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March 2011Covering Orange and Sullivan Counties and the neighboring towns of

Beacon, Marlboro, Walker Valley, Ellenville, Milford and Dingmans Ferry

Gaia Dance Collectivesee page 16

Lord ofthe

Dancesee page 2

New Shanghai Circussee page 3

Russian National Ballet“Giselle”

see page 16

LIVE From the MET: In HDsee page 17

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How do we know?

Spring! - RebirthWell, for one thing, Air Pirates Radio

Theater, “a unique mixture of livecontemporary interactive theater and oldtime radio drama” will be back for its 5thseason in the Pavilion at Lycian Centre inSugar Loaf. One could “understate” andcall the group a Hudson Valley gem, but tomy knowledge, there is nothing like itanywhere else on the planet.

Producer, director, co-writer Paul Ellishas molded a superb acting repertorycompany, and if you have never seen one oftheir wonderfully humorous live radioperformances where the audience createsthe sound effects, “We Give You The Toys,You Make The Noise,” you are now beinggiven another chance.

And new this year, Air Pirates takes to theroad. “Air Pirates on Tour” will beperforming two different scripts at theRailroad Playhouse in Newburgh, March11 and 12, 8:00pm.

The first new play in the 2011 series,Herb Marks Freelance: Art By TheNumbers, is set for March 19 at 8:00pm.in the Pavilion at Lycian Centre.

Phone:845-469-7563 or visit www.airpiratesradio.com.

Spring! - BirthFor more proof that spring is a-comin’ in,

you can visit what is, according to CulturalAffairs Coordinator for SUNY Orange,Newburgh Campus, Nicole Shea, OrangeCounty’s “newest state-of-the-art building”.

I had the honor of being given a privatetour of the beautiful addition to theNewburgh Campus, Kaplan Hall, on Grandand First Streets, in the heart of the city’shistoric/arts corridor, with its indoor andoutdoor views of the icy Hudson River andthe spectacular Highlands surroundingBeacon.

Now SUNY Orange has two CountyCultural Centers bringing exhibits, lecturesand performances to the public: theMiddletown Campus, coordinated for manyyears by Dorothy Szefc, is now joined byShea’s recently birthed location.

The new exhibit space, CenterArts, willhold its first reception on March 3 from5:00pm-7:00pm for a juried art show.“Illuminations. This, CenterArts’ inauguralexhibition, is an exciting step forward forSUNY Orange's Newburgh Campus as wellas for the reinvigoration of the arts in theCity of Newburgh," stated Shea.

And check the Newburgh calendar onpage 19 for the Experiencing India series inthe Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101, theCampus’ new performance space.

For information: 845-341-9386.

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Literally rising from the ashes, anothergallery will open at the newly re-constructed Unitarian UniversalistCongregation in Rock Hill, which wasdestroyed by fire in 2006. See story page 7.

Spring -From Budding to BlossomingAfter having an airing on WJFF’s

Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalfprogram, Cuddebackville composer EvanMack’s opera about Dorothy Stang, a 73-

year-old Sister of NotreDame de Namur who wasbrutally murdered byhired logging companyassassins over land

conflicts in the Brazilian rainforest, hasbegun to attract more attention.

Encompass New Opera Theater inNYC will be doing a partial, but fully-produced sequence from Angel of theAmazon, on March 13 during WQXRannouncer Midge Woolsey's hosting ofNew Opera Previews: From Page to Stage.

Then, in early May at the BaryshnikovArts Center in Manhattan, fourteenperformances of Angel will be scheduled.

For info: www.angeloftheamazon.com.

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appear at Eisenhower Hall Theater inWest Point on March 5 at 8:00pm in theexciting Celtic Lord of the Danceperformance, but their photo intrigued us.

Sr. Dorothy Stang

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Roger Weiss and Buffy Lewis of therenowned Cajun band, Cleoma's Ghost, arebringing a little Cajun history, images, livemusic and great stories to the EllenvillePublic Library, 40 Center Street, for acelebration of Mardi Gras with a sassy FatTuesday for the whole family, made possiblein part by a grant from Dutchess CountyArts Council.

For information on the March 8, 6:00pmevent, call 845-647-5530.

For it’s 2011 opening, the Old StoneHouse is bringing Shorts & Sweets, a prosereading by Carol Montana who will read

the work of RobertFulghum, ThomasMeehan and NeilGaiman on March 20 at2:00pm. Old StoneHouse is located at 282Hasbrouck Road, in

Woodbourne. Phone: 845-436-7720

Orange County Peace and Justice’stribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is

moving to RockTavern for 2011,co-sponsoring withThe Social ActionCommittee of theUU Congregationat Rock Tavern.

This annual tribute was created “torededicate ourselves to fulfilling his dreamthrough the spoken word, music, andreadings, looking deeply at the completemessage of Dr. King: his completeallegiance to non-violence and civildisobedience, his expanding focus fromcivil rights in Alabama to human rights inVietnam and his courageous denunciationof the "giant triplets" of racism, poverty,and militarism”.

At the event, there will be a time forreflection and conversation, a look at“where do we go from here,” and anopportunity to connect with individuals andorganizations who are continuing the workhe envisioned.

Participants are requested, if able, to bringfinger-food to share for refreshmentsafterward, and a can of food for the SoupPantry. A collection will be taken to benefitCommunity Voices Heard in Newburghand Poughkeepsie..

This year’s event will be held on April4, 7:00pm-9:00pm at The UnitarianUniversalist Meeting House, 9 VanceRoad in Rock Tavern. (Snow date, April 5)

For information, call: Verne M. Bell 845-569-8965: Alison P. Fornes 845-231-3592or Bennett Weiss 845-569-8662.

Jeff Christensen and his wife operateHamish & Henry Booksellers, and he alsohosts a weekly world music show, NightOut, on WJFF. His solo show, Discadrds, isbeing shown at the Catskill Art SocietyArts Center (CAS), 48 Main Street inLivingston Manor from March 5 to April10. The paintings in Discards rifle throughthe psychic sidewalk to retrieve some goldand some dross from the piles awaiting thewaste removal trucks.

The exhibition is divided into twosections: Love Is All Around Us, which takesabandoned love letters as its springboard;and Welcome To Taboo, which discreetlytakes a seat in the psychiatrist’s office toglean inspiration.

At the March 5 opening reception, from3:00pm to 5:00pm, CAS will host anartists’ talk at 2:00pm. Light refreshmentswill be served.

For information: 845-436-4227.

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PERFORMANCE VENUESAir Pirates Radio Theater

Exclusive Live Radio TheaterLycian Centre, Sugar Loaf

845-469-7563www.airpiratesradiotheater.com

Downing Film CenterIndependent Classic & Foreign Films

19 Front Street, Newburgh845-561-3686

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Greater Newburgh Symphony OrchestraDr.Woomyung Choe, conductor

Seasonal SubscriptionsP.O.Box 7215, Newburgh, NY 12550

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Lycian Centre for the Performing ArtsMusic-Theatre-Cinema-Art Exhibits

King’s Highway, Sugar Loaf845-469-2287

www.lyciancentre.com

Opera Company of the HighlandsConcert & Staged Performances

Claudia Cummings, Artistic Director845-496-9626

www.operacompanyofthehighlands.org

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High School students’ art being exhibitedin professional galleries is not new to theTri-State area anymore. It is the best of allpossible collaborations between galleries,teachers (who work hard coordinating andhanging) and students to share with thecommunity the creations of young andtalented artists. There is no need to elaborateon the esteem it gives the students.

This time around, The ARTery Galleryand Highlands Photographic Guild (HPG)are sharing the honor of exhibitingDelaware Valley HS Students’ work. The

variety of works including ceramics,computer graphics, printmaking, paintingand jewelry will be at The ARTery andphotographic creations at HPG.

The public is encouraged to join in andshow support of the emerging talents ofthese young artists. The galleries are locatedat 210 and 224 Broad Street and the showruns from March 11 through April 3.

The reception will be held duringMilford’s Art After Dark, a town-widecelebration of the arts, on March 12, from6:00pm to 9:00pm.

Woodcut by Joe Calabrese

Woodcut byMoriah Wolfe

“Wagon Wheel” by Jordan Saboski,

grade 12

“Rose” by Moriah Wolfe,

grade 11

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Astonishing athletes defy gravity andexecute breathtaking feats as they stretchthe limits of human ability in thisspellbinding show. Fearless performers withboundless energy bring you more than twothousand years of Chinese circus traditions.

Tickets for this astonishing event may bepurchased by calling the Lycian Centre BoxOffice in Sugar Loaf at 845-469-2287, oron the web at www.LycianCentre.com.


by J. A. Di Bello

Under the precise direction of GinnyNeidermier, Walden's Josephine-LouiseLibrary continues on a celestial course as apurveyor of fine music delivered byextraordinary musicians. The journey, in theform of Tickling the Ivories, graciouslyincludes a musical memoir by AliceNielsen-Shane. If you were among thosefortunate souls in attendance at Mark andAlice Shane's Valentine concert in February,you'll no doubt remember Alice as Mark'saccompanist and accomplished, not tomention attractive, soloist.

