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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen So much is going on, as usual. I want to give thanks to all the people involved in all the magic they create for us to see and hear. Tidbits and Trivia World famous performers are on their way to Orange & Sullivan Counties: Folk’s Arlo Guthrie, Cabaret’s Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway, and returning for repeat performances, the world’s greatest clarinetist (my opinion) Stanley Drucker, and the American String Quartet (ASQ) for their second offering in the series of performing all the Beethoven Quartets in Newburgh over a two year period. Beside those masterful musical marvels a Pulitzer Prize play is coming to Monroe. College and High School thespians are showing off their skills in Middletown and Ellenville. ASQ’s violist Daniel Avshalomov’s

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composer-brother David is coming too, in the form of Kevin Scott conducting one of his compositions in Middletown. And thanks to SUNY Orange’s Kevin Scott and Assistant Professor Dana Paul Perna, Orange County is now part of the 100th anniversary celebration going on all over the Country for one of my favorite composers (and with whom I worked for a 1962 revival of his musical The Golden Apple in NYC’s York Theatre), composer Jerome Moross. I hope to see many of you at the Orange County Arts Council’s Arts Awards at Umbra Studios in Newburgh. Free Bethel Tickets for Students The Shandelee Music Festival has a limited number of free tickets for grades 1-12 students for the November 10, 3:00pm concert Early French Baroque Masterpieces at Bethel Woods (see page 26). Contact Ann Krupski for tickets: akrupski@hvc.rr.com or phone 845-4398428 by November 5.

Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, CANVAS gets better and better. So many good music and arts events getting the publicity they need; and the readers need to know. Thanks for the mention of the Florida Poetry Café run by Robert Milby and my feature there with Dennis Bressack on October 18. It’s one of the better places to read, and very welcoming to poetry. It’s an honor to be part of your unique venture in support of the arts. Barbara Adams, Newburgh Dear Editor, A woman visiting someone in Roscoe saw the CANVAS article about my novel, “Gumshoe Goddess & The

Catskill Caper.” She came down to meet me and asked me to autograph the article in your publication. Sharon McKane, Wurtsboro Dear Barry, I just wanted to let you know that I have shipped one of the paintings that was in the CANVAS exhibit at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center to Seward, Alaska. The couple that purchased it was on an extended vacation through our area and on into New England. They had visited the Beaverkill Covered Bridge and saw my print and loved it. This is going to be a surprise Christmas gift for her husband. Thanks so much for including me in the show. Caroline Harrow, Livingston Manor

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Burke, Beethoven & Brahms: Newburgh’s 3Bs In Newburgh, the three Bs are now called Burke, Beethoven & Brahms. See page 6 for Brahms. We are concerned here with Burke & Beethoven.) The 3Bs changing to Burke, Beethoven & Brahms occurred on October 6 when Newburgh Chamber Music (NCM) paid homage to Sharon & Brian Burke of Downing Film Center. The Burkes were honored for their outstanding contribution to NCM and to the arts in the Hudson River Valley. This is the first of four awards to be made in the NCM 20132014 concert season. CANVAS managing editor Barry Plaxen will receive the second of NCM’s awards at the November 3 concert. The Downing Film Center has been in operation for 7 years, opening in July of 2006. It is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit arts organization specializing in screening independent, foreign and classic films. The Burkes’ ongoing commitment to community collaboration continues in November when they are partnering with Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley Action Fund and the YWCA Orange County for a screening of After Tiller on November 4. Consider the Conversation, is a documentary on a taboo subject, co-sponsored by HOSPICE of Orange and Sullivan Counties and the Downing Film Center. Donations will be welcomed for HOSPICE. Two showings will take place at 5:30pm and 7:30pm on November 18, followed by Q and A by a representative from

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HOSPICE. And mark your calendar for a special opera event, December 1 at 1:00pm for the filmed production of Verdi’s Falstaff from the Opera de Paris. Downing Film Center is located at 19 Front Street in Newburgh. Call 845-561-3686 or visit www.downingfilmcenter.com. NCM’s special Ode to Beethoven series continues on November 3 at 3:00pm when the world renown American String Quartet (ASQ) returns for its second presentation of the complete Beethoven’s quartets that will continue through NCM’s 2014-2015 season. “Each program offers a different image,” said ASQ violist and spokesperson Daniel Avshalomov. The first program in October offered a fascinating comparison between a lilting, melodic early quartet and an intense, harmonic late work that had juxtaposing musical styles BUT contained similar compositional effects.

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The next program will feature one early quartet and two middle period quartets. Rather than describing them here, it would be more fun to see (and hear) why these quartets were chosen to be played in the same concert. They are Opus 10, no. 3 (#3), Opus 95 (#11) and Opus 59, no. 3 (#9), and they will be masterfully performed by Avshalomov, violinists Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney and cellist Wolfram Kessel, The concert takes place November 3 at 3:00pm in St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street in Newburgh. Parking is available opposite the Church. A reception follows and you can meet and greet these remarkable musicians. For tickets: www.NewburghChamberMusic. org or pick them up at the door. (Sadly, ASQ violist and raconteurextraordinaire Daniel Avshalomov will not be able to hear the SUNY Orange Community Band perform his composer-brother David’s “Vignettes” in Middletown. Unless he can bilocate. See page 11.)

Debbe Femiak employs fiber as well as acrylics, oils, pencil, and pen and ink in her work. Her versatility is illustrated by the charm of her colored-pencil drawings of elves, her powerful cityscapes and floral compositions done with palette knife, and the elegant composition of her acrylic paintings of autumn landscapes. A Newburgh resident, Femiak recently exhibited with the Wallkill River School in Montgomery, with which she has been associated since 2008. Beginning there as a student, she is now an instructor as well as a represented artist. Her work has been exhibited in the City Hall in Newburgh, at the Seligmann Studio in Sugar Loaf, in Philipstown.info, (an online newspaper based in Cold Spring), and at Warwick Valley Financial Association in Warwick. Femiak’s work will be on display at The Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh, from November 1-December 29. The public is invited to the opening reception on November 9 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. For more information: 845-569-4997.

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Spies Infiltrate Goshen Music Hall Mary Elizabeth Bowser (c. 1839– ??) was utilizing Mary Elizabeth Bowser. an American freed slave who worked in Because of Bowser’s intelligence and connection with Elizabeth Van photographic memory, Van Lew Lew as a Union spy during the decided to make Bowser a spy Civil War. to infiltrate the confederacy. Van Bowser was born in Richmond, Lew, through the help of friends of Virginia, as a slave to John Van the Union, was able to have “Ellen Lew, a wealthy hardware merchant. Bond” work at functions held by Upon Van Lew’s death in 1843, Varina Davis, the wife of Jefferson his wife and son and daughter Davis. Bowser was eventually freed his slaves. The matriarch of hired full-time and worked in the the family, Elizabeth Van Lew, Davis household until just before became increasingly aware that the end of the war. Mary Elizabeth had exceptional The slaves were trained to act intelligence. Being a staunch and seem invisible. Usually not abolitionist and Quaker, she sent Mary Elizabeth Bowser noticed at all. The assumption Mary to the Quaker School in was that slaves could not read or Philadelphia to be educated. write, nor understand the complex Van Lew had strong ties to political conversations being the Union and used this to her held. However, due to Bowser’s advantage. She would use an education and keen perception, alter-personae which was always she was able to read and remember distracted and muttered when she any papers that were left around spoke in order for people to think in Jefferson Davis’ study and she was unbalanced and therefore report the information to the other not someone to take seriously. She spies. She would also spy on was given the nickname “Crazy conversations and relay back to Bet”. Van Lew all that was going on in Van Lew was instrumental in Davis’ house. establishing a spy system in the Elizabeth Van Lew The U.S. government honored Confederate capital. She would regularly visit Bowser for her work in the Civil War with an the Libby Prison with food and medicine, and induction into the Military Intelligence Corps helped escapees of all kinds, hiding them in Hall of Fame in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. a secret room in her mansion. However her P. Paullette MacDougal, author of the play biggest accomplishment in espionage was Waiting for MacArthur, which was produced

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Bettina Skye as Van Lew from “Mysteries at the Museum”, to air shortly on the Travel Channel

by Cornerstone Arts Alliance (CAA) in 2012, will be at the first performance of CAA’s New York premiere of her new play, Sisters Under The Skin on November 2. In MacDougal’s Waiting for MacArthur, Warwick actress Bettina Skye played a school teacher, giving a bravura performance as she aged from the character’s mid-60s to mid-70s. Now, MacArthur and Sisters director Ken Tschan has cast Skye in the role of Elizabeth Van Lew. After being cast in Sisters, Skye noticed that the Travel Channel television show Mysteries at the Museum, was casting for a TV version of the story (not the play). She approached the producers and was eventually cast. Regarding the theatre version, Skye stated, “MacDougal’s dialogue in MacArthur is in

a similar writing style as Sisters Under The Skin. She is a professor of literature so she is very “studied”, a real writer who studied the classics, Shakespeare, and uses ‘interesting big words’ in both plays. Sisters is very wellwritten. “For MacArthur, we were able to read the dialogue because they were real letters, but for the play we have to memorize the lines. And I have done a lot of research into the Civil War (I didn’t know that much about it) by reading books, watching DVDs and learning a southern accent. Van Lew Jackie Dion is part Southern belle and part spy and that makes for a very interesting role,” concluded Skye. A familiar face to Cornerstone audiences, often as technical director and lighting designer, Jackie Dion will be portraying Mary Benedict Hudson Elizabeth Bowser. Evelyn Albino and Benedict Hudson round out the cast, which is directed by Conerstone’s Artistic Director, Ken Tschan. The play runs from November 2-17 at the Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street in Goshen. Reservations are required. Call 845-294-4188.

18 Ways of Looking at a Tree Trees...magnificent which five of the artists shade-givers, oxygenwill participate on a producers, and natural panel starting at 2:30pm resource which give us discussing the artworks the gorgeous colors of they created through the autumn. inspiration of the theme. They are the focus of Joy Zelada, classical a month-long series of guitarist, will provide programs in Orange Hall music including a piece on Gallery, Orange County “Monet’s Trees, Giverney” by Claudia Gorman trees. Community College. The exhibit is presented by Entitled Trees: Nature’s Living/ LongReach Art, a Hudson Giving Gift, the series includes Valley collective of exceptional seven events, all free and open artists who work in various to the public. media, levels of abstraction, The first program is a tree content, and form. identification workshop, The Inspired by the intriguing Keys to Tree Identification, on poem by Wallace Stevens, November 2 from 10:00am Thirteen Ways of Looking to noon with SUNY Orange at a Blackbird, this exhibit Biology / Botany professor, demonstrates the responses Monty Vacura. Following an of the members who share illustrated lecture, Vacura will admiration and awe for trees Tree Celebrated by Susan Fowler-Gallagher offer a hands-on exercise as glorious gifts of nature that will assist attendees that contribute so vividly in determining different to planet earth. tree species. The exhibit will run from On November 3, the November 3 through opening reception for November 29. Orange Hall the Eighteen Ways of is located at the corner of Looking at a Tree art Wawayanda & Grandview show takes place from Avenues, Middletown. “Fall Moon” by Jose Gomez 1:00pm-4:00pm, during Call 845-341-4891.

Chinese Calligraphy with Ron Gee

For the SUNY Orange master class series, local artist (and November exhibitor) Ron Gee will discuss Chinese Calligraphy - the art of writing with brush and ink - and its close relationship with traditional painting. Together, these are considered among the highest treasures of Chinese culture, yet are little understood in the West. Through demonstrations, the Chinese writing system, its origins in pictorial images, and the various styles of writing will be clearly explained, as will the techniques of brushwork that both calligraphy and painting share. The discussion will turn to the principles of Eastern philosophy and how the Chinese attitude about the natural order is expressed in traditional brush and ink painting. The presentation concludes with a large painting executed using a mop-sized brush on paper rolled onto the floor. After a short break, the master class will proceed with a hands-on introductory lesson on the fundamentals of brush and ink, from simple exercises to the rendering of nature subjects such as bamboo, grasses, rocks, and fish. Examples of the artist’s work will also be on display. Ron Gee studied art history, studio art, and Chinese culture as an undergraduate at Princeton University. He also holds a master degree from the graduate art department

at Hunter College. His works have been exhibited in New York City, Brooklyn, the mid-Hudson region, and Massachusetts. Last year, he and his wife, artist Gar Wang, were the joint recipients of the Individual Artists Award given annually by the Orange County Arts Council (see page 31). They were also recently featured on the cover of Orange Magazine. Gee’s master class is on November 14 at 11:00am in Orange Hall Gallery. His exhibit One Artist, Two Visions Abstract & Representational Paintings runs from November 1-29 in Orange Hall. The reception is on November 22 from 5:30pm-7:30pm. For information, call 845-341-4891. For more about Ron, visit rongeearts.com November 2013

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Brahms “Requiem” ......................with Full Orchestra....................Soprano by Philip Ehrensaft

Until the free thinking Johannes Brahms premiered Ein Deutsches Requiem in 1868, his career had been a struggle. After the performance of his German Requiem, Brahms was propelled on his path to being counted among the great three Bs: Bach, Beethoven and now Brahms. The popularity of Ein Deutsches shows no signs of abating in our time. There are 107 different recordings of Brahms’ Requiem available in the U.S. Market. Verdi’s Requiem comes in second with 97 recordings, with third place going to Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, at 72. Most accounts of Brahms’ requiem point to how remarkable it is that a young man could produce such a masterwork of imagination and precision in marshaling the grand resources of a large orchestra and a large chorus. One answer is that Brahms, within the context of mid-nineteenth century lifespans, was not at all a young man. For most people, being thirty-five meant that more than half of your time on earth had passed. Curious is the first word that comes to mind when we think about Herr Brahms, making his breakthrough with a grand liturgical work. Brahms was a famously private man, but it is quite clear that he was a scientific rationalist, and had little use for religion. So was it sheer opportunism that led him to take

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on this requiem? One clue can be provided by looking across the French-German border to Brahms’ contemporary, Camille Saint-Saëns, “the French Beethoven.” Brahms was born in 1833, Saint- Saëns in 1835. Like Brahms, he appeared to have little use for organized religion. While cool to religion himself, SaintSaëns was a nationalist who saw religion as a social glue that could help build a modern French nation. Brahms likely had the same perspective as a German nationalist. His requiem would be in German, not Latin, and based on Luther’s translation of the Bible. But there was more to Brahms’ breakthrough liturgical composition than social utility and nationalism. “The traditional Roman Catholic liturgical text for the requiem mass is a prayer for the dead, filled with images of the horrors of the Last Judgment. Brahms text, on the other hand, which he compiled from Martin Luther’s German vernacular translation of the Bible, seeks to comfort the living who must deal with and accept death.” (Ron De Fesi, Hudson Opera Theater). Brahms may have written the Requiem in memory of his mother, who died in 1865. It is possible that he had in mind his great friend and mentor, Robert Schumann, whose madness and death had profoundly affected the young Brahms. Perhaps it was simply intended as a universal memorial.

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Rehearsing two of the four Choirs by Derek Leet

Peter Sipple, Director of the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, (see photo above) is the coordinator of information for Dr. Woomyung Choe Peter Sipple (pronounced Chay) and the chorale conductors. “Dr. Choe and I chatted early on, and agreed on the Peters Edition. I don’t presume to give musical direction to the other directors; that comes from Dr. Choe, so I don’t do Craig Williams that. I have a feeling that we all are talking a common language anyway, because the Requiem is so familiar, and I really am quite optimistic that it will fall into place rather quickly, in that respect, when we have our first group rehearsal on November 12.”

This is the first time Sipple is preparing the NSC for a concert with an orchestra. “I give frequent reminders to the singers that Dr. Choe may want to do things differently from the way we are doing them Kristine Mattson - I even have to remind myself - for instance, if I call for a cut-off or a suggestion for dynamics, they will be subject to review and change by Dr. Choe.” The Bruderhoff Community’s Fox Hill Andrew Cummings Community Youth Choir are rehearsing with the NSC. “I would say they are high school and college age, 18-30 years old, with most in their 20s. They are very disciplined, many of them fluent in German, The combination of the two groups is wonderful.” Brahms’ celebrated work may be less operatic than the equally popular requiems by Verdi and Mozart, both of which abound in melody and dramatic orchestration, but, “I am more a harmony guy. I am attracted to the complexity of the harmonic cycles Brahms uses,” Sipple concluded. The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, directed and conducted by Dr. Choe, presents Heavenly Voices with

& Baritone Soloists......................................................and Four Chorales! Meet Justin Glodich: Dedicated Conductor & Teacher by Naomi Kennedy Fox Hill Community Youth Choir

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the combined choruses of the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, Middletown Concert Chorale, West Point Chapel Choir and the Fox Hill Community Youth Choir, led by their respective choral directors Peter Sipple, Justin Glodich, Craig Williams and Peter Mommsen, with soloists, soprano Kristine Biller Mattson and baritone Andrew Cummings on November 16 at 7:30pm in Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh. The Shacklett Preview at 6:30pm is a preconcert introduction to the evening’s music by Gordon Shacklett. Beginning the concert is Brahms’ Tragic Overture in D minor. Students are admitted free of charge. Tickets may be purchased at the door or reserved by phoning 845-913-7157.

