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Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Cragsmoor, Damascus, Ellenville, Marlboro

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FROM THE PUBLISHER... by Barry Plaxen Synchronicity of the Month: Edible and Medicinal Plants in Newburgh (lecture) and Dingmans Ferry (walk). Vocabulary Lesson: Chiaroscuro: an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something. Dramaturg: a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work. Fungible: able to be replaced by another identical item. Sachem: (among some Native American peoples) a chief. In this issue: Sergey Prokofyev, alive and well, performing music by Tchaikovsky in West Point. Art exhibits about “water” in Montgomery and Grahamsville. Three Murders! One in Balmville and two in Monroe.

Ud/oud, doumbek, bansuri, tabla, pennywhistle, sitar, trap-set, and riq in Phillipsport, and metallophones, kendhang bamboo flutes, rebab, and sindhen in Ellenville. Music by Burnet C. Tuthill in Cornwallon-Hudson and Newburgh. Chorales in Milford, Middletown, Goshen, Warwick, and Blooming Grove. Uncommon Ground in Newburgh and Common Tongue in Marlboro. World Class music in Newburgh (jazz) and Milford (classical). A new conductor in Maybrook and a notso-new conductor in Loch Sheldrake. Talks about vinyl records in Warwick, art in Livingston Manor, sculpture in Huguenot, Hanoi in Sugar Loaf, and Hilma af Klint in Sugar Loaf. Lenape Nation in Damascus and Mohawk Nation in Huguenot. Depression in Narrowsburg and Zen in Cragsmoor. 40’s music in Warwick & Middletown, 60s in Hurleyville, and 70’s in Greenwood Lake. Celebrating Mothers in Shohola. SUNY Orange professors in Newburgh (jazz) and Lords Valley (art).

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We are sorry to announce to the arts community that Cragsmoor sculptor Judy Sigunick has passed away. We received a notice on April 17 from the Cragsmoor Historical Society that Judy and Phil Sigunick were participating artists in an upcoming May exhibit with a ceramic piece One Side or the Other by Judy and a pastel Ellen & Judy by Phil, and that they would also be honored by the Society. A few days later Judy passed. The exhibit and honor ceremony will still take place (see page 12). Our heartfelt condolences go out to Phil, daughter Ellen and their entire family.

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CALENDARS

Art & Photography �� 18 Books �� 18 Category �� 15 Children & Teen’s �� 18 May 2019 Calendar �� 16, 17 Artist Talks, Demos & Lectures �� 14 Music - Pop, Folk, Rock, etc., �� 14

COLUMNS

May I Have A Word With You �� 31

STORIES

Amity Gallery, Warwick �� 4, 23 Artery Gallery, Milford ��11 Artists’ Market, Shohola �� 32 Bethel Woods �� 25, 26 Berkshire Bank Exhibit, Goshen �� 29 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��5 Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund �� 24 Classic Choral Society ��9 Cragsmoor Historical Society �� 12 Crawford Library, Monticello �� 15 Delaware Valley Arts Alliance �� 12 Delaware Valley Choral Society ��8 Delaware Valley Opera �� 15 Farm Arts Collective, Damascus �� 28 Fourth Saturday Jazz, Newburgh �� 22 Gallery 222, Hurleyville ��4 Gallery at Chant, Lords Valley �� 32 Gayle Clark Fedigan, artist ��6 Goshen Art League �� 24 Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ��7 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra � 29 Greenwood Lake Library �� 19, 30 Highland Mills Library �� 21 Hudson Valley Gives �� 24 Hurleyville Arts Centre ��4

Kindred Spirits Arts ��11 Live from The Met in HD �� 12 Maybrook Wind Ensemble ��5 Megaphone Language Arts �� 23 Middletown Art Group �� 10 Middletown Concert Chorale ��8 Milford Theatre ��11 Mount St. Mary Desmond Campus �� 6, 20 Music on Market, Ellenville �� 27 Narrowsburg Union ��9 Newburgh Barbershops Photo Project �� 10 Newburgh Chamber Music �� 22, 24 Newburgh Chorale �� 24 Newburgh Illuminated �� 30 Orange County Arts Council �� 24, 30 Original Vinyl Records, Warwick �� 13 Phillipsport Community Center �� 26 Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe � 20 Potluck Concerts, Cornwall-on-Hudson � 25 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �� 23 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �� 31 St. George’s Church, Newburgh �� 19, 22 St. Therese Classical Academy �� 13 Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville �� 25 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 10, 21 SUNY Orange, Newburgh �� 4, 6, 30, 32 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake �� 12 Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville �28 Town of Deerpark Museum, Huguenot �� 19 Town of Lumberland, Glen Spey �� 23 Treecyle Festival, Warwick �� 21 Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern �� 5 Wallkill River School, Montgomery �� 3, 24 Warwick Dance Collective �� 25 Warwick Valley Chorale ��8 West Point Band �� 23 Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� 20 Xylophone Studios �� 24

Wallkill River School of Art: Two Group & Two Solos for May Throughout the month of May, the Wallkill River School (WRS) will be hosting Abstract Visions, its first-ever group exhibition featuring abstract works only. In addition, there will be two solo exhibitions, Romancing the Light, luminous acrylic works by Nancy Reed Jones, and Illumination, a collection of landscape and still life works by Susan Hope Fogel. (And be sure to check out their group show titled, Water in the Hallway Gallery May 15-June 14.) The WRS has not featured abstract art frequently in the past. In an attempt to broaden the galleries’ diversity of work and bring a new and exciting form of art to the community, Abstract Visions was born. The exhibit will be juried by Olivia Baldwin. Long time WRS artist and teacher Nancy Reed Jones has developed a unique approach to acrylic painting which focuses heavily on the element of light and how it can be used to enhance the landscape in a painting. Nancy said, “Of all my work, I think, I love plein air painting the best of all. It makes me realize that through my art I can finally use the talent God has given me to record one of the most beautiful places that he has created: the Hudson Valley.” Originally an oil painter, Nancy had to adapt when she started painting with doctors and patients in hospitals where the noxious fumes of oil painting materials

of Art. Drawing from plaster casts elevated her drawing skills and fueled her desire for further study in figurative painting. She pursued those studies at The Art Students League and The National Academy of Design. “My move out of the city to the Hudson Valley led me to study the landscape and North Light painting with John Osborne at The Ridgewood Art Institute.” The next step in Susan’s journey occurred after working in a Harlem studio with a group of watercolorists who were studying “Bathing in the Light” by Nancy Reed Jones the Deconstructionist style with Paul Chingwere not allowed. This led Bor. “Apparently I enjoy to Nancy’s love affair with challenging myself and acrylic, where she developed others with new techniques her own unique approach to and new ways of seeing, as I attaining oil-like effects. She currently work with this new has taught these techniques technique.” at WRS and in therapeutic A signature member of settings for over ten years. the American Watercolor “I always say “I don’t Society, Susan teaches teach painting...I only teach realism in pastel and people to see, as an artist,” oil painting at The says Susan Hope Fogel. Ridgewood Art Institute and “The constant inspiration for Experimental Watercolor me remains the quality of workshops in her Warwick “Orchid Dance” light enveloping the subject. by Susan Hope Fogel studio. It is this quality that transforms our world, An opening reception for all three shows resonates within and inspires this artist.” takes place on May 4, from 5:00pm-7:00pm While living in NYC, Susan studied at the WRS, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. classical drawing at the New York Academy For information: 845-457-2787.

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Wonderful Watercolor Works in Warwick

Sculptured Spheres in Newburgh

Colorflow, an exhibit of artworks by Linda Barboni and Patricia Foxx, who have been watercolorists for many years, brings to mind the way watercolor paintings are created. The smooth movement of the brush on the paper as the water carries the colors is an integral part of the process. The work of Linda Barboni exemplifies that description. In her own words: “Wetin-wet watercolor techniques always produce surprises. The loose-flowing Work by Linda Barboni spontaneity of pigment encouraged her. Patricia moving with water is has been experimenting why I fell in love with with other media, but it 30 years ago...after her love of spontaneity painting in acrylic and with watercolors and oil in the early part of luminescence seem to my career, I was ready to always call to her. diversify. The excitement Colorflow - Watercolors the medium provides by Patricia Foxx and has been a constant Linda Barboni takes place inspiration.” at Amity Gallery, 110 Work by Patricia Foxx Linda received a BFA Newport Bridge Road, from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She Warwick, weekends in May from 1:00pmis a member of the North East Watercolor 4:00pm. An opening reception will be held Society. on May 4 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Primarily self-taught, Patricia Foxx has In addition, Barboni and Foxx will be on learned from experience and studying with site at the gallery every weekend (except local artists, including Linda Barboni. May 5 & 11) offering demonstrations and She began painting with watercolors very mini-lessons. early on as her father was an artist who For information, call 845-258-0818.

In the glass vitrine cases in to expand upon the sculptural the Foyer of the Mindy Ross statement. Gallery, Kaplan Hall, viewers Weber has been creating art will have the opportunity of for over 45 years and changes examining the sculptures by his focus from time to time. He Richard Weber. His exhibit, also creates photo collages. Spheres of Influence, displays Free and open to the public, his handmade clay spheres in Spheres of Influence will run various colors. The spheres are May 10 to June 19 with a marked and carved before the reception on May 10, from clay dries, then fired, glazed 6:00pm-8:00pm. and fired again. In addition, Kaplan Hall is located at the some of these carved orbs are “Guardian” by R. Weber corner of Grand & First Streets combined with other forms in clay or wood on the Newburgh campus of SUNY Orange.

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Photo Exhibit & Book Signing, Hurleyville In her new series, the female characters of Marianna Rothen’s imaginary universe are shown for the first time in the company of men. Until now, men have remained decidedly absent in Rothen’s images, but it seems as if in the current debate over gender politics, women’s rights and the Me Too movement, it is inalienable not to include men in the (greater) picture. While for a century a male dominated Hollywood has often depicted women as objects and commodities, in this work the tables have finally turned. No man in Rothen’s series Mail Order is real, they are all mannequins. As the title suggests, they are like sex dolls, objects, mail order partners. The female protagonist, played by Rothen herself, creates her perfect man and makes him dress, pose and perform his manhood in the ways she demands. By flipping this power dynamic Rothen shows how deeply ingrained the expected roles between women and men and their archetypes are. Marianna Rothen is a Canadian artist who lives and works between New York City and

Upstate New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, The Little Black Gallery, London, Galerie Stephan Witschi in Zurich, Ingrid Deuss gallery in Antwerp and Kaune Contemporary in Cologne. Her work has been the subject of three monographs; Snow and Rose & other tales, Shadows in Paradise and Mail Order all published by b.frank books. Rothen’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Cut, Collector Daily, The Paris Review, Vogue, Photoworks, Elephant, Interview, AnOther, Upstate Diary, Dveight, Huffington Post and Art Daily. An opening reception for an exhibition of work by Rothen, along with a book signing for Mail Order, takes place on May 11 with a film at 2:30pm and reception from 3:00pm-7:00pm at Gallery 222, 222 Main Street, Hurleyville. The exhibit runs from May 3-22. For additional information, visit the website: www.gallery222.org. See also the Hurleyville Arts Centre ad on page 32.

CAS: Art & An Offer to Join an Art Club! Against all we know about the artificiality of landscape, the manmadeness of it, there is a desire to escape back to that imaginary Eden, when nature was all and perfect. Both Jeri Coppola and Shirley Irons use photography, painting, books and sculpture to simultaneously include and exclude that desire. They use light, actual or represented, to create a sense of spirit, a sense of “Greenhouse” by Jeri Coppola hope. Repetition is used to keep that of local artists that gather sense of spirit away from together to inspire each reference to the sublime or other outside the isolation grandiose that images from of their studios. Those nature can evoke. interested are welcome to Hosted by the Catskill bring something they are Art Society, the opening currently working on to reception for an exhibit of share with the group (the works by Jeri Coppola and work can be on a flash Shirley Irons takes place drive or link to a website if on May 18 from 4:00pmyou don’t want to bring the 6:00pm. An Artist Talk actual piece). will be held during the “Pavilion” by Shirley Irons Feel free to bring a reception from 4:00pm5:00pm at the CAS Arts Center, 48 Main sketch book or small piece to work on, too. The group also plays creative games such as Street, Livingston Manor. Exquisite Corpse. Beer, wine and/or snacks The exhibition runs May 18-June 29. are encouraged! For more information about the exhibit, or Join The Art Club at CAS Calling all artists! You’re invited to join the how to join Art Club, call 845-436-4227 or Art Club at CAS! Art Club is a community email: info@catskillartsociety.org.

An Afternoon with Ken & Julie Ken DeAngelis and Julie Ziavras will present an afternoon of acoustic music accompanying themselves on guitars at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UUC) in Rock Tavern. Showcasing outstandingly lyrical vocals, rich harmonies and tight musicianship, Ken

& Julie’s songs include originals by Ken, along with traditional and international folk covers. The May 5 at 4:00pm concert takes place at the UUC, 9 Vance Lane, Rock Tavern. For further information, call 845-978-5620.

Maybrook Wind Welcomes New Director On May 17, Roy Coates will debut as the musical director of the Maybrook Symphonic Wind Ensemble. With Memorial Day and Flag Day approaching, Roy Coates Coates will lead the ensemble in a rousing patriotic tribute. The selections will include a sing-along to Irving Berlin’s God Bless America as well as an instrumental Medley to World War I composed by Jari Villanueva. Villanueva is a member of the U.S. Air Force Band, Washington, DC. His band arrangements have been performed far and wide including military ceremonies

and films, and his selection Goin’ Home - which will be played at this performance - was performed most recently at the funeral of President Bush. Jari Villanueva Among the other selections, the Ensemble will play a mystery piece that everyone in the Hudson Valley will recognize by the end of the fourth movement! The performance will be held May 17 at 7:30pm in the Maybrook Senior Center located in Veterans’ Memorial Park, Schipps Lane, Maybrook. Admission is free but freewill donations will be gladly accepted.

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Fedigan’s Flowers and Fields

JAZZ ~ Funk, Latin, Straight Up!

Gayle Clark The recipient of Fedigan’s paintings hang numerous awards and in collections throughout honors, Gayle’s works the U.S. and abroad. She have been selected teaches pastel painting by three of the Pastel at Mount Saint Mary Society of America’s College’s Desmond annual ‘Pastels Only’ Campus in Newburgh shows. Her painting, and at the Burren School Basket of Apples was of Art in Ireland, France selected by the American “Sweet Peas” by G. Clark Fedigan and in Italy. Artists Professional Founder and director of League for their show the Hudson Valley Pastel at the Salmagundi Club, Society and a member of and for the Degas Pastel the Woodstock Artists Society Show in New Association, Kent Art Orleans. Association and Garrison Gayle’s most recent Art Association, she has shows were held at served on the boards Painters and Hudson of the Orange County Valley Gallery, both in Citizens Foundation “Burren Shore” by G. Clark Fedigan Cornwall-on-Hudson, and Orange County Arts Council. Riverwinds Gallery in Beacon and the Mark Gayle is currently a member of the Cape Gruber Gallery in New Paltz. Cod Artist Association and serves on the An exhibit of Gayle’s paintings entitled board of the Historical Society of Newburgh Flowers, Fields, and Rivers will be on display Bay and the Highlands. She was the owner at Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond and artistic director of her own gallery in Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh, Cornwall-on-Hudson which promoted 20 from May 5-June 7. additional artists. In addition, she was coA free and open-to-the-public opening owner, with the late Margaret Johns, of Two reception takes place on May 5 from Visions Gallery at the Brotherhood Winery 1:00pm-3:00pm. in Washingtonville. Call 845-565-2076 for hours.

five-string violin speaks a unique The Chris Parker Septet’s JAZZ language; Paul Rostock on acoustic ~ Funk, Latin, Straight Up concert and electric basses is a wellwill dazzle on the evening of May seasoned, very versatile player; and 3 at the Orange Bank & Trust Co Marko Marcinko is accomplished Great Room in Kaplan Hall which on drums and piano and has played has two and a half story windows with Parker as well as his own Latin overlooking the Hudson River. group for many years. Chris Parker Beginning at 7:30pm, composer/ Chris Parker is playing the baby grand. pianist/professor and This combination of director of jazz studies instruments makes possible at SUNY Orange, Chris a variety of interesting Parker will play and lead tone color combinations his septet in performing and goes hand in hand his original twelve with Parker’s eclectic mix compositions plus some of compositions. new surprises - new works Matt Hong Carl Maraghi For tickets online: www. - made for this occasion. sunyorange.edu/arts_ Parker’s ensemble is comm/ticketing.shtml composed of spectacular ($2.50 service charge musicians who are for each ticket). Free for engaging and enthusiastic students. Box Office opens as well as at the top of on May 3 only at 6:45pm. their game: Matt Hong Kaplan Hall is located at is accomplished on alto Marshall Gilkes Rob Thomas the corner of Grand & First sax and clarinet; Carl Streets on the Newburgh Maraghi is fabulous on campus of SUNY Orange. baritone sax and bass Free, secure parking is clarinet; Marshall Gilkes available in the parking is superb on trombone; garage entered at 73 First multi-instrumentalist Rob Street. Info: Cultural Thomas is fluent on cello and bass; however his Paul Rostock Marco Marcinko Affairs at 845-341-4891.

The Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund The Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund is participiating in Hudson Valley Gives: a 24 hour fundraiser, on Wednesday, May 15. Your online donation via the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan’s HVGives program will enable the Fund to begin an arts scholarship program for local youth and teens. Donations of any amount are welcome, from $10 to $10,000. See story on page 24 for details on how to donate. Donations welcomed May 8-15. Through his writing and his fundraising efforts, Port Jervis native and long time Times HeraldRecord columnist Chris Farlekas raised over $4.5 million dollars throughout the Tri-state area for charitable causes including the arts, hunger, domestic violence, veterans, homelessness and others. His work in the community earned him numerous “Man of the Year” Awards and an Honorary PhD from Mount St. Mary. This fund will distribute grants to various charitable projects and provide scholarships to high school graduates in memory of Chris. This ad paid for by Friends of Chris Farlekas

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Adaskin Trio Brings the Music of Jean Cras to Montgomery The Adaskin String Trio has won over audiences internationally with exuberant and stirring performances. Formed in 1994, the trio performs extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada. They met in Montreal where they each studied chamber music with founding Orford Quartet cellist Marcel Saint-Cyr. The trio is named in honor of Murray Adaskin, one of Canada’s most loved and respected composers, and two of his brothers, violinist Harry Adaskin and producer and music educator John Adaskin. Jean Émile Paul Cras (1879-1932) was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages. Nearly forgotten now for more than a half century, Cras stands out in stark contrast to virtually every other French composer of his generation. Noted composer/teacher Henri Duparc was astounded by the young Cras’ talent and meticulously exposed him to compositional techniques of Bach, Beethoven and his own teacher, César Franck. Cras reached the peak of his powers during the 1920’s and it was then that he composed some of the most inventive compositions of the twentieth century, of which his Trio for violin, viola & cello (1925) is among the

foremost. The trio integrates the late Baroque period. In a wide range of styles, fact more than one critic has including North African pointed out that the work influences. could be considered a ‘triple Though small in scale, concerto without orchestra’. lasting only about 5 minutes, “As writer Donald Tovey Bohuslav Martinu’s (1890perceptively pointed out, 1959) String Trio No.2, H.238 Haydn and Mozart used the (1934) alternates a graceful language of the classical and charming lyricism with style to project high comedy a passionate emotional and brilliant wit; Beethoven intensity very much in was after something the style that we associate different, reaching for a with the music of Dvorak, new dimension of tragedy who had died the previous and melodrama. Sometimes Adaskin String Trio: Mark Fraser, year. But while equally cello, Emlyn Ngai, violin and this can come across as reminiscent of Dvorak in its heavy-handed. Certainly Steve Larson, viola. Photo by Susan Wilson. folksy simplicity and rapidly the Op.9 trios, for all their alternating emotional states, its harmonic intelligence, do not betray the kind of deft palette often reaches much farther than epigrammatic wit that is such a hallmark of Dvorak’s into the lush chords and surprising Haydn’s work.” - Robert Mealy. modulations that had been developed so Hear the Adaskin Trio perform Beethoven’s effectively by the likes of Wagner, Mahler, String Trio in C minor, Op.9 No.3 along with and Strauss. the Cras and Martinu trios for the Grand Martinu wrote two string trios. The first Montgomery Chamber Music Series dates from 1923 and remains little known. on May 5 at 3:00pm in the Montgomery The second is a work of his early maturity, Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street. written when he was becoming internationally Admission is free. known. It displays his characteristically florid www.montgomerychambermusic.com melodic writing in rich contrapuntal textures For pre and post concert dining, see ads on and driving rhythms, derived partly from page 20. Weather permitting, you can even Czech folk music but also from the music of picnic in the park adjacent to the center.

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Singers of All Ages & Musicians in Milford Written in 2012, Karl Jenkins’ The Peacemakers sets famous inspiring text from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Anne Frank, Mother Teresa, and scripture to music. A performance of The Peacemakers will be the largest collaboration of musical forces ever brought together by the Delaware Valley Choral Society. A combination of three choruses, plus students from the Delaware Valley High School will be singing along with a very large professional symphony orchestra. Musicians from all over PA, NY and NJ are represented in the chorus and orchestra - in all, over 100 musicians will be on stage. Also, on the program will be works by Beethoven (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage) and Vaughan Williams, “plus a

The Dingman Delaware Children’s Choir

couple of surprises!” The concert for double chorus and symphony orchestra including The Dingman Delaware Children’s Choir, Brian Krauss, director, will be held at the Delaware Valley High School, 252 Route 6 & 209, Milford on June 2 at 4:00pm. “It will surely uplift your spirit and help focus us all on the need for peace.” Contact Jeffrey.Marc.Fornoff@gmail.com for further information.

Warwick Valley Chorale - 40th Year! Now in its 40th year, the Warwick Valley Chorale Spring Concert repertoire, directed by Stanley Curtis and accompanied by Gail Johnson, literally represents 1,000 years of song! Pergolesi The spring 2019 music program features Magnificat by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Cambridge Songs Suite No. 2, a cantata composed by Jim Taylor in 2018 with eleventh century lyrics, classical and Broadway songs and A Sentimental Journey Through the 40’s. In Taylor’s first Cambridge Songs suite,

he composed music in the medieval style. “For this second suite, I just decided to take each song and set it the way it moved me,” said Taylor. There are five pieces: a fanfare and Celtic jig, one in the style Taylor of Debussy; a “wild gypsy dance,” one in the style of Lutheran church music; and one with “flavors of an English anthem.” The concerts: May 17 at 7:00pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 58 North Street Middletown, and May 19 at 4:00pm at Warwick Reformed Church, 16 Maple Avenue. Tickets at the door.

Middletown Concert Chorale - 23rd Year! Morten Lauridsen and consolation but also composed the requiem Lux renewal. Aeterna in 1997, the year Lauridsen seamlessly his mother died. She was integrates the musical the “muse” who introduced essence of ancient modes, him to music, playing swing Renaissance polyphony, jazz and singing to him as Romanticism, and modern a toddler. She also taught dissonance. him to play the piano. The In its 23rd year, the Morten Lauridsen consolation for grief offered by Lux Aeterna Middletown Concert Chorale under is often compared to that of Fauré’s Requiem the direction of Danielle Cornacchio, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, and accompanied by Boyd Herforth, both works inspired by the deaths of the announces its 2019 Spring Concert: The Light of Music, featuring Lauridsen’s Lux composers’ mothers. To walk in the evergreen forests and along Aeterna along with a variety of other choral the waterways of the Pacific Northwest, as selections on May 4 at 7:00pm at Saint Lauridsen loves to do, is to experience infinite Paul’s Methodist Church, 88 West Main variations of light. The five movements of Street, Middletown, and May 5 at 3:00pm Lux Aeterna are based on various references at North Congregational United Church, to light from sacred Latin texts: perpetual 96 North Beacon Street, Middletown. Between the two acts there will be a light, light risen in the darkness, redeemerborn light from light, light of the Holy Spirit, cabaret portion. Reception and light fare to light of hearts, most blessed light, eternal follow. Tickets available at the door. For info, contact Rob Abramson 845-386light - all supporting an earthbound spirit seeking not only mercy, understanding, 4398 or Wendy McNutt 845-457-2730. 8

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Five Art Exhibitions in Narrowsburg Five exhibits currently for a decade, primarily running in the galleries in Philadelphia and the at the Narrowsburg Upper Delaware River Union feature artists: Valley. Her paintings Nancy Wells, Dancing have explored the with the Wind; Debra environment and root Cortese, Shifting Totems; causes of climate change; Claudine Luchsinger, the landscape, and the The Organic Abstract; promise that it holds in Gregory J Pelly, Through spite of external assaults; the Half Box; and Blake and light and darkness & Jessica Barroso, Work juxtaposed against the in Progress. flora and fauna found in Work by Claudine Luchsinger While each of the the wooded countryside. exhibitions is unique in style, they share a Self-taught painter Gregory J Pelly is a common thread to the natural world through resident of Thompson, PA who works on the subjects chosen and the materials used to location throughout the year and uses oil create the work. paints as his medium. His landscape studies, Nancy Wells of Damascus, is a decades- which speak to the beauty that surrounds us, long practitioner and teacher of printmaking, are painted primarily within the corridors of drawing and painting who loves working the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers. in multiple mediums. Her work has been Blake Barroso is a ten year old from Beach exhibited extensively in the Catskill and Lake, PA who has a mild form of Sensory Upper Delaware regions. Processing Disorder. He began art therapy Narrowsburg resident Debra Cortese is an and began drawing, painting and visiting artist, entrepreneur and designer who fell in local galleries with his mom, Jessica. The love with nature from the moment she was art therapy is working even though he still first invited into her grandmother’s garden struggles with scissors and getting dirty. as a child. Her work is created using her Curated by Brandi Merolla, the original photos. exhibitions are on view through May 18 Claudine Luchsinger of Cochecton has at the Narrowsburg Union, 7 Erie Street, worked as an abstract painter and curator Narrowsburg. www.narrowsburgunion.com

Classic Choral Society & HV Strings The Classic Choral Society (CCS) is currently celebrating a successful span of sixty years! For their 60th Spring Concert, the mass being featured (just published for mixed chorus last year), Missa Popularis by Mårten Jansson is for five-part chorus instead of the usual four: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. “The soprano section is split down the middle for the additional requirement of a fifth voice part,” explains Maestra Janiece Kohler. “Each movement is rhythmically challenging for even the most experienced choral singer. Throughout the five movement work, though using the well-known Latin text of the mass, the composer was inspired by a variety of folk dances and walking tunes of his Swedish homeland, occasionally using more than one at a time! Add to that some interesting harmonies employed by this (new to me) 21st century composer, and we’ve got a recipe for enchantment. Soprano Mariella Collinsworth is the featured soloist. “As bookends to Missa Popularis, to open the concert I chose an extended work entitled For a Breath of Ecstasy based on Sara Teasdale poems with music by American composer Michael John Trotta, who was introduced to CCS audiences for the first time last December when we sang his Ave Maria.

Trotta’s multi-movement song cycle was commissioned for the centennial celebration, in 2018, of American poet Sara Teasdale’s winning the first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Love Songs. Trotta’s care in placing her poems to his new music shows his talent as well as Teasdale’s. It turned out to be a beautiful marriage, I think. Ann Churukian is the oboe soloist... “...and, to end the program, I found a wonderful new arrangement by Grant Cochran of the familiar Shaker tune we all know as Simple Gifts, scored for chorus, string quartet, and piano, with CCS accompanist Cherwyn Ambuter as soloist.” The Hudson Valley Strings, Hana Walton & Cynthia Lehrer, violins, Piotr Kargul, viola, Jeanne Fox, cello and Analise Reed, double bass accompany the chorale on May 5 at 4:00pm in the United Church of Christ, 2 Old Dominion Road, Blooming Grove, and on May 12 at 4:00pm in the First Presbyterian Church, 33 Park Place, Goshen. Free admission. Donations appreciated.

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Happy 73rd B-Day, Middletown Art Group! Ninety-one artworks created by fiftyone artists testify to the diversity of the Middletown Art Group’s members and their interests. In addition, thirteen is not unlucky for this show as that is the number of different media used in producing the works: pastel, oil, acrylic, watercolor, tempera, pencil, cold wax, collage, mixed media, photography, alabaster, clay, and non- recyclable plastic. Another cause for celebration at the reception is the 73rd anniversary of the “Radiant Forsythia” oil by Susan Miiller Group which was formed to “provide an atmosphere in which to improve opens in Orange Hall Gallery, at individual skills and respect for the SUNY Orange, Middletown, on May efforts of others.” The organization 6 and continues through June 17. has many new members who keep The reception at which artists and the energy thriving. art appreciators come to share ideas The co-chairs of this members’ and questions will be held on May 19 spring exhibition and reception are from 1:00pm-3:30pm. During this artists Anne W. Kelly and Denise timeframe, three members will be S. Isseks. The show is being judged demonstrating, each in her favorite by Janet Howard-Fatta, wellmedium: Judy Byrn - pastel; Sandy known regional artist. Howard-Fatta Spitzer - oil; Ann Marie Moralesreceived a BFA in painting at Pratt Ear - ink, watercolor. Institute. She is a board member of Pianist Beverly Poyerd will the Orange County Arts Council play jazz standards, classical, and and facilitates the Warwick Life contemporary favorites throughout Drawing Group. the afternoon. The Middletown Art Group 2019 For location and contact “Spiral Horn 1”, Members Spring Exhibition clay by Barbara Bonham information, see ad page 23.

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Newburgh Barbershops Photo Project Newburgh Community Photo Project (NCPP) is a grassroots, community-based arts program that teaches photography and related media to local residents in Newburgh through workshops and mentorships to explore critical social justice issues directly related to their lives and their communities. Participants are trained as Citizen Journalists by professional photographers, editors, and media artists to raise awareness and become powerful voices in their community. Vincent Cianni, photographer and director of NCPP, along with NCPP photographers David Cordero, Therese Fischer, and Ronnie Farley documented local barbershops as part of the Frederick Douglass in Newburgh project - a creative two-year project by a consortium of diverse organizations that seeks to commemorate Douglass’ visit to Newburgh and the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment giving black men the right to vote. The team interviewed and photographed the African-American and Latino barbers while they tended to their clients. The culminating photography exhibition and audio recordings explore local stories and histories and the social impact of this service industry. The featured barbershops include Razor Sharp, Krispy Fresh Cuts, All Stars, Los Barbaros, Cross Cutters, Faded, Real G Kuts, Victor Barber Shop, and Levels.

Cross Cutters, photo by David Cordero.

The evolution of barbershops is an underrecognized history. In the era of Jim Crow, Black-owned barbershops were safe spaces where African American men could freely socialize and discuss contemporary issues. Today, this tradition remains. In a city that is 3.8 square miles, there are 22 counted barbershops. For many African Americans, getting a haircut is an experience that builds community, shapes political actions and establishes new meaningful relationships. Newburgh Barbershops: Shaping Community runs Saturdays through June 1 at the NCPP, 102 South William Street, showcasing photography and interviews that celebrate nine barbershops and their role as social and community anchors for Newburgh. The Douglass project is planning a city-wide commemoration for 2020. For info: ncpp12550@gmail.com

ILYA YAKUSHEV: Piano & “Pictures” For When Art Meets Music: Mussorgsky’s Pictures, phenomenal pianist Ilya Yakushev will return to Milford for Kindred Spirits Arts with Mussorgsky’s most beloved masterpiece Pictures at an Exhibition accompanied by projected paintings. Winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition, Yakushev received his first award at age 12 as a prizewinner of the Young Artists Concerto Competition in his native St. Petersburg, Russia. With many awards and honors to his credit, he continues to astound and mesmerize audiences at major venues on three continents. Since 2012 Yakushev has made numerous, outstanding appearances locally for SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music, Shandelee Music Festival, and Bethel Woods. His May program also includes Beethoven’s Sonata No. 14 in c♯ minor Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight”, Tchaikovsky’s Dumka op. 59 in c minor, and Liszt’s Vallée d’Obermann, S. 160 No. 6.

The dumka, a narrative Slavic folk song that veers abruptly from melancholy to exhilaration, was a source of inspiration for a number of composers, including Dvorak. Tchaikovsky’s Dumka is one of his most successful piano works. The inspiration for the Liszt piece is the 1804 novel Obermann by Etiene Jeane Senancour, which tells of the dispirited title character whose misfortunes drive him to seek consolation in a rural area of Switzerland. The two masterpieces, Mussorgsky’s Pictures and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata need no introductions to most concert goers. CANVAS publisher Barry Plaxen remembers Yakushev playing the Moonlight Sonata in Orange Hall, Middletown in 2012, “which he (Ilya) played to perfection. Perfection! I can’t wait to hear it again,” on May 18 at 7:30pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 E Catherine Street. See ads below for dining. Tickets: www.kindredspiritsarts.org and at the door. For information: 570-409-1269.

Floral Arrangements Match Art, Milford Spring is in bloom and and operated by the artist creativity in Milford abounds! members. The ever changing Now in it’s third year, Art membership allows for its in Bloom is a collaborative diverse and evolving offering show featuring Milford of exhibits and events, spurred Garden Club members’ by the different personalities creative floral and horticulture of its membership. displays inspired and paired Milford Garden Club is a with artwork of ARTery long standing organization that Gallery members. It is beautifies the town with their always fascinating to see the expertise in all things flora. interpretations, ranging from They have established a garden the literal to the abstract, all at Remembrance Place on which celebrate the spirit of Ann Street, a vegetable garden the art. next to the Milford Township Sometimes I wonder how building, tend beautiful urn in the world the garden club plantings throughout the town members can possibly interpret and helped establish a new some of the pieces submitted. garden at the Community To our surprise and delight, House in which they now they always come up with the have their own space. The most amazing and imaginative club was established in 1937 floral pieces. Shown together, and its membership has grown they make a wonderful throughout the decades. New Art by Chris Hobbs, ensemble, with many of the Arrangement by Liz Steen. members are welcome. florals for sale as well as the paintings they This year there will be an afternoon are paired with. Everyone enjoys this show opening, hosted by Garden Club members so much,” says gallery curator Marie Liu. on May 11 from 2:00pm-6:00pm. Art in Bloom brings two long time The exhibit runs from May 11 - June 3 Milford institutions together for a enjoyable at the ARTery Gallery, 210 Broad Street, exhibit. The ARTery, established in 1999, Milford. is a cooperative venture which is owned For information: 570-409-1234.