On March 20, at 3:00pm, at the Library,Alice Nielsen-Shane, an Alaskan native,will be the featured performer. This is herchance to shine. "Shinin' on Shane" is amusical memoir, reflecting the widevariations in the musical history andpersonal memories of Alice Nielsen-Shane.The variations could not be more diverseand still be appropriately representational ofher roots as an American artist. A meet-the-artist reception will be held at the libraryimmediately following the performance.

For a glimpse of the cultural tugs andpulls that influenced Alice Nielsen-Shane’smusic and delivery, digest if you will theimages summoned by her performance

venues. How does the Buckaroo Bar inAnchorage, Alaska sound? Add to that anunassuming performance of the Can-Can onthe floor of the Palace Saloon in Fairbanks.

To add a dynamic accent to these diversefragments, Alice Shane's formative yearsreveal her country roots. Those experienceswere dominated by such traditional country

greats as Kitty Wells, HankWilliams and Patsy Cline (seephotos). Couple this with thefact that Alice is a noted bluesand torch song soloist, along thelines of Billie Holiday (seephoto) and Bessie Smith, the"Empress of the Blues."

This is not a humble jumbleof musical cacophonies, but aunique and precious blend ofMusica Americana. Theseinfluences were not from thetime of the great Alaskan Goldrush, but from the comparablesummer of '75 when Fairbanks

was booming with the Alaskan Oil Rush inPrudhoe Bay. Saloons, bars and assortedhonky-tonks provided the raw materials fora unique and formidable musicalfoundation. Roots are roots, and Alicedemonstrates what it means to be country;"You just can't fake it!"

We're speaking here of a class performer,

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expectations, this observer is anxious toexperience Alice's delivery of Ten Cents aDance, connected with an oralinterpretation of the works of the notedAmerican poet Robert Service.

And by the way, for those who may havebeen vacationing during 8th gradeAmerican Lit, Robert Service is the authorof the ever popular, adolescent favorite TheCremation of Sam McGee.

Library phone: 845-778-7621.


...............................Walden

Dance“Sleeping Beauty”

New Rose Theatre, Mar 18-27

Lecture"Weather You Like It Or Not"

Christina Faraone, meteorologistfamily event

Josephine-Louise Library, Mar 15, 4:30pm

Music - Jazz - BluesAlice Nielsen-Shane

“Tickling the Ivories” SeriesJosephine-Louise Library, Mar 20, 3pm

Open Mic , 7pm-8pmA Hudson Valley Band, 8pm-10pm

NY School of Music Den Series, Mar 25

RecreationChess Club Mondays 6pm, Saturdays 10am

Scrabble Club Thursdays, 6pmJosephine-Louise Library

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Walden Business Assocaition

by J. A. Di Bello

"And all the men and women merelyplayers..." Familiar Shakespearean quotes,as the above, remain as convenient andflexible literary devices. In all but the mostobscure cases they are familiar in words andflexible in meaning, leaving the writer freeto choose his/her own path. And such is thecase as it applies to the Village of Walden, astellar performer on the expanded stage ofOrange County and the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Since the first quarter of the last centuryWalden's theatre of renown was theDidsbury Opera House which hosted suchnoted performers as Enrico Caruso and thebands of John Philip Sousa, and J.A.A.Sohns. Quality entertainment of notecontinues to this day with major culturalcontributions from the Hudson ValleyConservatory, the New Rose Theatre, theNew York School of Music, and theSmalling School of the Arts. A catalyst inthe brew of Walden's position on the stageof the performing arts is the Josephine-Louise Library and its culturally proficientdirector, Ginny Niedermier.

None of the above can exist as a flamewithout support. To continue theShakespearean allusion each of the men andwomen has an exit and an entrance. A broad

interpretation places the residents ofWalden, the individuals, the families and thebusinesses in the role of the supporting cast,a cast that extends beyond the prosceniumand beyond the ticket booth.

Someone must turn on the stage light andsomeone must pay the plumber andsomeone must be the plumber. Over thisand the last century, time and stability hasbeen kind to the Village of Walden.Stability is one dominant characteristicplaced down stage center by the number ofinfluential and multigenerational businessesin Walden! Their family contributionscombined with those of their colleagues andemployees provided and continue to providethe stimuli required to perpetuate Waldenitself as a stellar performer.

As in many towns and villages a numberof families and businesses came to Waldenfrom neighboring locations, and others fromdistances and lands many had only readabout. Many came with meager purses,armed only with dreams that could fill atheatre and ambitions that overflowed. It isthe purpose of this buy-local publication tohighlight those multigenerational businessesand provide insight into the backbone of theVillage of Walden. Their stories are unique.Their contributions great.

Stay tuned!

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Sleeping Beauty's earliest influenceapparently comes from Perceforest, aFrench romance first printed in 1528. Whilenot a Sleeping Beauty tale, it contains manyelements similar to the later SleepingBeauty tales, warranting comparison.

The next known version of the tale camefrom Giambattista Basile's Sun, Moon, andTalia (1636). This is the tale which isthought to have influenced CharlesPerrault's Sleeping Beauty (1697), the firstto use Sleeping Beauty as a title. AfterPerrault, the Grimms wrote Briar Rose, themost well-known version before Disney's.Some scholars speculate that it appears inembryonic form in a story in the VolsungaSaga which tells of Brynhild and her fear ofbeing married to a cowardly man when sheis banished to earth.

Fast forward to 2011..........Known for her innovative dance

adaptations, such as the Cracked UpNutcracker, in this version of the tale,choreographer extroadinare, Dee Wright’sheroine wakes up in the 1950s and her

SSlleeeeppiinngg BBeeaauuttyy HHiissttoorryyPrince is right out of Grease with slickedback hair, et al. Wright’s humor always“shines out from my dancers”: sister KeelyWright, other Hudson Valley Conservatoryfaculty (where Dee teaches jazz and ballet)and students.

March 18-27 at the New Rose Theatreon Route 52. Phone: 845-778-2478.

Choreographer, Dee Wright


Tannis Kowalchuk is the co-founder,actress, & artistic director of NACLTheatre in Highland Lake, a uniqueSullivan County gem where audiences aretreated to modern and experimental theater,often exciting, often outrageous, oftenfrightening, often thrilling, and alwaysinnovative.

Tannis has created and performed in oversixteen NACL productions and has touredCanada, England, Italy, and Balkan Europeperforming and teaching performer trainingwith a specialization in singing. She runsthe NACL Theatre center and artistresidence, curating The Deep SpaceResidency program, The Catskill Festival ofNew Theatre, and leads the theatre

MMaasstteerr CCllaassss aatt OOCCCCCCeducation classes at NACL. In 2008 shebecame a mother and began an organicvegetable and flower farm in Damascus,PA, across the Delaware River from thewestern end of the Newburgh-CochectonTurnpike.

Tannis is a graduate of The University ofWinnipeg theatre department and was a coremember of Primus Theatre, a prominentexperimental theatre troupe based in Canadafrom 1990-97. She is one of the performer-creators of EXILIO: My Life as Bolaño, aninternational theatre project with artists andproducers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.The performance will premiere inDecember 2011 at NACL.

SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs Co-ordinator, Dorothy Szefc, has arranged forTannis to conduct a master class, open to thepublic, in “Methods of Original TheatreCreation” for actors, directors, writers,singers, spoken word poets, and all creativepeople.

The free master class is held on March16, 2:30pm to 5:30pm in Orange HallTheatre, Grandview and WaywayandaAveues in Middletown.

Registration is required: 845-341-4891.

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Goshen Public Library’s EducationTheatre Series focuses on bothShakespearean plays and historical figures.

Past productions include Broadwayshows such as The Belle of Amherst (EmilyDickinson), classics such as The Devil andDaniel Webster, and plays with ‘obvious’titles: Vincent, Einstein and last season’shighly touted production of Cobb.

Series (and play) Director Ken Tschan,recipient of the Orange County ArtsCouncil’s “2009 Arts in Education award”,has cleverly chosen to double the pleasureand combined Shakespeare with anhistorical figure for his next production,Paul Robeson: All-American by PhilipHayes Dean, a tribute to a great sports

figure, a very respectedShakespearean actor andcontroversial American.

Unknown to many isRobeson’s US moviecareer which began insilents (1924) and ended

in 1936 after Show Boat. But his major filmcareer was in Great Britian from 1935 to1939. He returned to the screen in 1944 for

the American classic, Tales of Manhattan.Dean’s play was performed on Broadway

in 1978 and starred James Earl Jones andBurt Wallace. Tschan’s production willfeature Jeff Starr and Les Ferguson.Music will be provided by bass artisanChristopher Dean Sullivan, a major player

(pun intended) inthe Hudson Valleyjazz scene.

Performanceswill run from April1 thru April 10 atthe Main StreetSchool, 229 MainStreet, Goshen.

Admission isfree, donation requested. 845-294-6606.

Peggy Ashcroft (1984 Oscar winner)and Paul Robeson in “Othello”, (1930)

Jeff Starr, Les Ferguson, Ken Tschan, (with Dennis O’Connor) in “Cobb”

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Paintings by Mary Mugele Sealfon willbe on exhibit on the third floor of theOrange County Govenment Center in theExecutive Suite Gallery, 225 Main Streetin Goshen, open to the public duringbusiness hours, Monday through Friday.

Her paintings and prints have beenexhibited nationally and internationally andwon numerous awards. And locally, BairdsCows was featured on the 2004 WarwickValley Telephone Book Cover!