Justin Glodich, conductor of Middletown Concert Chorale (MCC) (photo right) and the K-12 Choral and Theatre Director in the Eldred Central School District, is a remarkable man. It takes a tremendous amount of preparation for one concert and Glodich is preparing for several, including the Requiem for the GNSO. He sees his Eldred students almost every day and is able to focus on building fundamental knowledge, but with the Chorale, rehearsals are only once a week, and it takes a lot of time to learn the music and the German text. “Each rehearsal has to be as productive as possible. My college friends who sing in the chorale, Lucas Rau and Danielle Cornacchio, have helped with different sections,” said Glodich. “For me and many of our chorale members, it (performing Brahms’ Requiem with the GNSO and the other chorales) was an opportunity for us to be a part of a wonderful experience.” Auditions are not held for MCC. Members join because they love to sing. “The one thing I love about the chorale is their passion for singing and music.” Some do not have strong musical backgrounds, nor do they read music. Glodich provided alternative ways for them to learn so they feel confident. “I have always been a firm believer that anyone can sing and I

never want to push anyone away from that!” Glodich has been MCC’s conductor for two years and the Eldred school district’s music director for five years; he has toured the Country conducting workshops and lectures to a wide array of choral groups; and has performed with the Silver Bay Summer Chorale, and the prestigious One World Symphony Orchestra. He is now completing a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting at The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford. Glodich is an active member of the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and the New York State Theatre Educators Association (NYSTEA). He is currently on the Executive Board for the Sullivan County Music Educators Association, and is the New York President of the A Cappella Education Association (AEA). Eldred’s accomplishments range from performing the National Anthem at Thunder

102’s ThunderBash and receiving recognition through our state music association (NYSSMA). The district is a “2013 Best Community for Music Education”, an honor that is shared with a select amount of school districts in the entire country. The MCC holiday concerts begin on December 7 and will include selections from Brahms’ Requiem, as well as some holiday favorites. On December 16 at 7:00pm, the Eldred Choral Department will feature all 5 choirs from grades 3-12 in a holiday concert. “I am very proud of my students and what they accomplish. They are talented and dedicated,” said Glodich. And if that wasn’t enough...Eldred’s first elementary school musical, Honk Jr., will be performed on November 16 at 2:00pm, right before the GNSO concert on the same day at 7:30pm at Mount St. Mary College! Amazingly, Justin does not have any conflicts with all these performances.

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Come for the Coffee - Stay for the Arts by J.A. Di Bello Readers of this publication are to a significant degree aware of the Orange County Arts Council. Further, even a larger number know of the Council’s prestigious recognition of Orange County individuals and businesses that have contributed in a significant manner to the cultural, artistic awareness of residents and neighbors. Honored recipients are in a grand fashion, publicly recognized each fall at the Orange County Annual Art Awards Celebration. This year’s event, the sixth annual, will be held at Umbra Sound Stages in Newburgh, Orange County’s own premiere film production facility, at 5:30pm on November 15. This year’s Corporate Champion of the Arts recipient is the Noble Coffee Roasters’ Café, proprietors Paul and Robert Deckaj. It is securely nestled on the corner of Stony Ford Road and NYS Route 207 in Campbell Hall. Bordering approaches to the Campbell Hall commuter rail station, it serves as a starting point for those who travel by rail or road to task-oriented destinations. For others, it’s a convenient luxury, especially to residents of neighboring Hamptonburgh, Goshen, Montgomery and Wallkill (Town of) who have experienced the café and its compelling

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attractions. As an art venue, arrangements are secured by Courtney Vellenga, an interested and articulate curator as well as an enthusiastic advocate for the local arts community. Thursday nights at the Noble Coffee Roasters’ Café are devoted to poetry reading, hosted by Robert Milby, literary recitations and various forms of oral interpretation. Each month the café features a visual artist, as a wide variety of media are displayed on the walls of the café and subsequently offered for show and sale. On any given Saturday night live, free musical entertainment is available, with Music for Humanity (November 16) and Sojourn (November 30) as favorites. To complete the café-art experience, bring an appetite and your lap top. There’s free Wi-Fi.

This café is full service, offering culinary pleasures to accompany beverages of choice. Fresh-fromthe-oven pastry delights are prepared on premises by pastry chef, Christine Worschinski. Her freshly Robert Milby hosts prepared cannoli are Poetry Night on frequent companions to November 7 at 7:00pm. orders of espresso. There (Guest poet is exists also a lunch menu Addison Goodson) complete with salads and additional pleasures served on assorted, pressed panini breads and fresh ciabatta, too. The Café is unique in the list of gems to be found in the Wallkill River Valley. Barry Adelman of Noble Coffee Roasters is, Music for Humanity in fact, a coffee distribution company founded by Jack Deckaj in 1982, when it was known as Liberty House Coffee. Jack, a native of Albania, brought with him to this country the exquisite tastes and culinary expectations that characterize his family and its enviable product. Not surprisingly, those traits are found in The Noble Coffee Roasters’ house blend, a combination of three exquisite,

Artwork by Roberta Slockbower. Goshen Art League members’ work can be seen at Noble Coffee Roasters throughout the month of November.

carefully selected coffees from South America and Africa. In 2002 the company moved to its current location in Campbell Hall. The pride and excellence continue in the competent care of Jack’s two sons, Paul and Robert. To the best of this writer’s knowledge, the Noble Coffee Roasters’ Café is the only coffee house in the immediate area that actually blends and roasts its coffee on the premises. Not only is the distinguished house blend available, but there are fourteen other roasted beans in stock for individualized grinding, brewing and enjoying. All are invited to celebrate and honor Noble Coffee Roasters, the Deckaj family and distinguished artists at the very unique and fun annual County Art Awards event. For more information, see page 31.

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November Harvest: Watercolors, Oils & More at the Wallkill River School Margaret Morales, better known as Marge, grew up in New York City, dreaming from the time she was a young child of “being an artist and moving to Greenwich Village”. No one in her family could figure out how she knew at age 5 about the budding artists haven of the Village, but they were certainly not surprised that Margaret - the girl who would draw, paint, sculpt and even construct spaceships from packing boxes - wanted to be an artist. Though Margaret never made it to the Village, she now resides in New York’s other artist haven, the Hudson Valley. She has been working on her own art for 38 years and discovered plein air painting through the Wallkill River School (WRS). Although she works in oils and watercolors, she has resumed her love for photography. “Time is so precious, we should savor and enjoy every moment. I love the idea of capturing all the energy of a moment and then sharing it through my art,” said Marge. Now that she has retired, art is her life. She is Vice President of Artists in the Parks, a group that celebrates the beauty of Bear Mountain and the Palisades Park system, and The Group of Nine. (and LHVPAP see page 13) Marylyn Vanderpool spends as much time as possible living her passion, painting in her studio, or en plein air, in watercolors and oils. From an early age Marylyn has had a passion for art and dreamed of being an artist. In

“Jermaine Paul” by Marge Morales

fulfillment of that dream she studied art at the Traphagen School of Fashion Illustration & Design, in New York City. Although she loved Fashion Illustration, she really wanted to be a painter. She was introduced to watercolor painting by the late artist Don Selchow. He quickly took Marylyn under his wing and with his guidance she was hooked. She is a member of The Group of Nine, LHVPAP. a founding member of Artists in the Park, and an award winning artist. Her work is included in private and corporate collections. Emerging artist Paula Baldinger was exposed to all forms of art and nature by the many talented family members that surrounded

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her. During her time of pursuing a career in science at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and the Tree Ring Lab at LamontDoherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, she always nurtured her love of art by doing modern dance, gardening, cooking, being a floral designer and renovating her 1882 Victorian home in Nyack. She retired and returned to where she spent her summers as a child. By going back to the wonderful landscape of the Basha Kill Wetlands, it reinvigorated her love of art and nature. Wanting to capture its beauty, she started taking classes at the WRS. She fell in love with watercolor and felt she

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could express the qualities of nature’s beauty through this medium. She feels that one of the great reasons for living along the Basha Kill is the landscape and wildlife, particularly the many species of birds that either live or pass through during the spring and fall migration. A self taught Hudson River Valley artist, Paula says she “wants to share the beauty of nature through my personal art, and by doing so, bring the observer closer to nature.” Come see the artwork created by these three artists at the WRS, 232 Ward St., Montgomery, from November 1-30. The opening reception will be held on November 9 from 5:00pm7:00pm. For information: 845-457-2787.

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4 More Artists in Wulff Exhibit

CANVAS’ 9th Anniversary Exhibit is on view at Wulff Gallery. In addition to the artists we wrote about in previous issues, the exhibit also includes works by Rachel Kleinman, Raphael Wettenstein (photos above), Brian Harnett and Ann Higgins. A woodworker, cabinet maker and furniture designer since before his army stint in the 1980s, Harnett took up chain-saw carving six years ago. Since then he has shown his work (photo right) and demonstrated his technique in art shows, fairs and icecarving carnivals all over the northeast, and has developed a reputation for unique and original figures. He now works with a palette of five saws from big 28 inch to fine 12 inch bars and seldom finds

a chunk of tree that doesn’t have a Sculpture hidden inside.

Well-known watercolorist Ann Higgins, is also skilled at pen and ink drawing. Her cat is one of 12 drawings Higgins features in her 2014 Country Calendar which includes small boxes in each date for notes. The calendars are $5.00 each, ($3.50 for 20 or more) and make great holiday gifts. Visit www.annhiggins.catskill-life.com or call 845-985-2814. The Wulff Gallery is at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum, 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor. Call 845-439-4810.

From Czechoslovakia to Beacon

“I got my first taste of the creative thrill at age 7, when I covered my mother’s bathroom with ink scribbles. I went to the School of Art and Design in Czechoslovakia, where I studied painting...under the watchful eyes of the Czech communistic regime. After graduation I headed west. I worked as an art director at various New York City ad agencies. “A few years ago I started to paint again, on Sunday mornings. I love to paint kids, pets, and people in general. When I need more freedom of expression, I rely on the inspiration of flowers and nature,” says Marie Krajan, who, along with Veryal Zimmerman, the late M.E. Whitehill, and Clairmonte Mapp, will have her work featured in an exhibit that includes

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other artists and crafters throughout the month of November at the Back Room Gallery, 475 Main Street, Beacon. For more information: 845-838-1838.

Otisville - Mt. Hope Art Exhibit

“Derrick” by C. Harris Pagano

“Piersons Barn” by Mitchell Saler

The Otisville-Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church will display work by Sean Addy, Gladys Loeven, Cynthia Harris-Pagano, Mitchell Saler, Phil Yohe, Julie Anna Freund, Bridget Wolbeck and paintings by Haitian artists with the sales of the latter works 10

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“Madonna” by Phil Yohe

benefiting Haiti. The exhibition will be on display for three days: November 15, 6:00pm-9:00pm, November 16, 10:00am-4:00pm, and November 17, 9:00am-2:00pm, at 25 Main Street, Otisville. For information call 845-386-3851.

November at Jester’s

It’s a totally interactive show based on Long Island but can travel anywhere. Al Isaacs and Scott Baker are not just comics, they are two of the quickest thinking entertainers around today. By getting the audience involved with all aspects of the show, they make a 300 person night club filled with strangers feel like you are in your own living room with friends! Everything from audience members shouting out suggestions and providing sound effects, to playing right along on stage! It’s a unique interactive experience. Al and Scott have spent years honing their craft. Just ask the folks at Towson College, Accountant’s World, Comedy for a Cause or our wounded war veterans and they’ll tell you - this ain’t just another comedy show! They perform at Jester’s Comedy Club on November 9. Doors open at 8:00pm and the performance begins at 9:00pm. Jester’s is located at 109 Brookside Avenue in Chester. For tickets, call 845-345-1039.

Flute & Guitar Unite

OCCC’s Perna & Poland’s Chopin at the Paramount

Larrabee became the first American The SUNY Orange Symphonic for this past season’s ‘By pianist to study in the former Soviet Band, under the direction of Kevin Request’! Union under official government Scott, opens the 2013-14 season The concert is at the sponsorship, and has won honors with Vignettes composed by David Paramount Theater on in the International Tchaikovsky Avshalomov (brother of American November 2 at 8:00pm. Competition in Moscow and the String Quartet violist, Daniel, For the SUNY Orange see page 3), and Greek Goddesses, Kevin Scott Community Orchestra Dana Paul Perna International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and was the first pianist a concerto for piano and wind concert, Neal Larrabee is to have been awarded the Artur ensemble by the South African performing Chopin’s Piano Rubenstein Medal, as winner of composer James Wilding, with Concerto No. 1 in e Minor. the Young Musician’s Foundation Caroline Oltmanns as soloist. Larrabee’s appearances as Competition in Los Angeles. Rounding out the concert are a recitalist and as a soloist Also on the program is one of two works from the pen of SUNY with major orchestras in Orange Assistant Professor Dana David Avshalomov Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow Jerome Moross the masterpieces of the symphonic repertoire, Cesar Franck’s Symphony Paul Perna: Mr. Perna’s Middletown have won critical acclaim. in d Minor. Quasquicentennial March, which was Nominated by the United The SUNY Orange Community composed for the 125th Anniversary States Information Service Orchestra is under the direction of the incorporation of the City of for performing under the of Hilarie Clark Moore, and is Middletown and premiered by the auspices of the American comprised of SUNY Orange students SUNY Orange Symphonic Band Embassies, Larrabee has and members of the community. The this past June, and his arrangement toured Germany, Russia, Carlton L.Winston Neal Larrabee concert is on November 3 at 3:00pm of Jerome Moross’ 1935 orchestral Poland, Romania, and at the Paramount, 17 South Street work Biguine for concert band, in Yugoslavia. In Poland, in Middletown. celebration of the 100th anniversary his highly regarded Both concerts are sponsored by the of Moross’ birth. interpretations of Chopin College’s Arts and Communication The concert will conclude with have led to recordings, Department. SUNY Orange Students Carlton L. Winston’s Dionysian national broadcasts on with a current ID and active military Mysteries, which the band premiered television and radio, and Hilarie Clark Moore personnel are admitted free. in May of 2012 and was one of the Caroline Oltmanns engagements in virtually For information call 845-341-4787. works listed as an audience favorite every major concert hall.

Shop & Dine Pine Bush!

Daniel Stevens holds a Masters in Classical Guitar Performance from Purchase College and is a teacher and performer of a variety of styles including electric, steel string acoustic, and classical guitar. He has two CDs of classical guitar music: Classical Guitar and Millbrook Sound Sessions. Dan regularly performs at art exhibits, coffee shops, weddings, restaurants, dinner parties, church services and recitals. Lynnette Benner began playing flute at the ripe old age of eleven. An avid horse lover, she earned an A.A.S. in Equine Science and worked in that field for eleven years while continuing to play and perform. Returning to college, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from SUNY New Paltz. She studied with Marcia Gates, Lynn Cunningham, Sarah Trautman, and Gary Schocker. Lynnette teaches Flute, Oboe, Chamber Music, and Kindermusik. She lives in Millerton, a Dutchess County village voted one of the ten coolest small towns in America, with her husband, stepson, four cats, two horses, and two dogs (all rescues!). Stevens and Banner will be playing under the auspices of Potluck Concerts’ producers Ruthanne Schempf and Emily Faxon at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, located at 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, on November 8 at 7:30pm. November 2013

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Two November Performances Bring Spoken Word to Seligmann Center by Anna Lillian Moser

This coming November the public is invited to the Seligmann Center for the Arts to see two world class spoken word performances, all part of the Orange County Citizen Foundations’ (OCCF) ongoing efforts to make the Center, located in Sugar Loaf, a premiere destination for the area. On November 8 at 8:00pm poet and spoken word artist, Janet Hamill, will give a performance accompanied by her band Lost Ceilings (see photo) and on November 15 at 7:00pm the Center will host Poet’s Theatre, a night of readings from plays by Jean Cocteau, Federico Garcia Lorca and Samuel Beckett, as well as poetry readings from works of Baudelaire and Rimbaud. “What we’re trying to create here is the premiere place to see and participate in avantgarde arts in the Hudson Valley,” said OCCF President Nancy Proyect. “Surrealism, which we’re also closely associated with, grew out of spoken word first. Andre Breton, who founded the movement, was a poet, so we like to make sure that the spoken word is prominent in what we do.” The Seligmann property was originally donated to the OCCF several years ago by the widow of surrealist painter Kurt Seligmann (in a macabre turn of events, Seligmann actually died on the property of an accidental, selfinflicted gunshot wound).

