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January 2016 Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Marlboro & Ellenville

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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen What a lovely spring we’re having this winter. Our six local chorales are beginning their rehearsals this month, gearing up for their spring concerts. Why not help them make some joyful noises and join them? Most do not require auditions. Google: Classic Choral Society, Delaware Valley Choral Society, Middletown City Chorale, Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, Sullivan County Community Chorus, Warwick Valley Chorale. Many thanks to the “guest writers and submitters” who helped create this issue. To: Jonathan Talbot, who has broadened the definition of collage in our time, writes about a former student of his, Leslie Fandrich, who is now a respected colleague (page 5),

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to Jessica Cohen who writes about our cover artist, MichaelTobin (page 19), to Kate Hyden for her loving paean to Roscoe artist and educator Jack Yelle (page 15), to all who contributed to our In Memoriam for Matilda Grech, and for their special attention in getting written information to us for inclusion: to Dorothy Szefc, Joyce A. Presutti, Garin Baker, Tony Sculley, John Bliss, Dawn Ansbro, Cody Rounds, Tom Bolger, Lisa Gervais and Peter Grech. Thank you all for providing us with Arts Fodder, helping to make CANVAS a true community effort. A reader once told me that they remove the CANVAS centerspread and Art Receptions calendars and “magnet” them onto the fridge so they know what’s going on locally, and circle their choices of events to attend. I encourage you all to do the same!

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Letters to the Editor The entire CANVAS team are an invaluable resource for us and the arts community at large. We are proud to have you as part of the CAS family. I look forward to sharing a wonderful new year with you. Bradley Diuguid, Catskill Art Society Thanks for publishing the wonderful CANVAS for area art and history! Peggy & Robert Friedman, Parksville

Thanks again for another great issue of CANVAS - it’s humbling to see how many choruses are out there these days, but that is also a sign of a truly thriving arts community! Nancy E. Karp, Middletown CANVAS Makers, Thank you for your hard work! Best wishes for 2016! The Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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HEALTH & HOLISTIC SERVICES Alternative Counseling, Cornwall Holistic approach to healing Diana Underwood, LMSW George Toth, LCSW-R 845.534.2980, mrge0rge@aol.com Happy Herbs Soap “herbal alchemy of soap & incense” @ Two Crow Cottage Burlingham, NY 12722-0210 happyherbssoap.etsy.com RETAIL SERVICES DiBello Gallery / Frame Shop High Res Image Capture Giclee Prints Advertising Design 845-457-2773

On the Cover “Gloria” by Michael Tobin see page 19

Calendars Art & Photography ��14 Books ��14 Category �� 11 Children & Teen’s ��14 Demos, Lectures ��14 Music - Pop, Folk, etc., �� 11 January 2016 Calendar ��12-13

Columns May I Have A Word With You ��9 Community Building Through The Arts ��22 Spotlight On The Sugar Loaf Guild ��20 Whispering Pines w/ Chef Frey ��3

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Aleksander Vezuli, composer ��17 Ariana Den Bleyker, poet ��8 ARTery Gallery, Milford ��20 Candy Spilner, artist ��7 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��7 Chester Library ��8 Country Voices Poetry ��13 Crawford Gallery of Fine Art, Pine Bush ��9 Dancing Cat, Bethel ��8 Daniel Angeli, artist ��7 Deborah, intuitive: Palaia Winery ��12 Downing Film Center, Newburgh ��16 Downing Park Planning Committee ��21 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ��17 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra � 4 Hal Gaylor, artist ��6 Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall 13 Hudson Valley Jazz Trio ��13 In Memoriam: Jack Yelle ��15

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com ads@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 phone 845.926.4002 fax Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. In Memoriam: Lucille A. Horton ��8 In Memoriam: Matilda M. Grech �� 10 Jay Ungar & Molly Mason �� 16 John Fisher, guitarist �� 12 Karpeles Museum, Newburgh ��4 Kathleen Madigan, comedian ��3 Leslie Fandrich, collagist ��5 Live from National Theatre in HD �� 16 Live from the MET in HD �� 23 Martin Dominguez Ball, sculptor �� 18 Michael Tobin, artist �� 19 Monroe Library �� 13 Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh �� 18 Music in Central Valley �� 22 Newburgh Chamber Music �� 16 Newburgh Last Saturdays �� 18 Noble Coffee Roasters ��8 Pike County Arts & Crafts, Milford �� 20 Poetry Readings �� 8, 12 Robert Milby, poet ��8 Space Create, Newburgh �� 18 Stella’s Frozen Yogurt, Washingtonville ��8 Studio Gallery, New Windsor �� 21 Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs �� 20 Sugar Loaf PAC �� 3, 6 Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Academy ��6 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 18, 19, 24 SUNY Orange, Newburgh �� 18 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake �� 23 Ted Gill, poet ��8 Teddy Young & The Aces ��8 Terry Straus, artist ��4 Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern ��12 Upper Delaware GLBT, Milford �� 23 Vernon M. Byron, III, artist �� 18 Wallkill River School, Montgomery ��6 William Noonan, artist �� 18 William Tranum, photographer �� 13

W h i s p e r i n g P i n e s ~ Cooking History of New Year’s Day We celebrate it without question. It’s as predictable as Canada’s frigid Januarys, yet New Year’s Day is a man-made event - and, it wasn’t always celebrated on January 1. January 1 is considered New Year’s Day in today’s society. But up until the time of Julius Caesar, the Romans celebrated the New Year in March because it was the first month in the Roman calendar. However, January 1 marked the time when the Romans changed their governmental figures and they had games and feasting to help celebrate the new officials. But, they still used March 1 as their official mark of the New Year and had a festival to their god, Mars - the God of War. It was Caesar who changed the Roman New Year’s Day to January 1 in honor of Janus, God of all beginnings and gate keeper of heaven and earth. One of the festival customs honoring Janus was to exchange gifts and make resolutions to be friendly and good to one another. When Constantine ruled the Romans and accepted Christianity as their new faith, they kept the Festival of Janus as New Year’s Day and turned it into a day of prayer and fasting and not parties. It was a day for all good Christians to turn over a new leaf. The Romans

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may have accepted January 1 as the New Year, but many did not accept the turning over a new leaf, prayer and fasting! It wasn’t until 1752 that Britain and its colonies adopted the new Gregorian calendar and January 1 as the beginning of the year. Many Puritans in New England felt Janus was an offensive pagan god and chose to simply ignore January 1 as New Year’s Day. Instead they just made the entire month of January as “The First Month” of the months. Today, no one really considers January 1 a fasting day. Ironically, for many it is a day of feasting on junk food and watching football. I like to serve platters of different appetizers in my home. Here are a few of my favorites below - and as always, for culinary questions, catering needs or personal chef services, I can be reached by email at: doubledgoatfarms@gmail.com or by phone: 845-647-1428. Enjoy! Shrimp Scampi Appetizer

1 T olive oil 1 onion, diced 6 T minced garlic 1 lb fresh shrimp, peeled and de-veined 12 shells puff pastry, baked 4 T butter 3 (8 oz) packages cream cheese, softened 4 eggs ½ c heavy cream 16 oz smoked Gouda, grated 2 t salt

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large sauté pan over medium-low heat, warm oil and sauté onions and garlic until onions are translucent; set aside to cool. When cool, pour off liquid reserving garlic. Cut shrimp into ½ inch pieces, reserving 12 uncut for garnish. In large skillet over medium-low heat, melt butter; add reserved garlic and shrimp. Cook shrimp 2-4 minutes or until done. Remove center circle and small portion of inside of puff pastry shells. In medium bowl, beat cream cheese until creamy; add one egg at a time; beat until mixed. Add cream, Gouda, onions, shrimp, salt. Spoon filling into pastry shells. Bake in preheated oven 20-25 minutes or until filling are browned on top. Garnish with whole shrimp and chopped chives; serve.

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1 T olive oil, plus some for grilling 1 large Spanish onion, peeled & chopped 1 t paprika 3 vine tomatoes, peeled, seeded, chopped Salt and pepper 2 T Chef Frey’s Jamaican Style Hot Sauce ½ lb sea scallops 1 ripe mango 12- 6” Bamboo skewers, soaked in water 1 bunch fresh cilantro In saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add onions & paprika and cook until caramelized. Add tomato; simmer for 10-15 min. Season with salt & pepper. Let sauce cool. Puree in blender until smooth. Add hot sauce, set aside. Clean sea scallops by removing small muscle attached. Peel mango; cut into 1/2inch cubes. Place one piece mango and one scallop on skewer. Season with salt & pepper. Lightly coat ingredients with oil and grill until scallop is medium rare. Garnish with sauce and fresh cilantro!

“The funniest comic in America, bar none.” - Actor, author, & comedian Lewis Black “Easily one of the best comics alive.” - Actor and comedian Ron White Comedian Kathleen Madigan announced her 2016 Winter and Spring dates for her brand new The Mermaid Lady comedy tour. The tour visits multiple cities throughout North America, including a stop at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on January 8! Madigan is a panelist on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Her third one hour special, Madigan Again, was named one of iTunes Best Comedy Albums. Her second one hour special, Gone Madigan, premiered on Showtime. She’s released 5 CDs, 3 DVDs and starred in 2 HBO specials and 3 Comedy Central specials. In addition to 2 USO tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, Madigan has performed on 5 CMT specials with all proceeds donated to the Armed Forces Foundation. Showtime is at 7:30pm on January 8 at SLPAC, 1351 Kings Highway. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000. Tickets are also available at the SLPAC Box Office: 845-610-5900.

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Classical Music Fair: Petting Zoo, Art, Trivia Contest, NFA Dancers & Great Music

The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) traditionally offers a “family concert” every January that is aimed at engaging young people by introducing them to the world of classical music. These performances have always been very well received, but music director candidate David Bernard, wanted to elevate the idea of “family concert” to a whole new level. Bernard won the hearts and imagination of the audience this David Bernard past summer at the GNSO’s Summer Pops concert conducting John Williams’ Star Wars Suite dressed as Darth Vader wielding a light saber baton. For January, he has developed a familyfriendly event called Arabian Nights which will combine pre-concert activities, a narrated presentation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, topped off with Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances brought to life by a local dance troupe. “The rich cultural resources of the Newburgh community inspired this collaboration,” said Bernard. “We will not only immerse and engage the community in the beautiful melodies and brilliant colors infused in the music we perform, but we will also put the best of Newburgh artisans in music and dance

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on display for the community to see and experience firsthand.” Arabian Nights kicks off with the GNSO’s first-ever Classic Music Fair including an Instrument Petting Zoo, giving participants hands-on opportunities to try different musical instruments; the Art Station featuring drawing projects related to the music to be performed; Music Trivia Contests with prizes; and a Conducting Station where participants will conduct a small ensemble from the orchestra. For the concert, MaestroBernardwilllead the GNSO in Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances accompanying the Newburgh Free Academy’s Advance Dance troupe led by Mandy Clifford. The featured work Peninnah Schram of the afternoon, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, will include narration by the internationally renowned storyteller Peninnah Schram. “Storytellers transfix their audiences by illuminating powerful narratives from within the tales they tell. Scheherazade

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portrays this ancient art musically with melodies that offer narratives worthy of the best storytellers,” said Bernard. “By combining this incredible music with Peninnah’s magical storytelling and the engaging visuals, we hope to bring an unforgettable experience to the audience.” “We are thrilled to be expanding our already strong commitment to outreach in

the community to include these events,” said GNSO Board President John Bliss. “It has been a pleasure working with Maestro Bernard on planning Arabian Nights.” Arabian Nights will be presented January 16 at Aquinas Hall at Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, with the Classical Music Fair beginning at 1:30pm, and the concert at 3:00pm. The snow date is January 17. Tickets (students admitted free) can be purchasedonlineatwww.newburghsymphony. org or by calling 845-913-7157 and requesting a season brochure, or at the door.