Sealfons art work will be on display fromMarch 4 thru April 22.

845-615-3860 for more information.

“Baird’s Cows”

“Steve”

Philip Hayes Dean

Christopher Dean Sullivan


Artist, Performer, & Writer Workshps & Opportunities

When the Unitarian UniversalistCongregation at Rock Tavern (UUCRT)lost their building to fire in September,2006, 25 original oil paintings on the wallsof the sanctuary also burned. The 140-year-old congregation has been a favorite of theart community for many years, hostingmusic events, poetry readings, and even anexhibit of ice sculpture, in addition toproviding gallery space for fine artists in allmedia. Now they are back on the same sitein a big new building and so is the art.

"One of our UU Principles is the free andresponsible search for truth and meaning,"said Peggy Landrum, curator for thecongregation since 1996. "That has alwaysseemed to me to be one of the definitions ofart. It adds so much to the spirit of ourSunday morning services to see the ever-changing work of local artists hanging onour sanctuary walls."

Unitarian Universalism is a liberalreligion with Jewish-Christian roots. It hasno creed. It affirms the worth of humanbeings, advocates freedom of belief and thesearch for advancing truth, and tries toprovide a warm, open, supportivecommunity for people who believe thatethical living is the supreme witness ofreligion.

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County artist Linda Richichi. There willbe an artist's reception with refreshmentsand live music provided by pianist JudyGarrett on Sunday, March 20 from1:00pm to 4:00pm.

The gallery is open to the public onSaturday and Sunday afternoons, Noon to3:00pm, or by appointment, 917-613-3489or 917-647-7893.

Worship services are on Sunday morningsat 10:45am.

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by Vicki Botta

Almost all of us have looked at clouds ortrees and seen images in the seeminglyrandom patterns of nature. It might be faces,an angel, a heart or dragon, and it's fun todecipher what the image might mean.

Linda Richichi's upcoming exhibitentitled Revelations captures spiritualimages in almost half of her landscapes andshe feels they have come to her by way ofdivine guidance. "I watch my brush paintand I feel like a conduit for the divinespirit."

When she was very young she alwayssuspected that she felt that spiritualconnection. "Looking back, it was alwaysthere," she says, "however, I didn't realizethat I was kind of channeling." When shewas about 33 and decided to be a full timeartist, a teacher told her that she was “usingmetaphors”. For example, she painted alandscape, but instead of rocks and astream, there was a figure with eyes, analligator as a path. Years later she realizedthat she was telling a story.

"So many times I paint and then a year ortwo later I understand from what thepainting is teaching me," she says. Otherpeople look at her art and point out thingsshe hasn't seen in her own work. "In thebeginning I felt compelled to paint thesemetaphors and then portraits, thenlandscapes and now it is coming full circle.”

Though she paints in acrylic, pastel is herfavorite medium because of the prismaticquality it possesses. In her Revelationsexhibit there will be a mixture of spirit-filled landscapes and abstracted works fromher Chalice Series. There are Hudson Valleylandscapes and landscapes painted partly

from memory and from her imagination.Richichi has always loved the woods and

wetlands. However, not until she beganplein air painting did she begin to feel thatenergy. "In the past it seemed I had twodistinct bodies of work; landscapes andabstractions. While both were very spiritual,they were very different. I would paint alandscape filled with prismatic colors so thatwhen back (at) home I could feel the sameenergy that I felt on location. These colorsare in a higher vibration. I was not paintingthe light as the impressionists did althoughone may say the landscapes lookimpressionistic. I aimed to paint the energyfelt within me by being in the landscape. Itwas my feeling within that I could alterthrough color and energetic lines.

Linda, who teaches one day a week at theNewburgh Campus of SUNY Orange whereshe has taught for the past ten years has beeninspired by artists such as Dali, Chagall,Klimt and Frieda Khalo. “Khalo expressedherself through her art so honestly anduniquely.”

This exhibit will have over two dozenlandscapes, and in them she allows trees andthings to become what they want to become,therefore a lot of Native American figuresand spirits in the sky are merging into thelandscapes. "I'm allowing them to show upin the landscape as well so that two bodiesof work (the landscapes and abstracts) aremerging into one. Now, spirits are appearingmore and more in the paintings. Most oftenthe figures are Native American although avariety of nationalities show up as well.They always feel like spirit guides orgoddesses and are filled with love.

“I have painted Goddesses from alldifferent cultures in the same painting likeit is all the same energy showing up withdifferent faces. We can only see what we areready to see, so a soul portrait may changeover time. I just found the angelic womanrising in one of the skies of a landscape.What a shock to me to find her there."

Perhaps you will find her when you visitthe exhibit which takes place March 6 thruMay 1. There will be an opening receptionon March 20th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm atthe UUCRT, 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern

For more info call 917-613-3489 or seewebsite LindaRichichi.com.

“Path Less Traveled” Linda Richichi

“In The Night Sky” by Linda Richichi

“Never Alone” Linda Richichi


MUSIC - blues / COUNTRY / FOLK / pop/ rock /etc.HVC = Hudson Valley Conservatory, Walden, New Rose Theatre 845-778-2478PT = Paramount Theater, MiddletownPV = Palaia Vineyards, Highland MillsUUC = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489.

Talking Machine ..................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 3, 8pmBill Sims, Jr, Adam Levy & tghe Mint Imperials blues ......The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 4, 7pm3-4 Al Westphal ........................................................................................................PV Mar 4 7pmFat City..................................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 4, 8pmFoley Road ..............................................................................................................PV Mar 5, 7pm“Back to the Paramount” A Timeless Tribute pop ........................................PT, Mar 5, 7:30pmThe Mighty Paul Brothers Band..........................................Wherehosue,Newburgh, Mar 5, 8pmJoey Frazita ......................................................................................................PV Mar 6, 2:30pmAndy Cooney “Echoes of Ireland” ........................................................................PT Mar 6, 3pmDevin Daversa acoustic ......................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 10, 8pmBlue Chicken rock & roll ......................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 11, 7pmRobert Schiff ........................................................................................................PV Mar 11, 7pmThe Reddan Brothers ........................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 11, 8pmChris Palmerini Band ..........................................................................................PV Mar 12, 7pmSly Fox and the Hustlers ..................................................Wherehouse,. Newburgh, Mar 12, 8pmDan Brother acoustic..........................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 13, 2pmNick Morizzo ....................................................................................................PV Mar 13, 2:30pmThe Funk Junkies ..................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 17, 7pmGregg Van Gelder ................................................................................................PV Mar 18, 7pmAlpha Male Gorillas ..........................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 18, 8pmHurley Mountain Highway ................................................................................PV Mar 19, 7pmThe Greyhounds ................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 19, 8pmMarch Madness Matinee: The Peeps, Crank & Manpower ....Wherehouse, Mar 20, 2pm-7pmLeft at the Lama ..............................................................................................PV Mar 20, 2:30pmBrian Conway Celtic ..........................................................................................NFL Mar 20, 3pmDavid Maxwell Maximum Blues Band, Mike Quick Band ......Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 25, 7pmBruce Perone ........................................................................................................PV Mar 25, 7pmAn Outsider Show: 5 Punk Alternative Bands ..............Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 25, 8pmDeep Chemistry ................................................................Wherehouse, Newburgh, Mar 26, 8pmSteve Wells ........................................................................................................PV Mar 27, 2:30pmAl Westphal ..............................................................................................................PV Apr 1, 7pmHenderson & Osinski ..............................................................................................PV Apr 2, 7pm

Open MicOpen Mic w/ Eric Callari ....................................Logan’s Well, Florida, Wednesdays, 9pmOpen Mic Musicians Gathering ..........................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Thursdays, 8pmOpen Mic/Coffee House Hudson Valley Folk Guild Second Saturdays, ..............................

Frank Tetler, Feb 12 Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern, 7:30pmOpen Mic Acoustic Jam ..........................................The Dancing Cat, Bethel, Sundays, 3pmOpen Mic ........................................................................PV Mar 3, & Mar 17 & Mar 31,7pmOpen Mic Audition Night ..............................................................................PV Mar 10, 7pmOpen Mic Comedy Night ..............................................................................PV Mar 24, 7pmOpen Mic..........................................................................................................PV Mar 3, 7pmHeritage Coffee House ......Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Thompson Ridge, Mar 19, 7pm

Coffee HouseCoffee House vocalists, dance,, skits, bands ....................HVC Feb 11. 7:30 & Feb 12, 7pmHudson Valley Folk Guild Adrian Sicam ............................................UUC Mar 12, 7:30pm

"My paintings were a component of thefigurative, conceptual, and expressionistwork prevalent in the thriving Buffalo artscene in the late 1970s, and the international

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with his wife and daughter. Since that time,Seehausen has exhibited in the Catskill ArtSociety's members' shows, and at theNutshell Art Gallery in Lake Huntington.

The exhibit is sponsored by the DelawareValley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council forSullivan County.

Alliance Gallery is located at theDelaware Arts Center at 37 Main Street,Narrowsburg. Hours are Tuesday throughSaturday from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

For more information about the exhibitcall 845-252-7576 or visitwww.ArtsAllianceSite.org.

neo expressionist figurative movement ofthe 1980s," explains painter RichardSeehausen.

Postmodern figurative painter Seehausenis exhibiting new and old work as part of AMissing Artist from the Picture Years, atAlliance Gallery in Narrowsburg throughMarch 19.

