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May 2018

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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen Apologies to Classic Choral Society (CCS) for our error in last month’s CANVAS. Please note that the CCS free concerts are on April 28 in Middletown and May 6 in Blooming Grove. See calendar page 15. Synchronicities of the month: Elegaic piano trios in Milford (Rachmaninoff) & Warwick (Tchaikovsky). One-Woman-Play fundraisers for the local chapters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Bethel and Middletown, and for TANDEMoments’ traumatic brain injury survivors in Milford. Vocabulary Lesson: Peripeteia: a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in

reference to fictional narrative. Redouté: Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17591840), a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers. In this issue: World premieres in Narrowsburg (play) and Warwick (music). World War I (music) in So. Fallsburg and World War I (lecture) in Newburgh. A Bonus Coupon for membership in a local organic food online marketplace distributing in Ellenville, Cragsmoor, Ulster Heights and Wurtsboro. Music for kids in Hurleyville and Warwick. Outdoor free municipal summer concerts begin in Middletown. Poetic and prose paeans to two beloved

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Montgomery citizens. A birthday party for a horse in Goshen. A 90th birthday party art exhibit in Youngsville. Hansel and Gretel conceived, created, written, designed, arranged, analyzed and performed by students in Monticello. My favorite piano concerto in Newburgh. Celebrating fathers on Mother’s Day in Callicoon. Celtic music in Glen Spey and Greenwood Lake. A “well-made” play in Monroe. Second annual Hudson Valley Gives Day, ...and many thanks to the arts community members who provided CANVAS with stories, pictures, and info. We could not do it without them. Please patronize our advertisers.

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Calendars Art & Photography ��18 Books ��18 Category ��15 Children & Teen’s ��18 Demos & Lectures ��14 May 2018 Centerspread Calendar ��16-17 Music - Pop, Folk, Rock, etc., ��14 Columns May I Have A Word With You ��30 Meet Me in The Greenroom ��19 Wellness Modalities ��22 Stories Amity Gallery, Warwick ��4 Ann Higgins, artist ��27 Artery, Milford ��4 Artists’ Market, Shohola ��7 Bethel Woods ��25, 31 Brenda Scott Harburger, artist ��6 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��27 Central Bark, Mamakating ��23 Chamber Music at St. Andrews, So. Fallsburg ��7 Cragsmoor Historical Society ��9, 31 Crawford Arts Association, Pine Bush ��10 DanceFest Milford ��7 Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg ��26 Delaware Valley Choral Society, Milford ��31 Domesticities, Youngsville ��27 Ellenville Library ��4 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��10 Goshen Art League ��28 Goshen Free Workshops �� 11 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ��5 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra ��26 Greenwood Lake Library ��3, 10 Harness Racing Museum, Goshen ��24

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 / 4647 Facebook: D&H CANVAS 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. Highland Mills Library �� 28 Howard & Judy Garrett �� 20 Hudson Valley Gives �� 13 Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Fundraiser ��6 Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation ��31 Hudson Valley Piano Trio, West Point ��9 Hurleyville Arts Centre �� 32 Kairos: A Consort of Singers ��9 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford �� 29 Lumberland Cultural Series, Glen Spey �11 Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro �� 5, 23, 30 Megaphone, Sugar Loaf ��11 Middletown Concert Chorale ��11 Milford Theatre �� 29, 31 Mt. St. Mary College, Balmville �� 25 Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh �� 26 Music on Market, Ellenville ��9 Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello ��8 Newburgh Chamber Music ��3 Phillipsport Community Center �� 30 Pine Bush Library �� 21 Pine Bush UFO Fair 2018 �� 21 Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe ��29 Potluck Concerts, Cornwall-on-Hudson �� 22 Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh ��11 Rondout Valley Organics �� 5, 23 Run for Downtown Park, Middletown �� 31 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf ��11 Side of The Road Theatre, Milford �� 12 Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville �� 14 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 24, 25 SUNY Orange, Newburgh �� 14, 32 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake �� 12 Thrall Library, Middletown �� 31 Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg �� 21 Wallkill River School, Montgomery ��8 Warwick Center for the Performing Arts ��6 Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� 23 Yarnslingers, Callicoon �� 26

A Celtic Voyage

Jeff Ausfahl grew up in Glasgow, Scotland playing the snare drum in the local bagpipe band. His first banjo job was on Broadway in NYC, performing with Mickey Rooney. Since then, he has devoted himself to the unique tuning of the Irish banjo and octave mandolin. Jan Ausfahl started her career as a trombonist before taking up the washboard. Folk instruments have always fascinated her so she has incorporated the Irish tin whistle, Italian tamburello (a type of tambourine), English concertina, and Colombian maracas into Celtic music. Jeff and Jan, together as Slateford Creek, have appeared at countless fairs and festivals. Hear the banjo, guitar, penny whistle, tambourine and the concertina when they perform traditional celtic folk music at the Greenwood Lake Public Library, 79 Waterstone Road, on May 19 at 1:00pm. To register, call 845-477-8377, ext. 101.

Joel Evans is a Duck, Larry Tietze a Cat & Jeffrey Marchand is Grandpa! Newburgh Chamber Music (NCM) will present a trio of family-friendly ensemble works, featuring Hudson Valley Winds (HVW), for its 16th annual Mother’s Day concert. Peter and the Wolf needs no Marcia Gates Joel Evans Larry Tietze Jeffrey Marchand introduction as it is Prokofiev’s flute oboe clarinet bassoon most frequently performed work, by an ad hoc ensemble of two pianos and other and as NCM Director and President Carole instruments. A second private performance Cowan said, “it is a great introduction to the was given at the home of famous singer woodwind family of instruments. Hudson Pauline Viardot with an audience including Valley Winds will also perform Carnival of Franz Liszt. There were other private the Animals by Saint-Saëns that will include performances, typically for the French midpoems of Ogden Nash, and a collection of Lent festival of Mi-Carême. five classic fairy tales by Ravel.” Saint-Saëns was adamant that the work HVW will play an adaptation of Peter and would not be published in his lifetime, seeing the Wolf by Trevor Cramer. it as detracting from his “serious” composer Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l’Oye image, as he made fun of nursery rhymes (Mother Goose) as a four-hand piano duet. The and “stole” themes from works by Rameau, piece was transcribed for solo piano the same Offenbach, Berlioz Mendelssohn, Rossini, year as it was published (1910). Both versions and himself. He relented only for the famous bear the subtitle “cinq pièces enfantines” (five cello solo The Swan, the single non-humorous children’s pieces). In 1911 Ravel orchestrated movement in the work. It will be interesting the five-piece suite, and in this form it is most to see which woodwind adaptor Lisa Portus frequently heard today. Later that same year selected to portray the famous swan. he also expanded it into a ballet, separating Saint-Saëns did specify in his will the five initial pieces with four new interludes that the entire work should be published and adding two movements. HVW will play posthumously. an adaptation for winds by Lisa Portus. In 1949, Ogden Nash wrote a set of The Carnival of the Animals is a humorous humorous verses to accompany each suite written in 1886 for private performance movement for a recording conducted by

Ryan Walther horn

R. Schempf piano

Nanette Koch narrator

Andre Kostelanetz. They were recited on the original album by Noël Coward, dubbed over or spliced in between sections of the previously recorded music. “The performers of Hudson Valley Winds, all members of the HV Philharmonic who have performed together for many years will be joined by pianist Ruthanne Schempf and, for the clever, whimsical and very humorous Ogden Nash Carnival poems, narrator Nanette Koch, who has created music education programs for area schools and the HV Philharmonic,” said Cowan. The concert is on May 13 at 3:00pm in the handicapped-accessible St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh. Plenty of parking across the street. Visit www.newburghchambermusic.org for tickets. Tickets also available at the door. No credit cards at the door. The concert is followed by a reception with the artists. Proceeds from the concert will benefit musicians of Puerto Rico who continue to suffer from the effects of Hurricane Maria.

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Art & Music at Amity Gallery, Warwick For May’s exhibit at the Amity Gallery, three artists express their relations to nature. Deborah Menzell Dressler offers flocks of sculpted birds looking out at the universe. Linda Winton’s watercolors and pastels reflect the momentary eloquence of a landscape, and a playful, surreal collage grouping of women on and above the earth is conceived by Roslyn Fassett. See their work at Amity

Emmy award winning Robert Agnello will perform “Glimmer” songs on May 19 at 2:00pm. Children are free!

Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick, weekends, Noon-4:00pm in May. Meet the artists at the opening reception on May 5 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Amity Gallery will also present George & Ira Gershwin presented by Jack Schnur - an audio / visual presentation on May 12 at 8:00pm. Mr. Schnur edits, writes and narrates each program and currently presents over 50 different programs. For info: 845-258-0818.

Art in Bloom: Florals Imitate Art at Artery Throughout the ages, artists have turned to nature for their inspiration. This May, the Milford Garden Club (MGC) will collaborate with the ARTery Gallery for an exhibition that turns this traditional approach to making art on its head. Displayed side-by-side with artwork by Gallery members will be masterful horticultural interpretations created by MGC. In a sense, the artwork becomes the source of inspiration for nature. In relation to the artwork, using flowers, branches, found pieces, and a varied assortment of horticultural invention, the MGC turn their interpretations of the art into works of art in themselves. Examples from last year’s exhibit include Bill Rabsey’s abstract painting Chaos Theory: It’s floral

companion using homemade dried flowers in similar reds, burnt oranges, and yellows; The sweeping placement of vertical purple branches reflecting the brushstroke action in the painting. Liza Simpson’s Monticello Poppies was interpreted using sticks, red poppies, purple-blue verticals and butterflies, mirroring the painting image (see photo). The Artery Gallery will be filled with these beautiful and imaginative floral displays based on a colorful exhibit of the Gallery members’ own art. This exhibition is on display from May 10-June 4. A wine and cheese reception held on May 12 from 6:00pm-9:00pm at the ARTery Gallery, 210 Broad Street, Milford. For information: 570-409-1234.

Ellenville Library Hosts Art Classes Shawn Dell Joyce Helena Clare Pittman began her career as has shown her work in an artist’s apprentice galleries since the 1980’s. in NYC in the 1980’s A published author, she and worked for many has written and illustrated prestigious artists. In children’s books. “I 2000, she began teaching have taught since the plein air painting classes 60s - children, adults, in the Hudson Valley. Her and university students, classes became so popular at Parsons, SUNY and Sponge painting with Shawn Dell Joyce that she hired other artists, CUNY, and now at a private studio. Teaching has and eventually founded the always been one with my Wallkill River School. development as a painter,” Learn how to use a sea says Helena. sponge to create forsythia in Enjoy a special 4-week bloom, then paint a bluebird long series of collage making on the branches to usher in classes with Helena on spring when Shawn gives a Fridays, June 1, 8, 15, 22 at sponge painting class at the 1:00pm. Ellenville Public Library on Material fee is $5 per class. May 15 at 1:00pm. “Read My Lips” All materials are supplied. collage by H. C. Pittman Limit 15 participants. Advanced sign up required for both Suggested donation for materials is $5. classes. Call the Library at 845-647-5530. Limit 12 participants. 4

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Michalak Makes Music in Montgomery “I have always enjoyed performing at the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series. Host Howard Garrett is a marvelous promoter and his audiences are immensely appreciative of the artists which appear.” So states pianist Gregg Michalak who will be giving the final concert in the long running - 31 years! - Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series produced by Howard and Judy Garrett. (Not to worry! Thanks to the Village of Montgomery, the free concerts will continue under the “producing baton” of Newburgh composer, teacher, entreprenuer, Aleksander Vezuli.) To say thank you and goodbye to the Garretts for their remarkable producing tenure, Michalak will be performing Beethoven not with the appropriately titled Les Adieux sonata, because he performed it for them in 2015, but with the Sonata No. 23 in f minor, op. 57, Appassionata. Michalak is a highly passionate performer and you can count on his bringing a chill or ten to your emotions. One of his greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas, the Appassionata was considered by Beethoven to be his most tempestuous piano sonata until the 29th known as the Hammerklavier. The Appassionata was not named during his lifetime, but was so labeled in 1838 by the publisher of a fourhand arrangement of the work. Michalak will also perform pieces by

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Debussy, Chopin, Liszt and Granados. Enrique Granados’ Valse Poéticos and Sentimentales, H 147, are, “seven wonderfully fragrant waltzes to which are applied a not insignificant (and utterly un-waltz-like) Vivace molto introduction and, after the seventh waltz, a colorful and clever coda.” Blair Johnston, Allmusic.com The free concert is on May 6 at 3:00pm in the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street. For information, call 845-457-9867. For pre and post concert dining, check out the ads on page 21.

Oleh & Nadia Maczaj were young farmers back in the nineties when they started Rusty Plough Farm. The couple reclaimed overgrown fields, clearing brush and trees from historic cow pastures defined by a maze of stone walls, where they grow deliciously fresh, organic veggies for the local community. Over the years, they’ve connected with other smallscale growers in the Rondout Valley region, creating a special marketing program called Rondout Valley Organics. Each farm in the collaborative has its own, unique niche, filling in and stretching the colorful and bountiful canvas of farming in the region. Rondout Valley Organics offers products from Rusty Plough and these other farms, making it easy to eat fresh and local, yearround. Since January, for example, through the cold winter months, members have enjoyed eggs, tender microgreens, roots like potatoes, carrots and watermelon radishes, grass-fed beef, pork and chicken sausage, delicious honey, even duck and feta cheese. Very “fresh” growers, such as Fiddlehead Farm in Rosendale and Deer Mountain Farm in

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Looking for wacky formations, improbable locations, humorous characteristics, and other wondrous growths, Nora Scarlett’s Trunks of the Gunks series are striking photographs of trunks, roots, stumps, logs and seedlings and reflect how life adapts to adversity, and how it succeeds. From Mohonk Preserve to Minnewaska and Sam’s Point, with many stops in between, join Nora at the Mamakating Library, 128 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, on May 12 at 10:30am for a virtual hike through the Shawangunk

Mountains. Witness both the familiar and the unexpected, from stormy vistas to hatching tadpoles, as Nora’s photographs delight nature lovers, hikers, photographers and anyone who appreciates our remarkable landscape! Norawillpresentherphotographs from both Trunks of the Gunks and the 2017 publication Saving the Shawangunks by Pulitzer Prize winning author Carleton Mabee. This program is co-sponsored by the Basha Kill Area Association. Call to register: 845-888-8004.

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Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Fundraiser

Eric Person

Gabriela Tranchina

John Arbo

Joe Vincent Tranchina

Freddie Jacobs

Robert Kopec

Lydia & Gabe

Neil Alexander

The annual fundraiser for music and find themselves the 2018 Hudson Valley in crisis due to illness, age Jazz Festival (HVJF) will and/or circumstance. host an all star line up of “We also have a jazz musicians that have GoFundMe page set up,” performed for the HVJF said HVJF producer and these past eight years. drummer Steve Rubin. Monies raised will go Support the HVJF by Kerrie & Khalif Bobatoon towards creating additional attending the fundraiser shows for performers and promoting the and getting to listen to music by some series, and a percentage of the proceeds will of the Hudson Valley’s finest Jazz artists be “paid forward” to the Jazz Foundation (see photos) on May 6 at 4:00pm at the Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, of America (JFA). The JFA is committed to providing 63 Wheeler Street. Suggested donation: $20. financial, medical and legal assistance to GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/2018the great jazz and blues veterans who have paid their dues by making a lifetime of this hudson-valley-jazz-festival

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Concert Honoring James Reese Europe

“Up in the Air” in Shohola

Gonna Keep Em, Down on the In January of 1917, James Reese Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree? Europe (1880-1919) arrived in by Walter Donaldson. France and WWI as bandmaster Also new arrangements based of the Harlem Hellfighters unit on the recordings Europe made of the Allied Expeditionary with his Harlem Hellfighter’s Forces. Chamber Music at St. Band, including works by Andrew’s will present a special composer and vocalist Noble WWI Centennial Tribute to James Sissle upon his return from Reese Europe and the Harlem overseas - St. Louis Blues, On Hellfighters concert which will Patrol in No Man’s Land, Jazzola, examine and honor the life and James Reese Europe and Clarinet Marmalade. Those career of this almost forgotten (1880-1919) recording sessions were superhero of American just weeks before he was music. murdered by a member of The New York his own band. Jazzharmonic TradAs always, this concert Jazz Sextet, under the is free, but reservations direction of bassist Ron are required. Maximum Wasserman, will perform reservations for one new arrangements of person: four. Seats Europe’s music from the pre can only be held until and post-military periods, including recreating some New York Jazzharmonic Trad-Jazz Sextet 7:45pm. “Hope to see you at this exciting American of his important collaborations with Noble jazz concert at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Sissle (1899-1975). The program will include music that Church, 5277 Route 42 in South Fallsburg influenced James Reese Europe - Joplin, on May 5 at 8:00pm,” said producer Peggy Sousa, Victorian parlor music and music he Friedman. “There is parking in the church driveway, wrote as a master bandleader for Irene and Vernon Castle. You will hear familiar tunes: but it gets very crowded, so I recommend Castle House Rag, by James Reese Europe, parking in the Amazing Savings lot, two lots Missouri Blues, by W.C. Handy and How Ya south of the church.”