Suburban Landscapes in Newburgh Describing her work as “an She holds a Bachelor of Arts from outside view of the suburban Queen’s College and a Master’s condition,” Terry Straus examines from Brooklyn College. her surroundings in an innovative As a member of the Allied Artists combination of traditional landscape Association, Straus has exhibited and pop art, interpreting familiar her paintings, drawings, and objects such as road signs and prints widely in galleries, and her electric wires with an eye to both monoprints were included in a PBS abstract form and social symbolism. special during the 1990s. Combining natural elements and The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on January the tawdry artifacts of the suburban 10, from 1:00pm-4:00pm at the scene, she creates striking and Karpeles Manuscript Library sometimes unsettling images of “Great Curve” Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh. contemporary life. Admission is always free. Straus studied drawing at the by Terry Straus Visit www.karpeles.com or call 845-569Cooper Union Scholarship Program and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. 4997 for further information.

Celebrating the Feminine: The Collages of Leslie Fandrich by Jonathan Talbot In the first twenty months of her career as a collage artist, Leslie Fandrich has created over one hundred collages ranging in size from two inches square to three feet square. She has had three solo exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and her collages have been included in group shows both regionally and nationally. Her works have been written about both nationally and internationally. Fandrich, a Warwick resident, was born in Canada but is now an American citizen. She is talented technically as well as aesthetically. She came to the world of collage with considerable design expertise acquired in the graphic arts field and she has put that expertise to good use in her new medium. Her mastery of collage assembly processes and image transfer techniques was immediate and intuitive and the results have been outstanding. One recurrent theme in Fandrich’s collages is the exploration of how women are perceived in contemporary society. Most of the works in her show, The Heroine’s Journey, through January 24 at Consciousfork, 14 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, focus on this important topic. Cutting or tearing pictures from magazine ads which use images of women to sell makeup, apparel, home furnishings, and the like, Fandrich collages them together, creating new archetypes from old. The mythic figures in Fandrich’s collages are superheroines who,

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despite the fact that they are often fragmented or only partially visible, revel in their mystery and their power. Often militant and sometimes even military, Fandrich’s heroines do not live on Mount Olympus or Asgard. Instead, they inhabit, or become integrated parts of, complex contemporary environments in which words, text, and post-industrial revolution images become parts of natural and artificial landscapes. In the artist’s statement which accompanies the exhibition, Fandrich writes that as she strove to understand her personal artistic journey and the implications of the collages she was creating, two books, The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock and Women Who Run With the Wolves

by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, offered valuable insights into the process by which the works had evolved. Fandrich acknowledges borrowing the exhibition’s title from Murdock, whose book seeks reconciliation and healing of the wounding which the feminine has experienced in a world dominated by masculine energies. But Fandrich’s approach is more like that of Estés. Fandrich’s collages explore the untamed power of the feminine, laying bare the wounds and the wounded, the joys and the anguish, the mysteries and the explicit, and the spiritual and the mundane, seemingly without judgement or ulterior motive. Fandrich’s collages are highly detailed cuttingedge works which challenge social stereotypes and celebrate both the complexity and subtlety of feminine energy. One can approach each work in two ways - by examining the individual elements and then expanding one’s vision to see how the elements interact, or by looking at the entire work and then narrowing one’s vision to examine the individual elements. The viewer who is willing to peruse the works in both ways will be richly rewarded...Each approach offers a separate and distinct set of insights. Leslie Fandrich is in good company. For centuries woman artists like Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt chose to adopt, rather than challenge, the masculine modalities which were the fashion during their times.

“Girls Need Role Models” by Leslie Fandrich

But the 20th Century brought us the works of Nikkii de St. Phalle, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others women artists who chose to celebrate what it means to be a woman. It is this 20th Century tradition that Fandrich continues, and she does so with verve. In her artist’s statement, Fandrich writes that the works in The Heroine’s Journey focus on the archetypal journey of the universal feminine rather than on her own personal peregrinations. At the same time she acknowledges that her personal pilgrimage also finds its way into the collages in the exhibition. She is right on both counts. By celebrating what is universal, Fandrich depicts not only her own personal journey, but the journeys of women everywhere and, by extension, the journeys of those men who are willing to engage the power of the feminine, both within themselves and also in the world in which they live.

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Wallkill River School 15 Years!

: The Wallkill River School portraits. (WRS) celebrates its 15th year in Hal was also an architect and business with an annual Members licensed hypnotherapist. Exhibit featuring works by 200 To see more of Hal Gaylor’s regional artists and supporters portraits of jazz musicians, visit who are members of the WRS. www.jazz-portraits.com. This exhibit will showcase the The WRS is a nonprofit artist’s cultural diversity and deep talent cooperative that runs a gallery and pool of Orange County’s first a full art school in Montgomery homegrown arts movement. The and offers plein air workshops exhibit fills the entire exhibition on location throughout Orange space of the WRS gallery from County from May through Hal Gaylor January 1-30. October, and year-round art (1929-2015) A retrospective of revered classes in the Montgomery jazz bassist Hal Gaylor’s gallery. The WRS published (July 9, 1929 - June 25, 2015) a local foods cookbook paintings will be shown in based on what our local the Emerging Artist gallery. farms grow, in season, and Hal played bass where to find it. professionally in the Join the WRS in 1950’s-1970’s and worked celebrating their 15th with performers such as birthday at the opening Tony Bennett and Ornette reception on January 9, Coleman. In 1972, Hal from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the contracted a virus that had WRS, 232 Ward Street, in one devastating after-effect: the historic Patchett House “Eric Dolphy” by Hal Gaylor it destroyed the hearing in his right ear. He (corner of Factory St. & 17K) Montgomery. took up a paint brush, making quite a career For more information about the WRS, visit for himself - his love of jazz and the musicians www.wallkillriverschool.com or call 845he has played with inspired him to create their 457-ARTS.

“Les Misérables: School Edition”

The national awardwinning Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Academy Sr. Students are presenting Les Misérables School Edition. “The students have been working extremely hard exploring the many themes and emotional journeys of the characters in this difficult piece,” writes the academy’s award-winning Artistic Director, Joyce A. Presutti. “Working closely with their instructors on every level from dance, acting and music, they arrive at rehearsal with a well taught and carefully nurtured thought process on how to tackle a show of this magnitude at young ages. They will astound you with their gripping portrayals of this popular musical. “Epic, grand and uplifting, Les Misérables School Edition packs an emotional wallop that has thrilled audiences all over the world. The sung-through piece is ideal for the cast of these exceptional Academy students and overflows with melodies that are already standards. This author-approved edition has been abridged to a running time of just over two hours, while carefully maintaining the

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integrity of one the greatest musicals ever written.” The show will be presented with full costumes, sets and an orchestra all under the direction of Presutti in collaboration with associate director Rich Hotaling and movement coordinator Melissa PadhamMaass. Musical direction is by professional music director, Patrick Hoagland, who will also conduct the orchestra made up of professional and student musicians. The four performances are on January 9 and 10, at 2:00pm and 7:00pm both days, at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf (Chester). Call 845-610-5900 for tickets.

Spilner and Angeli Exhibit at CAS

“Candy Spilner an “Spilner became intrigued abstractionist caught in by driftwood thrown up by nature’s lure, was four years the river of her new home. old when her mother first gave She painted on their surfaces her paintbrushes and oil paint. directly. While she has left This set Spilner on an artistic figural painting far behind, path that took her to the School the things of this earth of Art at Cooper Union in New have continued to keep her York City. Emerging with a spellbound. Their essential Bachelor of Fine Arts degree forms and shapes are still her in 1972, she has been a painter basic inspiration.” for the past four decades.” Spilner will be exhibiting - Siba Kumar Das, at CAS Arts Center in “Kubutamahan” Green Door Magazine Livingston Manor along with by Candy Spilner “For many years, Spilner’s Daniel Angeli. work was characterized by “My paintings are inspired large, square-shaped figural and take shape from historic paintings. These evolved and current disasters. I into works that were at once research shipwrecks, storms, abstract and representational. and other catastrophes. The While over time, abstraction chaotic and turbulent effects became more and more in the paintings reflects rapid dominant in her output, change, failure, and sensations vestigial influences arising of overwhelm.” - Daniel from figural and landscape Angeli elements continue to shape the The exhibit runs from layered structures that are her January 30 to February 28, “Cracked Hull” paintings today, giving them with an opening reception on by Daniel Angeli life and movement. When you January 30 and an artists’ talk view her paintings, you think of archipelagos at 2:00pm. The reception runs from 3:00pmseen from high in the sky - island formations 5:00pm. seemingly powered by a biological force. See ad below for more information.

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Milby, Gill, Gill, Milby & Milby No, it is not the name of a new law firm. Poet Robert Milby has a busy month ahead of him. For starters, he and poet Ted Gill will change roles on January 7 at 7:00pm when “Gill guest-hosts Milby” at Robert Milby Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 Rt. 207, Campbell Hall, one of Milby’s own poetry hosting venues. $2 donation. 845294-8090. Then on January 24 at 7:00pm in the 2nd floor community room of the Goshen Methodist Church, 115 Main Street, they revert back to their original roles as “Gill hosts featured poet Milby” for Gills’ series Poetry at the Church. Got that? Donations appreciated. 845-294-5010. As usual, open mics will follow the featured readers, in both cases: Milby. Milby’s “special of the month” is his poetry reading and book signing for his Victorian House Ghosts and Gothic Poems. “The reading and signing I am doing from Victorian House is a combination of reading my own theatrics, and a Q&A session,” he stated. “I love to do featured readings. I have done nearly 300 of them since April, 1996, when I was part of a group of poets, and poetry

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supporters, including the late, great Chris Farlekas (he read his favorite poets’ works) for National Poetry Month at Minisink Valley High School.” This event takes place on January 9 at 2:00pm in the Chester Library, 1784

Kings Highway. Admission is free. Call 845-469-4252. Another busy bee in January is author and poet Ariana Den Bleyker who hosts end-ofthe month poetry readings at Stella’s Frozen Yogurt, 6 Depot Street (Rt. 208 South) in Washingtonville. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native, a wife and mother of two. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her family “and every once in a while sleeps.” The featured January poet for her series was not announced at press time for the January 27, 7:00pm event. $2 donation. Call 845-614-5154. Prior to that event, Ariana will be the featured poet at another new poetry reading venue, the Montgomery Book Exchange, 13 Union Street, Montgomery with host Walt Pahucki, on January 12 at 7:00pm. Donations appreciated! 845-764-1787.