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Martyred Nuns Living & Dying to Glorious Music & Intense Drama The world première of Dialogues des Carmélites opera occurred (in Italian) on January 26, 1957 at La Scala in Milan. The première of the French-language version took place in Paris on June 21, 1957. The U.S. première, in English, followed in San Francisco in September 1957, which is noted because it was the operatic stage debut of Leontyne Price as Madame Lidoine (Price sang the role for NBC Opera in the late 50s). Also in that cast was Regine Crespin as Madame de Croissy who had sung Madame Lidoine at the Paris premiere and was later to perform Madame de Croissy at the Met’s first performance a decade or so later. Editor’s note: There are two Prioresses in the opera: Madame de Croissy has one of the most dramatic of operatic death scenes, and her successor Madame Lidoine sings one of the most lyrical-dramatic arias in the soprano repertoire. Dialogues des Carmélites is a rare case of a modern work that is equally esteemed by audiences and experts. The score reflects key aspects of its composer’s personality: Francis Poulenc was an urbane Parisian with a profound mystical dimension, and the opera addresses both the characters’ internal lives and their external realities. The libretto by Poulenc himself, after Georges Bernanos, is unusually deep in its psychological study of the contrasting characters of Mother Marie

de l’Incarnation and Blanche de la Force. Poulenc acknowledged his debt to Mussorgsky, Monteverdi, Verdi, and Debussy in his dedication of the opera, with the casual remark: “You must forgive my Carmelites. It seems they can only sing tonal music.” The opera tells a fictionalized version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, “Dialogues des Carmelites” Carmelite nuns and lay sisters in 1794 during “The inexorable dramatic the closing days of the movement of the work is Reign of Terror during impressive and, in the final the French Revolution scene in which the nuns chant who chose to offer the Salve Regina, extremely themselves as victims moving.” for the restoration of For the May 11 at Noon peace to France. At showing in the Live from the its center is Blanche Met series at SUNY Sullivan, de la Force, a shy 112 College Road, Loch young aristocratic woman who joins the David Pittsinger as Marquis de la Force Sheldrake, Isabel Leonard order on the eve of the & Isabel Leonard as Blanche de la Force sings the leading role of Revolution and must overcome a pathological Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila returns to timidity in order to answer her life’s calling. the Met as the Prioress de Crossy. Adrianne Philip Hensher has commented on the Pieczonka is Prioress Lidoine, Karin Cargill unique place of this opera in its depiction is Mother Marie and Erin Morley is Blanche’s of convent life: “...unlike every other opera confidante Constance. Yannick Nézet-Séguin about nuns, it finds space for a serious leads the classic John Dexter production of discussion about religion and the workings Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and of divine grace that is never saccharine or martyrdom. Tickets at the door. Pre-concert talk begins merely consolatory: how hard it is to be good, approximately 11:30am. how unsure the rewards of virtue.” Bring tissues for the exquisite ending. Opera historian Charles Osborne wrote

“Out of Mind”

Dr. Waters & Kowalczuk, “Out of Mind”

Out of Mind is a hybrid lectureperformance that explores the neuroscience of depression. Dr. Allison C. Waters, a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics in New York City, conducts an experiment using the brain waves and skills of theatre artist Tannis Kowalchuk of Farm Arts Collective (see page 28). Out of Mind begins in a classic lecture format that soon transforms into a multilayered performance experience with poetry, song, and theatrical text. Organized by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and Farm Arts Collective, a postshow discussion with a panel of mental health care providers will follow the May 4 at 8:00pm presentation at the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg. Tickets: delawarevalleyartsalliance.org

“Now and Zen” in Cragsmoor The Cragsmoor with an elegant reception Historical Society is offering champagne planning a grand weekend and hors d’oeuvres. The celebration to mark the experience continues on completion of a multi-year May 19 from 10:00amrenovation of its home in the 4:00pm, when the former Federated Church. exhibition and presentations The celebration, Now and by several VIP guest art Zen, will be an exhibition lecturers will be free and of art spanning more than open to the public. a century featuring works Every detail of the by turn-of-the-century Cragsmoor Federated founding artists, Charles “On the Cliff” by Charles C. Curran Church, from the basement Curran, E.L. Henry, Helen (1912). One of a number of works to the belfry, has been that Curran painted of young women Turner, Eliza Greatorex, on the cliffs in the Bear Hill Preserve pristinely restored to its George Inness, Jr., and 1910 condition, when in Cragsmoor. Arthur I. Keller, to modern works by “now” the original Methodist Mountain Church artists that are inspired by the “zen” of was expanded to accommodate a new and Cragsmoor. growing congregation. Under the guidance Works by contemporary artists include of project director Larry Gobrecht and his Phil and Judy Sigunick, who were leaders team of skilled craftsmen, the restoration was of a renaissance in the 1970s, when a group undertaken with patience and loving care. of young artists rediscovered Cragsmoor. At The final product is a building that is a key the same time, Kaycee Benton, who became structure in the Cragsmoor Historic District, an expert on the earlier artists and raised and one that can now look forward to another international recognition of their work, also century of housing our archives and providing helped organize the first annual exhibitions a beautiful space for events. for the Cragsmoor Free Library. Benton Tickets for the May 18 gala event can and the Sigunicks will be honored at this be purchased on the Eventbrite site or by event for their contribution to the arts. check directly to the CHS, P.O. Box 354, The festivities open on May 18 at 7:30pm, Cragsmoor, NY 12420. 12

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Doo-Wopping, Be-Bopping Mystery Murder Are you ready for a night of doowopping, be-bopping, and... murder!? Come to the St. Therese Classical Academy’s (STCA) Annual Benefit Dinner Theater! An original musical written by Headmistress Terri Raciti and directed by upand-coming local author Sara Francis, Morte’s Diner is a comedic performance full of dancing, laughing, singing, and mystery. The Academy, founded in 2013 by Headmistress Terri Raciti, offers all children in grades 1-12 the best in education. The Academy continues to fulfill its mission to offer a quality, liberal and fine arts education in a stable, family and Christ-oriented environment where all children know that they are beautifully and wonderfully made. Focusing on a classical curriculum while integrating the fine and performing arts, STCA teaches children how to think, not what to think.

Sara Francis (www.sara-francis. com) is a testimony for the academy. She was one of the first graduates of STCA and has since completed college with a Bachelors’ degree (going for a Masters). Sara is an author who has her own book business and is a media communicator with LEGOLAND® New York. She now dedicates her spare time to assisting at the academy with multimedia and drama. Come out and support the STCA at their fun Dinner Theater Benefit! Along with dancing and delicious dinner, there will be raffles and a 50/50, all to benefit the non-profit organization. The event takes place on May 31 from 5:00pm-9:00pm at the American Legion, 532 Lakes Road, Monroe. Tickets are $20 per person. Email Terri at headmistress@stcacademy.org for tickets and additional information or explore what the school offers by visiting www. stcacademy.org. See ad on page 9.

Exciting “Talkin’ Vinyl Series” - Warwick Scott Wenzel from Mosaic to exist, the Savory Collection Records will talk about one of the was acquired by the National most amazing jazz archeological Jazz Museum in Harlem in 2010, discoveries of the 21st century: the culmination of a 36-year The Bill Savory Collection. quest by jazz historian Loren The event will include never Schoenberg. The discovery made before heard recordings by the headlines around the world. Count Basie Orchestra with Wenzel was approached by Lester Young, Chick Webb, Ella Schoenberg to help catalog Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, and ship the recordings. The Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Bill Savory (1916-2004) Museum and Mosaic Records Albert Ammons, Benny Carter, Bobby were able to release a portion of these Hackett - the list goes on and on! recordings after years of negotiations with A trained musician and audio engineer, various estates of the musicians who were Bill Savory served in the Navy where he on the recordings. Once the recordings were developed radar technology and flew as a decided upon for release, both Schoenberg test pilot. But first and foremost, Savory was and Wenzel arranged how the music would a music lover who single-handedly captured be released on CD. hundreds of hours of top-shelf music off the In 1987, Wenzel joined Mosaic Records air in the six years preceding World War II. and began producing boxed sets in 1999. In By day, he recorded commercials off the this role he is a three time Grammy Award air for a transcription service. By night, he nominee for Best Historical Issue and has compiled a musical treasure chest, recording won Jazz Journalist Association and Down the jazz artists he loved off the radio. The Beat awards. He also leads a 16 piece swing live nightclub and ballroom performances band and a jazz trio. he captured were longer and more creatively A not-to-be-missed event, it all happens daring as the artists were freed from the on May 19 at 4:00pm at Original Vinyl constraints of the conventional studio. Records, 314 Route 94 South, #7, Warwick. Packed away for decades and only rumored For info: 845-987-3131. See ad on pg. 11.

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Lectures - Master Classes - Demos - Talks sponsored by SUNY Orange and Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus

CAS ��Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor 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 UNION ��Union Avenue Community Fitness Center, New Windsor Lectures, Master Classes, Demos & Talks are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE) (Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar)

lectures “Spring Herbs” Sarah Elisabeth �� MSM-DC May 3, 10am FEE “Hospice Discussion” ��Cragsmoor Library, May 4, 1pm Sir William Johnson Program Frank Salvati �� Town of Deerpark Museum, Huguenot, May 5, 3pm “Understanding Your Belief System and How it Affects Your Decision Making” David Martin �� MSM-DC, May 6, 1pm FEE “Researching Newburgh’s Historic Buildings: Tools, Methods, and Resources” James Kelly �� MSM-DC May 6, 6pm FEE Informational Tour �� Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh, May 7, 9am “Turning Setbacks into Advantages to Cause Growth and Resiliency” Diane Lang �� MSM-DC May 8, 10:30am FEE “The Fairy Tale of My Life” by Hans Christian Andersen Joan Monk �� MSM-DC May 8, 1pm FEE “Gallbladder Heath and Headaches” Dr. Richard Huntoon �� MSM-DC May 8, 1pm “Aging & Diabetes” ��UNION May 9, 10:15am “Everything Mushrooms: An Introduction to Fungi” John Michelotti MSM-DC May 9, 1pm FEE “New York Civil Liberties Union: What is This and How Does It Pertain to You?” �� Shannon Wong Crawford Library, Monticello, May 9, 6pm “Edible and Medicinal Plants” Roger Flaum �� MSM-DC May 10, 10am FEE “Improving Balance to Prevent Falls” ��UNION May 10, 10:15am Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk ��PEEC May 11, 10am FEE “The O&W and Port Jervis & Monticello Railroads” Joe Senese �� Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, May 11, 2pm “The Wonderful World of Mel Brooks” Leon DiMartino �� MSM-DC May 14, 10am FEE “Conservative & Surgical Management of Arthritis” ��UNION May 15, 10:15am “100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know” Joan Monk �� MSM-DC May 15. 1pm FEE “The Mystery of the Third Eye” Nathan Rosenblum �� MSM-DC May 15, 2pm FEE “In the Footsteps of the Goddess, a Journey through Patriarchy to a New Human Consciousness” Hana Marritz Crawford Library, Monticello, May 16, 6pm “Hilma af Klint: Medium, Artist Visionary” Susan Aberth, MEGAPHONE Literary Series �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, May 18, 3pm “Antigone on Robben Island: Mandela Take the Stage” Samuel Harps �� MSM-DC May 20, 11am FEE “The Dangers of the Ketogenic Diet” Toni-Jean Kulpinski �� MSM-DC May 20, 6pm FEE “Conspiracy Theories” Bill & Sue Wiand �� MSM-DC May 21, 10am FEE Faith Before Creed: The Private and Public Religion of George Washington” Kieran O’Keefe �� MSM-DC May 21, 11am FEE “Sleightsburgh Barge Graveyard: The Changing Mouth of Rondout Creek” �� Sarah Wassberg Johnson MSM-DC May 21, 1:30pm FEE “Indestructible Man” David Rocco �� MSM-DC May 22, 10am FEE “Newburgh, 1783: George Washington and the Eloquence of Character” Stephen Howard Browne �� MSM-DC May 22, 1pm FEE Science Cafe: “The Science of Aging – Extending Healthy Life” Toby G. Rossman �� Flaming Grill & Buffet, Newburgh, May 22, 7:15pm “Growing up in the 1960s & 70s from JFK & LBJ to Nixon, and from Kent State to Watergate” Steven Sharoff Crawford Library, Monticello, May 23, 6pm “Birds of Prey” Bill Streeter �� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, May 25, 1pm “What’s All the Fuss About Gluten?” Ginger Singer ��Crawford Library, Monticello, May 30, 6pm CONFERENCE “I Am Jane Doe: A Conference on Sex Trafficking ~ exploitation, coercion, slavery” �� Orange County Human Rights Commission, Safe Homes of Orange County, & Cultural Affairs at SUNY Orange SUNYO-OH Apr 30, 8:30am-4:45pm DEMOS Pat Foxx & Linda Barboni watercolors �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 4,12,18,19,25,26 1pm-4pm Judy Byrne pastel, Sandy Spitzer oil, Ann Marie Morales–Ear ink, watercolor �� Orange Hall, Middletown, May 19, 1pm-3:30pm Artist & Musicologist Talks “The Music of Tito Puente, Machito & Ray Barretto” Joe Conzo �� Original Vinyl Records, Warwick, May 5, 4pm Shirley Irons & Jeri Coppola ��Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, May 18, 4pm “The Bill Savory Jazz Collection” Scott Wenzel �� Original Vinyl Records, Warwick, May 19, 4pm Orange County Arts Council Outreach Studio Visit �� Eric Stein Studio, Huguenot, May 23, 6pm Nick Zungoli slide show talk “Sixteen Days in Hanoi” �� Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, May 24, 9pm Julie Tremblay “Unpacked” ��Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, May 25, 2pm “Ellington at Newport 1956” Arnold J. Smith ��Original Vinyl Records, Warwick, Jun 2, 4pm 14

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May 2019

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

Music for Humanity folk �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm FREE Hudson Valley Swing Band �� Wallkill Community Center, Middletown, May 7, 14, 21, 1pm Chris O’Leary Band blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 1, 8pm Gamelan Orchestra Indonesian �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, May 2, 7:30pm Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers Americana, roots, rock �The Falcon, Marlboro, May 2, 8pm Johnny Nicholas w/Scrappy Jud Newcomb blues, cajun, honky tonk � Falcon Underground, May 2, 8pm Yarn Americana, Jacob & David Bernz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 3, 7pm Willa & Co. blues, Lobell, Dugan & Tramm �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 3, 7pm John Beacher Triversity’s First Fridays �� Best Western, Matamoras, May 3, 8pm The Dark Horses “Concert for George (Harrison)” ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 4, 8pm Phoebe LeGere & Joakim Lartey Americana & Native ��Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 4, 7pm All She Wrote w/Larry Packer folk ��Thrall Library, Middletown, May 5, 2pm FREE Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis swing, blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 5 & May 19, 11am Slam Allen & Van Manakas Guitar Kings. ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, May 5, 2pm FREE “An Afternoon with Ken & Julie” folk ��Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, May 5. 4pm Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express acid soul-jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 8, 8pm Latin Jazz Express Puente & Palmieri ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 9, 8pm Lyn Hardy & The Catskill Corral country �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 9, 8pm The Funk Junkies ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 10, 8pm The Greyhounds roots, r&r �� The Falcon Underground, May 10, 8pm Bernstein Bard Trio folk ��St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, May 11, 7:30pm Floyd Pink �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 11, 8pm Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones rockabilly ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 11, 8pm Uncommon Ground bluegrass, blues, swing �� St. George’s Church, Newburgh, May 12, 3pm Cindy Cashdollar & The Syncopators Texas Swing Dance �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 13, 8pm Common Tongue rock, fusion, jazz, Nate Wood’s “fOUR” prog rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 15, 8pm Kinobe of Uganda groove Jonathan Scales Fourchestra steel piano �The Falcon, Marlboro, May 16, 7pm Telepathic Moon Dance funk,soul,etc. �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, , May 16, 8pm Corky Laing celebrates MOUNTAIN ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 17, 8pm Junket Acoustic alt-rock �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 17, 8pm Deb De Lucca 70s pop-rock �� Greenwood Lake Library, May 18, 1pm FREE Oldies Show Doo Wop ��Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 18, 3pm “Deep Field” NASA scientists, music by Eric Whitacre ��Bethel Woods, May 18, 6:30pm Datura Road world, Sarah Underhill Celtic �� Phillipsport Community Center, May 18, 7pm Paul Anka �� Resorts World, Monticello, May 18, 8pm Willi Amrod Band w/Fred Wesley & Pee Wee Ellis ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 18, 8pm Manticore: a Tribute to Emerson, Lake & Palmer rock �� The Falcon Underground, May 18, 8pm Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word, hip hop The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 22, 7pm Jeff Selear pop rock, Minisink Ukulele Club �� Run4 Downtown Park, Middletown, May 23, 6pm FREE Tribal Harmony Seeger �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 23, 7pm The Family Stone �� Bethel Woods, May 24, 8pm Cuboricua salsa ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 24, 8pm Vito Petroccitto & Little Rock swamp rock �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 24, 8pm THE WHITE ALBUM: a Tribute Beatles ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 25, 8pm My House is the Mountain Americana �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 25, 8pm The Talking Machine Band acoustic ��Run4 Downtown Park, Middletown, May 30, 6pm FREE Dylan Doyle Band funk, rock �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 31, 8pm John Tropea Band funk, soul, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 31, 8pm The Dark Horses George Harrison �� Railroad Green, Warwick, Jun 1, 7pm Sha Na Na ��Bethel Woods, Jun 1, 8pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm 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 Open Mic ��Heartbeat Music Hall, Grahamsville, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm 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 Acoustic Open Mic Session host, Jason Gisser �� The Falcon Underground, May 1, 7pm The Outcrop Band ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 3, 7:30pm Hurley Mountain Highway �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 4. 7:30pm Chris Brown ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 5, 2pm Gregg Van Gelder Band ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 10, 7:30pm Kevin Finnan ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 11, 2pm Jazzilla and the Front Street Shimmy Cats w/Sara Hulse & Cooper Boone �� Foundry 42, Port Jervis, May 11, 7pm Fire at Will �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 11, 7:30pm Dante’ vineyard series ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 12, 2pm Roots & Blues Sessions host: Petey Hop �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 15 & 29, 7pm Roxanne- Police Tribute ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 17, 7:30pm Paul Davis ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 18, 2pm Flying Obersons �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 18, 7:30pm Evan Teatum & Alan Battiatto ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 19, 2pm Stone Flower Santana ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 25, 7:30pm Acoustics Anonymous ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 24 7:30pm Paul Binotto ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 25, 2pm Jack Higgins and Friends ��Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 26, 2pm The Drizzle �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 31, 7:30pm