If you’ve ever wished you could spread your wings and fly like a bird, attending the Up in the Air exhibition in Shohola, PA, might be the next best thing. It’s a celebration of clouds and kites - birds and balloons - and the feeling of being “in the wind.” The work of local artists interpreting this theme will be displayed alongside work by the Masters, such as Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne. The live music provided during the event will also be related to “Ceiling Oculus” by Andrea Mantegra (c. 1469) flying kites, feeling free as the breeze, or purity or the Holy Spirit, a crow often symbolized wicked thoughts or a oneflying like an eagle! Performers (singers, dancers, poets, and way flight to Hell. The display includes performing artists) are invited to submit information on the symbolic meanings of ideas for an open mic related to this theme to owls, peacocks, finches, pelicans, and the barryvilleareaarts@gmail.com for a chance Phoenix in Western and Eastern art. This free event, sponsored by the to be included in the program. This exhibition is designed to educate as Barryville Area Arts Association, is well as entertain. For example, one display scheduled for May 5, from 4:00pm-6:00pm of classic art entitled, For the Birds, explains at the Artists’ Market Community Center, how birds were used as symbols in classic 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola, PA. The combined exhibit will be on display art. To the average eye, birds in Renaissance paintings are charming and decorative. But through May 19. For information, call 845-557-8713. at a time when most people couldn’t read or write, the Church used art to educate the This event and exhibit are made possible masses. Birds were symbols representing human through a grant from the Barbara J. qualities, as well as the Seven Deadly Sins. Buchanan Fund, administered by the Greater While white doves and swans symbolized Pike Community Foundation.

Inaugural “DanceFest Milford”

DanceFest Milford is an exciting new dance festival premiering in the beautiful historic borough of Milford. Under the artistic direction of noted choreographer Johanna LjungQvist-Brinson, the festival will host an exciting range of cutting edge and global dance including classical Indian dance, Mexican folk dance, Irish step dance, hip hop and modern. In addition, free dance workshops for all ages and an open dance forum with a professional dancer will be offered to the public. Swedish born LjungQvist-Brinson, founder of DanceFest Milford, has performed and taught all of her life. For over twenty years, she toured the U.S. and Europe teaching and dancing professionally. “The festival’s mission is to expand people’s current appreciation of dance, whatever it may be, taking it to the next level by showcasing emerging and established companies from New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, both opening peoples’ hearts and minds to the varieties of dance while also

exposing the invited artists to each other’s work,” says LjungQvist-Brinson. “We also hope to introduce visitors to the beauty and attractions in and around Milford.” The three day festival kicks off on May 18 with an opening night reception at the Hotel Fauchere. Attendees will enjoy an eclectic site specific modern dance performance, Living Sculptures in the Garden, choreographed by LjungQvist-Brinson specifically for the site. On May 19 from 11:00am-7:00pm, site specific performances, events and workshops in a variety of venues will take place in and around Milford, including a contra dance workshop and modern dance performances. On May 20 from 1:00pm-4:00pm, the festival takes to the Mainstage featuring edgy NYC based professional dance companies such as 10 Hairy Legs, Darrah Carr Dance, Hanna Q Dance Company, Ainesh Madan and Marsi Burns. Visit www.dancefestmilford.com for tickets and further information. May 2018

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Wallkill River School: Floral Competition Artists typically look at Roberta Rosenthal will be flowers as nature’s purest the juror for this competition. form of beauty, precipitated A longtime member of into one gorgeous little The American Society of package. It is safe to say Botanical Artists and the that flowers are universally a Guild of Natural Science favorite subject among artists, Illustrators, and an instructor with many throughout the at the New York Botanical years painting them in every Garden, Roberta’s work is medium and composition carefully drawn and painted imaginable. from live specimens, which April showers bring May come from her own garden flowers to the Wallkill River or from gardens visited on School (WRS). The School excursions. will be displaying a juried Roberta’s specialty group exhibit of floral works is botanicals which she from May 1-30 with an explores in a variety of “Cosmos by the Pool” by Janet Howard Fatta opening reception on May styles and media. From 5 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. This exhibit is watercolors in the European tradition of being held as a competition, with people’s Redouté to colored pencil and oils to Oriental choice voting taking place on the night of the sumi-e ink brush techniques, Roberta is a reception. 1st prize valued at $300, 2nd prize master of many forms. valued at $200 and 3rd prize at $100. See page 25 and ad on page 27 for more As with any group exhibit, the goal will information about Roberta. be to showcase the large range of diversity The exhibit and reception, free of charge, in techniques used by the exhibiting artists. will feature a variety of styles, techniques, From oil painted roses, to delicate watercolor and approaches from the WRS represented orchids, this exhibit will showcase floral artists, as well as newcomers to the gallery. painting through every fine art approach. The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Award winning watercolorist and teacher Montgomery. For info: 845-457-ARTS.

NCA Integrated Arts: Hansel and Gretel Nesin Cultural Arts (NCA) students in the Children’s Chorus, Aspiring Young Musicians, visual arts, dance and stage craft programs will collaborate to present an Integrated Arts based performance of Hansel and Gretel. The purpose of the Integrated Arts program is to give students experience in all art forms including music, theatre, dance and visual artists. Students choose the area in which they are interested to develop an in depth understanding and hone their skills. The outcome of this collaborative experience is the student driven production. The production is student driven with guidance from NCA resident and visiting teaching artists. Faculty include: Marina Lombardi, voice and theatre, Akiko Hosoi, upper strings, Judith Pearce, flute, Andrew Trombley, lower strings, David and Ann Trombley, voice and piano, Amy Phillips, choral, Jennifer VanEtten, dance in conjunction with Linda Bombelli from Martha Graham Co., Laurie Kilgore, visual arts in conjunction with Chuck Dorman, lighting, and Karen Collura, literary consultant. The students explored all facets of creating a production including performing, creating

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NCA Aspiring Young Musicians in rehearsal for “Hansel and Gretel”

orchestral arrangements, script, sets and lighting design. The students participated in literary analysis workshops to gain an understanding of the original story. The performance is on May 19 at 3:00pm at the Eugene D. Nesin Theatre for the Performing Arts, 22 St. John Street, Monticello. $5 suggested donation at the door. Students are always free. For more information, call 845-798-9006.

The Visiting Teaching Artists for the NCA Education Programs are funded for in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding comes from Episcopal Charities, Sullivan County Youth Bureau, New York Life, Stewart’s Shops, M & T Bank and the community.

Music for Food

Tara Goozée, Eun Ha Chung, & Jeanne Fox - Photo by Rita Jana Photography

Brahms wrote his Trio in B Major at the tender age of 20, and to this day it is still considered one his most Romantic works. Piazzolla wrote the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires to play with his own tango group - a quintet that included piano, bandoneon, violin, bass and guitar - each section to give the listener an impression of a given season in the composer’s beloved hometown. Although a century and an ocean apart, these two works, each groundbreaking in their time, lay bare the heart of each composer. Hudson Valley Piano Trio performs Brahms and Piazzolla, on May 12 at 4:00pm at the West Point Post Chapel, Biddle Loop, a benefit for the Highland Falls Food Pantry. A generous donation of non-perishable food is greatly appreciated. Please leave extra time for ID check at the West Point Visitor Center at 2107 New South Post Road, West Point.

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In our present age of super highways, complex interchanges and self-driving cars, it’s hard to imagine that in the 1820s it was easier to dig a canal with suspended aqueduct bridges for mule-drawn barges than it was to build a serviceable road. Such was the case, however, when the Wurts brothers were looking for a way to transport coal from Honesdale to the Hudson River. The D & H Canal, 19th Century Engine of Prosperity, a presentation by Bill Merchant, historian and curator of the D&H Canal Museum, takes place on May 5 at 4:00pm at the Cragsmoor Historical Society, 349 Cragsmoor Road, Cragsmoor. Many artists immortalized life on the canal. One of the most noted was Edward Lamson Henry, who started the Cragsmoor art colony. One of his best known paintings, On the Tow Path 1891, exhibits his sensitive portrayal of children and animals. See photo. Donations accepted. Call 845-647-2362.

KAIROS Performs for “Music on Market” Music on Market™ (MoM) is the nine-month collection of 13 eclectic concerts performed at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Market Street in Ellenville. It features live world music, from Irish, klezmer, Ukrainian, Broadway and Latin, to Russian, Jewish, jazz, gospel, choral, classical guitar and baroque. MoM concerts are underwritten by more than 40 local sponsors. A joint production of MISU (Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster) led by Anastasia Solberg and St. John’s Episcopal Church under the direction of Reverend Jeff Golliher, MoM was created to celebrate the rich ethnic tapestry in the greater Ellenville area. “MoM has several interwoven threads,” says Golliher. “One thread is to bring music to our community not only to enhance and strengthen the traditions and sheer enjoyment of music in our region, but enhance and strengthen our larger lives here, made up of many ethnic communities tied together.” “By featuring a range of musical genres,” adds Solberg, “we’re appealing to a larger population base across Ulster County and its neighbors, happily opening their eyes and ears, experiencing other forms of world music.” She adds that after the past decade of producing chamber music at St. John’s serving somewhat of a specialized audience,

it was time to expand and offer concerts that will appeal to a larger cross-section of the public and the local ethnic mix. “Frankly, I don’t know of a series of this magnitude produced in Ellenville since I moved here 20-plus years ago.” On May 5, KAIROS: A Consort of Singers, will present In the Spirit, a cappella choral works featuring the spiritual, the ghostly and the mystical, including beloved spirituals and music by Monteverdi, Bach, Orlando di Lasso, William Schuman, Hugo Wolf, Carlo Gesualdo and Gerald Finzi, under the direction of artistic director Edward Lundergan, who also serves as director of choral activities at SUNY New Paltz. Then on May 17, Latin Jazz Express brings red-hot rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the streets of NYC to Ellenville. Concerts begin at 7:30pm. For tickets, call 845-377-3727. Tickets available at the door.

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“Classical Realism” in Lords Valley “My landscapes are a juicy, lusciousness - thus study of my surroundings the painterly approach.” along with what attracted The Gallery at Chant me to that particular Realtors will exhibit the location,” says artist work of Hemlock Farms Lisa Hannick. For artist Lisa Hannick in a solo Lisa, composition is an show of her original oil extremely important paintings, May 1-June 30. element as is the careful Titled Classical Realism: placement of objects. She A Painterly Approach, does not adhere to the the exhibit presents the literal but in fact gives in “Still Life with Pitcher & Blood Oranges” audience with landscape to her feelings and emotions in the creation and still life compositions that are definitive of her expressive works. “I begin quite of the classical approach to painting. loosely and abstract with shapes appearing Meet the artist at the opening reception on intrinsically. I work quickly, covering the May 5, from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the Gallery entire canvas...the painting develops and at Chant Realtors, 631 Route 739, Lords evolves...layers of paint build up into thick, Valley. For information, call 570-775-7337.

Greenwood Lake Library: Cathe Linton and featured landscapes and Cathe Linton was still lifes in pastel as well as previously the owner of articulated paper puppets. Linton Designs / Kokopelli Cathe is the featured artist Native American Jewelry for May at the Greenwood Store in Warwick. Lake Public Library. Her Reaching from her show will feature watercolors, background as a fashion pastels and pencil drawings. model working with the likes “I favor watercolor at of Geoffrey Beene, Andy the moment, though I’ve Warhol and Ralph Lauren, loved the vast color range Cathe was able to learn and blend afforded in the how to structure designs pastel discipline. And it IS a for the body. She also won discipline! Now I’m ready to the “DeBeers Diamond Artwork by Cathe Linton try conquering watercolor! The learning and Competition” twice. When her store closed last May, Cathe discovery never stops,” stated Cathe. The Greenwood Lake Public Library decided to expand her interest to other art mediums. Her solo art show in Warwick is located at 79 Waterstone Road. For last fall was entitled Wall Art and Mobiles information, call 845-477-8377 (ext. 104).

Landscape Oil Painting Demo, Pine Bush Artist Joseph Sundwall began his career in art as a third grader in Chicago with a successful first oil painting. Recognizing his own talent, and under the influence of his parents and tutelage of his teachers at the time, he steadily moved forward. He studied in Kansas City to become a graphic designer and then moved to New York City to develop into a fine artist producing wonderful canvases of landscapes, still life, birds, nudes and portraits. Through out his extensive career he has been curious about “watching how the work gets done”. Technique, along with his talent and perceptive eye, formed his unique style of painting. When looking at Joe’s work, his brush strokes and use of color show his economy of thought and how he is “interested in putting down on the canvas no more than is necessary to get the point across.” This is something 10

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most artists strive for. Joe has accomplished this in his work whether the subject is a bird, a basket with kittens, a reclining nude or portrait. Now living in Montgomery, Joe can be seen teaching classes at the Wallkill River School or trooping around the area painting en plein aire, and, of course, demonstrating his painting technique. It is with pronounced anticipation that the Crawford Arts Association (CAA) announces Joseph Sundwall, renowned art demonstrator, portrait and landscape artist, will be coming to the Town of Crawford Government Center, 121 Route 302, Pine Bush, on May 9 at 1:00pm. He will demonstrate his landscape oil painting technique to the CAA membership, friends of CAA, students and other interested persons. Open to the public, there is no fee for this demo and refreshments will be served.

Willa Vincitore Sings at The Ritz Singer and songwriter Willa Vincitore (formerly McCarthy) has been building a fan base across the Hudson Valley for nearly two decades. While her songwriting is an eclectic mix of blues, soul, rock, funk and (occasionally) pop, there’s one thing that ties it all together - that voice! Hear Willa perform for Safe Harbors of the Hudson’s Blues on Broadway series

at the Ritz Theatre, May 18 at 7:00pm. Secure and convenient free parking is available on Broadway directly in front of the Lobby at the Ritz, street parking on both Liberty and Ann Streets, and directly behind the theater in the Ann Street municipal parking lot. For tickets, visit www.safe-harbors.org or call the Box Office at 845-784-1199.

Middletown Concert Chorale: Let Us Sing Now in its twenty-second year, the Middletown Concert Chorale, under the direction of Danielle Cornacchio, and accompanied by Boyd Herforth, announces its 2018 Spring Concert Series Let Us Sing, featuring John Rutter’s Magnificat along with a variety of other choral selections. Between the two acts there will be a cabaret portion for your enjoyment. The Magnificat is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat in 7 movements,

based on the Latin text, interspersed with “Of a Rose, a lovely Rose”, an anonymous English poem on Marian themes, the beginning of the Sanctus and a prayer to Mary. The music includes elements of Latin American music. Concerts are on May 12 at 7:00pm in Saint Paul’s Methodist Church, 88 West Main Street, Middletown, and May 20 at 3:00pm in North Congregational United Church, 96 North Beacon Street, Middletown, with reception and light fare to follow.

Lumberland Cultural Series, Glen Spey Since 2008, The Parting Glass band has played the songs we all know - love songs, hate songs, whiskey songs, death songs, life songs, boat songs, songs about adultery, songs about garbage men, songs about Dutch men, songs about suffering and green places across the ocean! This family-band, which is an Irish folk trio (and sometimes quartet), consists of Al Gessner, vocals, flute, peg-leg and button accordion (and proud owner of Al’s Music Shop in Port Jervis, see ad pg. 25), his wife, Patti Gessner serving up vocals, whistle,

harmonica (along with some miscellaneous objects here and there!) and their son, Tom Gessner, who plays guitar and sings, too. Friends of the band, who sometimes perform along with them, are vocalists/ guitarists Dylan Little and Kevin McComb. The Town of Lumberland Cultural Series will present An Afternoon of Irish Folk Music featuring The Parting Glass on May 6 at 3:00pm at Lumberland Town Hall, 1054 Proctor Road, Glen Spey. For information, call 845-856-6372.

Megaphone Literary Arts, Sugar Loaf The Megaphone Literary Art series will present a special workshop to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jerome Rothenberg’s seminal anthology, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceana. Since its original publication in 1968, Technicians has inspired generations of poets, artists, musicians and other readers by exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world’s oral/indigenous cultures. Technicians has been hailed by Robert Creeley as “both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight, and the LA Times Book Review has noted it as one of the hundred

most recommended American books of the late 20th century. By juxtaposing “primitive” and archaic works from many cultures with avant-garde and experimental poetry, Technicians illustrates how literature extends beyond temporal and geographic boundaries. Following models in the book, Janet Hamill will present workshop participants with the opportunity to create their own “ethnic” poems on special events and subjects such as death, defeat, creation, visions and spells. It all takes place on May 6, from 2:00pm4:00pm at the Seligmann Center, 23-26 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. $5 suggested donation. Call 845-469-9459. May 2018

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“Ages of The Moon” in Milford “Sam Shepard writes the kind of man-talk that makes men nod their heads in silent understanding, even as it makes women roll their eyes. And insofar as it bristles with manly riffs on manly topics - from Jerry Durkin the fondly recollected triumphs of one’s wild youth to the indignities of one’s old age - Ages of the Moon should score with Shepard fans.” - Variety, 2010. As Ben Brantley of the New York Times put it, when the original staging opened in 2010, “Ames and Byron, friends of many decades, are heirs to the combative tradition of the dueling sci-fi rock stars in Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime, the battling brothers in his True West and the scrapping paramours in Fool for Love. Like those characters, Ames and Byron confirm that in Shepard’s universe it is hard to be close to someone without wanting to kill that person and occasionally acting on the instinct. “There is a signal difference between the adversarial companions in Moon and their predecessors though, and it is, quite simply, a matter of years. When a man reaches his mid-60s, as Ames and Byron have (and as Mr. Shepard has), beating up on the one you

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love takes a lot more out of a guy than it used to.” Shepard won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most given to any writer or director. He wrote 44 plays as well as several books of John Klemeyer short stories, essays, and memoirs, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). Beth Kelley, Artistic Director of Side Of The Road Theatre Company (SOTR), has announced that she will direct Jerry Durkin and John Klemeyer in the 2010 Sam Shepard play, Ages Of The Moon, to open SOTR’s 2018 season. Editor’s note: Klemeyer is remembered by Goshen audiences for his hilarious and skillful performance in the title role for Cornerstone Theatre Arts’ November 2016 production of The Foreigner. Performances will be held at Waterwheel Café, 150 Water Street, Milford, May 1120. Reservations for the show, and for dinner prior to the show, can be made by calling 570-296-2383. See Waterwheel Café ad on page 29.

