the Bridge” DOWN 7:15pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Poetry-Music “Poelodies” FAL 7pm

September 2016

Fundraiser......YWCA’s BRAzaar brazART......Newburgh Brewery, 5:30pm

Poetry............. Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Music - Balkan.Choban Elektrik; OrnâmatiK: Max’s New Hat.FAL 7pm Cinema................... VET2VET’s “Poster Girl”.............DOWN 7:30pm Music -Classlcal-Jazz....Cristiana Pegoraro & Danilo Rea... BW 8pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm Music...................................Albi Beluli............................... DCAT 9pm

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MONTBK ��Montgomery Book Exchange MSM-AQ �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh NACL ��NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NESIN �� Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, Monticello NFL �� Newburgh Free Library NOBL �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

FRIDAY

NVM �� Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville PACEM ��Pacem In Terris, Warwick PHILL ��Phillipsport Community Center PWO ��Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills RIV Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop” �� Rivoli Theater, So.Fallsburg RITZ ��Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh

SATURDAY

Fundraiser...... HV Grape Jam Music Festival...... PWO 2pm-10pm Music -Classical...Peter Kolesar guitar.Artists’ Market..Shohola, 4pm ............Rhythms Rising........................FAL-U 7pm Music - Classical....Reiku Futing & Nani Futing...............ATLAS 7pm e................Sonando!................................FAL 7pm Music - Root-Rock.Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Bill Buttner.FAL 7pm ..........The Vine Brothers...................... DCAT 8pm Music - Jazz-Pop.............Natalie Forteza ..........................FAL-U 7pm ... “To Kill a Mockingbird”......................... FP 8pm Music...West Point Band Labor Day Celebration.. TROPHY 7:30pm ..“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play.......... “To Kill a Mockingbird”......................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical.....“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 8pm Burlesque................The Slipper Room..........................NACL 8:30pm

lam Allen, Tom Forst & Band..................FAL 7pm ......Petey Hop & Friends .....................FAL-U 7pm

Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged”.RIV 8pm

..“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 8pm ..Ryan Paevey & Wil Devry................ JOKER 8pm

.. ....Big Eddy Film Festival............................TUST ua..........New Swing Sextet ......................FAL 7pm ....... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 8pm ........ “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm

Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged”.RIV 8pm

”Murder at the Sock Hop”...West Point Club, 8pm

......... Storytelling Cafe........... Florida Library, 7pm .......... “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 7pm ........ “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm ....... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 8pm ... ....“Fame - The Musical”....................... IKE 8pm

........... Maria Muldaur................................FAL 7pm

HaydenWayne.Clearwater Gallery-Jones Farm, Cornwall, 7pm

.......... “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 7pm ........ “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm

Festival....General Montgomery Day.................. Montgomery Festival.....Norwegian Craft Fair..Lackawaxen Firehouse, 10am-3pm Music................. Joe Planck and Steve Agostini............ 7FREE 2pm Cinema.........“Peace, Love and Misunderstanding” ...... PHILL 7pm Music - Classical..Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra.. NESIN 7pm Music - Blues..........Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis .....................FAL 7pm Music - Blues................ Dylan Doyle Band........................FAL-U 7pm Music - World Fusion.......... Heartwood........................... UUC 7:30pm Music - Jazz.Brian Kasten Trio.Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, 7:30pm Theatre-Play.“Re-release Party (The Golden Record).NACL 7:30pm Music................................. Don Henley.................................. BW 8pm Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Musical.....“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play.The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged”.RIV 8pm

Cinema....... ....Big Eddy Film Festival............................TUST Theatre - Play... “God of Carnage”.............SHAD 2pm & 8pm Comedy........ Jeff Duncan “Perfectly Unbalanced”............. IKE 5pm Festival.............Chinese Moon Festival......Mt. Hope Park, 5pm-8pm Music - Americana...HV Bluegrass Express, JB Bones.... PHILL 7pm Music - Jazz-Blues.......John Tropea Band ..........................FAL 7pm Music - Roots-Rock............The Trapps .............................FAL-U 7pm Theatre - Play................. “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 7pm Recreation.................. Surreal Masquerade.................... SLGMN 7pm Music.............................Breakneck Annie........................... NVM 7pm Music - Classical Greater Newburgh Symph. Orch. ...MSM-AQ 7:30pm Music - Folk.................Music for Humanity.................. NOBL 7:30pm Music - Celtic-world...Sultans of the String....Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Cabaret........... ....Lee Lessack & Johnny Rodgers............... BW 8pm Cabaret...................... Patti Greco Sunshine ...........................FT 8pm Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 8pm

SHAD ��Shadowland Stages, Ellenville SLGMN ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TROPHY �� Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point TUST ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg UUC ��Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern

SUNDAY

Music - Blues...Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis .......... FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Festival................. Rosehaven Alpaca Festival........... BW 11am-4pm Theatre - Musical.....“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 2pm Fundraiser.......... HV Grape Jam Music Festival...... PWO 2pm-10pm Music - DooWop.......The Brooklyn Time Machine............ DEAD 3pm Theatre - Play.......... “To Kill a Mockingbird”......................... FP 3pm Music - Indian..Bansuri & Tabla concert.Shanti Mandir, Walden, 4pm Music - Jazz............................OC/DC......................................FAL 7pm Comedy................The Laugh Tour......The Heron, Narrowsburg, 8pm

Music - Blues........ The Blues Farm harmonica ......... FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Festival...........................Harvest Festival.................... BW 11am-4pm Cinema...........”Me, Earl & the Dying Girl.........Cornwall Library, 1pm Theatre - Play.The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged”.RIV 2pm

Theatre - Musical.....“8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s”.... SHAD 2pm Music - Classical..Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra... LMAC 3pm Music....Pine Bush Community Band...Town of Crawford Park, 3pm Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 3pm Music - Classical.....The Manhattan Chamber Players... PACEM 5pm Music - Jazz...........Dave Stryker’s Eight-Track ....................FAL 7pm

Music - Blues............. Willa McCarthy Band ............. FAL 10am-2pm Cinema................... ....Big Eddy Film Festival............................TUST Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Festival......Open House......Deerpark Museum, Huguenot, 11am-4pm Festival...........................Harvest Festival.................... BW 11am-4pm Festival.OC Music & Arts..OC Choppers Cafe,Newburgh,...1pm-5pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play................. “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play.The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged”.RIV 2pm

Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 3pm Music - Jazz.....Joe Pass Quartet plays Oscar Peterson.LUMB 3pm Poetry..Ken Van Rensselear...Bears & Cubs Bagels, Wurtsboro, 6pm Music - Jazz.......Paul McCandless + Charged Particles ....FAL 7pm

Theatre - Play.The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkpr, Abridged”.RIV 8pm

Comedy.................Billy Garan, John Iavarone............... JOKER 9pm

Fundraiser.WJFF Foodstock.Villa Roma, Callicoon,11am-3pm Festival................Harvest Festival............... PWO - Noon-6pm Poetry....................... Liberty Poetry Festival.................... LMAC 2pm Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”.......... CTMW 2pm & 8pm Theatre - Play................. “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 7pm Cinema...............Manhattan Short Film Festival..... SUNYO-KH 7pm Music - Folk............Music Appreciation Night.................... NVM 7pm Music...... John Waite & the Axeman w/Leslie Dinicola....... BW 7pm Music - Blues...............Chris O’Leary Band ........................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play................. “The Chroma Key”..................NACL 7:30pm Cabaret............. Wigsticks “DTOUR Drag Show”..............FT 7:30pm Music -Rock-Blues............ Wolf Critton............................... RITZ 8pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm Comedy.............Brad Lowry, Adrienne Iapalucci........... JOKER 9pm Theatre - Play............. “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 7pm Cinema....... “Chimes at Midnight”....CAS Laundry King 7:30pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 8pm Music - Classical...... Andrew Ranaudo piano..........SUNYO-OH 8pm Music....................... “The McCartney Years”........................ IKE 8pm Comedy.............................Teddy Smith...........................JOKER 9pm