Seehausen’s work fits in with thefigurative paintings prevalent at the time.His postmodern paintings, which onereviewer termed “pop expressionism,” areinfluenced by the British painter FrancisBacon, the German Expressionist tradition,and figurative art through the ages.

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Sullivan County Community College inLoch Sheldrake is holding The Celebrationof Being a Woman subtitled How I StoppedWorrying about Visible Panty Lines &Conquered the World, on March 26 from8:15am to 3:30pm.

Learn to dye silk scarves, cook a la Brazil,stay alive and well at any age, use essentialoils, repurpose your beads and baubles,work out with Zumba, practice self-defensetechniques, bake cupcakes, create finger

food, plant in small places, and participatein the Woman’s Circle of Light. You canalso learn what NOT to wear!

Gina Barreca, an American academicand humorist, professor of feminist theoryat the University of Connecticut is thekeynote speaker.

For a brochure, 845-434-5750, ext. 4377.

EHT = Eisenhower Hall Theater, West PointGMMT = Grand Montgomery Music & Theater Series, Senior Center, 36 Bridge StreetHHNM = Hudson Highlands Nature Museum-Wildlife Education Ctr, Cornwall-on-HudsonKMM = Karpeles Manuscript Museum, NewburghLC = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287NFL = Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street 845-563-3619PEEC = Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans FerryPT = Paramount Theater, MiddletownPV = Palaia Vineyards, Highland MillsRR = Railroad Playhouse, NewburghSCCC = Sullivan County Community College - Seelig Theatre, Loch SheldrakeSUNYO = Orange Hall , Orange County Community College, Middletown 845-341-4891SUNYO-HH = OCCC Harriman Hall, Room 111, Middletown 845-341-4891TL = Thrall Library, MiddletownUUC = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489.WPJC = West Point Jewish Chapel


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ART TOURS / walksSecond Saturday in Beacon ..........................................................................Mar 12, all dayArt After Dark Milford Galleries ............................................................Mar 12, 6pm-9pm

CINEMAAfternoon Movies for Grownups ................................................................TL Mar 16, 2pm“Devil’s Doorway” Robert Taylor ..........................Emerson House, Milford, Mar 2, 6pm FREEReel Eclectic Film Series “Osama” ..........................................................TL Mar 3, 7pm FREE“Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham” ................................................................

Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 11-14Hot Movies for a Cold Day w/Matt Damien ........................................NFL Mar 14, 6pm FREE“The English Patient” Introduction/Discussion by Anne Sandor ....SUNYO-HH Mar 14, 7pm“Bachelor Mother” Ginger Rogers, David NivenEmerson House, Milford, Mar 16, 6pmFREE“12th & Delaware” ......................................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 21, 7:30pm“To Kill A Mockingbird” Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall ......PT Mar 26, 7:30pm”The Yankles” ................................................Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Mar 25-28

CircusNew Shanghai Circus......................................................................................LC Mar 5, 8pm

ComedyTom Briscoe ................................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Mar 19, 9pm & Mar 20, 3pmComedy Open Mic ..............................................................................................PV Mar 24, 7pm

dance“Lord of the Dance” Celtic w/story ..................................................................EHT Mar 5, 8pm“Carnival of the Animals” Gaia Dance Collective, dance & poetry ........SUNYO Mar 6, 3pm“Giselle” Russian National Ballet Theatre ........................................................LC Mar 10, 8pm“Sleeping Beauty” choreographed by Dee Wright ........New Rose Theatre, Walden, Mar 18-27

festivalSMaple Sugar Festival crafts, games, tours, storytelling, etc. ....HHNM Sats & Suns, 10:30am-3pmCajun Mardi Gras “”Fat Tuesday” music, history, images, stories w/Rogert Weiss & Buffy

Lewis (Cleoma’s Ghost) Ellenville Library, Mar 8, 6pm“Experience India” music, dance, lecture, culinary ..Kaplan Hall 101, Newburgh, Mar 8, 7pmWomen’s Conference Gina Barreca, keynote ............................SCCC Mar 26, 8:15am-3:30pmDessert Festival & Craft Fair ....Storm King Fire House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Apr 2, 10am-3pm

holistic livingDrumming Circle ................................................The Nurtured Spirit, Pine Island, Feb 28, 7pmMessages From Above ..........................................................Spiritquest, Slate Hill, Mar 11, 7pmHealth & Healing EXPO..............Best Western, Hunts Landing, Matamoras, Apr 3, 11am-6pm

lectureS, DEmos & SymposiumS / ForumsHHNM-L = Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson

“The Rich Mining History of the Hudson Valley” Doc Bayne ..HHNM-L Mar 1, 7:30pm"What are we doing to evolution?" -- Human Influences on Present & Future..............

Evolution of Other Species w/Warren Allmon SUNYO-HH, Mar 2, 7:30pmCeltic Tea Tradition Celtic women, brewing Irish tea, etc. ......................NFL Mar 5, 2pmThe Changing Body: Critical Thinking on Beauty, Culture, and Diversity ....................

w/Victoria Pitts-Taylor SUNYO Morrison Hall, Mar 8, 7pm“A Passage through India” Elizabeth White ......Kaplan Hall 101, Newburgh, Mar 8, 7pmNuclear Power ~ Safe and Clean Energy Patrick Falciano SUNYO-HH Mar 9, 7:30pm“Tibet, the Dalai Lama and 1984” Michael Harris Goodman..Kaplan Hall, Mar 10, 7pmGlassblowing Demo ..................................Gillander Glass, Port Jervis, Mar 12, 10am-3pm "Weather You Like It Or Not" w/Christina Faraone, meteorologist..................................

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 15, 4:30pm Micro Hydro - Site Survey to Electrical Power Source for Home or Farm ....................

Robert J Honders, Sr. SUNYO-HH Mar 15, 7:15pmSaxophone Conference ..........................................................................EHT Mar 18 and 1915th Annual Women’s Conference ....................................SCCC Mar 26, 8:30am-3:30pmPlan Your Garden Day ..........................................................................PEEC Mar 26, 1pm"From Petticoats to Breeches: Unveiling 18th Century Clothing." ................................

Tribute to Martha Washington Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Mar 26, 2pmCommunity Wind Development: feasibility, finance, design and construction ..............

Kevin Schulte SUNYO-HH Mar 30, 7:15pm

museum exhibits (Museum hours vary. Call first) Meet the Animals .. ..............................................................HHNM Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pmThe Sturgeon Swims through Time..................................................................HHNM Noon-4pmGrey Towers House Tours ..........................................................Weekends, Grey Towers, Milford“Summer Camps of the early 1900’s in Pike County” ..............The Columns, Milford, ongoingSculpture Exhibits Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria ......................................Dia:Beacon, ongoingSullivan County Museum Historical Museum & Archives..........................................HurleyvilleThe History of Medicine ....................................................................................KMM thru Mar 312011 Exhibit ....................................................Neversink Valley Area Museum, Apr 1-October 31

MUSIC - blues / COUNTRY / FOLK / pop/ rock /etc. See page 8

Music - Broadway - classic pop - OperaBroadway Concerts Direct ....................................Wurtsboro Community Church, Mar 12, 8pm

music - classicalRadiance Woodwind Quintet “Around the World in 80 Minutes” ..............................................

Newburgh Chamber Music St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Mar 6, 3pmSSG Daniel Pierce trombone ..................................................................WPJC, Mar 6, 3pm FREEGreater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra w/Steven Zynszajn, violin - Sibelius, Dvorak, etc. ....

Newburgh Free Academy, Mar 12, 3pmMakoto Nakura marimba ..................................................................GMMT Mar 13, 3pm FREESPC Sarah Botez & SSG Mikki Skinner trumpets ............................WPJC, Mar 13, 3pm FREEConcert Band w/Claude Delanle, saxophone ..............................................EHT Mar 18, 7:30pmPotluck Concerts “Women Composers” ............Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Mar 25, 7:30pm“Four Hands-Four Voices” piano duet & vocal ensemble, Music in Central V alley ..................

Central Valley United Methodist Church, Mar 27, 3pm FREEHollis Kellog “Basically Bach” piano ..............................................................UUC, Mar 27, 4pm

music - jazz (plus...)Sean Smith Quartet Akie Bermiss & Elijah Tucker ............The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 3, 7pmDon Byron Trio ........................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 5, 7pmEdmar Castaneda harp ..........................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 10, 7pmSoren Moller & Dick Oatss Duo, Anders Mogensen Trio..........Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 12. 7pmThe Oz Noy Trio with Will Lee & Anton Figf (funk, rock blues) ..............Falcon, Mar 18, 7pmThe Stryker / Slagle Band, Judi Silvano & Michale Abene ......Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 19, 7pmJazz Knights w/Walt Weiskopf, saxophone ..................................................EHT Mar 19, 7:30pmPete Levin Band......................................................................The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 24, 7pmMaria Neckam, Same Reider and the Lost Boys (folk, pop)......Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 25, 7pmPiano Jazz Summit solo pianists, Cedar Walton, Jacky Terrasson, Hiromi ......LC Mar 27, 7pm

OPera - cinema“Lucia Di Lammermoor” Donizetti - Live from the Met in HD....................SCCC Mar 19, 1pm

POETRY & PROSE READING (Open mic session usually included)

Hudson River Poets....................................................................................NFL Mar 3, 7pm FREETara Yetter poetry ..........................................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 3, 7pmCheryl Rice, Ken Holland Calling All Poets........Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Mar 4, 8pmTony Puma Poetry on the Loose ......................................7 West St., Warwick, Mar 5, 4pm FREE“Poemz” Richard Hoehler ..............................................................................DVAC Mar 13, 2pm”Shorts & Sweets” w/Carol Montana, prose ............Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Mar 20. 2pmMary Makofske and Donna Spector"Family Albums: Poetry Across Generations" ..................

