D & H CANVAS January 2012

FREE Monthly Arts, Entertainment & Buy Local Guide

January 2012

Covering Orange & Sullivan Counties & the neighboring towns of Milford, Dingmans Ferry, Beacon, Marlboro, Walker Valley & Ellenville art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

Publisher’s Column In Memoriam: William Yost 1944 - 2011

William “Bill” Yost’s exhibit of his whimsical, humorous and deeply profound collage “faces” was in progress in Kaplan Hall at SUNYO Orange’s Newburgh campus when he left us on November 23, 2011.

Bill was an avid advocate of CANVAS since its inception and believed strongly in our mission. That was not a surprise as his mission was to bring all the arts directly to the general public for their joy and enlightenment.

My heart goes out to his wife and the rest of his family, some of whom I have met at his exhibit receptions, and who all displayed Bill’s love for art and devotion to it, and who all happily shared his sense of humor.

The people of Orange County and visitors to West Point owe him a great debt of gratitude. I could not begin to compose a proper verbal paean to him and to his legacy.

As a collagist, I know he would appreciate my culling the following “memorial” to him from various printed sources, and chuckle about it.

Thank you, Bill, for all you gave to us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Bill” Yost spent 30 years as the Executive Director for Eisenhower Hall at West Point, Orange County's largest performing arts venue.

Bill Yost points to some of the features from early West Point-related cinema.

During this time, Bill served as the Senior Arts Advisor for Academy leadership and had the opportunity to work with many notable artists. He was an active member of the League of American Theatres and Producers, The International Society of Performing Arts Administrators, a docent for Storm King Arts Center, a past board member of Museum Village and a member of both the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At a time when Orange County had no world class arts and entertainment venues, Yost single-handedly brought culture to the County by using his own knowledge and expertise. He was the originating Director of the Eisenhower Hall Theatre and the diverse cultural offerings that have become its hallmark.

In its 32 year history, the venue has showcased many thousands of events that have ranged from hosting Presidents, Nobel Laureates, distinguished military and government officials and almost every type

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and genre of entertainment imaginable. The spectrum includes everything from rock and roll to the Worlds' great opera stars. The rich cultural mix included Broadway shows, symphony orchestras, chamber music, folk music, ballet, modern dance, ice shows, circuses, children's shows, international attractions and most everything in between rock n’roll and opera.

Yost’s ardent belief that "the arts are an international language" has surely left its mark on our future leaders. His belief that the arts foster peace and understanding and that they mirror the great achievements of the civilized world was his driving force.

Bill was a teacher both in and out of the West Point classroom. His knowledge of art history, music, theater and dance as well as the business of art was a valuable resource to the academy and the professional arts world.

Over the years, he has served as an advisor to The Cadet Fine Arts Forum, The Theatre Arts Guild, The Dialectic Society, The United States Military Academy Band, as well as various academic departments. He has also been the principal arts advocate for seven West Point superintendents.

Yost engaged in and fostered international cultural alliances with more than twenty nations. He represented West Point at numerous international congresses, symposiums and conferences. In the 1970's and 1980's, Eisenhower Hall was among a select group to open their stages to artists of the former Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.

Bill served as a consultant and advisor to the Broadway theatre community, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Council, the Minnesota State Arts Consortium, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Westchester Arts Council, the Orange County Arts Council, the board of Museum Village and others. He was an active participant in several professional organizations including the Association of Performing Arts presenters, the International Society of Arts Administrators, and has been a Tony voting member of the League of American Theatres and Producers.

After retiring, Bill devoted his creative energies to painting and recently exhibited in the Ritz Theater Lobby and SUNY Orange’s Kaplan Hall in Newburgh.

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COVER PHOTO In Honor of Bill Yost: West Point Academy’s Quintette ‘71 CANVAS FRIENDS DIRECTORY ARTISTS Mary Mugele Sealfon Portraits, Landscapes, Still Life Commissions 845-774-7658 mary.sealfon@gmail.com Linda Richichi Intuitive Art Workshops "Paintings to Feel the Energy" 38 Colden Hill Road, Newburgh 845-527-1146 Mary Evelyn Whitehill Watercolors “Paintings to Enhance Your Life” Pictured it Framed, Route 52, Newburgh www.mewhitehill.com

Arts & Agriculture, “Nourishing Body and Soul” sponsored by Wallkill River School & Gallery, Montgomery

Update...Orange County Arts & Ag “Farms are interested in increasing the dollar yield per acre, extending their marketing season, and bringing more people to their farm markets. Artists are looking for new audiences and venues for both working and presenting work. The natural settings of the farm and established farm marketing techniques may be a good fit for artists.

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CANVAS writers’ tidbits Visit TheCatskillChronicle.com for Barry Plaxen’s reviews of operas in the Live from the Met in HD Series and Sullivan classical music concerts, in addition to other Sullivan County news in this interesting and informative online newspaper.

benefit. Over a hundred people participated in these discussions. Some of these ideas are already in action.

For example there are at least two Orange County Ag cookbooks; there have been dance, drama and music events on farms for many years.”

Thanks to Daniel Mack who manages the Orange County Arts & Ag blog: http://artsandagriculture.blogspot.com/20 11/11/digest-of-artsag-ideas.html - or simply google Arts & Ag Orange County NY.

Good CLuck with your Farm, Honey The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum (HHNM) in Cornwall, a center for nature with a focus on environmental education, offers a wide range of activities and exhibits such as two programs to assist people with creating their own food sources.

Getting Started with Backyard Poultry Now you can learn how to get started with an introductory program of raising your own backyard flock of chickens.

Introduction to Beekeeping ...and learn how to get started with a fascinating and rewarding hobby from an experienced beekeeper.

Mitch Katz to be featured in Coffeehouse Mitch Katz will be the featured performer at the coffeehouse of the Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild on January 14. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UUC) starting at 7:30pm, with open mic sign-up and refreshments available at 7:00pm.

“Katz is a contemporary songwriter with a penetrating vision of life. His crafty lyrics and

Mitch Katz

compelling melodies bring sensitivity and humor to a mix of ballads and blues, with some political observation thrown in for good measure.” explained Keith Jordan, president of the Rock Tavern Folk Guild Chapter.

The UUCs located in the town of New Windsor, at 9 Vance Road, off Route 207. For information call: 845-978-5620.

B e e k e e p i n g , recommended for adults. January 15, 11:30am-4:00pm.

P o u l t r y , recommended for adults and children over 7. January 21, 10:00am1:00pm.

Prepaid registration is required for the programs. The HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center entrance is on Muser Drive, across from 174 Angola Road in Cornwall, just off of Route 9W. For information call 845-534-5506, ext. 204.

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Dvorak Still Making The Local Rounds

by Derek Leet

The second half of the nineteenth century saw a blossoming of national styles, as countries looked to their cultural roots to celebrate their heritage through music that evoked these themes and folk melodies.

While Czech composer Antonin Dvorak is well known for his lively Bohemian national melodies, he also had a prominent role to play in the development of American music. His New World Symphony and his “American” Quartet attest to that fact. Dvorak was the first composer to create an American “sound”, a sound different than the prevailing European sound.

American composers had previously used music from American hymns, but Dvorak’s use of hymns combined with an AfricanAmerican “folk sound” resulted in the sound that was later amplified and enmeshed into many musical genres from classical to film scores.

On November 13, Newburgh Chamber Music presented the Enso Quartet and they performed Antonin Dvorak’s “American” Quartet. This extremely popular and well-

The Simon Quartet Fiona Simon & Sebu Sirinian, violins. Lisa Suslowicz, viola. David Bakamjian, cello.

known work was followed in to the tri-county’s ongoing December by not-very-well “affair” with Dvorak at the known Dvorak works in various Grand Montgomery local concerts, offering us a Chamber Music Series chance to be the first kids on our (GMCM) when the Simon blocks to hear: Quartet performs it along with Dvorak’s Mass in D Luigi Cherubini’s Quartet # 3 (performed by the Pike County and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Quartet Choral Society in Milford) and # 6.

Dvorak’s Te Deum (performed The last two of Dvorak’s by the Middletown Concert quartets (# 13 and # 14) express Antonin Dvorak Chorale in Otisville), two very his feelings at leaving America much unknown works. where he was deeply involved in the music A bit more well-known than the two above scene for a few years, and at freeing himself works, Dvorak’s Quartet # 14 will contribute from travelling and remaining in his homeland. He began # 14 while in America, dining out & In

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but laid it aside until he wrote # 13 later in Prague.

Some say these quartets represent the ultimate synthesis of ideas in Dvorak’s chamber music, and a perceptive affirmation of life and thanksgiving for all its spiritual beauty.

After Brahms’ passing in 1897, Dvorak’s last creative period was devoted solely to large scale works as he no longer composed chamber music.

The Simon String Quartet is a special group of four seasoned performers whose passion for chamber music infuses their collaboration with energy and dynamism.

Led by Fiona Simon, a member of the New York Philharmonic, its members each combine careers in chamber music and orchestras, and as soloists and teachers.

Although currently based in New York, where they individually perform with some of the most distinguished ensembles in the area, their performing careers have taken them to many different parts of the world.

The free GMCM concert is on January 22 at 3:00pm in the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street.

For more information call 845-457-9867.

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To Fret or Not to Fret. To the literary acute, it's a question intended to conjure the image of a fresh, insecure Danish prince on the verge of an existential crisis. To the musical performer it's a question to be answered when contemplating the selection of a stringed instrument. Musicology aside, most observers are familiar with the string instruments: violin, cello, viola, mandolin and of course the everromantic, easily portable guitar. For the instrumentalist the violin, cello, and viola are to be played without frets, as in no fret (pun intended). For performers preferring to utilize the distinct advantages of fretting, it's the guitar, mandolin, banjo and ukulele that occupy the stage, with the guitar standing down center. For Walden’s Kevin Cronin, the choice of guitar was immediate, he is instrumentally a multitasker. His second instrument: voice.

An on-the-road-musician, the standard acoustic guitar is a popular choice. It and the voice are extremely portable and adaptable. His musical ventures began as a youngster in the Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Parish in the Bronx.

He was a member of a few bands while in high

school and traveled the coffee-house circuit while in college. He has been applying his craft locally for a number of years, performing at venues throughout Orange County and neighboring communities. As a composer, he was rated in the top 6 of independent country singers.

Most recently he appeared at Noble Coffee Roasters' Café in Campbell Hall and provided a highly appreciated musical embellishment at the Walden Historical Society's traditional Christmas Tea. There he performed with 12 year old Sarah La Casse, (see photo, right) an extremely talented performer, who plays without a fret, i.e., the violin. She is a student at the New York School of Music in Walden and her rendition of Danny Boy silenced the crowd at the Society's gathering. There's more to be noted regarding Sarah, so stay tuned.

As an accomplished composer, Kevin is able to expand his musical offerings to amplify his own personal beliefs, as exemplified in his CD release The Changing Years, and his current seasonal CD Merry Christmas, containing five of his own noteworthy compositions.

Kevin's recordings are available by order at kcgtr6@yahoo.com.