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sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning & Preservation, Monroe; Matthews Pharmacy, Ellenville and Jeffersonville Hardware CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Cinema Classics & Documentaries

“Screenagers” documentary + panel discussion ��SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, May 1. 7pm & SUNY Orange, Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Milddletown, May 2, 7pm “None Shall Escape” Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox ��Wisner Library, Warwick, May 6 FREE “Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo—The Great Mother” documentary �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 11, 8pm Free Movie Night ��St. James Episcopal Church, Goshen, May 17, 7pm FREE “The Favourite” Olivia Colman, Emma Stone ��Wisner Library, Warwick, May 13 FREE “Green Book” Viggo Mortenson, Mahershala Ali ��Wisner Library, Warwick, May 20 FREE

Comedy

Kevin James............................................................................Resorts World, Monticello, May 10, 9pm Comedy Night ��The Arnold, Livingston Manor, May 11, 8pm Anthony Rodia Comedy Show �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 31, 8pm The Tenderloins �� Resorts World, Monticello, May 31& Jun 1

Dance

Flamenco Vivo ��Munger Cottage, Warwick, May 5, 2pm FREE “Cinderella” Warwick Dance Collective �� Warwick Valley High School, May 18 & 19

FAIRS & FestivalS

Spring Fling ��Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, Apr 27, Noon-3pm FREE Urban Farming Fair ��Broadway & Grand Street, Newburgh, Apr 27, Noon-4pm FREE Treecycle ��Stanley Deming Park, Warwick, May 4, 10am-5pm FREE Beltane Festival �� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, May 4, 10am-6pm International Family Festival ��New Century, Port Jervis, May 9-13 Lunar Weekend Festival �� Bethel Woods, May 17-19 Newburgh Illuminated ��Broadway & Liberty Street, Jun 1. Noon-10pm FREE Lost Catskill Farm Afternoon ��Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jun 2, 1pm-4pm Farm Arts Collective Opening Ceremony �� Willow Wisp Organic Farm, Damascus, Jun 2. 3pm FREE

FundraiserS

St. George’s Cemetery Carnegie Hall Anniversary Concert �� St. George’s Ch., Newburgh, May 5, 3pm Friends of the Arboretum plant sale �� OC Arboretum, Montgomery, May 11, 18, 25, 10am-2:45pm Cragsmoor Historical Society gala reception & honor ceremony ��Cragsmoor, May 18, 7:30pm Hudson Valley Jazz Festival �� Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, May 19, 4pm St. Therese Classical Academy “Morte’s Diner” dinner-theatre American Legion, Monroe, May 31. 5pm

Museums not Listed in Centerspread

Tower of Victory: Grand Re-opening ��Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Apr 27, Noon-4pm “A Revolutionary Camp at Night at the New Windsor Historic Huts” �� New Windsor Cantonment, Apr 27, 7pm FREE

Music - Chorale

Middletown Concert Chorale ��Saint Paul’s Methodist Church, Middletown, May 4, 7pm & North Congregational United Church, Middletown, May 5, 3pm Classic Choral Society ��United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove May 5, 4pm & First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, May 12, 4pm SUNY Orange Choir �� Morrison Hall, Middletown, May 12, 3pm Warwick Valley Chorale ��Grace Episcopal Church, Middletown, May 17, 7pm & Warwick Reformed Church, May 19, 4pm Delaware Valley Choral Society ��Delaware Valley High School, Milford, Jun 2, 4pm

Music - Classical - Band

Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music Series �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Monticello, Apr 27, 7:30pm & CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Apr 28, 3pm Eliana Razzino Yang cello & Janice Nimetz piano, Music in Central Valley �� United Methodist Church, Central Valley, Apr 28, 3pm FREE West Point Band Hellcats “Glory of the Trumpets” ��West Point Jewish Chapel, May 1, 7pm FREE Orange County Community Orchestra �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 4, 7:30pm Adaskin String Trio Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Montgomery Senior Center, May 5, 3pm FREE Nicole Brancato & Andrew Ranaudo piano duo ��Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, May 5, 3pm SUNY Orange Symphonic Band �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, May 5, 3pm 128th anniversary of Carnegie Hall, honoring architect William Burnet Tuthill �� St. George’s Church, Newburgh, May 5, 3pm West Point Band Masterworks Series �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point, May 11, 2pm FREE Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra �� Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, May 11, Shacklett preview:6:30pm, concert:7:30pm Uncommon Ground Newburgh Chamber Music, Bartok, bluegrass, swing, blues ��‘ St. George’s Church, Newburgh, May 12, 3pm SIREN Baroque Music on Market series �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, May 16, 7:30pm Maybrook Wind Ensemble ��Maybrook Senior Center, May 17, 7:30pm FREE Ilya Yakushev piano ��Milford Theatre, May 18, 7:30pm Potluck Concerts “America” ��Cornwall Presbyterian Ch., Cornwall-on-Hudson, May 24, 7:30pm

Music - jazz

Eric Person Band ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 9pm Frank Lacy Sextet �� St. Andrews Episcopal Church, So. Fallsburg, Apr 27, 7:30pm FREE Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio Music on Market series St. John’s Epsicopal Ch., Ellenville Apr 28, 4pm Chris Parker Septet ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, May 3, 7:30pm Karl Berger’s “Musica Poetica” ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 5, 8pm Jazz Sessions Host: Doug Weiss �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, May 8, 7pm Dave Stryker’s Eight Track III soul, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 12, 8pm Malcolm Cecil Quartet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 19, 8pm 4th Saturday Jazz: Neil Alexander keyboards, Peter O’Brien drums, Gary Kelly bass �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, May 25, 9pm FREE Karl Latham and Friends ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 25, 7:30pm Saints of Swing swing, klezmer, + ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 26, 11am Guillermo Klein Sextet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 26, 8pm

Opera

“Dialogues des Carmelites” Poulenc, Live from the Met ��SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, May 11, Noon “Madama Butterfly” Puccini, Hudson Opera Theatre � First Presbyterian Church, Monroe, Jun 1 & 2

Poetry & Prose Readings

Milkweed Poetry ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 7pm Spring Poetry Cafe, Carl Welden, Roberta Gould, Robert Milby ��Florida Library, Apr 26, 7pm FREE Spring Poetry Reading open mic ��Chester Library Apr 27, 2pm FREE Corinne Aufiero ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, May 2, 7pm Ed Fisher ��Montgomery Book Exchange, May 14, 7pm FREE Gloria Winter ��Meadow Blues Coffee, Chester, May 21, 7pm Hudson River Poets �� Newburgh Library, May 23, 7pm FREE Ed Fisher Poetry at the Church ��Goshen Methodist Church, May 27, 7pm FREE

Recreation & Dancing

Salsa dancing �� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Fridays, 7:30pm Polka Dance �� Polish Legion of American Veterans Hall, Pine Island, Apr 28, 1pm

Storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild Asian-American, South Seas � Florida Library, May 9, 6:30pm FREE Yarnslingers �� Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, May 11, 4pm Pechakucha Night #9 ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 18, 8pm

Theatre - Musical & Variety

“Chicago” Kander & Ebb �� Eisenhower Hall, West Point, May 5, 5pm DVAA Grants Award Showcase ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 18, 11am

Theatre - Play

“Springtime for Murder!! The Killing Kompany, dinner-theatre �� West Point Club, Apr 26, 7pm “A Streetcar Named Desire” Tennessee Williams, Greenwood Lake Theater �� New Teen Center, Greenwood Lake, Apr 26-28 “The Rejuvenary River Circus” Arm of the Sea Theatre �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Apr 27, 2pm “Getting Away With Murder” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, May 3-19 “Murder at the Speakeasy” dinner-theatre �� Desmond Campus, Newburgh, May 4, 6pm “Out of Mind” Tannis Kowlachuk & Allison C. Waters ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, May 4, 8pm One Acts Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ��Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, May 10-19 “Morte’s Diner” dinner-theatre �� American Legion, Monroe, May 31. 5pm “Memoirs of a Forgotten Man” �� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, May 31-Jun 16 “An Inspector Calls” by J.B. Priestly, Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, Jun 1-16

OPPORTUNITY: SINGERS! Auditions are being held for the Delaware Valley Opera 2019 Season Production of H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan. Singers are needed for lead and secondary roles as well as chorus. An accompanist will

be provided or feel free to bring your own. May 4 from 3:15pm-5:00pm at Krause Recital Hall, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg. Email kenparks@delawarevalleyopera.org for more information and a time.

Female Shamanism in Monticello What do you know about Shamanism, the ancient healing tradition and way of life, connecting with nature and all of creation? Hana Marritz, a Shaman practitioner, will give a slide presentation entitled, In the Footsteps of the Goddess, a Journey through Patriarchy to a New Human Consciousness that looks at art and artifacts of matrifocal

societies to see how our ancestors interpreted their work, and what it reveals about us. Many of us know so little on the topic. Discover more about female Shamanism in this free program at the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, 479 Broadway, Monticello on May 16 at 6:00pm. For information, call 845-794-4660.

May 2019

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

AMITY ��Amity Gallery, Warwick CTMW Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players � Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe CCS Classic Choral Society ��United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove FAL & FAL-U �� The Falcon & The Falcon Underground, Marlboro FARM �� Farm Arts Collective, Damascus GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Montgomery Senior Center GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall

MONDAY

TUESDAY

GWL �� Greenwood Lake Library HAC ��Hurleyville Arts Centre HOT Hudson Opera Theatre �� First Presbyterian Church, Monroe IKE ��Eisenhower Hall, West Point LUMB �� Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey MoM Music on Market �� St. John’s Episcopal Church & MISU, Ellenville MONTBK ��Montgomery Book Exchange

WEDNESDAY

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

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

Music - Band “Glory of the Trumpets” WPJC 7pm Music - Blues Chris O’Leary Band FAL 8pm

“The Guitar” one of 30 artworks by Robb Gomulka on display at Griffith Olivero Realtors, Goshen, through May 23.

Cinema “None Shall Escape” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

13 Cinema “The Favourite” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Cinema “Green Book” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

14 Poetry Ed Fisher MONTBK, 7pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Poetry Gloria Winter Meadow Blues Coffee, Chester, 7pm Reading & signing of Alyta Adams’ book: “52 Messages from My Creative Channel” May 4 at 1:00pm, Montgomery Book Exchange, 13 Union Street, Montgomery

Poetry Ed Fisher Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

May 2019

MONTLIB �� Ethelbert Crawford Library, MSM-AQ �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, MSM-DC �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, NOBL ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Cam PARA ��Paramount Theatre, M PHILL �� Phillipsport Commun PWO �� Palaia Winery Outdoors, High

THURSDAY

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Music Common Tongue, Nate Wood’s “fOUR” FAL 8pm

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

29 Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

Music - Jazz............ Poetry.............................Corinne Aufiero.......................... NOBL 7pm Music...................... Music - Indonesian.......Gamelan Orchestra.................... MoM 7:30pm Music - Americana. Music - Roots-Rock.......Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers...FAL 8pm Music - Blues.......W Music - Blues-Cajun....Johnny Nicholas w/ Scrappy Jud Newcomb.FAL-U 8pm Theatre - Play......“

Storytelling....Black Dirt Storytelling Guild..... Florida Library 6:30pm Music - Acid-Soul-Jazz Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express Theatre - Play......“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm Music - Puente-Palmieri.......Latin Jazz Express ...................FAL 8pm FAL 8pm Music - Country.......Lyn Hardy & The Catskill Corral........FAL-U 8pm Music - Jazz Jazz Sessions FAL-U 7pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

may

Theatre - Plays...... Theatre - Play......“ Music...................... Music - Roots-R&R Comedy..................

Music...Warwick Val

Cinema....Free Mov Music - Classical............. SIREN Baroque....................... MoM 7:30pm Music - Band..Maybr Music..Kinobe of Uganda, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra..FAL 7pm Theatre - Play......“ Music - Fink-Jazz-Soul.......Telepathic Moon Dance..........FAL-U 8pm Theatre - Plays...... Music.............Cork Music - Alt-Rock.....

Music - Classical.... Music - Pop-Rock...Jeff Selear, Minisink Ukulele Club.... RUN4 6pm Music...................... Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Music - Salsa.......... Music - Pete Seeger.......Tribal Harmony...........................FAL-U 7pm Music - Swamp Roc

Dinner-Theatre......“ Theatre - Play.......“M Music - Acoustic.......The Talking Machine Band .............. RUN4 6pm Comedy..............An Music - Funk-Soul-J Music - Roots-Rock Comedy..................