In Memoriam : Lucille A. Horton

(September 13, 1927 Lucille A. Horton, a retired mathematics teacher at the Monticello High School passed peacefully in her sleep on December 18, 2015 at her home in Forestburgh. She was 88. “I loved teaching. It was wonderful to see the light come on when a student finally understood,” Lucille had said. She made music throughout her life, playing piano during blackouts in World War II, with a dance band and ballet school during college and working as piano accompanist at the Forestburgh Playhouse. She toured Europe, performing in Switzerland, Germany,

Guitar Jam at The Dancing Cat, Bethel Born in 1973 and raised in the coal region of Northeast Pennsylvania, Teddy Young is known by his fans as a guitar playing extraordinaire. After years of playing with musicians that were often more than twice his age, he was given the nickname “Young Gun” when he was 16. Now leading his own band for nearly two decades, Teddy Young and The Aces have become a well known name on the regional blues circuit. While making rounds on the

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- December 18, 2015) Lichtenstein, Austria, France, and Monaco. She was instrumental in founding the Sullivan County Community Chorus (SCCC) in 1976 with Martin Banner, and led it as a Board member and accompanist for over 35 years. The chorus would not be what it is, or even be in existence, if not for her tremendous commitment, guidance and support. On a happy note, Lucille was in attendance at the SCCC’s December 13 concert last month bringing joy to all her loving colleagues, one of whom called her “the heart of this chorus”. scene, Young has met many of those who inspired him along the way: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey, Rufus Thomas and Buddy Guy to name a few. Young has shared the stage with many notable players including Bobby Parker, Little Sammy Davis, Slam Allen and many others. See Teddy Young & The Aces play blues and rock & roll when they come to the Dancing Cat Saloon, 2037 Route 17B in Bethel on January 23 at 8:30pm. Call 845-583-3141.

Crawford Gallery Poses A Question ART IS...the age old question, What is Art? Here are some answers. When you think of art, do you think of painting and sculpture? There are over 200 forms, some being sketching, shapes, calligraphy, printed, construction, design, iphonagraphy, woven, mosaic, glass, collage to name just a few. ART IS, a wall or a ceiling, a lamp or a rug, goblet or a musical instrument. A simple rhyming verse or song. A 17,000 year-old cave painting. Each is included and expands our notion of what art is. But unusual approaches to painting and sculpture are only the beginning. Take a look at your favorite shirt, it’s been through a process of creative thinking, sketched, colored, printed and assembled, it is a form of ART. Next time you look up at an interesting ceiling or molding around a room or your eye catches an abstract lawn object, you’ve just witnessed art. The world of crafts, crazy quilts, wood cut prints, embroidery, a corn field cut in a portrait of Einstein or Elvis, it’s all art. Think back to the sand castle you made on the beach as a child. Art is a frame holding nothing at all.

Here’s a few more: Art is lines. Art is shapes. Art is a face made with pebbles. What art is? It is physical, mental, quiet and vocal. Fireworks in the sky, ocean waves and clouds - captured in any medium. Art is how artists get you to think and by doing so expand your knowledge of your surroundings and forever long entertain you. Take a look around, above, below and over there or right here, you are looking at a creation of ART. Imagination, interpretation, expression, fabrication are all part of the art process. Some art is found and assembled, or made into a mobile. Origami as an example is paper creatively folded into a bird or a ball. The next exhibit at the Crawford Gallery of Fine Art will feature the many forms of art, many unconventional, but, however, eye catching. It is a show of many different mediums used to create ART. The show dates are February 3-27. A reception will be held on February 13, 5:30pm at 65 Main Street, Pine Bush. Phone: 845-744-8634. For more information, join the Gallery emailing list. Email cgfa@hvc.rr.com

May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky WHO SAYS? Louis Armstrong: “All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” Frank Zappa: “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” Chet Atkins: “Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.” Leonard Bernstein: “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” Elvis Presley: “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” BEE YOU TEA FULL MEW SICK The Random House Word Menu Reference Book defines music: “The art and science of combining tones or sounds in single line (melody) in combination (harmony) and in time relationships (rhythm) to express ideas and emotions in a structurally complete and unified work having an appealing sound when produced by one or more voices or instruments or both.” CAVEAT ABSURDUM Americans are divided over so many issues

that it’s comforting to find something on which we all seem to agree. Who among us has not smirked at the absurdity of product warnings and disclaimers? A washing machine sticker reads: Do not put any person in this washer. Do not open the door when clothes are moving or water is in washer. Warning at the University of North Texas cafeteria: Do not place buttered bread in the toasters! A Vidal Sassoon hair dryer sticker warns: Do not use while sleeping. Sign at a supermarket checkout counter: Slurpees are not a food stamp item. Warning on a Bayer Aspirin label: Do not take if allergic to aspirin! IT HAPPENED IN 1882 On September 5th, the first Labor Day parade was held in New York. Also in New York, the first Edison electric lighting station opened on Pearl Street. Congress enacted a law declaring polygamists ineligible to hold office. Jumbo the elephant arrived from England and was promptly exhibited by P.T. Barnum at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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In Memoriam: Matilda M. Grech

(October 20, 1927 - November 19, 2015)

“From early childhood I have always been visually inspired by the world around me; this propelled me to set down on any surface available the images that moved me. The surface sometimes was a sidewalk; the tool was a piece of charcoal from our coal stove. Or I’d huff on a window and finger paint images on the surface. “The watercolor medium I have been using for many years is the medium I use in many of my paintings. Using the method called “wet-inwet,” a very fluid method, I get unpredictable results. That to me is very exciting; I like the mystery of it. At times I use the pastel medium; this medium is completely predictable. Also, I do many sketches using all kinds of pencils and charcoal.” Matilda M. Grech Matilda M. Grech, born in Bagnoli, Italy, was an accomplished artist and art teacher. Her teaching experience spanned innumerable years, including some 35 years at the (original) Orange County Arts Council in Middletown prior to teaching in Milford. She also conducted numerous public and private workshops and demos in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. She received dozens of awards and honorable mentions from 1983 until 2015. She was a member of the Pen and Brush Club of NYC, the Hudson Valley Art Association of White Plains, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Middletown Art Group, a life member of the Art Students League of NYC, a charter member of the North East Watercolor Society (NEWS), a member of the Board of Directors of the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club of NYC, and Pike County Arts & Crafts. She passed away at her home in Port Jervis on November 19, 2015 at age 88. Growing up, our mother Angiolina Ialungo taught us the love of the arts - music, literature, painting, etc. Matilda was the talented one. She saw beauty in the world, and captured it in her artwork. Some of her very early watercolors were scenes from operas. Mary Perrella The news of Matilda’s passing leaves a hole in our community of watercolorists. I first met Matilda when I was a young artist new to Sugar Loaf and eager to jump into the local art scene. Matilda took me under her wing and we gallivanted (her word) to every juried art show from Orange County to NYC in her trusted old Pinto, only stopping for a heated art conversation, to hang a show, or eat an elaborate dessert with the Schunnemunk Art Group. Matilda and my friendship grew as we spent many hours “talking watercolor” while her sons took weekly music lessons with my husband Bob. Bob and I shared with her the unimaginable sorrow of one of her son’s accidental death, and witnessed a strength and resolve in Matilda buried behind her beautiful smile that perhaps many are unaware existed. 10

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I will miss her so much, but I’m glad to have known such a good person and a great artist! Starr Novak, Middletown I’ve looked forward to our weekly meetings since I joined her class approximately four years ago. We started each meeting with lunch and conversations that ranged from art to cooking recipes, politics, religion, and often stories of our childhoods. She was tireless in demonstrating what she had to share; always nurturing and patient. Little quotes like: “Lose a little here, find a little there” will stay with me in my memories of Matilda. Stella Provenzano, Milford

Matilda Grech - courtesy of Jessica Cohen

Her portraits that emerged from this unspeakable tragedy were haunting and, of course, masterfully executed. I will always be thankful to Matilda and will smile knowing I have two of her paintings in my home to remind me of her friendship. Her laughter, smile and mostly her enthusiasm for everyone’s work will not easily be replaced. Mary Endico, Sugar Loaf

accurate record of all the works she sold and gave away throughout the many years of her life. A number of photos of her works exist, and I will likely find more. One can hope some readers with works in their private collections will be moved to contact the family. Peter Grech, Port Jervis

My mother would sing so sweetly! One song in particular, the melody about “Rachael” by Matilda Grech the twelve days of Christmas, (white chalk on brown paper) courtesy of Peter Grech This year’s Pike County is a tune I particularly liked to Arts & Crafts’ 65th Annual Members Exhibit hear her singing! Her high, clear voice always will pay tribute to the passing of one of PCAC’s made me happy! But she sang other music too. founding members, Matilda Grech. Her 65 year Through the years I would watch with commitment to PCAC and her leadership and fascination as she would create beautiful scenes lively personality were a driving force within of landscapes, still lifes, flowers, and portraits! the group and an inspiration to us. I do miss her greatly. Marie Liu Michael Grech, Middletown Helping prepare the recent memorial art exhibit featuring my mother’s works, I reconnected with the scent of her oil paintings. When I was young, she still had a couple of these older pieces on display in our home. As far back as I can remember, though, she had made the switch to watercolors. I recall her saying that, because oil-based paint is toxic, she gave up oils for the sake of her children. Many a majestic portrayal of a mature maple tree trunk filled my youth. Maple tree upon maple tree - it was as if she were depicting an entire forest, one tree trunk at a time! Or perhaps the same tree, only at different heights, angles, seasons, and/or ages? Perhaps even different interpretations of the same visual? Since her death, it has been disconcerting to find out how many of her creations I have never seen before. I regret not having an

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How lucky I was to have met Matilda when first moving to Milford some 18 years ago. Her talent, spirit and love of art was evident always. Matilda worked tirelessly for art’s sake. How lucky we all were to have had her in our life for such a long and lovely time. Michele Jaffe, Doylestown, PA I’ve known Matilda for over 20 years. She’s one of my favorite artists. One time she drove to my house to help me set up an exhibit for our group in Cornwall. I said, “Matilda, I’m driving on the highway in my convertible, do you want me to put the top up? It will be very windy.” She said, “No, I brought my scarf. Let’s go. It will be fun.” And she enjoyed it! So cool. I went to her solo exhibit in Port Jervis many years back, and it was fabulous! She sold every painting!