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“We were left the property, and it took us several years to figure out what to do with it, and then to renovate it. The buildings were quite run down when we received them,” Proyect said, adding that after years of renting out the property to local groups for events and meetings, the Foundation realized that more could be done with the historic property and formed a steering committee headed by Warwick artist Daniel Mack. “Kurt Seligmann had this tradition of bringing artists together to share and create, so we’re focused on that as well.” Janet Hamill has published several books of poetry since the 1970s. Her first book of short stories, Tales from the Eternal Café, was published this past October. Hamill lived in New York City for several years before moving with her husband to the Hudson Valley. A chance meeting with musician Bob Torsello at Goshen Public Library led to Hamill’s collaboration with Torsello’s band Moving Star (comprised of Torsello, Mark McNutt and Greg Faller). The collaboration led to two albums, one of which, Flying Nowhere, was produced by Lenny Kaye, who is perhaps

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best known as the guitarist for the Patti Smith Group (Hamill, who went to college with Smith, remains close with the artist. Smith, in fact, wrote the introduction to Tales from the Eternal Café). Hamill and the band eventually went on hiatus for several years, but has since reformed as Janet Hamill & Lost Ceilings (the name is taken from a poem by Hamill of the same title). Hamill said that one of the difficulties with the band’s first incarnation was that she found herself writing poems to suit Moving Star’s music, when she would rather have had the poetry and music coming together organically, somewhat reminiscent of The Doors’ An American Prayer, wherein Jim Morrison recorded his poetry without the band and music wasn’t added until later, after the singer’s death. “The music enhanced the words, it didn’t in any way distract from them,” Hamill said of An American Prayer. “I know they’re [Lost Ceilings] really stretching themselves because they’re not used to this, but they’re doing more ambient music; they’re more of a background texture that really enhances the spoken word and

gives it an extra element as far as performance. It makes it more entertaining, and I think it makes the poetry more accessible. It makes for a really nice collaboration. Sometimes it’s just a happy accident. The poetry and the music come together just right. For me it’s just a thrill.” The November 8 performance will be the first full performance of Janet Hamill & Lost Ceilings. Hamill is actually a member of the Seligmann Center’s steering committee. She was brought onto the committee by Daniel Mack, who took a course on Surrealism, taught by Hamill. “At this point I think we’ve been running for three years and have been having programs consistently for those three years, so I think we’re really building up a nice track record,” Hamill said. “What we want it to be eventually is the center in our area, the Hudson Valley on this side of the river, for contemporary, cutting edge, avant-garde art. It’s very exciting. It’s been a wonderful development in my life.” “I think they’re both going to be really great,” Proyect said of the November performances. “We have a lot going on here on an ongoing basis, so this is a great opportunity to be introduced to what we do here.” For more information about both performances, visit www.occf-ny.org or call 845-469-9459. To learn more about Janet Hamill & Lost Ceilings, visit www.janethamill.com.

Museum Seeks the Artist in You

“Landscapes” at Howland

“Festival Tents” by Leslie Waxtel

“Grasshopper” by Judd Weisburg, a sample of “Art in the Wild” located over the entry gate to the HHNM’s new play area, Grasshopper Grove.

project including artists, school groups and nature educators!” says Mack. “They all helped people see nature, and art, in new different ways. I’m happy we can do something similar here at the Museum.” The theme of the project is Cycles. About ten proposals from applicants from Orange County and other counties will be chosen to be installed for an opening just before Earth Day in 2014. The artists selected will be paid a small honorarium to help off-set their costs. They can also visit the Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center (ODC) to get ideas for where projects might be placed. The Visitors Center at the ODC is open on weekends through November 17. Applications are due by December 20, 2013. Visit www. hhnaturemuseum.org.

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum (HHNM) is seeking nature lovers to participate in Art in the Wild, Naturally Inspired Trailside Creations, an outdoor art exhibit that will take place over four months in 2014 at the HHNM in Cornwall. People or groups are encouraged to apply to make a playful installation or sculpture at one of many sites on the Museum’s Pond Trail. The purpose of the project is to broaden the audience for art and nature in Orange County and to help people deepen their appreciation of both art and the natural world. Rustic artist Daniel Mack of Warwick will be the curator for the exhibit. He has worked with trees and natural materials for many years to make furniture, buildings and sculpture. Mack is currently involved with a similar project at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg, PA. “There was such a variety of participants in the Harrisburg

This program is funded, in part, by Orange County Tourism and the County of Orange through its 2013-14 County of Orange Grant program.

The brutal murder of Richard Jennings in December, 1818 would gain notoriety as the first murder for hire in New York. Five people: James and Hannah Teed, David Dunning, David Conkling and Jack Hodges had conspired to murder Jennings after a series of court battles over land; and they did! Future President Martin Van Buren assisted in prosecuting the case which ended with surprising twists: who would end up being hanged before a crowd of almost 20,000 people? Which of the murderers would end up with a monument in his honor? Were the executed criminals really buried with stakes driven into their graves, as local lore claims? The case involved many well-

known Orange County families, either in the crime, as attorneys, witnesses or jurors: among them Worden kneels by the grave of David Conkling Knight; Conkling; Teed; Gumaer; Cuddeback; Wisner and Seward. Police detective and author Michael J. Worden explores the complexity of this incident at The Town of Deerpark Museum, 25 Grange Road, Huguenot on November 10 at 2:00pm where he will present a program about his latest book. The program is free and refreshments will be served. For information: 845-856-2702

The Murder of Richard Jennings

“Beacon Falls” by Mary Mugele Sealfon

New York Plein Air Painters (NYPAP) was founded to foster communication between plein air artists throughout New York State in order to paint together outside on location and share ideas. They have several hundred members throughout the entire state, and even some from nearby states. Members include both professionals and amateurs who share a love of outdoor painting. NYPAPis made up of chapters located in the many regions of the state. Individual chapters throughout those regions host activities for members. The goal in organizing paintouts is to create opportunities

for artists to paint together in locations that are both inspiring and safe. Members of the Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters chapter will have an exhibit titled, Landscapes, from November 2-24 at the Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main Street in Beacon. An opening reception will be held on November 2 from 3:00pm -5:00pm. Before the reception on November 2, some of the artists will be painting outdoors in Beacon, weather permitting. Come say hello! For more information, call 845-831-4988.

Starting out a singer in noisy bars and restaurants, Claudia Nygaard has definitely paid her dues. But she learned how to engage the attention of an audience in those clubs, and later, when she made her living on the county fair circuit, she polished that skill into an art. Competing against generators and mainstage acts with huge sound systems, she learned to rely on her quick wit to keep the audience interested, and she became a captivating storyteller who has been aptly described as “Will Rogers without the rope”. She has performed at over 150 fairs and festivals in 47 states and across Europe, and two years ago was chosen one of the Emerging Artists at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New York. The daughter of a California cattle rancher, it was in the San Joaquin Valley that Nygaard’s music took root. Growing up, she sang in school choirs, with the high school dance band, and in local musical comedy productions. She worked for two and a half years as the weather reporter on KNTV Channel 11 News, an ABC affiliate television station in San Jose,

California. While at KNTV, Claudia completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater from San Jose State University. She continued to work as the weather reporter until a major layoff left her unemployed. Sharing the stage with artists like Glen Campbell, Marty Stuart, John Michael Montgomery, John Anderson, and Marshall Tucker, she performed in front of crowds of up to 14,000. See Claudia perform at the Dancing Cat Saloon, 2037 State Route 17B on November 6 at 7:00pm. For information: 845-583-3141.

Nygaard at Daancing Caat Saaloon

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Holistic Happenings Art, Past Life Regression, Peace Meetings & More!

Collin Resch of Newburgh is constantly changing direction in his life to figure out what he wants to do, while also doing a little bit of everything along the way! Resch graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 2010, continued his education at SUNY Orange, and then realized that further education was not for him, so after three semesters, he decided to move somewhere a bit more adventurous...Colorado. Collin lived his dream of calling the Rocky Mountains home. He always enjoyed snowboarding, and Colorado seemed to him the perfect fit. Inspired by his surroundings, he wrote more and became more creative. When he moved back home he brought his newly acquired creativity with him. Resch will have a showing of his work, entitled Celestial Glances at the Healing Arts Studio. An opening reception will be held on November 22 from 7:00pm-9:00pm. November at the Studio also features events beginning November 2 when you can learn new techniques to deal with stress and confusion during these changing times with Tools to Help Me Transform My Life, jump

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start creativity with a Crystal Bowl Meditation or book a private session with Terra Sonora, Angel Channel from Sedona, AZ, and join workshops in Manifesting Abundance and Messages from the Angels. You can deepen your connection to the angels with The Healing Angels of the Energy Field, on November 7 and learn something about your past and take that knowledge forward to create your future with Healing the Past Present - A Group Past Life Regression on November 23. Continuing gatherings include Pilates Mat classes to clear and align your body (beginning November 7) and Peace Across the Planet monthly gatherings starting November 16 which help create the alchemy of peace and begin a conscious peace practice. The Healing Arts Studio is at 75 Broadway, Newburgh. For information: 520-609-1866.

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A Reiki Master’s Art at Stray Cat

Hana Marritz has been on a healing path since she was a child when her mother read Czech fairy tales to her. She feels fairy tales are shamanic heroes’ journeys, and she felt there was a message for her in them. It was many years later, after a career in teaching art, that she discovered shamanism. She started a shamanic drumming circle in New Jersey, which she led for ten years. Over the years Hana has had an extensive apprenticeship with many healers and shamans. It began with a Shamanic workshop with the father of modern day shamanism, Michael Harner. Subsequently Hana studied Soul Retrieval with Christina Pratt; Creating in Dreamtime with Robert Moss; Celtic Shamanism with Tom Cowan; and Soul Retrieval & Extraction with Sandra Ingerman. In the last ten years Hana has been studying at the Children of Light Mystery School. She has studied Reiki & Light Ascension with Ron & Robert Baker. Hana is certified as a Reiki Master and Practitioner. She has been on several spiritual journeys to Egypt and Macchu Picchu. Hana is also a working artist, working in watercolor, painting, and sculpture. (See photo.) See Hana’s work at the Stray Cat Gallery, 2032, Route 17B in Bethel, where she has an exhibit along with artists Joan Lesikin and Linda Bastian, from November 22-December 4. An

opening reception will be held on November 23 from 4:00pm-7:00pm. In addition, don’t miss the chance to see Ethos of Abstraction, an exhibit of work, also at Stray Cat Gallery, by Nina Isabelle, Beau Gostomsky & Lucienne Weinberger from November 8-November 20, with a reception on November 9 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. Stray Cat is opposite the Dancing Cat Saloon. For information, phone 845-423-8850.

Stanley Drucker: The World’s Most Honored Clarinetist by Derek Leet

Stanley Drucker has celebrated 60 years as a member of the New York Philharmonic, and he is an honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of New York, the first orchestral musician so honored. In 2011, the Philharmonic estimated that “he has performed in 10,200 concerts, which is approximately 70% of the total number of their concerts since 1842. He has been Principal Clarinetist for a record 48 years, making close to 200 appearances as soloist and chamber musician with the orchestra. He played under nine Music Directors, among them Bruno Walter, Dmitri Mitropolous, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta.” In recognition of his highly respected and widely acknowledged musical excellence and dedication, he was named Musical America’s 1998 Instrumentalist of the Year. All his honors are richly deserved. At a 2011 Chamber Music at St. Andrews concert in South Fallsburg, his sublime playing in Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, especially the second movement of that Quintet, one of Mozart’s usual powerful, beautiful and depthfilled slow movements, left nothing to be desired, and he proved once again that he might be the greatest living clarinetist on the planet. Drucker also has the distinction of being one of the few living orchestral musicians whose

biography is included in the New Grove Dictionary of Music. Now he is back in the area and will perform: * Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. Written in 1942, it was Bernstein’s first published piece. * Poulenc’s Sonata for clarinet and piano in B-flat is one of the last pieces he completed, and is dedicated to the memory of composer Arthur Honegger, who like Poulenc had belonged to the group of “Les Six.” * Four Hebrew Melodies in the Form of a Suite, for clarinet & piano by clarinetist and composer Simeon Bellison (1881-1953). Many opera-goers know that, unlike Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bellini and others, there are a number of composers who are known for only one opera, though they wrote many, i.e. Mascagni and Leoncavallo (Cavalerria Rusticana & Pagliacci). Amilcare Poncihelli (1834-1896), composer of La Gioconda, is not only one of those composers, but who of us are aware that he composed almost a dozen operas, much non-operatic music, and was very popular and influential in his lifetime, introducing

an enlarged orchestra and more complex orchestration. * Drucker will be joined by Naomi Drucker to perform Ponchielli’s Il Convegno (The Meeting) (1865), Divertimento for Two Clarinets with Piano Accompaniment, Op.76. Naomi Drucker is the principal clarinetist of the New Orchestra of Long Island and the NY Virtuosi. She has performed in Japan, Great Britain, Russia, Sweden, France, Canada and Argentina, and has

also traveled around the world with her husband during the summer of 1996, giving performances. Pianist Marilyn Sherman Lehman is an active soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and teacher in the NY metropolitan area All three perform on November 24 at 3;00pm in SUNYO Orange’s Orange Hall Theatre, Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues in Middletown. Tickets can be purchased online at www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs and at the box office prior to the performance. For information, call 845-341-4891.

The 2Es in Tuxedo

As a teenager, jazz vocalist Shirley Crabbe was inspired by a performance of Ella Fitzgerald singing A Tisket, A Tasket in an old Abbott and Costello movie. “I’ve always had a passion for singing, but when I heard Ella sing, I knew that jazz singing was what I really wanted to do.” Following her passion, Shirley pursued her dreams, first to Illinois to earn a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University, and then back home to New York, to study Voice at the distinguished Manhattan School of Music (MSM). During the day she studied classical music uptown at MSM, but in the evening, she traveled downtown to sing jazz in the clubs. A a versatile performer, Crabbe has appeared in various stage productions and at world-famous jazz clubs. In 2009, she was awarded Rockland County’s highest arts award: the County Executive Performing Artist Award. Now, with a four-piece combo and combining her love of jazz with her stage experiences, Crabbe is singing songs for Tuxedo Performing Arts Group in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and the great blues singer and Oscar nominated actress, Ethel Waters, at a special dinner-performance (or show w/dessert & coffee) evening beginning on November 16 at 6:00pm in The Tuxedo Club. Reservations are a must: 845-351-3473 or by email: info@tuxedoperformingarts.org.

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Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock/ Latin

Lectures / demos / master classes

sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

concerts The Slide Brothers blues, rock, soul ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 1, 8pm Rebecca Martin & Larry Grenadier �� Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, Nov 2, 8pm JBs Soul Jazz �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 3, 10am-2pm Arlen Roth Band, Lexie Roth Band ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 3, 7pm Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman Americana ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 6, 7pm Alexis P. Suter Band ,Dan LaVoie ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 8, 7pm Pedrito Martinez Group Afro-Cuban ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 9, 7pm The Compact �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 10, 10am-2pm Guy Davis & Professor Louie ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 10, 7pm Mark Hummel’s Golden State Lone Star Revue ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 11, 7pm Waterfall blues, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 14, 7pm Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band, Fido r&r, soul ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 15, 7pm KJ Denhert & The New York Unit, Natalie Forteza ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 16, 7pm Gustafer Yellowgold & Rachel Loshak �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 17, 10am-2pm MAZZ@TheFalcon Presents Mason Bell ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 17, 6pm David Bixler & Arturo O’Farrill “The Auction Project” ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 20, 7pm Joanna Teters & Mad Satta hip-hop, rock, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 21, 7pm Oz Noy Trio w/ Will Lee & Anton Fig, Parc X Trio ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 22, 7pm David Johansen Duo with Brian Koonin ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 23, 7pm “A Night with Elvis at The Castle” Danny Vernon �� Castle Fun Center, Chester, Nov 23, 8pm Arlo Guthrie �� Bethel Woods, Nov 23 & 24, 8pm Erik Lawrence Quartet �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 24, 10am-2pm Paul Green Rock Academy Show Band ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 24, 7pm The MAZZSTOCK ALL*STAR BAND Benefit ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 27, 7pm Second Annual Sullivan County Blues & Music Festival ��Sullivan Hotel, Rock Hill, Nov 29 & 30 Sonando Latin ��The Falcon, Marlboro, November 30, 7pm