TL Mar 22, 7pm FREEPoetry at the Church Ted Gill, host................................Goshen Methodist Church, Mar 28, 7pmDave Kime Poetry Night........................................................Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Mar 29, 7pmGypsee Yo poetry ........................................................Narrowsburg Library, Apr 1, 7:30pm FREEReadnex Poetry Squad ................................................Coquito Restaurant, Warwick, Apr 2, TBA

recreation adults & children

Winter Hike to Bog Meadow Ponds ......................................................HHNM Mar 5, 9amAmphibian Search ....................................................................................PEEC Mar 19, 1pmMoonrise Walk ..........................................................................................PEEC Mar 19, 7pmSundays for Singles: Waterfalls ..............................................................PEEC Mar 27, 1pm

storyTellingBlack Dirt Storytelling Guild “Catastrophe” ................Florida Library, Mar 10, 7:30pm FREEJudith Katz & Open mic “Baggage” Outsider Studio Collective ................................................

Flour Power Bakery, Livingston Manor, Mar 26, 4pmtheatre - Live Radio

“Herb Marks Freelance: It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Swings" ................ RR Mar 11, 8pm"Not All Fortunes are Found in Cookies" ..........................................................RR Mar 12, 8pm “Herb Marks Freelance: Art by the Numbers” ............................Pavilion at LC, Mar 19, 8pm

theatre - musical“Echoes of Ireland” Celtic revue w/Andy Cooney..................................................PT Mar 6, 3pm“All Shook Up” ................................................................................................EHT Mar 26, 8pm“Gunmetal Blues” Dinner Theater ..........................................................Pavilion at LC Apr 1-10

theatre - PlayMonologues from Tennessee Williams Plays Grass Roots Players, dir. Chris Farlekas ....

UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, March 26, 7pmOne Acts by Harold Pinter Terra Firma Theater ..................................................................

Railroad Playhouse Newburgh, Mar 26, 8pm“Paul Robeson: All-American” dir.Ken Tschan, w/Jeff Starr, Les Ferguson, Chris Sullivan ....

Main Street School, Goshen, Apr 1-3 & Apr 8-10 FREE

theatre - Play Reading“Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill, ..................................DVAC Apr 2 , 7:30pm & Apr 3, 3pm


MMaarrcchhDVAC = Delaware Valley Arts Center, NarrowsburgEHT = Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West PointFAL = The Falcon, MarlboroGMMT = Grand Montgomery Music & Theater Series, Senior Center, 36 Bridge St.

HCC = Howland Cultural Center, BeaconHHNM = Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-HudsonLC = Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts, Sugar Loaf 845-469-2287NCR = Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 845-294-1056

NFL = Newburgh Free Library 845-56NRT = New Rose Theatre, 35, East MOSH = Old Stone House, HasbrouckPEEC = Pocono Environmental Educa

M O N D AY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Poetry ReadingPoetry at ChurchGoshen Meth. Ch.,

7pm

Holistic LivingDrumming Circle

The Nurtured Spirit,Pine Island, 7pmPoetry Reading

Please check theschedule for GalleryArt and PhotographyOpening Receptions

see page 12

Cinema “Devil’s Doorway”

Emerson HouseMilford, 6pm

Open MicLogans Well, Florida 9pm

Cinema ......................................“Osama” ..............................TL 7pmPoetry Reading ................Hudson River Poets ..................NFL 7pmPoetry Reading ........................Tara Yetter ........................NCR 7pmOpen Mic.........Musician’s Gathering The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pmOpen Mic ............................Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pmMusic ..................................Talking Machine ......................WH 7pmMusic - Jazz.Sean Smith Quartet, Akie Bermiss, E. Tucker ..FAL 7pm

Music - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Music - Blues.......Bill Sims, Jr with Adam Levy

Music ......................................Al WestphaPoetry Reading ..........Cheryl Rice & Ken Music..........................................Fat City .

Please check theschedule for Gallery

Art andPhotography

Opening Receptions see page 12

Festival Cajun Mardi Gras

Ellenville Library, 6pmOpen Mic

Logans Well, Florida 9pm

Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pmOpen Mic ..............................Audition Night ........................PV 7pmMusic - Jazz ..................Edmar Castaneda harp ................FAL 7pmStorytelling.....Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ..Florida Library, 7:30pmMusic ..............................Devin Daversa acoustic ..................WH 8pmMusic - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pmTheatre - Live Radio.It Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady SwingsRR 8pm

Cinema..”Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von B

Music ......................................Robert SchifMusic - Rock & Roll ................Blue ChickeMusic................................The Reddan BrotTheatre - Live Radio...”Not All Fortunes Are

Cinema”Vision-From the Life

of Hildegard vonBingham.

Downing Film Center,Newburgh

2pm & 7:30pm

Cinema Hot Movies for a

Cold Day NFL 6pm

Please check theschedule for GalleryArt and PhotographyOpening Receptions

see page 12

Cinema Afternoon Movies for

Grown-UpsTL 2pmCinema

“Bachelor Mother”Emerson House

Milford, 6pmOpen Mic

Logans Well, Florida 9pm

Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pmOpen Mic............................Palaia Vinenyards ......................PV 7pmMusic - Funk ......................The Funk Junkies ....................FAL 7pmMusic - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Dance ................................“Sleeping BeauMusic - Jazz......The Oz Noy Trio with WillMusic ..................................Gregg Van GelMusic - Classical...Concert Band w/Claude DeMusic....................................Alpha Male Gor

Cinema “12th & Delaware”

Downing Film Center7:30pm

Poetry ReadingMary Makofske &Donna Spector

TL 7pm


Open Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pmComedy ....................................Open Mic ............................PV 7pmMusic - Jazz ........................Pete Levin Band ......................FAL 7pmMusic - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Cinema..........“The Yankles” ......Downing Dance ................................“Sleeping BeauMusic......................................Bruce PeronMusic - Blues..David Maxwell Maximum Blues

Music - Classical..,,.Potluck Concerts ..CoMusic............An Outsider Show: 5 Punk Al

Poetry ReadingPoetry at ChurchGoshen Meth. Ch.,

7pmCinema

“The Yankles”Downing Film CenterNewburgh, 7:30pm

Poetry ReadingFranklin Schneider

Tuscan CafeWarwick 7pm


Open Mic ............................Palaia Vineyards ......................PV 7pmOpen Mic...Musician’s Gathering ......The Dancing Cat, Bethel, 7pmMusic - Jazz...Jazz Trio ..Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville, 8pm-11pm

Music ......................................Al WestphaTheatre - Play...“Paul Robeson: All-AmericPoetry Reading.............Gypseee Yo..........Theatre - Musical ....................“Gunmetal”

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PV = Palaia Vineywards, Highland MillsRR = Railroad Playhouse, NewburghUUC = Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern, 917-613-3489.

SCCC = Sullivan County Community College, Seelig AuditoriumSUNYO = Orange Hall, OCCC, Grandview & Waywayanda Aves., Middletown 845-341-4891TL = Thrall Library, MiddletownWH = Wherehouse, NewburghPJC = West Point Jewish Chapel

SATURDAY SUNDAY

y & the Mint Imperials ....FAL 7pm

l....................................PV 7pmHolland ....................HCC 8pm...................................WH 8pm

Recreation............Winter Hike to Bog Meadow Ponds ................HHNM Mar 5, 9amFestival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ........................HHNM 10:30am-3pmPoetry Reading ........Tony Puma......................................7 West Street, Warwick, 4pmMusic - Jazz..........................Don Byron Trio ................................................FAL 7pmMusic........................................Foley Road ......................................................PV 7pmMusic - Pop..............“Back to the Paramount, A Timeless Tribute” ........PT 7:30pmDance - Celtic ..................“Lord of the Dance” ............................................EHT 8pmCircus ..............................New Shanghai Circus..............................................LC 8pmMusic........................The Mighty Paul Brothers Band ........................................WH 8pm

Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ......HHNM 10:30am-3pmMusic ......................................Joey Frazita..............................PV 2:30pmOpen Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pmMusic - Classical....Radiance Woodwind Quintet..St. George’s Ch., Nwbgh, 3pm

Music - Classical ......SSG Daniel Pierce trombone ..............WPJC 3pmDance....“Carnival of the Animals” dance & poetry ..........SUNYO 3pmTheatre - Revue ..“Echoes of Ireland” Andy Cooney ................PT 3pm

Bingham.Downing, Newburgh 515pm

ff ..................................PV 7pmn ..................................FAL 7pmthers ..............................WH 8pm

e Found In Cookies ........RR 8pm

Art Walk ....................Second Saturday in Beacon ..........Downtown Beacon, all dayFestival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ........................HHNM 10:30am-3pmMusic- Classical.....Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra....Newburgh Free Academy, 3pm

Cinema..”Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham ..Downing, Newburgh 515pm