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“Angels in America” in Loch Sheldrake This is the third play in the American Identity Season, a continuation of SUNY Sullivan’s exploration of the question: What is an American Identity? Tony Kushner was born in Manhattan in 1956 and was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His childhood in Louisianadrasticallyinfluenced the ways that he experienced life and what he wrote about in his plays. The experience of having to suppress his homosexuality in the conservative south influenced his personal identity; furthermore, Kushner’s experience as a Jewish person in a deeply Christian area heightened his sense of what it feels like to be a member of a minority group. Kushner was also influenced by McCarthyism in the ‘50s, which was used to persecute people who were perceived as communists, and by the discrimination and persecution of minority groups that fueled the Civil Rights Movement. These experiences in Lake Charles would directly inspire his play Caroline, or Change. Eventually, Kushner moved back to New York, and in 1981, he came out as gay on a pay phone call to his mother. Kushner’s experiences in New York in the gay and art

communities during the HIV/ AIDS epidemic and the rise of social conservatism during the era of Ronald Reagan would serve as inspiration for many of his plays. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part epic play. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. The two parts of the play are separately presentable and entitled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, respectively. In the first part, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, set in 1980s New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts AIDS, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pillpopping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel. Direction by Nick López, the play runs May 3-13 in the Seelig Theatre, at Sullivan County Community College, 112 College Road, Loch Sheldrake. Tickets at the door. Suggested donation is $10.

“Hudson Valley Gives” A Little Bit Here, A Little Bit There Hudson Valley Gives is a one day event celebrating charitable giving across the Hudson Valley. Mark your calendars for this year’s event: May 16. The purpose of this day of giving is to create a solid focal point of fundraising for over a hundred local nonprofits from Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties registered for HVGives. “Thanks to many sponsors, in-kind and cash prizes are awarded to participating organizations encouraging donors to give generously on May 16 to help their favorite cause raise more money,” said Elizabeth Rowley, President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan. Editor’s note: Arts Enthusiasts/Lovers can easily donate to a myriad of non-profit arts organizations. For those of you who are not in a position to donate large amounts to multiple organizations, one way in which to strengthen money coffers is by you and others visiting the non-profit sites and giving a small amount to as many organizations as you can. For instance, if your budget dictates that you can donate only $200 for the arts, you can pick 10 organizations and give $5 or $10 to each. If 1,000 people give $5 or $10 to 10 groups it results in $5,000 or $10,000 per nonprofit. A budget of $500 will increase that considerably. Some of the Orange/Sullivan Arts nonprofits participating include:

The Goshen Art League The League manages the Goshen Art Walks and Keys of Goshen’s painted, decorated and playable-by-the-public pianos scattered along Main Street, plus the Painted Trotters of Goshen, also scattered throughout the village. (See page 28). Time and The Valleys Museum The Grahamsville Museum connects Water, People and The Catskills ensuring the uniqueness of the Rondout and Neversink watersheds. Orange County Arts Council This is a great opportunity to help the Council. Your donation, large or small, will insure the constancy of the Council and enable it to continue its programs and grants. Sullivan County Historical Society Support the Sullivan County Museum exhibits and its various live performance programs. Zylofone Studios, Inc. This fund was established to ensure music and performing arts education for the special needs community, in perpetuity. Safe Harbors of the Hudson Home of the Cornerstone Residence, the

Ritz Theatre and the Ann Street Gallery, help Safe Harbors continue its many community programs and summer arts programs held in the newly created Safe Harbors Green Park. Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club, Inc. This fund helps to provide services and arts programs enabling all young people, especially those who need help most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Catskill International Film Festival This event brings people from all over the world to Callicoon and shines a spotlight on the talent the Catskill region has to offer. Newburgh Illuminated Festival The Newburgh Illuminated Festival is an event designed to bring people and families together in celebration of the City of Newburgh. Hudson Valley Public Radio Presents world class, acoustic mainstream jazz on four FM signals, online, and on the smartphone app. Friends of the Otisville School The Friends of the Otisville School, Inc. is dedicated to preservation and rehabilitation of the “Old Otisville School” to create a cultural, artistic, education and recreation center for the

Mount Hope community, the Orange County area, and the entire Hudson Valley region. Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund Your donation will help this fund reach its $25,000 goal to continue the work of beloved Times Herald-Record columnist and arts supporter, Chris Farlekas (1929-2015). Besides enabling the arts to thrive via his thousands of articles and reviews, plus his volunteer efforts with numerous organizations’ committees, Farlekas was involved with veterans, domestic abuse victims, hunger, homelessness, and was an iconic mentor to thousands of students. How to Donate via HV Gives To donate online on HVGives Day, May 16 from 12:01am to 11:59pm, visit www. hvgives.org, Click on the “Donate” button, Click the search bar in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Type in arts. You can also donate beginning May 9 if you wish. (To donate prior to May 9 if more convenient, scroll down and click on “View All Participating Nonprofits”, click on “Select a Cause”, click on “Arts and Culture”).

Free Workshops in Goshen Free Violin Workshop St. James Episcopal Church in Goshen has announced a new program entitled, Sharing Our Gifts. The parish has been blessed with so many talented members who want to give back to the community! The first FREE workshop will be conducted by Val Bynum, principal violin of the Orange County Community Orchestra. She will be holding FREE violin workshops on May 12 & 19 at the church, from 10:00am to Noon. Valerie Collymore Bynum, originally from the Bronx, began studying the violin with her Juilliard trained father. She attended Music and Art high school, then went on to Ithaca College. Within a month after graduation from Ithaca, she was asked to audition for a seat in the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra and got it! Registration is limited. Please bring your own violin. Register at www.stjamesgoshen. org or call 845-294-7500. Acting & Speech Level Singing The Academy of Film Television Stage and Performing Arts (AFTSPA) will have its second 2018 public workshop, Acting Anyone for those interested in a professional career

and participation in projects currently in development by Willy-Gilly Productions, Inc. The workshop will include a complete representation of the work that the Academy does, as well as a hands-on participation by the attendees seeking information about the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique. Master actor, singer, writer, director and teacher, David Patrick Wilson (a protégé of the late, great man himself), knows well the value of the incredible technique that he teaches. There will also be an introduction about the vocal technique known as Speech Level Singing. This method was used by Michael Jackson and is still being used by Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Tony Braxton, Michael Bolton and many American Idol and X-Factor contestants. It has been deemed as the healthiest way to study voice. The workshop will take place on May 5, 10:00am to 11:00am for youth and Noon to 1:30pm for teens and adults in St. James Episcopal Church, 1 St. James Place, Goshen. Registration is limited. Reserve your place. Call 845-294-7500 or online at: aftspa.org May 2018

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Lectures - Demos - Talks

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

lectures Hurleyville Maker’s Lab TOUR �� Hurleyville Makers Lab, Tuesdays, 6pm & Thursdays, 9am “Cradle of the Trotter” ��Harness Racing Museum, Goshen, May 3, Noon FEE “What Makes It Jazz!” Larry Newcomb, guitar; Joe Tranchina, piano ��Chester Library, May 5, 2pm “The Delaware & Hudson Canal: 19th Century Engine of Prosperity” Bill Merchant �� Cragsmoor Library, May 5, 4pm “Bridge the Gap: Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk” ��PEEC May 6, 10am “Radio Bikini: The Atomic Bomb Testing” Gene Weinstein ��MSM-DC May 7, 2pm FEE “The History of Immigration” Stephanie Hinnershitz ��MSM-DC May 9, 6:30pm FEE Great Decisions DISCUSSION “Media and Foreign Policy” �� Cornwall Library, May 9, 7pm “From the Hudson to the Shawangunks:The Erie and O&W Railroads” Bob McCue �� Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, May 9, 7pm Annual Amphibian Amble ��HHNM May 11, 7pm FEE “A virtual hike through the Shawangunk Mountains” Nora Scarlett, photographer �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, May 12, 10:30am Delaware Highlands Conservancy Forestry WALK �� Lemons Brook Farm, Bethel, May 12, 1pm “George and Ira Gershwin” Jack Schnur, audio visual �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 12, 8pm “The Social History of Knitting from the Antebellum Period to the 21st Century” Pat Johnson �� MSM-DC May 15, 6:30pm FEE “Up on the Roof” Telescope Viewings of the Constellations & Planets ��SUNYO-RCSE May 15, 8pm “Women Behind the Chador” Susan & Paul Sprachman �� MSM-DC May 17, 10am FEE “Murder in the Cathedral: A Dramatic Reading” Tom Fitzgerald �� MSM-DC May 17, 10am FEE “Tweets and Sweets” bird ID HIKE ��PEEC May 19, 9am FEE Delaware Highlands Conservancy Native Plants WALK ��Milford Experimental Forest, Milford May 19, 9am “Wilderness Walkabout” �� PEEC May 20, 1pm FEE “Fighting for the Same Land: Wappinger Indians and Tenant Rebels” James Merrell �� MSM-DC May 21, 1pm FEE “Find Your Inner Writer: Use Your Powers of Description!” Sherry Yanow �� MSM-DC May 22, 1pm FEE “Immigrant Ocean Crossing: The Great Age of the Ocean Liners” Jeffrey Dosik �� MSM-DC May 23, 1pm FEE “Living in the Polymer World: Polymers & Macromolecules in our Daily Lives” Joseph Krumpfer Hudson Valley Science Cafe Flaming Grill & Buffet Newburgh, May 23, 7:15pm “West Point Foundry” Mark Forlow ��MSM-DC May 30, 6:30pm FEE “Taking to the Air: The Origin of Flight in Birds” Douglas Robinson �� MSM-DC May 31, 11am “Ending the War to End All Wars - The Terrible Cost of a Single Day ~ Our Local Great War Sacrifice in Breaking the Hindenburg Line” Frank Licameli SUNYO-KH May 31, 7pm DEMOS & Artist Talks Joseph Sundwall “Painting the landscape with a limited pallet” ��Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, May 9, 1pm Eunjung Hwang, Paula Stuttman talk ��CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, May 12, 3pm Alice Wong “Cook’s Choice: Dumplings” ��Chester Library, May 19, 12:30pm Anne W. Kelly, Frederic Spione, Mitchell Saler mini-demos ��SUNYO-OH May 20, 1pm-3:30pm Josiah and Zeke “Mad Mixology” agave & mezcal, demo & tasting �� 2018 WoodsTalk: Live series Bethel Woods, May 31, 3pm FEE

Newburgh & Middletown Heroes One hundred years ago, as America entered the Great War in Europe, two National Guard companies from Newburgh and one from Middletown were called into service and then folded into what became the 107th Infantry Regiment of New York’s 27th Division. Fighting in Belgium and France, they suffered some of the heaviest losses of any American unit in the war. Most of those casualties occurred on a single day, 29 September 1918. The men of the cities of Newburgh and Middletown and their respective neighboring villages and towns were in the first assault wave. On that historic day, they were instrumental in breaking the “impenetrable” Hindenburg Line; however, an awful price 14

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was paid. Come hear their stories and the echoes of their service and sacrifice that remain with us today. Co-sponsored by The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, Ending the War to End All Wars - The Terrible Cost of a Single Day ~ Our Local Great War Sacrifice in Breaking the Hindenburg Line ~ a lecture by Frank Licameli, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Retired and independent historian, will be given on May 31 at 7:00pm in SUNY Orange’s Kaplan Hall, Grand and First Streets, Newburgh. Free and secure parking is available in Kaplan Hall underground parking garage at 73 First Street. For information: 845-341-4891.

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Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc. sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times

Hudson Valley Swing Band �� Wallkill Community Center, Middletown, Tuesdays, 1pm, FREE Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity folk ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm FREE Neil Alexander & NAIL Birthday Concert ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Apr 28, 8pm Mokoomba!, Common Tongue �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 2, 7pm Dana Murray’s “Negro Manifesto” jazz, hip-hop, spoken word, discussion ��Falcon, May 3, 8pm Aztec Two-Step vintage folk rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 4, 8pm Fred Zepplin classic rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 4, 8pm Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot Music of Billy Joel ��Bethel Woods, May 5, 8pm Little Sparrow guitar, Larry Ravdin saxophone ��Sullivan Cty. Museum, Hurleyville, May 6, 2pm, FREE The Parting Glass Band Irish Folk ��Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, May 6, 3pm Lucky Peterson w/Tamara Tramell blues, soul �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 5, 8pm Deadgrass Jerry Garcia ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 5, 8pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis swing, blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 6, 11am Maple Mars powerpop �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 9, 8pm Lara Bello Flamenco, Arabic, Mediterranean fusion �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 10, 8pm Jonny Rosch’s Psychedelic 60’s Revue �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 11, 8pm All Too Real rock ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 11, 8pm Tito Puente, Jr. jazz-Latin �� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, May 12, 8pm Royal Khaoz reggae ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 12, 8pm The Music of TRAFFIC �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 12, 8pm Times Square a cappella doo wop �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 13, 11am Key of Q Choral a cappella chorus �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 16, 8pm Latin Jazz Express Music on Market series �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, May 17, 7:30pm Lipbone Redding singing & storytelling �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 17, 8pm Willa Vincitor “Blues on Broadway” series �� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, May 18, 7pm Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams roots, rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 18, 8pm Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover funk, rock, soul �� Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 18, 8pm Slateford Creek “The Celtic Voyage” ��Greenwood Lake Library, May 19, 1pm FREE Robert Agnello “Glimmer Songs” �� Amity Gallery, May 19, 2pm Dan Zanes & Neha Jiwrajka ��Hurleyville Arts Centre, May 19, 4pm Deborah Anne Fisher & Paul Kean, John Platt & John McCormack acoustic �� Phillipsport Community Center, May 19, 7pm Dylan Doyle w/Althea Grace roots, blues, rock, funk � Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 19, 8pm Garland Jeffreys Trio rock, soul, reggae �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 19, 8pm Pete Levin & Co. jazz, blues, funk �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 20, 11am Tim Quinn American & Irish folk �� Thrall Library, Middletown, May 20, 2pm FREE Jason “Malletman” Taylor funky groove vibraphone �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 20, 8pm Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word, hip hop � The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 23, 7pm Charlie Lang piano classics/originals ��Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, May 24, 6pm FREE Tribal Harmony Host: Evan Pritchard w/David Amram �� Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 24, 7pm The Essential Eric Andersen Tour folk �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 24, 8pm Durham County Poets Quebec folk, roots ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 25, 7pm Petra Haden, Jesse Harris & The Julian Lage Trio Zorn/Harris �� Falcon, Marlboro, May 25, 8pm Kiefer Sutherland guitar ��Bethel Woods, May 26, 8pm Saints of Swing swing, klezmer, + �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 27, 11am Jeff Lederer’s Shakers n’ Bakers Shaker-pop, jazz �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 27, 8pm Bobby Messano Trio blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 31, 8pm YMCA- Eclectic Youth Talent ��Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, May 31, 6pm FREE Lard Dog and the Band of Shy �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jun 2, 2pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Joanna Gass and the Search & Rescue Orchestra ��Brew, Rock Hill, Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm Robert Kopec & Solo Bajo jazz + ��Dos Amigos, Fair Oaks, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic �� Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Open Mic poetry, music, spoken word, etc. Calabash Restaurant, Newburgh, 2nd Thursdays, 6:30pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk �� WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals �Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Open Mic music, poetry, storytelling �� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, May 8 & 22, 7pm Roots & Blues Sessions Host: Petey Hop �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 16 & May 30, 7pm Songwriters Anonymous open mic ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, May 19, 2pm

Little Sparrow & Larry Ravdin, Hurleyville Live Music and History: Songs and Stories of the Sixties is hosted by Little Sparrow and features some of the most talented guitarists in our area. On May 6 at 2:00pm, Little Sparrow will be joined by saxophonist Larry Ravdin. Donations are welcomed to benefit the Sullivan County Historical Society & Museum, 265 Main

Street, Hurleyville. Visit www.scnyhistory. org or phone 845-434-8044.