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Festival...........................Harvest Festival.................... BW 11am-4pm Fundraiser.........Zylophone Kids multiple bands.PWO 1pm-5:30pm Theatre - Play................. “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 2pm Music - Bluegrass........RJ Storm & Bluegrass Band.....THRALL 2pm Music - Classical...The Serenade Orchestra..Storm King Art Ctr. 2pm Music - Classical..... Karine Poghosyan piano..................GMCM 3pm Music - Jazz-Blues-Pop-R&B......Too Human......................... NFL 3pm Theatre - Musical......... ....“The Producers”......................CTMW 3pm Music.... Sylvia Tyson (of Ian & Sylvia) & Scarlet Rivera ....FAL 7pm

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Theatre - Play................. “Talley’s Folly”.......................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play............... “God of Carnage”........................ SHAD 2pm

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Art exhibits

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

Group Show �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ��Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Lisa Strazza paintings, John Strazza photographs �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Beth Heit assemblages “what we hold close / what we let go” ��CAS thru Aug 28 Donald Keefe “The Inauspicious Present”, Sarah Tortora “Ascendants” ��CAS thru Aug 28 “Garbage! Junk! Trash! Art!!!” ��Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, thru Aug 28 Dona McPhillips Couch “U.S. History in Portraiture” �� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug 31 Jinwon Chang “Hweh Geeh” �� St. John’s Episcopal Church & MISU, Ellenville, thru Sep 4 Julius Valiunas “Artifacts From The Future” ��Nutshell Art Center, Lake Huntington, thru Sep 4 “Portraits / Human and Others” group show, and Steve Duffy & Gary Schroder �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, thru Sep 4 Sara J. Winston “Worn Out Joy” & Ani Katz “Folios” �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, thru Sep 4 Rosalind Hodgkins, June Ponte & group show ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Sep 5 Marie Liu ��Delaware Water Gap, Dingmans Falls Visitor Center, thru Sep 5 Mark Philip Stone “Surreal to Sublime” drawings, pastels, sculpture, collage, block cuts, etc. �� Blackfeather Retreat Studio Art Gallery, Westbrookville, thru Sep 5 Gita Nadas & Linda Rahl Nadas paintings & ceramics ��Space Create, Newburgh, thru Sep 9 “Floral” group show ��WRS thru Sep 14 “The Artist Who Never Was: Vernon Hart” ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Sep 18 Group show & Leonard “Buzz” Wallace drawings ��UpFront, Port Jervis, thru Sep 18 Laurie Kilgore �� Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, thru Sep 18 “End of Summer” Port Jervis Council for the Arts, “Art and About” �� Joseph Petrosi pencil drawings City Hall, Mayor’s Office; Paintings: Debbie Gioello Council Chambers, City Hall; & Susan Miiller Bon Secours Cafeteria; & Joan Kehlenbeck, Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, thru Sep 21 “Colleagues: Hidden Talents 2016” ��SUNYO-OH thru Oct 1 Cristina Biaggi sculptor, “Artists of Excellence” series ��SUNYO-KH thru Oct 14 “BIRDS: Enduring Feathered Creatures” ��SUNYO-OH thru Oct 22 Joseph Sundwall “Friends of a Feather” ��SUNYO-OH thru Oct 22 Charles Lang, Alice Sipple “Dialogs” �� Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, thru Dec 30

NEW ART EXHIBITS

“Autumn Expressions” Crawford Arts Assn. ��Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, Aug 31-Sep 29 Rick Parenti & Lana Privitera, Mimi Werner ��WRS Sep 1-30 “New Member’s Exhibit 2016-II” Goshen Art League ��Goshen Music Hall, Sep 1-Oct 31 “The Create Peace Project” art, poetry ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Sep 1-Oct 31 “Fusing the Material World with the Digital World” �� DENiZEN, Barryville, Sep 2-5 Phillip Gabrielli paintings, Matt Nolen sculpture �� DVAA Sep 2-24 Educators Art Show �� LMAC Sep 2-Oct 8 “Visions of Spain” ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, Sep 3-25 Roslyn Fassett paintings & drawings & Linda Rahl Nadas pottery & sculpture, “Once Again” �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Sep 3-25 “Lightness” group show ��Gallery Eva, Callicoon, Sep 3-30 Mike Osterhout & Marianna Rothen, “Adrenaline Honey” �� CAS Sep 3-Oct 10 John Capanna, Al Rosser, Carol Margreither �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Sep 8-Oct 3 Karen E. Gersch “Still Smoldering: Reflections of 9/11” ��Firefighter’s Museum, Montgomery, Sep 10 & 11 “Outside/Inside the Box” group show ��Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Sep 10-Oct 2 “Water” group show �� WRS Sep 15-Oct 15 Country Quilters Guild Quilt Show ��Pine Bush High School, Sep 24 & 25, 10am-4pm Jesse Bransford “Nomina Magica” ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Sep 24-Jan 9 Susan Minier fabric & collages � Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Sep 25-Oct

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Margaret McCarthy “A Vision and a Verse” photography & poetry ��SUNYO-KH thru Oct 6 Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop Camera Club �� Tuxedo Library, thru Oct 7 “Images of the Catskills” & “The Great Resort Hotels” photos & artifacts �� LMAC thru Oct 8 “Newburgh’s Ole Faithful” Tony Moorer, Pedro Bonilla and Kathy Roche �� Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, thru Oct Grey Villet “Rights, Race & Revolutions” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Nancy Hopping nature photography ��Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Sep 1-Oct 27 Nich Hance McElroy “Float Copper” ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Sep 10- Oct 2 18

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Margaret McCarthy & Cristina Biaggi �� SUNYO-KH Aug 27, 4pm-7pm Gita Nadas & Linda Rahl Nadas “Oil and Fire” �� Space Create, Newburgh, Aug 27, 6pm-9pm “Newburgh’s Ole Faithful” �� Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, Aug 27, 6:30pm “The Artist Who Never Was: Vernon Hart” ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Aug 28, 2pm-7pm “Images of the Catskills” & “The Great Resort Hotels” ��LMAC, Aug 28, 5pm Phillip Gabrielli paintings, Matt Nolen sculpture ��DVAA Sep 2, 7pm-9pm Mike Osterhout & Marianna Rothen, “Adrenaline Honey” �CAS Sep 3, talk:3pm, reception: 4pm-6pm “Visions of Spain” ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, Sep 3, 4pm-6pm Rick Parenti & Lana Privitera, Mimi Werner ��WRS Sep 3, 5pm-7pm Nancy Hopping nature photography �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Sep 3, 5pm-7pm “Lightness” group show �� Gallery Eva, Callicoon, Sep 3, 5pm-9pm “New Member’s Exhibit 2016-II” Goshen Art League �� Goshen Music Hall, Sep 3, 7pm-9pm “Outside/Inside the Box” group show �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Sep 10, 4pm-6pm Roslyn Fassett & Linda Rahl Nadas “Once Again” �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Sep 10, 5pm-7pm John Capanna, Al Rosser, Carol Margreither ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, Sep 10, 6pm-9pm Nich Hance McElroy “Float Copper” �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Sep 10, 7pm-9pm “Colleagues: Hidden Talents 2016” ��SUNYO-OH Sep 13, Noon-2pm “BIRDS: Enduring Feathered Creatures” �� SUNYO-OH Sep 16, 5:30pm-7:45pm Joseph Sundwall “Friends of a Feather” �� SUNYO-OH Sep 16, 5:30pm-7:45pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop Camera Club �� Tuxedo Library, Sep 17, 1pm-3pm Jesse Bransford “Nomina Magica” ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Sep 24, 6pm-9pm “The Create Peace Project” art, poetry �� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Sep 24, 3pm-4pm Susan Minier fabrics/collages �� Mt. St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Sep 25, 1pm-3pm “Autumn Expressions” closing reception ��Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, Sep 29, 1pm-4pm

Schools & Conservatories

Budding Artists �� Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing Children’s Art ��WRS Sep 1-30

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 Environmentail Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

books

Teen Poetry Slam/ Open Mic �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Thursdays, 4:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs �� Greenwood Lake Library, Wednesdays, 6pm FREE Friday Family Films �� Liberty Library, Fridays, 1:00pm FREE Saturday Movie �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE “He Named Me Malala” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, Sep 23, 7pm “Smash His Camera” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, Sep 30, 7pm entertainment

“Ferdinand” one-act play ��Tusten Theatre, Aug 27, 11am Roger Bonair-Agard poetry reading, teens & adults ��Bethel Woods, Sep 17, 6pm Museums