2019

Monticello Newburgh Newburgh mpbell Hall Middletown nity Center hland Mills

RRG ��Railroad Green, Warwick RW ��Resorts World Catskill Casino Resort, Monticello RUN4 �� Run 4 Downtown Park, Middletown SCCC Sullivan County Community College ��SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake SCDW Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ��Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg SCM �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SDEM ��Stanley Deming Park, Warwick

FRIDAY

......Chris Parker Septet......... SUNYO-KH 7:30pm .......... John Beacher..............................TRIV 8pm .......Yarn, Jacob & David Bernz...............FAL 7pm Willa & Co., Lobell, Dugan & Tramm....FAL-U 7pm “Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm

............... One Acts............................... SCDW 8pm “Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm ....... The Funk Junkies.............................FAL 8pm R........ The Greyhounds.........................FAL-U 8pm ........... Kevin James................................. RW 9pm

lley Chorale..Grace Episcopal Ch., Middletown, 7pm

vie Night..St. James Episcopal Ch., Goshen, 7pm

rook Wind Ensemble.Maybrook Senior Center, 7:30pm

“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm ............... One Acts............................... SCDW 8pm ky Laing celebrates MOUNTAIN!.............FAL 8pm ........ Junket Acoustic..........................FAL-U 8pm

.Potluck Concerts..Cornwall Presby. Ch., 7:30pm ....... The Family Stone............................. BW 8pm .............Cuboricua!..................................FAL 8pm ck.......Vito Petroccitto & Little Rock...FAL-U 8pm

“Morte’s Diner”....American Legion, Monroe, 5pm Memoirs of a Forgotten Man”............ SHAD 8pm nthony Rodia Comedy Show...............PARA 8pm Jazz.......John Tropea Band......................FAL 8pm k-Funk.......Dylan Doyle Band...............FAL-U 8pm .........The Tenderloins.............................. RW 9pm

SHAD �� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville SLGMNN ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh SUNYO-MH �� SUNY Orange, Morrison Hall, Middletown SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown T&V �� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown

SATURDAY

Festival................................ Treecycle..................... SDEM 10am-5pm Festival...........................Beltane Festival................. PWO 10am-6pm Cinema.....................Saturday Family Movie.............. MONTLIB 1pm Dinner-Theatre.......“Murder at the Speakeasy”........... MSM-DC 6pm

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

Music - Classical..Orange County Community Orch...PARA 7:30pm Theatre - Play...................“Out of Mind”.............................TUST 8pm Theatre - Play......“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm Music - George Harrison.......The Dark Horses.......................FAL 8pm Music - Americana.......Phoebe LeGere & Joakim Lartey..FAL-U 8pm

Opera........... “Dialogues Des Carmelites” Poulenc...... SCCC Noon Music - Classical............ West Point Band............................. IKE 2pm Storytelling...............Yarnslingers......Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 4pm Music - Classical..Greater Newburgh Sym. Orch... MSM-AQ 7:30pm Music - Folk.................Bernstein Bard Trio....................MoM 7:30pm Theatre - Play......“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm Theatre - Plays.................... One Acts...............................SCDW 8pm Comedy............Comedy Night.....The Arnold, Livingston Manor, 8pm Cinema......... “Gyalum Chemo: The Great Mother”........ AMITY 8pm Music - Rockabilly.......Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones...............FAL 8pm Music.................................. Floyd Pink...............................FAL-U 8pm

Variety................ DVAA Grants Award Showcase............TUST 11am Music - 70s Pop-Rock.......Deb De Lucca ............................GWL 1pm Music - Doo-Wop.......25th Annual Oldies Show.................PARA 3pm Dance................“Cinderella”.........Warwick Valley High School, 6pm Music & Photos.......“Deep Field” w/Eric Whitacre........... BW 6:30pm Music - World-Celtic.......Datura Road, Sarah Underhill.... PHILL 7pm Music - Classical......... Ilya Yakushev piano...Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Music - Folk..................Music for Humanity.................NOBL 7:30pm Fundraiser...Reception & Honor Ceremony..Cragsmoor Hist. Soc. 7:30pm Theatre - Play......“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 8pm Theatre - Plays.................... One Acts...............................SCDW 8pm Storytelling................. Pechakucha Night #9..................... AMITY 8pm Music..Willi Amrod Band w/Fred Wesley & Pee Wee Ellis..FAL 8pm Music - Emerson, Lake & Palmer.......Manticore................FAL-U 8pm Music...................................Paul Anka................................... RW 8pm Music - Jazz........Eric Person Band....Wherehouse, Newburgh, 9pm

Music - Classical..Honoring B.C. Tuthill.St. George’s Ch. Newburgh 3pm Music.Middletown Concert Chorale.North Cong. United Ch., Middletown, 3pm

Music - Classical...........SUNY Orange Symphonic Band...PARA 3pm Music - Classical................2Squared Piano Duo..............LUMB 3pm Theatre - Play......“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 3pm Music........................ Classic Choral Society...................... CCS 4pm Music - Folk...........“An Afternoon with Ken and Julie”...... UUC 4pm Theatre - Musical...........“Chicago” Kander & Ebb............... .IKE 5pm Music - Jazz...........Karl Berger’s “Musica Poetica”.............FAL 8pm

Theatre - Plays.................... One Acts............................... SCDW 2pm Music.....Uncommon Ground...St. George’s Church, Newburgh, 3pm Music.......................... SUNY Orange Choir............. SUNYO-MH 3pm Music..Classic Choral Society...First Presbyterian Ch., Goshen, 4pm Music - Jazz-Soul...........Dave Stryker’s Eight Track III.........FAL 8pm

19 Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis................FAL11am Dance................“Cinderella”.........Warwick Valley High School, 1pm Theatre - Plays.................... One Acts............................... SCDW 2pm Theatre - Play......“Getting Away With Murder”...............CTMW 3pm Music......Warwick Valley Chorale.........Warwick Reformed Church, 4pm

Fundraiser............Hudson Valley Jazz Festival................WCPA 4pm Music - Jazz.............. Malcolm Cecil Quartet.........................FAL 8pm

Festival..Newburgh Iluminated..Broadway & Liberty St., Noon-10pm Opera...................“Madama Butterfly” Puccini.................. HOT 7pm Theatre - Play.............“An Inspector Calls”.....................CTMW 8pm Music.................................. Sha Na Na................................... BW 8pm Music - G. Harrison.......The Dark Horses........................... RRG 7pm Theatre - Play.......“Memoirs of a Forgotten Man”............ SHAD 8pm Comedy..........................The Tenderloins.............................. RW 9pm

SUNDAY

Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis................FAL11am Dance...............Flamenco Vivo..........Munger Cottage, Warwick, 2pm Music - 60s & 70s....Slam Allen & Van Manakas guitars.... SCM 2pm Music - Folk...........All She Wrote w/Larry Packer......... THRALL 2pm Music - Classical...........Adaskin String Trio......................GMCM 3pm

Music - Jazz............ Karl Latham and Friends............. AMITY 7:30pm Music - Beatles.......THE WHITE ALBUM: a Tribute...............FAL 8pm Music - Americana.......My House is the Mountain............FAL-U 8pm Music - Jazz.......4SJ - 4th Saturday Jazz.....Wherehouse, Newburgh, 9pm

TRIV Triversity �� Best Western, Matamoras TUST �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg UUC ��Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern WCC �� Wallkill Community Center, Middletown WCPA �� Warwick Center for the Performing Arts WPJC ��West Point Jewish Chapel WWMIL �� WaterWheel Cafe, Milford

Music - Jazz +................ Saints of Swing............................FAL 11am Music & Narration...........“Ferdinand the Bull”..................... MoM 4pm Music - Jazz.............. Guillermo Klein Sextet.........................FAL 8pm

Theatre - Play.......“Memoirs of a Forgotten Man”............ SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play.............“An Inspector Calls”.....................CTMW 3pm Festival......Farm Arts Collective Opening Ceremony.....FARM 3pm Fair......................Lost Catskill Farm Afternoon..........T&V 1pm-4pm Opera...................“Madama Butterfly” Puccini.................. HOT 4pm Music - Classical..Delaware Valley Choral Society.DV HS Milford, 4pm

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sponsored by Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School & Wurtsboro Art Alliance CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Art exhibits CAS ��Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DVAA ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Elaine Giguere 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, “Spring Scenes” ��Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing June Ponte paintings, stained & painted glass ��Poe & Raven Gallery, Milford, 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 “Winter” group show �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Stephen Erny papier mache ��Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, thru Apr 30 Nita Klein paintings �� Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, thru Apr 30 “Art and Soul ~ the 15th Annual Student and Faculty Art Exhibit” �� SUNYO-OH thru May 1 Eric Baylin “Branches, Rocks, and String” sculpture ��DVAA thru May 4 Jessica Holmes “Resurgence” �� Forage Space, Narrowsburg, thru May 5 “Behind the Scenes” group show ��ARTery, Milford, thru May 6 “Heidi Lanino “Ceramic Works on the Theme of Nature and Beauty” �� SUNYO-KH thru May 8 Sullivan County High School Exhibition �� CAS thru May 11 Nancy Wells “Dancing with the Wind” & Blake and Jessica Barroso “Work in Progress”, & �� Debra Cortese Shifting Totems, & Claudine Luchsinger The Organic Abstract, & Gregory J Pelly “Through the half box” Narrowsburg Union, thru May 18 “Bear Mountain & Harriman Parks” Book Exhibit ��Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, thru May 19 Sienna Martz, Erica Hauser ��Mount Saint Mary CMA Gallery, Newburgh, thru May 22 Robb Gomulka illustrations �� Griffith Olivero Realtors, Goshen, thru May 23 Spring Artists Group Show �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru May 24 “Spring Fling!” Art About Town, River Valley Artists Guild �� thru May 26 Susan Miiller paintings and pastels Port Jervis Library & Joan Kehlenbeck florals Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot & Joseph Petrosi color pencil drawings Port Jervis City Hall & Derek Vittum abstract & spiritual works Bon Secours Hospital Debbie Gioello “Land & Sea” + group show �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru May 26 Goshen Art League New Members Exhibit ��Goshen Music Hall, thru May 29 Julie Tremblay “Unpacked” �� Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Jun 1 Perspective Group Art Show art & photography �� Bertoni Gallery, Warwick, thru Jun 2 Cynthia Harris-Pagano, Jeanette McGee “Still Life in North Light” Berkshire Bank, Goshen, thru Jun 25 Janet Howard-Fatta still life paintings �� The Grange, Warwick, thru Jul 1 Kurt Moyer Italian landscapes ��Galerie Fauchere, Milford, thru Sep 2 Four Pastelists: Judy Byrne, Cathy Cahill, Lily Norton, Cathy Prager �� Crawford House, Newburgh, thru Sep 29 We Are Golden - Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival and Aspirations for an Aquarian Future” Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Melissa Spiegel, Alanna Floreck “Imperatively Light” ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Apr 27-May 24 Jacqueline O’Malley-Satz “Ireland En Plein Air” �Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 1-Jun 27 “Abstract Visions” group show ��WRS May 1-30 Nancy Reed Jones “Romancing the Light” acrylics ��WRS May 1-30 Susan Hope Fogel “Illumination” still life & landscape ��WRS May 1-30 Roger Dowd “Hurt of the Antarctic”. ��Highland Mills Library, May 1-31 Carla Hicks “Heavenly Blues” ��Greenwood Lake Library, May 1-31 Barry Milner ��The Falcon, Marlboro, May 1-31 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ”Childhood Revisited” �� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, May 4-26 Pat Foxx, Linda Barboni watercolors ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 4-26 “Founding Mothers” �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, May 4, 4pm-6pm Gayle Clark Fedigan “Flowers, Fields, & Rivers” � MSM Desmond Campus, Newburgh, May 5-Jun 7 Middletown Art Group 2019 Members Spring Exhibition ��SUNYO-OH May 6-Jun 17 Bobbie Slockbower ”Joy of My Life” oils, watercolors, pastels ��SUNYO-OH May 9-Jun 17 Richard Weber “Spheres of Influence” ceramic sculptures ��SUNYO-KH May 10-Jun 19 “Art in Bloom” group show �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, May 11-Jun 3 Dasha Ziborova book & TAT arts, Brandi Merolla installation �� DVAA May 11-Jun 15 “Water” group show ��WRS May 15-Jun 14 Shirley Irons & Jeri Coppola photography, painting, sculpture ��CAS May 18-Jun 29 “WOW! Water on Water” �� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, May 25-Sep 28

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing “Along the Towpath: the D&H Canal in Mamakating, 1828-1898” ��Wurtsboro Library, ongoing Lisa DiLillo “Before the Echo” ��DVAA thru May 4 Ellie Stover “Middletown Women” �� SUNYO-KH thru May 7 18

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Group Show ��WRS thru May 14 “Newburgh Barbershops: Shaping Community” � Newburgh Community Photo Project, thru Jun 1

New Photography exhibits

Richard Lear “Ode to O’Keeffe” �� SUNYO-KH May 10-Jun19 Nick Zungoli “Sixteen Days in Hanoi VIETNAM” �� Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, May 24-Oct 6 Marianna Rothen “Mail Order” �� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, May 3-22

ART & Photography receptions

Sullivan County High School Exhibition ��CAS Apr 27, 4pm-6pm Melissa Spiegel, Alanna Floreck “Imperatively Light” �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Apr 27, 6pm-9pm 100/100 Annual Benefit Auction ticket calling �� WRS Apr 27, 6pm Roger Dowd “Hurt of the Antarctic” �� Highland Mills Library, May 4, Noon-2pm Wurtsboro Art Alliance ”Childhood Rervisited” ��John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, May 4, 2pm-4pm “Founding Mothers” ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, May 4, 4pm-6pm Pat Foxx, Linda Barboni watercolors ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 4, 5pm-7pm Jacqueline O’Malley-Satz �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, May 4, 5pm-7pm “Abstract Visions” group show, Nancy Reed Jones, Susan Hope Fogel ��WRS May 4, 5pm-7pm Gayle Clark Fedigan “Flowers, Fields, & Rivers” MSM Desmond Campus, Newburgh, May 5, 1pm-3pm Richard Weber sculptures & Richard Lear “Ode to O’Keeffe” �� SUNYO-KH May 10, 6pm-8pm “Art in Bloom” group show ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, May 11, 2pm-6pm Marianna Rothen “Mail Order” ��Gallery 222, Hurleyville, May 11, screening:2:30pm, reception: 3pm-7pm Dasha Ziborova book & TAT arts, Brandi Merolla installation ��DVAA May 11, 3pm-5pm Barry Milner �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 16, 4pm Exhibit & Presentations by Art Lecturers ��Cragsmoor Historical Society, May 18, 10am-4pm Shirley Irons & Jeri Coppola photos, painting, sculpture ��CAS May 18, talk:4pm, reception:5pm-6pm Middletown Art Group & Bobbie Slockbower �� SUNYO-OH May 19, 1pm-3:30pm “WOW! Water on Water” Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, May 25 & 26, Noon-4pm

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 Youth Book Festival ��Crawford Library, Monticello, May 25, 8am-5pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs �� Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE Teen Movie Matinee �� Crawford Library, Monticello, 1st Saturday, 1pm FREE Saturday Family Movie ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE EntertainmenT & Lectures

Storytime 3-5yrs ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Mondays 10am FREE “The Rejuvenary River Circus” Arm of the Sea Theatre ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Apr 27, 2pm Treecycle �� Stanley Deming Park, May 4, 10am-5pm FREE Arm of the Sea Puppet Theatre ��Stanley Deming Park, May 4, 3pm FREE Lunar Weekend ��Bethel Woods, May 17-19 Family Engagement Day 2019 �� 115 Brickman Road, Fallsburg, May 18, Noon-4pm “Birds of Prey” ��Morningside Park, Hurleyville, May 25, 1pm FREE “Ferdinand the Bull” violin/narration, Sunday Children’s Concert, Music on Market series �� MISU @ St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenvile, May 26, 4pm Lost Catskill Farm Afternoon ��Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jun 2, 1pm-4pm Museums

Meet the Animals “Habitats of the Hudson Valley” HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Hiking Trails �� HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm Hike-A-Thon ��HHNM Apr 27, 9am 2019 Earth Day Celebration crafts, storytelling, puppets, music, etc. ��HHNM Apr 27, 11:30am Tower of Victory: Grand Re-opening �� Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Apr 27, Noon-4pm Eco-Zone Discovery Room �� PEEC May 5, 1pm-4pm

Books: discussions / readings / Signings Book Lover’s Club ��Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group ��Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm 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 “The Quarry Fox” by/w/Leslie Sharp �� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Apr 28, 2pm “American Sniper” by/w/co-author Jim De Felice �� Crawford Library, Monticello, May 2, 6pm “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith, Mystery Book Club �� Florida Library, May 3, 1pm “52 Messages from my Creative Channel” by/w/Alyta Faye Adams �� Montgomery Book Exchange, May 4, 1pm “Mail Order” by/w/Marianna Rothen ��Gallery 222, Hurleyville, May 11, 4pm “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See �� Florida Library, May 23, 6:30pm

Tuthill Family to be Honored at Concert with Special Guests

“That 70’s Girl”

saxophone, trombone and his setting of Psalm 104, Op.32, #4. The opening piece will be Old Hundred, a well-known hymn which led off the official opening of Carnegie Hall on May 5, 1891. William B. Tuthill (1855-1929) Later that week, Tchaikovsky’s choral work Legend had its American premiere under the baton of Tchaikovsky himself. It too, will be performed at the concert. In addition, America, which was sung by the chorus and the audience on opening night, will be performed. The Cemetery Committee of St. George’s Church is grateful to the 10 musicians, 14 adult singers, and ABC youth from King of Kings of Kings Lutheran Church, New Windsor directed by Jeff Wurster; and the Legato Chamber Strings of Newburgh Free Academy, under the direction of Monica Antonelli-Guido. Music advisor for the concert is Bruce Winslow. The committee also thanks Carol J. Binkowski, author of Opening Carnegie Hall: The Creation and First Performances of America’s Premier Concert Stage for her encouragement and assistance. Binkowski will be in the audience.

Whether Deb De Lucca is swinging deftly through a jazz standard or shaking her curly blond mane as she rocks a Janis Joplin tune, it’s clear that this New Jersey native lives and breathes music. Deb has been performing up and down the East Coast since she was 17. As a teen, she found solace in her record collection, steeped in ‘70s superstars like Elton John, Queen and Rod Stewart. Deb taught herself to play bass, joined her first band, and never looked back. Later, she picked up keyboards and applied herself to learning music theory and vocal technique, studying at the famed Katie Agresta Studios in Manhattan. She also studied pop and rock vocals with Diane Wesley and Cari Cole as well as classical voice with Mario Lisanti. Since then, Deb has recorded and performed jazz standards with small combos and big bands. Her voice has been used for jingles, voice-over work and children’s albums, too. On May 18 at 1:00pm, the Greenwood Lake Public Library, 79 Waterstone Road, welcomes Deb De Lucca as she takes listeners on a journey through the 1970’s with some of the era’s best music. To register: www.gwllibrary.org, at the desk, or by phoning 845-477-8377, ext. 101.