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Art Walks - Open Studio Tours

Newburgh Last Saturdays �� Newburgh, May 26, 4pm-8pm Goshen Art Walk ��Webster Park, Goshen, Jun 1, 6pm-9pm

Cinema

Independent Film Night ��Greenwood Lake Library, 2nd Tuesday, 6:30pm FREE “Like Any Other Kid” documentary, Q&A w/Victoria Mills ��Hurleyville Arts Centre, Apr 28, 6:30pm “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Apr 30, 1pm FREE “As Good as it Gets” Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt �Henning’s, Cochecton Center, Apr 30, 7pm FREE “Chuck, Lost Object Found” ��CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, May 5, 12, 19 & 26. 7pm “Breathe” Claire Foy and Andy Garfield ��Wisner Library, Warwick, May 7, 1pm FREE “Gypsy” Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood �� Henning’s Local, Cochecton Center, May 7, 7pm FREE “Johnny Belinda” Jane Wyman w/George Burke discussion �� Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, May 8, 9:30am “The Phantom Thread” Daniel Day Lewis �� Wisner Library, Warwick, May 14, 1pm FREE “Parenthood” Steve Martin, Tom Hulce �� Henning’s Local, Cochecton Center, May 14, 7pm FREE “Reversing the Stigma” documentary ��Hurleyville Arts Centre, May 15, 5pm One Hundred Best Films series film classics � Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, May 18, 2pm FREE “Battle of the Sexes” Emma Stone, w/discussion �� Wisner Library, Warwick, May 21, 1pm FREE “Freaky Friday” Jamie Lee Curtis �� Henning’s Local, Cochecton Center, May 21, 7pm FREE “Exodus” Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint w/George Burke discussion �� Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, May 24, 9:30am

David Podles violin, “Musical Journey Around the World” �� Newburgh Library, Apr 29, 3pm FREE Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra w/Kariné Poghosyan, piano �� Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, May 5, Shacklett preview:6:30pm, concert:7:30pm SUNY Orange Community Orchestra �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 5, 7:30pm The New Trio violin, cello, piano ��Mulder Chapel, Warwick, May 6, 2pm Greg Michalak piano, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Senior Center, Montgomery, May 6, 3pm FREE Hudson Valley Piano Trio ��West Point Post Chapel, May 12, 4pm Anton Batagov piano �� Stone Church, Cragsmoor, May 12, 7pm Hudson Valley Winds Newburgh Chamber Music �� St. George’s Church, Newburgh, May 13, 3pm West Point Band ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point, May 20, 2pm FREE Fei-Tian Academy �� Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, May 24, 6pm FREE Potluck Concerts” “Americana” Cornwall Presbyterian Ch., Cornwall-on-Hudson, May 25, 7:30pm Mikhail Kopelman violin, Yosif Feigelson cello, Elizaveta Kopelman piano �� “When Art Meets Music”, Kindred Spirits Arts Milford Theatre, May 26, 7:30pm

Music - jazz

Jim Dailakis ��Jokers Comedy Club, Chester, May 5, 9pm Comics at The Underground ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 10, 8pm Rich Guzzi ��Jokers Comedy Club, Chester, May 12, 9pm Sara Contreras ��Jokers Comedy Club, Chester, May 19, 9pm

Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Eric Person Band ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 9pm Joseph Boga Nonet Got Swing! Kindred Spirits Arts �� Delaware Valley HS, Milford, Apr 27, 7pm, FREE “Beyond Jazz”, Twilight in the Garden ��Pennings Market, Warwick, May 2, 7pm Hudson Valley Jazz Trio �� Grappa, Warwick, May 3, 6:30pm Larry Newcomb guitar, Joe Tranchina piano, “What Makes It Jazz” ��Chester Library, May 5, 2pm FREE NY Jazzharmonic ��St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, So. Fallsburg, May 5, 8pm FREE Hudson Valley Jazz Festival All-Star Line-Up Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, May 6, 4pm Creative Music Studio Ensemble: The Directors ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 6, 8pm Jazz Sessions Host: Doug Weiss �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 9, 7pm Rocher Fonda Sorgen Trio improv ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 13, 8pm bigBANG band improv �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 17, 7pm

Dance

Opera

Comedy

DanceFest Milford �� Multiple Locations, Milford, May 18-20 “Sleeping Beauty” Hudson Valley Dance Center of Warwick � Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 20, 2pm

Fairs & Festivals

Spring Fling! ��Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, Apr 28, 11am-3pm Newburgh Urban Farming Fair ��80 Broadway, Newburgh, Apr 28, Noon-4pm Pine Bush UFO Fair �� Main Street, Pine Bush, May 19, 10am-4pm Falcon Springfest arts, music, food, family festival �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 26, Noon-Dark 10th Annual Fun Fair food, music, family � Kadampa Meditation Center, Glen Spey, Jun 2, 11am-5pm

Fundraisers

National Alliance on Mental Illness “Every Brilliant Thing” ��Bethel Woods, May 1, 7pm & Thrall Library, Middletown, May 6, 2pm WJFF Liberty Caliente! Dance Party ��Liberty Elks Lodge, May 5, 7pm-10pm Sullivan County SPCA Slam Allen, Cathy Paty & Friends ��Bethel Woods, May 6, 3pm Hudson Valley Jazz Festival �� Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, May 6, 4pm Orange County Arboretum plant sale ��Arboretum, Montgomery, May 12, 19, & 26, 10am-3pm Highland Falls Food Pantry Hudson Valley Piano Trio ��West Point Post Chapel, May 12, 4pm Warwick Valley Gardeners plant sale �� Pine Island Park, May 19, 9am-Noon Florida Public Library Spring Tea ��Florida Library, Jun 2, 1pm

Holistic - Spiritual

Journey Into Self-Awareness “Uncorking Freedom” �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Sundays, 10:30am Deborah Intuitive Medium ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, May 11, 7pm

Museums

“A Revolutionary Camp Night” �� Historic Huts, New Windsor, May 19, 7pm-9:30pm Memorial Day Observance �� Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, May 28, 10am “18th Century Graveside Ceremony” ��New Windsor Cantonment, May 28, 2pm

Music - Chorales

Classic Choral Society ��St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Middletown, Apr 28, 7pm FREE & United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, May 6, 4pm FREE KAIROS Music on Market �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, May 5, 7:30pm Warwick Valley Chorale ��Grace Episcopal Church, Middletown, May 11, 7pm FREE & Goshen United Methodist Church, May 18, 7pm FREE & Warwick Reformed Church, May 20, 4pm FREE Middletown Concert Chorale ��Saint Paul’s Methodist Church, Middletown, May 12, 7pm & North Congregational United Church, Middletown, May 20, 3pm Delaware Valley Choral Society ��Delaware Valley High School, Milford, May 19, 2pm

Music - Classical

Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra “Sounds of the Americas” �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Monticello, Apr 28, 7pm & Grahamsville Reformed Church Apr 29, 3pm

“Cendrillon” Massenet, Live from the Met �� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Apr 28, 1pm

Poetry Readings

Milkweed Poetry ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 7pm Michael Rose ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, May 3, 7pm Hudson River Poets ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, May 5, 1pm FREE Open Mic music & poetry �� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, May 7 & 21, 7pm Walter Worden ��Montgomery Book Exchange, May 8, 7pm FREE Roberta Gould ��Elsie’s Luncheonette, Goshen, May 10, 7pm Poetry/Spoken Word Open Mic Calling All Poets ��Empowering Ellenville, May 11, 7pm Poetry Slam ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, May 18, 6:30pm Hudson River Poets �� Newburgh Library, May 24, 7pm FREE Spring Poetry (and Prose) Reading Gloria Winter, host ��Pine Bush Library, May 24, 7pm FREE Brian Dorn ��Jones Farm, Cornwall, May 25, 7pm Walter Worden ��Goshen Methodist Church, May 28, 7pm FREE

recreation

Salsa Dancing �� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Fridays, 7:30pm Indie Artist Dance Party ��Orange County Choppers, Newburgh, May 4, 9:30pm WJFF Liberty Caliente! Dance Party �� Liberty Elks Lodge, May 5, 7pm-10pm

Storytelling

Jimmy Sturr Polka King, Agrisculpture DYLWYD series Pennings Farm, Warwick, May 9, 6:30pm Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Travelling Shoes” �� Florida Library, May 10, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers stories about DADS ��Cafe Adella Dori, Callicoon, May 13, 3pm

Theatre

“Every Brilliant Thing” by Duncan Macmillan, w/Lori Schneider ��Bethel Woods, May 1, 7pm & Thrall Library, Middletown, May 6, 2pm “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” �� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, May 3-13 “A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing” dinner-theatre..Clove Creek Dinner Theatre, Fishkill, May 3-20 “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman, Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Playhouse at Museum Village, May 4-20 “Ages of the Moon” by Sam Shepard, Side Of The Road Theatre Company �� Waterwheel Café, Milford, May 11-20 “Standards & Classics & Starsky (No Hutch)” world premiere ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 12, 8pm “Child of the Empire” by/w/Ruby Lynn Willis �� Milford Theatre, May 19, 8pm “K2” by Patrick Meyers ��Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Jun 2-17 Evening of One-Acts Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall, Jun 2-17

Schools & Conservatories “Hansel & Gretel” Nesin Cultural Arts ��Nesin Theatre, Monticello, May 19, 3pm

May 2018

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

BW ��Bethel Woods Center for the Arts CAS-LK �� Catskill Art Society’s Laundry King, Livingston Manor CLOVE ��Clove Creek Dinner Theatre, Fishkill CTMW Creative Theater-Muddy Water Players ��Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe FAL & FAL-U �� The Falcon & The Falcon Underground, Marlboro GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music �� Montgomery Senior Center GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall

MONDAY

Please check the schedule for Art & Photography Exhibit Receptions, pg. 18

Cinema “Gypsy” HENN, 7pm

Theatre - Play “Every Brilliant Thing” BW 7pm

Music Mokoomba! & Common Tongue FAL 7pm

Cinema “The Phantom Thread” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Cinema “Battle of the Sexes” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Cinema “Freaky Friday” HENN, 7pm Museum Memorial Day Observance LUMB 10am

Poetry Walter Worden Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Storytelling Jimmy Sturr Polka King Pennings Farm, Warwick 6pm Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Music - Jazz Sessions FAL-U 7pm

Poetry Walter Worden MONTBK, 7pm

Music - Jazz Maple Mars FAL 8pm

Cinema “Reversing the Stigma” HAC 5pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Music - A Capella Key of Q Choral FAL 8pm

Cinema Independent Film Night GWL 6:30pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

May 2018

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Spoken Word Hip Hop POELODIES FAL-U 8pm

THURSDAY

MoM Music on Market Series �� MONTBK �� MSM-AQ �� MSM-DC ��M NCM Newburgh Chamber Music �� NESIN �� NFL ��

Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm Music -Jazz......Hudson Valley Jazz Trio...Grappa, Warwick, 6:30pm Theatre - Play..“Angels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 8pm Poetry...............................Michael Rose............................ NOBL 7pm Music - Jazz, HipHop, Discussion......Dana Murray ..............FAL 8pm

10 Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm Poetry................Roberta Gould.........Elsie’s Luncheonette, Goshen, 7pm Storytelling.........Black Dirt Storytelling Guild.....Florida Library, 7:30pm Theatre - Play..“Angels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 8pm Music - Flamenco-Arabic.......Lara Bello ...............................FAL 8pm Comedy.........................Stand-up Comics.........................FAL-U 8pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Cinema “ Parenthood ” HENN, 7pm

Cinema “Johnny Belinda” MSM-DC 9:30am

Music -Jazz “Beyond Jazz” Twilight in the Garden Pennings Market, Warwick, 7pm

Cinema “Breathe” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

WEDNESDAY

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

See also Museums calendar pg. 15

TUESDAY

GWL ��Greenwood Lake Library HAC �� Hurleyville Arts Centre HENN �� Henning’s Local, Cochecton Center IKE �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point JOKERS ��Jokers Comedy Club, Chester LUMB ��Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey MAMA ��Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro

MAY

Poetry Milkweed Sugar Loaf, 7pm

Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm Music .......................... Latin Jazz Express..................... MoM 7:30pm Theatre - Play...............“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm

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

Music - Jazz......................... bigBANG................................FAL-U 7pm Music ............................Lipbone Redding.............................FAL 8pm

Dinner-Theatre....“A Theatre - Play......... Theatre - Play..“Ange Music - Folk-Rock.. Music - Rock...........

Recreation..Indie Artis

Dinner-Theatre....“A Poetry - Spoken Wo Music...Warwick Va Theatre - Play......... Theatre - Play ........ Theatre - Play..“Ange Music .........Jonny Music - Rock...........

Cinema .............On Dinner-Theatre....“A Poetry....................P Dance..................D Music - Blues ......... Music..Warwick Va Theatre - Play......... Theatre - Play ........ Music - Roots-Rock Music - Rock-Soul-F

Cinema.................... “Exodus”..................... MSM-DC 9:30am Music - Jazz-Classical.Charlie Lang, Fei-Tian Academy.RUN4, 6pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Poetry....Spring Poetry Reading w/Gloria Winter....Pine Bush Library, 7pm Music - Native American...Tribal Harmony w/David Amram.FAL-U 7pm Music - Folk.......The Essential Eric Andersen Tour..............FAL 8pm

Poetry..................... Music - Classical.... Music .......Petra Had Music - Quebec-Fo

Music......................YMCA- Eclectic Youth Talent...........RUN4, 6pm Art Walk...........Gos Music - Blues..............Bobby Messano Trio..........................FAL 8pm Theatre - Play.........

2018

��St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville �� Montgomery Book Exchange �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville ��St. George’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh ��Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, Monticello ��Newburgh Free Library

FRIDAY

NOBL ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PARA �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown PHILL �� Phillipsport Community Center RITZ �� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh RUN4 �� Run For Downtown Park, Middletown SCCC ��SUNY Sullivan Community College, Loch Sheldrake SCM �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville

A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm .......“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm gels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 8pm .......... Aztec Two-Step..............................FAL 8pm ............Fred Zepplin.............................FAL-U 8pm

st Dance Party..Orange Cty Choppers, Newburgh, 9:30pm

A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm ord......Open Mic.........Empowering Ellenville, 7pm alley Chorale....Grace Epis. Ch, Middletown, 7pm .......“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm ...... “Ages of the Moon” ........................SIDE 8pm gels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 8pm Rosch’s Psychedelic 60’s Revue ........FAL 8pm ............ All Too Real ............................FAL-U 8pm

ne Hundred Best Films series ........... MAMA 2pm A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm Poetry Slam ......... Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm DanceFest Milford....Hotel Fauchere, Milford, 7pm .......... Willa Vincitore............................. RITZ 7pm alley Chorale..United Methodist Ch., Goshen, 7pm .......“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm ...... “Ages of the Moon” ........................SIDE 8pm k ..Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams....FAL 8pm Funk.Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover FAL-U 8pm

..........Brian Dorn........Jones Farm, Cornwall, 7pm ..Potluck Concerts..Cornwall Presby. Ch..7:30pm den, Jesse Harris & The Julian Lage Trio.FAL 8pm olk.......Durham County Poets ...............FAL-U 7pm

SATURDAY

SHAD �� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville SIDE Side of the Road Theatre Company �� Waterwheel Café, Milford SLGMN �� The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TUST ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg WCC ��Wallkill Community Center, Middletown WCPA �� Warwick Center for The Performing Arts

Poetry.......Hudson River Poets...Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, 1pm Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm Cinema................ “Chuck, Lost Object Found” ........... CAS-LK 7pm Recreation..Liberty Caliente! Dance Party..Liberty Elk’s Lodge, 7pm-10pm Music - Classical.....................Kairos ..............................MoM 7:30pm Music - Classical..Greater Newburgh Sym. Orch. .MSM-AQ 7:30pm Music - Classical...SUNY Orange Community Orch. ...PARA 7:30pm Theatre - Play..“Angels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 8pm Theatre - Play...............“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm Music - Jazz.NY Jazzharmonic.St. Andrew’s Episcopal Ch., So. Fallsburg, 8pm

SUNDAY

Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis................FAL11am Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 1pm Music - 60’s..........Little Sparrow & Larry Ravdin.................HAC 2pm Theatre - Play..“Angels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 2pm Theatre - Play........... “Every Brilliant Thing” ............... THRALL 2pm Music - Classical......The New Trio.......Mulder Chapel, Warwick, 2pm Music - Classical...........Greg Michalak piano ..................GMCM 3pm Music - Fundraiser....Slam Allen, Cathy Paty & Friends ..... BW 3pm Music - Irish............. The Parting Glass Band................... LUMB 3pm Theatre - Play...............“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 3pm

Music - Billy Joel.......Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot ................ BW 8pm Music....Classic Choral Society....United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, 4pm Music - Blues-Soul........Lucky Peterson w/Tamara Tramell..FAL 8pm Music - Fundraiser...........Hudson Valley Jazz Festival ....WCPA 4pm Music - Garcia +................. Deadgrass...............................FAL-U 8pm Music - Jazz.................CMS: The Directors ..........................FAL 8pm Comedy............................. Jim Dailakis ........................JOKERS 9pm

Music - Classical..Hudson Valley Piano Trio.West Point Post Chapel, 4pm Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm

Music.Middletown Concert Chorale.St. Paul’s Meth. Ch., Middletown, 7pm

Music...........Anton Batagov piano...Stone Church, Cragsmoor, 7pm Cinema................ “Chuck, Lost Object Found” ........... CAS-LK 7pm Theatre - Play...............“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play ............ “Ages of the Moon” ........................SIDE 8pm Theatre - Play..“Angels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 8pm Theatre..“Standards & Classics & Starsky (No Hutch)”.TUST 8pm Music - Latin-Jazz........... Tito Puente Jr. ........................... RITZ 8pm Music - Traffic.................. AllStar line-up ...............................FAL 8pm Music - Reggae.................Royal Khaoz ............................FAL-U 8pm Comedy.............................. Rich Guzzi ..........................JOKERS 9pm

Fundraiser....Warwick Valley Gardens plant sale...Pine Island Park, 9am-Noon

Fair...............Pine Bush UFO Fair.....Main Street, Pine Bush, 10am-4pm Dance......DanceFest Milford..Multiple Locations, Milford, 11am-7pm Music -Celtic................... Slateford Creek ...........................GWL 1pm Music...Delaware Valley Choral Society..Del.Valley High School, Milford, 2pm Music...Robert Agnello “Glimmer Songs”..Amity Gallery, Warwick, 2pm

Theatre - Musical.......... “Hansel & Gretel” ....................... NESIN 3pm Music.................... Dan Zanes & Neha Jiwrajka.................. HAC 4pm Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 6pm Cinema................ “Chuck, Lost Object Found” ........... CAS-LK 7pm MusicDeborah Anne Fisher&Paul Kean,John Platt&John McCormackPHILL 7pm

13 Music - DooWop.................Times Square ............................FAL11am Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 1pm Theatre - Play..“Angels in America:Milennium Approaches”. SCCC 2pm Storytelling..........Yarnslingers.........Cafe Adella Dori, Callicoon, 3pm Music - Classical...........Hudson Valley Winds ....................NCM 3pm Music - Jazz...........Rocher Fonda Sorgen Trio ....................FAL 8pm