Discovery Quests ��HHNM Saturdays & Sundays,10am-4pm “Marvelous Moths” ��HHNM-CoH Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Meet the Animal of the Week ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Storywalk “Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow” by Joyce Sidman �� HHNM ongoing Family Fun Day �� Time and The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, August 28, 2pm FREE Eco-Zone Discovery Room �� PEEC Sep 18, 1pm-4pm recreation & Lectures

Teen Painting Drop-in ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 1pm StoryWalk® Opening Day & Awesome Opossum Debut ages 2-6 ��HHNM CoH Sep 3, Noon-4pm “Monarch Butterfly Tagging & Release!” ages 5 and up ��HHNM Sep 10, 10am “Reading the Forest” w/“Doc” Bayne, ages 5 and up ��HHNM Sep 18, 10am Poetry Trail Opening Celebration student poetry �� HHNM Sep 25. 4pm-6pm

Books: discussions / readings / signings

Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group �� Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Book Discussion Group ��Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm “The Borscht Belt” w/Marisa Scheinfeld �� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Sep 3, 2pm “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi w/Jess Gerson ��Newburgh Library, Sep 7, 7pm “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer ��Cornwall Library, Sep 7, 7pm “Once We Were Brothers” by Ronald H. Balson w/Margaret Gutierrez �� SUNY Orange, Morrison Hall, Middletown, Sep 14, Noon “The Children of Men” by P.D. James ��Cornwall Library, Sep 14, 7pm “Legacy of Mad Sammie; Life and Stories of Sam Phelps, Jr.” by/w/Debbie Phelps �� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Sep 18, 2pm “The Little Paris Bookshop” by Nina George Walk & Talk ��Cornwall Library, Sep 20, 12:30pm “How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World” by Marjorie Priceman �� Cornwall Library, Sep 20, 4:30pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Sep 23, 11;30am “The Forgetting Time” by Sharon Guskin ��Cornwall Library, Sep 24, 7pm “The Railwayman’s Wife” by Ashley Hay w/Patty Sussman �� Newburgh Town Branch Library, Sep 27, 2pm “The Heroic Age of Diving” by/w/Jerry Kuntz ��Newburgh, Library, Sep 28, 7pm

Schubert and Arensky Masterpieces

Katie Hyun, violin

Grace Park, violin Luke Fleming, viola Michael Katz, cello Brook Speltz, cello

by Derek Leet The Manhattan Chamber Players (MCP) is a chamber music collective of New Yorkbased musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Returning to Pacem in Terris after a spectacular concert last September, they’re playing Schubert’s Quintet in C Major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163), his final chamber work, sometimes called the “Cello Quintet” because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. Schubert selected the key of C major in a possible gesture of admiration to Mozart and Beethoven, both of whom wrote string quintets in that key. Schubert’s only full-fledged string quintet, it has been praised as “sublime” and as possessing “bottomless pathos,” and is generally regarded as Schubert’s finest chamber work as well as one of the greatest compositions in all chamber music. For me, any description of the work, no matter

how flattering or positive, is an understatement, as I consider the work to be the ultimate string chamber work, surpassing any Beethoven Trio or Haydn Quartet, any Mozart Quintet, or even Mendelssohn’s Octet, in fact, any other string chamber masterpiece created by any composer. It took Anton Arensky (1861-1906) to discover the secret of how to compose a string quartet with a RUSSIAN feeling, expression, and SOUND! How? With 1 violin, 1 viola and 2 cellos. His Quartet # 2, Op. 35 in A Minor” has a rich and original sound. He imbued it with his own characteristic rhythms and his own lyrical and melodic style that sound like no one else’s. Velvety, mellow, robust and dark! Hear these two wonders of wonders performed by five superb MCP musicians at Pacem In Terris, 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick on September 11 at 5:00pm. Come early and visit the Frederick Franck museum and sculpture garden, and the bookstore, along the beautiful Wawayanda Creek. Bring pillows. For information, visit www.frederickfranck. org or call 845-986-4329.

May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky DEPENDS ON WHAT ‘IS’ IS Remembering Bill Clinton’s lawyerly spin to the grand jury regarding his activities with intern Monica Lewinsky. The scandal came to mind when reading the origin of Irving Berlin’s hugely successful song Everybody’s Doin’ It Now. The title seemed innocuous but the word ‘it’ had taken on ‘horridly suggestive connotations” according to Berlin biographer Laurence Bergreen. “To assert that everybody was doing it was tantamount to claiming that everybody was copulating.” Berlin himself wrote that ‘Everybody’s Doin It’ “had the advantage of being a catchphrase that could apply to almost anything... and the public and newspapers could pick it up and use it.” CALLAS-STENICS Greek-American Soprano Maria Callas was 54 years old when her life ended in 1977. Callas was renowned for her wide vocal range, dramatic portrayals and strong opinions: “I don’t need the money,

dear. I work for art.” “Don’t talk to me about rules. Wherever I stay, I make the goddam rules.” “First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.” HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS David and Victoria Beckham’s artworks are valued at over 33 million dollars. A huge pink heart by Damien Hirst, said to be valued in the six figures, was commissioned by the Beckhams in honor of their youngest child, Harper. Jay-Z and Beyonce’s major league collection includes two Hirst pieces and others by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio (photo right) organized an auction of his art with Christie’s to raise money for the environment. DiCaprio is a known collector of Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Ed Ruscha. A painting called Red Balloon by Banksy sparked a bidding war between Chris Martin and Charlize Theron. Martin outbid Theron and bought the work for $650,000. The average annual salary of a cancer research scientist is $58,958.

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The 5th Annual Big Eddy Film Festival Like the pool of water abusive father and goes in the Delaware River for the gold to provide that inspired it’s name, for her younger brother. the Big Eddy Film The U.S. premiere of Festival (BEFF) flows Dear Director written against the main current, and directed by Marcus providing a thoughtful Lindeen, based on a and entertaining real fan letter written to Kazzrie Jaxen, “Dear Director” viewing experience for Ingmar Bergman that the Catskills, Delaware and Hudson River director Lindeen found while doing research Valleys, and beyond. on unfinished Bergman scripts for a play. Produced by the Delaware Valley Arts Local Jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen, who wrote Alliance, the BEFF aims to advance the the letter 35 years ago after seeing Bergman’s traditional art of storytelling by showing From The Life of the Marionettes, stars as the newest and best independent films from herself in the film. around the world and our own backyard. This The world premiere of Children Will Listen, year, there are a total of seven feature films. written and directed by Dustin Scully, shot in Adding to those features, there are premiere Callicoon. “Children Will Listen is the story of screenings of four diverse narrative short two brothers; one is an acclaimed Broadway films shot in Sullivan County in 2015: actor who is lonely and has no one to share The world premiere of The Renovation his fame with, and the other is an acting written and directed by Brian O’Neill, shot professor, married with children, and jealous in and around Narrowsburg: “A beautifully of his brother’s fame,” said director Scully. subtle slice of small town American life, The 5th annual BEFF will be held sweetly told and exquisitely photographed.” - September 16-18 in the Tusten Theatre, 210 Mark Rifkin, This Week In New York. Bridge Street, Narrowsburg. Tickets for all The world premiere of Barnburner written films are available at the Tusten Theatre Box by Catherine Peters with direction by Chloe office during the festival, 845-252-7576. Aktas. Shot in Jeffersonville, it revolves Visit www.bigeddyfilmfest.com for the around an aspiring female boxer who has an complete schedule.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: GRANTS Arts Mid-Hudson announces the availability of over $100,000 in funds available to support arts-related activities taking place in 2017. Activities may include workshops, exhibits, performances, concerts, festivals, screenings, readings, cultural programming, artist-initiated projects, and hands on arts workshops both in and out of school in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster counties. This is a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and is designed to support community-based arts activities in an effort to make quality arts programming available and to support local cultural expression. There are three distinct grant programs: Project Grants support arts and cultural activities of non-profit organizations, community groups and individual artists, including work in theater, dance, music, film, video, literature, visual arts, traditional arts, historical and cultural activities, as well as the use of libraries and community-based organizations as venues for the arts. Grant requests may range from $500 - $5,000. The Individual Artist Commission is a $2,500 grant towards the creation of new work that engages a particular community in the artist’s creative process.