And Music was the Cornerstone, a concert celebrating the 128th anniversary of the opening of Carnegie Hall and paying tribute to its architect, William Burnet Tuthill (1855-1929) and his wife, Newburgh native and professional musician Henrietta Corwin Tuthill (1852-1917). Cellist William B. Tuthill also sang with and was secretary to the board of the Oratorio Society of New York for over 35 years. In addition, there was the weekly playing of chamber music in the family home for 34 years as he had established a string quartet called the Wiederholen Quartet. Henrietta gave her son his first piano lessons and was an accomplished organist. She played the organ for the First Presbyterian Church in Newburgh at age 17. In NYC, besides being the organist at the Calvary Baptist Church, she directed Sorosis, a women’s Carol club. The concert will include choral and instrumental music by their son, Burnet C. Tuthill, a clarinetist, pianist, conductor, professor of music, founder of the Memphis Symphony, a founder of the National Association of Schools of Music, a founder of the Society for the Publication of American Music and composer of more than 95 musical works. Among his works, composed from 1932-1959, to be performed include music for clarinet, piano, flute, strings, tenor

The committee owes a debt of gratitude to Helen Reynolds Patterson, great granddaughter of Carnegie Hall’s architect, granddaughter of composer Burnet, and the daughter of Burnet C. Tuthill (1888-1982) Anne Tuthill Reynolds for loaning family materials and for traveling from the south to attend this concert and carry with her a scrapbook she compiled on the life and work of William B. Tuthill. Thanks also to William B. and Henrietta Tuthill for their family life where music was indeed the cornerstone, starting from when they met when William sang in the church choir in NYC where Henrietta was the organist. And from the day of his birth, November 16, 1888, their only child was exposed to the avid musical interests of his parents, as he was born shortly after his father returned from singing in Elijah with the Oratorio Society of New York. The concert will be held on May 5 at 3:00pm at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh. The concert is a benefit for St. George’s Cemetery, the final resting place of Mr. and Mrs. Tuthill. Tickets at the door, cash and checks only. For information call 845-561-5355.

Sir William Johnson in Huguenot Frank Salvati, Interpreter of Colonial Indian Affairs will present a lecture, Sir William Johnson: Heaven-Taught General, for the 2019 season of programs at the Town of Deerpark Frank Salvati Museum. Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) became closely associated with the Mohawk and was adopted by them as an honorary sachem. Because of this relationship with the Mohawk, Johnson was appointed as the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was an important intermediary between England and the Indians in North America. Although Johnson had no military experience, he was commissioned as a major general. He lead Iroquois and colonial militia forces in the French and Indian War. Johnson became a hero after his victory at the Battle of Lake George. As a reward, King George made him a baronet with the title, Sir William Johnson. In 1755, Johnson tired of the military life and resigned his commission. Thereafter his duties largely concerned Indian affairs. He also continued to lead Iroquois and frontier militia giving the British a victory over the

French by capturing Fort Niagara. Johnson was known to have commanded the “largest Native American force ever assembled under the British flag.” Frank Salvati will talk about Sir William Johnson Johnson’s exploits, successes and failures, as well as the events which angered the British. The May 5 at 3:00pm program is free at the Town of Deerpark Museum, 25 Grange Road, Huguenot. Homemade refreshments will be served. For further information call 845-856-7202 or 845-754-8070. Joseph Brant 1779 Raid Bus Tour Tickets for the 240th Anniversary of the Joseph Brant July 20, 1779 Raid bus tour are available for purchase starting in May! Historical events will be told by docents in colonial costume and participants will travel the very route taken by Joseph Brant during the 1779 Raid. Reservation forms are available on the Town of Deerpark Museum website: www.1863schoolhouse.org or via the Museum by calling 845-856-2702. May 2019

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“Childhood Revisited” in Wurtsboro What memories of childhood do you hold close that always bring a smile? Your first bike? Snowball fights in the neighborhood? Vacations at the beach? “We live across the road from a small pond where my husband would fish, sometimes alone or with one of our children. In this photo, our 3 year old daughter joined him. I snuck up behind them and was able to take this picture. Our daughter still loves to fish, as does her daughter who often joined Grandpa, at the same age, at the same pond, making her own memories,” said Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) president, Kitty Mitchell. The theme for the WAA’s May exhibit is Childhood Revisited. A free opening reception takes place on May 4, from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Meet the artists at the John Neilson Gallery, 73 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro. The dove design by WAA member Stephen Erny has been chosen by the Sullivan County Visitor’s Association for the Town of Mamakating. Stephen included the Bashakill, D&H Canal, local lakes, eagles,

summer camps and much more that represent Mamakating’s history and present day features. It will be permanently installed in front of the town hall in celebration of Woodstock’s 50th Anniversary. Stephen’s dove will be revealed on May 20. And speaking of Woodstock’s 50th’s Anniversary, the Alliance has been commissioned to create eighteen 3 foot wood cut-outs of acoustic guitars to be displayed in Mamakating hamlets! “We are also working on our own project in coordination with the Wurtsboro Board of Trade, creating over 20 guitars to be displayed in businesses throughout the village in July and August,” said Kitty. Stay tuned to CANVAS! The WAA has been selected for two grants that will allow them to offer art classes for free or at little cost. The list of classes will be posted on www.waagallery.org by mid-May. In Memoriam: Longtime WAA member Peter Davidson passed away in April. Peter created wonderful pen & ink drawings, mostly of local churches and buildings.

Music! Moonshine! Mystery! Murder! Bootlegger Dutch Schultz has opened a new speakeasy to give girlfriend LuLu a place to sing - but flapper Rose isn’t having it. You’ll dine, dance and gulp the best hooch until tempers flare, bullets rain and the law shows up. A body will fall but it doesn’t look like the Charleston did it!

Murder at the Speakeasy with entertainment by Murder Cafe takes place at Mount Saint Mary College’s Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh, on May 4 at 6:00pm. Tickets include dinner. For reservations, call 845-565-2076. www.murdercafe.net

“Getting Away With Murder” in Monroe Act Two becomes a suspense Getting Away with Murder play...will the characters is a non-musical theater piece figure it out? Will someone by Stephen Sondheim. Coactually be “getting away with written with George Furth, murder?” the play is a suspense thriller Directed by Steve Davis, that puts seven patients of the Playhouse at Museum a psychiatrist together for Village, Route 17M, Monroe, a session on the top floor Furth & Sondheim of an apartment building, with the doctor begins its 24th season with Getting Away with Murder, from May 3-19. Tickets include permanently unavailable. Propelled by a series of twists and turns dessert at intermission consisting of apple and red herrings, along with some hold-your- pie, ice cream, cheese, iced tea and coffee. Group rates are available and reservations breath shocks, all culminate in an explosive surprise ending. Act One is a “whodunit” and are suggested. Call the Box Office at 845by its end the audience knows the murderer. 294-9465 or visit AtThePlayhouse.org.

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“Re-Use, Repair, and Re-Creation” Warwick A fun celebration of re-use, repair, and recreation takes place at Stanley Deming Park in Warwick on May 4 and 5! Hosted by local artists and makers, Treecycle includes an exhibition of tree sculptures made by local artists and youth groups, a cardboard maze and miniature city, Kids-Take-Apart-Table and Build-a-Bot station, a bike tune-up clinic, and up-cycled craft demos, all on May 4, from 10:00am5:00pm. There will also be a Sustainable Community Information Center and Makers Market featuring environmentally friendly products, live music, dance, and Arm-of-

the-Sea puppet show at 3:00pm. Town of Warwick residents may drop off gently used items in good repair from a list of acceptable goods to the basketball court on May 4, from 10:00am4:00pm for “Too Good To Toss.” The public is invited to shop for free on May 5, from 10:00am-4:00pm. Visit WickhamWorks.org for more info. This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the County of Orange and Orange County Tourism, the Albert Wisner Public Library, Sustainable Warwick, and the Town of Warwick.

Oils, Watercolors, & Pastels in Middletown which she served as president Bobbie (Roberta) for five years. Her art has Slockbower has been been displayed in many studying paintings since Orange County venues. she was nine years old. At From May 9 to June 17, that time, her parents placed she will have a solo show two original watercolors by of her works and display 31 artist Allen Fontaine in their oils, watercolors, and pastels livingroom. Those paintings in Orange Hall Gallery made a lifelong impression on Loft. The reception will be her and over the years as an at the same time as the MAG adult, she studied watercolors exhibit reception (see page with Pat Wolf at Orange County Community College “Iris” by Roberta Slockbower 10), May 19, from 1:00pm3:30pm. Entitled The Joy of My Life: and pastels with Mary Mugele Sealfon. She also learned techniques and broadened Painting ~ by Bobbie Slockbower, the show her knowledge of art while being a member demonstrates her talent and appreciation of of several art groups: Orange Blossoms visual art. Decorative Painters, Hudson Valley The exhibit and reception are free and Decorative Painters, Middletown Art open to the public. For location details and Group, and the Goshen Art League of contact info, see ad on page 23.

Exhibit: Model-Made Fantasy Expedition Outside of his vocation museum comprised as a graphic and web of faux artifacts in designer, Roger Dowd different media to likes to indulge his reinforce the fiction that passions for American his characters actually history and adventure in existed and shared his fine art. A graduate fantastic adventures in of Pratt Institute, he the “Heroic Age” of enjoys the challenge polar exploration. Dowd is the featured of storytelling that artist for the month of combines writing with “Edward Hurt and the crew of The May at the Rushmore the use of traditional and Preserverance are stranded on ice.” Memorial Branch of new media. His art work Model making, diorama construction. Public combines model making, Photography & digital imaging by R. Dowd. Woodbury photography, acrylics, inks and watercolor Library, 16 Route 105, Highland Mills. A reception with light refreshments takes with digital imaging to create fanciful images that often parody 19th century artistic styles. place at the Library for the public on May 4 The interrelated pieces form a work of from Noon-2:00pm. If you can’t join in that historical fiction and fantasy celebrating afternoon, visit the Library any time during the exploits of an imaginary explorer and the month of May to view Dowd’s exhibit, expedition leader, Edward Hurt. Overall, it entitled Hurt of the Antarctic. is Roger’s intention to create a whimsical For information: 845-928-6162, ext. 102. May 2019

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Bluegrass, Blues & Bartok for NCM

Neil Alexander’s “Fourth Saturday Jazz”

Meet Uncommon Ground, a band that makes it’s musical home in the space in, around and between the great American roots styles of bluegrass, blues, jazz, and old-time music. Regarded by peers, fans and critics alike as some of the Hudson Valley’s finest acoustic musicians, the band plays together with synergy and thoughtful arrangements that reimagine the music in a way that defines their own musical territory. Virtually any type of music across the Uncommon Ground: Rachel Handman, violin; musical landscape is fair game: from the Phil Helm, bass; Wayne Fugate, mandolin and Beatles to Bartok to Bill Monroe, with excursions into Latin, Jazz and Celtic Mike Kobetitsch, guitar, perform for NCM on May 12. and even Swedish music, with something to Bach’s Bouree from his English Suite I, a offer every member of the listening audience. Bartok Hungarian Song and the Flower Performances are as warm and inviting as Duet from Delibes’ opera Lakme which they are polished, musically captivating, and he arranged for the New York Mandolin directly involves the audience in the thrill of Ensemble. He even composed his own unBach-like 3-part invention, The Singing musical discovery. The quartet is Newburgh Chamber Moon. Phil Helm is the principal bass of Music’s offering for its 2019 Mother’s Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and guitar Day concert. Not really so odd when you guru Mike Kobetitsch is as versatile as his remember that violinist Rachel Handman is colleagues. The concert takes place on May 12 at a very active member of Broadway Chamber Players who has also appeared with Hudson 3:00pm in St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Valley Baroque members at SUNY Orange, Street, Newburgh. For tickets in advance, visit www. and that Wayne Fugate is no stranger to performing his arrangements of classical newburghchambermusic.org or at the door music on mandolin. His website alone offers (cash and checks only).

Hudson Valley and The son of drummer world renown keyboardist/ Bill O’Brien, Peter began composer Neil Alexander’s playing the drums as soon guests for the May as he could sit up at the presentation of his monthly set, playing along with 4th Saturday Jazz (4SJ) recordings of Miles Davis, series are Gary Kelly John Coltrane and all the (bass) and Peter O’Brien greats of jazz. Formal (drums). studies with his father began Neil Alexander “On my very first gig at age at the age of five. eleven,” said Kelly, “I realized I was In early 1988, Peter moved from going to be a musician. This was NYC to Woodstock, and soon confirmed for me at age fourteen became a member of John Hall’s when the local representative of band, Orleans. With Orleans, the musicians’ union visited my Peter has had three tours of Japan father to inform him that I had to and countless U.S. tours and dates join because I was taking work (including Woodstock ‘94). away from union musicians.” Peter joined saxophonist Eric After graduating college, Kelly Person’s band in February of Gary Kelly moved to NYC where he started 2001. They performed at the Big a group, recording and Sur Jazz Festival in 2001 performing his original and at the Guimaraes Jazz compositions. He has Festival in Portugal in performed as a member of 2002. both the Ed Palermo big The two grown-up band, and the Tom Pierson child prodigies perform Orchestra in NYC. with Alexander on May Gary and Neil first met 25 at 9:00pm in The in NYC’s East Village in Wherehouse, 119 Liberty Peter O’Brien 1982. They have continued Street, Newburgh. to work together on and off for more than No cover charge. Parking available in Ann 30 years. Street municipal lot.

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Prokofyev plays Tchaikovsky, LIVE!

Hilma af Klint: Medium, Artist, Visionary

Did you know that Sergey once, is a cello concerto in Prokofyev is alive and well, which the solo instrument and lives in West Point? displays every register Yes, you read that correctly. without the slightest Read on: difficulty in penetrating the The West Point Band orchestra.” Many composers, continues its Masterworks including Shostakovich and Concert Series with a Rachmaninoff, considered performance titled, A West this concerto to be the greatest Point Concerto. of all cello concertos. Join the Army’s oldest Hess’ concerto was first band for an afternoon of performed in 2007. It was musical treasures at historic commissioned by HRH West Point. Experience the Charles, Prince of Wales, stunning virtuosity of classical Staff Sgt. Sergey Prokofyev in memory of his late music’s greatest concertos! Featuring some grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen of the U.S. Army’s finest musicians, this Mother. Prior to this, Hess was best known performance will consist of three timeless as a composer of film and television scores. musical masterworks for soloist and band, Tchaikovsky’s concerto was written in interspersed with wind ensemble favorites Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake and military marches. Geneva, where he had gone to recover from Program highlights include selections the depression brought on by his disastrous from Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 marriage. performed by Cadet Dion Perinon; Nigel Note that all West Point Band concerts at Hess’ Concerto for Piano with the inimitable Eisenhower Hall Theatre are now ticketed Sgt. 1st Class Yalin Chi, and Tchaikovsky’s through Eventbrite. Reserve your free Violin Concerto featuring special guest Staff tickets for the May 11 at 2:00pm concert Sgt. Sergey Prokofyev from the U.S. Army at Eisenhower Hall Theatre, 655 Pitcher Band “Pershing’s Own”. (There you have it! Road, West Point, in advance by visiting Yes, that’s his real name!) westpointband.eventbrite.com Sir Donald Francis Tovey wrote about For more information: 845-938-2617 or Saint-Saens’ first cello concerto, “Here, for visit www.westpointband.com

Until the magnificent Professor of Art History and exhibition of her work presently Visual Culture at Bard will bring on exhibition at New York’s her expertise to the Megaphone Guggenheim Museum, the name Series at the Seligmann Center Hilma af Klint was unknown in in Sugar Loaf to focus on Hilma the United States. af Klint’s belief in channeling When Hilma af Klint began and her role in the transmission creating radically abstract of important messages from the paintings in her native Sweden spirit world. Her meetings with in 1906, they were like little a group of like-minded women that had been seen before: bold, known as “The Five” will be colorful, and untethered from explored along with the work it any recognizable references Hilma af Klint, (1862-1944) produced. to the physical world. In addition, af Klint It was years before will be put into context Vasily Kandinsky, with other women artists Kazimir Malevich, Piet involved with similar ideas Mondrian, and others and practices. Finally, would take similar strides Professor Aberth will to rid their own artwork express some thoughts on of representational why the art world is now content. Klint kept her finally willing to look at groundbreaking paintings this work with critical largely private. She rarely appreciation. exhibited them, convinced The event will take place that the world was not at the Seligmann Center, ready to understand her 23 White Oak Drive, work. For af Klint, painting Sugar Loaf. A $5 donation was a spiritual quest, not a is appreciated. career. For further information, “Altarpiece” by Hilma af Klint, On May 18, from “Paintings For the Temple” (1915) contact the Seligmann 3:00pm-5:00pm, Susan Aberth, Associate Center at 845-469-9459.