Music - Jazz....Soren Moller & Dick Oatts Duo, Anders Mogensen Trio ....FAL 7pmMusic ..............................Chris Palmerini Band..............................................PV 7pmArt Walk ................................Art After Dark ..................Downtown Milford, 6pm-9pmMusic - Folk......Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffee House ......................UUC 7:30pmMusic ............................Sly Fox and the Hustlers..............................................WH 8pmMusic - Bway-Opera-Pop-Operetta...Broadway Concerts Direct....Wurtsboro Comm. Ch., 8pm

Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ......HHNM 10:30am-3pmCinema.”Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingham.Downing, Newbgh 1:15pm

Music ......................................Dan Brother ................................WH 2pmMusic ....................................Nick Morizzo ............................PV 2:30pmPoetry Reading ..........“Poemz” Richard Hoehler ..................DVAC 3pmOpen Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pmMusic - Classical ..........Makoto Nakura marimba ....................GMMT 3pmMusic - Classical.....SPC Sarah Botez, SSG Mikki Skinner trumpets ......WPJC 3pm

uty” ............................NRT 7pml Lee & Anton Fig ......FAL 7pmlder ..............................PV 7pmelanle, saxophone ....EHT 7:30pm

rillas ................................WH 8pm

Festival ..........Maple Sugar Festival ........................HHNM 10:30am-3pmOpera - Cinema............“Lucia Di Lammermoor” Donzetti ......................SCCC 1pmCinema........................Hot Movies for a Cold Day ............................NFL 2pm FREEDance ................................“Sleeping Beauty” ..................................NRT 3pm & 7pmOpen Mic...............Heritage Coffee House ........Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 7pmMusic - Jazz...The Stryker / Slagle Band, Judi Silvano & Michale Abene ..FAL 7pmMusic ..........................Hurley Mountain Highway ..........................................PV 7pmMusic - Jazz..............Jazz Knights w/Walt Weiskopf, saxophone ..............EHT 7:30pmTheatre - Live Radio “Herb Marks Freelance: Art by the Numbers” ..Pavilion at LC 8pmMusic ......................................The Greyhounds ....................................................WH 8pmComedy......................................Tom Briscoe ........................................................RR 8pm

Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ......HHNM 10:30am-3pmProse Reading......Carol Montana “Shorts & Sweets” ..............OSH 2pmDance ................................“Sleeping Beauty” ..........................NRT 2pmMusic.....March Madness Matinee: The Peeps, Crank & Manpower ....WH 2pm-7pm

Music....................................Left at the Lama ..........................PV 2:30pmMusic - Blues, Jazz.........Alice Nielsen-Shane..........Library, Walden, 3pmMusic - Celtic ........................Brian Conway ................................NFL 3pmOpen Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pmComedy..................................Tom Briscoe..................................RR 3pm

Film Center, Newburgh, 5:15pmuty” ............................NRT 7pm

ne ..................................PV 7pmBand, Mike Quick Band..FAL 7pm

ornwall Presbyterian Ch 7:30pmternative Bands ..........WH 8pm

Conference....5th Annual Women’s Conference ............SCCC 8:15am-3:30pmFestival ................Maple Sugar Festival ............................HHNM 10:30am-3pm

Cinema......................................“The Yankles” ........................Downing Film Center, Noon

Dance ................................“Sleeping Beauty” ..................................NRT 3pm & 7pmStorytelling..........Judith Katz & Open Mic ..................Flour Power, Livingston Manor, 4pmTheatre...Tennessee Williams Monologues....UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, 7pmMusic - Jazs..............Maria Neckham, Sam Reider and the Lost Boys ..............FAL 7pmOpen Mic ........................Hudson Valley Folk Guild ......................................UUC 7:30pmCinema..............................“To Kill A Mockingbird”............................................PT 7:30pmTheatre - Musical ....................“All Shook Up” ....................................................EHT 8pmTheatre - Play...............One-Act Pinter Plays ............Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, 8pmMusic........................................Deep Chemistry ..........................................................WH 8pm

Festival ............................Maple Sugar Festival ......HHNM 10:30am-3pmRecreation ............Sundays for Singles: Waterfalls ....PEEC 1pm-4pmDance ................................“Sleeping Beauty” ..........................NRT 2pmMusic ......................................Steve Wells ..............................PV 2:30pmMusic - Classical..”4 Hands, 4 Voices” ..Central Valley United Meth Ch. 3pm

Open Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pmMusic - Classical....Hollis Kellogg “Basically Bach” ..............UUC 4pmMusic - Jazz......................Piano Jazz Summit ............................LC 7pmCinema..........“The Yankles” ..........Downing Film Center, Newburgh, 7pm

l....................................PV 7pman” Main St. School, Goshen, 7pm

.........Narrowsburg Lib., 7:30pm” ..........................Pavilion at LC

Festival.....Dessert Festival & Craft Fair ..Storm King Fire House, Cornwall-on-Hudson 10am-3pm

Theatre - Play........“Paul Robeson: All-American” ..Main St. School, Goshen, 7pmMusic ..............................Henderson & Osinski ............................................PV 7pmPoetry Reading........Readnex Poetry Squad ......Coquito Restaurant, Warwick, TBAPlay Reading ..........“Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill............................DVAC 7:30pmTheatre - Musical ....................“Gunmetal”............................................Pavilion at LC

Holistic Living...Health & Healing EXPO ..Best Western, Matamoras, 11am-6pm

Theatre - Play.....“Paul Robeson: All-American” ..Main St. School, Goshen, 2pm

Open Mic...................Acoustic Jam ................Dancing Cat, Bethel, 3pmPlay Reading ..........“Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill ..............DVAC 3pmTheatre - Musical ....................“Gunmetal” ........................Pavilion at LC

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CAG ..............................................................Catskill Artists Gallery 38 S. Main St., Liberty 845-292-0310CAS ..................................................................................................Catskill Art Society, Livingston ManorDVAC ........................................................................................Delaware Valley Arts Center, NarrowsburgKMM ..........................................................................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, NewburghSUNYO ..SUNY Orange (Orange Cty. Community College) Orange Hall Gallery & Loft 845-341-4891 UUC ..................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern Gallery 917-613-3489.WRS........................................................................................................Wallkill River School, Montgomery

art EXHIBITSCarolyn Duke pottery ............................................Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoingArea Arts and Crafts art, photography, crafts, sculpture, etc.....................CAG Liberty, ongoing19 Artists ................................................................................BlueStone Gallery, Milford, ongoingKris Jaroka and Monica Ostrow “Strings and Things” ................................................................

Executive Suite, Government Center, Goshen, thru March 3“Water - Sustainer of Life” art, photography, sculpture............The ARTery, Milford, thru Mar 6Kevin Cook” “A New Beginning” ..................................RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Mar 6“In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture..............Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 12-Apr 24Richard Seehausen “A Missing Artist from the Picture Years” ......................DVAC thru Mar 19“small” 12 artists ..........................................................Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, thru Mar 20North East Watercolor Society Members’ 2001 Show ................................SUNYO thru Mar 24Rosemary Carin, Rosalyn Ross-Hoffman, Joan Polishook,Madison Strapec ............................

“Abstract Expressions” Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Mar 29Edward Lundquist ............................................................Livingston Manor Library, thru Mar 31Dona McPhillips Couch “Portraits in American History”................................KMM thru Mar 31“Art Is A Gift” 28 artists....................................................Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro, thru winter”Cream of the Crop” art & photos ..............Rolling River Cafe Gallery, Parksville, thru May 31Koo Jeong “A Constellation Congress”....................................................Dia: Beacon, thru Jun 26

NEW art EXHIBITS”100/$100” ..................................................................................................................WRS Mar 1-5“Abstract Expressions” paper, canvas, fabric ..................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 1-29Sarah E. McHugh “A Breath of Fresh Air” ..........................Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 1-31Tracy Gansrow acrylic & water color................Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 1-31“Illuminations” ..........................................................................SUNYO Newburgh, Mar 3-May 6Mary Mugele Sealfon ................................Executive Suite, Gov’t Center, Goshen, Mar 4-Apr 22“Expressions 2011” Sullivan Arc disables adults ..................................................DVAC Mar 5-26Jeff Christensen “Discards” ..............................................................................CAS Mar 5-Apr 10Imogene Drummond “Divine Sparks”..........................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Mar 6-31Gene Bové & Shawn Dell Joyce, Kathy Kral emerging arttist ..........................WRS Mar 12-31“In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture ............ Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 12-Apr 24Linda Richichi acrylics & pastels ......................................................................UUC Mar 5-May 1Tim Roepe............................................................WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, Mar 12-Apr 10“A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students ..................................The ARTery, Milford, Mar 12-Apr 3The Art of Troy Mack ........................................................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Apr 1-30

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITSFOV ......................................................................................................................Fovea Exhibitions, BeaconHPG ................................................................................................Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford

“Early to Rise: Working Farms in Orange County” ........................................................ongoingCornell Cooperative Extension, Middletown

Nick Zungoli “Trifecta” ....................................................Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, ongoing“You’ve Got to Love It: Images of What We Love” multiple artists..................HPG thru Mar 6“A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students ............................................................HPG Mar 12-Apr 3Eileen MacAvery Kane “East End Stories” ..............Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh, thru Apr 30Lori Grinker “Nothing Like My Home (The Iraqi Refugee Crisis)” ..................FOV thru May 8”Cream of the Crop” art & photos ..............Rolling River Cafe Gallery, Parksville, thru May 31