The River Valley Artists Guild will miss Matilda. She encouraged me to become president of the Guild. We became good friends and shared our desire to help other artists. Together with all the Guild members we were able to create a great organization. Matilda will always be remembered for her beautiful art and her ability to mentor our Guild. Joan Kehlenbeck, president, RVAG Matilda Grech’s paintings mirrored her life... but with a softened edge. She had a positivity about her that seemed to keep her motivated and energized. Why else would she have faced the broken right arm she sustained in a vehicular accident a few years ago with a new outlook: she taught herself to paint with her left hand, not only so she could continue to paint for herself, but also that she would be able to teach her regular Monday painting class. I recall how delighted she was as she pointed out a painting to me that she had entered in the Middletown Art Group 2015 show, explaining that this was one of her “left-handed” watercolors. Her watercolor Summer Along the Delaware was her recollection of her walks with her husband. He would fish and she would paint. Her flower painting with clear glass vase Wayside Bouquet was recent. She had stopped along the roadside to pick wildflowers while en route to her Monday class. She laughed as she described that not only had she picked flowers, but apparently a tick came for the ride, too. Indeed, I always have flowers in my home since that watercolor is my bouquet, plus with the two smaller bouquets of hers that I luckily own, Matilda’s flowers brighten three different rooms. Matilda always dressed and acted like a lady. I loved it when she would call me on the phone. That sweet voice was always so polite. I miss her voice. I miss Matilda. My favorite of her paintings, though, is The Last Trek, a loose watercolor depicting the last steam engine pulling into Port Jervis with coils of billowing blue, lavender and gray smoke. Ah, Matilda, you’ve made your Last Trek of a long life...Dorothy Szefc, Goshen

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cinema

“Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” Tom Cruise �� Newburgh Library, Jan 2, 1:30pm FREE “How Green Was My Valley” Walter Pigdeon, Roddy MacDowell, Maureen O’Hara �� Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Balmville, Jan 5, 9:30am “The Longest Ride” �� Liberty Library. Jan 4, 10:30am FREE Reel Eclectic Film Series ��Thrall Library, Middletown, Jan 7, 2pm FREE “Sicario” Emily Blunt �� Newburgh Library, Jan 11, 1:30pm FREE Adult Independent Film Night �� Greenwood Lake Library, Jan 12, 7pm FREE “Wild Hogs” �� Cornwall Library, Jan 13, Noon FREE “Cupcakes” in Hebrew with English subtitles �� Cornwall Library, Jan 19, 6pm FREE Afternoon Movie ��Thrall Library, Middletown, Jan 20, 3pm FREE “The King & I” Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr �� Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Balmville, Jan 21, 9:30am “Red Dust” Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor ��UDGLBT Center, Milford, Jan 26, 7pm FREE Saturday Matinee at the Library �� Newburgh Library, Jan 30, 2pm FREE

recreation, Dancing

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

Storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Glass Slippers Revisited” �Florida Library, Dec 10, 7:30pm FREE

theatre - Musical

“The Toy Shoppe” by Kenny Rogers&Kelly Junkerman � Eisenhower Hall, West Point, Dec 13, 3pm

theatre - plays - dramatic readings

“Jane Eyre” Live from London’s National Theatre ��Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Date TBA

Schools & Conservatories

Monroe-Woodbury HS Students Music in Central Valley �� Central Valley United Methodist Church, Jan 24, 3pm FREE

comedy

Marion Grodin The Laugh Tour �� The Arnold, Livingston Manor, Jan 2, 8pm Sergio Chico, Tommy Gooch �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 2, 9pm Kathleen Madigan �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Jan 8, 7:30pm Paul Bond, Johnny Watson �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 9, 9pm John Pizzi ventriloquist, Chipps Cooney �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 16, 9pm “The Three Tenors Who Can’t Sing” Vic DiBetetto, Richie Minervini, Fred Rubino �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Jan 23, 8pm Keith Anthony, & TBA �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 23, 9pm Joey Callahan, & TBA �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 30, 9pm

holiday - celebrations

“Resolution” Decora & his Band, Funk Junkies, DJ H2O - music, art, performance �� Old Factory Building, Newburgh, Dec 31, 9pm

holistic & intuitive

“Alzheimer’s Disease: 20 Ways to Deter it While Using Hypnosis” �� George Toth, Diana Underwood MSM-DC Jan 22, 10am An Evening with Deborah group readings & food ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 27, 6pm

magic

“Adam Trent - The Futurist” �� Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, Jan 23, 8pm

museums

Terwilliger House Museum ��Ellenville, ongoing “Wildlife”, “Woodstock”, “Footwear”, “Hats” ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville ongoing Celebrating Catskill Waters Past & Present ��Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours ��Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing “Civil War Exhibit” �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, thru Jan 10 “The Atom Bomb” �� Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, Jan 7-Apr 30

Music - Classical

Bergen String Quartet Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Montgomery Senior Center, Jan 10, 3pm FREE Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra “Arabian Nights” multi-media �� Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, Jan 16, 3pm Potluck Concerts “Happy Birthday Herr Mozart” �� Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jan 22, 7:30pm David Podles violin, “Classical Composers thru the Centuries” Newburgh Library, Jan 24, 3pm FREE Stanley Curtis tenor, Gail Johnson piano, “Songs of Love” �� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown, Jan 31, 3pm

music - jazz

Live Jazz Brunch with The Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 1pm Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Brunch with Hudson Valley Jazz Trio ��Iron Forge Inn, Bellvale (Warwick), Jan 10, Noon-3pm Jean-Michel Pilc piano ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 17, 7pm Joe Carozza Trio �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 24, 10am-2pm

Opera

“The Pearl Fishers” Bizet, Live from the Met in HD ��SUNY Sullivan, Jan 16, 1pm “Bluebeard’s Castle” Bartok, video ��Cornwall Library, Jan 17, 1pm FREE “Turandot” Puccini, Live from the Met in HD ��SUNY Sullivan, Jan 30, 1pm

poetry & prose readings

Hudson River Poets �� Newburgh Library, Jan 7, 7pm FREE Robert Milby ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 7, 7pm “Victorian House Ghosts and Gothic Poems” Robert Milby ��Chester Library, Jan 9, 2pm FREE Ariana Den Bleyker ��Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery, Jan 12, 7pm FREE Country Voices Poetry ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Jan 20, 6:30pm Robert Milby Poetry at the Church ��Goshen Methodist Church, Jan 24, 7pm FREE Poetry Night ��Stella’s Frozen Yogurt, Washingtonville, Jan 27, 7pm

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 Lucky Peterson blues, rock, Dylan Doyle �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 1, 7pm Marshall Crenshaw folk/rock Brian Dunne country �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 2, 7pm Times Square a cappella doo wop �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 3, 11am-2pm Larry Moses & The Latin Jazz Explosion �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 3, 7pm Joe Louis Walker & Friends blues/rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 7, 7pm John Fisher Hudson Valley Folk Guild ��Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Jan 9 , 7:30pm Ryan Montbleau, Bobby Paltauf rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 10, 7pm Dojo Dance Company tango & salsa, Lessons@6:30pm, Dance@8:30pm ��Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 12 Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys Zydeco �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 14, 7pm The Sherman Holmes Project with Brooks Long gospel/r&b �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 15, 7pm Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound gospel/blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 17, 10am-2pm Roots & Blues Sessions �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jan 20, 7pm Bobby Paltauf, Dylan Doyle Band r&r �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 21, 7pm Adrien Reju, Elijah Wolf �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 22, 7pm Arlen Roth Slide Guitar Summit w/Cindy Cashdollar �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 23, 7pm Mighty Spectrum Band �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 23, 7:30pm Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Newburgh Chamber Music, folk American, Cajun, Quebecois �� St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Jan 24, 3pm The Trapps Americana, folk, r&r �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 24, 7pm Melissa Ferrick indie alt-rock, Western Den folk �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 29, 7pm Jane Lee Hooker Band, Leah Siegel & Miles Goldstein blues, folk ��Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 30, 7pm La Familia swing, blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 31, 10am-2pm 5th Annual Women Performers for WOMEN BUILD Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 31, 7pm

Open Mic & in-house music Some listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Musicians Gathering open mic �� Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals �Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em Soul, blues, funk ��WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Songwriter’s Anonymous ��Artists Market, Shohola, First Sundays, 2pm Brian Tice Duo �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 2, 7:30pm Papa J. & Mo’ Soul soul, funk reggae ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jan 2, 8:30pm Paul Davis keyboard ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 3, 2:30pm-5:30pm Ed Packer classic rock ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 8, 7:30pm-10:30pm Hurley Mountain Highway ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 9, 7:30pm-10:30pm Ray Longchamp ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 10, 2:30pm-5:30pm Jack Higgins & Co. ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 15, 7:30pm-10:30pm TWD band with Ken Nicastro ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 16, 7:30pm-10:30pm Evan Teatum & Friends ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 17, 2:30pm-5:30pm Bruce Perone ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 22, 7:30pm-10:30pm Teddy Young & The Aces blues, r&r ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jan 23, 8:30pm Gayle Donnally ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 24, 2:30pm-5:30pm Gregg Van Gelder Band ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 29, 7:30pm-10:30pm Channel Drifters ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 30, 7:30pm-10:30pm Paul Binotto ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jan 31, 2:30pm-5:30pm January 2016

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MONDAY

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Poetry Ernie Sherman Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

DVAA ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series......Montgomery Senior Center GWL ��Greenwood Lake Library IKE �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point

TUESDAY

Music - Jazz Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau FAL 7pm

WEDNESDAY

Poetry Night Stella’s Frozen Yogurt, Washingtonville, 7pm

JEST ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester MICV Music in Central Valley �� Central Valley United Methodist Church MISU �� Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster, Ellenville MONTBK �� Montgomery Book Exchange MSM-AQ ��Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville

THURSDAY

Music - Blues-Roc

Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Music - Reggae............ The Big Takeover.............................FAL 8pm Music-Art-Performance...”Resolution”.Old Factory Bldg, Nwbgh, 9pm

Music - Rock-Soul Corey Glover FAL7pm

4 Cinema “The Longest Ride” Liberty Library, 10:30am

Cinema “How Green Was My Valley” MSM-DC 9:30am

Music & Tango-Salsa Dance Dojo Dance Company FAL 6:30pm

Poetry Ariana Den Bleyker Montgomery Book Exchange, 7pm

19 Cinema “Cupcakes” Cornwall Library, 6pm An Evening with Deborah, Intuitive Palaia Winery, Highland Mills January 27, 6pm

Poetry Robert Milby Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Cinema................... Reel Eclectic Film Series............... THRALL 2pm Poetry............................... Robert Milby............................. NOBL 7pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Music - Blues-Rock......Joe Louis Walker & Friends.............FAL 7pm Open Mic.................Musician’s Gathering......................DCAT 7:30pm

Cinema Independent Film Night Greenwood Lake Library, 7pm

12 Cinema “Sicario” NFL 6:30pm

26 Cinema “Red Dust” UDGLBT Center, Milford, 7pm

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Guitarist John Fisher Coffeehouse at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern January 9, 7:30pm

Cinema “Wild Hogs” Cornwall Library, Noon

Cinema Afternoon Movie Thrall Library, 3pm

21 Cinema............................ “The King & I”................. MSM-DC 9:30am

Music Roots & Blues Sessions FAL Underground, 7pm

Intuitive Readings An Evening with Deborah, PW, 6pm Poetry Night Stella’s Frozen Yogurt, Washingtonville, 7pm

Comedy........................ Monroe Library Photo Exhibit William Tranum January 1-31

Music - Gospe

Music - Zydeco......Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys.FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Storytelling....Black Dirt Storytelling Guild.... Florida Library, 7:30pm

Poetry Music - R&R......Bobby Paltauf Band, Dylan Doyle Band.....FAL 7pm Country Voices Poetry Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Crawford Library, Monticello 6:30pm Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio. Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm

28 Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm

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Music....................... Music - Classical..P

Country Voices Poetry Group Crawford Library, Monticello January 20, 6:30pm

Music - Rock-Folk

ry 2016 NCM Newburgh Chamber Music �� St. George’s Church, Newburgh NFL �� Newburgh Free Library NOBL �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PEEC �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry PT �� Paramount Theater, Middletown PW �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills

FRIDAY

ck......Lucky Peterson, Dylan Doyle...........FAL 7pm “Big Cats” Hudson Highlands Nature Museum January 9, 10:00am

........................ Kathleen Madigan................. SLPAC 7:30pm

RITZ �� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh ROSE ��New Rose Theatre, Walden SCCC �� Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake SLGMN �� Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SLPAC �� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center ST �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville

SATURDAY

Cinema......... “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation”....... NFL 1:30pm Music - Folk-Rock-Country.Marshall Crenshaw, Brian Dunne.FAL 7pm Music - Soul-Funk-Reggae........Papa J. & Mo’ Soul........... DCAT 8pm Comedy............Marion Grodin......The Arnold, Livingston Manor, 8pm Comedy..............Sergio Chicon, Tommy Gooch............... JEST 9pm