20 Music - Jazz-Blues-Funk.....Pete Levin & Co........................ FAL 11am Dinner-Theatre....“A Masterpiece of Comic...Timing”....CLOVE 1pm Dance...................DanceFest Milford....Mainstage, Milford, 1pm-4pm Theatre - Play ............ “Ages of the Moon” ........................SIDE 2pm Dance...........................“Sleeping Beauty” ........................PARA 2pm Music............................. West Point Band ............................ IKE 2pm Music - Americana & Irish...........Tim Quinn ................... THRALL 2pm Theatre - Play...............“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 3pm

Music - Folk.................Music for Humanity......................NOBL 7:30pm Music.Middletown Concert Chorale.North Cong. United Ch., Middletown, 3pm Theatre - Play...............“The Little Foxes”.......................CTMW 8pm Music.......Warwick Valley Chorale....Warwick Reformed Church, 4pm Theatre - Play ............ “Ages of the Moon” ........................SIDE 8pm Music - Funk-Groove..........Jason “Malletman” Taylor .........FAL 8pm Theatre - Play............“Child of the Empire”......Milford Theatre, 8pm Music - Rock-Soul-Reggae.....Garland Jeffreys Trio .................FAL 8pm Music - Blues-Rock-Funk.......Dylan Doyle w/ Althea Grace.. FAL-U 8pm Music - Jazz...........Eric Person Band....Wherehouse,Newburgh,9pm Comedy.......................... Sara Contreras ......................JOKERS 9pm

Festival.............................. ..Springfest....................... FAL Noon-Dark Music - Swing +............ ....Saints of Swing..........................FAL 11am Cinema................ “Chuck, Lost Object Found” ........... CAS-LK 7pm Music - Shaker-Pop...........Jeff Lederer’s Shakers n’ Bakers ..FAL 8pm Music - Classical.M. & E. Kopelman, Y. Feigelson.Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Music.......................Kiefer Sutherland guitar ...................... BW 8pm

Fair.Fun Fair..Kadampa Meditation Center, Glen Spey, 11am-5pm Fundraiser..................... Spring Tea ................. Florida Library 1pm shen Art Walk....Webster Park, Goshen, 6pm-9pm Music..................Lard Dog and the Band of Shy ..............TUST 2pm Theatre - Play.......................... “K2” ................................... SHAD 2pm .................. “K2” ...................................SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play.......................... “K2” ........................SHAD 2pm & 8pm Theatre - Play.............Evening of One-Acts .................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play.............Evening of One-Acts .................... GOSH 7pm

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NEW Photography exhibits

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

Group Show �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ��Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing Catharine De Maio paintings ��Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Sullivan County High School Art Show �� CAS thru May 5 Allan Rubin “Canon” sculpture �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, thru May 5 “Raptors, Song birds, Avian species” group show ��ARTery, Milford, thru May 7 Wallkill River School Artists ��Orange Regional Medical Center Gallery, Middletown, thru May 7 Spring Into Art Show Crawford Arts Association �� Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru May 9 Rain themed work representing the rejuvenating rain of “April Showers” �� WRS thru May 15 “Vista Panorámica” Latino Art Group Exhibit ��Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru May 19 Walkill River School Artists �Gallery at Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, thru May 20 Goshen Art League New Members Exhibition ��Goshen Music Hall, thru May 24 UpFront 10th Anniversary Exhibit �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru May 24 “Spring Fling” River Valley Artists Guild’s “Art About Town” �� Jennifer Charton Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis & Milford Senior Healthcare & Joan Kehlenbeck “Spring Florals” Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot & Susan Miiller paintings Port Jervis Library, thru May 28 James Douglas Milne “Botanical Portraits” drawings �� SUNYO-KH thru May 30 Shaina Aiyana Dunn “Search for Enlightenment” ceramics �� SUNYO-KH thru May 30 Margo Claster abstract paintings �� Griffith Olivero Realtors, Goshen, thru May 30 Goshen Art League rotating exhibition �� Goshen Town Hall, thru Jun 14 Peter Max “Early Paintings” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31

NEW ART EXHIBITS

“Florals” juried group exhibit ��WRS May 1-30 Nancy Reed Jones” “Romantic Expressions” �� Cornwall Library, May 1-31 Cathe Linton watercolors, pastels and pencil drawings ��Greenwood Lake Library, May 1-31 Elaine Ralston paintings ��Highland Mills Library, May 1-31 “Windows & Mirrors” local artists group show ��Wisner Library, Warwick, May 1-31 Roberta Rosenthal calligraphy, botanical & landscape paintings �� MSM-DC May 1-Jun 30 Lisa Hannick “Classical Realism - a Painterly Approach” �� Gallery At Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 1-Jun 30 Barbara Masterson plein air paintings �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 1-Jun 30 Brenda Scott Harburger oils, landscape & dining ��Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, May 3-Jun 30 Dennis Fanton “My World, My Vision” ��SUNYO-OH May 4-Jun 13 “Chuck, Lost Object Found” ��CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, May 4-27 “Up in the Air” & “For the Birds” group show ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, May 5-19 “The Figure” Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, May 5-27 Roslyn Fassett, Deborah Menzell Dressler, Linda Winton �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 5-27 Middletown Art Group ��SUNYO-OH May 7-Jun 13 Susan Hope Fogel “Divergence” oils & watercolors ��SUNYO-OH May 8-Jun 13 “Art in Bloom - Florals Imitate Art at the Artery” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford. May 10-Jun 4 “Artwork as Collection/Collection as Artwork” group show �� DVAA May 11-Jun 2 Eunjung Hwang, Paula Stuttman ��CAS May 12-Jun 23 Ann Higgins “A Retrospective” �� Domesticities, Youngsville, May 12-midJune “Spring” group exhibit ��WRS May 15-Jun 14 “Webster’s Picturenary: Works Inspired by Literature” Goshen Art League �� Goshen Music Hall, May 28-Jul 25

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Delaware Highlands Conservancy “Eagles and Their Environs” ��ARTery, Milford, thru May 7 Alanna Floreck “Primavera” ��Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, thru May 11 Nick Zungoli “Up Close” ��Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, thru May 20 Heather Hubbard “Florals”, River Valley Artists Guild’s “Art About Town” �� Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, thru May 28 William Powe ��Berkshire Bank, Goshen, thru Jun 26 Dean Goldberg “I Am India! Travels in Agra, Jaipur, and Delhi” & Christopher Neyen �� “Evidential Industrial Mannerisms” CMA Gallery, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, thru Sept.

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Nancy Layne “Newburgh Urban Gardens Calendar �� Two Alices, Newburgh, Apr 27, 6pm Marty Kivell & Miroslav Vrzala “Captured Moments” ��Wisner Library, Warwick, May 1-31 Randolph De Mercado “Colors of Life in Yellowstone” �� Wisner Library Board Room, May 1-31 “Chuck, Lost Object Found” photographs, treasures, ephemera �� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, May 4-27 Beth Baylin “In Afternoon Light” �� DVAA May 11-Jun 2

ART & Photography receptions

Nancy Reed Jones” “Romantic Expressions” �� Cornwall Library, May 3, 2pm-4pm Elaine Ralston paintings ��Highland Mills Library, May 5, Noon-2pm “Up in the Air” & “For the Birds” group show �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, May 5, 4pm-6pm “Florals” juried group exhibit �� WRS May 5, 5pm-7pm Lisa Hannick �� Gallery At Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 5, 5pm-7pm Roslyn Fassett, Deborah Menzell Dressler, Linda Winton ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 5, 5pm-7pm “Artwork as Collection/Collection as Artwork”, Beth Baylin photography ��DVAA May 11, 7pm-9pm Ann Higgins “A Retrospective” ��Domesticities, Youngsville, May 12, 1pm “The Figure” Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, May 12, 2pm-4pm Eunjung Hwang, Paula Stuttman ��CAS May 12, talk:3pm, reception:4pm-6pm “Art in Bloom - Florals Imitate Art at the Artery” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford. May 12, 6pm-9pm Roberta Rosenthal calligraphy, botanical & landscape paintings ��MSM-DC May 19, 1pm-3pm Middletown Art Group, Dennis Fanton, Susan Hope Fogel ��SUNYO-OH May 20, 1pm-3:30pm Brenda Scott Harburger oils, landscape & dining ��Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, Jun 7, TBD “Webster’s Picturenary: Works Inspired by Literature” Goshen Art League �� Goshen Music Hall, Jun 14, 5:30pm-8pm

Schools & Conservatories Budding Artists art exhibit �� Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing Sullivan County High School Show �� CAS thru May 5 “Hansel and Gretel” Nesin Cultural Arts �� Nesin Theatre, Monticello, May 19, 3pm

Children & Teens Calendar

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

Books

Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Book Hipsters Book Club teens �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Fridays, 3:30pm Dusty the READ dog children read & he listens ��Florida Library, May 19, 10:15am “Jake Drake, Know-It-All” by Andrew Clements, 3rd & 4th grades �� Cornwall Library, May 21, 4:30pm “Science Fair” by Dave Barry, 5th thru 8th grades �� Cornwall Library, May 21, 6:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs �� Greenwood Lake Library, Wednesdays, 6pm FREE Teen Movie Matinee �� Crawford Library, Monticello, 1st Saturday, 1pm FREE Saturday Family Movie �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE Entertainment see also Fairs & Festivals page 15

Storytime 3-5yrs �� Crawford Library, Monticello, Mondays 10am FREE Robert Agnello “Glimmer Songs” �� Amity Gallery, May 19, 2pm Dan Zanes & Neha Jiwrajka Lead Belly’s Children’s Music �Hurleyville Arts Centre, May 19, 4pm Museums

Meet the Animals “Birds on the Wing” ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Hiking Trails ��HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm

Story Walk Opening “Forest Bright, Forest Night” by Jennifer Ward �� HHNM May 26, 10am-4pm

Books: discussions / readings / Signings Peace Lab “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall Rosenberg �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Alternate Tuesdays, 11:30am, & Sundays 3:30pm Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group ��Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Books & Tea �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 4th Wednesday, 4pm Urban Book Club ��Mulberry House Senior Center, Middletown, 4th Wednesday, 7pm Fiction & Foodies �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 2nd Thursday, 6pm Book Discussion Group �� 1st Friday, Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, 1pm Book Discussion Group ��Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Apr 27, 11:30am “The Great Bridge” by David McCullough �� Cornwall Library, May 2, 6pm “A Man of His Own” by Susan Wilson ��Morrison Hall, Middletown May 11, Noon “The Crossing” by Michael Connelly �� Cornwall Library, May 16, 7pm “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders w/Jess Gerson �� Newburgh Library, May 16, 7pm Used Book Sale �� Florida Library, May 19 & 20, 9am-3pm “Family Tree” by Susan Wiggs �� Cornwall, Library, May 24, 7pm “The Notorious RBG:The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg”. �� by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik Chester Library, May 29, 6pm

Keith Dougherty: Writer, Actor, Producer In case no one noticed, interactive theatre is growing in popularity. It’s not a new genre, though at times it can be awkward to define. There’s a chance that’s a part of its increasing appeal. That said, understand that a wide variety of theatre productions stand under this umbrella, ranging from interactive to immersive theater. The Hudson Valley is a part of this trend with a local theatre company aptly named: Murder Mystery Manhattan. Located in Campbell Hall under the direction of Keith Dougherty (see photo), the company caters primarily to dinner theatres, cooperate events, team building and numerous specialoccasion gatherings with a range of 25 to 30 mostly scripted and engaging scenarios. The more popular reflect the subject matter of popular themes, e.g., classic films, TV spoofs, children’s shows and, as the company name implies, murder mysteries. In clarifying a point on the children’s shows, Keith says, “We often custom write a scenario for children’s parties after getting info about the guest of honor and friends, and make it a theft, rather than a murder. The cast then helps the children find what’s missing, using the clues found in a scavenger hunt-type search.

In larger groups this works extremely well when broken down into teams for team-building.” In the category of TV spoofs there is an interesting spoof titled, The Souprano’s Last Anniversary. “The Soupranos become moonstruck in this laugh-out-loud, “diss”-functional family farce. Pony and Hormella Souprano invite you to the party of the season to celebrate their anniversary. Become part of the familia as a guest at the party, and find out who the real bosses are - the men or their mamas? Pony tries to keep the peace between the rival crime families, but instead, watch the ziti fly and see who survives.” The various themes and situations are vigorously described in Keith’s promotional material. He and his cast, needless to say, are a creative bunch, for in their craft, actions and reactions are not always predictable and frankly, it boils right down to the simple fact that no two shows are the same. To create and maintain an atmosphere that is engaging and exhilarating, cast members must be quick on their feet (flexible) and able to “carry a speech in every pocket,” that means good at improv. To understand Keith’s multi-faceted role

as producer, writer, and director is to take a peek at his journey. Originally from Valhalla, he studied visual arts and writing as a student, graduating from SUNY Purchase with a BFA. Following college he opened a rattan and wicker store in Campbell Hall. Finding himself drawn to the theatre scene, he became involved with the Creative Theatre-Muddy Waters Players. Once asked to perform in a play that required an extended soliloquy by a Vietnam Vet, Keith recalls the positive reaction he received from the audience. “They hooked me,” he quipped. Following a rewarding experience, he promptly connected with an interactive dinner theatre. Boldly, he met the challenge the theatre offered, i.e.: acting and interacting with an audience was a fulfilling and gratifying experience. Theatre became his passion. After closing his wicker shop, he wanted a different type of activity in the ever expanding arena of interactive theatre. “When I decided to start Murder Mystery Manhattan I wanted to do something different rather than the standard type of scripts I had been performing for years. Keeping somewhat abreast of certain pop cultures, and wanting to write my own scripts,

I decided to take what was popular and spoof it. I thought if I took cult and classic films and TV, and topics that were in the news, and spoof them, it would attract an audience...and I was right. Some of my more popular titles are Sunsex Blvd, Curse-a-Blanca, Desperate Mobwives, Golden Girls Gone Wild and Mommy, Fearest. After seeing Tony and Tina’s Wedding, he came to realize that the interactive scripts did not always have to involve murder. They could be just large parties with some “wacky” characters thrown in. They are generally scripted leaving generous room for improv as actors interact with the guests. The popular wedding scenarios are under several names, Carmine & Carmella, Vesuvio & Filomena, and Abram & Arabella. The audience is immersed, becoming a part of the wedding party. Murder Mystery Manhattan will be performing The Souprano’s Last Anniversary at the Falkirk Inn in Central Valley, and Golden Girls Gone Wild (not a murder mystery) at the Catskill Mountains Resort in Barryville. Keith and his cast and crew are full of talent and produce an amazing amount of fun. Visit www.mysterymanhattan.com/

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Thank You For The Music, Howard & Judy “For 31 years, Howard Garrett, with the able help and support of his good wife, Judy, has been organizing free concerts for the residents of Montgomery and places further afield. This has been a noble public service of inestimable value. “Much work, behind the scenes, has been involved in researching and hiring excellent performers and the laborious task of raising funds to pay for them. We have enjoyed hearing truly wonderful and, at times, world class musicians. At the same time, Howard encouraged young and up and coming players and singers, many of whom have gone on to have distinguished careers. “We all wish Howard and Judy a well earned respite from all the responsibility and effort involved, and hope they can sit back and relax with a sense of pride in their most worthy accomplishments. I am sure Howard is very happy to have found someone to take over the reins, in the person of Aleksander Vezuli, so the series will go on.” - Eric Hamblin “What a prodigious gift Howard and Judy Garrett have given to their community over the past three decades through their production of the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series! “They brought world-class acts to the village, not surprisingly packing the house most every time, and they did it for free. Not only did they receive no compensation for the considerable effort every event required, there was no ticket charge for the audience. “The Garretts managed to operate this excellent concert series purely on the faithful support of local businesses (whom they earnestly plugged) and the local government. It was a rare example of the selfless work of a couple of people (with a little help from a few friends) making our region more beautiful. “And Howard was usually wearing some hat or tie that would suggest that for him the sublime can coexist with the ridiculous.” - Bill Seaton

“Howard Garrett grew up in a small apartment in Queens, NY. Fast-forward to the 1980s and Howard was still living in cramped Queens. He and his wonderful wife, Judy treated themselves to a balloon ride which they had seen advertised. What a lifechanging happening for them. They viewed Orange County and its open spaces and decided to move here. Within a few months, they opened their house for classical music appreciation sessions. Then, they purchased a big Victorian house in Montgomery which they recreated into a “painted Lady.” They acquired all sorts of art and antiques, and finely working musical equipment from around the world, and shared it all via house

“Sunday afternoon in the concert hall with Judy and Howard! How privileged we are that you have shared your love of music with our community. “I love being able to slip into a seat up close to the action, where I can closely observe the passionate playing of the musicians. I can imagine I am nobility of the era from whence much of the music comes. Up close, I am also able to do some sketching. “You have enriched our lives immeasurably. I have seen and heard music that I may not have known without these concerts. And they are free and a short drive away (unless I call for the coach-and-four)! Thank you! - Mary Mugele Sealfon 20

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gatherings and the music group. “Continuing his quest to offer classical music to the general public, this very liberal man approached conservative village leaders to allow him the use of Wesley Hall, and eventually the new senior center, for his classical concert series, free and open to the public. A knowledgeable musician himself with a full bass voice accompanied by his side-kick, his devoted wife Judy, herself a wonderful pianist, brought accomplished classical and ethnic musicians to Montgomery. “The concert series now in its 31st year, would have been beyond what most people give to their community, but he created

At the concert hall, Bach, Haydn, Chopin, and Ravel wandered May countryside of green, pastel mood; pastoral trees; fog and mists. Pianist conjured ferns and ivy in her October-burnished dress, crimson as autumn rich maples intent on visiting May’s dream to impart matron advice. Evidence of rain…some elders muttered; one leaned over as a devotee of sleep. Bruderhof members served apple cider at intermission. The artists spoke mythos through the piano. Forests rose, surrounding the concert hall. Marshes and pastures permeated the parking lot. No breathing was labored as Chopin walked through walls. An old woman; Spring jacket, shuffled late into the hall. She sat: morose; throes of sadness, confusion. The Revolutionary Etude could not rouse the sleeping sacrifice to reverie’s whispers. Musician conjured Ravel; his soft, country afternoon before the War; the café was loud at lunch, pleasant curtains blowing in window; smoke. Soup and bread, prepared in a back room. I sat, in my worsted wool suit, 1914. My suit of premonition, 1914. by Robert Milby, Orange County Poet Laureate (2017-2019). “Written in 2015, after attending a Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series concert. The reference at the end has to do with being transported back to France on the cusp of the Great War. The vehicle was Ravel’s Trio.”