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

Open Mic w/Bryan & Erin Keegan ��Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown, Tues & Weds Open Mic w/Joe Frazit or Steve Wells ��Blarney Stone, Warwick, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic w/Bob Keegan �� Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Wednesdays Open Mic w/Eric Callari ��Eddie’s Restaurant, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic w/Mike & Ed ��Castle Fun Center, Chester, Wednesdays, 7pm-10pm Open Mic ��Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, Wednesdays, 7pm-10:30pm Open Mic �� Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Nov 21, 6pm Open Mic w/Jack Higgins �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 7 & 21, 7pm-11pm Musician’s Gathering w/Stacy Cohen �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano ��Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fri & Sat, 6pm-9pm Songwriter’s Circle �� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Saturdays, 3pm-5pm Sarah Morr ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 1, 6pm-9pm Jack Higgins classic rock, R&B �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 1, 7pm-10pm Chris Roade ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 2, 6pm-9pm Mighty Girl ��2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Nov 2 Groovy Tuesday classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 2, 7pm-10pm Mighty Girl �� 2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Nov 2, 8:30pm Anthony Fiore soft rock ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 3, 2:30pm-5:30pm Claudia Nygaard �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Nov 6, 7pm Joe Frazita ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 8, 6pm-9pm The Bootleggers classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 8, 7pm-10pm e’lissa jones ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 9, 6pm-9pm Leo & the Lizards classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 9, 7pm-10pm Earl Lipper rock ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 10, 2:30pm-5:30pm Piet Koster ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 15, 6pm-9pm Al Westphal classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 15, 7pm-10pm Music for Humanity ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 16, 6pm-9pm Acoustic Dirt classic rock, R&B, blues �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 16, 7pm-10pm Evan & Lesley soft rock ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 17, 2:30pm-5:30pm Tommy Caprino ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 22, 6pm-9pm Josh Casino rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 22, 7pm-10pm The Back Jacks ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 23, 6pm-9pm Hurley Mountain Highway classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 23, 7pm-10pm Dali Blu ��The Tuxedo Junction Inn, Tuxedo Park, Nov 23, TBA Leo B. classic rock ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 24, 2:30pm-5:30pm Bruce Perone & the Fun-Da-Mentals �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 27, 7pm-10pm Pauly DiDio ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 29, 6pm-9pm Evan Teatum classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 29, 7pm-10pm Sojourn ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 30, 6pm-9pm The All Star Band! classic rock �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Nov 30, 7pm-10pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

November 2013

MSM-DC �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-GCL �� Gilman Center Library, SUNY Orange Middletown SUNYO-KH �� Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange Newburgh SUNYO-OH ��Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, Middletown

lectures

“Leonard Bernstein: an American Original” �� MSM-DC Nov 1, 10am

“Wolf!” Meet Atka ��Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Nov 2, 4:30pm & 6pm

“Mindfulness Hike to the Grail” Lisa Mechaley, hike and lecture �� Hudson Highlands Museum Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Nov 3, 3pm & Nov 6 9:30am “Falling Upwards” �� MSM-DC Nov 5, 1pm “Russel Wright: Designing with Nature” Dianne Pierce �� Cornwall Presbyterian Ch., Nov 5, 7:30pm “Growing Trees in the Urban Jungle” Nina Bassuk �� SUNYO-OH, Nov 6, 7pm “Arts in the Hudson Valley: Continuing Traditions of the Plein Air Painters” �� Paul Miller, Lorraine Furey Conerstone Masonic Historical Society, Monroe, Nov 6, 7pm “Everyday Weather & Monstrous Storms” �� MSM-DC Nov 7, 10am “Hiding in Plain Sight: Tracking a New Frog Species in Orange County” Jay Westerveld �� SUNYO-GCL Nov 7, 7pm “Planning a Genealogical Research Trip” �� MSM-DC Nov 8, 1pm “The Murder of Richard Jennings” Michael Worden �� Town of Deerpark Museum, Huguenot, Nov 10, 2pm “Advertures in Publishing & Marketing Your Own Book” Marianne Sciucco �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Nov 12, 6:30pm “You Say You Want a Revolution:John Lennon,The Beatles, & the Politics of the 1960s & 1970s”. MSM-DC Nov 13, 6:30pm “November Wine & Food: A Match Made in Heaven” Jo An DeGaglia �� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Nov 14, 7pm “FDR and His Hudson Valley Neighbors” �� MSM-DC Nov 18, 6:30pm “In Favor of the Old, the Revival of Elderhood in the 21st Century” �� MSM-DC Nov 19, 1pm “150 Years Ago - The Significance of the Gettysburg Address” �� MSM-DC Nov 19, 6:30pm “Managing Holiday Temptations” Cara Mahoney �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Nov 19, 6:30pm “Integrating Carbon Capture, Local Climate, Energy Use & Biodiveristy: Planting Trees and �� Conserving & Enhancing Forests” Paul Mankiewicz SUNYO-OH, Nov 19, 7pm “The Broad Scope of Cyber Crime” ,John Otero �� SUNYO-OH Nov 20, 7pm SCIENCE CAFE: “Potential Health Impacts of Natural Gas Development” Larysa Dyrszka �� Diana’s Restaurant, New Windsor, Nov 20, 7pm Real Estate Staging �� MSM-DC Nov 21, 6pm “Introduction to Astronomy” outdoor event ��PEEC Nov 23, 7pm

demos

Glass Blowing ��Gillinder Glass, Port Jervis, Nov 2 & 16 & 29, 10am-3pm “What to do with the Leftover Turkey” John Moultrie ��Newburgh Library, Nov 2, 1pm

master classes

“The Keys to Tree Identification” Monty Vacura ��SUNYO-OH Nov 2, 10am “Forests & Communities: A Critical Long-Term Relationship Blending Ecology & Economy” �� Marilyn Wyman & Simon Gruber SUNYO-OH, Nov 12, 2pm “Calligraphy and the Way of Brush & Ink” Ron Gee ��SUNYO-OH Nov 14, 11am “Metal Logic...A Creative Alchemy” Carol Flaitz & Tom Homes �� SUNYO-KH Nov 21, 3pm

Museum Calendar Sculpture Exhibit ��Dia: Beacon, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum �� Ellenville, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living �� Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing Brick House & Hill Hold Museums �� Montgomery & Campbell Hall, ongoing “Thomas Houseago: As I Went Out One Morning” �� Storm King Art Center, thru Nov 11 David Brooks “A Proverbial Machine in the Garden” �� Storm King Art Center, thru Nov 11 Fly Fishing Exhibit �� Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, thru Dec 9 Nursery Rhymes ��Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Dec 22 “Keeping Time: The Photographs of Don Hunstein - The Unused Archive of Columbia Records” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31

canvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning & Preservation, Monroe Ted Gill Poetry in the Gallery............................................................................................................... Art Auctions Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Nov 3, 7pm Hudson River School of Art private collection of Paul Miller �� Addison Goodson, Host: Robert Milby �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 7, 7pm Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society, Monroe, Nov 3-17 Hudson River Poets ��Newburgh Library, Nov 7, 7pm FREE cinema Paul Kane “The Place of Poems: Poems from Orange County” �� “Clue” �� Bethel Woods, Nov 1, 7pm Orange Hall Gallery, SUNYO Middletown, Nov 18, 7pm “Mister Roberts” �� Cornwall Library, Nov 13, Noon FREE Poetry at the Church ��Goshen Methodist Church, Nov 25, 7pm “Man of Steel” �� Newburgh Library, Nov 16, 2pm FREE Oliver Gretch Poetry in the Gallery ��Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Dec 1, 7pm “Honor Flight” documentary �� Cornwall Library, Nov 19, 6pm FREE Thanksgiving Silent Treats dinner & film �� Arrow Park, Monroe, Nov 21, 6pm recreation “Persepolis” �� Cornwall Library, Nov 21, 6pm FREE Social, Ballroom Latin Dancing ��Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Wednesdays. 7:30pm Movie Matinee �� Cornwall Library, Nov 24, 1:30pm FREE Country Western Line Dancing �� Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Thursdays 7:30pm Surreal Films ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Nov 29, 7pm Wild Things Ball fundraiser ��Pocono Envirommental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Nov 2 Afternoon Matinee ��Florida Library, Nov 30, 2pm FREE Pre-Turkey Line Dancing ��Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Nov 27, 7:30pm

comedy

Open Mic ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester. 2nd Friday Don Jamieson, James Oakes �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Nov 2, 8pm Isaacs & Baker, Brian Cichocki �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Nov 9, 8pm Flo Hannes “11-12-13 Laugh” w/dinner ��Newburgh Brewing Company, Nov 12, 5:30pm Mark DeMayo, Gene Trifilio �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Nov 16 8pm Rodney Laney, Mike Speirs �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Nov 23, 8pm Otto & George �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Nov 30, 8pm

storytelling

festival

“Sisters Under the Skin” Cornerstone Arts Alliance ��Goshen Music Hall, Nov 2-17 “JUAREZ:A Documentary Mythology “Theatre Mitu NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Nov 2, 7:30pm “Musings & Amusements” w/ & by Leora Cassells ��Elks Lodge, Monticello, Nov 3, 2pm “Rabbit Hole” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players ��Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, Nov 8-17 “Last Words” w/ & by Laura E J Moran ��NACL Theatre, Nov 17. 4pm

“Tribute to Veterans” Stained Glass Window Dedication & Broadway Concerts Direct �� United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, Nov 3, 1pm FREE

holiday CRAFts Shows & Sales

Annual Holiday Bazaar ��Cragsmoor Historical Society, Nov 1, 5pm-9pm, Nov 2 & 3, 10am-4pm Gift & Craft Boutique ��Temple Sinai, Middletown, Nov 2, 10am-3pm WJFF Annual Music Sale ��White Sulphur Springs Fire Hall, Nov 23, 11am-3pm Holiday Arts & Crafts Festival �� Paul Gerry Fieldhouse, SUNY Sullivan, Nov 24, 10am-4pm Craft Show Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Rock Tavern, Sundays, Noon-5pm, Nov 24-Dec 22

music - Broadway - Light classics - tin pan alley - cabaret

Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway “Sibling Revelry” �� Bethel Woods, Nov 2, 8pm Broadway Concerts Direct “Simple Gifts” ��Wurtsboro Community Church, Nov 16, 8pm Sonny & Perley “Women Composers” �� Newburgh Library, Nov 17, 3pm FREE “TITANIC Revisited” w/Ron De Fesi, cond. �� First Presbyterian Church of Monroe, Nov 17, 8pm

music - Classical

SUNY Orange Community Band ��Paramount Theater, Middletown, Nov 2, 8pm SUNY Orange Community Orchestra ��Paramount Theater, Middletown, Nov 3, 3pm American String Quartet Newburgh Chamber Music....................................................................... St. George’s Ch., Newburgh, Nov 3, 3pm Dan Stevens guitar, Lynette Benner flute ��Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Nov 8, 7:30pm Naoko Takada marimba, Kindred Spirits Arts �� Milford Theater, Nov 9, 5:30pm “Early French Baroque Masterpieces” Shandelee Music Festival �� Bethel Woods, Nov 10, 3pm

USMA Concert Band & Jazz Knights “Veteran’s Day” �� Eisenhower Hall Theatre, Nov 10, 3pm FREE

Daedalus String Quartet & Soyeon Kate Lee piano Howland Cultural Ctr., Beacon, Nov 10, 4pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Brahms Requiem w/3 chorales, 2 soloists �� Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, Nov 16, 7:30pm Ambrosia Trio Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Senior Center, Montgomery, Nov 17, 3pm FREE Stanley & Naomi Drucker clarinets & Marilyn Lehman piano �� Orange Hall, SUNYO Middletown , Nov 24, 3pm

music - jazz

Sunday Bruch with The Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays 11am The Ignacio Berroa Trio �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 2, 7pm Leigh Jonaitis and Larry Newcomb �� Florida Library, Nov 3, 1pm-FREE Steve Marche-Torme’s Snap! Sizzel! Pop! �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 7, 7pm Hudson Valley Jazz Fest All Stars �� The Dautaj, Warwick, Nov 8, 8pm Shirley Crabbe & Friends “A Tribute to Ethel & Ella” ��The Tuxedo Club, Nov 16, 4pm Howard Alden & Jack Wilkins guitars............................................................................................... Seligmann Center for the Arts, Nov 17, 3pm Joe Lovano at 60! With Friends & Family �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Nov 29, 7pm

music - World

“A Night of Indian Music & Beyond” ��Kaplan Hall, SUNYO Newburgh, Nov 8, 8pm

opera

“Tosca” Puccini, Live from the Met in HD �� Seelig Auditorium, SUNY Sullivan, Nov 9, 1pm “Eugene Onegin” Tchaikovsky, video �� Cornwall Library, Nov 17, 1pm FREE

poetry & prose readings

Barbara Adams, Ken Holland �� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Nov 1, 8pm Poetry on the Loose ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, Nov 2, 3:30pm FREE

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “The Seven Seas” ��Florida Library, Nov 14, 7:30pm FREE 14th Annual Tellabration ��Florida Library, Nov 16, 2pm FREE

theatre - musical

“Ring of Fire - The Music of Johnny Cash” �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Nov 3

theatre - play

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Dali Blu: More Than A Diva Dali Blu is an innovative singer/songwriter with a powerful, sultry vocal style that will steal your heart and rock your soul. Born into a family of musical talent, “Blu,” as she is known by many, is the product of a father who played piano and guitar, and a mother whose powerful theatrical voice is the foundation of her own unique vocal style. Her sound resembles such powerhouse divas as Etta James, Aretha Franklin or the dynamic Tina Turner, yet her versatility widens her style to suit the soft melodic sounds in her love songs. Music from her album, Diamond in the Ruff can be found at www.mypace.com/daliblu. Dali is backed by guitarists Al Witoff and Ray Chong, and keyboardist Bill Comicz, all from the Long Island area, as well as bassist Gene Madigan from Chester, Manhattan sax player Rafik Cezanne, and Tuxedo Park’s Manny Fasano on drums. Dali rises above adversity to write her music, drawing emotion and creativity from the tragic experiences of her past. Could Never Say Goodbye, a song dedicated to the recent death of her sister, demonstrates the passion one can only feel from true life experience. Dali has performed with many bands in the New York City area including Hard Bargain, chosen as one of the “30 Best Bands” by Cornerband. During Christmas of 2008, she performed for a military benefit in Times Square featuring Aretha

Franklin that was covered on Today’s Weekend on NBC. Dali has performed with Rus Paul, son of legendary guitarist and inventor, Les Paul. She has performed at venues such as the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem, The Prudential Center Arena, The Shrine, The Bitter End, New York’s China Club, Sunset Station in San Antonio, TX, the magnificent MGM Grand Dali Blu’s album, in Las Vegas, and Nashville’s “Diamond in the Ruff” Gaylord-Opryland Hotel. And from Dali herself: “I don’t believe you should limit yourself...we are all God’s children!” Come and listen to Dali Blu when she performs at The Tuxedo Junction Inn, 209 Route 17, Tuxedo Park (845-915-3220) on November 23. Visit www.daliblu.net for more on Dali.

November 2013

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

Novemb BW �� Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS ��CAS Arts Center, Catskill Arts Society, Livingston Manor CTMW ��Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players, Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe DCAT �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Distillery, Bethel EHT �� Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro

MONDAY

TUESDAY

GMCM ��Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, Senior Center, Montgomery HCC ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon JCC ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Castle Fun Center, Chester MSM-AQ �� Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh NACL ��NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NCR ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

WEDNESDAY

For one night only, the CAS Arts Center at 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, will be open late with free candy for trick-or-treaters and “CAS by Candlelight,” an eerie evening gallery walk, from 6:00pm to 8:30pm.

“Golden Sunset” by Linda Rahl Nadas on view at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern Still Life by Gayle Clark Fedigan on view at Orange Regional Medical Center, Nov. 22 - Jan. 17

Barry Plaxen and his younger brother Chris Farlekas at Bethel Woods on October 20. Photo by Ron Weathers

11 Music Mark Hummel’s Golden State Lone Star Revue FAL 7pm

12 Comedy & Dinner Flo Hannes Newburgh Brewing Company, 5:30pm

Poetry Paul Kane SUNYO-OH 7pm

Cinema “Honor Flight” Cornwall Library, 6pm

Music Claudia Nygaard Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel 7pm Music Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman FAL 7pm

13 Recreation Social, Ballroom, Latin Dancing JCC, 7:30pm

Music - Afro-Cuban David Bixler & Arturo O’Farrill FAL 7pm

Music The MAZZSTOCK ALL *STAR BAND BENEFIT FAL 7pm

Poetry Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church 7pm

“Rev. Farley” by Cynthia Harris Pagano on view at Otisville-Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church, Nov. 15-17

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

November 2013

Happy een! Hallow

Recreation Pre-Turkey Line Dancing JCC, 7:30pm

FRI

Cinema...................................“Clu Prose......First Friday Contemporary

Poetry..................Barbara Adams Music - Blues-Rock-Soul...The Slid Theatre - Musical....”Ring of Fire

Poetry.................. Addison Goodson.............. NCR 7pm Poetry................ Hudson River Poets............. NFL 7pm Recreation...Country Western Line Dancing.. JCC 7pm Music - Jazz....... Steve Marche-Torme..............FAL 7pm

Theatre - Play...“Sisters Under th Music............... Alexis P. Suter Ba Music - Classical......Flute & Guita Music........“A Night of Indian Mus Music - Jazz............Jazz Fest All Theatre - Play...................“Rabbit

Open Mic....Musican’s Gathering........Dancing Cat, Bethel,7:30pm

Recreation Social, Ballroom, Latin Dancing JCC, 7:30pm

THURSDAY

Recreation...Country Western Line Dancing.. JCC 7pm Music - Blues, Jazz..... Waterfall........................FAL 7pm

Music....... Scott Sharrad & The B Theatre - Play...“Sisters Under th Theatre - Play...................“Rabbit

Open Mic....Musican’s Gathering........Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

Storytelling..Black Dirt Storytelling Guild..Florida Lib., 7:30pm

Dinner&Film.Thanksgiving Silent TreatsArrow Park, Monroe, 6pm

Cinema...........“Persepolis.”......... Cornwall Library, 7pm Recreation...Country Western Line Dancing.. JCC 7pm Music-HipHop-Rock........Mad Satta...................FAL 7pm

Music-Jazz-Funk..... Oz NoyTrio, P

Open Mic....Musican’s Gathering........Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7:30pm

Music....Blues & Music Festival... Music - Jazz....Joe Lovano at 60!

