Malfitano recalls being sketched by Tony Bennett

Back in 1986, superstar songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen returned to his native Syracuse to be honored at the 10 th anniversary of the Onondaga County Civic Center down city.

Among the entertainers paying tribute to Van Heusen here that night was vocalist Tony Bennett, who died July 21 at age 96.

Before the 1986 performance here, Bennett sketched an informal portrait of concert promoter Frank Malfitano, who now lives in Baldwinsville.

“I spent some time backstage with Tony Bennett when he appeared at the Civic Center’s 10th Anniversary tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen,” Malfitano recalls.

“He gave me a set of headphones so I could listen to the master of his newest CD, ‘The Art of Excellence.’ My eyes were closed so I had no idea that, as I listened to the tunes, he was sketching an image of me on the back of a piece of sheet music for ‘The Second Time Around,’ a chart that his pianist, Ralph Sharon, had handed him. It was spontaneous.” a ll-star cast

Of course, the sketch remains one of Malfitano’s most cherished personal possessions. And his memories of that long-ago encounter are even more precious.

“Tony and I spent a lot of time together during rehearsals and to and from the airport, and after the show in Van Heusen’s suite at the Hotel Syracuse with Jimmy, Sammy Cahn, Maxine Sullivan, Margaret Whiting, Jack Jones, Tony Randall and Joanie Vadeboncoeur.

“Backstage, Tony and Sammy were one-upping each other with one liners that had us all in stitches. At one point, Sammy picked up the wall phone backstage and called George Burns so they could all wish him a Happy Birthday, sung by Tony.”

Like Malfitano, Tony was Italian-American, born Anthony Benedetto in Queens in 1926.

The two paisans naturally hit it off.

“Tony and I discussed his friendship with Governor Mario Cuomo and how Mario’s political enemies had sabotaged his chances at a presidential run. Over breakfast the following morning, we discussed Tony’s visual art, passion for tennis and his marches with Martin Luther King Jr.”

Within a year, Tony became a part of the Blue Note NYC’s 7th Anniversary that Malfitano produced in 1987 with Billy Eckstine, Max Roach, Jimmy Heath, George Benson, Sir Roland Hanna and Sarah Vaughan.

“Deep down, Tony was a hard-core jazz man,” said Malfitano, founder of the

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Syracuse Jazz Festival. “He had an absolute reverence for jazz and the legendary artists who created it.” two l’pool ladies honored

A memorial bench honoring two late Liverpool women will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Saturday Aug. 12, at the Salt Museum at Onondaga Lake Park. The honorees are Rhoda Sikes and Helen Windhausen.

“They both valued and understood the importance of Onondaga Lake its history and were dedicated to the Liverpool community,” said a spokesman for the Friends of Historic Onondaga Lake (FOHOL), which is producing the event.

Sikes died April 7, 2022 at age 89. She had managed the Salt Museum gift shop for many years and had served for more than 20 years as treasurer of the Liverpool Is The Place Summer Concert Series. She was also a longtime Read Out volunteer for WCNY-FM and a longtime member of FOHOL.

Windhausen died Feb. 17, 2023 at age 96. She worked for Onondaga County Parks & Recreation for two decades before becoming a member of FOHOL for whom she helped create the annual Irish Road Bowling event.

Presbyterian committee chairs

At an organizational meeting on July 10, Liver - pool’s First Presbyterian Church made its annual committee and ministry assignments. l ast word

Ashley Gouger was named chairwoman of personnel. Gouger, who also serves as president of the Liverpool Public Library Board of Directors, was also named as a member of the church’s Christian formation committee chaired by Jolene Kittle and Sue Kline.

The church’s building and grounds committee is headed by Coleen Clapper and member Tim Bricault. Missions and social justice chairs are Tracie Folley and Karen Fay, while the finance and stewardship committee is headed by Tom Ogden and Lynda Fauler.

The fellowship committee is chaired by Tim Bricault and members Sue Kline and Karen Fay, and Lynda Fauler will act as the church’s worship and music liaison.

“The visible fruit that our lives produce is directly connected to the invisible, quiet and sometimes unremarkable work of the spirit occurring underneath the activity that is often unneeded and even counter to the thriving of the human soul. May each of us have fallow time this month for rest, rejuvenation, regeneration.” eagle News welcomes letters to the editor, and reserves the right to edit for space, clarification or to avoid obscenity, but ideas will not be altered letters should be legible and no more than 500 words long only one letter per month will be allowed by the same

-- Liverpool’s First Presbyterian Church Pastor Garrett Anderson.

From The Mailbag

Doing things they shouldn’t

To the editor: A public hearing for this?

Are we really children?

