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Jake Wansor, Tio Schulter IV and Chris Thorington star in “Lone Star,” part of two one-act plays at the Cooperstown Theatre Festival FridaySunday July 13-15.
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She Mastered Egg Tempera Method, And Her Local Landscapes Just Glow in her Winter Studio, off the kitchen of her Treadwell home, are several not-for-sale pieces TREADWELL of that era, including copper animals and a ceramic sculpture n 60 years, Jane Carr has of an aged Romeo and Juliet in gone from designa cigar-box bed, titled ing weight-loss “Romeo and Juliet, magazine ads to solo Had They Lived.” shows at the Smithy, Buyers admired the Wilber Mansion works for sale and laand the Cooperstown mented the pieces that Art Association, her weren’t. “I wouldn’t egg tempura landhave even gone over scapes making her one there and looked if of the most recognizI knew you weren’t able artists in Otsego selling it,” one friend and Delaware counties. joked. “We had four of her Friends, fans and felJane Carr linocut prints of butlow artists packed the terflies at the miniahouse, complimentture show in June,” said Janet ing the artist, inquiring about Erway, CAA director. “We her classes, taking postcards of sold every one of them.” On her work and catching up. She her egg tempera paintings, “the carried on at least two conversacross-hatching really captures tions at a time, punctuating both the light,” said Erway. “The with greetings as others joined. landscapes, the cows, she really The artist had recently finshows the area she lives in.” ished arranging her Summer The 50-year retrospective at Studio in the front of the house, the Stagecoach Run Art Show where she’ll be giving classes Saturday-Sunday, July 7-8, on egg tempera, perhaps the megives or takes a decade, but dium she’s best known for. “It’s Carr’s work does not. On a table Please See ARTIST, B4 By LIBBY CUDMORE
I Examples of Jane Carr’s egg tempera paintings include, from top, “Ouleout Creek,” “River Island” and “Geese.” For more examples, visit janecarrstudio.com
ROBERT MOYNIHAN NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Aida ‘Superlative Musical Experience’
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he innovative Glimmerproduction of Verdi’s “Aida” confronts the tragic realms of military reality – commonly concealed by propaganda and evasion. Military “adventures” kill and maim to ensure the supposed benefits of social change. One of the many ironic
touches in this production features male dancers thumping about in Bremer-boots – the kind made notorious by one of the earlier architects of yet another “intervention” – or, honestly put, foreign war. This innovative production exaggerates for effect, if any imitation of battle and social
hysteria can ever be accurately portrayed; it invokes the kind of heated irreverence served by Brecht in “Mother Courage.” One either likes topically sharpened references direct Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival from history or spends a lifeNoah Stewart stars as Radamès, the lead in time avoiding them, merely Please See AIDA, B2 Verdi’s “Aida,” which opened the Glimmerglass Festival’s 2012 season.
teve Dillon and Danielle Newell direct “Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon,” two one-act plays about Vietnam veterans returning from war. Featuring Darcy Gibson’s Honky Tonk Band. $18 adults, $15 students and seniors, $12 kids. 8 p.m. Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 15 Cooperstown Theatre Festival, 7163 St. Hwy 80, Cooperstown. Info, tickets, (607) 547-8671. CELEBRATE LAKE: Otsego Lakes Festival highlights importance of protecting waterways with a day of music, crafts, and interactive workshops. noon-5 p.m. Saturday, July 14. Lakefront Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-4488. LOVE ON STAGE: The Franklin Stage company presents “On Love: Five Plays, Five Days,” as rehearsed readings in an intimate setting. Wednesday, July 11 - Saturday, July 14 at 8 p.m., Sunday, July 15 at 2 p.m. The Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute St., Franklin. Info, (607) 829-3700, www.franklinstagecompany.org ART HEIST: 1 p.m. All aboard the Oneonta World of Learning mystery train! Travel the globe, use forensic science and track down an international art thief all in under two hours! Tickets $10, under 3 free. 1 p.m. Sunday, July 15. The Milford Train Depot, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, reservations (607) 432-2824, 432-2429, www. oneontaworldoflearning. org. SUNDAE FUN RUN: Celebrate National Ice Cream Day with a 5K run and 2-mile walk with an ice cream social to follow! Free ice cream to all racers. $20 for runners, $5 for walkers. 7:30 a.m. registration, 9:15 start. Sunday, July 15. Millers Mills. Info, registration, Karen Huxtable-Hooker, karenhuxtable@live.com
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