2Squared Piano Concert, Glen Spey 2Squared pianists Nicole Brancato and Andrew Ranaudo craft imaginative and memorable concert experiences fit for the 21st century. This piano duo integrates multimedia elements and unique outside-the-box perspective into performance, including works from the canon, original arrangements, and newly commissioned works. Each are active performers and multiple

award winners, with an extensive track record of appearances as soloists in numerous prestigious venues across the U.S. and Europe. 2Squared perform for Town of Lumberland Cultural Series in The Joy of Piano Duo on May 5 at 3:00pm at Lumberland Town Hall, 1054 Proctor Road, Glen Spey. For Information: 845-856-6372

Karl Latham & Friends Concert, Warwick Warwick based Karl Latham is an internationally recognized drummer known for his exceptional ability to dig into a variety of musical styles. Karl has performed with a wide spectrum of notable artists and was voted #7 Drummer in the 38th Annual Jazz Station Awards / Best Jazz of 2016. Karl is an adjunct faculty member of Drew University and the County College of Morris. Pianist Oscar Perez has played with several artists such as Wycliffe Gordon, Christian McBride, Charenee Wade, Dave

Stryker, and many others. Oscar is faculty for Montclair State University, Jazz House Kids and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Bassist Calvin X. Jones has performed with Steve Coleman, Ray Anderson, Eartha Kitt and many others. He has also performed in Broadway hits including Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk. Karl Latham and Friends will perform jazz standards, classics and originals on May 25 at 7:30pm at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick. Suggested donation: $15. For information: 845-258-0818. May 2019

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“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 15. The purpose of this day is to create a solid focal point of fundraising for over a hundred 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 15 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: 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 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 $20 to each. Or visit 10 organizations and give $50 each if your budget allows for $500. Any amount helps. For those with smaller budgets, 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. At press time, Orange/Sullivan Arts nonprofits participating include:

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The Goshen Art League In 2016, the League celebrated 55 years as an arts organization and enthusiastically seeks opportunities - not only within its own community, but also beyond their borders - to showcase and promote Goshen as a destination for engaging with and enjoying fine art. The League manages the Goshen Art Walks, Keys of Goshen, Chris Farlekas Newburgh Chorale Painted Trotters of Goshen, and multiple “Keys of Goshen” piano, by Paula Arwen Owen Newburgh Chorale NCM’s first concert was on April 22, 2001, monthly exhibits in various locations. “Although any donation will be gratefully The GAL wishes donators visit on May and was incorporated in 2002 by Philip West 15, as the GAL is participating in the various and Carole Cowan to draw on the professional accepted, donors are encouraged to make talents of widely-acclaimed musicians in their donations online on May 15, so we can May 15-only incentive programs. the Hudson Valley and beyond. NCM also take advantage of any available incentives,” promotes young musicians through its master said Artistic Director Michael Saunders. Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund Your donation will help this fund reach its classes in the Newburgh school district. Donations welcome May 8-15. goal to continue the work of beloved Times Zylofone Studios, Inc. Herald-Record columnist and arts supporter, This fund was established to ensure music Orange County Arts Council Chris Farlekas (1929-2015). and performing arts education for the special Your donation, large or small, will insure needs community, in perpetuity. Besides enabling the arts to thrive via his thousands of articles and reviews, Farlekas the constancy of the Council and enable was involved with veterans, domestic abuse it to continue its programs and grants. The How to Donate via HVGives victims, hunger, homelessness, and was an Council is participating in the May 15-only To donate online on HVGives Day, May incentive programs. iconic mentor to thousands of students. 15 from 12:01am to 11:59pm, visit www. The fund welcomes HVGives donations hvgives.org. Click on the “Donate” button Wallkill River School May 8-May 15. and then click the search bar in the upper The Wallkill River School is a non-profit right hand corner. Type in “arts”. You can artists’ cooperative that runs an art school also donate beginning May 8 if you wish. Newburgh Chamber Music Newburgh Chamber Music is dedicated to and fine art gallery, a summer arts camp for (To donate prior to May 8 if more providing a rich classical and contemporary children, plein air workshops and festivals. convenient, scroll down and click on “View repertoire of music in the heart of historic The School hopes donators can visit on All Participating Nonprofits”, click on “Select Newburgh. May 15 due to the incentive programs. a Cause”, click on “Arts and Culture”).

May 2019

Slam & Van Jam in Hurleyville As Sullivan County prepares for the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Concert, the First Sunday program at the Sullivan County Museum will feature two extraordinary guitarists: Slam Allen and Van Manakas, performing music of the 60’s and 70’s. The concert and talk will explore different aspects of the guitar’s history, as well as its impact on the music of the Woodstock generation. Little Sparrow (band) will host the program. Both Allen and Manakas are masters of the guitar, and have toured and performed all over the world. Both have recorded multiple CDs and worked with some of the industry’s most notable players.

Slam Allen

Van Manakas

The May 5 at 2:00pm concert will be held at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville. Free admission. Donations gratefully accepted. For more information, call 845-434-8044 or visit www.scnyhistory.com.

“Cinderella” Ballet in Warwick With a glass slipper fit for a princess and dancers who shine like the stars, the Warwick Center for the Performing Arts (WCPA) will bring the classic fairytale of Cinderella to life! Both the Warwick Dance Collective (WDC) and WCPA dance students will perform the classic ballet, directed and choreographed by Melissa Padham-Maass and the WCPA faculty. Based off the traditional folk-tale with music by Prokofiev, the ballet will be performed in three acts. “We want our audiences to be carried away by the entrancing dance, the lavish stage props and the magic of the music,” says Padham-Maass. “Her lavish

gown and all of the beautiful costumes for the dancers are created by our team of artistic seamstresses, Lucinda Henry, Mary Johnston and Eileen Padham.” Since 2017, the WDC has been bringing professional dance performances to the Hudson Valley through full length productions, arts in education programming, showcases and through public performances and festivals. Cinderella will be performed May 18 at 6:00pm and May 19 at 1:00pm at Warwick Valley High School, Sanfordville Road, Warwick. For tickets in advance, visit: www. warwickperformingarts.eventbrite.com For information 845-986-2466.

Exhibit: Celebrating Woodstock’s 50th! On March 30, The from the fifteen best Museum at Bethel Woods photographers of the festival. opened for the 2019 season This exhibition uses the marking the 50th Anniversary 1969 Woodstock Music and of the Woodstock Festival Art Fair as a metaphor for the with a special exhibit entitled, communal human response We Are Golden: Reflections of the sixties in the hope that on the 50th Anniversary of young people today may draw The Woodstock Festival & inspiration to articulate what Aspirations for a Peaceful they want from the world in Future, part of A Season of their own time. Concert for Song and Celebration. Bangladesh, Live Aid, Farm This exhibition examines Aid, We Are the World, Earth the desires of the youth of Day, the Peace Movement, 1969, places the legendary Women’s Movement, LGBTQ Woodstock Festival within Movement, #metoo, the Bass guitar played at the context of the positive Women’s March and student societal changes it inspired Woodstock by Jack Casady gun control movement all of Jefferson Airplane. Lent by and asks today’s youth what Casady; Image courtesy of The have their roots in the 1960s. Museum at Bethel Woods. THEY are asking of the “We are thrilled to kick off world now. the A Season of Song & Celebration with the We Are Golden will feature a large Museum opening and premiere of the 2019 collection of authentic Woodstock artifacts special exhibit,” said Darlene Fedun, Chief such as instruments, clothing, equipment, Executive Officer, Bethel Woods. “We are art and photography. Highlights include Jack looking forward to providing our patrons Casady of Jefferson Airplane’s bass guitar year-long programming that celebrates and and tunic, handwritten lyrics for Goin’ Up honors the legacy of the greatest festival of the Country by Alan Wilson of Canned Heat, all time.” a speaker cabinet and mixing equipment This exhibition is a must see! Check it out used by Bill Hanley at Woodstock which at The Museum at Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd helped to set the standard for outdoor sound Road, Bethel. engineering and world-class photographs www.bethelwoodscenter.org/the-museum

Potluck Concerts: Gardner, Tuthill & Bizet Samuel Gardner (1891-1984) was an American composer and violinist of Russian origin who won a Pulitzer prize with a string quartet in 1918. His orchestral work Broadway was performed by the Boston Symphony in the 1929- Lois Hicks-Wozniak 1930 season. Gardner’s From the Canebrake for violin and piano will be performed by Potluck Concerts regulars Emily Faxon and Ruthanne Schempf at the May concert. Composer Burnet C. Tuthill (1888-1982) is probably unknown to just about everyone who has not yet read page 19 which outlines his credentials. A familiar face to Potluckgoers, Lois Hicks-Wozniak, former tenor saxophonist with the West Point Band and with the West Point Saxophone Quartet,

will perform Tuthill’s Concerto for Tenor Saxophonist. Schempf accompanies. Schempf will be joined by guest artist SUNY New Paltz faculty member, Sylvia Buccelli for Bizet’s Children’s Games, (Jeux d’Enfants), a suite of Sylvia Buccelli twelve miniatures that he composed for piano four-hands in 1871. Other Potluck regulars, pianist Margaret Small, half of the popular Potluck Small-Schempf fourhand duo, and a “hopefully- at press time” baritone Jonathan Mildner will also be on hand to add to the musical entertainment. Ice cream and cake will be served after the concert at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-onHudson, May 24 at 7:30pm. Tickets at the door. May 2019

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Monthly Music Night, Phillipsport

Celebrating Woodstock with Vibrations

Datura Road performs music that sits at the crossroads where east meets west. Due to the combination of various musical styles, the band is able to create a new type of world music. They emphasize song-form and groove, while introducing East meets West band, Datura Road Sarah Underhill new textures to the western ear. As a result, their debut release, Datura Hudson River Sloop “Clearwater”, she Road, features instruments such as the ud/ was a mainstay of the Hudson River Sloop oud, doumbek, bansuri, and tabla, in addition Singers and has performed at the Hudson to the more familiar guitar, bass and drum River Revival Festival for many years. framework. Sarah’s unaccompanied ballad singing Matt Nobile sings and plays the guitar, ud has captivated many an audience, and she and Irish penny-whistle. Raphael Garritano performs monthly at the Rosendale Café plays the guitar and mandolin. Peter Nobile with British folk guitarist Ian Worpole. plays the base and sitar. David Budd plays Sarah has three recordings available on the trap-set, doumbek and riq. The music cdbaby.com. combines jazz, Hindustani classical music, Hear world music and Celtic-Americana Latin rhythmic elements and progressive tunes when Datura Road and Sarah rock of the 1980’s. Underhill perform for Phillipsport’s Monthly The term “Banshanachie” means “the Music Night series, at 657 Red Hill Road, woman storyteller, or, more literally, “the Phillipsport, on May 18, at 7:00pm. woman story-man” and in this case the Doors open at 6:30pm. Banshanachie is Sarah Underhill, a Hudson The suggested donation is $3. Valley singer, songwriter and song collector Grab your friends and get there a little early, who learned to sing on her mother’s knee as homemade food and yummy desserts are and has been amassing a folk repertoire ever available for purchase at 6:00pm. since in the Celtic/Americana genre. For information, call 845-313-1772 or Former second mate/engineer on the email: chrisnapdragon@frontiernet.net

Bethel Woods Center for the rocket launching to an inflatable Arts will present Vibrations, planetarium. a series of eight events from 1969 marked an exceptional May through October that will year of cultural consciousness celebrate the iconic Woodstock and revolutionary ideas. Space Festival’s Golden Anniversary exploration was a profound from many angles. The and peaceful transition that series explores music, iconic harnessed the power of media photography, film, mindfulness, to reach people in ways never environmental stewardship, known before. Lunar Weekend deep space and more, connecting will include films, hands-on Grammy Award-winning these conversations to the legacy composer, activities, speakers, and out of Eric Whitacre of the sixties and movements of will present new music this world fun! during “Lunar Weekend” today. In addition, in the Crossroads On May 18, 6:30pm: 50 years after the Exhibit Gallery, We Are Stardust will moon landing, Grammy Award-winning present objects and interpretation related to composer Eric Whitacre will present a the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, which took powerful new piece of music set to never- place in July of 1969 just weeks before before-seen images from the Hubble Space Woodstock. The exhibit interprets the Telescope’s greatest discovery, the iconic objects and history surrounding the moon Deep Field image. He is joined by NASA landing through the lens of American culture, astronauts and scientists to delve into space examining the effect of the Cold War/Space exploration as not only a scientific venture, Race, American space program, “moon but an artistic and cultural one as well. mania” and the eventual national success The New York premiere will take place on of putting the first man on the moon on the the same weekend as Bethel Wood’s Lunar lives of everyday Americans at the end of Weekend. This weekend of family-friendly the tumultuous 1960s. The moon landing fun includes a Lunar Sleepover on May 17, was the most-watched event in history at where guests can enjoy astronaut ice cream, that point in time. space games, star gazing and “Your Family Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is located Star”. The Lunar Weekend continues on May at 200 Hurd Road, Bethel. 18 and 19, with immersive activities, from Visit www.bethelwoodscenter.org

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Music on Market: Gamelan, World Folk, Baroque and Children’s Concerts Music on Market (MoM), a joint collaboration between St. John’s Episcopal Church and Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster (MISU) continues its 2019 season with its unprecedented concert series that includes a vast range of musical styles, modes, forms and diverse palettes for our extensive scope of differing palates, highlighting and celebrating the all-inclusive community of Ellenville. What is a Gamelan? Gamelan translates best as orchestra, referring both to a set of musical instruments and the ensemble that plays those instruments. Gamelan Son of Lion

that members of the ensemble write almost all of the music the ensemble performs. The adventurous program features a variety of instruments and music that will be new to many: works entitled Sabilulugan, Gamotet Marie which mixes elements of traditional central Javanese gamelan with Renaissance motet, a punk work rescored for gamelan with a side of Kecak (Balinese dance music), a traditional Kecak vocal demonstration, and the traditional Yiddish song Oyfn Pripetshik arranged for gamelan. GSOL brings varied Indonesian music (Sundanese, west Javanese, central Javanese and Balinese) to Ellenville on May 2 at 7:30pm in St. John’s.

GSOL is a New York based gamelan, using a set of instruments about half of which were built in the U.S. and about half obtained in Java. As most members of the ensemble are skilled performers with various western instruments, these instruments are freely added to the mix. GSOL is a composers collective, meaning

Bernstein Bard Trio: Folk The Bernstein Bard Trio plays acoustic music of all styles, recognizing that music is rooted in cultures all over the world. The trio revels in the spirit of jazzy improvisation, the power of a folk melody, a little Latin flair, and the joys and sorrows of singin’ the blues. Bernstein Bard Trio in Concert: Music from Around the World will occur on May 11 at 7:30pm in MISU.

Sonnerie - Exuberant Instrumental Music of the High Baroque SIREN Baroque is New York City’s only all-female early music ensemble, dedicated to luring audiences to the irresistible music of the Baroque. The passionate musicians of SIREN are especially committed to shedding light on rarely heard music by women composers, celebrating and perpetuating their art through distinctive performances that compel and delight. SIREN concerts pack a powerful punch, enthralling audiences in the U.S. and abroad with a unique blend of historically informed music-making and lively narrative histories of the composers who inspire it. As Gotham Early Music Scene writes, “Like Odysseus, you should lash yourself to the mast before listening to...SIREN Baroque; it is irresistible.” For their return to Ellenville (they performed for MoM in November, 2017) on May 16 at 7:30pm in St. John’s Episcopal Church, SIREN Baroque presents Sonnerie, a delightful collection of sonatas, trios, and solo works for violin, cello, and harpsichord from across Europe.

Sunday Children’s Classic Concert Ferdinand the Bull (violin & narration) The well-known story of Ferdinand the Bull was set to incidental music by classical composer Mark Fish. Though it is clearly “not just for kids”, Ferdinand and the Bull, is appropriate for ages 3 and up. It is narrated with violin accompaniment. Like Peter and the Wolf, it has motifs that represent the different characters. David Fiedler performs the motifs on violin and Jessica López Barkl narrates for the second 2019 MoM children’s concert on May 26 at 4:00pm at MISU. Fiedler has been teaching throughout the Hudson Valley since 2013, and is currently on the faculties of SUNY Dutchess and SUNY Ulster. He performs frequently in the region, as a violinist with the Hudson Valley String Quartet, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and the Ellenville Chamber Players. Actor, director, dramaturg, and designer López Barkl is currently the Associate Professor of Theater and Speech / Theater Program Director at SUNY Sullivan. Concerts are held either at St. John’s Epsicopal Church, or at MISU, both located at 40 Market Street, Ellenville.

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Farm Arts Collective Opens June 2 In July 2018, the Lenape Nation contingent was on a 2-week journey down the Delaware River in canoes and kayaks that started in Hancock and ended in Cape May. Along the way, the group stopped at Willow Wisp Organic Farm for a lunch and tour where they struck up a friendship. Farm Arts Collective (FAC), a newly formed cultural organization based on the Farm attended the Mid-Winter Ceremony of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania on January 27 in Brodheadsville, PA. Chief Gentle Moon of the Lenape Nation invited FAC artistic director, Tannis Kowalchuk and Greg Swartz of Willow Wisp Organic Farm to their mid-winter ceremony after last summer’s signing of a Friendship Treaty between the Lenape Nation and Willow Wisp Organic Farm. The Lenape Mid-Winter Ceremony events took place in a park building and included an opening smudge ceremony, a Lenape Language session, drumming and singing, the FAC performance of TREES, (through movement, song and text, FAC’s performance not only delivers the scientific facts about this phenomenon, but illuminates humanity’s need for inter-connectedness and community life), a potluck lunch, storytelling and social dancing. During the storytelling, Chief Gentle Moon and an elder gave Farm Arts Collective the Lenape name, Hituk

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The Farm Arts Collective’s performance of “TREES” at the Lenape Mid-Winter Ceremony, January 27, 2019 in Brodheadsville, PA.