NEW photography EXHIBITs“A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students ............................................................HPG Mar 12-Apr 3Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots”........Class of 1929 Gallery, West Point, Mar 13-May 1Dana Duke “Foil Series” ..............................................................................DVAC Mar 25-Apr 23

Art & Photography receptions“Illuminations” ....................................................................SUNYO Newburgh, Mar 3, 5pm-7pmJeff Christensen “Discards”............................................CAS Mar 5, 2pm Artists’ Talk, 3pm-5pm“Expressions 2011” Sullivan Arc disables adults......................................DVAC Mar 5, 3pm-5pm”100/$100” ....................................................................................................WRS Mar 5, 5pm-7pm“Abstract Expressions” paper, canvas, fabric......Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 5, 5pm-7pmImogene Drummond “Divine Sparks” ..............................Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, Mar 6, “In Rare Form” contemporary sculpture ...... Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 12 , 6pm-9pmGene Bové & Shawn Dell Joyce, Kathy Kral emerging arttist ..............WRS Mar 12, 5pm-7pmTim Roepe ......................................................WolfGang Gallery, Montgomery, Mar 12, 6pm-8pm“A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students - art, etc.............The ARTery, Milford, Mar 12, 6pm-9pm“A Fresh Perspective” DVHS students - photography..............................HPG Mar 12, 6pm-9pmKenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots”..Class of 1929 Gallery, West Point, Mar 13, 2pm-4pmLinda Richichi acrylics & pastels Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Mar 20, 1pm-4pmDana Duke “Foil Series” ........................................................................DVAC Mar 25, 5pm-7pmThe Art of Troy Mack ............................................Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Apr 2, 5pm-7pm

Books & ClubsEHT....................................................................................................Eisenhower Hall Theater, West PointNFL....................................................................Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street 845-563-3619UUC ..............................................Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rock Tavern 917-613-3489.

Audubon Society First Sunday Field Trip............................845-744-6047 Goshen, 8am or 9amBook Singing Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots” - signing and presentation ..................

Woodbury Senior Center, Highland Mills, Mar 5, 2pm-4pmBook Signing Kenneth Lipston “Orange County Roots” ..EHT 1929 Gallery, Mar 13, 2pm-4pmBook Signing Barbara Adams “The Stone Man and the Poet: Marriage, Madness and Love” ..

Wallkill River School, Mar 13, 3pm-5pmBook Discussion Mystery Books “Tin Roof Blowdown” w./S. Christensen ....NFL Mar 21, 7pmBook Discussion Great Books Discussion, Shared Inquiry Method..............................................

NFL Mar 23, 7pm & Mar 25, 11:30amBook Discussion “The Valetudinarian” by Joshua Ferris ............................................................

Crawford Library, Monticello, Mar 22, 7:30pmWalden Chess Club all ages, all levels ..............Walden Library, Saturdays 10am, Mondays 6pmFriday Night Chess ..................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Fridays 6pmKnit and Stitch ....................................................................Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pmKnimble Knitters ....................................................................Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10amLaurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ..................Last Sundays, [email protected] Music Lovers Guild ..........................3rd Thurs, 7:30pm FREE, Montgomery 845-457-9867

Listen to recorded classical music, open informal discussion follows.Photography Club..................................................................Walden Library, 2nd Mondays. 7pmPhotography Club Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ............................2nd Monday, 7:30pm

St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church, ChesterPsychic Experience Group w/Athen Drewes ..........................................UUC 1st Tuesdays, 7pmScience Cafe “”The American Crow: Not your average songbird”, w/Douglas Robinson PhD ..

Diana’s, New Windsor, Mar 23, 7pmScrabble Players..........................................................................Walden Library, Thursdays, 6pmScrabble Players ........................................................................Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pmTrivia Night ........................................................2 Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm

school & conservatory“A Tribute To Langston Hughes” Teen Theatre Ensemble of Newburgh Performing Arts ....

Academy NFL Mar 13. 3pm

Children and teens calendarEHT ............................................................................................................Eisenhower Hall Theater, West PointHHNM ....................................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, CornwallHHNM-CoH ..........................Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-HudsonPEEC ......................................................Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans FerrySUNYOSUNYO ..........................................................Orange Hall, SUNY Orange, OCCC, Middletown, 845-341-4891

LEcturesDiscovering Animals Together 2-4yrs ......HHNM-CoH Tues. & Weds, 9:30am & 11am & 1pm"Weather You Like It Or Not" w/Christina Faraone, meteorologist - adults & children ..

Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 15, 4:30pm Museum

Meet the Animals ........................................................HHNM-CoH, Sat & Sun, 1pm & 2:30pmMeet the Animals..........................................................HHNM-CoH, Feb 21-25, 1pm & 2:30pm“The Sturgeon Swims Through Time” exhibit ..........................HHNM-CoH, daily, Noon-4pm

MusicYoung People’s Concert USMA Band ......................................EHT West Point, Mar 9, 10:30am

Recreation (see recreation page 9 for adults & children)

Equinox Extravaganza ..................................................................PEEC Mar 20, 1pm-4pm

Theatre“Carnival of the Animals” Gaia Dance Collective, dance & poetry ..........SUNYO Mar 6, 3pm


Destination Montgomery..................................................

Art ExhibitsMike Jaroszko luminist

James Douglas Gallery - ongoing

Tim RoepeWolfGang Gallery, opens Mar 12

Gene Bové, Shawn Dell Joyce, Kathy Kral Emerging Artist

Wallkill River School, Mar 12-31

Art ReceptionsWolfGang Gallery, Mar 12, 6pm-8pm

Wallkill River School Mar 12, 6pm-9pm

Book Signing & Prose ReadingBarbara Adams

“The Stone Man and the Poet: Marriage, Madness and Love”,

Wallkill River School, Mar 13, 3pm-5pm

Music - ClassicalGrand Montgomery Chamber Music Series

Makoto Nakura, Marimba, Mar 13Senior Center, 3pm

montgomery calendar Sponsored by Montgomery

Business Association by J.A. Di Bello

In the world of Shakespearean clichés andother hackneyed expressions, the "Spot"command remains both familiar andeffective. Originally directed at a spot ofmurderous blood, the command more likelythan not, now takes aim at a blotch of paint,paint judiciously inflicted by a paintballplayer with a paintball marker.

Montgomery Sporting Goods' (MSG's)sixty plus acres of fields and woods lieadjacent to the Montgomery Town line andthe Blue Sky Polo Club on Bart Bull Road.It is here that role playing, as a form ofcompetitive entertainmen, has assumed afamiliar yet different form.

Civil War re-enactments are frequent inMontgomery and Orange County andprovide informative entertainment forspectators as well as those who play the roleof Confederate or Yankee soldiers. But asentertainment and recreation unite, theconcept has expanded to new levels ofcompetition and historical significance. Asparticipants keep score by paintball hits, thecry of "Out damned spot!" can be heard onthe fields and woods near Montgomery.And, no! These woods are not DunsinaneWoods!

The recent and pronounced developmentof paintball activities resulted in two basicyet different types of experiences:"speedball" and "woodsball." Speedball is ateam game usually confined to a small fieldwith artificial obstacles. In contrast,woodsball is the game where individual roleplaying has become a popular andrewarding enterprise. The play area can beexceptionally large and lends itself to theconcept of scenarios which frequentlyinclude historical events presented as re-

enactments with yet-to-be-determinedconclusions.

A prime example of the ultimate role-playing situation occurs at a paint ball parkin Oklahoma where one game is playedover a period of a single week. The setting:D-Day, Normandy, June 6, 1944.Participation exceeds 4.000 players a year.Wannabe Ike?

As reported by Sherry Meres, (MSG)owner, paintball markers were originallyused by the Forest Service of NewHampshire to cull trees for removal.Markers were single shot, pump actionmechanisms, utilizing a 12 gram CO2cartridge. Paint balls at that time were filledwith an oil base paint and as entertainmentpurposes were prohibitively expensive.

Later semi-automatic markers weremanufactured with various firing modes andcurrently markers are powered by CO2tanks or compressed air tanks. Electronicmarkers require a 9 volt battery. Sherryreports further that paintballs are no longerfilled with oil base paint. Paintballs todayare filled with a water soluble,biodegradable, nontoxic liquid and come ina variety of colors. Finally, the spots fromtoday's paintballs wash off!

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The March show at the Wallkill RiverSchool and Art Gallery (WRS), offers newpaintings by two Wallkill River Schoolfounders; Shawn Dell Joyce and GeneBové. Artworks will focus on the WallkillValley, with sweeping panoramic paintingsof local farms, the Shawangunk Ridge, andvillage scenes.

Gene Bové had a long and successfuladvertising career before retiring fromBBDO Ad Firm in Manhattan, where hewas an executive art director. Bové paintedwith Joyce en plein air (outdoors) for threeyears before co-founding the nonprofitWRS artists cooperative. He has exhibitedhis work in many auctions and areagalleries.

In addition to co-founding the WRSSchool; Shawn Dell Joyce is a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist who writesabout sustainability and localism. Joyce’spaintings in this exhibit feature Black Dirtfarms, Basha Kill wetlands, scenes of theTown of Montgomery, and farmscapes.