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IDAY

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Brickyard Band, Fido........FAL 7pm he Skin”....Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Hole”...........................CTMW 8pm

Parc-X Trio........................FAL 7pm

.........Sullivan Hotel, Rock Hill, 4pm With Friends & Family....FAL 7pm

ST �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville SUNYO-KH �� Kaplan Hall, SUNY Ornage, Newburgh SUNYO-OH �� Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, Middletown WAA �� Wutsboro Art Alliance

SATURDAY

Recreation............................. Wild Things Ball.........................................PEEC Theatre -Musical......... “Ring of Fire - Music of Johnny Cash”........ ST 2pm & 8pm Poetry.........................................Poetry on the Loose......................SLGMN 3:30pm Music - Jazz.............................The Ignacio Berroa Trio.............................. FAL 7pm Theatre - Play......................... “Sisters Under the Skin”.... Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Theatre - Play.............. “JUAREZ: A documentary Mythology......... NACL 7:30PM Music - Classical...............SUNY Orange Community Band.........................PT 8pm Cabaret....................... Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway..................BW 8pm Music..............................Rebecca Martin & Larry Grenadier.................... RTZ 8pm Comedy.............................. Don Jamieson, James Oakes........................ JCC 8pm Music..................................Mighty Girl..........2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 8:30pm

Opera - Livecast............................ “Tosca” Puccini................................ SCCC 1pm Music - Classical......................Naoko Takada marimba...... Milford Theater, 5:30pm Music - Afro-Cuban.................. Pedrito Martinez Group.............................. FAL 7pm Theatre - Play..............“Sisters Under the Skin”............... Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Theatre - Play.................................. “Rabbit Hole”................................. CTMW 8pm Comedy.............................Isaacs & Baker, Brian Cichocki...................... JCC, 8pm

Music............................ JBs Soul Jazz.................FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz........ Sunday Brunch with The Jazz Cats.... DCAT 11am

Festival...Honoring Veterans....United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, 1pm

Music - Jazz.....................Jonaitis & Newcomb....Florida Library, 1pm Theatre - Musical..“Ring of Fire - Music of Johnny Cash”....ST 2pm Theatre - Play..“Musings & Amusements.. Elks Lodge, Monticello, 2pm Theatre - Play........“Sisters Under the Skin”.Goshen Music Hall, 2pm Music - Classical.....American String Quartet.. St. George’s Ch, Nwbrgh, 3pm

Music - Classical.....SUNY Orange Community Orchestra....PT 3pm Poetry.........................................Ted Gill.............................. WAA 7pm Music...................Arlen Roth Band, Lexie Roth Band.......... FAL 7pm

Music..........................The Compact............................FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz........ Sunday Brunch with The Jazz Cats.... DCAT 11am Theatre - Play...“Sisters Under the Skin”.... Goshen Music Hall, 2pm Music - Classical.....Early French Baroque Masterpieces....BW 3pm Music - Classical...USMA Concert Band & Jazz Knights.... EHT 3pm

Music - Classical.Daedalus String Quartet, Soyoen Kate Lee.HCC 4pm

Storytelling.............................. 14th Annual Tellabration............Florida Library, 2pm Cinema............................................“Man of Steel”......................................NFL 2pm Music - Jazz.Shirley Crabbe “Ethel & Ella Tribute”....The Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo, 4pm Theatre - Play..............“Sisters Under the Skin”............... Goshen Music Hall, 7pm Music.......KJ Denhart & The New York Unit, Natalie Forteza & Band...... FAL 7pm Music - Classical.....Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra.....MSM-AQ 7:30pm Music...............Broadway Concerts Direct...... Wurtsboro Community Church, 8pm Theatre - Play.................................. “Rabbit Hole”................................. CTMW 8pm Comedy................................ Mark DeMayo, Gene Trifilo............ JCC, Chester, 8pm

Music......................... David Johansen Duo with Brian Koonin................ FAL 7pm Music................................................ Arlo Guthrie.........................................BW 8pm Music.......................”A Night with Elvis”..............Castle Fun Center, Chester, 8pm Comedy ...............................Rodney Laney, Mike Speirs.......................... JCC 8pm

30 Music...........................Blues & Music Festival.......... Sullivan Hotel, Rock Hill, 2pm Cinema........................................ Afternoon Matinee.................Florida Library, 2pm Comedy...........................................Otto & George..................................... JCC 8pm

SUNDAY

Music........Gustafer Yellowgold & Rachel Loshak...FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.Sunday Brunch with The Jazz Cats.......... DCAT 11am Cinema - video......................... “Eugene Onegin”.......... Cornwall Library, 1pm Theatre - Play..............“Sisters Under the Skin”....... Goshen Music Hall, 2pm Cinema.......................................“Mary Poppins”................................ BW 2pm Music - Jazz.................... Howard Alden & Jack Wilkins.............. SLGMN 3pm Music - Classical.......................... Ambrosia Trio.............................GMCM 3pm Music - B’way-Tin Pan Alley...Sonny & Perley.....................................NFL 3pm Theatre - Play...............................“Rabbit Hole”............................. CTMW 3pm Theatre - Play...............................“Last Words”...............................NACL 4pm Music - Rock’nSoul.........................Mason Bell....................................FAL 6pm Music...............“TITANIC Revisited.......... First Presbyterian Ch. Monroe, 8pm

Music..........................Erik Lawrence Quartet.............FAL 10am-2pm Festival...Holiday Arts & Crafts Festival...SUNY Sullivan, 10am-4pm Music - Jazz........ Sunday Brunch with The Jazz Cats.... DCAT 11am Cinema.......................Movie Matinee........... Cornwall Library, 1:30-m Music - Classical.Clarinet & Piano Recital w/the Druckers..SUNYO-OH 3pm

Music............... Paul Green Rock Academy Show Band...... FAL 7pm Music......................................Arlo Guthrie.............................BW 8pm

1 Music..........Sunday Brunch with JBs Soul Jazz.......FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz........ Sunday Brunch with The Jazz Cats.... DCAT 11am Poetry....................................Oliver Gretch.......................... WAA 7pm

November 2013

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

canvas category calendar Art exhibits

sponsored by Wurtsboro Art Alliance & Wallkill River School

CAS �� Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DAC �� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WRS ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery Group Show �� Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography ��Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, painting �� BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Group Show ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, ongoing “Illuminated Dreams: Hidden in Plain Sight” & “Numina: Masks of the Elements” �� Healing Arts Gallery, Newburgh, thru TBA ”Life Up Close: Art Inspired by Science” ��Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, thru Nov 1 Kathe Blackbird Frantz “The Delaware River and the Universe” �� DAC thru Nov 2 Orange County Arts Council Studio Tour Members ��Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, thru Nov 2 George Van Hook “Plein Air Master” ��RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Nov 3 Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian watercolors, oils, pastels �� MSM-DC thru Nov 4 Randall Fitzgerald, Marie Liu ��The ARTery, Milford, thru Nov 4 Gene Bove paintings �� Leo’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, Newburgh, thru Nov 6 Steve Blumenthal paintings �� Leo’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, thru Nov 6 Teegan Kennedy & Caroline Harrow �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, thru Nov 6 William Noonan �� Elant at Goshen, thru Nov 11 “Harvest” WRS members ��WRS thru Nov 14 Ellen Cibula drawings & paintings, William Landau metal works ��CAS thru Nov 17 Orange County Art Federation group show ��Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, thru Nov 25 “Recent Works by the Artists of New Hope Community” ��Liberty Library thru Nov 25 Autumn Exhibit Joe Splendora & 30 artists �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Nov 27 “Metal Logic” Beacon Artist Union (bau) �� SUNYO-KH thru Dec 2 CANVAS 9th Anniversary Exhibit group show, art, photography, crafts, sculpture �� Wulff Gallery, Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, thru Dec 9 Janet Howard-Fatta “Local Landscape Paintings” �� Caffe Ala Mode, Warwick, thru Dec 22 River Valley Artists Guild “Autumnal Equinox” �� Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, thru Dec 23 “Wonder & Mystery” group show �� Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern, thru Aug 2014

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Washingtonville Art Society group show �� Weathervane Clubhouse, Nov 1, 5pm-8pm Ron Gee “One Artist, Two Visions - Abstract & Representational Paintings SUNYO-OH Nov 1-29 Marge Morales, Marylyn Vanderpool, Paula Baldinger ��WRS Nov 1-30 Goshen Art League ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Nov 1-30 Debbe Cushman Femiak “A Passion for Art” �� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Nov 1-Dec 29 Marilyn Maharg oils ��New Windsor Art Gallery, Nov 2-15 “Landscapes” Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Nov 2-24 “18 Ways of Looking at a Tree” LongReach Arts group show ��SUNYO-OH Nov 3-29 Hudson River School of Art private collection of Paul Miller �� Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society, Monroe, Nov 3 & 16, 1pm-4pm Peter Sheehan �� Old Stone House of Hasbrouck, Woodbourne, Nov 3-30 Ben vanSteenburgh III & Group Show �� The ARTery, Milford, Nov 8-Dec 9 Nina Isabelle, Beau Gostomsky, Lucienne Weinberger �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, Nov 8-20 Grey Zeien, Gary Jacketti, Alex Uribe “Stuff & Nonsense” ��Beacon Artists Union Nov 9-Dec 8 Group Show & Haitian Artists �� Otisville-Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church, Nov 15-17 “Holiday” WRS members group show �� WRS Nov 15-Dec 14 Joan Lesikin, Hana Marritz, Linda Bastian �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, Nov 22-Dec 4 Collin Resch “Celestial Glances” ��Healing Art Studios, Newburgh, Nov 22 TBA “Art In Sixes” ��DAC Nov 22-Dec 22 Gayle Clark Fedigan & Robert Trondsen Emlightened Views �� Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, Nov 22-Jan 17 Winter Members Show & Holiday Fair �� CAS Nov 23-Dec 31

photography exhibits

Karen Kruger “Ahead of the Curve” �� Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, thru Nov 1 Bonnie Lynn “Shohola, Place of Peace” ��The Forge, Milford, thru Nov 4 David Brandt ��Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, thru Dec 22 Meredith Heuer “A Visual Map of Community” ��Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, thru Jan 5

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Edna-Gonzalez-Rotherberg ��Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Nov 9-Dec 8

ART & Photography receptions

Washingtonville Art Society group show �� Weathervane Clubhouse, Nov 1, 5pm-8pm

Orange County Art Federation group show �� Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, Nov 1, 5pm-7pm

“Landscapes” Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters �� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Nov 2, 3pm-5pm

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Marilyn Maharg oils �� New Windsor Art Gallery, Nov 2, 4pm-7pm “18 Ways of Looking at a Tree” LongReach Arts group show �� SUNYO-OH w/Joy Zelda, classical guitar, Nov 3, 1pm-4pm (discussion 2:30pm) Peter Sheehan �� Old Stone House of Hasbrouck, Woodbourne, Nov 3, 1pm-4pm Debbe Cushman Femiak “A Passion for Art” ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Nov 9, 1pm-3pm Nina Isabelle, Beau Gostomsky, Lucienne Weinberger Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, Nov 9, 4pm-7pm Marge Morales, Marylyn Vanderpool, Paula Baldinger �� WRS Nov 9, 5pm-7pm Grey Zeien, Gary Jacketti, Alex Uribe “Stuff & Nonsense” �� Beacon Artists Union, Nov 9, 6pm-9pm

Edna-Gonzalez-Rotherberg ��Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, Nov 9, 6pm-9pm Ben vanSteenburgh III & Group Show �� The ARTery, Milford, Nov 9, 6pm-9pm Hudson River School of Art private collection of Paul Miller �� Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society, Monroe, Nov 17, 3pm-6pm Collin Resch “Celestial Glances” �� Healing Art Studios, Newburgh, Nov 22, 7pm-9pm Winter Members Show & Holiday Fair �� CAS Nov 23, 2pm-4pm “Art In Sixes” �� DAC Nov 23, 2pm-4pm Gayle Clark Fedigan & Robert Trondsen Emlightened Views �� Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, Nov 22, 4pm-6pm Ron Gee “One Artist, Two Visions - Abstract & Representational Paintings �� SUNYO-OH Nov 22, 5:30pm-7:30pm Joan Lesikin, Hana Marritz, Linda Bastian ��Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, Nov 23, 4pm-7pm

book Discussions

Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, Fourth Tuesday, 7pm Eleanor Kuhns “Death of a Dyer” �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Nov 6, 6:30pm 1st Wednesday Book Group ��Cornwall Library, Nov 6, 7pm “11-22-63” by Stephen King, w/Lisa Hewel �� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Nov 7, 6:30pm “The Murder of Richard Jennings” Michael Worden �� Town of Deerpark Museum, Huguenot, Nov 10, 2pm ”When We Were the Kennedys” ��Newburgh Library, Nov 10, 2pm “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz F. Scott Fitzgerald ��Crawford Lib., Monticello, Nov 12, 7:30pm Scholar’s Book Discussion ��Newburgh Library, Nov 13, 7pm “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbo ��Cornwall Library, Nov 20, 7pm “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Nov 21, 6:15pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Nov 22, 11:30am

clubs

Chess Club �� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess �� Narrowsburg Library, Friday 6pm Knit and Stitch �� Narrowburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting Group �� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ��Liberty Library, Tuesdays 10:15am Knitting Club �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting “Stitch and Bitch” �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Knit/Crochet Club �� Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters �� Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Club ��Newburgh Library, Nov 12 & 26, 7pm Knitting Circle �� Florida Library, Nov 18, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. �� Last Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills,org The Music Lovers Group classical ��3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Calico Geese Quilters Guild �� Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop �� St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Scrabble Mania �� Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ��Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Woodcarving Guild �� Museum Village, Monroe, Wednesdays, 7pm

schools & COnservatories

Resident Holiday Cards Exhibit �� Elant at Goshen, Nov 11-Dec 2 “Two One-Act Plays” The Apprentice Players �� Orange Hall, SUNYO Middletown, Nov 8-17 “Be Careful What You Wish For” Young Actors Academy �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Nov 9, 1pm & 4pm “The Jungle Book” Young Actors Academy ��Ellenville High School, Nov 16, 2pm “Honk, Jr” Eldred Elementary Students �� Eldred Elementary School, Nov 16, 2pm

children & Teens Calendar

HHNM �� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall

cinema

“Mary Poppins” �� Bethel Woods, Nov 17, 2pm

Museums

Meet the Animals �� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Eco-Zone ��Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Nov 3, 10, 16, 1pm-4pm

recreation & Lectures

Nature Strollers ��HHNM Thursdays 10am Owls of the Hudson Valley Lisa Mechaley �� HHNM Nov 9, 10am Native American Toys & Games �� HHNM Nov 10, 10am

W h i s p e r i n g P i n e s . . . with Executive Chef, Douglas P. Frey Thanksgiving The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church. They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland to escape religious persecution. They eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. The Separatists then negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. They had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And they decided to celebrate with a feast, including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it without the help of the natives. The feast was more of an English harvest festival than a true “thanksgiving” observance. It lasted three days. Governor William Bradford sent “four men fowling” after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that turkey was part of their feast. The term “turkey” was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl. This “thanksgiving” feast was not repeated the following year. But in 1623, during a drought, the pilgrims prayed for rain. When a long rain followed the next day, Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of thanksgiving, again inviting their Indian friends. Another day of thanksgiving was proclaimed in June, 1676.

Here are a few of my favorites! Enjoy! Turkey w/Maple Glaze & Cranberry Bourbon Relish

• 1 whole 12-15 lb. fresh turkey • salt and pepper to taste • 1 onion • 3-4 T. unsalted butter, melted • 2 c. chicken stock • 1/4 c. maple syrup • Cranberry-bourbon relish (recipe follows) Preheat oven 350F. Rinse turkey inside and out thoroughly. Season cavity and the outside with salt and pepper. Place onion in cavity, close with skewer and tie legs together. Place turkey breast-side up on rack in a large roasting pan. Brush melted butter over turkey. Pour 1/2c. stock into pan. Roast turkey for 15 minutes per pound or until meat thermometer registers 180F. in the leg and 170F. in the breast (about 3 hours). Baste turkey w/ pan juice, add 1/2 c. stock to pan every 45 min. Combine remaining butter w/ syrup & brush over turkey the last 1/2 hour of cooking.