Kevin Cronin & Sarah La Casse

Meet Kevin Cronin Composer, Vocalist, Guitarist

montgomery & Campbell Hall calendar sponsored by Di Bello Gallery

Art & Photography Exhibits Mike Jaroszko luminist James Hiller photography James Douglas Gallery, ongoing

Music - Classical The Simon Quartet Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series Senior Center, Jan 22, 3pm

Mikey Teutel “Unleashed Exhibit” Wolfgang Gallery, thru Feb 9

Poetry Reading Glenn Werner Noble Coffee Roasters, Jan 5, 7pm

WRS Group Show Jan1-31 Reception: Jan 7, 5pm-8pm Wallkill River School

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.........................................................................................montgomery An Invitation to YOU from the WRS!

Forty artists from the Wallkill River School (WRS) are inviting the public to a live demonstration. The artists will be creating artworks using art techniques varying from traditional oil, pastel, acrylic, and watercolor painting, to palette knife painting and portraiture. If you’re curious about the creative process, considering an art class, or just want to meet artists in your community, come to the WRS on January 7 from 5:00pm 7:00pm.

Artists who will demonstrate live include Shawn Dell Joyce (pastel), Carrie Jacobson (oil), Dennis Fanton (oil), Mary Mugele Sealfon (portraiture), Judith Macalla (multi-media), Mike Jaroszko (Luminist Oil), Thomas Bolger (multi-media) , Janet Campbell (watercolor), Nancy Reed Jones (acrylic) Lisa O’Gorman (oil and pastel), Debbe Femiak (pastel & acrylic), George Hayes (palette knife), Chrissy Pahucki (acrylic), Gloria Detore-Mackie

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(pastel), Ellen Trayer (multi-media), Marilyn Richter (oil), Michael Piotrowski (oil), Kate Ferriter (oil), Elizabeth Ocskay (oil and pastel), Dave Munford (oil), Lita Thorne (oil), Marge Morales (oil), Marylyn Vanderpool (oil), Bruce Thorne (oil) Louise McCutcheon (multimedia), Gene Bove (oil), Jeannie Cimorelli (pencil), and Mickie M a c M i l l a n (watercolor).

Emerging artists who will be introduced in the workshop room (but not demonstrating): Mitchell Saler, Susan Wilson, Susan Dollard, Liz Torrence, Ellen Jamison, Naomi Genen, Jacqueline Doyle Schnieder, Carol Ann Kronyak, Frances Barmann, and Rick Parenti.

Sculptors who will have work on display include Dan Mack, Sandra Guinta, and Denise Aumick. The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street.

Phone 845-457-ARTS for information.

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Panis Angelicus...

The Heavenly Art of Making Bread

by J. A. Di Bello

Sunday mornings in the Historic Village of Montgomery are not unlike those in a hundred or so small hamlets located throughout the picturesque Northeast. Church bells ring. A mom, a dad and a little guy walk hand in hand along a modest and unsoiled sidewalk. Historic homes and quaint shops line spacious streets. With the greatest of ease, one could almost believe a Rockwell documentary was in production.

If you dare, chart your course for a stroll on the Western end of Clinton Street, in the vicinity of Montgomery's Downtown Breads & Bake Shop. Here, allow your senses to absorb and assimilate the experience.

Sensuous aromas from baking breads permeate the area and lure the Sunday morning stroller, intoxicating the mind and transporting thoughts to a simpler, more comfortable time. Apart from any religious connotations associated with the bread of angels, the essence of companionship tingles and tears from within, and with a little imagination one can faintly hear the late great tenor's heavenly refrain, "Panis angelicus...Dat panis coelicus..."

Stacy Hillman's business has become a successful attraction that literally causes mouths to water and nostalgic tears to accumulate. Shelves are lined with varieties of sumptuous cakes, artisan breads and imported cheeses. But on a Sunday morning it is the lure of the still warm-from-the-oven semolina bread, pane di semola, that is most tempting. Semolina flour is drawn or taken from durum wheat and when coarsely ground is notorious for its use in the production of pasta and couscous. When processed for baking it has a vibrant, golden color, a rich flavor and a distinctively chewy texture.

It gets better: Some Mediterranean cultures

determine that Sunday is the day dedicated to making sauces, e.g., sauces flavored with onions, garlic, tomatoes, celery, basil, parsley, oregano and lots and lots of tradition. These recipes generally call for the sauce, once brought to a boil, to simmer for four to five long, tempting hours. The culinary process is monitored by periodic stirring with a large wooden spoon and, of course, tasting. To avoid double dipping it is best to carefully tear pieces of fresh semolina bread from the mother loaf and cautiously dip each into the sauce. Repeat as necessary. The full flavor of a delectable sauce is best monitored and appreciated by using this method. Thus, if you stroll on Sunday mornings and find yourself in the vicinity of the Downtown Breads and Bake Shop and are party to the practice of Sunday sauces, purchase two loaves of Stacy's Semolina, for the first loaf will, to the surprise of the unconscious, be consumed by the time all are called to the table. It is at this table we break bread and come to understand the indisputable relationship of bread to companions, and the importance of a home-town bakery. buy local

Forestburgh Theatre to Receive Two Grants from NYS Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) informed Forestburgh Theatre Arts Center’s (FTAC) Producing Director Norman Duttweiler that the local not-for-profit performing arts organization would be the beneficiary of not one, but two, 2011-2012 state arts grants to support its work of bringing live theatre to both summer audiences and local high school students. These are the first NYSCA grants that the Forestburgh-based theatre company has ever been awarded.

In the Theatre/Professional Performances category, FTAC will receive a two year grant of $5,000 ($2,500 for both 2011 and 2012) in support of the summer season of plays and musicals. In the Arts Education/In-School Program category, FTAC will receive $11,000 for its educational theatre program that brought a professional production of Tennessee

Williams' The Glass Menagerie to Monticello High School and seven other area high schools this past October.

Interactive student workshops presented with the production were developed by FTAC in Norman Duttweiler consultation with the IABP Educational Consultant Group.

"We are thrilled at this award and honored with the recognition and the confidence that NYSCA has shown in the quality of our work here in Sullivan County. A grant of this magnitude confirms what patrons of the Playhouse and clients of our educational programs have known for some time: FTAC produces first rate professional theatre right here

in Sullivan County," said FTAC Artistic Director Ron Nash.

Producing Director Duttweiler added, "While we feel we have worked hard to deserve these grants, we are very mindful of the efforts of Ron Nash Governor Cuomo and our local state representatives, State Senator John J. Bonacic, and Assemblywoman Aileen M. Gunther, in helping to procure these grant dollars not just for FTAC, but really for the benefit of the residents of Sullivan and Orange counties.

The FTAC educational theatre program, also known as the New Audience Project (NAP) brings live theatre to area high schools in the

fall, and is now in its fourth year. Since 2008, NAP has presented productions of The Miracle Worker, Inherit the Wind, Romeo and Juliet, and The Glass Menagerie to well over 10,000 area students.

The summer season is well known to local residents and will embark upon its 66th season in 2012, making it the oldest professional summer theatre in New York State.

On the main stage in 2012: Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde, The Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Barefoot in the Park, and Murder among Friends featuring M*A*S*H star Loretta Swit. Children's theatre productions will include The Little Mermaid, Tarzan and the Ruby of Ropar, and Sleeping Beauty.

Additional information is available on the website: www.FBplayhouse.org.

Holistic Living sponsored by Linda Richichi “About Crystals” by Cephora

May You Create a Happy, Prosperous, Creative, and Healthy New Year!

C o n s c i o u s l y ourselves.

Pink Tourmaline is the expression of love in choosing what you want for your life is the outer world. This crystal also helps us to an act of deep release past experiences. Its message is, "It's creativity, a deep safe to love."

A Year of Abundance ~ The idea of inner process expressed by what abundance relates to a view of what one you dream, imagine, deserves. Citrine is a very powerful crystal as it and give physical helps release old beliefs allowing for new ones. form to. What better Green is another color for abundance. Green time than the New Tourmaline brings renewal, and good health.

Programming Your Crystals ~ Below is one Year to create? Below are a few, among many method of programming: Hold your crystal. crystals, that can assist you: A Year of Love ~ When we love ourselves it's Breathe slow, deep breaths, inhaling through amazing how much love we receive from others. your nose, exhaling through your mouth. As you When we don't, it's astonishing how little the inhale, be present to what you want; imagine how it feels and repeat an affirmation. Make it love of others makes as an impact.

The primary love stone is Rose Quartz. It positive! do not say: "I don't want to be helps remove the energetic blockages in the overweight," but instead say, "I lose 20 pounds heart chakra which keep us from truly loving in 2012." Say it in the present tense - not "I will buy local

Holistic Calendar UUC................................................................................................................ Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern

Psychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes ......................................................UUC 1st Tuesdays, 7pm United Friends Observer Society (UFOS) support group..........Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Jan 4, 7pm Message Circle ............................................................Spiritquest Healing Center, Slate Hill, Jan 13, 7pm Dinner and Reading w/Lisa Ann ............................The Trestle, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jan 15, 2pm-6pm

lose" but "I lose." Make it believable.

With each exhale send your desire into the crystal. When you feel that the programming is complete, put the crystal in your energy field as much as possible or carry it with you.

Look to your crystals at home - even in jewelry.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! with Love & Light.

CANVAS FRIENDS DIRECTORY

Cephora is a crystal lover, a student of the universe, and a certified Crystal Healer and energy healer Level III Reconnective HealingTM and The ReconnectionTM. Her Center offers many inspirational classes and events as well as healing services.

Crystal Connection, 116 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro, winter closing is from January 8 at 5:00pm until the end of March. Phone 845-888-2547 or visit www.CrystalConnectionCenter.com.

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HEALTH & HOLISTIC SERVICES Patricia Quinn, MS, LCAT, NBCCH Art Therapy, Hypnosis & Healing 10 Colonial Avenue Warwick, NY 10990 845-649-0953

HOLISTIC & SPIRITUAL Crystal Connection Retail, Workshops, Events, Healing 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro 845-888-2547

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Neighbors Helping Neighbors

In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd, Jr., a VOILA! black man, was chained to a pick-up truck and Here’s a second chance to hear holiday dragged to his death by three white men. The music without the stress of the holidays nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day while helping others in Orange County who lynching. In Two Towns Of Jasper, two film were hit hard by Hurricane Irene. crews, one black and one white, set out to Join “neighborly” musicians: document the murder by following the Children and Adult Choirs, a Handbell subsequent trials of the local men charged with Choir, Vocal and Instrumental Soloists, and the crime. It is an explicit and troubling portrait an Organist will gather for Second Helpings of Race in America, one that asks how and why at the Calvary Presbyterian Church on a crime like this could have occurred.

January 8 at 3:00pm (snow date Jan.22).

The film will be shown at the Downing Film The church is located at 120 South Street, Center on January 23 at 7:15pm. corner of Grand Street.

A Q/A will follow after the screening with Donation is only $5.00.

Christine Sadowski, Executive Director of For information call 845-476-9219.

YWCA Orange County. www.calvarypresbychurch.org.