Orange County Day, an annual countywide event honoring a revered citizen, having a large themed art show of upward to 285 works by fourth graders, a poetry contest, all drawing awareness to the beauty within the county, if only in one’s backyard. This is the event through which I first met him as he recruited me to organize the event with him. “It seemed like Howard was always coming up with new ways he could give to his adopted Orange County. Throughout the years, he has received awards for his efforts. He has so much appreciated living here, but ah! how much the residents of Orange County and this region have benefitted from his generosity. That man with the flashy hats and ornately carved canes and huge, toothy grin is Howard Garrett. The county is lucky he and Judy moved here. He has made his mark. I respect him highly and consider myself fortunate that he, Judy, and I are friends. And it happened because of that fateful balloon ride...” - Dorothy Szefc For Howard & Judy Garrett: “Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Concert” by James Finn Cotter Leaving white-clapboarded Wesley Hall After the brass quintet concert I stepped out to the snow-piled streets In the village of Montgomery Into an apocalyptic moment. Sidewalks for blocks were paved with silver While the sun like the Holy Grail Filled the broad sky with blood-red gold And angels with glowing brass trumpets Blew bright fanfares to the four winds. Palestrina’s fugal Ricerar For a papal procession in Saint Peter’s In Rome, Gabrieli’s Canzona For solemn high Mass in Saint Mark’s In Venice, Mouret’s rhythmic Rondeau, The theme of Masterpiece Theater, Purcell’s Tunes and Ayre at Westminster Poured from the open church door peals Of a winged angelic brass choir Of trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba Driving home eastward towards the Hudson Highlands, I watched the bell-rounded hills Turn bronze, pink, magenta, dark purple In the lingering coda of sunset. I blessed the landscape lavished on us In this valley of winter fields and towns, Of free Sunday afternoon concerts, The heaven-sent gifts of common joys Of this time, this place, and its people, In mountains and music, in sights and sounds. Published in A New Life; Learning the Way of Omega - Wayhaven Press, 2009.

The Pentagon & UFO’s: A Dramatically New Context for the 2018 Pine Bush UFO Fair by Philip Ehrensaft

The Pentagon surprised America shortly before Christmas 2017 by releasing videos of Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jets engaged in catand-mouse chases with Unidentified Flying Objects. The videos were quietly released to the New York Times (NYT). The NYT assigned three top investigative reporters to tackle the material. The result was an in-depth front page article last December 16: Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program. The Pentagon videos include soundtracks of pilots’ minds being blown by seeing things that are not, according to official Washington, supposed to exist. (NYT, 12/16/2017). The biggest question mark in the NYT article is why the Pentagon has decided to reverse its long-standing dismissal of any and all evidence of purported UFO sightings. One of the three NYT reporters, Leslie Kean, authored a landmark book on this systematic denial since the 1940’s: UFOs: Generals, Pilots, & Government Officials Go on the Record. Kean is an agnostic as to whether the evidence definitively demonstrates whether UFO’s are real or not. She is definitive in stating that the U.S. government has suppressed evidence

contrary to the official line. In stark contrast, our closest military allies, Great Britain and France, share information on UFO sightings with the public. France mandates its National Center for Scientific Research (NCRS) to maintain a national data base on UFO sightings. Citizens are encouraged to report sightings to the NCRS. The 2018 edition of the Pine Bush UFO Fair on May 19, 10:00am-4:00pm is a good fit for the beginnings of Washington’s more open stance. The Fair mixes fun events costumed strolls, contests, good food - with opportunities to hear and question UFO experts and Hudson Valley neighbors’ describing UFO experiences. This year’s speakers include astronomer Marc D’Antonio, chief photo & video analyst for the national organization that tracks and analyzes UFO observations: the Mutual UFO Network. There’s an evening UFO experts conference at the Crawford Government Center and some shorter presentations running in the Fair tent during the day. The new Fair top-off is a late evening attempt, in Alice Court Park, to establish Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind. A “CE-5” is a direct communication between humans and aliens. Visit www.pinebushufofair.com

Poetry & Prose in Pine Bush

Gloria M. Winter has been writing poetry since being a member of the third grade bulletin board club at Mechanicstown Elementary School in the early eighties. Over the years, her poems and several essays have been published in academic publications and textbooks. Currently, she is working on publishing a short collection of her favorite poems. In addition to being an adjunct English and Continuing Education instructor at SUNY Orange, she is also a longtime trustee and board secretary for the Pine Bush Area

Public Library (PBL). Spring Poetry Reading - Hosted by Gloria Winter takes place at the PBL, 227 Maple Avenue, Pine Bush, on May 24 at 7:00pm. All poets and non-poets are invited to attend this quarterly free reading. The theme is Spring-related poetry or prose; poets are encouraged to read their own original works or those of their favorite poets. You don’t have to be a poet to attend the event - you can just listen and be entertained by the readings! Coffee / tea and light refreshments served. For information: 845-744-3375.

Starsky But No Hutch in Narrowsburg “Last spring, we brought an incredible lineup of out-of-town performers to Narrowsburg for the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance’s Tusten Theatre Spring Cultural Series,” said DVAA program director Bizzy Coy. “This spring, we decided to spotlight the impressive talent in our own backyard.” In the ‘70s, Cochecton’s David Driver was obsessed with Starsky from TV’s Starsky & Hutch. Driver explores his fascination in the world premiere performance of Standards &

Classics & Starsky (No Hutch), with songs by Rodgers & Hart, Duran Duran, Brian Wilson and Driver himself. The multimedia performance, featuring multi-instrumentalists Dana Lyn and Matt Kanelos, riffs on Driver’s childhood obsession with the character of Detective David Starsky. The performance takes place on May 12 at 8:00pm at the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg. Tickets: 845-252-7272. Kids twelve and under free.

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Potluck Concerts: “Americana” Potluck Concerts’ annual Americana concert will include Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano by Charles Ives, Sonata No. 1, Op. 45 “Tragica” for piano by Edward MacDowell and Frag-me-nts From A Wom-an’s Di-ary by Ruth Schonthal (1924- 2006). Schonthal was born in Germany Margaret Small Ruthanne Schempf Emily Faxon American public as equal to European artists. of Viennese parents. In 1935, she and her family were forced to leave Nazi His influence on American musical life in the Germany for Stockholm where she later early 20th century was immense.” - Dean studied at the Royal Academy of Music. At Crocker. MacDowell said about his Tragica, “The the age of fourteen she had her first sonatina published, and at the age of nineteen she gave first three movements, express tragic details, a very widely acclaimed piano performance and the finale heightens the darkness of of her own compositions. Among the tragedy by making it follow closely on the audience members was noted composer Paul heels of triumph.” Ives’ Violin Sonata No. 4, called “Children’s Hindemith, who obtained a scholarship for her to study with him at Yale in 1946. She Day at Camp Meeting” is based principally was one of the few of his students to graduate on the church hymns sung at children’s services. (The second movement uses Jesus from the Conservatory with honors. Schonthal wrote for television and Loves Me). Performers for the evening include commercials, taught privately and played the piano in various bars and clubs in New Margaret Small and Ruthanne Schempf York. One close student of hers, the unknown pianos, and Emily Faxon violin. The concert Stephanie Germanotta, went on to great fame is on May 25 at 7:30pm at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, in the pop music world as Lady Gaga! “MacDowell was almost certainly the first Cornwall-on-Hudson. Tickets at the door. An American composer to be accepted by the ice cream and cake reception follows.

Wellness Modalities: Reflexology by Derek Leet The Cochrane Collaboration is a group of more than 37,000 volunteers in more than 130 countries. The group was formed to organize medical research information in a systematic way to facilitate the choices that health professionals, patients, policy makers and others face in health interventions according to the principles of evidence-based medicine. The Cochrane Collaboration defines reflexology as follows: “Reflexology is gentle manipulation or pressing on certain parts of the foot to produce an effect elsewhere in the body.” Reflexologists posit that the blockage of an energy field, invisible life force, or Qi, can prevent healing. Another tenet of reflexology is the belief that practitioners can relieve stress and pain in other parts of the body through the manipulation of the feet. One claimed explanation is that the pressure received in the feet may send signals that ‘balance’ the nervous system or release chemicals such as

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endorphins that reduce stress and pain. The idea behind Reflexology is not new. In fact, it was practiced as early as 2330 B.C. by the Egyptian culture. Reflexology as we know it today was first researched and developed by Eunice Ingham, the pioneer of this field. Her first book on the subject was published in 1938. The Ingham Method® of Reflexology is used primarily for relaxing tension. Doctors agree that over 75% of our health problems can be linked to nervous stress and tension. Debra Sheafe, a multi-dimensional healer and reflexology practitioner in Rock Tavern, says, “Reflexology is the practice of stimulating nerve endings on the feet that correspond to major organs, glands, and body parts. Areas of the feet are worked on with massage, thumb and finger pressure. Reflexology increases circulation, flushing out toxins and removing energy blockages.” (See Debra’s ad on page 28).

Books & Food in Wurtsboro

The Mamakating Library serves the Monticello, Pine Bush and Minisink Valley school districts within the Town of Mamakating in its beautiful new building which opened in January 2015. “We have two monthly book groups,” explained Library Assistant Joy Patton. “Fiction & Foodies, every 2nd Thursday at 6:00pm for which we cook an item from each month’s selected book (cookbook or

food-related novel), and get together to eat and discuss the book. A wonderful potluck... ...and “Books & Tea, every 4th Wednesday at 4:00pm. We alternate fiction and nonfiction selections, and enjoy tea/coffee and a light snack.” Call 845-888-8004 for info. The library, at 128 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, is also a pick-up location for Rondout Valley Organics (see page 5 and ad below), an online marketplace of local farm products.

Welcome to Mamakating’s Central Bark! by Donna Beickert

Last year I rescued a puppy named Rocco and fell in love. I would bring him to dog parks because he loves to play with other dogs but there were no dog parks near my house. I approached Mamakating’s Town Supervisor and asked about creating a dog park at Mamakating Town Park. He invited me to a meeting where there ended up being a lot of support for my idea. I was told that if I could raise the money for it, they would build it! My fundraising adventure began! With the help of Paula Valentine, we raised over $13,000 which will cover the cost of a fence, benches and pet waste stations! A grand

opening celebration for Central Bark takes place on May 12 from 11:00am-3:00pm. There will be trail walks, demos for behavior, training and dog bite prevention, and several vendors including rescue organizations! Many sponsors enabled us to give away free t-shirts including Goshen’s Healey Brothers Ford, Wurtsboro Veterinary Clinic, Busy Bee Taxi, Sudsy Paws, Jerry’s Collision, Catskill Veterinary Services, Crystal Connections, A&L Plumbing & Heating, LuLaRoe’s Kimberly Cronin & Pat Morris, Fine Design Fuel, Refko Landscaping, Foiled Again Hair Salon and Horton Associates. For more information, call 845-644-5062.

WAA Honors Dorothy Langseder (1928-2018) “Driving through continued Kitty. Yankee Lake, I would Kitty asked Lisa what pass a simple hand painted it was like growing up sign that read “Langseder with an artist for a parent. Art Studio” in front of a “I never really gave any small cottage. The art of thought to Mom being Dorothy Langseder is an artist. I knew she was spread throughout Sullivan busy raising four children, County,” said Wurtsboro running two homes, all Art Alliance (WAA) the while finding time to president, Kitty Mitchell. photograph subjects for Aresident ofYankee Lake her next painting, teaching for 40 years, Langseder classes and attending “Barnyard Buttinsky” served as Executive by Dorothy Langseder (1928-2018) shows. Director of the Catskill Art Society for ten “As the oldest, my job was to be her “show years during the 1980’s. She portrayed the assistant” when she would travel to an exhibit Hudson River in over 150 canvases, thirteen of or demonstration at one of the malls in New which were published in The Conservationist, Jersey. We would load the car with all of Hudson Valley Magazine, and the book, The her supplies, and drop my brothers off at River That Flows Upstream. These paintings Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house. Then we are now in collections in NY and NJ. were gone for the day, setting up the display, Sadly, Sullivan County’s art community Mom drawing portraits for the shoppers as I lost one of its most established and respected answered their questions, often late into the artists on March 5, 2018. Langseder passed evening. Anyone who knew Mom knew how away at that little cottage in Yankee Lake much she loved what she did and I was lucky surrounded by her four children. “A few weeks to be a part of that experience,” said Lisa. later her daughter Lisa Coney came into the View some of Langseder’s work during the Alliance’s John Neilson Gallery. Her family WAA’s second members’ exhibit of 2018 titled, had been left with over 400 paintings and they The Figure, which runs from May 5-27. were looking for a venue in which to display “Enjoy refreshments and meet our talented and sell them. The Alliance will be exhibiting artists at the opening reception, May 12 from some of Langseder’s art throughout the year,” 2:00pm-4:00pm,” concluded Kitty.

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93 Middletown Art Group Artworks & Fogel’s Oils & Watercolors

Reserve by May 1

Even though the name Middletown Art Group (MAG) seems to give the impression of exclusiveness to Middletown residents, that is not the case as members reside in other parts of Orange as well as Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Sussex, and Pike Counties. “Charlotte” by Anne W. Kelly The organization was established in 1946 “for the purpose of exchanging ideas Bonham coordinates and between artists, craftsmen, art teachers, and designs the MAG catalog. Susan Hope Fogel is students and of providing an atmosphere in which to improve individual skills and respect the judge for the 2018 for the efforts of others.” MAG continues that MAG show. A mini “The Upper Hand” “Central Park Stroll” by Barbara Bonham by Susan Hope Fogel tradition and throughout the year sponsors show of her maxi art will demonstrations and lectures which promote be on display on the wall of Orange Hall Is this idea of showing such contrasting styles Gallery Fringe titled Divergence ~ oils and unsettling? Art offers that freedom. Yet, she the study of the arts. The Middletown Art Group 2018 Spring watercolors by Susan Hope Fogel from May does have a constant which inspires her: “the quality of light enveloping the subject... Exhibition at Orange Hall Gallery running 8-June 13. Susan teaches traditional realism in pastel transforms our world, resonates within and from May 7-June 13 will showcase porcelain, stone, clay, photography, oil, acrylic, pastel, and oil painting at the Ridgewood Art Institute inspires this artist,” she states. Come and get a glimpse of Fogel’s world of charcoal, watercolor, mixed media, recycled and experimental watercolor workshops at her art, the MAG exhibit, and another by Dennis objects, and collage, with ninety-three pieces art school, The Warwick Atelier. Susan paints large. Whether she is working Fanton (see page 25) at Orange Hall, located in the show. Ongoing mini demonstrations by artists in oils in the style of traditional realism or using at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Anne W. Kelly, Frederic Spione, and watercolors with an experimental technique, Avenues, (GPS: 24 Grandview Ave.) on the Mitchell Saler take place during the opening her paintings connect viewers to her vision of Middletown campus of SUNY Orange. For information, call Cultural Affairs at 845reception on May 20, from 1:00pm-3:30pm. art. Her exhibit visually explains her distinctly Pianist Bev Poyerd will play selections of jazz, different avenues of approaching these 341-4891 or cultural@sunyorange.edu. Visit two media: oil paintings demonstrating her www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs show, and classical music on the baby grand. The gallery is closed Memorial Day MAG chairpersons are Veronica Plucinski fascination with North Light and plein air, and and Denise Shelby Isseks and Barbara watercolors using the style of Deconstruction. Weekend.

Happy Birthday Hambletonian! If you’ve never attended a birthday party for a horse, now’s your chance! Foaled on May 5, 1849 in Sugar Loaf, Hambletonian went on to become the foundation sire of the American Standardbred horse, and cemented Orange County’s reputation as the Cradle of the Trotter. The fun and informative event will include a presentation on the history of the great horse as well as an easy spring time craft and adult coloring session. The afternoon’s festivities will be topped off with a pizza lunch and ice cream cake! All supplies for the craft and coloring, as well as soft beverages, will be provided. Celebrate the birth of the legendary horse Hambletonian on May 3 at Noon at the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, 240 Main Street, Goshen. Reservations are required by May 1, and space is limited - call today! Contact the Education Department at 845-294-6330 or e-mail: education@harnessmuseum.com

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Dennis Fanton’s Vision at SUNY Orange

Peter Max at Bethel Woods

Paralleling his life and numerous ‘Awards to Robert Frost’s poem of Excellence’ in many The Road Not Taken, shows. Dennis is also Dennis Fanton has an instructor at the finally been able to Wallkill River School. take the road of choice, In addition to his that of art, and the art, he has a passion joy this track affords for gardening which him is evident in his has led him to become paintings. a Master Gardener. Fanton finds his His home gardens are artistic journey to be often subjects of his fulfilling as he is open “The Silence Surrounds Me” by Dennis Fanton paintings. . to experimentation using different approaches Come and enjoy a “walk” down his now in medium and style. He believes that potential chosen road and take in his view through subjects for paintings are “all around us and his artworks. A solo show of his pastels and it is up to the artist to capture the inspiration oils My World, My Vision runs May 4-June and present it to the viewer.” He “prefers on 13 in Orange Hall Gallery Loft. The thirty site painting which involves the use of all my works in the show reflect the influence of senses,” he continues. However, this comes with impressionism; yet, they are very much his risks because not all situations are predictable. own as expressed through his use of color. His ability and willingness to challenge himself Fanton will be on hand for the May 20, with new ideas gives his artworks a freshness 1:00pm-3:30pm reception along with the which quickly engages viewers. Along the 2018 Middletown Art Group Exhibition. way, he has been awarded a ‘Best in Show’ See ad pg. 11 or story pg. 24 for location.