In the Eagle news we sadly read half of - village board adjusts parking fines

We read about how the mayor is very pleased. At what? Raising “rates to keep people from doing things they shouldn’t ” she states. Then there was, “we are way overdue for raising these fines.”

Then we read, “we hope information and having caught up on my sleep, I again naively ventured into motherhood eight years later and produced a child who didn’t sleep through the night for four years. Yes, four years!

I was the perfect example of what sleep deprivation can do to a human being. If any remnant of competency lingered, it disappeared completely during this trial by wakefulness. Not a pretty sight at all. Old habits die hard and when the ear, nose and throat doc discovered and repaired this results in some modification of behavior.”

So what is it? Bad behavior or long overdue adjustment? Here is a short list of leaders doing things they shouldn’t. Please change this behavior below with the appropriate fines.

After our research, how do we modify thier behavior?

Bad behavior? The wasted time on 61 West Lake Road thanks to CPCS and the planning board members who voted to keep the crappy property. Cut their pay to modify their inefficient the reason for our daughter’s wakefulness, I began to exhibit signs of intelligence again, but only briefly. The children were growing older.

I have come to the conclusion that there is an inverse relationship between a child’s age and a mother’s intelligence. As the years rolled on and each of my offspring grew and flourished, it was their mother who grew less and less knowledgeable. What did I know about fashion, about computers, about food? I mean, who in their right mind would eat fresh fruit or high fiber bread or vegetables? Were they ashamed of someone who behavior. And also, not a word or brain thought about widening the north side of RT 20 across from the church and the Krebs. 81 is coming, and us fire people have told you it is not easy to drive through that area without fear of hitting the mirrors on parked vehicles. Worse in the winter. Why are you blind to this? No love for blue collar humans??? Lazy? Blame it all on the state. Excuses? Do public hearing/article on this.

Where was the AOTCNY? Association of towns and villages? Why was the had no idea what booting up a computer meant? Who didn’t own an MP3 player? I saw myself though my children’s eyes, a pitiful example of an uninformed, hopelessly needy adult who needed help to set the clock in the VCR.

My Phi Beta Kappa key started to corrode and I began to question how I had been able to make it this far in life without a major mishap. From cheering too loudly at soccer games to mentioning in public that one of my offspring had musical ability, to insisting that they wear coats during snowstorms, to thinking that adult children with their own houses would intersection of 20 and East Lake Rd not efficiently developed? Why no radius studies to make it a little easier for trucks to turn south or east? Too difficult? We want to hear the excuses. No respect or consciousness of blue collar workers?

Doug, the fish godfather, called and wanted to know why the environmentalists and professional village planners decided on an inefficient park at the village hall. Who were these unqualified designers and supporters? ABCQ+ World News wants like to take the stuff they left in mine, I have committed just about every maternal faux pas there is and more. Then there is the clueless category that includes all of the current singers, bands and songs as well as 90 percent of the shows on television. Then came grandchildren. At first, I was fun. Grandma knew things. They asked me questions and believed what I said. Games we played were fun. Coming to visit at our house was something they looked forward to. I tried to keep up, but that old inverse relationship between the age of children and the knowledgeability of adults to know. We put two full page ads in this paper asking for a review of our third and superior design. Why didn’t the press cover our actions? It covered a keynote speaker’s individual activities twice, but not any of our issues. And we are democrats. Why didn’t the village planning board members, or the male mayor, at the time, not have an honest public debate on this park? People laugh at this waste of space. You all could have put handicapped parking in our plan for 15 new parking areas. (see upcoming intervened and, once again, I am the uniformed, clueless one. I guess the fact that I have and use an Amazon Kindle is not the same as having and using a Nintendo Switch. They are polite about it, but the eye rolls and the half-smiles tell the story.

I still have flashes of the old know-it-all persona, but nature has intervened to make some of what I thought I knew, something I no longer know.

The “know-it-all” has been chastened by the life’s circle’s turnings. Truth be told, there are so many things that I once knew that have gone the way ad for our ABCQ+ World News, musical documentary) yes, how do we stop people from “doing things they shouldn’t. “

We won’t talk about, “doing things they shouldn’t” at the field days. Will the village and town help embellish the love and creativity of the next event? They can’t even make an unorthodox phone call to look for new ideas. Sad but true as Metallica would sing. I am your eyes. More to come.

Joe Vecchio spafford

of forgetting. Last week I couldn’t remember what the former name of Tanzania was. Words slip away … they come back, but where do they go when I want them? I’ve mellowed. Why there are even days when I simply agree with someone rather than point out that I am, of course, right and they are, well … not.

Ann Ferro is a mother, a grandmother and a retired social studies teacher. While still figuring out what she wants to be when she grows up, she lives in Marcellus with lots of books, a spouse and a large orange cat.

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