Cranberry Bourbon Relish

• 2c bourbon • 1/2c minced shallot • Zest of 1 large orange • 2 (12 oz.) bags fresh cranberries • 2c sugar • 1t fresh grated ginger • 2t ground black pepper Combine in a non-reactive saucepan (not aluminum) the bourbon, shallots, ginger and orange zest. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer until it reduces to a syrupy glaze. Add cranberries & sugar, raise heat and bring to a boil stirring to combine. Lower heat and cook until cranberries start to burst. Remove from heat and add pepper. Cool and refrigerate until needed.

For any of your culinary questions, I can be called at Whispering Pines Caterers, 845-647-1428.

Pulitzer Drama in Monroe

Creative TheatreMuddy Water Players’ (CTMWP) 2013 Fall Finale features the Pulitzer Prize Play Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire (photo right.) Rabbit Hole was produced in 2006 in New York with Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, and John Slattery, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, as well as other Tony awards, and Cynthia Nixon won a Tony as Best Actress. The new Broadway musical Shrek!, based on the story and characters from William Steig’s book Shrek!, as well as the Dreamworks Animation film, features a book and lyrics by Lindsay-Abaire. Lindsay-Abaire also has writing credit on three screenplays, Robots (2005), Inkheart (2007), and the film adaptation of Rabbit Hole, in which Nicole Kidman starred. She also produced the film, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rabbit Hole is about Becca and Howie Corbett who have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. “Heartbreaking in its theme and details,

the play is a beautifully crafted work of great sensitivity,” states the promotional material. “It is an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty.” No newcomer to CTMWP’s presentations, this production is under the direction of Les Ferguson (see photo top right) who not only designs sets (Chinese Coffee at the Goshen Music Hall in February 2012), but is well remembered for his heartrending performance in The Grapes of Wrath for Women in Arts in 2008, in the play Cobb at the Harness Racing Museum in 2010, for playing several roles for The Educational Theatre Series of the Goshen Public Library & Historical Society in it’s Spring 2011 production of Paul Robeson: AllAmerican, and in 2012 for his serio-comic acting in Cornerstone Arts Alliance’s The Worst Show in the Fringe. Performances are scheduled for November 8-17 at The Playhouse at Museum Village, Route 17M, Monroe. Reservations are suggested. For more information, call the Box Office at 845-294-9465 or visit their website at: www.CTMWP.org.

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Political Intrigue, Murder & Lust at an Affordable Price The Metropolitan Opera will broadcast live in HD its November 9 performance of Giacomo Puccini’s securely established Tosca, a tale of murder, lust and politics. The broadcast will be the third in a series of 10 “Live in HD” broadcasts reflecting the Met’s 2013-14, series of the same name, as well as the success of General Manager Peter Gelb to open the doors of the Met to the general public, at an affordable price. Not the $1 admission to the balcony of 1941, but without doubt filling the coffers of the House. In this case Live in HD refers to the simulcast transmission of a production from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York City. Early HDTV broadcasting used analog technology, but today, productions from the Met are transmitted digitally, using video compression. The Met, it should be noted, is no stranger to innovation, especially innovation related to broadcasting. In fact the Met initiated live radio broadcast from its stage at the “Old Met,” in 1910. Coincidently to the publication of this article, the first transmission was a performance of Acts II and III of Puccini’s Tosca on January 12, 1910. The following evening, January 13, 1910, familiar portions of Pagliacci starring

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Enrico Caruso were broadcast. The New York Times reported on January 14, 1910, “Opera broadcast in part from the stage of the New York City Metropolitan Opera Company... could be heard as far away as Newark!” The renowned series of Saturday afternoon broadcasts will begin its 83rd season in December. Familiar to many, Saturday broadcasts were at one time sponsored by The Texas Company, better known as Texaco. Its support lasted 63 years. Currently, the 20132014 broadcast season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, with generous long-term support from foundations, endowment and listeners. Peter Gelb, is said to be the most powerful man in opera. He is responsible for the implementation of the “Live in HD” concept and its extraordinary financial success. Financial Times of London modestly estimates

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the Met will transmit to 1,700 locations in 54 countries, going so far to state that Gelb, since beginning modestly in 2006, “has globalized its audience with ‘Live in HD.” No doubt the assertion is true and also valid are the financial rewards reaped from Mr. Gelb’s bold action and unflinching belief in the altruistic concept of delivering great opera to the public. Financial Times of London also states that in 2012 average HD attendance was 250,000 at an average, affordable cost of $18-$22 a ticket Live in HD is turning into a “money-spinner,” generating an annual profit for the Met of $11 million. One issue that deserves greater investigation is the net effect the popularization of the opera, a result of affordable orchestra seats, has had on the growth and financial stability of local opera companies. This writer is not in the position to comment on the growth or financial conditions of local opera companies and can note only that recent performances of the Delaware Valley Opera of Narrowsburg and Hudson Opera Theatre of Middletown have been well received by gracious audiences. As for the experience of attending the

Metropolitan Opera in New York City contrasted with attending a performance at the Seelig Theatre at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake, some observers have commented on the limitations of the HD transmissions. True, the Seelig Theater has no rising chandeliers to signal the readiness of the first violin and to be sincere, it is not the same experience. There are limitations but also additions. In the January ’13 Live in HD performance of Aida at SUNY Sullivan, the rivalry between the two spoiled princesses Aida and Amneris, was visually amplified by vivid facial close ups of Amneris, as she clearly revealed her surly disregard for Aida with a snarling upper lip. Surely, competition of this intensity for the affections of Radamès was not visible beyond the first two or three rows of the $265 orchestra section. Subtle they were, but important facial expressions by trained vocalists/actors enrich the theatrical level of appreciation for those who attend affordable Live in HD performances from the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. For SUNY Sullivan tickets: 845-434-5750, ext. 4472.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation’s One Year Exhibit

by Vicki Botta

Little did her mother know that she planted the seeds of her daughter’s career as she brought Roberta Green (see photo right) to ceramics class at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School every Saturday when she was in elementary school. “When I saw my teacher raise a cylinder on the potters wheel, and as if by magic, spun it into a beautiful vase, I dug my hands into the vat of wet clay and ceramics was part of my life ever since,” said Roberta. Roberta currently has a studio in the basement of her home, that she sahres with husband Herb and daughter Ally, in Warwick. “I feel blessed to call Warwick home. The beauty that I get to see every day is mind-boggling, and I know now why artists have gravitated to this hamlet and find it hard to leave. I can honestly say there is never a day when I go down into my studio without a whole bevy of ideas in my head that I’m hankering to try.” A year and a half ago, Roberta had the good fortune while waiting in line at “Whole Foods” a well known chain of stores, to have a woman at the register compliment her on her necklace. When Roberta told her that she made the piece, the woman said, oh you have to talk to the manager. Since that day, her jewelry has been available at stores in the Whole Foods chain. Another opportunity unfolded for Roberta when she was asked to participate in a craft venue at the Unitarian Universalist

Congregation in Rock Tavern (UUCRT). Roberta showed up too early to meet with the person she had the appointment with there and ended up staying for a service. She said she found a wonderful spiritual home there in a community of diverse and forward thinking people. “Since that initial introduction to UUC, my participation has come to include curating their gallery, and coordinating their Annual Craft Show and Artisan Boutique. It is a chance to support the community of artists who gravitate to the Hudson Valley and to continue to encourage the arts to flourish here,” she said. Her dream is to have the movement that began promoting “farm to table” consumption spread to include from “artisan to table”, in the spirit of supporting individual members of our community by buying more handmade things that benefit the spirit of the buyer, the end receiver and the maker of that item. There is a time to buy at the lowest prices and there is a time to buy something special, made by a local artist who puts love into what they make. Her own work is unique in that she forms popular shapes that have been around for centuries such as the circle, triangle, etc.

creates unique textures, sometimes melting colored glass in the centers, and then designs the finished piece with different kinds of beads and fixtures that she feels enhance the beauty of the sculpted piece. Roberta’s RG Clay Creations. Inc. creates and sells earthy yet elegant clay jewelry to reflect the inner spirit of the person who wears her pieces. Her pieces are available at www. Rgclaycreations.com and at Etsy.com. She can be reached at 845-544-1211. Holiday Artisan Boutique & Craft Show The UUC boutique showcases high quality crafts created by Hudson Valley artisans working in fiber, metal, clay, glass, wood, photography, upcycled and recycled materials. This year, on Opening Day only, the congregation’s Fellowship Hall will be home to additional vendors selling baked goods, soaps and oils, tribal and ethnic jewelry, greeting cards and other unique holiday gifts. An afternoon live musical concert will be on premises that first Sunday. The show/sale is open to the public from Noon to 5 :00pm Sundays, starting November 24 and ending December 22. It will also be open during two Saturday evening musical events. “Wonder and Mystery” Exhibit Green said she found the theme of this year’s annual show within the works that will be displayed. “I was struck by the feelings

“The Kurt Seligmann Homestead in Spring” by Sarah McHugh

of wonder and mystery that these offerings evoked in me,” she said. “That’s what art does at its best; has us look at the world in a new way, in a way that makes us see people, the land, everyday objects, in a new way.” The artists selected by curator Green are: Jamie MacLeod, Sarah McHugh, Karuna McLaughlin, Linda Rahl-Nadas, Ann Marie Nitti, Brian Rapp, Billie Robson, Erin Clark and Todd Vogel, with works in painting, sculpture, photography and collage. The show, a semi-permanent yearly exhibition will run through August of 2014 and can be viewed on Sundays from Noon to 1:00pm, during other public events at the UUCRT, 9 Vance Road in Rock Tavern, and by appointment throughout the year.

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Community Building Through the Arts with Susan Handler

Art Impacts Emergency Room Behavior Dating back to the prehistoric period, there is evidence that the arts were central to healing rituals. In fact, indigenous cultures today still value the arts as a healing tool. However, for too long, science has disregarded the value of the arts in the field of medicine. A 2011 research report, Impact of Visual Art on Waiting Behavior in the Emergency Department, funded by The Center for Health Design’s Research Coalition (CHD), provides insight into the impact that visual art can have on emergency room patient behavior and the overall healthcare experience. The CHD’s report has been especially beneficial in addressing the effect that art installed in emergency rooms has on children. The study, supported by Americans for the Arts, reveals that the restorative impact of nature images on pediatric patients reduced stress, anxiety, and pain perception (Hathorn & Nanda, 2008), as well as improving attention and overall calm behavior in children. Studies have documented that images affect bodily change. For this reason careful consideration is imperative when installing art in hospitals. Research conducted in Swedish hospitals documented that patients recover

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more quickly when the art they view is realistic rather than abstract. Tranquil scenes that are geographically familiar are the most appropriate choice. Humans are specially drawn to art that portrays native plants and animals. The Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC) in Middletown, has built a Pediatric Emergency Department that has a unique environmental design that has taken into consideration the wholistic needs of their young patients. Last month, the heart of the waiting room was completed with a handpainted 7-foot by 30-foot mural. The commissioned

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muralist selected for the project was Steven Petruccio. Mr. Petruccio has illustrated over sixty books and won awards such as The Parent’s Choice Award, Ben Franklin Award, and the School Library Journal Selection. The theme for the ORMC Pediatric Emergency Waiting Room project is Aesop’s Fables. The artist created animal themed vignettes set in the beautiful woodland landscape of the Hudson Valley. An illustrated brochure accompanies the mural and includes fun facts, stories, and interactive ‘look and find’ activities. At the base of the mural a two-foot

high stonewall relief replicates the look of the traditional stonewalls found in historic Orange County. A wooden walkway travels through the waiting room past the mural to create a 3-D environmental experience for the patient and staff. Comprehensive architectural design projects that understand the impact of visual stimulation, such as the ORMC Pediatric Emergency Department, require belief in the power of the Arts and require a financial commitment. The mural component of this project was funded, in part, by Orange County Tourism, as well as a capital campaign to fund the pediatric emergency ward. For additional information about the Aesop’s Fable Mural call the ORMC’s Art Curator Sarah Johnson at 845-333-2385 or email her at sjohnson1@ormc.org.

Ambrosia String Trio in Montgomery The Ambrosia Trio was founded in 1990 by the existing members - Beulah Cox, violinist, Martin Fett, cellist and Frank Daykin, pianist. The members of this ensemble are some of New York’s finest musicians who bring the joy of chamber music to audiences everywhere. Accomplishments include a residency at the Banff International Centre for the Arts and two CDs. The group has collaborated with the Buglisi/Foreman Dance Company performing to sold out audiences as well as the Dutchess Ballet, National Public Radio and WNYC’s live performance studio “Around New York.” The ensemble maintains a busy schedule, coaching student musicians and continuing to bring their love of chamber music to as wide an audience as possible. Beulah Cox has appeared as soloist with the Virtuoso Strings in New York City, the Allegro Chamber Ensemble at the Festival Saint Louis en L’Ile in Paris, and in London at St. Martin-inthe Fields. Her teachers and coaches include Ani Kavafian, Hamao Fujiwara, Joyce Robbins and Joseph Fuchs. Martin Fett is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music As a soloist, he has performed with the Manhattan Philharmonia and the Brooklyn Pro Arte Chamber Ensemble. He has played on the Today show at NBC studios and been heard on WQXR. Fett has held principal positions in many orchestras including the New York City Opera National

Company. He has also performed in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Frank Dayking is equally known as soloist, collaborative pianist, teacher, and writer. He is particularly identified with the French piano and chamber music repertoire, having performed the complete solo piano works of Ravel on Ravel’s own piano at the Ravel house/museum in France. His Encyclopedia of French Art Song: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc will be published by Pendragon Press in 2014. Previously, he has had two volumes of poetry published, numerous selections from them having been set to music by contemporary composers. Two masterworks by Dvořák and Beethoven will be performed for the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series on November 17 at 3:00pm. The free concert is in the senior center, 36 Bridge Street. For information call 845-457-9867.

Daedalus String Quartet in Beacon Erwin Schulhoff (Czech: Ervín Šulhov; 894 -1942) was a Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the brightest figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the sick nazi (sic) regime and whose works have been rarely noted or performed until recently. Antonín Dvořák encouraged Schulhoff’s earliest musical studies, which began at the Prague Conservatory when he was ten years old. He was also one of the first generation of classical composers to find inspiration in the rhythms of jazz music. In the 1930s, Schulhoff faced mounting personal and professional difficulties. Because of his Jewish descent and his radical politics, he could no longer give recitals in Germany, nor could his works be performed publicly. His Communist sympathies, which became increasingly evident in his works, also brought him trouble in Czechoslovakia. Olin Downes praised a Salzburg performance of his Five Pieces for String Quartet in 1924: “These pieces attempted only to charm or entertain. They had spontaneous humor, sentiment, a fluent and admirable technic.[sic] The idiom has enough modern pepper in it to constantly stimulate the ear; but the music is not forced, any more than it is portentous. A young composer of talent disported himself in these pieces, and his audience was duly grateful. Not all composers, old or young, have the good sense not to take themselves, now and again,

too seriously.” For a performance of Schulhoff’s Five Pieces, Erich Krongold’s String Quartet No. 3 and Robert Schumann’s masterpiece, the Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 44, one of the greatest works for the genre, the Daedalus String Quartet (see photo above) will bring pianist Soyeon Kate Lee (photo right) to Beacon. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Soyeon Kate Lee moved to the United States at the age of 9. She gave her NY debut recital at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as the winner of Juilliard’s Petschek Award in 2004. The concert is at Howland Cultural Center on November 10 at 4:00pm, 477 Main Street in Beacon. For information: 845-297-9243. www. howlandmusic.org.

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“Last Words” at NACL

NACL resident poet/playwright Laura E. J. Moran has written a new work entitled Last Words. Both dramatic poetry and poetic drama, the performance is inspired by the last words of the first onehundred women legally executed in colonial America, and is set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony “where riparian worlds collide: tame/wild, history/fantasy, spirit/body, male/ female, church pews/secret coves, death/life. Where history silences, imagination blooms.” A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. “It’s the line where things meet,” explains Moran. “Hawks love to sit in the forest and look at the meadow - at the boundary, where one thing changes into another. “I was online and surfing - the internet is a boon to poets - looking for what collections of ephemera were around. Cooperstown has a collection of American ephemera and I came across a execution pamphlet for Hannah Ocuish who was executed at the age of twelve years, believed to be the youngest person legally executed in America.” A mentally retarded Pequot Indian girl, Ocuish was accused of killing the six-yearold daughter of a farmer after quarreling with her over some strawberries. The primary evidence against her was her confession to the investigators. At her execution,

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she thanked the sheriff for his kindness as she stepped forward to be hanged. “This piece made me look up what there was about her and led me to a list of all women executed in America in the late 1500s1600s. I could not find enough words in print form by women from that time. The search led me to execution sermons. The only words from our founding mothers were found in words from women put to death.” She got curious about it and started to line it up with the present. She saw parallels from what is available from 1600 as seeds that are still present today. “The lack of our own women’s voices is disturbing - the disparity between available words of males, just as there is today. There are close to 300 different bills out for legislation about women’s bodies and less than 10 bills for men’s - that is recent history. Legislation of female bodies is a pertinent issue.” Last Words reconstructs the plight of Constance Greene, a young woman built from ephemera - part fiction, part poetry, part science, part artifact. Moran’s staged reading, directed by NACL director Mimi McGurl, is on November 17 at 4:00pm, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. Phone: 845-557-0694.