The Arts Learning Grant funds up to $5,000 for sequential, skill-based workshops focused on the arts and artistic process. New: Projects can take place in-school during the school day OR in after-school and community-based settings for groups of any age. Artists, cultural groups and non-profit organizations may apply. Information sessions will be held for potential applicants to gain an understanding of this grant opportunity. All new applicants should plan on attending one. Sessions will be held: September 15, 3:30-5:30pm at: Wallkill River School, Montgomery September 20, 5:30-7:30pm at: Orange County Arts Council, Sugar Loaf September 28, 3:30-5:30pm at: Middletown Thrall Library October 20, 3:00-5:00pm at: Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh For sessions at Ulster and Dutchess locations, contact program director Eve Madalengoitia: grants@artsmidhudson.org or 845-454-3222. The deadline to apply is November 15, 2016. If you are unable to attend any of the sessions, and still wish to apply, contact the Program Director well in advance of the deadline.

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“Float Copper” in Sugar Loaf The photographs in and retreat, veins of Float Copper developed copper have been dug from an artist residency up, carried atop sheets Nich Hance McElroy of ice, and re-deposited had in Lake Superior in masses “floating” in 2014. McElroy had atop the landscape. proposed a project that This “float” or “drift” would document the copper has defined the comings and goings of physical and economic material to and from a landscape of the Photo by Nich Hance McElroy 91 acre island - a sort of photographic audit peninsula, and the first excavation performed that would catalogue the flotsam that washed by glaciers has been amplified by centuries of ashore from the largest body of fresh water mining by Native peoples and settlers. in the world, and track the deliberate arrivals McElroy admits he is not particularly and departures of people from a self-described interested in geology, or in copper, and these remote wilderness environment. Yet over the pictures reflect that ambivalence. However, course of a month’s stay, he began to consider the photographs also reflect McElroy’s interest movement over a longer, and less readily in time, especially as it can be collapsed and perceptible time frame. expanded by photographs. While many of these The island’s shores are annually scoured and pictures were taken in and around Michigan’s chaffed by winter ice-floes, and over centuries, Copper Country, many were not. freak pieces of non-native basalt have hitched Nich Hance McElroy is a photographer rides from the northern end of the lake to its based in Los Angeles. His work has been southern shores. These rare pieces of migratory exhibited and published in North America, black rock are travelers of a different kind, and Europe, and Australia. even a lifetime of careful observation might Float Copper runs from September 10not register their movement. October 2 at Milkweed, 2 & 3 Romer’s Alley, A similar transit has taken place over Sugar Loaf. An opening reception takes place millennia on the adjacent Keweenaw Peninsula. on September 10, from 7:00pm-9:00pm. Through subsequent periods of glacial advance For info: www.milkweedsugarloaf.com

“Still Smoldering: Reflections of 9/11” Karen E. Gersch, an artist living in New York City during the fateful day that was 9/11, saw the collapse from her rooftop and spent the day behind police barricades in lower Manhattan, helping survivors and people fleeing the disaster. She was friends with the fourteen firefighters who lived around the corner from her NYC loft. Only four of the firefighters survived that day. The first painting that Karen created after the tragedy was a tribute to the ten firemen killed and to the valor of all firemen who responded and gave their lives. The painting depicted a small, forlorn child sitting curbside next to a toy fire engine. Beside him on the sidewalk, the shadow of a plane passing overhead. The original canvas was on view in the firehouse for a decade before being taken home by one of the fallen firefighter’s families. Still Smoldering: Reflections of 9/11 will once again grace the walls of the Orange County Firefighters Museum (OCFM), this time on both floors and in the adjacent barn, featuring new, never-exhibited paintings and drawings created after the tragedy.

“Inferno” by Karen E. Gersch

The rest of the artwork on display is diverse and haunting; ranging from acrylics on canvas to oil washes, pastels, collages and pencil renderings. Narratives accompany some of the pieces and a long poem by Gersch entitled, The Living Wind is also on view. The exhibit is on view September 10-11, from 10:00am-6:00pm at the OCFM, 141 Clinton Street, Montgomery. The artist will be on hand both days to discuss her work. Ex-Fire Chief of Montgomery, Jim Ferguson, will also be present to give viewers a tour of the OCFM with its fascinating artifacts, vintage equipment and historical displays. For information, phone 845-457-9654.

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Music & Arts Festival in Newburgh

Welcome Sullivan Chamber Orchestra!

The Orange County and Carl Cox, fine artist Arts Council (OCAC) will Karen E. Gersch and her be holding the county’s first jewelry designer husband Music and Arts Festival at the Jo Dearborn, portrait artist Orange County Choppers Stephen Hoey and many Café, 14 Crossroads Ct. in more. Check out their work, Newburgh on September 18 watch them create and get from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. creative yourself! This action packed festival Many thanks to the will feature Orange County sponsors of this wonderful friends and neighbors who OCAC’s Cody Rounds with a “Pancake event: Guidecraft; Crystal also happen to be talented Portrait” created by Janet Howard Fatta Run Healthcare; Orange musicians and provide and Rockland Utilities; them with an opportunity M&T Bank; PKF O'Connor to perform together. The Davies; Drake Loeb day will also feature an art PLLC; Stewart Shops; garden, featuring many C&S Wholesale Grocers; Orange County artists Catania, Mahon, Milligram and craftspeople doing and Rider, PLLC; Hudson demonstrations, offering Valley Federal Credit Union; creative activities and Mid Hudson Valley Federal Artist David Nolan selling their work. Credit Union and Seven Freedoms Music. The talented musicians performing that Join in the fun and have something to eat day include lawyers, accountants, marketing and drink, stroll the grounds, meet some artists, professionals and healthcare professionals. listen to some great music and spend time with Some of the visual artists you can expect to your talented friends and neighbors! Tickets are meet there include fun and quirky assemblage only $15 per person and can be purchased at artist Dave Nolan, Janet Howard Fatta and www.ocartscouncil.org. Ticket price includes a her pancake portraits, Agrisculpture artist Amy sandwich and non-alcoholic beverage. Lewis, jewelry makers Jennifern Hipperly To learn about how to become an OCAC and Cathe Linton, watercolor artist Linda member, volunteer, or post an event for free, Barboni, photographers Renelle Loray call 845-469-9168 or www.ocartscouncil.org

Thanks to a $10,000 Warlock’s Renaissancematching grant from inspired Capriol Suite. Sullivan County, Nesin The excitement will peak Cultural Arts (NCA) with the pyrotechnical will administer the Carmen Fantasy, Pablo establishment of the first Sarastate’s masterpiece Sullivan County Chamber based on themes from Orchestra (SCCO). The Akiko Hosoi & Andrew Trombley Bizet’s opera. It features time necessary to create violinist Lydia Hong, the orchestra will be donated by Principal Second Violin of the New NCA faculty and co-founders of the York City Ballet Orchestra. Hong is Aspiring Young Musicians program a 2009 Juilliard grad who studied and coordinators for the NCA under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman Summer Music Academy. and has soloed with the Chicago The Artistic Director is Principal Symphony Orchestra. Bassist Andrew Trombley. The Lydia Hong Series One, Classics of the Ages, is Orchestra Manager is Principal Violinist on September 10 at 7:00pm at the Eugene Akiko Hosoi. The SCCO includes Sullivan D. Nesin Theatre, 22 St. John Street in County and NYC musicians who play with Monticello. A special Meet the Musicians major orchestras and organizations. “Sullivan Gala reception will be held the same evening County has many young people who have from 9:00pm-11:00pm at Mr. Willy’s on continued their music studies and graduated Route 42, Monticello. from the most prestigious conservatories and It will also be performed September 11 at music schools,” said Trombley. 3:00pm at the Liberty Museum and Arts What better composer to begin the SCCO Center, 46 South Main Street, Liberty. journey with than Mozart (Divertimento Season tickets for three concerts and K. 136)!, followed by an adaptation of Gala tickets may be purchased online at: Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll which was arranged www.nesinculturalarts.org, and at the door. for five strings and woodwinds in almost any Students with ID are free. combination by composer Arne Dich. Future concerts will be held in Monticello For lively fun dances, there will be and in Callicoon in January, as well as two Bartok’s Romanian Dances, and then Peter concerts which are slated for next June.