Manitowak, or Tree Spirits. Kowalchuk says, “It is a great honor to receive a Lenape name, and myself and the company were very moved by the gift of being named Hituk Manitowak. We will use our name with great honor and respect for the Lenape people, their history, and our future collaborations.” The FAC company has invited Chief Gentle Moon, his drumming group, and singer Dave White Elk Elmore to give a blessing to the Farm Arts Collective opening ceremony and farm tour set for June 2, 3:00pm-6:00pm, at Willow Wisp Organic Farm, 38 Hickory Lane, Damascus, PA, just south of the Damascus/Callicoon bridge. The community is welcome to attend. For more information, call 570-982-0050.

May 2019

WOW! Water on Water in Grahamsville The Time and the An exhibit that extends Valleys Museum is past the artwork into the offering an exciting new creative mind of the artist, exhibition: WOW! Water it will appeal to all ages on Water. This exhibit and will include videos, showcases watercolor interactive activities and art paintings of scenes located matching games, puzzles within the Catskill and and activities for kids. Delaware watershed areas. The opening weekend The participating artists for the WOW! Water on will share their favorite Water exhibition takes views, why the scenes are place May 25 and 26, important to them and how, from Noon-4:00pm at as artists, they interpret the Museum, and will be what they see. open to all visitors from “WOW! will bring “Frost Valley Road Falls” by S. Munoz Memorial Day to Labor people, art, and water together in a new Day and weekends in September. and different way,” says Elise Hornbeck, The opening weekend includes Artists’ Chairperson of the Museum’s Exhibition Talks and guided tours of WOW! and the Committee. “This is not just for trained three following ongoing exhibitions: Tunnels, artists, but open to anyone, young and old, Toils & Trouble: New York City’s Quest for who express their love for water and the Water and the Rondout-Neversink Story, the watershed areas through art.” 1930s Lost Catskill Farm with house, barn, The artwork shown in this article is by electric plant and working waterwheel, and participating artist Sara Munoz. “I pass this Water and The Valleys. waterfall every day on my way to work on Light refreshments will also be served. Frost Valley Road and even after seeing it The Time and The Valleys Museum is almost daily for over 30 years, I cannot help located at 332 Main Street (State Route 55) looking at it as I pass by. I am enamored in Grahamsville. The Museum offers free by the way it changes all the time with the admission to active duty military members summer sunlight, the spring rains, and the and up to five family members. winter ice,” says Sara. For information, call 845-985-7700.

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra: “Redemption” The piece that almost landed Shostakovich in a Siberian gulag was Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. After being harshly censured by Pravda, he composed a conciliatory opus subtitled, A Soviet Artist’s Response to Just Criticism. The premiere of the placatory work, Symphony No. 5, was a huge success and received an ovation that lasted well over half an hour. Here are two different ways to describe the symphony: 1. The symphony is approximately 45 minutes in length and has four movements. 2. The symphony is one of the greatest creations ever devised for any musical ensemble and its emotional power ranks with that of Beethoven’s 5th and 9th, Mozart’s 39th, 40th and 41st, Franck’s in d minor, Brahms’ 4th, Dvorak’s 9th, Verdi’s Requiem, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and any other deeply, emotionally affecting piece of music you can name. Not only is it a joy to listen to, but it is a joy to watch LIVE and see some of the music ‘visually and energetically move’ from one section to another to another. Maestro Russell Ger explains further: “There are multiple “divisi” in the 3rd movement which is a kind of wordless requiem that heavily focuses on the strings. He divides the

violins into THREE parts (very unusual), and splits both violas and cellos into two groups each. During this harrowing movement, the brass and percussion - the heavy artillery instruments and the orchestral colors that dominate the finale - sit entirely mute.” The work is scored for the usual symphonic ensemble plus contrabassoon, tam-tam, glockenspiel, xylophone, two harps (one part), piano and celesta. The symphony quotes Shostakovich’s song Vozrozhdenije which uses a poem by Alexander Pushkin that deals with the matter of rebirth. An artist-barbarian with his lazy brush Blackens the painting of a genius And senselessly he covers it with His own illegitimate drawing. But with the passing years, the alien colors Fall off like threadbare scales; The creation of the genius emerges before us in its former beauty

Still Life in Goshen

Thus vanish the illusions From my tormented soul And in it appear visions Of original and innocent times. The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District - Suite op. 29a is three of the five entr’actes from the opera arranged by the composer. Neil Kurtzman writes: “The opera is a monumental accomplishment, joining cynicism, black humor, and cruelty to an orchestral palette unlike any in opera.” Ger adds about the Redemption program: “In between Shostakovich’s diametric pillars is Wagner’s bewitching Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. With hypnotic rapture, it tells the story of illicit love and the ecstatic transformation that can only come in death. Taken together, this will truly be an enthralling evening.” Maestro Ger and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra will present Redemption on May 11 at 7:30pm in Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh. Tickets: www.newburghsymphony.org and at the door. Children under age 18 and college students with proper ID are admitted free. Don’t miss the Shacklett concert preview at 6:30pm!

“Lilacs & Bleeding Hearts” by C. Harris-Pagano

Cynthia Harris-Pagano specializes in oil and pastel portraits in her North Light Studio in Otisville. Her studio, specially built on as an addition to her home, brings in a gorgeous north light which gives beautiful light and shade to the faces and clothing of her portraiture works. Specializing in portraiture, landscape and still life in an early impressionistic style, Jeannette McGee paints in oils and pastels. “I enjoy working from life when painting a portrait, and prefer painting en plein air when painting a landscape,” says Jeannette. Curated by Mary Mugele Sealfon, the Goshen Art League presents members Cynthia Harris-Pagano and Jeannette McGee with an exhibition of their still life works in north light at the Berkshire Bank, 2 South Church Street, Goshen, through June 25. www.goshenartleague.com

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“Ode to O’Keeffe” Photo Exhibit, Newburgh

Newburgh Illuminated Festival: June 1

The often quoted In his Ode to O’Keeffe idiom “Stop and Smell ~ art color photography the Roses” certainly by Richard Lear pertains to Richard exhibit, the spotlight is Lear. For years, he kept on flowers, absolutely up the fast-paced life, gorgeous flowers. missing the beauty of the May is supposed to ordinary. “I never knew be the benefactor of life could be joyful, April’s rains. From exciting and calm all at May 10 to June 19, “Clematis” by Richard Lear once until I picked up Mindy Ross Gallery my camera for the first will be aglow with time and tried to capture flowers of all colors and the beauty that had been sorts. “The magnitude before me my entire of color is always awe life,” he states. He has inspiring,” he exclaims. refined his focus and He believes the flower explains, “Usually, it is “brings joy and about a simple aspect laughter, and brightens of the entire subject”... the darkest of days.” to which he devotes his “Earthwalker Sunflower” by Richard Lear Come and enjoy this creative photography. exhibit either quietly during the timeframe Lear goes out of his way to find the it is displayed or at the opening reception best possible angles for his photographs. on May 10 from 6:00pm-8:00pm. The Describing some of his experiences, he says, exhibit and reception are free and open to “For my flower photography, I use a macro the public. lens so I cannot take my pictures from a safe Free, secure parking is available in Kaplan distance.” He has hung upside down over Hall’s parking garage entered at 73 First St. a second story balcony to capture a unique Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand flower and has had his husband sit on his & First Streets on the Newburgh campus of legs so he could be over a body of water to SUNY Orange. Questions may be directed reach the perfect water lily. to Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891/9386

The Newburgh on Broadway at Liberty Illuminated Festival and Grand Streets from is an event designed to Noon-10:00pm. Four celebrate the diversity outdoor performance and dynamism of the river stages will be featured city with a day of music, throughout the day, plus art, dance, poetry, food, the annual Colorfest, and more. It brings people kids’ activities on the and families together to lawn of Washington’s shine a light on the City Headquarters, of Newburgh and offer a A fun gathering at Newburgh Illuminated ‘18 musical guests at The Wherehouse, a dance & performing arts positive effect on our regional perception. The brainchild of beloved Newburgh mayor stage, a fashion show and much more! For information and a full schedule of events, Judy Kennedy (1944-2018), the family and pet-friendly event will be held on June 1 visit www.newburghilluminatedfestival.com

Arts Outreach in Orange County in the arts. Studio Visits are Art Studio Visits are an announced on the Council’s initiative of the Orange website and social media County Arts Council with a pages as they are open to the goal to raise awareness of the public. arts created in the county via an Members of the public intimate look and discussion. are welcome to attend the As artists often work alone in next Studio Visit to Eric their studios, these Studio Visits Stein Studio, a design and provide valuable dialogue for fabrication facility for large, the hosting artist and visiting outdoor scale sculpture. Arts Outreach Committee Sculptor Eric Stein is an members. During the visits, internationally known artist the committee asks a series 2013 by Eric Stein 70”x133”x150” tall working predominately in of questions about inspiration, First exhibited in Ossining fabricated steel. His sculptures influences, the creative process, artist audiences, and meaning in their art. The can be found in a number of sculpture parks Council believes these visits are educational, and private collections. Join the Council and its Outreach members enhance cultural awareness and provide on May 23 at 6:00pm at Eric Stein Studio, productive experiences. The Arts Outreach committee is comprised 84 Boxbaum Road, Huguenot. Visit www.OCArtsCouncil.org to learn of 20 artists from different areas within the county, as well as with diverse backgrounds more about Studio Visits.

“Heavenly Blues” in Greenwood Lake Artist Carla Hicks says that she “strives to create works of art to express happiness and vivid scenes of tranquility with influences derived from nature through the use of rich colors and textures.” Carla’s start came in the 1990s as a member of the CommunityArt Association in Grand Forks, ND with oil painting entries in various art shows. She continued with oils while she was on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. During her time in the Air Force, her paintings included a large squadron holiday card displayed at the entrance of Grand Forks Air Force Base, as well as a large NYC skyline mural at the Air Force base club in Turkey. After her time in the Air Force, she began working at a framing store. She eventually became an interior design consultant for high end retail establishments. 30

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Carla moved back to the East Coast in 2009, transitioning from oils to acrylics. Inspired by nature, texture and bright colors, she began specializing in custom commission paintings. Enhancing her skills through the Lakeside Art Institute, she created her own ArtPal site. Her work has been exhibited in various local venues including Bertoni Gallery in Warwick. She is an active member of the Ringwood Manor Association of the Arts and has taught painting classes. Presently, Carla is attending the New York Institute of Art and Design to obtain her interior design license. Carla will display her work in an exhibit entitled, Heavenly Blues at the Greenwood Lake Public Library, 79 Waterstone Road, throughout the month of May. For info: 845-477-8377 ext. 107.

Shadowland: New Announcement & Play Shadowland Stages has been with a talent to enlighten and granted membership in the National provoke.” She is a two-time finalist New Play Network (NNPN), an for the Heideman Award at Actors alliance of professional theaters that Theater of Louisville. In addition, collaborate to develop, produce, Gregory writes for youth theatre and extend the life of new plays. and makes occasional appearances NNPN continues to revolutionize as a teaching artist. the new play landscape through its Memoirs synopsis: A Soviet member theaters and its nationally journalist with the gift of total D.W. Gregory recognized programs. Having become recall. A psychologist seeking to rehabilitate aware that new plays need to be given full herself. A government censor with a secret productions, in succession, where each past. Over two decades their fates become director, design team, and even audience entwined as victims and collaborators in can contribute to the play’s development, the Stalin’s campaign to rewrite public memory. NNPN created the “rolling world premiere” Long before fake news was a trending topic, program in order to create a subsidized it was called propaganda. And in 1938 Soviet opportunity for professional member theatres Union it was the grease that kept Stalin’s to collaborate on the early life of a new play. machinery of terror in motion. Shadowland Stages opens its 2019 season By taking us to this world, where justice with Memoirs Of A Forgotten Man by D.W. is arbitrary and freedom as we think of it Gregory, following the play’s production does not exist, Memoirs of a Forgotten at Contemporary American Theater Man forces the audience to consider the Festival (Shepherdstown, WV) and prior fragility of democracy in an era when facts to its production at New Jersey Repertory are fungible and history is whatever Dear Company. In this way, each theatre’s patrons Leader says it is. and constituents are invited to be a part of Brendan Burke, producing artistic the vital development of the work and in director will direct the production, and most cases, see a new play BEFORE it plays looks forward to having the playwright in New York City, London, etc. residence for part of the rehearsal process. Gregory’s plays frequently explore The play runs May 31-June 16 at political issues through a personal lens. The Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, New York Times called her “a playwright Ellenville. For tickets: 845-647-5511.

May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky WHEN JOHNNY CAME MARCHING HOME It was 1919...a century ago. Word War I had ended the year before with the abdication of the German Kaiser and the signing of an armistice in a railroad car parked in a French forest near what had been the front line of battle. Despite President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, the Prohibition Enforcement Act was passed setting the stage for the Roaring 20’s. There was excitement over the coming reality of commercial aviation and, as always, popular music reflected the times... Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys - (Brown & Von Tilzer). What’ll We Do on a Saturday Night When the Town Goes Dry - (Harry Ruby). You’re a Million Miles from Nowhere - (Lewis & Young). Oh! How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You Harry Ruby (1895-1974) - (Turk & Jessel). The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (Lockhart & Seitz). Baby, Won’t you Please Come Home (Warfield & Williams).

HOW GREAT THOU ART Black’s Law Dictionary defines art: Systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. In his 1892 preface to Leaves of Grass, poet Walt Whitman’s view of art was less hard-edged. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Aristophanes in the 4th century BC: “Let each man exercise the art he knows.” French realist painter Jean-Francois Millet wrote Aristophanes in 1870: “It is the treating (446-380 BC) of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.” American author Willa Cather saw art as “a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.” Willa Cather Literary critic and civil (1873-1947) rights activist Joel Elias Springarn: “To let one’s self go - that is what art is always aiming at.

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Celebrating All Mamas in Shohola of the credit they so rightfully Mothers in the tri-state area deserve. are being honored at a THANKS, In addition, there is an open MOM! celebration that includes call for any artist, poet, or art and poetry honoring them, performer to participate, as free refreshments, and a free well as some open mic time to corsage for all Moms. It also share about your own Mom. includes a live musical tribute THANKS, MOM! takes including performances by place at the Artists’ Market Mef Gannon and Nick Roes. Community Center, 114 In addition, a print collection Richardson Avenue, Shohola, of our “Founding Mothers” will be on display. Out of the 56 men Mary Ball Washington (1706- PA, on May 4, from 4:00pmwho signed the Declaration of 1789) by Robert Edge Pine. 6:00pm. She not only gave birth to For info: 845-557-8713. Independence, 100% of them George, but talked him into had mothers! But we know so accepting the presidency This event is coordinated by Robert after he was elected. little about them, and in a few Bradley, sponsored by the Barryville cases, we don’t even know their names. Area Arts Association, and made possible through a grant This display helps fill in some of the gaps, from the Richard L. Snyder Foundation, administered and gives our “Founding Mothers” some by the Greater Pike Community Foundation.

“Ireland En Plein Air” in Lords Valley An experienced artist and business woman, SUNY Orange Visual Arts Professor Jacqueline O’Malley-Satz is displaying her work in a two-month long exhibition at the Gallery at Chant Realtors in Lords Valley. An inspiring Irish background compounded with travels to the Emerald Isle for study and plein air painting play an important role in Jacqueline’s life as an artist. This exhibition includes works taken from her sketchbook of all things Irish, along with oil paintings - many embellished with poetry - from her most recent trip to Ireland. Jacqueline’s creative work has ranged from drawing, painting, and mixed media, to light

Work by Jacqueline O’Malley Satz

3D work, photography and installation. Her show, entitled, Ireland En Plein Air, opens with a reception on May 4 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the Gallery at Chant Realtors, 631 Route 739, Lords Valley. The show runs from May 1 to June 27. For more information: 570-775-7337.

Artist of Excellence: Heidi Lanino works of the female figure are Nature is a deep-seeded theme part of the exhibit. Her Folded within the artworks of Heidi Females have moved from Lanino. Whether working with using paper or metal to creating ceramics and clay, large canvases portraits of the female in clay and paints, drawing, or recreating that suggest the shifting planes of reclaimed wood, nature is cubist figures, the mythology of present. Coupled with nature is Greek goddesses, and a feminine her appreciation of beauty as it sensuality. emerges in her expressive use of The Artist of Excellence series, line and her modeling and carving spotlighting talented regional of sculpture. Her ceramic bowls and vases “Folded Female” series artists, reopened with Lanino’s show, Ceramic Works on the have earthy colors within Theme of Nature and Beauty intricate details that demonstrate presently on display in Mindy the influence of various cultures. Ross Gallery Foyer of Kaplan Both low fire underglazes and Hall through May 8. slips along with high fire glazes Located at the corner of have been used in the process Grand & First Streets on the of making the pieces. Faces of women, several types of birds, “Blackbirds” by H. Lanino Newburgh campus of SUNY and occasional horses are depicted in these Orange, free, secure parking is available in Kaplan Hall’s parking garage entered at 73 exquisite works of art. In addition, her newest figurative clay First Street. For info: 845-341-4891/9386. 32

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