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Go for Baroque to Bethel

Andrew Arceci, William Simms, Daniel Swenberg and Emily Noël

Developing a varied career as performer, composer, and scholar, Andrew Arceci performs regularly on the viola da gamba, violone (sometimes a fretted instrument with six, five, four, or even only three strings) and double bass. William Simms, equally adept on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, is the founder of the Hood Early Music Ensemble. Lutenist Daniel Swenberg concentrates on the role of basso-continuo playing, theorbo/chitaronne, Renaissance and Baroque lutes, early guitars, and the gallizona/callichon. Soprano Emily Noël, praised by The Washington Post for her “strikingly lovely voice,” appears frequently as an oratorio and recital soloist in a variety of repertoires. These four artists are gathering together in November to continue the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Shandelee Music Festival with this added extra attraction, Défense de la Basse de Viole, subtitled An Afternoon of French Baroque Masterworks. They will perform rarely heard virtuosic solo works by Marin Marais,Antoine Forqueray, Charles Dollé, and sensual airs de cour by Michel Lambert

and Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset. Well known today in recorder playing circles, thanks to his output for that instrument, Marin Marais (1656-1728) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with JeanBaptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and was the leading French composer of music for the viol. Marais is credited with being one of the earliest composers of program music. His humorous work The Bladder-Stone Operation, was performed as The Gall-Bladder Operation last year at Chamber Music at St. Andrews in South Fallsburg. He and Forqueray (1671-1745) were considered by their contemporaries as the two greatest virtuosi of the viola da gamba. Dollé’s (1735-1755) music was influenced by Marais and by the Italian style, which is most prominent in Dollé’s late works. The program of elegant, wild and devilish music is on November 10 at 3:00pm in the Event Gallery at Bethel Woods. For tickets, www.BethelWoodsCenter.org, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. For information visit www. BethelWoodsCenter.org or www.shandelee.org. See page 2 for free tickets for youth, grades 1-12.

Wurtsboro Art Alliance’s Annual Holiday Show

Photograph by Wurtsboro Art Alliance member Gene Weinstein

WAA member Carol Bronte with her “Tiger” painting

“I have always had the desire to paint, although I did not know if I could or not. As life settled down from raising children and working all the time, I was able to focus on my hearts desire. I joined the Wurtsboro Art Alliance this year which has helped to inspire my art projects. “My grandchildren have encouraged me, and enjoyed the benefits of my efforts. I truly have a passion for art. I hope others share in my joy,” says Carol Bronte, who will be one of many exhibiting her work for the annual Wurtsboro Art Alliance’s Holiday Show. A wide assortment of original works of art made by local area artists will be available to choose from including paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, prints and note cards.

Alliance member artists whose work will be on display include: Patti Anderson, Melissa Arnott, Paula Baldinger (see page 9), Carol Bronte, Janet Campbell, James Carney, Lynn Garrett, Forrest Greswold, Cynthia Hall, Richard Hirschman, Linda Holmes, Midge Monat, David Munford, David Pendergast, Susan Pendergast, Michael Piotrowski, Roberta Rosenthal, Lee Scribner, Kaila Smithem, Sandy Spitzer, Gene Weinstein, Linda Wilkinson and others. The exhibit runs from November 2December 22. An opening reception will be held on November 2 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm, at 73 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro. For further information about the Wurtsboro Art Alliance, or to become a member, email: info@waagallery.org or visit the website at: www.waagallery.org

Honoring Veterans in Blooming Grove The United Church of Christ Antal, Minister of the Unitarian (UCC) in Blooming Grove is no Universalist Congregation at stranger to music concerts. Many Rock Tavern, Michelle Cuevas, have witnessed the Festival a trauma therapist, and John Theatre of New York, Opera Hiller, a US Navy veteran who Company of the Highlands served on a fast attack nuclear and Classic Choral Society powered submarine and is also performances, among others, in the producer of Wurtsboro’s this historic church. premier music series Broadway Built in 1823, it is listed in Concerts Direct (BCD). the national Register of Historic BCD vocalist (& thereminBuildings. It is not only the ister) Sarah Rice “is honored oldest, largest building in the to share an afternoon of songs United States with no supporting with my friends celebrating life columns, but was the first church and healing: Metropolitan Opera in the country ever to honor bass and US Army veteran veterans with a stained glass Frank Basile, Celia Berk, US window in 1919. That installation Army veteran Rich Flanders, of the window and commitment Joanna Morton Gary, Janice to veterans received national Hall, Anne Tarpey, Michael recognition. Alan Gray and Bob Goldstone The Church will present a new on piano. stained glass window, 4.5 feet “We will perform songs of The new stained glass wide by 12 feet high, honoring inspiration, acknowledge the veterans from WW1 and on, Veteran Dedication Window experience of the veteran - the speaking to the commitment of the Blooming darkness and the light - with songs like Lillie Grove worshipping community to veterans and Marlene, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Bless This their families. Through the Orange County House, and Ave Maria, leaving everyone feeling Family Counseling Center, the church is hopeful,” Rice stated. committed to address issues of moral injury and The free honor ceremony and concert will be spiritual soul repair. held on November 3 at 1:00pm at the Church, 2 Speakers at this event include Rev. Dr. Lise Old Dominion Road, Blooming Grove. Worthington, pastor of the UCC, Rev. Chris For information: 845-496-9311.

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Autumn at UpFront Exhibition Space

Joseph Splendora (1916-1996) was a fine artist, who worked in oils and mixed media on paper. His subjects were historical, nautical, landscapes, and village scenes sometimes dubbed “Splendorascapes” (see photo above). After the death of his son in 1977, he entered a “dark period” in which his images became solemn, painted in desaturated shades with little contrast. His works nearly always included a distant bird-in-flight symbol, painted into the image somewhere, an example of which is seen on his son’s grave marker.

ARTery in November

Joe lived and painted in the Shanna House, an historic tavern from the 19th century located on Route 209, just south of Milford near the Indian Ladder waterfall, until it was demolished for the canceled Tocks Island Dam project. He had a reputation for always having a kind word for people and for cooking exquisite Italian dinners for friends. A few selected paintings by the late Joe Splendora will be exhibited at UpFront Exhibition Space. In addition, Upfront’s Autumn exhibit will contain the works of over 30 artists. The works are on view through Blue Leaf Ruana by November 27. UpFront is located at Adrienne Butvinick 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis. For further information, call 845-856-2727.

Ben vanSteenburgh III majored in art and attended The School of Visual Arts. His work includes book illustrations for authors, portraits (including Bill and Chelsea Clinton, which hangs in Bill Clinton’s Harlem office) and fine art, much of which centers on the human form. His work is on view at The ARTery, 210 Broad Street, Milford, November 8-December 9. A reception will be held on November 9 from 6pm9pm. For more information call 570-409-1234.

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November 2013

Masterful Marimba Music in Milford

Can you play Bach on a marimba? Probably not, but Naoko Takada sure can. Takada, “the James Galway of her instrument”, will perform music for the Kindred Spirits Arts Program, ranging from Bach to modern composers - perhaps a tango, maybe something by Paul McCartney. Her program will also include piano pieces by Chopin and Liszt, so that listeners can compare the sound of the marimba to a piano, at least when Takada is doing the playing. Born in Japan, Takada made her professional debut at age 11 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and she has gone on to play with the Houston Symphony, Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the China National Symphony Orchestra, and other A-list orchestras of the world. Wherever she performs, she gets rave reviews.

Takada will also be speaking and performing for Delaware Valley High School students the day before her concert. On November 9 at 5:30pm Takada will perform for Kindred Spirits at the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catherine Street. For more information: 570-409-1269.

Photographic Guild: “Reflections”

“They say when you love what you do it’s never really work. That is exactly how I feel about photography; I just LOVE it! “I love to take photos, shooting nature, and landscapes are the passion and the heart of my work. I have a creative mind and also enjoy decorating, dancing and many types of music,” says Edna Gonzalez-Rothenberg who will exhibit her photos in “Reflections” at the Highlands Photographic Guild (HPG) from November 9 -December 8, with a reception on November 9, 6:00pm-9:00pm.

Grey Towers by Edna Gonzalez-Rothenberg

HPG is located at 224 Broad Street, Milford. For further information, call 570-296-2440.

DVAA’s 9th Annual “Art in Sixes”

Celebrating its ninth year, Art in Sixes is the Delaware Valley Art Alliance’s premier yearend art event. It features small artworks by local artists in a wide range of studio mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, fiber, ceramics and photography from artists in Sullivan County and the upper Delaware River region. The exhibition, which showcases art no larger than six inches in any direction, has become the largest of it’s kind in Sullivan County. All works of art are for sale and priced reasonably for holiday gift giving. The Delaware Arts Center is located at 37

Main Street, Narrowsburg. The juried exhibit runs from November 23 thru December 22. For information, call 845-252-7576.

Silent Auction for Scenic Monroe Works

Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society (CMHS) president Paul Miller is providing an opportunity to view a portion of his private collection of the Hudson River School of Art, created in the mid 1800s. The exhibit, Arts in the Hudson Valley: Continuing Traditions of the Plein Air Painters, will be on November 3 and November 16 from 1:00pm-4:00pm, and at the Pancake Breakfast hosted by the Historical Society on November 5, from 7:00am to 7:00pm. In addition, on November 6 at 7:00pm Miller will give a presentation of the history of Plein Air artists from the famous school, and will be joined by Lorraine Furey of Wallkill River School (WRS), an organization that continues this tradition today. The CMHS is hosting a silent auction of WRS paintings of historical and scenic Monroe. The public will have the opportunity to place bids on

Shawn Dell Joyce of the WRS putting finishing touches on one of the artworks available.

the artworks at the public viewings and special events. The art show will culminate with a reception on November 17 from 3:00pm-6:00pm when winning bids will be announced. CMHS is located at 300 Stage Road in Monroe, Refreshments will be served at the free presentation and auction. Visit www.friendsofmcgarrahsinn.org.

“In Parallel” at the CAS Arts Center

In Parallel, on display at William Landau layers paint the CAS Arts Center through and prints onto fabricated and November 17, brings two local sometimes raw materials in a artists together with striking presentation he calls “Heavy bodies of work playing with line, Metal,” repurposing locally dimension, space, and surprising sourced media into art akin to shocks of color. Tapping into “nature, jazz music, and oddities.” the common geometry that In addition, CAS will present lies beneath everything, these its Winter Show and Holiday paintings and drawings riff freely, Work by Ellen Cibula Fair from November 23 through unrestrained, to spin worlds of their own. December 31, with a free opening reception Ellen Cibula describes her new paintings on November 23 from 2:00pm-4:00pm at 48 as “energy fields,” created in relation to one Main Street in Livingston Manor. another with structures she calls both “musical” All are welcome and light refreshments will and “mathematical.” be served. Visit www.catskillartsociety.org.

The Photography of Brandt at Rolling River

David Brandt has been interested in photography since childhood when he was given a darkroom kit as a gift. He has taken numerous courses at the International Center of Photography in New York City as well as studied at Westchester Community College. His primary interests are portrait and street/documentary photography. His work has been influenced by Henri Cartier -Bresson, Walker Evans and Diane Arbus among others. In addition to photography he is a licensed clinical psychologist and practices in Croton-on-Hudson. He taught psychology for many years at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Brandt is having an exhibit at Rolling River Cafe, 25 Cooley Rd., Parksville, through December 22. For information: 845-747-4123

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HOT Music in Middletown & Monroe

and concerts are known for his “Last season, we commemorated superb musicians culled from the 100th anniversary of the Hudson Valley instrumentalists, sinking of the Titanic by presenting and this concert will be no different a special concert of music as it with Les Six: Olga Jourba (photo would have been heard in its salons unavailable at press time) and and dining rooms on its last night Donna Kushner, violins; Piotr afloat,” writes Hudson Opera Theatre (HOT) director Ron de Ron De Fesi & Piotr Kargul Kargul, viola; Jeanne Fox, cello; Rich Simons, double bass; and Fesi. his esteemed self on piano and “On the heels of that delightful on baton - whoops, with baton. concert, and spurred on by its (Jourba and Fox had exquisite solos success, we present a second in HOT’s production of Faust this installment. Everything from Bach past month.) to Joplin, maybe some Offenbach There is a matinée on November and Piazzola (dancing in the aisles is 17 at 2:00pm at the United encouraged), maybe the pop songs Donna Kushner Presbyterian Church, 25 Orchard Granada and Darktown Strutters’ Street in Middletown and at night Ball (hummers will be tolerated). on November 17 at 8:00pm at the And some good ol’ Amilcare First Presbyterian Church, 142 Ponchielli!” (see page 15) Stage Road in Monroe. In this exciting and toe-tappingly And you won’t have to be delicious concert, Maestro De Fesi Dressed In Your Pyjamas in the recreates the original arrangements Grand Salon (song title from the so that you can glimpse, for a Jeanne Fox Broadway production of Titanic) moment, the grandeur, the fun for the fabulous Titanic-inspired and the excitement that held sway receptions that follow the concerts. aboard the great liner. Those nowTickets will be sold at the door legendary musicians may be gone but you can reserve yours by calling from this world, but the echo of 845-661-0544. their music lives on in De Fesi’s For information visit www. Les Six. hotopera.com. De Fesi’s opera performances Rich Simons

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November 2013

NFA Class of ‘73 at Downing Park

Significant events continue to happen in Newburgh’s Vaux and Olmstead’s Downing Park. On October 5, the Newburgh Free Academy Class of 1973 (photo above), in honor of their 40th reunion, completed a bulb planting project in the Park. The event was organized by two landscape architects who are graduates of that class, Cynthia Barbaro Behan and Susan Kaplan. Class members showed up from as far as Los Angeles, California. To add special meaning to the event, current members of the high school from the Science Honor Society were present to assist. The two generations enjoyed interacting with each other and their efforts helped to continue the legacy of park beauty for both current and future generations. Another highlight of the autumn season was a tree planting to recognize the retirement of one of Downing Park’s most dedicated and respected volunteers, Dr. Karen McCarthy. Dr. McCarthy, who retired in June, was a distinguished professor

Photo by Madonia Photography

at Mount Saint Mary College for many years, and her colleagues from the College donated money to have a tree planted in her honor. On October 13, an ornamental Japanese cherry tree was planted and dedicated to Karen’s example of public service and community involvement. A celebration was held in the Park’s headquarters and Visitor’s Center following the planting. Autumn celebrations of the Park’s beauty continued throughout the month. On October 20, the Downing Park Planning Committee held its annual Flavors of Autumn fundraiser which included a wine tasting paired with seasonal appetizers made with fresh produce from the weekly Friday Farm Market in the Park. And the Downing Park Planning Committee hosted a Halloween Party for children in the Park on October 27. Downing Park always welcomes visitors and the Planning Committee always invites new membership. For information, give the Park a call at 845-565-5559.

Celebrate at the Orange County Arts Council’s 2013 Awards Dinner Every year, the Orange County Arts Council (OCAC) recognizes individuals, organizations, and corporations that have made outstanding contributions to the arts. Nominations for these awards are open to anyone, anywhere. Nominees must be Orange County residents or businesses. A panel of Orange County citizens, selected by the OCAC, chooses the winners based on the submissions the OCAC receives from the public. The 2013 recipients once again reflect the diversity, talent, perseverance and generosity of the Orange County arts community. The Lifetime Achievement award will be given to Gene Bové. Bové said that the commitment to community began with his co-founding with Shawn Dell Joyce of the Wallkill River School and Gallery. “When we formed the arts school, the farms in the area were endangered in the wake of huge developments. We would have art auctions to aid the farmers.” The school has also taught oil painting to inner city children bused upstate. “These kids never had a paintbrush in their hand,” he said. Bové was the first instructor at the school to teach oil painting to seniors. The Individual Artist award will be presented to internationally published documentary photographer, Francesco Mastalia, who has photographed diverse cultures of tribal, religious, indigenous and spiritual people.