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“Outside / Inside The Box” in Wurtsboro The artists of the and greet reception Wurtsboro Art with the artists on Alliance (WAA) make September 10, from their annual trek out 4:00pm-6:00pm. of the usual and into The show, which will the different with their feature art created in September show titled watercolors, ceramics, Outside / Inside the acrylics, jewelry, and Box. The show is a much more, is on view celebration of abstract through October 2 at and other forms of art the WAA’s John Neilson which deviate from the Gallery, 73 Sullivan Untitled photo by Elly Knieriemen mainstream. Street, Wurtsboro. It has been said that much of the art that The WAA would like to give a special “shout we see everyday is more or less from the out” to artist-member Adriene Walker for her perspective of a “Cyclops”, one eye in the dynamite art show at the Club at Smallwood center of its head giving a two dimensional featuring Adriene’s works as well as those of view of the world. Give some crayons and a many of her students. sheet of drawing paper to a child and ask her And coming in October: Patricio Robayo or him to draw a picture of their home. You will be hosting a Wurtsboro Photo Walk on may get a more or less accurate depiction of October 9 starting and ending at the WAA’s the building they live in. They will probably John Neilson Gallery. The walk will highlight add mom, dad, brothers and sisters standing in the history of Wurtsboro and participants will front with the dog, cat and any other pet they gather at the gallery afterwards for a photo may have. They may also add a favorite item revue. There are no restrictions as to type of like a pool, play house or a tree which cannot camera, a phone would do! There will be a be seen from the view that is depicted. They maximum of 10 photographers (18 or older may also add the pony that they dream of please). owning or maybe a superhero or monster they And don’t forget: the WAA’s current relate to - abstract art is an alternative way of show, Portraits: Human & Others runs until looking at the world. September 4. Outside / Inside the Box will feature a meet For information, call 845-888-0184.

Celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival

Images from last year’s “Moon Festival” in Otisville

The Moon Festival (also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival) is one of China’s most ancient and popular traditions, best known as a time for families and friends to get together and feast and enjoy the traditional moon cake, while they remember the legend of the lunar goddess Chang’e. Called “Zhongqiu” in Chinese, the festival has its first recorded origins during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). It falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in China’s traditional calendar. This year it is on September 15 by the Gregorian calendar. Zhongqiu is a joyous occasion that celebrates the solar term of the autumnal equinox, when farmers traditionally brought in their summer harvests. On a more spiritual level, the full moon that often appears on this day is regarded as a symbol of completion, so the Moon Festival is a day of union for families and friends, especially those long-

separated. The Festival has great meaning as an event to celebrate the season’s harvest. By the Chinese calendar, autumn begins in what we know as early August and ends toward the beginning of November. “In keeping with this joyous occasion we are inviting our friends and neighbors in to join us at Mount Hope Town Park, on September 17 to celebrate this event,” said a spokesperson. “There will be plenty to do. We will have food vendors selling both Chinese and nonChinese fare. Activities will include Chinese tea tastings, origami, calligraphy, a dragon dance, and live music all starting at 5:00pm and ending at 8:00pm as we gaze at the full moon. There’ll be plenty of parking, so load up the family and come to the festival!” The Mount Hope Town Park is located at 340 Finchville Turnpike, Otisville.

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World Class Classical Music in Bethel by Barry Plaxen Shandelee Music Festival and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts are collaborating on “five concerts for all ages” titled PLAY: The Classics, beginning with An Evening of Chamber Music with the Hermitage Piano Trio. This will be the third consecutive year for the Trio to play for Shandelee, having performed in August 2014 and then again in August 2015 when they introduced local music lovers to the wonders of a masterwork piano trio by Sibelius. I had heard cellist Sergey Antonov and pianist Ilya Kazantsev perform duets in Montgomery in early 2014, but the memory of that outstanding concert did not fully prepare me for what transpired in August 2014. Joined by violinist Misha Keylin, the three world-class artists took three masterworks and with power, passion, consummate skill, dynamism, devotion, excitement, fervor, and ecstasy - with warmth and outbursts, fire and frenzy, intensity and joy - immersed us into their beings as they gave importance and credence to every single note and allowed us to witness how to make greater music out of great music - with every note being the most important note of the evening! For their 2016 Bethel concert, they will perform Josef Suk’s Elegie, Op. 23, written in 1902 for violin, cello, string quartet,

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harmonium & harp. Suk later arranged it for piano trio. It was written for a memorial event celebrating the life of Julius Zeyer (1841–1901). Zeyer was a writer of novels and epic poems steeped in the history and legends of Bohemia. Known as one of Dvořák’s favorite pupils, Suk became very close to Dvořák. Dvořák’s respect for Suk was reflected in Suk’s subsequent marriage to Dvořák’s daughter, Otilie, marking some of the happiest times in the composer’s life and music. However, the last portion of Suk’s life was punctuated with tragedy. Over the span of 14 months around 1905, not only did Suk’s mentor, Dvořák, die, but so did Otilie. (Suk is the grandfather of the great Czech violinist Josef Suk.) Mendelssohn’s Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 was dedicated to the great composer and violinist Louis (Ludwig) Spohr. A notable feature of the finale of this work is its use of the melody of a chorale taken from the sixteenth-century Genevan psalter Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, also known as Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ. The tune, is commonly

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sung in English to the lyrics Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. The opening theme of the finale was adopted by Brahms for the Scherzo of his piano sonatas, and Brahms also used the opening of the first movement of this trio as the basis for the piano line in the finale of one of his early piano quartets. Dvorak’s “Dumky” Trio in E minor, Op. 90 is considered one of the greatest piano trios ever written and among the composer’s best-known works. Dumky, the plural form of dumka, is a term introduced into Slavic languages from the Ukrainian. Originally, it is the diminutive form of the term duma, which refers to epic ballads, specifically a song or lament of captive people. During the nineteenth century, composers from other Slavic countries began using the duma as a classical form used to indicate a brooding, introspective composition with cheerful sections interspersed within. The magnificent Hermitage Trio performs on September 15 at 8:00pm. For tickets: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org or Ticketmaster, or phone 845-583-2050.

Pianos Embrace

by Derek Leet When I heard classical pianist Cristiana Pegoraro, and jazz pianist Danilo Rea perform Beethoven’s Ruin of Athens I divested myself of curmudgeonism as I thoroughly enjoyed the interplay of two pianos, classical and jazz, performing together. My old-fashioned self was completely satisfied by Pegoraro’s classical played-aswritten sections, and my whimsical sense of humor and joy in hearing astute improvisation were satisfied by the respectful and reverential approach of Rea’s interpolated jazz “variations” on the score. Performing together, the two made magic of the work as she played the “theme” and he played “the variations.” Both at the same time! Known collectively as Embrace, they will perform for Shandelee Music Festival in the Event Gallery at Bethel Woods on September 29 at 8:00pm. For tickets: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org or Ticketmaster, or phone 845-583-2050.

From Piano to Euphonium to Tuba to Trombone to Conducting the GNSO The new Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) conductor, Russell Ger comes from a musical family. His mother was a semi-professional opera singer in South Africa. “She sang in The King and I and Violetta in La Traviata for a touring company. There was always music in the house,” Ger said. His mother passed when he was 11, and his father’s mother was also musical. “She was self-taught and is still alive at 96 years! So you could say music runs in my family. “I was little when I started piano lessons, 6 years or so. I wanted to learn Billy Joel and my Dad said, ‘let him learn whatever he wants to learn.’” He also started learning to play the euphonium, and “after a few years I was asked to learn the tuba for the middle school orchestra, and the trombone, as we needed brass players. “I was promoted by my teacher. I was only 11 years old, and was transported with some other middle-schoolers to the High School once a week for rehearsal. We felt special performing with the 17 and 18 year olds.” When Ger was about 17, the music director sent him to an Australian youth wind orchestra program, and later invited him to take a course for young conductors, “with a special teacher Dr. Dale Lonis, a man of passion and integrity. I recently reached out to him again - he has become a mentor of mine. I met him when I

was 17, 18 years ago. It was a completely fascinating course, and incredibly challenging to learn a score and make an ideal out of its American “expansive” sound it. Something resonated and I then and African themes: Dvorak’s took the same course for three Symphony # 9, from the New summers and received an honorary World, and Copland’s Appalachian diploma. Spring with its innovative mid-20th “Later, I wrote a thesis on century American sound. conducting, on studying performing “Dvorak taught a new generation traditions dating back to Beethoven how to write American music and how his 9th was performed, because, ‘well, all of the tools are and subsequent generations - how here,’ he told composers.” they conducted it. There is a large Nicolas Namoradze Appalachian Spring was excerpt from the thesis being composed as a ballet, scored for a thirteenpublished in the Journal of the Conductors member chamber orchestra, created upon Guild of America.” Feeling it was fitting to try and integrate commission of choreographer and dancer the idea of the novel symphonic sounds of the Martha Graham.Copland was awarded New World for his upcoming concert, he chose the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his works expanding westward from the East Coast achievement. Conductor Artur Rodzinski that “capture in sound the hustle and bustle asked him to rearrange the ballet as an of New York City (Rhapsody in Blue), the orchestral suite, preserving most of the music. forerunner of the “new” American sound with Copland cut about 10 minutes from the original