For information: 845-561-3686. newburgh calendar sponsored by Kiki Hayden & Roseann Cozzupoli

Art & Photography Exhibits

Peter Fletcher guitar Newburgh Free Library, Jan 22, 3pm

“Woven Stories: Contemporary Tapestries” Ann Street Gallery thru January 28

Music - Holiday "Second Helping" Benefit Calvary Presbyterian Church, Jan 8, 3pm

Book Discussion Great Books Discussion Newburgh Library, Jan 25, 7pm & Jan 27, 11:30am

Cinema “Two Towns of Jasper” Jan 23, 7:15pm Downing Film Center

Museum Exhibit “Continental Congress Presidents” manuscripts

Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Jan 5-Apr 29

Music Taco Tuesday! Acoustic Tuesdays Talking Machine Jan 5 Take One Car Jan 21 The Wherehouse

Music - Classical Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary, Jan 14, 3pm

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Poetry Reading Hudson River Poets Newburgh Free Library, Jan 5, 7pm

Continental Congress Presidents

If any American child is asked who the of Independence, signed first and most country's first president was, the answer is flamboyantly by the Representative from almost sure to be "George Washington." Massachusetts John Hancock.

But some historians argue that there were A third Continental Congress, known as in fact no fewer than fourteen men who the Confederation Congress, met from served as president before "the Father of the 1781 to 1789 to guide the newly Country" took office on April 30, independent nation through the final 1789. stage of the Revolutionary War In 1774 the American and establish its government. colonists were already so In all, fourteen patriots angry about British taxes that presided over the three a group of fifty-six assemblies (Hancock served protesters, representing in 1777 and for a second twelve of the thirteen term in 1785) before General colonies, met in Philadelphia George Washington was to organize a boycott. This first elected the first President of Continental Congress elected as the United States of America its president Peyton Randolph, the under the U.S. Constitution.

Attorney General of the colony of John Hancock From January 5 - April 29, the Virginia, and adjourned after eight 1737-1793 Karpeles Museum will present weeks. A second Congress met in 1775 unique documents and manuscript material after the battles of Lexington and Concord from the tumultuous times of these three had already initiated the American Continental Congresses.

Revolutionary War, and during that session The Karpeles Manuscript Library the colonies made the historic decision to Museum is located at 94 Broadway, across break with Britain and establish themselves from City Hall, in the City of Newburgh. as an independent country. On July 4th, Visit www.karpeles.com for information.

Admission is always free.

1776, the Congress issued the Declaration

Destination............................................................................Newburgh GNSO Book Signing at Jan. 14 Concert

Once upon a time, somewhere around September 2011, Greater Newburgh S y m p h o n y Orchestra's (GNSO) music director Woomyung Choe planned to feature Georges Bizet Georges Bizet's delightful homage to childhood, Jeux d'Enfants (Children's Games). In much the same way Ogden Nash verses are used for Carnival of the Animals, Dr. Choe thought there ought to be verses for Children's Games too. So he appealed to GNSO "go to" man Gordon Shacklett, who, abracadabra, produced Holly Weiss.

Weiss is a private vocal instructor, retired professional singer and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

She has a long list of credentials as a professional singer, receiving critical acclaim as a versatile soprano, sensitive interpreter and specialist in sacred music.

Weiss’ singer's voice led to her author's voice when she retired from professional singing in 2009. She will be signing copies of her debut novel, Crestmont, immediately following the

"Bring the Kids" Family Concert.

Holly's Crestmont journey began when she stayed overnight at The Crestmont Inn in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.

A spark was lit to Holly Weiss explore the lives of people working on staff at a busy summer inn.

The 1920s period, replete with jazz, prohibition, fashion trends and interesting social mores perked her interest.

The novel is dedicated to Holly's parents, N. John and Dorothy L. Weiss, who spent years nurturing her singing voice.

Thanks to Holly's talents and generosity, for the very first time--from the 1870s to the present - we do indeed have newly authored verses to accompany Bizet's vignettes. Erich Tusch will lend his magnificent voice to their narration before each of the five movements.

The concert and book signing is on Saturday, January 14 at 3:00pm in Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College (with a snow date of January 15). See page 28 for concert info.

Phone: 845-913-7157.

Photography by Mark Woods

Photographer Mark W. Woods was born and raised in Manhattan. He raised his family in Brooklyn and was a tractor trailer driver in New York for 20 years, among many other endeavors. Woods moved to Newburgh in 1985 to work for the Army and retired with 32 years of service in 2001. He graduated from Culinary Institute of America Class of 2006 on the G I bill.

His interest in photography started in earnest at the 1980 winter Olympics at Lake Placid, where he was employed as a logistician and security officer for the Olympiads. This is when he bought his first “good” camera - a Cannon AE1 with a 200 mm lens. Despite taking courses at community colleges and spending time just wandering around New York City, he never found his "eye," until now.

In his bio statement, Woods describes his renewed interest in photography: "Now I happened onto digital photography and this rekindled the spark; combined with my early risings, I found the sunrises and voila! In addition, I discovered river traffic on the Hudson, especially tugboats and ships which, as a tractor trailer driver, I can relate to as they move cargo and such. My mind's eye sees into these vessels, someone is driving or steering and the manpower it takes to make it all happen."

Woods continues, "Ah, but to catch a moment in time that you can share with everyone for eternity."

Mark Woods' work is featured at the Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street, for the month of January.

For information call 845-563-3619.

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Misnomer Dance Theater at OCCC

Misnomer Dance will perform at Orange Hall Theatre on January 29 at 3:00pm

Misnomer Dance Theater celebrates the nuances of human communication, including the tenderness, humor, and absurdity that characterize day-to-day interactions.

Misnomer's work includes the creation, research and presentation of original dance and movement-based art, the development of boundary-crossing innovations in audience engagement and the ongoing advocacy and exploration of participation models in the arts community.

Misnomer Dance Theater works have a multidirectional quality. The sculptural plastique technique of controlled movement and statuelike posing at times can make viewers wonder about the dancers’ body parts, so that one may blink and ask, “Whose head is whose?,” or “Are those waving appendages legs, or arms?” In fact, some have likened the flexibility of Choreographer/Dancer Chris Elam’s body to that of a contortionist.

Misnomer’s work has been hailed by top critics in New York, and its dance piece “Throw People,” which is part of the OCCC program, was named by the NY Times as “one of the top ten dance performances in NYC” for 2006.

Dance Magazine has described the dance company’s works as “beautifully peculiar.”

Chris Elam and his company have performed in over 250 theaters across the USA, Denmark, Holland, France, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, Ireland, Ukraine and Cuba. They will perform in Middletown on January 29 at 3:00pm in Orange Hall Theatre. Tickets are available online at www.sunyorange.edu; then click on ‘Events’. Free admission to all students at the door. This event is presented by Cultural Affairs.

Phone: 845-341-4891.

Orange Hall is is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown.

Feel the Funk at the Falcon

The Funk Junkies will perform at The Falcon on January 26 at 7:00pm

Not all funk is created equal. Sometimes you'll find something missing. A beat with no syncopation, bass with no grooooooooove, vocals with no soul, leaving the music listener with a severe case of Honky-Pox. To guard against this you can receive a soul vaccination administered painlessly by the Funk Junkies.

This 14-piece band, which includes a 5-

See Performer & Artist Opportunities Below!

More Artist Opportunities Lofts For Rent LIVE/WORK SPACE: Artist Loft Apartments Available. Income requirements apply, studio space available. Safe Harbors of the Hudson.

845-562-6940. www.safe-harbors.org.

Exhibit Opportunity The Pine Bush Area Arts Council is holding its first annual “Bizarre Art” Competition on April 28-29 during the UFO Festival. Themes include: sci-fi, UFO, alien, paranormal, supernatural, etc. Top prize winner receives $50. Submit by April 14, 2012. For details contact: Linda Malmendier, 845-744-2075 Linda5420@frontiernet.net.

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piece horn section, can lay down the funk!

They spent 3 years putting the band together with some of New York's best musical talent.

They are performing at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro on January 26 at 7:00pm. Phone: 845-236-7970. for Visit www.TheFunkJunkies.net information on the Funk Junkies.

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Children’s Theatre: Paper Bag Players Laugh...Laugh...and Laugh Some More!

The Paper Bag Players LAUGH, LAUGH and LAUGH is the new show that will tickle funny bones and stretch imaginations and get everyone in attendance giggling and chuckling! Happy stories, Paper Bag sets and costumes, sing-alongable songs and dances are all a part of the merry mix that makes this show perfect for children, and family and friends.

The cast consists of Ted Brackett, Laura Canty-Samuel, Amy Walsh, Kevin Richard Woodall with John Stone at the electric piano, playing tunes he composed specifically for this show, are all coming to Orange Hall Theatre on Sunday, January 15 at 2:00pm.

The subject matter for the play is both fun and educational as Paper Bag Players cast members make friends with a paper bag dragon; help a superhero save the day; experience the ups and downs of the first day of school; create a multi-colored masterpiece with a magical paint brush; find out that the invention which is supposed to do all your chores just doesn’t; learn from a dancing broom about keeping the planet clean; and much, much more.

The Paper Bag Players are celebrating their 53rd year of creating original, top-notch children’s theatre. The company has received an Obie Award and won honors from the American Theater Wing, the Broadway Theater Institute for Theater & Education, the American Association for Theater & Education, and the New York State Artists.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.sunyorange.edu, click on "Events," then "Online Ticketing." Tickets will also be on sale at the Orange Hall box office starting one hour before showtime on January 15 The Paper Bag Players’ LAUGH! LAUGH! LAUGH! is presented by Cultural Affairs at SUNY Orange. Questions can be directed 845-341-4891 or by email to cultural@sunyorange.edu. Also, information can be acquired from the webpage:

The Paper Bag Players will perform at OCCC on January 15 at 2:00pm.

www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.

Orange Hall, is ADA compliant and is located on the campus of SUNY Orange County Community College at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues in Middletown.

Locally Shot Film to be Screened at Callicoon Theatre

The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) CineArt feature for January is Martha Marcy May Marlene (R), a film about a cult, filmed and edited in Sullivan County last summer.

Screenings will be held at the Callicoon Theater, 30 Upper Main Street in Callicoon from January 6 thru January 10.

Screenings are at 7:30pm daily with additional 2:00pm matinees on Saturday and Sunday.

Written and directed by Sean Durkin and edited by Zac Stuart-Pontier, the film stars Elizabeth Olsen and John Hawkes. StuartPontier will be available for a Q&A following the Saturday evening screening.

“It seems appropriate that this film was booked for the CineArt series by DVAA

programming,” says Executive Director Elaine Giguere, “because Zac did his editing upstairs in the Delaware Arts Center over the summer.”

“I'm very excited about the film being screened at the Callicoon Theater,” says StuartPontier. “I've always loved seeing movies there and it's exciting to bring Martha Marcy May Marlene back to the area where it was shot.

Sullivan County looks great on film.”

Co-sponsored by Callicoon Theater and DVAA, CineArt brings independent and foreign films to Sullivan County audiences. A percentage of admissions and $1 per person helps to support DVAA programs in the visual, performing, literary and media arts.

For further information call the Callicoon Theatre at 845-887-4460.

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EXPRESSIONS: Well Trained Dancers Soar in Newburgh

by Roanne Patterson Where can you see joy on every face?

Where does the energy of youth intersect with the beauty and discipline of Dance?

Where do the values of focus and hard work produce confidence and happiness?

At the Newburgh Performing Arts Academy (NPAA).

Miracles happen on Grand Street. Teens between 14 and 17 gather for eight hours (Mondays and Fridays for 4 hours each evening) of tap, ballet and jazz. It is intensive, hard work and repetition which brings out enormous self confidence in these 15 or so focused dancers. They come alive within their bodies, and their countenances are transformed as the music and movement overtake them in a riot of happy work.