9 Theatre - Musical..“Les Miserables” school edition....SLPAC 2pm & 7pm

Music - Folk....................... John Fisher........................... UUC 7:30pm Comedy................ Paul Bond, Johnny Watson................. JEST 9pm

pel/R&B......Sherman Holmes Project w/Brooks Long...FAL 7pm

16 Opera.......... “The Pearl Fishers” Live from the Met........SCCC 1pm Music - Classical......Greater Newburgh Sym. Orch..... MSM-AQ 3pm Music...........................Music for Humanity.................. NOBL 7:30pm Comedy..... John Pizzi ventriloquist, Chipps Cooney...... JEST 9pm

Brunch with The Hudson Valley Jazz Trio Forge Inn, Warwick - January 10, Noon-3:00pm

....................... Adrien Reju, Elijah Wolf.......................FAL 7pm Potluck Concerts.Cornwall Presbyterian Ch. 7:30pm

k......Melissa Ferrick, Western Den............FAL 7pm

SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh SUNYO-MM �� SUNY Orange, Morrison Mansion, Middletown SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TUST ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg UUC �� Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern

Music - Doo Wop.................Times Square......................... FAL 11am-2pm

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music......Songwriter’s Anonymous...... Artists’ Market, Shohola 2pm

Music................. Larry Moses’ Latin Jazz Explosion................. FAL 7pm

10 Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music - Classical........Bergen String Quartet..................GMCM 11am

Music - Jazz.Hudson Valley Jazz Trio Brunch.Iron Forge Inn, Noon-3pm Theatre - Musical..“Les Miserables” school edition....SLPAC 2pm & 7pm Music - Rock....... Ryan Montbleau, Bobby Paltauf.................... FAL 7pm

17 Music - Gospel. Alexis P. Suter & Ministers of Sound..... FAL 10am-2pm

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am

Opera - Video................“Bluebeard’s Castle”.........Cornwall Library, 1pm Theatre - Kids.............. The Paper Bag Players.............. SUNYO-OH 2pm Music - Jazz................. Jean-Michel Pilc piano........................... FAL 7pm

Music - Slide Guitar.Arlen Roth & Cindy Cashdollar.............FAL 7pm Music........................Mighty Spectrum Band................... PW 7:30pm Comedy.........“The Three Tenors Who Can’t Sing”.............. PT 8pm Magic....................“Adam Trent - The Futurist”.................... IKE 8pm Music - Blues-R&R.........Teddy Young & the Aces....... DCAT 8:30pm Comedy.................... Keith Anthony, & TBA...................... JEST 9pm

Opera................. “Turandot” Live from the Met...............SCCC 1pm

Music.. .Jane Lee HookerBand, Miles Jakob & Leah Anne Siegel..FAL 7pm

Comedy.....................Joey Callahan, & TBA...................... JEST 9pm

SUNDAY

Music - Jazz................Joe Carozza Trio..................... FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music - Folk-Cajun-Quebecois.Jay Ungar & Molly Mason..NCM 3pm Music - Classical......Monroe-Woodbury HS Students....... MICV 3pm Music - Classical..........David Podles violin.......................... NFL 3pm Music - Folk - R&R.............The Trapps..................................FAL 7pm

Music - Swing-Blues..........La Familia......................... FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music - Classical......... Stanley Curtis tenor..............SUNYO-OH 3pm Music - Fundraiser..Habitat for Humanity WOMEN BUILD.. FAL 7pm

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Art exhibits

CAS ��Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DVAA ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WAA �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance WRS �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Group Show ��Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Group Show �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ��Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Studio Monday Artists 2015 Exhibit �� Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, ongoing Ron Lusker paintings, drawings ��Left Bank Gallery, Liberty, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Lana Privitera paintings ��Blazing Bagels Cafe, Montgomery, ongoing Sara Baloga photography, John Gould & Anthony Spano paintings �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, ongoing Bob Breur sculpture, Garin Baker paintings ��The Studio Gallery, New Windsor, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Annual Great Small Works & Miniatures HOLIDAY SHOW ��, Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, thru Jan 6 Constant Companions: Contemporary Pet Portraits �� Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, thru Jan 8 “Holidays” WRS members group show �� WRS thru Jan 14 “Annual Toys for Tots Exhibit” Crawford Arts Association �� Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru Jan 21 Desmond Instructors’ Small Works Art Show ��MSM-DC thru Jan 26 Leslie Fandrich “Heroines Journey” collages ��Conscious Fork, Warwick, thru Jan 24 The Arc of Orange County Art Studio group show ��Two Alices, Newburgh, thru Feb 4 Pike County Arts & Crafts Members Show ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Feb 7 “Winter Solstice” River Valley Artists Guild �� Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Port Jervis City Hall (Wednesdays), & Deerpark Town Hall, thru Feb 8 Zimbabwe Artists Project �� Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, thru Sep 2016 NEW ART EXHIBITS

WRS Member’s Exhibit, Hal Gaylor �� WRS Jan 1-30 William Noonan “Colors” �� SUNYO-KH Jan 4-Feb 29 Martin Dominguez Ball “Reenganche” sculpture �� SUNYO-KH, Jan 5-Mar 16 Orange County Arts Council Members’ Show �� SUNYO-OH Jan 6-Feb 5 Michael Tobin “Bathos and Apotheosis: The Familiar Ennobled” �� SUNYO-OH Jan 6-Feb 5 Terry Straus “Suburban Landscapes” ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jan 7-Feb 28 “Winter” WRS members group show �� WRS Jan 15-Feb 14 Vernon Byron “The Form of Empty Space” �� Space Create, Newburgh, Jan 30 Red Zingr �� Global Recycling, Newburgh, Jan 30 Black and White Art ��Teran Studio, Newburgh, Jan 30 Daniel Angeli & Candy Spilner “Into the Storm” �� CAS Jan 30-Feb 28 “It’s Cold Outside. Take Home a Nude” �� The Studio Gallery, New Windsor, Jan 30-Mar 2

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Frederick Buell “Place/Spirits” �� Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, thru Jan “Photographers of Hope: Newburgh Revival” ��Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Jan 30 NEW photography EXHIBITS

“Farms from the Farm/Art Trail” WRS members group show �� WRS Jan 1-30 William Tranum �� Monroe Library, Jan 1-31

ART & Photography receptions

WRS Member’s Exhibit, Hal Gaylor, “Farms from the Farm/Art Trail” �� WRS Jan 9, 5pm-7pm Terry Straus “Suburban Landscapes” ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jan 10, 1pm-4pm Orange County Arts Council Members’ Show, w/Bev Poyerd, piano �SUNYO-OH Jan 10, 2pm-5pm Michael Tobin “Bathos and Apotheosis: The Familiar Ennobled” ��SUNYO-OH Jan 10, 2pm-5pm Daniel Angeli & Candy Spilner “Into the Storm” �� CAS Jan 30, Talk:2pm, Reception:3pm-5pm “It’s Cold Outside. Take Home a Nude” ��The Studio Gallery, New Windsor, Jan 30, 4pm-6pm Martin Dominguez “Reenganche” sculpture, Artist of Excellence series �� w/Joy Zaleda, classical guitar SUNYO-KH, Jan 30, 4pm-7pm, talk:5:30pm Red Zingr ��Global Recycling, Newburgh, Jan 30, 5pm-8pm Vernon Byron “The Form of Empty Space” ��Space Create, Newburgh, Jan 30, 6pm-10pm Black and White Art + music �� Teran Studio, Newburgh, Jan 30, 6pm-11pm William Noonan “Colors” closing reception �� SUNYO-KH Feb 27, 4pm-7pm 14

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Schools & Conservatories

Budding Artists ��Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing “Les Miserables” School Edition, SLPAC Academy Senior Students �� Sugar Loaf PAC Jan 9 & Jan 10, 2pm & 7pm

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 “Dearest Friend” by Lynne Withey �� Cornwall Library, Jan 6, 7pm “Victorian House Ghosts and Gothic Poems” w/by Robert Milby ��Chester Library, Jan 9, 2pm “The Sunflower” by Simon Wiesenthal, w/Rochelle Marshal �� SUNYO Morrison Hall, Middletown, Jan 13, Noon “Hot Six” by Janet Evanovich �� Cornwall Library, Jan 20, 7pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Jan 22, 11:30am “Nightingale” & “All the Light We Cannot See” ��Monroe Library, Jan 25, 6pm “Orphan # 8 w/Patty Sussman �� Newburgh Library, Jan 26, 2pm “The Paris Architect” by Charles Belfoure �� Cornwall Library, Jan 28, 7pm

children & Teens Calendar

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

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Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs ��Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE entertainment

“Les Miserables” School Edition, SLPAC Academy Senior Students �� Sugar Loaf PAC Jan 9 & Jan 10, 2pm & 7pm “Pop-Pop-Popcorn” The Paper Bag Players Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, Middletown, Jan 17, 2pm Museums

Meet the Animal of the Week ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Eco-Zone ��PEEC Jan 16 & Jan 31, 1pm-4pm recreation & Lectures

“Marvelous Moths” ��HHNM-CoH Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Teen Painting Drop-in ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 1pm “Big Cats: Bobcats & Mountain Lions” w/Megan Hoffman �� HHNM Jan 9, 10am “Outdoor Survival Skills” w/Carl Heitmuller �� HHNM Jan 10, 10am LectureS - master classes

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

Winter Ecology Hike ��PEEC Jan 2, 10am Intro to Snow-Shoeing �� PEEC Jan 2, 1pm & Jan 3, 10am “The Ice Harvesting Industry” Timothy Englert �� MSM-DC, Jan 7, 10am “Starting A Vegetable Garden” w/Cornell Cooperative Extension Gardener �� HHNM Jan 9, 1pm “Introduction to Homeopathy” Ann Marie Silvani �� MSM-DC Jan 11, 10am “Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food” �� Toni-Jean Kulpinski MSM-DC Jan 11, 1pm “Start the New Year Healthy” Dr. Richard Huntoon �� MSM-DC Jan 13, 1pm FREE “SAD-Beating the Winter Blues” Diane Lang �� MSM-DC Jan 14, 10:30am Animal Tracking Walk ��PEEC Jan 17, 1pm “Tugboats on the Hudson, Then and Now” Allynne Hopper Lange �� MSM-DC Jan 19, 11am “History of the O&W Railroad” ��Newburgh Library, Jan 20, 7pm “Alzheimer’s Disease: 20 Ways to Deter it While Using Hypnosis” �� George Toth, Diana Underwood MSM-DC Jan 22, 10am Class Struggle, Gender and the State (China): 1966-1976 + Film: “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”...Cornwall Library, Jan 27, 5:30pm “Reenganche” sculpting Martin Dominguez �� SUNYO-KH, Jan 30, 5:30pm DEMO Alicia Frosini “Tumeric: The Ayurvedic “Spice of Life” �� Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs, Sugar Loaf, Jan 16, 1pm MASTER CLASS William Noonan “Exploring the Language of Color” ��SUNYO-KH Jan 26, 6:30pm