13-instrument score to make the suite. Gershwin set about composing Rhapsody in Blue on a train journey to Boston. “It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer - I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise...And there I suddenly heard, and even saw on paper - the complete construction of the Rhapsody, from beginning to end. “I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our metropolitan madness.” Nicolas Namoradze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and grew up in Budapest, Hungary, where he began his piano studies at the age of seven. He went on to complete his undergraduate studies in Vienna, Florence and Budapest, and is now a graduate student at The Juilliard School. Since his first public performance at the age of ten, 21-year-old pianist Namoradze has given solo recitals in prestigious venues in several countries around the world. Maestro Ger will conduct Namoradze and the GNSO as they perform on September 17 at 7:30pm in Aquinas Hall at Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh. Tickets are available at: www. newburghsymphony.org and at the door. Students are admitted free.

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Meet Ray Sussmann: Photographer In days of the not-too-distant past, children at the elementary level were introduced to a library. Most schools had their own, but if not, all the little short legs were marched off to the village or town library. And so it was that young students in connection with the exploratory trip learned their first foreign language word. The language: Latin. The word: liber, meaning as a noun, in this case, “a book.” And thus the word library represented a place “this is where books live.” Also, and not necessarily a part of the mini field trip, the same word, liber as an adjective translates as “free.” An important cause-effect association many discovered as time moved forward. In today’s complex and ever complicated state of affairs, the library many grew up with has gone the way of the “Chevy to the levee.” In other words: Gone!! Today’s library is a complex but manageable assortment of media and is more correctly termed a media center. Sorry, but here’s another Latin word. Media is the plural of the word medium, meaning multiple support agencies. The modern library, as a media center, exists for the purpose of enriching and educating a community through a variety of ways, e.g., support agencies mentioned here. There are computers to use and learn about. Compact discs (CDs) exist in a wide variety of purposes, containing not only music but lecture series and audio books. And a more durable relative of the CD is the DVD (digital video disc) which contains, for easy access, extended files of data, full length cinema, musicals and opera, e.g., from Bernstein to Puccini and more. In the spirit of community enrichment while recognizing the value of multi media, experience the Tuxedo Park Library, 227 NY-17, hosting the Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop Camera Club’s annual show, running through October 7. There will be a Meet-the-Artist reception on September 17 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.

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But for Ray it provided Photo enthusiasts as the initial steps of a well as others wishing to journey that has taken attend the event should him to this point in call Karen Pfeiffer his life. He began by at 845-776-0306 for photographing safe additional information. subjects, his friends As an organization, and nature, using at that the club holds its regular time 35mm film and a monthly meetings on Konica SLR camera. the second Monday of As a student at State each month at St. Paul’s University at Oswego, Episcopal Church, 101 the scenery and the Main Street, Chester. exceptional beauty of Meetings begin at the lake were enough 7:30pm. “Reflections” by Ray Sussmann to make a life long Reflections  is the theme and title of this year’s show and, as has impression on Ray. And for balance and the become the practice, a photograph representing always needed touch of reality, Ray became the theme and the purposes of the organization Photography Editor of the Ontarian yearbook, is selected from the work of the club’s a seriously demanding assignment at this members. This year the talented recipient of level. Further Ray reports having a professor who club recognition is Ray Sussmann. As with many, the times of youthful was an enthusiastic fan of Ansel Adams, an enthusiasm prove to be course-setting when American photographer and environmentalist viewed as part of a developmental whole. So whose B&Ws epitomize an uncanny attention it was with Ray Sussmann. His experiences in to detail. In that environment Ray’s world high school are superficially quite ordinary. expanded, as did his willingness to explore

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and expand his horizons. He now felt quite comfortable asking his friends to actually pose for certain photographs. In the years that followed, Ray’s love of photography and the ability to express himself through the medium of photography only grew. It was the purchase and use of a Nikon D50 that separated the man from the boy. The digital format relieves an artist from the constraints and restriction of a chemical darkroom. Pure volume and the ability to experiment at a reasonable cost makes the digital darkroom an exciting and rewarding place. Reflections, the picture accompanying this column was selected by the club’s committee and is best described by Sussmann: “This photo was taken at Turkey Hill Pond in Harriman State Park. Blueberry bushes surround the lake which add the reds and pinks near the water. Everywhere around the lake is a mix of hardwoods that add the rest of the color. The water is often still and beautiful reflections are common. The last few years the water has been low so the rocky shoreline is visible. The pond is a 10-15 minute bushwack from the parking area off Rt. 6, or you can take the path for an additional 10-20 minute walk.

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Kariné Poghosyan: Back for More Magic in Montgomery! Kariné Poghosyan has become a pride and joy for Armenian-American communities, the promising youngster who went to America and became a professor and Carnegie Hall performer in record time. She did her doctorate at the eminent Manhattan School of Music and then joined its faculty. After stunning Hudson Valley audiences with her outstanding talent playing Tchaikovsky for the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2011, Howard Garrett had the smarts to hire Kariné for every opening concert of his Grand Montgomery Chamber Music (GMCM) series since 2012. “This year, Kariné says she will present her “beloved Folk Inspirations program” with works by Grieg, Liszt, Komitas, and Stravinsky,” said Garrett, “and also a piece I wrote, Hebrew Rhapsody, arranged by Hollis Kellogg.” Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, (1869-1935) was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology, and his works were a great influence on Bostonborn composer Alan Hovhaness. Komitas collected and transcribed over

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in art. Since good things come in threes, the program includes three of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, three Hungarian Rhapsodies by Liszt, and three movements from Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. For her countryman Komitas Vartaped, she will play three selections from Six Dances for Piano (1906): “Yerangi”, “Unabi” and “Shushiki”. If you have not heard Poghosyan 3,000 pieces of Armenian perform, introduce yourself folk music, more than half of to the intensity and precision which were subsequently lost of her playing when she and only around 1,200 are brings her fiery pianism to now extant. Besides Armenian the Montgomery Senior folk songs, he also showed Center, 36 Bridge Street, on interest in other cultures and in September 25 at 3:00pm. 1904 published the first-ever Komitas on a 1969 Soviet Union stamp Free admission. collection of Kurdish folk songs. His choir For information, call 845-457-9867. presented Armenian music in many European Meet Our Advertisers cities, earning the praise of Claude Debussy, Dine out and support our Advertisers! among others. Why not make a day of it? Weather During the Armenian genocide, Komitas was arrested and deported to a prison camp by the permitting, grab some tasty salads for preOttoman government. He was soon released concert lunch at Mike’s Deli, or “free-range” under unclear circumstances and experienced bagels at Blazing Bagels and dine al fresco a mental breakdown and developed a severe in the park behind the Senior Center. Or stop by Ward’s Bridge Inn or case of PTSD. He is widely seen as a martyr of the genocide and has been depicted as one of Garrison’s Tavern for a delicious postthe main symbols of the Armenian genocide concert dinner. (See ads pages 13 & 20).

Meet Daniel Giordano at Open Studio Tour

Roger Bruno was studying accordion by the time he was five, while Ellen Schwartz was harmonizing by the wee age of three. Over the years, both musicians explored different genres and instruments, but what remained constant was singing. They eventually became professional songwriters in Los Angeles on staff with Warner/Chappell Music where they had their songs covered by recording artists including Cher, Pat Benatar, Teddy Pendergrass, Martha Davis, and Angela Bofill, among others. They both decided to give up the mainstream corporate music world and move back east to become Too Human. Too Human covers jazz standards from the American Songbook, but with a fresh interpretation that brings new life to those classic songs. Listen to them perform jazz standards along with some blues, pop and R&B at the Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street, on September 25 at 3:00pm. Free admission. For information, call 845-563-3600.