NPAA Founder/Creative Director/Lead Choreographer Kim L. Turner's story of the journey to the realization of the NPAA is one of passion and hard work. Turner grew up in Laurelton, Queens from where she auditioned for and got into New York City's famed High School of Performing Arts in the Dance Department. Then, “In 1983 I got a job at Verizon as a software engineer, and this is where I made the money to start the school. I left dancing for awhile,” said Turner.

For Kim it was really her children that brought her back to dance. Her oldest daughter was the catalyst. When the family moved from Queens to New Windsor she took dance right away, and loved it.

Turner's three children subsequently took dance classes wherever they lived. Turner noticed a need in the Newburgh area for a resource and they opened a place where everyone could afford to come. Along with Kevin White, NPAA Executive Director, Turner began to plan and build a dream place where children in Newburgh can become something more and finer than they

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already are. “We placed it, on purpose, in an underserved area. We needed 60 students to open the doors and we got more than that. The interest is definitely still here eight years later,” said Turner.

The Academy provides classes in music, visual arts, dance and acting. With 21 instructors at NPAA across these disciplines, the students get a firm, professionally-based grounding in the arts.

The classes give the children something more than they already have. “Along with the New York State standards for the arts, we provide discipline as evidenced by our dance recitals which show the students' commitment and hard work,” noted Turner.

Professionally trained dancers who are available for performance ‘Expressions’ is NPAA's premier dance performance Ensemble. “These are our top level dancers who must audition annually for spaces in the Ensemble. They get the most concentration in each area. Tap, ballet

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and jazz. Ballet is the strongest (most intensive) as this is the basis for all dance so the girls really work hard. We get them exposed to multiple performances to solidify their training and experience. Trips to see Ailey's at City Center, Philadanco at Lycian Centre, Stomp (rhythm and tap with garbage cans), Dance Theater of Harlem are a regular part of our curriculum and exposure to the professionalism and devotion of dance,” said Turner.

About the Classes The ballet teacher, Kristina HotalingPaz said, “It brings out the best in a teacher to have interested and committed students.

These kids show up. They want to be here.”

At one point one of the students said, “I want to do it again, in front.” This show of passion isn't seen everyday in all schools.

The official ages for the ensemble are 1018. Right now the ages of the current group are 14-18. To get into the Ensemble, two years in each discipline is required followed

by passing a difficult audition. For 7-8 hours per week they learn and practice combinations in ballet, tap and jazz. They perform several times a year where they are overwhelmingly received. This reporter witnessed a Monday evening of sessions.

The amazing focus and energy was palpable. They practiced well. Their Christmas performance numbers included Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Jingle Bell Rock, Let it Snow and a slow Jazz rendition of Silent Night. Technique was practiced with precision and attention.

“Someone once said dancing is with the feet but dancing with the heart is another important piece. The Ensemble dances with their hearts because they really love it. The spark is there. They sparkle,” said Kim proudly of the value of these precious kids.

The school is run on grants, fees and donations. For a schedule of classes visit the NPAA at 62 Grand Street in Newburgh or call 845-562-5650. Visit them on the web at: www.npaainc.org.

CANvas category calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation, Monroe ART TOURS / walks Second Saturday in Beacon Beacon Galleries......Downtown Beacon, Jan 14, all day to 9pm Art After Dark Milford Galleries..................................Downtown Milford, Jan 14, 6pm-9pm

cinema Reel Eclectic Film Series..........................................Thrall Library, Middletown, Jan 5, 7pm FREE “Auntie Mame”................................................................................Cornwall Library, Jan 11, Noon “To Catch A Thief” dir/A. Hitchcock ..................Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Jan 14, 7:30pm “Snow Flower & the Secret Fan” ..............................Cornwall Public Library, Jan 19, 6pm FREE “Two Towns of Jasper” documentary ..............Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jan 23, 7:15pm “Pull My Daisy” Surreal Film Series ..........Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jan 27, 7:30pm FREE

comedy Justin Morgan, Lisa Landry, Jason Marcus, Michael Bennett ..............................................

Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 7, 9pm Gene Trifilo, Chipps Cooney, Andrew Kennedy......................................................................

Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 14, 9pm Angel Salazar ......................................................Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jan 21, 9pm

dance Misnomer Dance Theater ....Orange Hall Theatre, SUNY Orange, Middletown, Jan 29, 3pm

lectureS / DEmos / SymposiumS / Forums /Master Classes HHNM................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ....................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ............................................................ Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Live Art Demos 30 WRS artists, all mediums Wallkill River Schl., Montgomery, Jan 7, 5pm-7pm “Savory Pies and the Best Crust” Leslie Noble ..................................Florida Library, Jan 13, 6pm Introdutcion to Winter Ecology (and hike)........................................................PEEC Jan 14, 1pm Introduction to Beekeeping ........................................................................HHNM Jan 15, 11:30am Getting Started with Backyard Poultry ........................................................HHNM Jan 21, 10am

Music - Broadway - Film - Tin pan alley - Opera - Operetta “A Midwinter Night’s Dream” Broadway Concerts Direct ............................................................

Wurtsboro Community Church, Jan 14, 8pm

music - classical Peter Fletcher guitar ................................................................Ellenville Library, Jan 8, 2pm FREE Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra w/Joe Manglass, narrator & commentator..................

Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College Newburgh, Jan 14, 3pm “Sousa Concert” West Point Band ............................Eisenhower Hall Theatre, Jan 15, 3pm FREE The Simon Quartet Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series ....................................................

Senior Center, Montgomery, Jan 22, 3pm FREE M.Sgt. Matt Wozniak trombone ..............................West Point Jewish Chapel, Jan 22, 3pm FREE Peter Fletcher guitar ....................................................Newburgh Free Library, Jan 22, 3pm FREE Potluck Concerts ”Happy Birthday, Herr Mozart” ..........................................................................

Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jan 27, 7:30pm

music - Holiday “Second Helping” Benefit Concert..............Calvary Presbyterian Church, Newburgh, Jan 8, 3pm

music - jazz Jazz Trio ..................................................Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, Thursdays, 8pm-11pm Tony Jefferson ..................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 8, 10am-2pm Kneebody ....................................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 8, 7pm The Mojo Myles Mancuso Band ....................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 19, 7pm “Artsongjazz” Band ..................................................Museum Village, Monroe, Jan 22, 2pm

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poetry & Prose readings Hudson River Poets ........................................................Newburgh Free Library, Jan 5, 7pm FREE Glenn Werner ....................................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jan 5, 7pm First Friday Contemporary Writers prose ..................Narrowsburg Library, Jan 6, 7:30pm FREE Rebecca Schumejda & Guy Reed ............................Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jan 6, 8pm Steve Calitri Poetry in the Loose....................................7 West Street, Warwick,. Jan 7, 4pm FREE Poetry Revival Series & Open Mic ....................Broad Street Coffee House, Milford, Jan 10, 7pm Featured Poet & Open mic ..................................Bank Square Coffeehouse, Beacon, Jan 19, 7pm Terry Sandler & Susan Schoenberger An Evening with Local Literati, prose ..............................

Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Jan 21, 7pm “Be Mine Always” art & poetry exhibit ..........Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, Jan 28-Feb 18 Poetry at the Church ..........................................................Goshen Methodist Church, Jan 30, 7pm Poetry Night ..............................................................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Jan 31, 7pm

Recreation (adults, Teens & Children - see also kid’s recreation page 20) Animal Tracking......Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Jan 7 & 21, 1pm Tricky Tracks hike - 5yrs & up ......................................................................HHNM Jan 22, 10am

storytelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Dragons” ............................Florida Library, Jan 12, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers Open Theme, Local Stories ....................Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Jan 13,TBA FREE “Love” ......................................................................Domesticities, Youngsville, Feb 5, TBA FREE

theatre - Musical “The Color Purple” ............................................................Eisenhower Hall Theatre, Jan 28, 8pm

Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill NCR PV UUC

= Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall 845-294-8090 = Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills = Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 9 Vance Lane, Rock Tavern

Jan & Michelle odd rock & folk ................................................PV Dec. 30, 3:30pm-6:30 pm The Chris O’Leary Band blues, rockabilly ......................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 5, 7pm Talking Machine ..............................................................The Wherehouse, Newburgh, Jan 5 Evan Teatum ........................................................................................PV Jan 6, 3:30pm-7pm New Zion Trio roots reggae, dub,doom, jazz ....................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 6, 7pm Mud Belly ................................................................................................PV Jan 7, 7pm-10pm Moses Patrou r&b ..............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 7, 7pm Ecco 3............................................2 Alice’s Coffee Lounge Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jan 7, 8pm Kathleen Pemble ............................................................................PV Jan 8, 2:30pm-5:30pm Aabaraki stutter, funk, neo-soul ......................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 12, 7pm Steve Wells ..........................................................................................PV Jan 13, 3:30pm-7pm Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club rock, Patti Rothberg The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 13, 7pm Sketchy Black Dog rock ..................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 14, 7pm Off Hour Rockers..................................................................................PV Jan 14, 7pm-10pm Anthony Fiore ..............................................................................PV Jan 15, 2:30pm-5:30pm Ed Palermo Big Band swing, blues ................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 19, 7pm Jack Higgins ......................................................................................PV Jan 20, 3:30pm-7pm Tigran Hamasyan Quintet jazz, rock ..............................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 21, 7pm Nailed Shutt ..........................................................................................PV Jan 21, 7pm-10pm Take One Car ....................................................................................The Wherehouse, Jan 21 Peter Sando ..................................................................................PV Jan 22, 2:30pm-5:30pm The Funk Junkies ............................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 26, 7pm Al Westphal ........................................................................................PV Jan 27, 3:30pm-7pm Emilio Solla jazz, tango, classical, rock ..........................The Falcon, Marlboro, Jan 27, 7pm Leo and the Lizards ..............................................................................PV Jan 28, 7pm-10pm The E. Mitchell Combo ................................................................PV Jan 29, 2:30pm-5:30pm

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Benjamin Britten............Cornwall Library, Jan 15, 1pm FREE

Open Mic & Coffee House/cabaret opera - “livecast” “The Enchanted Island” Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, etc - Live From the Met in HD Series ........

Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake, Jan 21, 1pm

Open Mic w/ Eric Callari ........................................Logan’s Well, Florida, Wednesdays, 9pm Open Mic........................................................................Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Stacy & Friends Musicians Gathering ....The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, from 7:30pm Mitch Katz Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse ..............................UUC Jan 14, 7:30pm Open Mic ..........................................................................................................PV Jan 5, 7pm-10pm January 2012

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Storytelling......Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Library 7:30pm Storytelling ..............................Yarnslingers

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Cinema....“Snow Flower & the Secret Fan” ....Cornwall Library, 6pm Music - Jazz ..Mojo Myles Mancuso & Ed Palmero Bands FAL 7pm Poetry Reading ......................Bank Street Coffeehouse, Beacon, 7pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm

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Music - Funk ......................The Funk Junkies......................FAL 7pm Open Mic...Musicians Gathering ..Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 8pm Music - Jazz.....Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

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Music - Funk-Stutter ..................Aabaraki ............................FAL 7pm Music ......................................Steve Wells Cinema “Auntie Mame” Cornwall Library, Noon

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Music - Jazz-Tango-Rock ........Emilio Solla

Music - Classical.....Potluck Concerts ..Cornw

Cinema...............”Pull My Daisy”..........Seliga

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Writers ..Narrowsburg Lib. 7:30pm Music ....................................Moses Patrou....................................................FAL 7pm

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Art Walk................Second Saturday ....Downtown Beacon, All Day thru 9pm Music - Classical...........Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra..............MSM 3pm Art Walk....................................Art After Dark ....................Milford Galleries, 6pm-9pm ........................PV 3:30pm-7pm Music ..................................Off Hour Rockers ........................................PV 7pm-10pm s ....Cafe Devine, Callicoon, TBA Music - Folk ..............................Mitch Katz ....................................................UUC 7pm Cliub, Patti Rothberg..FAL 7pm Music - Rock......................Sketchy Black Dog ..............................................FAL 7pm Cinema....................“To Catch A Thief” ........Paramount Theatre, Middletown 7:30pm Music - B’way-Opera-Pop-etc....Broadway Concerts Direct....Wurtsboro Community Church 8pm Comedy ....................Gene Trifilo, Chipps Cooney ..................Jesters, Chester, 9pm

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Opera - Livecast ............“The Enchanted Island” ......................................SCCC 1pm Recreation ..........................Animal Tracking ..............................................PEEC 1pm Music ......................................Nailed Shutt ............................................PV 7pm-10pm Music - Jazz ................Tigran Hamasyan Quintet..........................................FAL 7pm Comedy ................................Angel Salazar ..............................Jesters, Chester, 9pm Prose Reading..Terry Sandler & Susan Schoenberger..Ritz Theatre, Newburgh 7pm

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ART exhibits CAG ..................................................................................................................Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty CAS......................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor DAC ........................................................................................................Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg KMM..............................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh NFL ................................................................................................................................Newburgh Free Library OSH..........................................................................................Old Stone House, Hasbrouck (Woodbourne) SUNYO ..........................................SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 SUNYO-KH..........................................................................................SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall UUC ......................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Gallery 917-613-3489 WAA ..............................................................................................................................Wurtsboro Art Alliance WRS ..................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery 845-457-2787

Carolyn Duke pottery ..............................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Mike Jarozsko luminist paintings ............................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Holiday Show ........................................................................................The Forge, Milford, thru Jan Michael Baron metal, Phillippe Gabrielle paint, Bruce McCandless wood ....................................

Flower Power Bakery, Livingston Manor, thru Jan 3 “Celebration of the Season” multiple artists & photographers ........................................................

Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, thru Jan 4 Members Holiday Show ..................................................................The ARTery, Milford, thru Jan 4 Mikey Teutel “Unleashed Exhibit” ..............................Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery, thru Feb 9 “Arts in Public Places” Port Jervis Arts Council, 25 artists ......................................................

The Lynx at River Bend Golf Club, Port Jervis, thru March

New art Exhibits Shawn Dell Joyce “Placemaking” ............................Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, Jan 4-Feb 29 Robert Lewis Hoover “Awakening the Buddha Within” art & photography ..................................

Karlos Carcamo & Greg Slick “Go West”, Eleanor White ......bau Gallery, Beacon, Jan 14-Feb 5 Kathe Blackbird Frantz & Matthew Zappala “Middle Ground” ....................CAS Jan 21-Feb 26 “Be Mine Always” art & poetry ..........................................................................DAC Jan 28-Feb 18 SUNYO Jan 5-Feb 7

Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip ..............................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9am Book Discussion “American, America” Ethan Canin ....................Cornwall Library, Jan 4, 7pm Book Discussion “Going Fore It In Golf and Life” w/Gil Anderson ........................................

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jan 19, 7pm Great Books Discussion ..................................................Newburgh Free Library, Jan 25, 7pm Book Discussion “Anna Karenina” Leo Tolstoy ............................Cornwall Library, Jan 26, 7pm Great Books Discussion ............................................Newburgh Free Library, Jan 27, 11:30am Book Discussion The Help” Kathryn Stockett ..........................Florida Library, Feb 2, 6:30pm Walden Chess Club all ages, all levels..................Walden Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays 6pm Friday Night Chess......................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays 6pm Knit and Stitch ........................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knimble Knitters........................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Group ..................................................Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jan 26, 6:30pm Knitting Circle ......................................................................................Florida Library, Jan 30, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ....Last Sundays, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Guild..............................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867 Listen to recorded classical music, open informal discussion follows.

Photography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ................................2nd Monday, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester Science Cafe “Understanding the Underemployment Problem: Why Having a Job Isn't Enough”, Douglas C. Maynard Diana’s, New Windsor, Dec 21, 7pm Scrabble Players ............................................................................Walden Library, Thursdays, 6pm Scrabble Players............................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night ............................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm

School and Conservatory Young Artists from Monroe-Woodbury HS ....Central Valley United Methodist Ch., Jan 22, 3pm FREE

photography exhibits FOV ........................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon HPG....................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” ..........................................................ongoing Cornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown James Hiller ..............................................................James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery, ongoing Harry L. Goldman “Fotography Plus”..................................Andromeda Gallery, Florida, ongoing “Beyond The Horizon” Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop..........................................................: Lycian Centre Gallery, Sugar Loaf, thru Jan 4 All-Members Seasonal Show ....................................................................................HPG thru Jan 8 “Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me” ............................................FOV thru Feb 11

New Photography Exhibits Mark Woods ........................................................................Newburgh Free Library, thru January 31 “Quintet Photos” ............................................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 7-31

Art & photography receptions Shawn Dell Joyce “Placemaking”..........................................Gallery Link, Ellenville Library, TBA “Quintet Photos” ................................................Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 7, 4pm-6pm Robert Lewis Hoover “Awakening the Buddha Within” art & photography ..................................

SUNYO Jan 14, TBA Karlos Carcamo, Greg Slick “Go West”, Eleanor White ......bau Gallery, Beacon, Jan 14, 6pm-9pm Kathe Blackbird Frantz & Matthew Zappala “Middle Ground” ..............CAS Jan 21, 2pm-4pm “Be Mine Always” art & poetry ............................................................................DAC Jan 28, TBA

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Children and teens calendar festivalS & recreation - adults & children, see page 13

book discussion & signing ”Sweet Bird of Prey” by Jennifer Brundage - Teens ................................................................

Josephine-Louis Library, Walden, Jan 23, 7pm

Lectures Winter Birds at Your Feeder 5yrs & up, & adults ..........................................HHNM Jan 7, 10am Squirrels...Those Nuts of the Forest 5yrs & up, & adults ..............................HHNM Jan 14, 10am The Bobcat 5yrs & up, adults ..........................................................................HHNM Jan 29, 10am

museums HHNM ........................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ..............................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson

Meet the Animals .. ................................................................HHNM Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm Brook Trout Exhibit ..........................................................HHNM-CoH, Fri, Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm Discovering Animals Together, 2-4yrs & parents ..............................................HHNM Tues, 10am Sculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ..........................................Dia:Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives..............................Hurleyville. ongoing Civil War Artifacts ......................................................................Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing

Theatre “Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! Paper Bag Players ......Orange Hall, SUNYO, Middletown, Jan 15, 2pm

Destination.........................................................................Wurtsboro “A Midwinter Night’s Dream”

Rich Flanders

David Vernon

Janice Hall

Ray Fellman

Sarah Rice

Corinna Sowers-Adler

Buy Local

dining out & in

Synchronicity abounds in Orange and Community Church, 134 Sullivan Street.

Sullivan Counties. This story is about Phone for reservations: 845-888-2798.

Broadway Concerts Direct’s (BCD) Midwinter Night’s Dream concert in Wurtsboro, and there are two variations of the original A Midsummer NIght’s Dream in Loch Sheldrake and Cornwall. See story this page, lower right.

The BCD concert series, produced by John Hiller and Broadway star Sarah Rice, is very much a cabaret-style happening with music from mostlyBroadway, with some opera and operetta and folk thrown in, sung by Broadway performers who love coming up to the foothills of the Catskills to perform.

Subtitled Songs of Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, the concert is on January 14 at 8:00pm in the Wurtsboro

“Awakening the Buddha Within”

“I consider myself a modern traditionalist. I borrow from the past, yet tread new ground.

My hope is to capture the ordinary and reveal its beauty...to flush God out into the open, the visible.”

With this statement as a basis, Searsville Robert Lewis Hoover resident Robert Lewis Hoover’s “Awakening the Buddha Within” is an exhibit that brings forth the peace of Buddha in a magnificent way.

A vibrancy seemingly emanates from his paintings. Many of Hoover’s works are large scale. Even though they dominate a room, they also envelope the viewer in the calm of their beauty.

Hoover states, “I am a self taught painter. My teachers have been the great masters that came before me. I wear my influences on my sleeve.”

He is the art teacher at the Goshen Intermediate School. Because of his influence and work ethic, his students produce wonderful artworks on the many different themes to which

opera news sponsored by the New Windsor law office of Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

The lovers from A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be here twice in one month.

Loch Sheldrake In a new story drawn from Shakespeare, The Enchanted Island, his lovers are shipwrecked on the other-worldly island of The Tempest.

“Green Buddha” Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques Hoover introduces them. of the 18th century, the work showcases arias The exhibit runs from January 5 through and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, February 7 in Middletown’s Orange Hall and others, and a new libretto by Jeremy Sams.

Gallery. An opening reception is on January Eminent conductor William Christie leads an 14, 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Phone: 845-341-4891. all-star cast that includes David Daniels, Joyce

DiDonato (see photo) and Plácido Domingo Live From the Met in HD on January 21 at 1:00pm in Sullivan County Community College. 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

Cornwall The Cornwall Opera Club is showing a video of Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream, January 15 at 1:00pm. The cast includes Felicity Lott and the great Ileana Contrubas.

The Cornwall Library is at 395 Hudson Street Phone: 845-534-8282.

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Destination..................................................................................FLORIDA “Fotography Plus” in Florida

A new art gallery opens in February in Florida.

Goshen photographer Harry L. Goldman has exhibited his work at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance, UpFront Gallery in Port Jervis, The Arboretum in Montgomery and at the Executive Suite Gallery in Goshen. His forte is printing his “fotos with creative manipulation” and then retailing his creations to the public. He also likes to “wholesale” his giclee prints to frame shops who in turn retail his work to the art-buying public.

Goldman started working at photography when he was 10 years old at a summer camp in Rhinebeck. “I used to develop film with chemicals,” he explained. “If it didn’t come out correctly, the chemicals made great stink bombs!”

Now he is “extremely environmentally conscious” and so he loves the creative manipulation afforded by the computer. “There are no chemical concoctions to deal with. You don’t have to add a powder to the chemicals to get rid of them. Ecologically speaking, that was only a minimal solution.” (No pun intended).

He used to do silver prints, with a composition, “Like a plastica for the back of a photo from slides, and I had to use dye bleach in

a dark room. Too many chemicals, too much fumes. Now I work in a light room,” he happily stated.

Originally from NYC’s Lower East Side, he and his family moved to Goshen 40 years ago.

His hobby is model trains, and he has various examples with different gauges in his new gallery, including a “G” gauge Lionel locomotive for sale, “Made in America,” he proudly states.

Goldman calls his art ‘Fotography’ “because the final computerized products look like paintings.” He uses the process of SERIPH to produce prints and does different things to paintings for a variety of looks, i.e High Contrast, Bas Relief, Water-Colorized, etc. He used to do “Cibachrome,” a dye destruction positive-to-positive photographic process used for the reproduction of slides on photographic paper.