In Memoriam : Jack Yelle

(May 5, 1934 - December 17, 2015) “We lost a phenomenal artist and friend this morning, Jack Yelle of Roscoe,” Kate Hyden informed CANVAS. “Teacher to adults and children, many of the artists from the North East Watercolor Society and the Catskill Art Society learned from him and were great friends with him. Generous of spirit and artistry, Jack was with my Audubon and Friends exhibition from the start. He was always willing take part whether it was Career Day for the art students at Livingston Manor School or a street fair in Roscoe. “Jack Yelle, celebrated Roscoe artist, lost his battle with cancer on 12/17/2015. Following his diagnosis Jack had decided he would live and leave his way. Surpassing the doctor’s predictions, he continued giving classes and exhibiting in shows, always with a smile of optimism. “Jack, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, majored in technical and industrial illustration. After an illustration career filled

“The Last Apple” by Jack Yelle

“Me & My Gal” by Jack Yelle

with famous clients, he studied watercolor with Edgar A. Whitney, exhibiting and winning awards for his paintings of nautical subjects and barns. Jack taught watercolor for eighteen years at the National Art League and was a member of the legendary Salmagundi Club and the Flushing Art League. “A “love affair of artists” best describes Jack and his wife, Pat. Retiring to the Catskills, they brought their talents to their Morning Star Creations shop in Roscoe. Jack found subjects in the fly fishing areas and landscapes of the mountains. His illustrations were part of the Renaissance program for both Sullivan County and Roscoe. “Many Catskill Art Society (CAS) artists owe their skills to Jack’s joy of life and unselfish sharing - whether he mentored them

at CAS in its Hurleyville location or in his own studio. Both the very young and seasoned professionals benefited from the gentle way he led each to their own level. Pat, ever at the ready with cookies and encouragement, made a second home for everyone at the Yelles. “Jack was represented at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and in every Audubon and Friends Too exhibition until 2015. His final exhibition was at the CAS Teacher/Student show. Here are some words from a letter he sent to his students: “and lastly, practice...better to fail gloriously than to succeed timidly - you don’t drown by falling in the water...only if you stay there!” Information on an upcoming Memorial/ Celebration of Jack’s life can be found at www.catskillartsociety.org In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to “Roscoe Cares” at 148 Rockland Road, Roscoe, NY 12776 or to Masses in his name.

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NCM Family Concert: Ungar & Mason

The rich, warm sounds of country fiddling and guitar strumming will replace classical violins and company for the January edition of the Newburgh Chamber Music (NCM) series. In this case, the musicians will be fiddler Jay Unger and guitarist Molly Mason, who have become one of the most celebrated duos on the Americana-Roots acoustic music scene. Their consummate musicianship, incomparable warmth and wit, and obvious love of the music have delighted audiences worldwide. You may know them from A Prairie Home Companion, from their own public radio program, Dancing on the Air on WAMC’s Northeast Network, and from film soundtracks such as Legends of the Fall and Brother’s Keeper. Millions were entranced by the music they did for Ken Burns’ PBS documentary The Civil War. Their performance of the series’ signature tune, Jay’s haunting composition Ashokan Farewell, earned the couple international acclaim. That soundtrack won a Grammy and Ashokan Farewell was nominated for an Emmy. Its simple, but powerful melody was originally inspired by the week-long Fiddle

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& Dance Camps that Jay & Molly run for musicians and dancers at Ashokan Center in the Catskills. “For fellow classical music devotees who may not know the high level of Unger and Mason’s musicianship, listen to a Thomas Hampson album, American Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster. Unger and Mason, along with composer-pianist David Alpher, provide the instrumental accompaniment. A Metropolitan Opera singer of Hampson’s caliber is not going to walk into a studio to record with instrumentalists unless the latter meet demanding standards.” Philip Ehrensaft. Their 2016 NCM program will be a mix of traditional American folk music with Cajun and Quebecois waltzes and reels for NCM’s 2015-2016 theme: A Touch of France. Tickets for the January 24, 3:00pm concert at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh, can be purchased at www. newburghchambermusic.org and at the door. Young people over 12 can come and enjoy at NCM’s $5 student rate. Admission is Free to youths under 12. A reception follows the concert. Plenty of parking across the street.

January 2016

“Jane Eyre” Live in HD at Downing

Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane Eyre is given a bold and dynamic production uncovering one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. This acclaimed reimagining of Brontë’s masterpiece was first staged by Bristol Old Vic last year, when the story was performed over two evenings. Director Sally Cookson now brings her celebrated production to London’s National Theatre. Cookson and her company, who devised the adaptation as an ensemble, have reworked their original two plays into a single, 210-minute drama. It begins with an elemental howl of anguish as Jane (Madeleine Worrall) voices the birth-cries of her infant self. From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles headon, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of bitter betrayal before taking the ultimate decision to follow her heart. “It is the entirety of Jane’s psychological journey that interests Cookson, not just the crisis of her love for Rochester, and the first act concentrates on her childhood experience of injustice and loss. Worrall’s account of the adult Jane retains her childish fury - a

quality that proves captivating to Felix Hayes’s rough-hewn Rochester, who makes a startling, expletivestrewn first appearance, accompanied by his dog Pilot (a scene-stealing performance from Craig Edwards).” Jane Shilling, The Telegraph “...there is much to admire in the staging. Michael Vale’s set of a wooden platform and steel ladders allows for fluidity of movement and yields some striking visual effects: best of all is Jane’s ascent, on the eve of her aborted wedding to Mr Rochester, crowned by a streaming white veil, cruelly rent in half.” Michael Billington The music in this production ranges from Noël Coward’s Mad About the Boy to an acoustic version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy. “Brontë was a modernist, and Jane Eyre is full of uncomfortable rage and a sense of justice. And we felt it was important not to hide that away in some beautifully proportioned, prissy presentation,” said Worrall. Jane Eyre will be shown in January, Live in HD from London, at the Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street on a date TBA. Phone: 845-561-3686. www.DowningFilmCenter.com

String Quartets: 1827, 1893 & 2015: Mendelssohn, Dvorák & A World Premiere! by Derek Leet

The Bergen String Quartet is the result of the efforts of one of Orange County’s cultural heroes, Dr. Woomyung Choe, whose vision and energy created the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra two decades ago. The Quartet was formed under the auspices of Dr. Choe’s Bergen Symphony Orchestra in September 2015, and had its first performance in a private setting on October 24, and now they will perform for the Greater Montgomery Chamber Music Series (GMCM). Featured on the program are an early romantic quartet, a late romantic quartet - arguably the most lyrical romantic quartet ever composed and, happily, a world premiere. The String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1827 when he was 18 years old. It was Mendelssohn’s first mature string quartet, one of Mendelssohn’s most passionate works, and one of the earliest and most significant examples of cyclic form in music (musical construction involving a theme or melody occuring in more than one movement as a unifying device). Though Mendelssohn was still a teenager when he wrote this quartet, he was already an experienced composer of chamber music, having already written his masterpiece, the

Octet for Strings, Opus 20. Speaking of masterpieces, Antonin Dvořák composed his Quartet # 12 in F major, Opus 12 1893 sketching it in three days and completing it in only thirteen more days, finishing the score with the comment “Thank God! I am content. It was fast.” While the influence of American folk song is not explicit in the quartet, the impact of Dvořák’s 12th quartet on later American compositions is audibly evident. The use of folk-songs in 20th century American music and the ‘wide-openspaces’ atmosphere of ‘Western’ film scores have at least some of their origins in Dvořák’s new ‘American’ style. You can hear echoes of Dvorak’s New World Symphony in, among music by scores of other composers (pun intended), Jerome Moross’ magnificent film score for The Big Country (1958). If you missed hearing Dvořák’s “American Quartet” performed live for Newburgh Chamber Music (by the American String Quartet) and for the Parksville Music Festival (by the Bronx Opera String Quartet), both performed exquistely in 2013, here’s your chance to witness its glories in person. Almost 200 years after Mendelssohn wrote his Quartet # 2, composer Aleksander Vezuli composed his String Quartet in G major and the GMCM concert includes the exciting world

premiere of this 2015 opus. “Myquartetwith four movements starts with a joyful theme, based on a folk tune followed by a second theme that does not last long, which Ye-Jin Han Jeram Kim Wei-Yang Andy Lin Samuel Boase-Miller counteracts with the first theme in development, and after the tussle the joyful theme comes back to celebrate the victory. The second movement is a pastoral, meditation, a calm after a storm of life. The third movement is based in a dance full of grace which passes in different keys, continues in that swing dance until leaving the place to his successor Antonin Dvorak & Felix Mendelssohn the fourth movement, a short movement, rapid, watch Aleksander Vezuli compose and syncopated, in a mixolydian mode (related in that country, his birth country. Vezuli, his wife Mimoza, and their musical to medieval), interrupted here and there by offspring: Franz - who performed a solo piano nostalgic tones.” Vezuli’s Woodwind Quartet was published concert for GMCM in 2005 - and Alba, reside in the USA in 2000, his The Elephant and in the East Coldenham section of the Town of the Dentist was broadcast on National TV in Newburgh at Vezuli Music. Visit www.vezulimusic.com for more info. Belgium, and his Symphonic Dances were The concert takes place in the Montgomery performed by the Chamber Symphony Players of the Berkshires in Hudson, NY in 2003. In Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street, on January 2010 and 2015 his Albanian Symphonic Dance 10 at 3:00pm. Admission is free. For information: 845-457-9867. # 1 and his Albanian Rhapsody were performed

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Sculpture & Paintings at SUNY Orange Newburgh

The Artist of Excellence series was initiated to spotlight highly talented regional artists. Artworks are on view in the glass vitrine cases located in the Foyer of the Mindy Ross Gallery, Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange in Newburgh. It is a wonderful setting afforded with natural light and multi-directional viewing of the pieces. Visual artist, graphic designer, sculptor, filmmaker, and musician Martin Dominguez Ball a native of Uruguay and a resident of Warwick who teaches fine arts and graphic design at SUNY Orange and St. John’s University, is the featured sculptor to start off the 2016 Artist of Excellence series. Titled Reenganche, meaning to reconnect and come back into play, the exhibit, on display January 5 to March 16, is comprised of sculptures made of found wood and metal. The works range in size from large to small, with Don Quijote, a “Don Quijote” representational piece, the largest at 42 by 59 inches while Key to My Heart, an abstract work, is one of the smallest at 12 by 4 inches. On January 30, from 4:00pm-7:00pm, the Gallery and Foyer will be open for Last Saturdays. An artist’s talk, A Creative Process by Martin Dominguez Ball, will begin at

5:30pm. Dominguez will explain how he “approaches every art or design project as an opportunity to challenge myself as an artist and as a human being.” The audience is invited to ask questions while enjoying refreshments at this free and open-to-the-public event. COLORS will fill the Mindy Ross Gallery, from January 4-February 29. The “colors” are paintings by Newburgh artist William Noonan whose repertoire is so broad that the show will include plein-air landscapes from his latest trip to Italy, still lifes, figures, portraits, and animal paintings. The exhibit will offer a view of his interests and artistic creativity and skills. Noonan’s liberal use of color brings his paintings to life and makes the viewer want to investigate the intricacies of each work. All within the realm of figurative, his paintings range from precise to loose, “Key to My Heart” mostly in oils, his preferred medium. He defines his art as “drawing on European traditions, yet clearly part of the continuum of American Realism.” At the very end of this two-month show, a closing reception will be held to celebrate Last Saturdays on February 27 from 4:00pm-

Newburgh Last Saturdays

7:00pm in the Gallery and Foyer during which classical guitarist, Joy Zelada, will play. Also, on January 26 from 6:30pm8:30pm, Noonan will be offering Exploring the Language of Color, a Master Class in creatively using color. During the class, which will take place in the Orange County Trust Company Great Room in Kaplan Hall, he will speak on the subject and use visuals. He will do a demonstration and then attendees will be invited to try out some color concepts by painting small studies. The exhibit, reception, and master class are free and open to the public weekdays. (Closed Jan 18). Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand and First Streets, Newburgh. Free and secure parking is available in the Kaplan Hall garage accessible at 73 First Street. For information, call 845-341-4891 / 9386.

