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Julia Tooker, Patrick Young, Emily Jweid James Behret and NIck Kirkpatrick of the Hartwick Jazz Band practice for their show with the Brandford Marsalis Quartet on Sunday, April 6.
Marsalis Jazz Quartet Plays Foothills Gig
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he Hartwick and SUNY Intercollegiate Jazz Band opens for the Branford Marsalis Quartet. $10 student, $35 silver, $45 gold. 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6. Foothills Performing Arts Center. 21 Market St., Oneonta. Info, tickets, (607) 431-2080.
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Cooperstown artist Susan Jones Kenyon’s canvases are on display this summer in The Fenimore Art Museum.
Fenimore Exhibitor Melds High Art, Practicality By LIBBY CUDMORE
STRING SIBLINGS: OCA presents acclaimed classical musicians Duo Parnas with French pianist Vincent Adragna. Works by Ravel, Brahms, and local composer Carleton Clay. $20 adults, $6 students. 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 643-9020.
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ome people have closets bigger than Susan Jones Kenyon’s studio. “I do all my painting and framing in here,” she said, gesturing around the small room off the den at their house on 3 Susquehanna Ave. Even the 4-foot by 16-inch “Calm of the Lake” was painted in that small room. It is one of the offerings in “Places in Passing: Contemporary Landscapes,” an exhibit of local works by Kenyon among the Hudson River School offerings and the Wyeths that opened over the weekend at Most of us would see an The Fenimore Art Museum. iPhone case. Susan Jones Kenyon saw a canvas. A self-taught artist, Kenyon hung her earliest works on her bedroom walls in Utica. “I painted a man on a trapeze reaching for the bar, but he isn’t going to make it – I think I saw it in Please See ARTIST, B5
Her studio in the Kenyon home at 3 Susquehanna Ave. may be tiny, but it’s a font of creativity, from oil paintings to dog bowls.
Her Talent Belongs To The World, And Her Hometown Soprano Barbara Paterson Performs At Lincoln, Kennedy Centers, And Oneonta By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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usic is a family affair for soprano Barbara Paterson. “My parents were always singing to us, schlepping Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life us to concerts,” she said. “My sisBarbara Paterson perform this ter Rebecca and I learned to sing week with dad Kim Arnold.
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GUYS NIGHT: Girls on the Run of Central New York host a Guys Night Out. Tours, tasting, four-course dinner and hot towel shaves $100. Advance purchase required. 6-9:30 p.m. Friday, April 5. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Route 33, Cooperstown. Info, Sherrie Kingsley, (607) 264-3377.
as we learned to talk.” Johana Arnold, Barbara’s mother, was her first vocal coach and her father, Kim Paterson, got her one of her earliest roles, with Orpheus Theater. “He was in the orchestra of ‘The Sound of Music,’ and he talked the director into letting his nine-year-old daughter play a very young nun,” said Barbara.
She graduated a year early from the Delaware Academy & Central School in Delhi and moved to Ohio to study German at Oberlin College. But she didn’t forget her first love – singing. “I always studied music and theory on the side,” she said. On a semester abroad in Germany, she met her husband, John Please See PATERSON, B5
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MONSTER BENCH: Clark Sport Center hosts the Monster Bench weight-lifting competition. Men, women, and teams are invited. Weigh-ins and registration at 9:30 a.m., competition begins at 11. Clark Sports Center, 124 County Hwy. 52, Cooperstown. Info, Rich Jantzi, (607) 547-2800. ART OPENING: “Dunga Brook Diary: A Year of Seeing Differently” featuring photography of Vicki Whicker. 5 p.m. Saturday, April 6. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 264-9530. BIRD WATCHING: The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society’s Annual Spring Trip. All day trip; bring lunch. Meet in Dietz St. parking lot. 7:30 a.m. Sunday, April 7. Info, Eleanor, (607) 435-2054.
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