His wall plaques include “Emu”, created one time when he came across a tame bird at the Bronx Zoo, put a babushka on it and photographed it. His new gallery “fell into my lap.” Upon seeing ‘Andromeda Galaxy’ in print, it suggested to him to call it Andromeda Gallery. “This is my first gallery. It is a lot of work - I do everything by myself.” His goal is to

florida calendar Book Discussion “The Help” Kathryn Stockett Florida Library, Feb 2, 6:30pm

Photography Exhibit “Fotography Plus” Harry L. Goldman Andromeda Gallery, opens in February

Storytelling Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Dragons” Florida Library, Jan 12, 7:30pm

Children’s Recreation - Music Jeffrey Friedberg of Bossy Frog Band Pre-school to Third Grade Florida Library, Jan 14, 1pm

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Tell Me a Story!

The oldest surviving tale in storytelling history is the epic, Gilgamesh, relating to the deeds of a famous Sumerian King. The earliest known record in the origin of storytelling can be found in Egypt, when the sons of Cheops entertained their father with stories.

The history of storytelling reveals that the stories came in all varieties. Myths, legends of all kinds, fairy tales, trickster stories, fables, ghost tales, hero stories, and epic adventures, told and retold.

Passing down from generations, these stories reflect the wisdom and knowledge of early people. There are stories that were used to explain important, but often confusing, events Bossy Frog Band and disasters in nature in early times. For example - fire, storms, thunder, floods, tidal waves, lightning etc.

Today, stories cover an even greater span of topics, and the Black Dirt Storytelling Guild, which meets monthly at the Florida Library, picks a different “theme” every second Thursday of the month. The theme for January 12 is DRAGONS! Adults over the age of 16 are invited to the free monthly meetings to tell a story or just to listen. Meetings start at 7:30pm.

The Bossy Frog Band will perform at the The Library is located at 4 Cohen Circle, off Florida Library on January 14 at 1:00pm.

Main Street. Phone: 845-651-7659.

For information, call 845-651-7659. sell his plaques to frame shops and have enough customers to buy the prints unmounted and unmatted.

Prior to his official February opening (yes, he is actually open now) Goldman is selling all his current items at 20% off.

The Gallery’s hours are: Thursday, Noon-3:30pm; Friday, Noon3:30pm; Saturday, Noon-7:30pm and Sunday, Noon-3:30pm. Located at 62 North Main Street, there is a sidewalk plaque honoring Jimmy Sturr’s “Grammy” accomplishments in front of the building.

Phone: 845-294-5678.

Destination............................................................................Ellenville Peter Fletcher Strums in Ellenville

Peter Fletcher began guitar study at the age of seven under classical guitar instructor, John Sutherland. In 1980 classical guitarist Jose Tomas, Andres Segovia's teaching assistant in Spain, held a week long master class in Atlanta, GA. Fletcher was the youngest student to perform in the class, playing music by Bach and Carcassi.

In December, 1983, he made his formal debut at the age of fifteen. Fletcher furthered his studies in Master Classes with David Leisner, David Russell, Oscar Ghiglia and Pepe Romero. As a performer in the Peter Fletcher Christopher Parkening Master Class, he was On January 8 at 2:00pm, Fletcher will chosen to play in the student recital two consecutive years and, in 1988, the class was give a free concert in the Ellenville Public broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR). Library& Museum. 40 Center Street.

Phone: 845-647-5530 In 1995, he received the Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music Fletcher will also appear on January 22 in under Nicholas Goluses, and was twice the the Newburgh Free Library at 3:00pm. recipient of an Eastman Graduate Award.

Learn to Play Music: Strings Attached

Anastasia Solberg, sole proprietor of the Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster Counties (MISU) is a musical dynamo who believes that music within a social environment e n h a n c e s interpersonal relationships, selfexpression, and Anastasia Solberg personal growth.

Her school’s mission is to provide an opportunity for people of all ages to develop their varying levels of musical experiences in an environment that acknowledges and nurtures the whole person.

In 2001 she founded MISU. The school has grown and now fosters two community string orchestras, an adult learning program, a painting, just as in the sense of the now world- preparatory program, a flourishing Suzuki famous Hudson River School of Painting. program as well as offering private instruction She has an exhibit at the Gallery Link at the for piano, voice, violin and viola. Anastasia Ellenville Public Library & Museum January collaborates with 2 local community colleges 4 thru February 29. Call 845-647-5530. with performances and instruction.

Shawn Dell Joyce Exhibits in Ellenville

“The prime advantage of my manyf a c e t e d education,” she explains, “is the exposure to numerous forms of pedagogy.

T h r o u g h observation and much trial and error I have developed my “Orchestra Art” own distinct

by Phillip Maxwell method of teaching. I do not limit myself to traditional scale systems, etudes and schools of technique, but rather use them as a means to an end. I want to awaken the mind of the student, always finding, and looking for new ways in which to apply traditional methods.

To prove that she welcomes adult beginners, a new round of introductory classes for the uninitiated begins at the Ellenville Library on January 15 at 6:00pm.

MISU info at www.misucatskills.org Library info: 845-647-5530.

“Contraction” by Shawn Dell Joyce

If you live in the tri-county area (Orange, Sullivan, Ulster) and are aware of the visual arts community, then Shawn Dell Joyce needs no introduction.

If you are new to the area and not aware of her many accomplishments, then just stay tuned, so to speak, and you will see her name and her art all over the area, as she is one of the founders of the Wallkill River School - a school for visual arts AND a “school” of a style of

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Destination.............................................................................CORNWALL Clearwater Frame Shop and Art Gallery Re-Opens

by Naomi Kennedy In March 2011, a fire destroyed the Clearwater Frame Shop and Art Gallery, part of Jones Farm in Cornwall.

Nine months later, the gallery and frame shop have reopened!

Terri Clearwater, a native of Cornwall, works and lives on Jones Farm. She was grateful that no one was hurt and the rest of the farm was unharmed. "I would like to praise our firefighters who are amazing and deserve our gratitude and support," said Clearwater.

On December 9th, over sixty people attended the opening at the Clearwater Art Gallery. "We're so grateful for the support and patience of our customers and clients.

They were wonderful!", artist Clearwater continued.

A graduate of Cornwall High School, she also studied art at Ladycliff College.

Afterwards, she worked extensively with classical realist Gary Hoff to learn still life, landscape and figure painting. She has taken pastel, oil painting and sculpture classes.

Clearwater has exhibited at many venues including an invitation only show at West Point Eisenhower Hall; four times at the Hudson Valley Pastel Society; and was juried at the Ridgewood Art Institute.

The buildings on the Clearwater’s grounds were saved by the firefighters, but unfortunately multiple paintings were demolished. "When many of my paintings were destroyed, a chunk of my heart went with them," said Clearwater.

Most artists put a tremendous amount of themselves into their work. Terri is no different. When she was asked if she would

produce more paintings, at the time she couldn't imagine painting again. Since then, she remembered that art is "in the making of it and not so much in the finished product."

"I'm happy to be back painting as it is a joyful experience for me, something I pray resounds in the hearts of those that view my completed works," said Clearwater.

It is too soon to tell how much the fire changed Terri's artwork. But she is certain that she paints "with more intensity" and understands "it isn't volume that counts, but quality."

At present the gallery is exhibiting the photography of Emily Waterfield, and paintings by Gary Hoff and Terri Clearwater. Terri's work includes portraits, landscapes, and still lives in pastel, charcoal, watercolor, and oils. She accepts commissions. "The new space is beautiful," said Clearwater.

"As artists we can choose to have a positive impact on our world. Whether it is by the work itself or the teaching of others; it is a small part of making life a little better," said Clearwater.

For more information regarding her spring exhibition, future shows, and art lesson updates, visit: www.Jonesfarminc.com or friend/like the Facebook page: The shops at Jones Farm.

The Farm and Gallery are at 190 Angola Road, just off Route 9W.

Wrens Wrens are passerine birds in the mainly New World family Troglodytidae.

There are approximately 80 species of true wrens in approximately 20 genera. The genus eponymous of the family is Troglodytes. Only the Eurasian Wren occurs in the Old World, where in Anglophone regions it is commonly known simply as the "wren" as it is the originator of the name. The name wren has been applied to other unrelated birds, particularly the New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) and the Australian wrens (Maluridae).

Most wrens are small and rather

spiders and other inconspicuous, except small arthropods, but for their loud and many species also eat often complex songs. vegetable matter and Notable exceptions some will take small are the relatively large frogs / lizards. members of the genus Campylorhynchus, Create your own which can be quite Bird Feeder bold in their behavior.

Join Environmental Wrens have short Educator Vicki wings that are barred Rubino to learn how Wrens in most species, and to identify winter they often hold their tails upright. As far as known, wrens are birds using characteristics such as: size, primarily insectivorous, eating insects, color, patterns and movement. Find out

what types of bird food attracts which species of birds.

On January 7 at 10:00am, come to the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, entrance on Muser Drive, across from 174 Angola Road, Cornwall, to learn how to identify the winter birds that come to your outdoor feeder! Participants will make a simple bird feeder to take home.

This program is recommended for adults with or without children, and children ages 5 and older.

For information call 845-534-5506, ext.

204 or visit www.hhnaturemuseum.org.

“Moodna Viaduct, Salisbury Mills,” pastel by Terri Clearwater

A new beginning & new space at Clearwater Gallery

Identify Winter Birds at Your Outdoor Feeder

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Destination.............................................Cornwall / woodbury

Woodbury Students Perform in Central Valley Created in 1998, the GRAMMY Signature Schools program recognizes top U.S. public high schools that are making an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year.

Monroe-Woodbury High School Music Department has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2012 GRAMMY Signature School award!

The above is indicative of the high quality of the High School’s music department, so it is not surprising that once each year Music in Central Valley (MICV) producer Janice Nimetz includes an exciting performance by highly talented Monroe-Woodbury High School Students in her MICV concert series.

The MICV concert series is one of Orange County’s chamber music gems.

Nimetz and the High School music teachers

cornwall / woodbury calendar sponsored by Hudson Valley Society for Music, Potluck Concerts, & Peggi’s Place All events are in Cornwall or Cornwall-on-Hudson unless otherwise noted.

Museum

Art & Photography Exhibits Paul Gould Hudson Valley Gallery, ongoing

Monroe-Woodbury High School

gather together some of the high quality student-performers to show off their performance skills in classical and jazz music.

The Young Artists from MonroeWoodbury High School concert is at the Central Valley United Methodist Church, 12 Smith Clove, on January 22, 3:00pm. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated.

Church phone: 845-928-6570.

Mostly Mozart in C-o-H

World of Bees & Brook Trout Exhibit Sat & Sun, Noon-4pm

Real ART: a group show 2 Alices, thru Jan 1

Meet the Animal of the Week Sat & Sun, 2:30pm

Emily Waterfield photography Gary Hoff & Terri Clearwater paintings Clearwater Gallery

Music - Classical

“Quintet Photos” Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jan 7-31

HHNM Wildlife Education Center

Potluck Concerts “Happy Birthday Herr Mozart” Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jan 27, 7:30pm

Music - Classical - Jazz

Book Discussion “American, America” Jan 4, 7pm “Anna Karenina” Book Chat & Chocolate Jan 26, 7pm Cornwall Public Library

Young Artists from Monroe-Woodbury HS United Methodist Church, Jan 22, 3pm Central Valley

Music - Rock-Blues-Country-Pop-etc.

Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, see page 13 Ecco 3, 2 Alice’s Coffee Lounge, Jan 7, 8pm

Cinema “Auntie Mame” Jan 11, Noon “Snow Flower & the Secret Fan” Jan 19, 6pm

Opera - Video

Cornwall Public Library,

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Britten Cornwall Public Library, Jan 15, 1pm

No, it’s not the world-famous NYC beer down on the piano than on a violin.”

Lectures And another Drum Roll Please... concerts coming to Cornwall-on-Hudson. It’s Winter Birds at Your Feeder Jan 7, 10am Potluck Concerts’ annual January offering An orchestra rehearsal was going badly and Squirrels...Those Nuts of the Forest Jan 14, 10am featuring music mostly by Mozart with the Mozart’s dog started to howl.

The Bobcat Jan 29, 10am HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center theme, Happy Birthday Herr Mozart.

“Do you know the difference between my dog and the string section?” he asked the Drum Roll Please... musicians.

One of Mozart’s piano students had no “The dog knows when to stop scratching.”

A six week program designed for talent. “You’re all thumbs”, Mozart said to children ages 2 thru 4, gives children and him. “Why did you choose to take up the Potluck’s Mozartean event takes place at their parents, grandparents or caregivers the piano?” the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 opportunity to explore the world of animals His reply: “Because it was easier to put my Hudson Street, on January 27 at 7:30pm. and nature together in a fun creative environment. Held at the Wildlife Education Center on 25 Boulevard, The Cornwall Library’s Opera Club individual sound-world, not dissonant or Cornwall-on-Hudson, this program aids in meets on the third Sunday of each month to atonal, but full of atmospheric harmonies and building an understanding and respect for view opera videos. The January showing is A tone painting. The role of Oberon was the animals and plants in our natural Midsummer Night's Dream with music by composed for the world famous countertenor community.

For information, pricing and registration, Benjamin Britten set to a libretto adapted by Alfred Deller. the composer and Peter Pears from The opera will be shown on January 15 at call 845-534-5506 or register online at Shakespeare's play. It premiered in 1960.

1:00pm. The Library is located at 395 www.hhnaturemuseum.org.

The work is typical of Britten, with his Hudson Street. Phone: 845-534-8282.

Recreation Discovering Animals Together Tues, 10am HHNM Wildlife Education Center

Skinks & Kids

Midsummer in Midwinter

January 2012

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Destination..................monroe Destination....................walden “The Village Smithy Stands”

As part of its new development of traditional arts and crafts programming, Museum Village will offer night classes in various skills. Perhaps, the most exciting of this repertoire of evening adult classes is a beginning blacksmithing class.

In a long idle building on the Museum grounds, used as a pottery and a tinsmith scenario in years past, a full retinue of early 1900s portable forges, forges and leg vises are being set up for the first six students to register for this first-of-its-kind workshop at Museum Village. Adriaan Gerber will instruct the six day intensive course which concludes with forge welding.

Mr. Gerber, originally from South Africa, has made a career at making high quality edge tools that he sells worldwide. The knives, axes, and swords he makes are entirely hand forged and finished in his home smithy in Lamoine, Maine. Mr. Gerber is a full time blacksmith. He refers to himself as a "bladesmith", as much of his creative output results in high quality knives, axes, and swords that he sells world-wide. These objects are entirely created by hand and without power tools,

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Quarter Note Renovates

For further information, phone Rosie Due to being open mid-January, the Quarter Note Cafe will serve fun and Rion, Operations Manager, Events & healthy food for three meals a day! Programs Coordinator for the New York Connected directly to the lobby of the New School of Music at 845-778-7594.

York School of Music, this expansion was performer Opportunity! the most natural step to rounding out their Auditions for the New Rose Theatre's music campus. ballet of Peter Pan will be held on New owner, Joe Hall, husband of the January 7 at 3:00pm. Ages 8 and up.

New York School of Music owner Donna Performances will be held March 23 thru Hall, has taken over and is working hard to April 1.

Feel free to call 845-778-2478. give the cafe a complete makeover.

Walden calendar sponsored by Walden Business Association

Book Signing & Discussion

Adriaan Gerber,

photo by Robert Schmick

although most recently Mr. Gerber has employed the use of an antique trip hammer for the purpose of preparing the metal billets he uses in his work. 4 Days of Intensive Blacksmithing, January 20-23: To reserve your place in the class or for further information, contact Robert Schmick, Museum Director, at 845-7813729.

January 2012

Gil Anderson “Going Fore It In Gold and Life” Josephine-Louise Library, Jan 19, 7pm

Teen’s & Children’s Calendar

Local Event

Janice Brundage Teens “Sweet Bird of Prey” Josephine-Louise Library, Jan 23, 7pm

Walden Leadership Ceremony Walden Municipal Building, Jan 12, 7pm

Recreation Chess Club Mondays, 6pm-8pm Chess Club Saturdays, 10am-2pm Scrabble Club Thursdays 6pm-8pm Knitting Group Jan 26, 6:30pm Josephine-Louise Library

Book Signing & Discussion

Story Time Sessions 2 & 3 yrs - Tuesdays 10:30am Jan 17-Feb 21 4 & 5 yrs - Thursdays 10:30am Jan 19-23 Josephine-Louise Library

Destination..................................................................................walden Holy Cannoli!

by J. A. Di Bello If by chance a stroll through downtown Walden is high on your things-to-do list, one is sure to notice that something is astir. Brisk activity is a more accurate phrase, amid the aroma of fresh paint, fine dust, sheet rock and 2 by 4s! There are literally "Coming Soon" signs adorning some prime locations in this river-side Village. Could it be that Walden has "Made it"?

Will new arrivals cause one to intentionally walk about downtown Walden for reasons other than exercise, a visit to the library or bank business? The current reasons are attractive, small in number and scattered. But read on.

Conditions are in a state of serious flux!

One of the most valuable assets a business district can have is pedestrian traffic. The "Coming Soon" signs foreshadow a host of yetto-be-revealed reasons why a stroll in downtown Walden may soon be more than an obligatory cardio-vascular workout.

To sustain the benefits of pedestrian traffic, a village must have browse appeal. And though interesting locations currently exist, street talk reflects the possible inclusion of an art gallery featuring various media. And, if one is to stroll about the village, energy will be a requirement

and what better way to provide the necessary caloric intake than the coming-soon Sweet Sensations Bakery?

Additionally is the Quarter Note CafĂŠ, attached to the NY School of Music and adjacent to the Josephine-Louise Library. These coming attractions complement the recently opened Cream-n-Sugar CafĂŠ and Tea Room on Orange Avenue.

Wow! Here's a romanticized tidbit of nostalgic fluff: Consider a coffee date after selecting a good read or attending a book signing at the library. And not for nothing, but a certified measure to determine if a village has "Made it," is the existence of an espresso bar.

It's been said that a village will know it has arrived when it offers cappuccinos and cannolis.

Imagine, right here in downtown Walden...

Holy Cannoli!

Leadership - Sine Qua Non

by J. A. Di Bello

Seek and Ye Shall Find The four categories of leadership identified As all but the most insensitive have realized, by the Village and the 2011 recipients are: the Village of Walden is rapidly achieving status as a destination with a growing and prosperous l. Volunteer of the Year: Jodi Lynn, an vision of its future, an objective not readily individual who shows outstanding volunteerism. realized without demonstrated leadership. The 2. Ronald I. Jacobowitz Youth Leadership: presence of leadership as an essential ingredient William Holmes, a high school student. for success may be the product of an unrelenting 3. The Sam Phelps Award: TBD quest by the village to catch people "Doing the 4. The Walden Business Award: Mike & right thing" and to reinforce those productive Darlene Ciardullo of Ciardullo Printing. behaviors with formal acknowledgement. To this end, the Village of Walden initiated a recognition event in 2011 for the specific purpose of bringing to light individuals and business that demonstrate positive leadership, i.e., by "Doing the right thing." The year 2012, is the second year Walden will celebrate its leaders with a Leadership Ceremony. The ceremony will be held on the 3rd Floor of the Walden Municipal Building on January 12, at 7:00pm. Lou Heimbach, former Orange County Executive and current President of Sterling Forest LLC will be the guest speaker.

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........................................................................................................Walden Meet Janice Pettits-Brundage: Mother, Fast-Pitch Coach, Social Worker, Author To engage adolescents for any extended period of time can be an emotional F5 twister. To interact with those who display emotional and psychological issues has the potential of a full blown tsunami, moving and altering everything once held dear.

Janice Pettits-Brundage is a bright, articulate and enthusiastic young writer with a purpose. She has the experience and academic training that qualify her to explore the turbulence that lingers, hides and sometimes explodes in the adolescent mind and body. Her first novel: The Sweet Bird of Prey. The genre: Young Adult Literature. The reaction: Provocative.

Her initiation began with her life. She has demonstrated the enviable ability to draw objectively on personal experiences, her own and those found through sibling interactions. Janice was a student athlete at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, North Carolina, playing softball and soccer during her four years of undergraduate study. In 1997, she graduated with a major in

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sociology and a Prevention minor in criminal (AFSP) and serves justice. Her next as a group stop: the New facilitator for teen Jersey Juvenile survivors in the J u s t i c e Hudson Valley Commission where Janice's novel she further explores the expanded her frequently experiential base mysterious mind by working as a and emotions of social worker and the current probation officer. It adolescent. With appears that the exception of Janice Pettits-Brundage Janice's time spent exaggerated working at the Astor Home (a home for circumstance all are saddened by the death children confronting emotional and of a friend, loved one or a distant psychological problems, near Rhinebeck), acquaintance.

However, when an followed by employment as a fast-pitch adolescent's death arrives by invitation, via softball coach at Mount Saint Mary a deliberate act of self-infliction, the College in Newburgh, solidified Janice's questions and doubts are beyond the range concerns for the young, the vulnerable, the of measure. For the adolescent to control adolescent. Janice is a volunteer for the the barrage of anger, sorrow and guilt, American Foundation for Suicide

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assistance is needed. Janice's novel explores those issues, all too common characteristics in the life of the modern adolescent. Teen suicide and depression are not sought after topics on the what-I-wantto-read-about list, but as indicated by Janice, "When someone dies, it forces you to look at life and what life is really about and that is what Shannon (the protagonist) is trying to get through in this book."

Provocative in nature, Sweet Bird of Prey is designed to evoke questions, healthy questions about life, death, God and the spiritual realities that function in the current environment.

The Josephine-Louise Library in Walden will host Janice Pettits-Brundage on Monday, January 23 at 7:00pm, when Janice will highlight the story of thirteen year old Shannon Bennet and the issues, some humorous, that she faces as a high school student. Copies of the book will be available for signing and purchase.

Destination.................................................................................Milford Broad Street Coffee House

Museum is For The Birds

Bell's taxidermy work for John James Audubon

The PCHS’s Columns Museum is located at The Pike County Historical Society (PCHS) 608 Broad Street, and is open Wednesdays, is exhibiting Audubon's Birds. These are varied Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. taxidermied specimens done by the leading Visit www.pikecountyhistoricalsociety.org or taxidermist of his time, John Bell. call them at 570-296-8126.