“As an artist I am interested in the relationship between information and form. “At its most basic level, all matter is a collection of conditions, all of which contribute to the physical Art by V. M. Byron III substance of an object. Likewise, these same conditions govern the activity of the body in space/time. My work is primarily focused on expressing these conditions as visible systems, where they can be observed and manipulated in the manner of physical matter. “Despite the need to use the electromagnetic spectrum in order to perceive form, I am highly engaged with the exploration form as an interaction between space/time, and matter. To that end I’ve been experimenting with sound and other tactile expressions of form in order to work beyond the perceptive limits of the visible spectrum.” So says artist Vernon M. Byron, III who will have an exhibit titled The Form of Empty Space during Newburgh Last Saturdays at Space Create, 115 Broadway, Newburgh. A reception will be held on January 30 from 6:00pm-10:00pm. For information, phone 845-234-1961.

Alzheimer’s disease cannot be stopped or slowed, and there is no known cure. More women are affected than men. The latest research shows that certain simple behaviors have a definite correlation or avoiding risk of this disease. Now you can learn ways to lower your risk and maintain a healthy brain. Alternative Counseling provides psychotherapy and hypnosis to individuals, couples, families, and groups, with a focus on balance for physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Therapeutic approaches

are directed towards total healing in a holistic sense addressing chronic pain, pregnancy/infertility issues, anxiety and depression among others and utilizes methodologies unique to the individual seeking services. Join Alternative Counseling’s psychotherapists / hypnotists George Toth and Diana Underwood at Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh, on January 22 at 10:00am for their workshop, Alzheimer’s Disease: 20 Ways to Deter it While Using Hypnosis. To register, call 845-565-2706.

“Yellow Roses & Cherries” by W. Noonan

Deterring Alzheimer’s at Desmond

Stanley Curtis Sings! Tenor Stanley Curtis will perform a solo recital, Songs of Love, an anniversary as such, as he gave a similar performance in the same venue 31 years ago. Selections include Elizabethan Songs, German Stanley Curtis Lieder, Irish Ballads, and courtesy of American Folk Songs. Pianist Ed Bailey Gail Johnson will accompany him in Orange Hall Theatre, SUNY Orange, Middletown at 3:00pm on January 31. Tickets: www.sunyorange.edu at the door. Students free. For information 845-341-4891. 18

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January 2016

Two Exhibits for SUNY Orange: Michael Tobin - Solo Show & OCAC - Group Show

Michael Tobin by Jessica Cohen When Goshen artist Michael Tobin was in kindergarten, he drew a house, partly hidden by a hill, which made it mysterious, even to him. In his upcoming first solo show, he feels that his paintings of Newfoundland relatives, because of their history, also exude mystery. “When I see my painting of my Uncle Phil, there’s so much more than a man in a plaid shirt. I can see what else is there because I know the stories, but I think people who don’t know him or his culture can sense that there’s something there for their minds to complete - like my house behind the hill. Many of Andrew Wyeth’s portraits convey this sense of back story, and it pulls you in.” He also aims for a sense of back story in his still life paintings, a desire to have “objects express the people who lived with them.” Tobin came to serious painting with substantial “back story” himself. He had known since elementary school that he would pursue art professionally - his uncle had told him then that he could be an illustrator, and Tobin thought he would. Art surfaced here and there in his family history too. His aunt had painted, and his grandmother made rugs with imagery. He chose graphic design because it offered more steady work. But at 46, he found that computers had taken over what he did with his hands, so he looked for other expressive uses for

“Route 52, Walden” oil on linen by Michael Tobin

them and chose the National Academy School. He started in the fall of 1993 with portraitist Furman Finck, who had painted Dwight Eisenhower and Helen Hayes. He also took a one-semester master class with Aaron Shikler, who was “court painter” to the Kennedys. “He didn’t want it to be a portraiture class, so I painted a landscape,” says Tobin. “The rest of my time there I painted from life on Saturday mornings with Janet Wentworth, commuting from Pine Bush. Two of those paintings will be in the show.” He veered toward oil on linen as his medium, because, he says, “It’s what the old masters used. And there’s something fleshy about oils, the way they reflect light and suggest suppleness.” What he learned at the Academy, he says, was to “simplify, to decide what made the subject worth painting, and to treat the painting as a series of design decisions rather than a record of everything I saw.” In 2003, when Janet Wentworth, one of his mentors there, told him the Academy had given him all it could, and he should start working on

his own, he parted ways with student projects. “I gravitated to painting what I know, mostly my family in Newfoundland,” he says. “I love ethnographic works, especially Gauguin in Brittany and Tahiti, and Dagnan-Bouveret in Brittany. Newfoundland has a very rich culture; it even has its own dictionary and encyclopedia.” As for the challenges of his work, he says, “They’re always the same: simplifying, and making the light yummy.” Orange County Arts Council by Derek Leet The Orange County Arts Council (OCAC) is once again partnering with SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs in Middletown to host its annual 2016 Members Art Exhibit. “We are so excited to be able to host this exhibit again in Orange Hall Gallery at SUNY Orange. It is a venue that is known for its rich and diverse cultural events and we are happy to be a part of their creative calendar,” stated Dawn Ansbro, Executive Director of OCAC. Ansbro believes, “These events support the strong, thriving arts

community in Orange County and that is at the heart of what the Arts Council does every day.” Participating artists to date include: Sean Addy, Linda Barboni, Rachel Bertoni, Mona Birmingham, Adrienne Butvinik, Lisa Cullen, Leslie Fandrich, Cynthia Harris-Pagano, Janet Howard-Fatta, Maria Kastan, Brian Kastan, Martin Kivell, Minjin Kung, Barbara Lanza,

Artwork by Julia Tighe

Tanya Laurer, Renelle Lorray, Eileen MacAvery Kane, Al Margolis, Susan Miiller, Carol Mindnich, David Nolan, William O’Keefe, Diane Ouzoonian, Linda Rahl Nadas, Ginny Rizzo, Cody Rounds, Mitchell Saler, Bob Scully, Frank Shuback, Milagros Suriano-Rivera, Julia Tighe, and Miroslav Vrzala. Both shows can be seen weekdays January 8-February 5 (except Jan. 18) MondaysThursdays 9:00am-8:00pm & Fridays 9:00am6:00pm. Meet the artists at the opening reception January 10, 2:00pm- 5:00pm. For information, call OCAC: 845-469-9168.

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Spotlight On: The Sugar Loaf Guild Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs is committed to offering quality products from like-minded companies who support sustainable agriculture and Fair-Trade practices. Owners Alicia and Gene Frosini have been growing herbs as a wholesale business for over 20 years. In 2005 the retail shop blossomed out of Alicia’s interest in finding creative ways to use the herbs that she grows. In the store you will find her herbs tucked into floral arrangements and potpourri, infused in honey, and steeped in soaps, lotions and bath salts. Herb enthusiasts delight in this shop where specialty items such as fresh organic vanilla beans are offered at low prices and empty jars and instructions are available to encourage customers to learn how to make their own herbal creations. “We encourage sustainability. Bring your tin or jar back to the shop and we will refill them for you - eliminating the cost of paying for packaging,” said Alicia. For those with hectic schedules there are prepacked spice blends to make gourmet cooking easy. For those interested in aromatherapy and natural beauty products, there is a large selection of organic essential oils and carrier oils, lotions, and natural perfumes. From gardening to kitchen essentials, you can even find that little something that makes a house a home. In the spring and summer, the Frosini’s own organic flowers, herbs, perennials, vines,

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Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs: Alicia & Gene Frosini

vegetables, hanging baskets, and mixed planters are a must-see! They also make their own seasonal dried floral designs. “It’s a fun shop to visit throughout the year because we carry items that vary by season. For instance, in the winter one can walk in and smell fresh evergreen while browsing the wooden reindeer that Gene creates...in the summer we feature different iced tea blends. Fall brings dried floral and herbal arrangements along with pumpkins, squash and gourds, and in the spring visitors will see hanging baskets and plants galore...the potpourri changes by season, too!,” said Alicia. Alicia also offers workshops throughout the year. Their Winter Health Series features free instore demonstrations prepared to inspire health and rejuvenation. This winter, they will share their enthusiasm for their favorite Ayurvedic Indian healing herbs. Learn about Turmeric: The Ayurvedic “Spice of Life” on January

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16, from 1:00pm-2:00pm. Alicia will demonstrate simple ways to add turmeric to your cooking and beverages and how to increase its availability, along with a discussion about its many health promoting properties. The Winter Health Series continues with Black Cumin Seed (February 6) and Tulsi “Holy Basil” (February 20). Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs also specializes in organic and Fair-Trade tea blends. Choose from a wide variety of pure leaf black, oolong, green, and white teas as well as unique flavor blends. Herbal teas/ tisanes are blended in-store in small batches to ensure quality and freshness. They also offer an array of original blends for specific health needs which are available as loose tea or in teabags. And there’s even more: the shop carries natural cosmetics and skincare offering a collection of only the best and purest items. Look for beauty oils like Tamanu and Argan, all-natural haircare, and their own line of Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs aroma sprays, lotions, and home-spa essentials. To top it all off, Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs gives you, dear reader, value for your money. Customers happily exclaim that the prices are very reasonable! Get out to Sugar Loaf and visit Alicia & Gene while stocking up on herbs and teas for this winter! Sugar Loaf Mountain Herbs: 1361 Kings Highway; 845-469-6460.

65th Annual Exhibit

Pike County Arts & Crafts (PCAC) was established to help local artists and crafters of all ages learn to teach and exhibit their work, to encourage young artists and to advance the image of Pike County as an arts community. The ARTery Gallery is hosting PCAC for its 65th annual Members Exhibit & Holiday Sale running through February 7, paying tribute to the passing of one of PCAC’s founding members, Matilda Grech (see page 10). Local artists and craftspeople are showing their creative endeavors to their neighbors and community, while providing the community the chance to enjoy and purchase original, one-of-a-kind items from local artists. Support the local economy and art community by browsing and purchasing paintings, prints, photography, jewelry, pottery, stained glass, sculpture and woodworking just some of the offerings of the thirty-plus artists who are expected to participate! The ARTery gallery is at 210 Broad Street, Milford. Parking is behind the building with a convenient rear entrance. Call 570-409-1234 for information.