The Arts in Education award is being given to Christopher Tucci who been teaching at Goshen High School (GHS) since 1987 and implemented the school’s first Video Technology classes. In addition to teaching art, he is the resident school expert on sound equipment and assists with everything from school dances to pep rallies to the Spring musical. Newburgh Chamber Music (NCM) is this year’s Arts Organization. Carole Cowan and her late husband, oboist Philip West, founded NCM to present a variety of classical and contemporary repertoire in the heart of historic Newburgh. Besides bringing world class chamber musicians to Newburgh, the NCM series has included folk artists such Jay Ungar and Molly Mason as well as Brazilian guitar, and Gypsy/jazz. (See page 3). The Corporate Champion of the Arts Award is being given to Noble Coffee Roasters in Campbell Hall. Paul and Robert Deckaj, the proprietors of Noble Coffee Roasters, are tremendous advocates for the local arts community. (See page 8) Dan Chester from the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation is being honored as this year’s Champion of the Arts. Dan founded the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation in 2006. His first project was to bring Steinway pianos to the Warwick School District. He has been working with the Greater NY Wind Symphony to provide opportunities for students to play alongside professional musicians in a formal concert format. He also planned and coordinated the first Hudson Valley Performing Arts Fair last year where over 20 performing arts colleges connected with hundreds

of talented students. The Salute to Veterans award is being given to photojournalist Robert Demetry, who served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and as a civilian photographer stationed at West Point in the 1980’s. Nancy Reed Jones (see photo top with her mural for Soons Orchard) is being honored as this year’s Champion of the Arts for People with Disabilities. She has painted murals for the cancer patients in a hospital where they were used as “Guided Imagery” to help alleviate the patient’s pain. The Youth with Exceptional Promise Award is being given to Carly Ryan, a senior at Middletown High School. Carly often volunteers to take

pictures for the yearbook, as well as high school football games. She also painted part of the set for Middletown High School’s production of Sweeney Todd. Carly also sells her Tie by Carly one-of-a-kind tie-dye t-shirts (see photo) to raise money for local non-profits. The entire public is invited to celebrate and honor these individuals at this very unique and fun annual dinner event at Umbra Sound Stages in Newburgh, Orange County’s own premiere film production facility, at 5:30pm on Friday, November 15th. Tickets are $60 for Arts Council members and $70 for non-members and can be purchased by called the Art Council offices at 845-469-9168 or by emailing info@ocartscouncil.org.

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His Destination Was Always The Art

Peter Sheehan is an artist of truly unusual background and artistic dimension. Back in the ‘70s, he was milking a herd of cows...while also producing pieces of sculpture. By the ‘90s, he was baling hay and riding horses... and creating modernistic works of intense color using paint, ink, torn fabric, and other media. Even now, while carrying on his substantial art career, he continues caring for 95 landconservancy acres. “My experiences working the land and making art have by now blended completely,” says Sheehan. “The plowed fields, the light at dusk and dawn, the mists of morning, the shadows and shades, all define my work. They show up in the lines, colors, materials and patterns, and it’s increasingly hard to recognize where the hedgerow stops, and the artistic rendering begins.” After a traditional liberal arts education, Sheehan earned a Masters of Fine Arts from SUNY New Paltz. For a time, he taught

photography and 3-D design. When the State expanded it’s programming at Wallkill Correctional Facility, Peter ran a woodworking craft shop. He later expanded that to include instruction in painting and drawing, with several of his prisoner-students exhibiting in a statewide show titled Corrections on Canvas. Peter Sheehan’s art will be on display at the Old Stone House of Hasbrouck. The exhibit begins with an opening reception on November 3 from 1:00pm-4:00pm which will include a luncheon. Thereafter, viewing is by appointment; just call the artist at 845-901-3743 or 845-6330306. The exhibit ends November 30. The Old Stone House is at 282 Hasbrouck Road, Woodbourne. For information visit www. TheOldStoneHouseOfHasbrouck.org

Spotlight On: Sugar Loaf Guild Local Artists’s Work to be Worn on “The League” & “Sons of Anarchy” Sugar Loaf artist and jewelry designer, Rachel Bertoni will adorn characters in two FX network shows with her creations this fall. On the upcoming episode of The League, Katie Asselton (Jenny) will be wearing jewelry by Bertoni. In its fifth season, The League is a partially improvised comedy about a fantasy football league. Also, this fall, a large turquoise and sterling silver ring (see photo) made by Bertoni will be worn by Mark Boone (Bobby) on FX’s Sons of Anarchy, a drama depicting a Californian

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club of motorcycle gangsters. Bertoni received special attention in 2010 when she was chosen to create jewelry for Jennifer Lopez to wear in the movie The Backup Plan. Her work was named “Top Trend Design” by the world gold council. Bertoni handcrafts and showcases her designs at Bertoni Gallery in Sugar Loaf. For information call 845-469-0993.

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Art by New Hope

In 1975, New Hope Community began exploring a vision of independent living for people with developmental disabilities who had been traditionally left without opportunity and choice Through teaching, coaching, by Anita Bullard encouragement and role modeling, the Community advocates for the people it supports to integrate and participate in the wider community Ergo: through November 25, more than a dozen individuals supported by New Hope Community will once again display their art at the Liberty Public Library, 189 North Main Street. The works, which will be available for sale, include abstract art in a variety of mediums, according to New Hope Community Leisure Coordinator Sue Petry. All proceeds go directly to the artists. “Our artists at New Hope are really looking forward to this opportunity. For some, art has been a real journey; it’s a pleasure to watch the progression as these men and women learn from their peers and get more confident in their techniques,” said Petry. For information, call 845-292-6070.

Art in New Windsor

Marilyn Maharg’s paintings are inspired by the nature that surrounds us in the Hudson Valley. She is fascinated by the habitats built by the animals and insects which are abandoned when their purpose has been served: hives, nests, and cocoons. The colors, textures, and organic design of these structures inform the composition and colors she uses. She says, “In my art, I have explored and revealed some of the mystery and beauty of the furtive life that coexists in our environment, and that we were once in tune with.” Marilyn has had solo exhibitions at the Woodbury Library, Middletown Arts Center, and the NY Conservatory for the Arts, and was included in group shows in Newburgh’s Downing Film Center, Back Room Gallery, Howland Cultural Center, both in Beacon, and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. Marilyn has completed two mural commissions for the Warwick School of Music & Fine Arts and at Canterbury Knolls in Middletown. Marilyn Maharg will show her oil paintings at the New Windsor Art Gallery, 2314 State Route 32 from November 2-15. A reception will be held from 4:00pm-7:00pm on November 2.. For information, call John Yoo: 845-534-3349.

The Mission to Save J. F. K. Remember? How many times has one been asked? Where were you when it happened? What were you doing when it happened? Before your time? It was a Friday. Were you even born yet? The President’s been shot and now he’s dead. It’s an assassination. It was Good Friday you know, when Abe Lincoln was shot in Washington. He was at Ford’s Theatre. Before your time. And Jack Kennedy, it was Friday, too. He was assassinated in Dallas. Kennedy was in a Lincoln made by Ford. Before your time? For the record, four American presidents have been assassinated: William McKinley, January 29, 1843; James A. Garfield, July 2 1881; Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1885 and John F. Kennedy, 1963. Assassinations provide fertile ground for authors, including biographers, speculators and devotees of fantasy and hyperbole. Lincoln and Kennedy dominate the accumulation of literature directly and indirectly associated with presidential assassinations. This year will mark the fiftieth anniversary of that day in Dallas, a day that changed the way writers and the public in general approach events of such historical and social magnitude. There’s a sense of localized suspicion and skepticism. Always asking the question, “what’s the real story?” There were questions, too many and too

numerous to discuss or mention in the space provided. One could say doubt and wonder are initiated on a large scale with a protesting statement from the accused Lee Harvey Oswald, a man many saw murdered on television. “I am just a patsy!” he said with conviction. In a manner, to which many have become accustomed, Ginny Neidermier, the everactive Director of the Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden, has arranged a discussion germane to the season’s central literary event: the anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. On November 7 at 6:30pm there will be a group discussion of Stephen King’s (see photo) thought-provoking and recent novel 11/22/63. Leading the discussion and investigation into the events detailed in King’s first person narrative will be the Walden Library’s Librarian, Lisa Hewel. Interesting it is to investigate further King’s website for the novel. It asks, “If you had the chance to change history, would you? Would the consequences be worth it?” For discussion purposes the events preceding the assassination in Dallas, as presented by King, place him clearly in the league with Oliver Stone, screenwriter and director of the Oscar winning 1991 film JFK and Don Delillo, a finalist for the

L.A. Times book prize and author of the novel Libra, a speculative account of the events before the assassination. In the minds of many it was the uncertainty created by the assassination of the American President that caused the general public to ask if there were a greater story, a story that included the existence of a conspiracy. There was the Senate’s Church Committee that uncovered CIA plots to murder Fidel Castro and the notion that the CIA and the FBI had withheld material information from the Warren Commission. The haunting statement of Oswald, professing his innocence remained as did the revelation of Zapruder’s Frame 313. Others believed the Warren Commission’s Report on the Assassination of the President lacked credibility as significant numbers of people could not bring themselves to believe the “lone gunman theory.” Decades of speculation have resulted in an endless stream of literature, and, without notice, fifty years have slipped by since that November afternoon in Dallas. The flood gates will open as the fateful date approaches. Expect additional information, articles, biographies and histories all produced by the usual suspects. The Josephine-Louise Library is at 5 Scofield Street in Walden. 845-778-7621.

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Photographer’s Book Examines 9/11 Artwork

by Anna Lillian Moser The September 11th attacks on this Country not only brought about feelings of great sadness, shock and outrage, but also a renewed sense of nation-wide unity, patriotism and inner strength. People started looking for ways to express these conflicting emotions; folk art started to crop up across the country, from a New York City mural of a weeping Statue of Liberty to a gentleman in Connecticut painting his entire house like the American Flag (see photo), even a fallen firefighter’s portrait tattooed on a surviving family member’s arm. Photographer Jonathan Hyman’s new book, The Landscapes of 9/11, details such works of art. The book is a culmination of a passion project that took Hyman to 19 different states and nearly a decade to complete. Hyman, who now resides in Bethel, started his career out as a painter in New York City. He gained some notoriety for his abstracts, with photography being more or less a hobby, but while still in his twenties painting for Hyman “stopped making sense.” The act of creating a painting, Hyman said, was introverted and too self-involved. He found himself constantly torturing himself over his canvases. “What I realized was that I was actually more interested in what was going on in other people’s heads than my own,” Hyman said. By 1991 Hyman had altogether abandoned his painting, becoming a full-fledged photographer instead. Keeping in his interest in other people,

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he limited himself to documenting other people’s artwork, the majority of which were pieces of folk art; works he sometimes found on the sides of roads and in and around gas stations. “Despite the fact that I’m making art by means of mechanical reproduction, I have deep, deep respect for people who make things with their hands, and I’m interested in a kind of purity of expression,” Hyman said. “I like art, or folk art, that defines some element of our culture.” On 9/11 Hyman was in Bethel. While he might have been away from the immediate horror, he, like so many others, felt shocked and helpless. Living in the city, Hyman had walked past the towers nearly every day. They were a part of his life, and so the fact of the destruction was very personal. He could see that something was happening. Flags started cropping everywhere. Slogans started to appear on both public and private

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properties. The owner of Hyman’s local gas station put handwritten signs at each gas pump, calling on customers to “kick some terrorist ass.” “I’d never seen anything like it in my lifetime. There was a tremendous proliferation of people expressing their personal feelings in public. I’m interested in that,” Hyman said. “I started taking pictures.” Originally Hyman intended for the photos to be used in a collage series, then a yearlong project about flags, but the more pictures he took, the more he knew that this project was bigger than that. “I started looking at the film and that’s when I realized, Oh my goodness, it’s not just people expressing themselves, but on the whole it looks like some sort of public conversation,” Hyman said. Hyman eventually spent five years documenting these incidents of public dialogue, including instances of men and women turning themselves in living memorials; having the

towers, as well as slogans and heroes’ faces, even poetry, tattooed into their skin. “By early 2003, maybe late 2002, I pretty much gave up everything I was doing and was doing this every minute of the day,” Hyman said. What’s unique about Hyman’s book is that there’s not a single photograph of Ground Zero. The towers are only ever present in other people’s art work: a statue in a town’s center, on a firefighter’s back, in a graffiti artist’s mural. “I was always more interested in the public expression than I was in the destruction of it,” Hyman said. In some cases, the art work documented by Hyman has changed or disappeared completely. A mural on the side of a building in Manhattan, for example, depicting the towers as brightly colored flowers, (see photo) was eventually painted over before the building was demolished and replaced with a high-rise. The house in Connecticut that was painted in the colors of the American Flag was eventually repainted white so it could be sold. Hyman said in some cases it’s a little sad to see such pieces of expression disappear, but also strangely life-affirming. “It affirms this notion of life going on,” Hyman said. Hyman describes The Landscapes of 9/11 as a “hybrid book” because in addition to Hyman’s photographs there are seven essays that situate Hyman’s documentary work in American cultural history and international memorial culture. The Landscapes of 9/11 is published by University of Texas Press and can be purchased at their website at http://utpress.utexas.edu.

Science Café: Health Impacts of Natural Gas

Dr Larysa Dyrszka’s recent work has been focused on children’s rights with the Conference of NGOs at the United Nations Committee on Children’s Rights where until recently she served as committee secretary. Her work there concerned human trafficking. She is a SUNY Sullivan Board of Trustees member and currently serves as the Board Secretary. With her neighbors, she co-founded Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development. Together with other advocates she organized a petition to the Commissioner of the DOH to address the lack of adequate treatment of human health impacts with regard to gas drilling. Dr. Dyrszka was invited to present testimony to the NYS Assembly on the subject of potential human health impacts related to hydrofracking. On November 20 at 7:00pm, Dr. Dyrszka will

present Potential Health Impacts of Natural Gas Development as part of the Science Café series at Diana’s, 1015 Little Britain Road in New Windsor. The $4 admission fee includes coffee or tea. If you arrive at 6:00pm, you can order from the Early Bird menu. No orders are taken during the presentation. Science Café was started in Leeds, England, when a scientist walked into a bar in England and asked the owner if there was a night during the week when business was slow and offered to host lectures to increase traffic on a quiet night. Dr. Toby Rossman founded the local Science Café more than six years ago. Laymen as well as scientists are invited to meet and participate in lectures.Anyone interested in speaking or suggesting a subject may contact Rossman. For information: toby.rossman@nyumc.org.

GASLAND Part II by Academy Awardwinning director, Josh Fox, (see photo) revisits families whose lives have been changed from living near fracking wells. Fox interviews politicians who have been trying to stop fracking, and also interviews Cornell and Stanford Professors who say fracking can never be done safely and argue that the U.S. could stop drilling for coal, oil, and natural gas and derive adequate energy from renewable resources such as wind, high-concentrated solar power, geothermal power, hydroelectric power and tidal power.

The film argues that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, and endanger the earth’s climate with the greenhouse gas, methane. Hosted by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern; snacks and discussion will follow after the November 22, 7:00pm viewing at the Meeting House, 9 Vance Road, in Rock Tavern. A $5-$10 donation is requested, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Call 845-569-8965.

“Gasland II” at UUC

Sugar Loaf Music Series

scene since the early 1970’s. He Born in Newport Beach, has collaborated with Chet Baker, California in 1958, Howard Sarah Vaughan, Bob Brookmeyer, Alden began playing at age and Buddy Rich among many ten, inspired by recordings of others. A native of Brooklyn, Armstrong, Basie and Goodman. Jack began playing guitar at age Soon he was playing traditional to thirteen. His mentors included mainstream to modern jazz around Los Angeles. Howard Alden & Jack Wilkins Johnny Smith, Django Reinhardt, In 1979, Alden went to Atlantic City with Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Bill Red Norvo, and continued to perform with him Evans, Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard. Wilkins was awarded an NEA grant. He was for several years. Upon moving to New York City in 1982, Alden’s skills, both as soloist and profiled in Guitar Player, Just Jazz Guitar, Downbeat, accompanist, were quickly recognized and sought 20th Century Guitar and Leonard Feather’s Jazz Encyclopedia. Wilkins teaches at The New School, out for appearances and recordings. One of the many highlights in Alden’s career was Manhattan School of Music, NYU, and LIU. See Alden and Wilkins perform together for the when he recorded with one of his all-time heroes, seven-string guitar master George Van Eps. As a Sugar Loaf Music Series at the Seligmann Center result of his associating with Van Eps, Alden has for the Arts, on November 17 at 3:00pm. The Seligmann Center is at 23 White Oak Drive, been playing the seven-string guitar since 1992. Jack Wilkins has been on the international jazz Sugar Loaf. Visit www.sugarloafmusic.com.

Open Mic at Warwick’s Blarney Station

John & Lisa O’Connell’s Blarney Station in Warwick has an Open Mic every Wednesday, hosted alternately by Joe Frazita (photo right) and Steve Wells. When he performs, Frazita makes “my extensive song list available to the patrons, and encourage song requests, all night long. It all started in 1965, when I got an accordion for Christmas. “After first learning to play by ear and then taking lessons for 3 years, I won a major award, becoming

the 1970 NJ State Accordion Champion. A few years later, my dad purchased a home organ, which I taught myself to play. “As I entered college, I began to write music and record demos of those songs. During this stretch, I also played in a couple of garage bands that barely ever got out of the garage.” Give him a request of your favorite song on November 6 at 8:00pm at the Blarney Station, 10 Railroad Avenue in Warwick. For information, call 845-986-1509.

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