Bell hailed from Matamoras and Broad Street Coffee House in Summer Guests may also be interested to see an accompanied John Jay Audubon on his Have you watched "Whose Line Is It, one of the highlights of your week interesting film which goes along nicely with Missouri River trek. Bell’s birds were used for Anyway?" and thought, "I can do that!"?

Broad Street Coffee House is located at models in Audubon's sketches for his famed bird this particular exhibit. See accompanying story Have you just wanted to gain more 611 Broad Street. on left. books and guides. confidence in getting onstage or speaking Phone: 570-409-6090. milford & DIngmans Ferry calendar to people?

Have you wanted to put together your Cinema & Dinner Art & Photography Exhibits own acting or improv troupe?

“The Birds” Hitchcock Members Holiday Show ongoing Come out to the Broad Street Coffee The Columns Museum, Jan 13, 6:30pm The ARTery House for an acting & improvisation class.

On Friday the 13th, the Pike County Holiday Show thru Jan Music, Poetry and Art are regular Historical Society, will present another Lecture The Forge Introduction to Winter Ecology Jan 14, 1pm features at Broad Street Coffee House. installment in the Aunt Marge's Movie Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Manager, Sara Cohen, recently announced Lounge series. This casual evening in the All-Members Seasonal Show thru Jan 8 Museum Exhibit that the food establishment is offering adult Columns' Foundation Room offers a home Highlands Photographic Guild John Bell “Audubon’s Birds” improvisation and acting classes for a $5 cooked meal, the screening of a movie The Columns Museum, ongoing “drop-in” fee every Monday from which was a favorite of the Museum Various Artists ongoing 5:30pm-6:30pm.

Director's beloved and quirky Aunt Marge, Broad Street Coffee House Poetry Reading Whether you have tons of experience on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds, plus Open Mic Poetry Revival Series Art After Dark Receptions Jan 14 the stage or absolutely none at all, this class dessert and coffee: Broad Street Cafe, Jan 10, 7pm The ARTery, 6pm-9pm will help you go through the basics Tickets are $25 and reservations are Recreation Broad Street Coffee House, 7pm-9pm starting out with The Rules of Improv. required. Dinner starts at 6:30pm.

Animal Tracking Jan 7 & 21, 1pm The Forge, TEA Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Taught by Dan Kostelec, a performer with The Columsn Msuem is at 608 Broad Highlands Photographic Guild, 6pm-9pm over twenty years of experience in acting & Street. improvisation, this class can prove to be ... Dining out and in ...

Phone 570-296-8126 to reserve.

Dinner is For “The Birds” too!

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Destination............................................................Greenwood Lake So Much to Do at the Greenwood Lake Library!

You can visit the Greenwood Lake Library's three display cases to view the treasures of local collectors who exhibit their collections on a two-week, rotating basis each month.

Exhibits The Works of Art Gallery is features January Artist-of-the-Month: Rene Fressola (a.k.a. Ralph Angelo) from January 10 thru 28. Fressola's exhibit, Made in Brooklyn 2007-2011, features his small abstract works of mixed media.

In the Budding Artist Gallery: January Student-Artist-of-the-Month, 13 year old “Toshiro” by 13 year old Joshua Franklin Joshua Franklin displays his artwork Anime by Joshua from January 1 thru 28. Cannes Film Festival, Official SelectionToronto International. Film Festival, winner Best Actor & Best Screenplay at Chicago Adult Programs Don’t forget the Adult Programs at the Int'l. Film Festival).

On Tuesday, January 31: Warm Winter Library as well: Adult Game Night is from 6:30pm - 8:45pm, on the first Tuesday of Soups with Home Chef Darleen Haupt the month. Play Scrabble, Scattergories and takes place from 7:00pm- 8:30pm. Staying more or bring your own game to play. Bring warm on the chilliest winter day will be a "breeze" after Darleen shows you how to along a friend or two!

Independent Film Night, from 7:00pm- make a meal out of these hearty winter 9:00pm is held on the second Tuesdays of soups that will "warm your heart" AND the month. Call Liz Cisek at ext. 105 to "fill your belly!" confirm what's playing.

Young Adult Programs Upcoming Film: A Screaming Man by Magic: The Gathering is a card game Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (winner Jury Prize-

Rene Fressola a.k.a Ralph Angelo

held on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm8:00pm for ages 13-17. Bring cards or use the Library’s sets of two-player starter games to play this fantasy card and on-line phenomenon.

Do-It-Yourself Craft Night is on Thursday evenings for Grades 5-12 in the Youth Study Center. Projects are limited!

Children’s Programs Story Time and Pajama Story Time: Registration is ongoing. Call for ageappropriate sessions, dates, and times.

Moms & Tots Playgroup is on

Wednesdays from 10:00am - 11:30am for playtime, seasonal crafts and more. Moms, grandparents, and caregivers are welcome to attend.

Registration is required for all programs either in person or by telephone at 845-4778377, ext. 101. All programs are free unless otherwise noted.

Children under the age of seven must be accompanied by an adult. Seating is limited; early registration is highly recommended.

Priority registration for Greenwood Lake residents is sometimes necessary.

The Library is located at 79 Waterstone Road, just off of Route 210.

Phone: 845-477-8377.

Greenwood Lake calendar All events are at the Greenwood Lake Library

Book Discussion “The Paris Wife” Paula McClain Jan 24, 7pm

Cinema “A Screaming Man” Jan 10, 7pm

Exhibits Collectibles Series changed bi-weekly Joshua Franklin "Anime by Joshua" Budding Artist Gallery, Jan 1-28 Rene Fressola (a.k.a., Ralph Angelo) “Made in Brooklyn 2007-2011” Works of Art Gallery, Jan 10-28

Lectures & Demos “Warm Winter Soups” Darleen Haupt, Chef Jan 31, 7pm

Recreation Game Night adults first Tues 6:45pm Magic: The Gathering teens Weds 7pm Do-It-Yourself Crafts grades 5-12 Thurs eves Story Time & Pajama Story Time ongoing Mom & Tots Playgroup Weds 10am

CANVAS Friends directory

BUY LOCAL Steve’s Music Center Musical Equipment and Lessons 248 Rock Hill Drive, Rock Hill 845-796-3618 stevesmusiccenter.com

Consignium A Consignium Emporium Sharon McKane, prop.

108 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro 845-888-2121

Happy Herbs Soap “herbal alchemy of soap & incense” @ Two Crow Cottage Burlingham, NY 12722-0210 happyherbssoap.etsy.com

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BUSINESS SERVICES Dependable Maintenance Co. Lawnmowers, Tractors, Snowblowers Serving Orange County 845-374-2425 January 2012

Drake, Leob, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd General Practice Law 555 Hudson Valley Ave., New Windsor 845-561-0550

Hudson Valley Planning and Preservation Municipal & Private 845-893-0134 www.HudsonValleyPlanning.com

Peggi's Place Over 30 years experience in Hair Care 238 Main Street, Cornwall 845-534-3351

ORGANIZATIONS Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Art Exhibits, Music Events, Discussions 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern www.UUCRT.org

Abstract, Pastel & Acrylic In Rock Tavern musical artist-composer, The Weekend performer, and Gallery at the conductor in classical Unitarian Universalist and jazz. Preston was a Congregation (UUC) at Guggenheim Fellow, Rock Tavern is proudly awarded NEA and displaying the work of NYSCA commissions, a two fine New York MacDowell Colony artists during the months Fellow, and performed of January and February: and recorded with jazz Gloria Detore-Mackie, “Noon Fix� by Preston Trombly great Jaki Byard. More and Preston Trombly.

Both of these artists have come to their current recently he has been working in the visual arts.

"For me, the need to make art has been a media after successful careers in other artistic endeavors that enrich and inform the pieces in driving force in my life. Whether it's working with and organizing sounds over time, or more this show.

Gloria Detore-Mackie comes to the world of recently colors, materials and shapes in space; landscape art painting from a background in the my work is about turning initially vague, performing arts as a modern, ballet and jazz fleeting and amorphous ideas into solid, dancer. She is still active performing regularly concrete and comprehensible works of art."

Trombly creates elaborate collages from with Gaia Dance Collective and teaches at the Full Circle Studio in Westtown. Her works were found objects, pieces of metal, wood, fabric, and recently displayed at the Wallkill River School. artist's pigments. The work often has a musical Gloria is a committed environmentalist and theme incorporating piano keys and other her passion for the land is reflected in her pastel objects from the world of music.

The Weekend Gallery at UUC is open and acrylic landscapes. A proponent of environmental conservation, she is delighted to Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00pm to 4:00pm join efforts around the Hudson Valley in through the months of January and February. recognizing and saving open spaces and The UUC is located at 9 Vance Road, just off route 207. farmland through art activism.

For a map and directions, visit Preston Trombly has been an artist for most of his life. His first artistic successes were as a www.UUCRT.org.

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Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra’s “Family Concert”

by Derek Leet In his letters, most of them to his father, Mozart was known for writing in detail about his compositions. But for some reason, he left no written comment about his masterpiece, the Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for Violin & Viola, K.364.

Actually a double concerto, the sinfonia concertante form comes from the multimovement baroque concerto grosso in which solo instruments are balanced with the full orchestra. Though the concerto has the same intent, it usually has only three movements. This piece in particular is much more symphonic that the usual concerto.

Besides being one of the great pianists of his time, Mozart was also a first class violinist and in 1781 he began to specialize in the viola. He frequently played the viola in a string quartet that included Haydn, Karl Dittersdorf and Johann Vanhal.

The ambience of the passionate piece is very much not “an archiepiscopal” work, and seems to indicate Mozart’s revolt against the Church’s efforts to influence and control composers. It also contains a wonderful melding of classical German

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Jina Choi: violin, Eric Tusch: narrator and Nancy Wegrzyn: viola, will perform with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra on January 14 at 3:00pm.

music (the Mannheim school) and Italian music, this melding being Mozart’s gift to the music world following Handel’s attempts to fuse baroque German, Italian and English music.

Composed when Mozart was around the age of many of the students who will be in the audience for the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (GNSO) “Bring the Kids” Family Concert, you might recognize the opening two melodic phrases of The Windmills of Your Mind, a song from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair and variations on the slow second movement used for the soundtrack to the 1988 Peter Greenaway film, Drowning by

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Numbers.

Just as Mozart’s music is now recognizable in popular music, A r a m Khachaturian’s (1903-1978) Masquerade Suite Aram Waltz, composed in Khachaturian 1944, had a hit (1903-1978) recording by the Boston Pops in the early 50s (with his 40’s hit Sabre Dance on the flip side.) The GNSO will perform the full suite and also Johann Strauss’ (1825-1899) exciting

Overture to Die Fledermaus, composed in the early 1870s when Vienna was operetta-mad.

See page 9 for the GNSOs’ book signing event following the concert in regard to Johann Strauss the performance of (1825-1899) Bizet’s Jeux D ’ E n f a n t s (Children’s Games).

The concert will take place in Aquinas Hall at Mount St. Mary College, 330 Powell Avenue in Newburgh, on Gordon Shacklett January 14 at 3:00pm.

The Shacklett Preview at 2:00pm is a pre-concert introduction to the music by Gordon Shacklett.

For more information, call 845- 9137157.