Nationally recognized fine artist and muralist Garin Baker has, over many years, renovated his historic 1790 stone carriage house and post and beam barn, into one of the most beautiful working artists studios in the Hudson Valley well worth a visit to see and enjoy. And now you can! The Studio Gallery is up and running and open to the public. This new addition is a beautifully appointed gallery with stonewalls, hand hued beams and open spaces beautifully lit for art exhibitions, displaying some of the best in contemporary figurative art and Hudson River paintings being done today. There’s an ongoing exhibition, Landscapes Near and Far, featuring many of Garin’s plein air studies painted around the Hudson Valley, as well as many done from his travels over the past few years. Included in this inaugural exhibition, is local artisan and sculptor, Bob Breur. Bob is exhibiting many of his figure works done in found wood and clay of various patinas. Works are priced well within reach of local art collectors, and the warmth and historical setting hopes to encourage the general public to come in for a look, meet the artists and find something hand made and created here in the Hudson Valley to fall in love with. Garin conducts regular painting and drawing sessions with live models for local professional artists and hobbyists. In addition, Garin offers regular plein air painting excursions along

It’s Cold Outside. Take Home a Nude!

the Hudson River in the spirit of the Hudson River School painters. A yearly schedule of workshops for students, including visiting artist professionals as instructors, has welcomed students and travelers from as far off as Germany and Ireland who attend these art intensives. The next exhibition is planned for late January entitled, It’s Cold Outside, Take

Home a Nude. It will feature several figure paintings and drawings by Garin as well as by invited artists who regularly attend his weekly open studio sessions. The reception is on January 30, 6:00pm-8:00pm, and the exhibit runs through March 2. Sign up to receive his newsletter, “From the Studios of Garin Baker” at his contact page and website: www.garinbaker.com or email

him at: gb@carriageart.com Stay tuned for a list of artists participating, or take a drive over to The Studio Gallery, 478 Union Avenue in New Windsor. Call 845-863-4352.

Downing Park Christmas Tree & Menorah Lighting On December 6, the first night of Hanukkah, both a menorah and Christmas tree were lit as a symbol of light and hope to counter the darkness of violence and terrorism in our world. This celebration in the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks counters the violence of those events. A crowd of approximately 100 people attended and heard Rabbis Larry Freedman and Philip Weintraub talk about the Hanukkah feast as a commemoration of faith, hope, and religious freedom. Tony Sculley from the Downing Park Planning Committee (DPPC) spoke about the importance of overcoming darkness with light, love, and an essential faith in the

for her efforts in getting basic goodness and decency the Meadow Hill chorus to of people. perform. The Meadow Hill The DPPC especially Elementary School Chorus thanks Mark Carnes and under the direction of music Mary Elin Korchinsky teacher, Ms. Murphy, treated who were the initiators and those assembled in front of sponsors of this event which the Polly Pond to some traditional holiday songs, “Skating on Polly Pond” by M.E. Whitehill recognizes the importance of and everyone joined in singing Let There Be all religious traditions in helping us to become Peace on Earth. Hot chocolate, candy canes, better human beings. All in attendance were uplifted by the spiritual significance of this and cookies were served after the ceremony. The DPPC would like to acknowledge ceremony on a cold, dark December night. The DPPC will be scheduling this as an Theresa Brown, Director of Music and Art for the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, annual event.

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Community Building Through the Arts w i th S u s a n Ha n d l e r Community Supports Quality Music Education Congratulations to the Monroe Woodbury School District! For the fourth year in a row the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation (NAMM) has recognized MWSD as one of the nation’s Best Music Communities. Under the leadership of MWSD Music Coordinator Nicole Regan the district is committed to providing quality music education for all students in grades K-12. Research has found that learning music facilitates learning other subjects and enhances skills that children inevitably use in other areas leading to improved quality of life. In the process of learning music in school, many students yearn to participate in extracurricular music activities. These activities can lead to a lifetime commitment to music. In the spirit of helping to develop future industry professionals Janice Nimetz, the producer of Music in Central Valley, and Ruthanne Schempf and Emily Faxon, producers of the Hudson Valley Society for Music, have provided opportunities for students to meet, learn from, and perform with highly respected musicians. Sarah Tusch, a 2006 graduate of the

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MWSD, has benefited from Orange where I find myself most comfortable. County’s commitment to music. Sarah, It’s what I know and love. I am now a professional violinist, began her music trying to do what others did for me. I studies at Central Valley Elementary am trying to show the same compassion School. During her high school years and same support to my own students she performed with Orange County that my teachers showed me.” professional orchestras and chamber Janice Nimetz Editor’s note: ensembles. She credits her high school Since 2000, the professional Chamber Orchestra Director Bonnie chamber music series Music in Glazier, high school Pit Orchestra Central Valley (MICV) has devoted its Director Rick Regan, and her father, January concerts to performances by operatic bass vocalist, Erich Tusch, as the MWSD high school students. her inspirational mentors. The music Seeing teens perform classical teachers at MWSD gave her every music both solo and in ensembles is Nicole Regan opportunity to move forward, and an impelling and stirring sensation consistently supported her through all because not all of them will be musical her endeavors. To this day Sarah is still stars of tomorrow. There is something in contact with her teachers. wonderful about seeing young adults With a SUNY New Paltz Bachelors perform and knowing that they now DegreeinCommunicationDisordersand have an avocation...something to enjoy a Masters of Music: Violin Performance as they pursue a career in any field. Degree, Ms. Tusch currently performs Sarah Tusch A career in which, though possibly with the Greater Newburgh Symphony technical or scientific or health related, they Orchestra and the Dorian String Quartet. will know how to create. She is also a violin sub for the Hudson Valley The scope of music I heard at MICV Philharmonic, a private violin instructor, and in 2014 and 2015 was impressive. There works for the Performing Arts Department at even was a Wind Quintet, a Brass Quintet the Hackley School in Tarrytown. and a Saxophone Quintet!, plus the various In a recent conversation Sarah shared instrumental and vocal artists. The Woodwind her thoughts about music and the MWSD. Quintet included bassoonist Zachary Proulx “Overall, music grounds me. It’s my home and and they performed his remarkably mature

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composition Elara, For Eternity. And there were a few promising future professional performers. A teenage tenor, Conor Shatto (who a few months later was a guest soloist with the Classical Choral Society) and his arousing and electrifying, ringing tones and right-on high notes, Olivia Rainoff, a highly promising professional-artist-to-be to be sure, breathtakingly performing a solo cello work with mature expression, and the rip-roaring and sensational pyrotechnics of John Weber who also played what seemed to be atonal music on his marimba, tenderly and thoughtfully, making it sound like Mozart! The MSDW music program is a wonderful example of what can be offered to students. And it is important to point out that the program exists because of the ongoing support of parents over the years AND the much needed support of local businesses. The MSDW/MICV concert is on January 24 at 3:00pm in the Central Valley United Methodist Church, 12 Smith Clove Road. Admission is free. Donations requested. For information regarding music opportunities in Orange County, visit: www.mw.k12.ny.us/webpages/nregan/index.cfm www.sarahtusch.com www.hudsonvalleysocietyformusic.org or e-mail Janice Nimetz at jnimetz@ emmawillard.org

Live from the Met at SUNY Sullivan: Early Bizet, Late Puccini

Tuesday Milford Movies

by Derek Leet

sacred oath as a priestess. Diana Damrau stars. At the time of the Her suitors are tenor Oui, c’est elle! premiere, Bizet was 25 Matthew Polenzani C’est la déesse, years old and had yet to and baritone Mariusz Plus charmante et plus belle! establish himself in the Kwiecien.Director Penny (Yes, it is she! Parisian musical world. Woolcock’s production It is the goddess, Despite a good reception vividly creates an undersea more charming and more beautiful!) by the public, press world on the stage of the And so it begins, arguably the most reactions to the work Met on January 16. exquisite tenor-baritone duet in all of opera. were generally hostile Nessun dorma! Nessun Though Bizet wrote fifteen operas, Les and dismissive, although dorma! pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) is Hector Berlioz and other Nina Stemme as “Princess Turandot” (None shall sleep! considered Georges Bizet’s “other” opera composers found considerable merit in the None shall sleep!) because the “other music. And so it begins, arguably the most thirteen” are rarely Modern critical popular tenor aria in all of opera, recently performed. I guess one opinion has been kinder re-popularized by Aretha Franklin during the could say the popularity than that of Bizet’s Papal visit to Philadelphia in September! of Carmen makes up for day. Commentators With all the recent controversy about some those omissions in the acknowledge the opera of the Met’s “odd-new” productions, purists operatic repertoire. as a work of promise in are happy that the formidable opera house Les pêcheurs de perles which Bizet’s gifts for has retained Franco Zefferelli’s production is an opera to a libretto melody and evocative of Puccini’s last opera, Turandot. by Eugène Cormon and instrumentation are Nina Stemme stars in the title role. Tenor Michel Carré. It was first clearly evident. They Marco Berti is the brave prince who wins Diana Damrau as “Leïla” performed in 1863. Set in have identified clear her love: on January 30. ancient times on the island of Ceylon, the foreshadowings of the composer’s genius Both operas begin at 1:00pm at Sullivan opera tells the story of how two men’s vow of which would culminate 10 years later in County Community College in Loch eternal friendship is threatened by their love Carmen. Sheldrake. Come for a snack and a pre-opera for the same woman, whose own dilemma Bizet’s opus returns to the Met stage talk at 12:15pm. Tickets at the door. is the conflict between secular love and her for the first time in 100 years. Soprano 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

DiLeo & Jane Powell at the Black Bear Film Fest

Noted film author and historian John DiLeo hosts films at many film festivals nationally (Tennessee Williams Film Festival) and locally (Black Bear Film Festival). His 2016 winter community series runs six consecutive Tuesdays from January 26-March 1, and begins “with steamy, sexy fun on a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia, with macho Clark Gable caught between hooker Jean Harlow and married “lady” Mary Astor. Made in the racy pre-Code era, it’s eye-openingly modern on the subject of desire,” DiLeo announced. The five films that follow range from mystery to comedy to musical to romance to drama. They are shown Tuesdays at 7:00pm at the Upper Delaware GLBT Center, 201 W. Harford Street, Milford. All are welcome. For a complete list, email John DiLeo at jddmovies@aol.com

M ONTG OM ERY & CA M PB E L L HA L L - D I N I N G & S H O P P I N G

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Paper Bag Players: “Pop-Pop-Popcorn!”

The Paper Bag Players are making their annual trek to Middletown for a winter performance of their new play, Pop-Pop-Popcorn! Each year this award-winning theatre company creates an original fun-filled play with underlying life lessons, and this year is no exception. Conceived by the actors themselves for great family entertainment - especially 3 to 9 year olds - the fast-paced show is filled with new songs, funny stories, adventure, dancing, and paper bag sets, plus audience participation opportunities. Pop-Pop-Popcorn! is an uproarious combination of brand new material together with classic favorites of “The Bags.” To emphasize the title, a popping dance has been choreographed and the entire audience is invited to stand up and sing, dance, and pop in order to become a jumbo-sized popcorn. The hour is wrapped up with a lively and colorful group painting made not with brushes but handprints. The Paper Bag Players dance as they paint, transforming a wild, wet landscape into a beautiful rainbow. The Paper Bag Players promise that theatregoers, young and old, will be singing and laughing, hoppin’ and poppin’ from start to finish. They have been successfully engaging their audiences for 57 years. Artistic director,

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Ted Brackett, has been performing with “The Bags” for 28 years. Composer and music director John Stone has been with the troupe for 16 years. He has a personal remembrance because as a child, he attended Paper Bag Players performances. In addition to Brackett, actors Kevin Richard Woodall, Kathy D. Harrison, and Caroline Carden perform on stage while Stone plays his compositions live on his electric keyboard. This wonderful family/children’s event takes place on January 17 at 2:00pm in Orange Hall Theatre, SUNY Orange. Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown, where free parking is available in the adjacent lot. Visit www.sunyorange.edu to purchase tickets online. SUNY Orange students with ID admitted free. For more information call: 845-341-4891.

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