Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen Synchronicities of the month: BEES! See them LIVE in Newburgh. Save their lives in New Windsor. Seeds (free) to plant “Bee food” in Wurtsboro. EAGLES and RAPTORS! Art & Photography exhibits in Milford and Wurtsboro. Live bird show in Wurtsboro. Vocabulary Lesson: Portmanteau: a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others. Pyrogrophy: wood burning. Antiphon: a short sentence sung or recited before or after a psalm or canticle. Metonymously: Metonymy is a figure
of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. Moghul: a style of South Asian painting. Vetiver: a bunchgrass of the Poaceae family, native to India. Vetiver oil is known to provide a calming, grounding effect on emotions, making it ideal for massage therapy and promoting restful sleep. In this issue: A virtual dementia tour in Chester. Acting Auditions in Monroe. Metal food can art in Narrowsburg. NYC students’ chorus in Bethel. Sullivan HS students’ art in Livingston Manor. College students’ & teachers’ art in Middletown. A gender-blind Hamlet in Middletown.
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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, Many thanks for Joe Di Bello’s article “Once Upon A Time” in the February 2018 issue of CANVAS. Just out of the army in 1955, my friends Vince Bresia, Roy Faulkner, Major Gibson and I, all rabid Dodger fans, along with my brother Bill, a die hard Yankees rooter, bought standing-room-only world series tickets for $10. We sat in the press box seats, watched batting practice, and saw 40 reporters including Wesley “Bo” Gill interview players during warm ups. Oh, the joy of that day. My brother always claimed if Mickey Mantle had played instead of Bob Cerv, who struck out four times, Johnny Podres would have been wearing goat horns. Simpler times, so long ago...brought memories of A.E. Housman’s poem flooding back:
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid, The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade. Many thanks for your publication. Tell Joe to keep up the good work. - John Fitzgerald, Newburgh
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Music by Eric Whitacre in Port Jervis, Blooming Grove and Middletown. The most popular (arguably) string quartet ever composed in Grahamsville and Monticello. Verdi LIVE-in-the-Round in Monroe and LIVE-in-HD in Loch Sheldrake. Klezmer & Gospel in Ellenville. An Urban Farming Fair in Newburgh. Witness a murder in Balmville! Witness a passion play/musical in Bloomingburg. Earth Day in Warwick. Raindrop Therapy in Rock Tavern. Dissonant Mozart in Central Valley. Bollywood in Hurleyville. ...and Poetry just about everywhere! Happy Birthday to Neil Alexander in Marlboro.
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INSIDE Calendars April 2018 Calendar ���������������������������14-15 Art & Photography ����������������������������������16 Books ������������������������������������������������������16 Category �������������������������������������������������13 Children & Teen’s ������������������������������������16 Demos, Lectures & Masterclasses ���������12 Music - Pop, Folk, Rock, etc., �����������������12 Columns Artist Opportunity: Actors ������������������������13 Healing Modalities ���������������������������������� 11 May I Have A Word With You �����������������18 Meet Me in The Library ���������������������������17 Stories Allan Rubin, artist �������������������������������������5 Amaranthus Quartet, Central Valley �������18 Amity Gallery, Warwick �����������������������6, 25 Artery, Milford ��������������������������������������������7 Artists’ Market, Shohola ����������������������������8 Barryville Area Arts Association ����������������8 Bethel Woods �����������������������������������������25 Bloomingburg Passion Play ��������������������22 Broome Street Wind Ensemble, Port Jervis ��� 9 Cathy Prager, artist �����������������������������������4 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor �����21 Chester Library �����������������������������������6, 12 Classic Choral Society ����������������������������23 Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen ���������28 Cornwall Public Library �����������������������������6 Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg ���������5 Delaware Highlands Conservancy �����������7 Falcon, Marlboro ���������������������������������������3 Four Seasons Chorale, Port Jervis �����������9 Florida Library �������������������������������������6, 27 Gene Weinstein, photographer ���������������19
Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com ads@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 / 4647 Facebook: D&H CANVAS Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. George J Nicholson, photographer �������� 24 Greenwood Lake Library ����������������������� 28 Highland Mills Library ���������������������������� 24 Hudson Opera Theatre, Monroe ���������������5 Hudson Valley Science Cafe ����������������� 27 Hurleyville Arts Centre ����������������������11, 28 In Memoriam: “Little” Sammy Davis ������� 26 James Douglas Milne, artist ���������������������4 Jennifer Leonard, artist �������������������������� 28 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford ������������������� 12 Linda Lynton, artist �������������������������������� 24 Live from The Met in HD ������������������������ 20 Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro ��������� 6, 12 Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh ������6 Mount Saint Mary College, Balmville ����� 22 Music in Central Valley �������������������������� 18 Music on Market, Ellenville �������������������� 24 National Poetry Month ������������������������������6 Neil Alexander and NAIL ���������������������������3 Nesin Cultural Arts ��������������������������������� 10 Newburgh Free Library �����������������������������6 Phillipsport Community Center �����������������7 Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh �������������� 27 River Valley Artists Guild ���������������������������9 SCCO String Quartet ����������������������������� 10 Search and Rescue Orchestra �����������������7 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �����������������6 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �������������� 28 Shandalee Music Festival ���������������������� 25 SUNY Orange, Middletown ���3, 6, 21, 22, 26 SUNY Orange, Newburgh ����� 4, 14, 23, 27 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake ������������ 20 Treecycle, Warwick �����������������������������������3 Urban Farming Fair, Newburgh ����������������4 Volunteer Fair, Newburgh ���������������������� 23 Wallkill River School, Montgomery �����������8 Wisner Library, Warwick ������������������������ 24 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��������������������������� 19 Wurtsboro Board of Trade “Spring Fling!” ���� 19