Through the in-depth moved from nostalgic study and exhibition collage-inspired of the social, political, realistic paintings to his and cultural events visionary, imaginative of the 1960s, as well Cosmic creations. as the preservation of “Peter Max: the historic site of the Early Paintings is Woodstock Music and on display through Art Fair, Bethel Woods December 31 along educates individuals with clothing designed about the issues and by Max. The exhibit is lessons of the decade included in the regular while inspiring a new museum admission. generation to contribute A special-exhibitionpositively to the world only admission is around them. just $5,” announced The art of Peter Museum Director and Max helped define the Senior Curator, Wade psychedelic 1960s, with Lawrence. its colorful imagery of In support of this gurus, sages, runners, year’s special exhibit, flyers, Zen boats, and in celebration Clothing designed by Peter Max snow-capped mountains, of the museum’s 10th planets, stars, and anniversary, 12 regional sunbeams. With paintings artists will present Doors on exhibition in hundreds to Originality, a series of museums and galleries of original Peter Maxworldwide, Peter Max and inspired designs on his vibrant colors have vintage wooden doors. become part of the fabric This outdoor installation, of contemporary culture. displayed throughout the Max has been called a Bethel Woods grounds, Pop Icon, Neo Fauvist, opens June 2, ten years to Abstract Expressionist and the day that The Museum the United States “Painter at Bethel Woods opened Laureate.” its doors, and can be seen For the 2018 season, the through November. Artwork by Peter Max Museum at Bethel Woods is featuring a new The Museum at Bethel Woods explores special exhibit, Peter Max: Early Paintings. the social, political, cultural and musical The exhibit will bring together for the first transformations of the sixties while drawing time the collections of Robert Casterline and connections to the issues that continue to Shelly Fireman for a Peter Max experience affect our world today. It features an awardthat should not be missed. winning permanent collection, evolving Peter Max has stayed in the public eye exhibits and engaging programs. through five decades, but visitors to the NOTE: Call ahead to verify museum museum will have a rare opportunity to see hours on concert days. Access to the grounds inspiring artwork from a pivotal moment is closed on Pavilion concert days. in the artist’s illustrious career: the period Visit www.BethelWoodsCenter.org for from 1967 through 1972 when his work more information.

Calligraphy, Botanical & Landscape Paintings stamps for the Republics of Botanical artist and Art Palau and Republic of the educator Roberta Rosenthal Marshall Islands. creates work that ranges from Spiritual or inspirational carefully drawn and rendered quotes paired with current watercolors and oils from live daily events, nature, or specimens to spontaneous blooming specimens keep Asian brush paintings and Roberta in-the-moment. plein air landscapes. She also She will exhibit her specializes in calligraphy with calligraphy, botanical and illustration for one-of-a-kind landscape paintings in a solo wedding vow certificates in show at Mount St. Mary English, Hebrew and Chinese. College’s Desmond Campus, A member of the American where she teaches Basic and Society of Botanical Artists and Calligraphy the Guild of Natural Science “Cassia Fistula & Tulips” Intermediate Illustrators, she was an instructor of botanical courses. (See ad on page 27 for Roberta’s art at the New York Botanical Garden for exhibit in Ossining.) Meet Roberta and see her work at Desmond 28 years. Her botanical illustrations have been commissioned and published in the Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh, New York Times, Fine Gardening, Kitchen for her opening reception on May 19, from Garden magazines, Glory of the Garden and 1:00pm-3:00pm. The show is on view May Rebecca’s Garden books, and even postage 1-June 30. For info: 845-565-7076.

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Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra: “Restive Reverie” by Derek Leet The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) will offer a dreamy, musical Restive Reverie program, under the direction of Maestro Russell Ger. “Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ is arguably his greatest work. With exalting heights and plunging depths, our very humanness, our dreams and strengths, frailties and fragilities, are on barest display. It never fails to profoundly move, not least because Tchaikovsky’s own specter hovers over us. The composer died nine days after the premiere,” said Maestro Ger. “It shouldn’t even be called the Pathétique, with its associations of a particularly aestheticised kind of melancholy and with Tchaikovsky himself, having supposedly approved his brother’s Russian word for the work, a better translation of which is “passionate” in English. It was only in its first posthumous performance, three weeks later, that it was called the Pathétique, a moniker that has stuck ever since.” - Tom Service, The Guardian. Ger continues: “Rachmaninoff composed in a sensuously melodic style, and his Piano Concerto No. 3 is evidence of this, filled with lush melodies as well as extraordinary pianistic virtuosity. The latter is almost at

Maestro Russell Ger

Kariné Poghosyan

odds with the expansive ease of the tunes themselves, thereby imparting a restless spirit that seems constantly in search of something.” If the Tchaikovsky symphony is as Ger states, “arguably his greatest work”, the world might also select his #1 and Rachmaninoff’s #2 as arguably the most popular piano concertos in the repertoire - even more so than any of Beethoven’s. But for my ears and emotions, and to elaborate on Ger’s quote about #3, as magnificent and well-composed as #2 is, it doesn’t measure up to #3 in terms of power and strength. #3 is also arguably the most technically challenging piano concerto in the standard repertoire, and it is constantly shifting polarities - between a light, melodic joyfulness (the feminine?) and a dark,

rhythmic distress (the masculine?), between a lyrical, romantic brooding and a pounding, percussive deliberateness. I could go on and on, but I’ll just offer another quote about its dichotomies: “ecstasy and resignation, potency, play, despair.” - Joseph Kerman, The New York Times. Don’t miss this concert! It’s been on my GNSO wish list for years, and now I get to hear it with one of my favorite soloists, LIVE in Newburgh! Kariné Poghosyan is (not arguably) wellknown to audiences, having performed for GNSO as the soloist for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto # 1 (2011), Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto # 2 (2012) and Khatchaturian’s Concerto (2014), in addition to her yearly solo concerts for Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series (2012-2017). Kariné made her solo Carnegie Hall debut at the of age 23, and has won countless awards and performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls. Restive Reverie will be presented May 5 at 7:30pm at Mount Saint Mary College’s Aquinas Hall, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh (arrive at 6:30pm for the concert preview by Gordon Shacklett). Tickets can be purchased online or at the door. Visit www.newburghsymphony.org or call 845-913-7157. Students are admitted free.

Celebrating Fathers

“Everyone has a story to tell.” This is the simple premise that launched Ramona Jan’s Yarnslingers in the spring of 2009. With a little guidance and a lot of camaraderie, ordinary people weave the fabric of their lives into fascinating tales and share them with others at a variety of local venues. Over the years, themes have included Baggage, Freedom, Body Parts, Reunions, Religious Discovery/Recovery, Verbatim, True Confessions, The Nature of Youth, and many more. Audience members have proclaimed, “I laughed, I cried, I wanted more!” The Yarnslingers will sling some yarn at Cafe Adella Dori, 33 Lower Main Street, Callicoon, on Mother’s Day, May 13, with two shows: 3:00pm and 4:00pm, to sling true stories about DADS. Yes, fathers! Each reading will have different writers with a break in between. People are welcome to come to both readings, or just to one. For more information call 845-887-3081.

“Collections” & Baylin’s DNA at DVAA of light and landscape are a Artwork as Collection / part of my DNA as an artist.” Collection as Artwork, features Baylin finds photographic nine visual artists and one poet inspiration all around her, whose work is informed by whether in her husband’s collecting as practice and as flower gardens in North Branch form. or at the Brooklyn Botanic Collecting can be a random Gardens. “I enjoy searching amassing, a systematic for the overall abstraction gathering, or an accumulation rather than a literal depiction of over time. In each case numbers what I see,” she says. “When I of objects are involved. lose a sense of the particular “Finding relationships between flowers or objects and see the these objects is in itself whole as almost a tapestry “Artwork as Collection” meditative and creative,” says of shapes and colors, then I curator Valerie Mendelson. know I am approaching what “I became more and more most interests me about taking interested in artists who also are photographs. I particularly involved in this conversation love the fleeting moments of between collection and art sunlight on objects.” making and fascinated by their In Afternoon Light, an differing approaches.” exhibition of Beth’s still life Beth Baylin’s colorful, and waterscape photographs, painterly photos of flower and Artwork as Collection can petals, stems, and dappled be viewed at Delaware Valley light have an unexpected Arts Alliance, 37 Main Street, inspiration: the weather of Narrowsburg, from May 11her hometown, Portland, OR. “There the typical gray, wet “Rococo” by Beth Baylin June 2. An opening reception will be held on May weather is occasionally visited by glorious streaks of sunshine that selectively illuminate 11, from 7:00pm-9:00pm. Visit delawarevalleyartsalliance.org or call parts of the scene,” she says. “After I left the west coast, I realized how much that quality 845-252-7576 for more information. 26

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Happy Birthday, Ann! by Kate Hyden Grahamsville artist Ann Higgins is celebrating her 90th year with a Retrospective Exhibition at Domesticities in Youngsville. Ann is a former Liberty School District teacher, a founding member of the Catskill Art Society, a signature member of the North East Watercolor Society (NEWS) and a renowned artist who continues to exhibit her work from the Adirondacks to Connecticut. Ann has brought her artistry and love of nature from Sundown Studio to many friends and family in Grahamsville, and she generously shares her enthusiasm and knowledge of watercolor painting with all. Whether in a landscape, a pet portrait or other subject, her skill and distinctive style are always a joy to behold. She has exhibited locally at the Liberty Museum and Arts Center, Catskill Art Society, the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, in NEWS member and international shows and in every Audubon and Friends Too show as well. Ann stays active. If she’s not at the gym, gardening or playing her piano, she writes the NEWSletter, takes walks with her cat, publishes a calendar of her drawings every year and still makes time to paint with friends

“Sharing” by Ann Higgins

every Friday. And those are just the tip of the artist’s iceberg! She continues to be a world traveler and to chronicle the vistas she finds on her journeys in her sketchbook. There is no single thing that most endears Ann to her friends and her family, be it her wry sense of humor, her kindness, her generosity, or even that all-encompassing spirit of joy which infuses her work and touches all who meet her. So, we her fellow artists, the “Friends of Friday,” proudly invite you to share her company and to see some of her treasures at 1:00pm on May 12 at a reception and exhibition of her work which will be on exhibit through mid-June at Domesticities, 4055 NY-52 in Youngsville. Call 845-482-3333. Happy Birthday Ann!

Drawings at the CAS Arts Center Eunjung Hwang’s two-person exhibition drawings explore from New York-based images from dreams artists Eunjung Hwang and infancy, following and Paula Stuttman at them to their farthest the CAS Art Center, points and then 48 Main St., Livingston representing them in Manor from May 12unique combinations June 23. of digital and physical CAS will host form. The artist creates an Artists’ Talk at a variety of characters 3:00pm, followed “6 Categories” by Eunjung Hwang rooted in her dreams and subconscious images. by an opening reception on May 12 from In Hwang’s belief of animism, hundreds of 4:00pm-6:00pm. characters have been created trying to surface “Chuck, Lost Object Found” and categorize the subliminal beings into the An abandoned house and past: a chance clarified forms. The characters unfold narratives discovery leads Claire Coleman, Catherine of their fantastic reality following a structure Skalda and Joanna Hartell on a quest to of interwoven dream logic. The narratives piece together the story of a mysterious man loop through a series of imaginary cycles of that lived in Livingston Manor in 1985. Using infantry, dream, death and the beyond. the ephemera that was found strewn around For Paula Stuttman, image and language the house they tell the story of the poignant life have a prickly relationship. They slip out of of a remarkable person who struggled to find each other’s grasp in the struggle for meaning. happiness in an unforgiving world. The artist’s body of work positions words or CAS will screen the film Chuck, Lost phrases followed by connected drawings. Object Found at the Laundry King, 65 Main The selection of drawings is not definitive, Street, Livingston Manor, with a tandem art instead is a fragment of an ongoing evolving installation of photographs, treasures, and relationship. Marks create drawings; marks ephemera related to Chuck’s story. The exhibit form words. The work’s materiality recalls the is open Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, hand that made the line, the mind that owned May 4-27. Screenings are at 7:00pm every the hand and the heart that shared the ride. Saturday in May. Catskill Art Society (CAS) will present a Call CAS at 845-436-4227 for more info.

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Goshen Art League: Art Walk 2018, Illuminate Goshen, & Keys of Goshen As we still occasionally shiver and remain reluctant to store away our winter attire, it may be difficult to imagine that planning is full speed ahead for the 2018 season of Goshen Art Walk. The first Art Walk of the season will be held on June 1 from 6:00pm-9:00pm at a new location, Webster Park, which is the area that spans the pedestrian walkway between Webster Avenue (in front of Goshen Town Hall) and Main Street (in front of Sorrento’s Pizzeria). Goshen Art Walk 2017: Artist Julia Tighe “We have always wanted to utilize this discusses her work with the public. “The Goshen Art League is always space more fully for community functions. Having had the painted pianos here for the pleased to be asked to collaborate with past two years has helped us realize the Mayor Roddey and the Village, as well as potential of the space,” said Goshen Mayor, Molly and Illuminate Goshen, to provide a festive, art-filled atmosphere Kyle Roddey. for the community,” stated “And Illuminate Goshen’s Julie Saltzberg, president of extension of the overhead the League. lights in that spot keeps the “In June, we anticipate atmosphere festive,” added having room for 25-30 Molly O’Donnell, president, artists,” said Gerry Hluchan, Illuminate Goshen. who represents the Goshen As in years past, area Chamber of Commerce, artists will be invited to the fourth collaborating show their works during the organization in this large evening. In order to apply for a 10’x10’ pop-up exhibition Art Walk 2017: Artist Naomi Genen community endeavor. Hluchan also supervises the music/ space, artists are invited to send an email to goshenartwalk@yahoo.com for more entertainment portion of the evening. In June the music will be provided by the C.J. information.

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Hooker Jazz Band. The band will play from 6:15pm-9:00pm. One exciting addition this year will be a community Keys of Goshen piano. A baby grand will be placed on Main Street and made available for the general public to draw and paint. This public art project will be the centerpiece of the evening’s festivities. The finished piano will remain in that location

at Webster Park for the remainder of the Summer as part of Keys of Goshen 2018. “We are so excited to add a piano to the Art Walk event. Anyone who attends can paint a portion of the piano. The Keys of Goshen has been such a popular and welcome addition to our community programming. We are happy to open participation to everyone!” stated Mayor Roddey.

Highland Mills Library: Elaine Ralston “I believe as an artist that and share what insights may be everything we see in the universe is gleaned from what I see and can vibratory in its being. Each object hopefully express. I seek to display vibrates at different rates; and, it is the wide variety of the livingness through our process of realizing of all things which evoke heartfelt these vibrations through color and moods evident everywhere - if light that the world appears to us. I we take the time to notice. To me try to be open to this process and the landscape and the still life allow nature to speak through me demonstrate a reflection of the on all levels. I work to capture the wide range of nature’s essences - a essence of a scene using both my sort of “as above, so below”. inner and outer eye. Most of my “I love working in pastels representational work includes because their permanence, purity still-lifes and landscapes en plein of color and vibrancy inspire and air; but, I always follow inspiration “Irises in Art Glass” evoke in me a joyousness that wherever it leads,” says artist Elaine Ralston. propels me though my work.” “As a person who uses art as one form of Elaine is the featured artist for the month of communication, I hope to show that we are May at the Highland Mills Library, 16 Route kindred spirits with the heart of nature - a 105. A free opening reception will be held on heart with which we are truly connected. May 5 from Noon-2:00pm. I find myself impelled to create in my life For information, phone: 845-928-6162.