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due to his use of various materials. The subject matter always seems a bit Local artist and sculptor provocative, well composed, Daniel Joseph Giordano with just enough color. It is making waves in Orange is beautiful, interesting and County. His eye for uncomfortable, but that composition and subject is exactly why it grasps matter is completely unique. attention. His ambition is unmatchable. When asked what materials His current project is turning he uses in his work, he an old Newburgh warehouse said “Most of it is gathered located at 327 Liberty Street from the shorelines of the into an art gallery with the Hudson River - lately, bricks, help of his friend and fellow aluminum, clay, marzipan, artist Samuel Boehm. persipan, astropops, acrylic, Work by Daniel Giordano Giordano was raised in oil, a whole lot of glitter, bald Newburgh. After earning an MFA at the eagle excrement, quill and ink, zip ties, patchy University of Delaware, he decided to take stuff, oil sticks, resins, maybe a pinch of gold some time off to travel before returning back here and silver there.” to Newburgh. “I did a residency in Flagstaff, Daniel is now turning his family’s vacant Arizona, kayaked with orcas, read some warehouse into an art studio where he will snippets of my poetry to a breaching humpback, be hosting exhibits. He describes the space hiked through the Narrows of Zion, kissed one as “voluptuously old, lusciously pre-war, of the oldest trees in the world on the top of a forcefully industrial, tastefully raw, and oozing mountain in the Great Basin, bought a cowboy with burgundy sexiness.” hat that made me look handsome in Nevada, Daniel Giordano and Samuel Boehm will got caught in a sandstorm in New Mexico, be a part of the Newburgh Open Studio received the stare down in Tennessee, got Tour which takes place September 24 & 25. eaten alive by the reincarnation of an ancient Artists included in the show are Jason Lake, cannibal in the form of an army of mosquitoes Kimberly Smith and Andre Szabo. There on Chincoteague Island,” said Giordano. will also be a performance by art collective, Giordano’s sculptures are multi-dimensional The 181. For information: 845-926-7703. September 2016

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What’s Happenin’ During Newburgh Last Saturdays! Karpeles Museum: Art & Poetry The September 1-October 31 exhibit, The Create Peace Project is an attempt to direct the focus of our thoughts,words,and actions towards the concept of Peace. The visual arts and poetry displayed at the Karpeles “Peaceful” by Lily Norton Museum is a collective exhibit involving the Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh, the Newburgh Armory Unity Center Saturday Art Program, local artists, members of the community, and the Hudson Valley Poets. View the art on display, read the poetry, listen to the music. Join together and become involved in the Peace Process by becoming Peace Partners, Peace Builders, and Peace Keepers. Who will you make Peace with? On September 24 at 2:00pm, there will be a poetry reading by the Hudson Valley Poets, followed by a peaceful reception for the exhibitors, their friends, families, and the general public from 3:00pm-4:00pm. All are welcome to come and celebrate Peace! Admission is always free at the Karpeles Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh. For information, call 845-569-4997.

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Space Create Space Create will be an alternative viewing space for the artists of Newburgh’s Open Studio Tour who don’t have open studios to visit. Space Create will be open during the tour hours (see page 27) and staying open until 9:00pm on September 24 for Newburgh Last Saturday. SUNY Orange - Film & Art The Manhattan Short Film Festival (MSFF) is not a touring festival; rather, it is a simultaneous celebration of the vibrancy and creativity of the short “The Last Journey of the film genre. Now in its Enigmatic Paul WR” 19th year, the film festival offers the top ten out of 844 submissions from 52 countries. During a ten day period they are shown in venues in over 250 cities on six continents to over 100,000 film lovers 15 years old and over. This year the ten finalists hail from eight countries, with France and Australia represented by two films each. The Tunnel (Norway), Hold On (The Netherlands), Carousel (England), Kaputt (Germany), Ella Got A Promotion? (USA), Bravoman (Russia), Overtime (Australia), I

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Am A Pencil (Australia), Gorilla (France), and The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul WR (France). The MSFF is returning to SUNY Orange’s Kaplan Hall on September 24 when the screening of the ten finalists begins at 7:00pm. After viewing all the films, attendees use the cards they received at entry to vote for their favorite films and actors. The votes from all venues are counted, and the worldwide winners are announced on October 3. For comparison, the results of the local vote by attendees are announced by SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs. The short films in the MSFF will be eligible to enter the Oscars. In 2015, Shok (Kosovo), a short live action film was nominated and Bear Story (Chile), an animated short, won an Oscar. Both were screened in the MSFF. The MSFF is one of the great happenings during this month’s Newburgh Last Saturdays. Admission to the MSFF is inexpensive. All students are allowed free entrance. So, come out for a family-friend evening of film art! In addition, the art exhibits in Kaplan Hall are open free of charge to the public from 5:00pm to 7:00pm in Kaplan Hall. Located at the corner of Grand and First Streets, Newburgh, Kaplan Hall offers free, secure parking in its garage via the entrance at 73 First Street. The MSFF is presented by Cultural Affairs, 845-341-4891/9386 and cultural@sunyorange.edu.

Lieder on Spring St.

Queen of the Hudson presents vibrant concerts focusing on chamber music, early music, contemporary, and new compositions. In September, Lieder by Brahms, Schoenberg, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Nils Vigeland and Reiko Füting will be performed by Reiko and mezzo-soprano Nani Füting. Born in Germany, Reiko Füting has received numerous prizes, awards, scholarships, and grants in both Europe and the United States. He joined the Manhattan School of Music theory faculty in 2000; five years later, he became a member of the composition faculty and was appointed department chair of theory. Mezzo-soprano Nani Füting was born in South Korea. Her teachers include Mignon Dunn and Mark Oswald, among others. They will perform on September 3 at 7:00pm in Atlas Studios, 11 Spring Street, Newburgh. Parking is available in the Atlas lot, and on Spring and Liberty Streets. For tickets: www.queenofthehudson.org and at the door.

Open House in Huguenot

The Town of Deerpark Museum is celebrating its annual Open House at the 1863 Huguenot Schoolhouse and Neversink Valley Grange building. There will be a Lenape Indian Display created by Frank Salvati, art work by local artists, antique tools and colonial handcraft, cooking demos and medicinal herb lore, a children’s petting zoo, and the latest Deerest Deerpark life-size deer art work in progress. For this special occasion the Town Museum has a Local Antique Road Show for attendees to bring in items to be appraised. Other items on display will be a collection of Joseph Brant’s portrait copies by famous artists. Take a walk

down memory lane, as a show of Hats! Hats! and more Hats! will be on display. At noon and 2:00pm an original one-act play, Stand! Hold, will be presented. This is the story about the settlers stand against Joseph Brant and his Tory raiders in 1778. Anna Swartwout (see photo) is the heroine of the piece as she stands against the raiders with the men of the fort. At 1:00pm the Broome Street Drum and Fife Corp will perform music from the American Revolution. The open house is at 25 Grange Road, Huguenot, on September 18, from 11:00am4:00pm. For information, call 845-856-4515 or 845-754-8070.

“A View From the Bridge” at Downing

The Downing Film Center continues its Live in HD screenings of London’s National Theatre productions with A View From The Bridge in which the great playwright Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in a dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for

his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret, one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal. This stunning production stars Mark Strong (The Imitation Game; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy). See it on September 26 at 7:15pm, at Downing, 19 Front Street Newburgh. For reservations: 845-561-3686.

