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Opera Goes Year ’Round In County Met Live! Season Opens Oct. 13 At Foothills
By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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he opera is over. Long live the opera! And so it is in Otsego
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County, where the Glimmerglass Festival’s season closed Saturday, Aug. 5, with the last strains of “Aida.” But at 12:55 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, the sounds of Donizetti’s
“L’Elisir d’Amore” – “The Elixir of Love” – live from New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, will waft through the second-floor theater at the Foothills Performing Arts Center.
For, last summer, Foothills learned it had been approved to present the Metropolitan Opera’s full 12-opera season live from New York and in High Definition at the 24 Market St. facility. The news was announced jointly Please See OPERA, B3
Sonny Turner, former lead singer of The Platters, will croon as part of the “Fall In Love With Motown” show at Foothills on Friday, Oct. 12.
Motown Sound Comes To Town
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ou Remembered Her Forever’
artwick College Symphony and Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center bring “Fall in Love With Motown,” featuring Sonny Turner of the The Platters, to perform soul, doo-wop, funk and R&B hits of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Hartwick College Symphony, Tamiko Williams, Shawn Speller and Salina Polanco also perform. 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12. Tickets from $25-75 depending on seat. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St, Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-2080, www.foothillspac.org. CORN FUN: Enjoy all things corn – food, fun, crafts, games – at the SwartWilcox House’s Corn Fest 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, to help cover costs of the historic Swart family corn crib recently installed on the property. Next to Oneonta’s River Street School. CCS ROCKS: The Cooperstown Central School Music Association and CCS Leo Club host a night of music to raise money for irrigation system for Rwandan village. 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, Cooperstown High School Sterling Auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, Salvatore Salvaggio, (607) 547-8181.
Cooperstown native Constance Laymon, who passed away Friday, Sept. 21, in Albany, was an unrelenting and fiery advocate for the disabled after the fall from a cliff at teen party in the Cherry Valley woods left her paralyzed from the waist down. Here she confers with Brandee, her guide dog.
Constance Laymon, 1966-2012
Misfortune Didn’t Break Her. It Steeled Her was injured at work and was left a quadriplegic, only able to move his arms and his head. COOPERSTOWN It was a difficult time for the family. As a teenager at Cooperstown Cenctivist Constance Laymon never tral School, Constance rebelled with considered giving up an option. drugs and alcohol. Two weeks before “When she was three, we had this she was set to graduate with the Class horrible pony, Teddy Bear,” said her mother, of 1984, an accident on South Hill, Moya Williams, Cooperstown. “Connie rode Cherry Valley, changed her life. “No up the hill, and Teddy Bear threw her and one knows or will admit exactly what came back down. Connie came marching happened, but she was partying on a home, grabbed the bridle and marched him cliff and she fell 40 feet,” said Moya. Constance’s pony Teddy Bear was stubborn, right back up the hill.” The girl broke her neck and dambut not as determined as she proved to be, Not even Santa Claus was immune from even as a young girl, her mother remembers. aged her brain and spinal cord. She her stubbornness. “She was very concerned was left paralyzed from the waist Constance died Sept. 21 at age 46. that we didn’t have a fireplace,” her mother down, with limited use of her arms Born June 25, 1966, Constance’s passion said. “So she brought home a big roll of and hands. “She couldn’t grasp things,” her for understanding the needs of the disabled paper from school and painted a whole firemother said. “She had trouble breathing, and started early, when, in 1979, her stepfather place.” Please See CONSTANCE, B4 By LIBBY GREEN
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THEATER: Mask and Hammer presents “Fuddy Meers” by David LindsayAbaire. 8 p.m. Fri-Sat Oct. 12-13, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14. Free to students, $5 public. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, http://tickets.oneonta.edu. NIGHT OF MAGIC: 7 p.m. Leon Etienne brings slight of hand and Vegasstyle illusions to the New Berlin Arts Forum. 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. Unadilla Valley Central School Auditorium.4238 NY Hwy 8, New Berlin. Info, Bonnie Jean Bauer, (607) 847-9747. TAME THE LION: Tame the Lion 5K on Sleeping Lion Trail to benefit Charity Water for a Rwandan community. 10 a.m. registration Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, (862) 438-0879.
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