“When Art Meets Music” in Milford by Derek Leet In 2012 Kindred Spirits Arts Program (KSAP) offered us pianist Elizaveta Kopelman performing with KSAP’s artistic director/cellist Yosif Feigelson and his son, violinist Eugene Feygelson (sic). Included in the program was Mikhail & Elizaveta Kopelman, and Yosif Feigelson a highly stirring and memorable performance of Russian composers Anton conviction that “the works of art that exert the most powerful influence...are those that Arensky’s Piano Trio # 1. In 2018 KSAP will offer another “family express most fully the national characteristics affair” concert, this time with Yosif Feigelson of the artist.” The work uses rich folk-based and Elizaveta Kopelman performing with ideas within the formal structures of classical her father, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, western music. He and Bartok decided to a former leader of the legendary Borodin devote their lives to a shared vision of an and Tokyo String Quartets. With these three educated Hungary, reborn from the people. world class performers, it is bound to be They toured the Hungarian countryside another stirring and memorable performance collecting folk music.” Patsy Morita writes: “Shostakovich’s Piano because, as Feigelson said, “it is a very intense Trio No. 2, Op. 67, is a lamentation for both program.” Perhaps that is because their concert, Shostakovich’s close friend, musicologist titled, When Art Meets Music: 20th-Century Ivan Sollertinsky, and the victims of the Progress and Destruction, will offer music Holocaust. It is his first work to employ a by Rachmaninoff, Kodaly and Shostakovich Jewish theme, a musical tribute that used the accompanied by slides of contemporary scales and rhythms of Jewish folk music as paintings “It will be a short and early Shostakovich knew it.” The Jewish melody Elegiac Trio (there is also a large second) from the last movement was quoted in Rachmaninoff dedicated to Tchaikovsky, a Shostakovich’s famous String Quartet No. 8. Shostakovich decided to dedicate his new Kodaly duo, and celebrated second trio by piano trio to Sollertinsky, following a tradition Shostakovich.” Feigelson added. Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor was written of elegiac Russian piano trios - Tchaikovsky in 1892 when Rachmaninoff was 19 years old. had written his in memory of Nikolai It has only one movement, in contrast to most Rubinstein (see page 31), Rachmaninoff piano trios, which have three or four. The had followed with his trio in memory of key (no pun intended) to the connection with Tchaikovsky. But the music itself makes it Tchaikovsky of this first trio is its repetitive clear that Shostakovich intended a memorial opening theme, a four-note rising motif, far beyond the individual human being who that dominates the 15-minute work. Played was his friend. The concert is at the historic Milford backwards it has the same rhythm opening descending motif of Tchaikovsky’s first piano Theatre, 114 East Catharine Street, on May concerto, although now minor in the trio’s 26 at 7:30pm. For tickets (2018 Season Pass version. Rachmaninoff’s second trio, written and individual) and a complete schedule, visit two years later, was the true “elegiac” work www.kindredspiritsarts.org Tickets are also available at the door. For mourning Tchaikovsky’s death. Chris Darwin writes: “Kodaly’s Duo for pre-concert dining, see WaterWheel and Violin and Cello springs from Kodaly’s Apple Valley ads below.

A Play with Plots in Monroe Plot: Noun. The well-made play (French: la pièce bien faite) is a dramatic genre from 19th century theatre first codified by French dramatist Eugène Scribe. Dramatists Victorien Sardou, Alexandre Dumas, fils, and Emile Augier wrote within the genre, each putting a distinct spin on the style. Henrik Ibsen and the other realistic dramatists of the later 19th century (August Strindberg, Émile Zola, Anton Chekhov) built upon its technique of careful construction and preparation of effects in the genre problem play. The form has a strong Neoclassical flavor, involving a tight plot and a climax that takes place close to the end of the play. The wellmade play retains the shape of Aristotle’s ideal Greek-tragedy model outlined in his Poetics. The well-made play can be broken down into a specific set of criteria. Most of the story takes place before the action of the play begins, making the beginning of the play a late point of attack. Exposition during act one explains actions that precede the opening scene, and generates the audience’s sympathy for the hero (or heroes) over their rival (or rivals). The plot moves forward in a chain of actions that use minor reversals of fortune to create suspense. The pace builds towards a climactic obligatory scene, in which the hero/heroine triumphs. This scene contains a climactic reversal of fortune, or peripeteia. A dénouement follows, in which all remaining plot points are unraveled and resolved. Twentieth century American playwrights who “mostly” used this technique include Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Elmer Rice, Lorraine Hansberry and William Inge. However, one American playwright who used the technique 100% of the time was Lillian Hellman. As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children’s Hour and The Little Foxes. Thanks to Americans’ love affair with

“The Little Foxes” - pictured left to right: Terri Weiss as Regina, Devin Cassidy as Alexandra, and Jim Meaney as Horace.

Reality-TV shows during the last few decades, most new plays use the “slice of life” technique, which contain no plots, and the words spoken are more like conversation rather than dialogue (the essence of conversation). Plot: Verb. The Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players begin their 23rd season with Lillian Hellman’s classic play, The Little Foxes. Performances are scheduled for May 4-20. Set in the genteel South at the turn of the century, this is a sizzling look into the lives of the Hubbard family - devious and greedy Ben, haughty and cruel Oscar, and the wickedly glamorous Regina. They each plot to outwit and outmaneuver one another in their efforts to increase their wealth by millions of dollars, no matter what the cost to their lives and the lives of others. Directed by Les Ferguson, performances are at the Playhouse at Museum Village, Route 17M, Monroe. Tickets include dessert at intermission consisting of apple pie, ice cream, cheese, iced tea and coffee. Group rates (and season tickets) are available and reservations are suggested. Come on out to Monroe and get a taste of a well-made play with “real” dialogue! Call the Box Office: 845-294-9465.

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Handcrafted Guitar to be Raffled The Friends of the Mamakating Library are offering raffle tickets for a custom handcrafted guitar, locally made of a range of fine woods, built by John Platt. This OM-style acoustic guitar is built of black walnut from Wurtsboro, vintage Sitka spruce, Honduran mahogany and Indian rosewood. All inlays are hand cut of solid abalone and gold mother-of-pearl. Tickets are $10 each or three for

$25. Purchase tickets at the library, 128 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, or at Steve’s Music Center, 248 Rock Hill Drive, Rock Hill. They will also be available at some local music events. The drawing will be held at Veterans’ Memorial Park in Wurtsboro during the summer concert series on August 30. Ticket sales benefit art and music programs at the library. Info: 845-888-8004.

Phillipsport’s “Monthly Music Night”

Paul Kean and Deborah Anne Fisher (see top photo) combine their talents together to share their captivating harmonies with acoustic accompaniment in a broad range of material including some originals. Listeners can look forward to a unique collaboration that will “stir the soul and revive the spirit!” Guitarists John Platt and John McCormack have performed at Danny’s Restaurant, the Mamakating Library and for Wurtsboro’s summer concert series, Music in Veterans’ Park. “We play

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mostly classic acoustic rock songs from the 60’s to the 90’s. Artists like The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Tom Petty, Harry Chapin and many others. I also build guitars and we will both be playing on two of my guitars,” said Platt. (See story above!). Grab some friends and head on down to 657 Red Hill Road, Phillipsport, on May 19 at 7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm with homemade food and desserts for purchase. $2 donation at the door. For info: 845-313-1772.

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May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky WITH THEIR BOOTS ON The great Verdi baritone, Leonard Warren, was 49 when he died onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1960 during a performance of La Forza del Destino. Warren had just completed an aria which begins, “Morir, tremenda cosa”, (to die, a momentous thing). Eyewitness Rudolph Bing, the Met’s General Manager, said that Warren simply went silent, fell face-forward to the floor and never moved again. Known for his starring role in TV’s Three’s Company, 55 year old actor John Ritter complained of chest pains while filming the sitcom 8 Simple Rules in a Burbank TV studio. Ritter crossed the street to a hospital, was diagnosed with aortic dissection and, before the day was out, was dead not having survived heart surgery. Television’s beloved Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin was filming an underwater documentary called Ocean’s Deadliest when he was stung multiple times by an 8 foot wide stingray. Irwin was 44 years old. His cameraman Justin Lyons was with Irwin

throughout the attack and said the sting ray stabbed Irwin hundreds of times. Lyons chose not to release the film to the public but did say that Irwin’s last words were, “I’m dying.” Remember Redd Foxx’s character, Fred Sanford faking a heart attack on Sanford and Son? He’d call up to his wife in heaven. “I’m a comin’ Elizabeth.” As fate would have it, Foxx suffered a very real and fatal heart attack while performing on the set of a later sitcom, The Royal Family. GANDOL-FINI A chapter in a Dick Cavett memoir begins: “The sudden death at fifty-one of James Gandolfini is intolerable.” Gandolfini is best remembered as gangster/don Tony Soprano. “He was an actor,” Cavett writes, “with too many wonders to gather and appreciate in a single viewing. His eyes were pure magic... soft, and twinkly...at other times, frozen, menacing, cruel and murderous. He never made a false move.”

Musical “Masses” in Milford

The Delaware Valley Choral Society under the direction of Jeffrey Fornoff will be performing the world premiere of a major work by a New Jersey composer in the spring concert, Masses of Peace and Light Eternal. R. Wayne Walters, now serving as adjunct professor of music at the College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, composed a Requiem Mass dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, the first nativeborn American to be proclaimed a Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Also on the program will be Franz Schubert’s Mass in G and Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aterna. Professional soloists, a symphony orchestra, and guests, including the Clarum Sonum singers and musicians directed by Rider Foster, will join the Society. The original score of Schubert’s Mass in G was not printed until some years after his death, and until then had remained one of his less noted compositions - so much so that that first edition of the mass had been “usurped”

by Robert Führer, then director of music at Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral, who eventually ended up in prison for embezzlement. Morten Lauridsen is, “the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic, whose probing, serene work contains an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered.” - Nick Strimple, musicologist. In 2006, Lauridsen was named an “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Arts from the President in a White House ceremony for his “composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide.” The concert will be held at Delaware Valley High School on May 19 at 2:00pm. Tickets may be purchased in advance by contacting Helen at 845-856-5696, Diane at 570-2965333, or Jeffrey at 570-267-8773. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Wonderful “Warhorses” in Warwick The Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation’s Chamber Music Series welcomes back New York Philharmonic cellist Patrick Jee. Jee, Andrew Wan (violin) and Julio Elizalde, (piano) are The New Trio, and they will perform music by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11 is one of a series of early chamber works, many involving woodwind instruments because of their popularity and novelty at the time. The trio is scored for piano, clarinet (or violin), and cello (sometimes substituted by bassoon). The work is also sometimes known by the nickname “Gassenhauer Trio”. This arose from its third movement which creates nine variations from a theme from the then popular dramma giocoso L’amor marinaro ossia Il corsaro by Joseph Weigl. The particular melody was so popular it could be heard in many of Vienna’s lanes (“Gasse” in German). A “Gassenhauer” usually denotes a (normally simple) tune that many people (in the Gassen) have taken up and sing or whistle for themselves. However, the New Trio will perform only the first movement. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio Op. 50 in A minor was written in memory for his close friend

and mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein (see pg. 29). This was the only work he ever wrote for the combination of piano, violin and cello. Tchaikovsky’s benefactress Nadezhda von Meck, had asked for such a piece, but he refused, saying in a letter to her, “You ask why I have never written a trio. Forgive me, dear friend; I would do anything to give you pleasure, but this is beyond me. I simply cannot endure the combination of piano with violin or cello. To my mind the timbre of these instruments will not blend. It is torture for me to have to listen to a string trio or a sonata of any kind for piano and strings. To my mind, the piano can be effective in only three situations: alone, in context with the orchestra, or as accompaniment.” A year later, he composed the piano trio without being asked to do so, when any number of other genres or instrumental combinations were also available to him. The New Trio performs on May 6 at 2:00pm in the Mulder Chapel at the Warwick Conference Center, 62 Warwick Center Road. Optional: meet and greet the artists at the post concert VIP Gala reception. For tickets visit www.hvpaf.org or purchase at the door.

Musical Moments & Movement in Milford TANDEMoments is an organization whose mission is to connect traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors with vetted virtual volunteers for social interaction, support and encouragement, in an effort to facilitate their personal empowerment. Ruby Lynn Willis is a storyteller and performance artist who has lived with a traumatic brain injury for over ten years. Her unique storytelling style and interactive synergy in the shows she writes, directs, produces and performs, bring insights from

her recovery using many layers to connect with and inspire people. Join Willis in Child of the Empire as she “grows from zero to twelve in 90 Minutes”, in her journey of survival and tales of triumph, exhibiting the power of wonder, imagination and love through music, movement, and words, on May 19 at 8:00pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catharine Street, in a benefit for TANDEMoments. Tickets at eventbrite.com and at the door. For information: 570-618-0547.

Composer’s Cragsmoor Church Concert Anton Batagov’s interpretations of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Messiaen, and Ravel, as well as composers of the Russian avant-garde and Americans, John Cage and Philip Glass, have distinguished him as one of the most versatile and innovative of contemporary musicians. As a composer, he has influenced the character of Russian music by expanding it to include all forms of sound from ancient rituals to rock and pop cultures to computer technologies. At the same time, the language of his compositions is rooted in the harmonic

and rhythmic patterns of Russian church bells and folk songs mixed with the spirit of Buddhist philosophy. He is viewed as a oneof-a-kind composer / musician / thinker. Batagov will perform live in concert at the historic Stone Church, 280 Henry Road, Cragsmoor, on May 12 at 7:00pm. He will play music from his broad repertoire. The show benefits the Cragsmoor Historical Society and the Stone Church. Tickets are available at eventbrite.com

Music in Middletown As we know, many municipalities offer free outdoor concerts throughout the summer. The 2018 season begins in Middletown at Run For Downtown Park. Bring your chair or a blanket to the park at 17 North Street Charles Lang Members of Fei-Tan Academy on May 24 at 6:00pm to hear Charles Lang, a pianist with keyboard especially appreciated by listeners of jazz. I blending the traditions of cocktail and jazz also frequently improvise in the tradition of piano. “My repertoire features original Keith Jarrett.” Also on the program will be Middletown’s tunes as well as tunes recognizable to a broad audience, from many genres from the Fei-Tian Academy musicians performing early 20th century to the present, and tunes classical music.

Schneider’s “Suicide” Show What does a seven-year-old do fascinating play is intense and to help save her suicidal mother reflects her involvement with who “hurt herself”? issues related to mental health. Spurred by this intimidating Schneider is the Executive incident she begins a lifelong Director of the National Alliance quest of compiling a list of a on Mental Illness, Sullivan million brilliant things, a million County (NAMI), and is a thirtythings that make life worth five-year veteran of local theatre.” living. - Robert Score, Meet Me in the Every Brilliant Thing by Greenroom. Duncan Macmillan tears away The play is being performed the heavy, dark cloak from on May 1 at 7:00pm at Bethel this subject and exposes it to Woods, and a joint fundraiser for NAMI Sullivan and NAMI the light of humor, pathos, and compassion. There is no stage and no fourth Orange will be on May 6 at 2:00pm at Thrall wall separating the actor and action from the Library, Middletown. Arrive by 1:30pm. For information, prices and reservations, audience. “Lori Schneider’s performance in this phone 845-794-1029. May 2018 Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 31

Artists of Excellence: Shaina Auyana Dunn Parents often influence thereby affording their children through natural light and multitheir occupations, directional viewing of pastimes, and interests. the pieces. This exhibit So it was in the life of continues the Artist artist Shaina Aiyana of Excellence series, Dunn. She grew up initiated to spotlight under the guidance highly talented regional of “two creative artists. parents.” Her father “I like to arrange was a carpenter and her things so that they take mother did everything on a new life and/or from beadwork to basket Platter and moss vase by Shaina A. Dunn meaning when placed weaving to quilting. Handmade pottery was next to each other, but still stand alone as used in the household. She developed “a love individual and subtly unique forms,” she of the touch, the smell, the process, and the states. The works are grouped to complement history of clay.” During her years of study rather than to compete with each other, and at SUNY New Paltz, she obtained three art therefore, the show is appealing to view as degrees, one of which is a BFA in Ceramics. well as enjoyable because of the beautiful Dunn creates handcrafted ceramics that are quality of each piece. functional forms with a sculptural influence, Dunn teaches art at Clarkstown High resulting in exquisite ceramic works both School North, New City, and yoga at Vastu functional and sculptural. A solo exhibit of her Health Center, Warwick. ceramics is entitled Search for Enlightenment Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand as it demonstrates her creativity through & First Streets on the Newburgh campus her works which she skillfully makes both of SUNY Orange. Free, secure parking is functional and sculptural. available in the parking garage entered at Dunn’s artworks are on exhibit in five 73 First Street. Questions may be directed glass vitrine cases of various sizes in the to Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891/9386 or Foyer of the Mindy Ross Gallery in Kaplan cultural@sunyorange.edu Hall through May 30. The area in which the Information is available through the website vitrine cases are situated has a wall of glass, at www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs

Workshop & Concert with Grammy Winner Grammy award winner Dan Zanes occupies a unique place in American music - where sea shanties, English Music hall, play party songs, the spirit of early rock-n-roll, soul, North American and West Indian folk music collide! For the past 15 years, he has toured the world with his band, Dan Zanes and Friends, sharing handmade 21st century social music with enthusiastic crowds of kids and kid sympathizers. From thrift shop basements to Carnegie hall, from Brooklyn to Bahrain, Zanes has been introducing new songs and reconnecting people to the forgotten music of the past. Referred to as “the family-music genre’s most outspoken and eloquent advocate” by Time Magazine, his critically-acclaimed music has been featured on Sesame Street, Playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon, HBO Family and Sprout. Over the course of 14 albums, 2 DVDs, 2 picture books, and dozens of videos, he has collaborated with Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Carol Channing, Sharon Jones, Bob Weir, Debbie Harry and many more. In between tours, Zanes teaches guitar and ukulele via online instructional videos, works to complete the Dan Zanes Family Treasury of Roots Music songbook for the 32

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Quarto Publishing Group, and listens obsessively to Haitian music. Dan Zanes and vocalist, composer, and pianist Neha Jiwrajka will perform Dan’s most loved songs as well as the children’s music of folk icon Lead Belly on May 19

at 4:00pm. Enjoyed equally by anyone age 3 and up, this show is highly interactive, the audience is invited to sing and dance along in what might be called a casual - and subversively educational party atmosphere. The music, based in a variety of folk traditions, is homespun, sophisticated, and artful. Dan believes that Sensory Friendly is the future of family entertainment and has committed to presenting all of his performances in this inclusive manner. THE FAMILY BAND WORKSHOP Learn songs that you can perform with Dan and Neha during their concert at the Family Band Workshop on May 19 at 2:45pm. Learn how to start making music with the people in your home. Explore possibilities for relaxed communal singing and basic accompaniment. Everyone who plays an instrument should feel free to bring it along. This is for all ages, abilities and temperaments! It all happens at the Hurleyville Arts Centre, 12 Railroad Avenue. See ad page 4.

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