Pulitzer Prize Play in Goshen

Lanford Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, whose work, as described by the New York Times, was “earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed.” Wilson also helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced in New York at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first three playwrights to move from Off-Off-Broadway, to OffBroadway in 1964 when his play Home Free transferred from the Cafe La Mama to the Cherry Lane Theatre (with CANVAS Managing Editor Barry Plaxen as the Administrative Director, i.e company and theatre manager). In 2001 Wilson was elected to the Theater Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He was nominated for three Tony Awards and has won a Drama Desk Award and five Obie Awards. In 1969, he was a cofounder of Circle Repertory Company, for which he wrote many plays in the 1970s. His 1973 play, The Hot l Baltimore, was the company’s first major hit with both audiences and critics; its OffBroadway run exceeded 1,000 performances. Talley’s Folly is the second in Wilson’s cycle, The Talley Trilogy, between his plays Talley & Son and Fifth of July. Set in an old boathouse near rural Lebanon, Missouri in 1944, it is a

Rebecca Robins & Bruce Gluckman

romantic comedy following the characters Matt Friedman and Sally Talley as they once and for all settle their feelings for each other. Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. The play is unique for Wilson in that it takes place in one act, with no intermission, set in ninety-seven minutes of real time. Talley’s Folly was first performed OffBroadway starring Judd Hirsch and Trish Hawkins. Subsequently, the production moved to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The play then debuted on Broadway, opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in 1980, and was produced in London in 1982 with Hayley Mills and Jonathan Price. Now the play comes to Goshen sponsored by Goshen Public Library & Historical Society, with Rebecca Robbins & Al Snider, directed by Bruce Gluckman for Cornerstone Theatre Arts, from September 17-October 2 at the Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street. Reservations required: 845-294-4188.

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Americana in Phillipsport

Music nights at the Phillipsport Community Center (PCC) will include two bands in September. The Hudson Valley Bluegrass Express (HVBE) is a brand new bluegrass group that are based in the Mid-Hudson Valley. The group’s members are all seasoned musicians with decades of musical experience behind them. The HVBE carries on the tradition of classic bluegrass with a mix of “Newgrass” and contemporary music styles, ranging from classic tunes from Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe to contemporary takes on Sam Bush and Neil Young. The founding members include Thomas Earl

on five string banjo and guitar, Doctor Romo on mandolin and fiddle and Mike Aiese on stand up bass. The result is incredible three part harmonies and some real foot stompin’ bluegrass instrumentals! JB Bones is a semi acoustic duo that plays cosmic country, acoustic/electric blues, and roots music, in the vein of Hot Tuna. JB Bones is comprised of guitarist Howie Bloom and J Harrison on bass and vocals. See them perform at the PCC, 657 Red Hill Road, on September 17 at 7:00pm. Available for purchase at 6:30pm are a dinner plate and dessert, homemade by the PCC members, and non-alcoholic beverages.

The award-winning Sultans of String create “Energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” according to Maverick Magazine. Thrilling their audiences with their genrehopping passport of Celtic reels, flamenco, Gypsy-jazz, Arabic, Cuban and South Asian rhythms, the group celebrates musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar, while bass and percussion lay down

unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound, while world rhythms excite audiences to their feet with the irresistible need to dance. Sultans of the String will thrill the audience for the Kindred Spirits Arts program on September 17 at 7:30pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 E. Catherine Street, Milford. For information: 570-409-1269.

Sultan’s Magic Ride in Milford

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Jazz in Glen Spey

As a child, jazz icon Oscar Peterson studied with Hungarian-born pianist Paul de Marky, a student of István Thomán, who was himself a pupil of Franz Liszt, so his training was predominantly based on classical piano. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (the country’s highest civilian state order for talent and service) in 1972, and promoted to Companion of the Order (the highest degree of merit and humanity), in 1984.

Peterson wrote pieces for piano, for trio, for quartet and for big band. He also wrote several songs. Some of these works written for the Joe Pass Quartet will be performed by Doug Munro (guitar), Pete Malinverni (piano), Michael Goetz (bass) and Richie Morales (drums), for the Town of Lumberland Cultural Series in the Town Hall, 1054 Proctor Road, Glen Spey on September 18 at 3:00pm. Tickets at the door. 845-856-6372.

“Soulful Gypsy Americana” in Bethel

Criss-crossing the country from the east coast to the Rockies, The Vine Brothers are an acoustic trio comprised of guitarist Greg Bucking, Joe Credit III on mandolin and bassist Garrett Jones. The band’s versatility spans the range from rootsy folk to gypsy swing to bluegrass and blues, and makes them equally at home whether performing in an intimate club or on a large festival stage. The Vine Brothers’ first two albums, 2012’s Low Rent and 2013’s The Devil and the Deep Black Sky received considerable airplay on over 100 stations in the U.S. and Canada and

charted in six cities. The band was a semifinalist in the Belk Southern Musician Showcase in Nashville, TN and their song East of Albuquerque was chosen as a finalist in the 2016 International Songwriting Competition. Their third album No Candy was released in July 2016 and has been nominated for Americana Album of the Year by the International Music and Entertainment Association’s 4th Annual IMEA Awards. Groove to their soulful sounds on September 2 at 8:00pm at the Dancing Cat Saloon, 2037 New York 17B, Bethel. Call 845-583-3141.

“Music of Three Centuries”

Andrew Ranaudo is active as a soloist and collaborative musician, having performed across the USA and Europe in concerts, recitals, theater and cabaret. His focus on contemporary music has led to work with artists, composers and bands including Sarah Dutcher, Nicole Brancato, Howie Kenty, Erika Lieberman, Future in Plastics, and Tens of Thousands. Andrew is on staff at the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, where he is Music Director for the theater programs. He has released original electronic music under the moniker UVA.

For his recital at SUNY Orange, Music of Three Centuries, he will perform Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17, written in 1839 and dedicated to Franz Liszt, a grand scale work of the early Romantic period, and Three Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, including the famous Cat’s Fugue sonata. Jeux d’eau by Maurice Ravel and Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 by Alberto Ginastera are also featured on the program which will be held on October 1 at 8:00pm in Orange Hall Theater, 24 Grandview Avenue, corner of Wawayanda Avenue, Middletown. For tickets: 845-341-4891.

Come to the Cabaret! Live in Central Park (Revisited): Simon and Garfunkel is a celebration of historical, iconic concert events from New York’s Central Park, re-created using bona fide setlists. These are not impressions or impersonation; but a re-visit with the music that made these nights magical. It features award-winning singers Lee Lessack and Johnny Rodgers. Lee Lessack’s graceful lyric baritone vocals and sophisticated yet endearing persona have made him a shining star of the international concert scene. Billboard Magazine calls his singing, “Cabaret romanticism of a high order.” Touring extensively in the United States and Europe to sold-out performances and releasing five albums, Lessack has proven himself as both a performer and recording artist. He has duetted with Michael Feinstein,

Maureen McGovern, Amanda McBroom, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Stephen Schwartz. Johnny Rodgers is an internationally celebrated singer-songwriter, pianist, music ambassador, Broadway star, and recording artist who is described by Stephen Holden from The New York Times as an entertainer “who has show business in his bones” with “fused elements of Billy Joel, Peter Allen and Johnny Mercer.” No matter where he roams, Rodgers dazzles audiences, if he’s not off doubling as Music Director and piano man for Liza Minnelli. Catch them for the Bradstan Cabaret Series at Bethel Woods on September 17 at 8:00pm. For tickets: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org or call 1-866-781-2922.

Hurleyville Renaissance In the early 1800’s Hurleyville was built on the main route between the communities of Monticello and Liberty. The first local economy centered on dairy farming, which burgeoned when the Midland Railroad established a station in the hamlet, opening up the metropolitan New York City market for milk, cream and cheese. With the help of a major promotional campaign by the railroad, the resort industry in the area was booming by 1900, and farmers and hotelkeepers subsisted side-by-side. However by 1957, largely due to the automobile becoming the major mode of transportation, the railroad ceased operation and the hamlet of Hurleyville began a decline that is just now being reversed. Today Hurleyville is being described as a small town with a big idea. At the heart of this revolution is The Center for Discovery, a major research and specialty center, which for many years has integrated food and farming,

science and research, and health and wellness. Solidifying partnerships with local government and private entrepreneurs, their work includes a thoughtfully revitalized Main Street that has already begun to attract private business owners and which will serve as a hub of activity, with a farm store, arts center, restaurants, shops and walking trails making up an enriching and fully integrated, inclusive and attractive community. Housing for Center staff and innovative housing options for residents who will live and work and farm in and around the town will help make Hurleyville a model of regional economic development. In the next few months CANVAS will cover projects that have aided in the revitalization of Main Street, such as the Hurleyville Maker’s Lab and the Hurleyville Arts Centre. For information on The Center for Discovery, visit: www.thecenterfordiscovery.org. Be sure to read their newsletters! September 2016

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