She recently won the “Seligmann Award”from Orange County Citizen’sFoundation, and Orange Environment’s“Sustainable Art” award. Joyce’ssustainable artworks and writings have beenwidely publicized in many nationalnewspapers and magazines. She has wonmany prestigious awards for her work suchas the “Woman of the Year” for 2009, fromGirl Scouts and YWCA of Orange County.

Emerging Artist Kathy Kral will also befeatured in her first solo exhibit in theworkshop room.

Kral started off as a graphic designer inher father’s print company. Her artistic skillwas identified at an early age, and shebecame a marketing stylist for wallcoveringmanufacturers. Kral quickly developed hereye for detail into a lucrative career as adecorative painter and interior designer.She started her own decorative paintingcompany in 1993, and continues it today.She specializes in interior design as well asfaux finishes, and has been a colorconsultant for the past eighteen years.

Kral’s true love has always been paintingand drawing. She rediscovered it afterraising her children and leading a successfulcareer. Her design background has shapedher artistic vision giving her a strong senseof color and composition. Kral is mainly apastel artist, and an accomplished floralpainter. Her subjects are primarily still-lifespainted from direct observation. This is herfirst solo show in Orange County.

Dell Joyce and Bové will demonstratelive at the reception, which is free and opento the public; March 12, from 5:00pm to7:00pm. Hors d’oeuvres from WildfireGrill and local wines will be served.

For more information visitwww.wallkillriverschool.com, or call 845-457-2727. The WRS is located at 232 WardStreet (Route 17K).

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Shawangunk Ridge by Gene Bové


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Barbara Block Adams, poet, retiredprofessor, Newburgh Chamber Musicsecretary, writes in her poetry book TheOrdinary Living, "Many [poems] tell astory, and added together, the particularstory of one ordinary life." The story of her"ordinary life" is given more flesh andsubstance in her new memoir The StoneMan and the Poet, a fascinating, upsetting,funny, brave book.

Adams says she worked on it for fifteenyears after her husband's death beginningwith Chapter 13, “Cancer Journal:Emotional Triage, 1992-1993”, which sheput together from a journal kept during herhusband's illness. At a writers' workshop, afacilitator, Rosellen Brown, gave Adamsfeedback: “This is powerful - I want toknow what happened before - what led upto this. You need to expand it. It has the ringof truth.” Adams said in its many drafts thispiece always remained - the piece neverthrown out, the piece staged by MohonkMountain Stage Company.

In Adams' expansion of "Cancer Journal,"that "ring of truth," always present, tiestogether the patchwork pieces of their livesinto a quilt of their marriage, their lifetogether - the good, the bad, the ugly - nowwoven into a cohesive whole, each patch orchapter complete in itself, necessary as part

of the finished mosaic. For the most part, Adams, mother of four,

grandmother of two, left out the youngergenerations. Yet part of her reason forwriting this book was for them. She said,“They have their own stories to tell and aright to privacy." She also said in matters offact, "My children are my police."Observing, "This is a great age for memoir,"Adams added, "people today crave truth nottruthiness." She mentioned special caremust be taken in writing a memoir because"memory can play tricks. Sometimes onecan't tell memory from dreams."

In writing of her "long, difficultmarriage," she says, “I was a New Yorker,half Jewish, half Irish, and El was a NewEngland bricklayer, half Irish and halfdescendant of presidents. We met at collegelike two asteroids from distant galaxiescolliding in Earth's atmosphere. In theHudson Valley, where we lived for fortyyears, he was known as "The Stone Man,"the teacher who built fireplaces and I amknown as "The Poet."

Written in a non-linear fashion, eachchapter tells how their differences bothstitched them together and kept them apart.She writes with unsparing clarity and truth.Describing their early relationship incollege Adams writes, "I'd been homelessfor seven years when we met. El made mefeel at home again. He was home. … El and

I had no one but each other. My family hadfailed me completely, and his wasdownright destructive. … For all our violentarguments and irreconcilable differences,we could talk to each other and know we'dbe understood as no one else couldunderstand." She also writes, "He was theonly person who ever made me feel safe."

Although still puzzled by her husband'smental illness, never satisfactorilydiagnosed, still angry about the cancerwhich killed him, "I can never accept thedeath of a healthy, rugged man of sixty-seven," Adams' memoir is a remarkable,moving testament to a woman and a manwho managed to make a difficult marriagework despite everything.

She will be featured poet at Calling allPoets, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon,at 8:00pm on April 1, and in Warwick atUtopian Directions, 7 West Street, at4:00pm on May 20th. The Newburgh FreeLibrary has invited her to do a specialprogram in May, time and date TBA.

Her book will be available at these events,as well as directly from her for $20including tax and shipping. Contact [email protected]. Please putStone Man & Poet in the subject line.

Adams will present a reading and booksigning at Wallkill River School, at3:00pm, March 13th, 232 Ward Street(Route 17K).

Barbara Adams haspublished two books ofpoetry, HapaxLegomena, and TheOrdinary Living, a bookof literary criticism, TheEnemy Self: Poetry &Criticism of LauraRiding.

Her poems, stories and essays have beenpublished in literary and professionaljournals, including The Nation, TexasReview, Negative Capability,Confrontation, Modern Poetry Studies,Psychoanalytic Review, Home PlanetNews; and in anthologies of Hudson Riverpoets, Riverine and WaterWrites. Her“interviews/articles” have appeared in D&HCANVAS.

She won the 2007 Robert FrostFoundation Award for her poem, HenryJones, from Wales. Her story, Portrait of theArtist's Daughter, won first prize in the1999 Negative Capabilty Fiction Contest.

Her one-act play, God's Lioness & theCrow: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, wasproduced by the Mohonk Mountain StageCompany in New Paltz, in 2000.

She earned the Ph.D. in English at NYU,and was a Professor of English at PaceUniversity, retiring in 2000.

Her memoir, The Stone Man and the Poet,was published in January 2011.


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Howard Garrett is proud of the fact thathe brings unique chamber music concerts toMontgomery. His most recent gave his full-house audience the chance to hear a flute-piano-euphonium concert, possibly the firsttime ever for such an ensemble. And now,he has gone and booked a marimba player.

Last season Pacem In Terris in Warwickoffered a concert that included a marimbaplayer BUT in an ensemble. This upcomingGrand Montgomery Chamber MusicSeries marimba concert is “perhaps OrangeCounty’s first solo marimba concert.” saysGarrett.

Pine Bush resident Barbara Scales ownsan artist management company in Montreal,Latitude 45 Arts. Her impressive rosterincludes pianist Jenny Lin who performedfor Garrett’s loyal concertgoers earlier thisseason. Now another superb musician fromher roster will bring unheard-in-this-areaclassical music to Montgomery.

Makoto Nakura is a musician whoseartistry and astonishing virtuositymesmerizes audiences. He createsinnovative programs, revealing theversatility and expressive range of themarimba while enlightening andentertaining the listener.

Born in Kobe, Japan, Nakura began toplay the marimba at the age of eight. In1994, he moved to New York City. Hiscritically acclaimed performances aroundthe world have included venues in London,

Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Sao Paulo andBuenos Aires. As a recital soloist, his longlist of appearances includes his being aguest artist with the Chamber MusicSociety of Lincoln Center.

With the American Ballet Theatre, hehas performed on numerous occasions inNew York City where he was soloist in anew production of Marimba. He has playedpieces inspired by Paul Klee, JacksonPollock, and Willem De Kooning andothers with projections of their paintingsand commentary by a museum curator aswell as by the marimbist.

Many leading young composers havewritten pieces especially for him. Thismarimbist’s mission is to explore andexpand the possibilities of the instrument,demonstrate what an exciting andprovocative vehicle it offers to composers,and provide a thrilling experience foraudiences.

The chromatic marimba was developed insouthern Mexico and northern Guatemalafrom the diatonic marimba, an instrumentwhose ancestor was a type of balafon thatAfrican slaves built in Central America.

Wood bars are preferred for concertplaying, but synthetics are preferred formarching band and other outdoor usebecause they are more durable and lesssusceptible to pitch change due to weather.

Modern marimba music calls forsimultaneous use of between two and fourmallets (sometimes up to six), granting theperformer the ability to play chords or musicwith large interval skips more easily.

Traditional marimba bands are especiallypopular in Guatemala where they are thenational symbol of culture, but are alsostrongly established in southern Mexico,Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, aswell as among Afro-Ecuadorians and Afro-Colombians.

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Montgomery artist Tim Roepe is thefeatured artist for March at Mikey Teutel’sWolfGang Gallery on Railroad Avenue.

A public reception will be held on March12, 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

Makoto Nakura by Yukihito Asurra

This year, Wallkill River School ishosting “100/$100”, an exhibit of 100paintings with 100 tickets for sale at $100each. The ticket allows the purchaser to pickone of 100 paintings. Each ticket is good forone artwork. The paintings will be ondisplay March 1-5. Ticketholders choosetheir prize when their ticket number isdrawn at the reception on March 5th from5:00-7:00pm. This fundraiser allows theWRS to offer free programs for the localcommunity.

Phone: 845-457-ARTS.

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The free concert will take place in theSenior Center, 36 Bridge Street on March13 at 3:00pm. For info: 845-457-9867.

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The first ballet at the Paris Opéra to havean original dramatic plot was LaSomnambule (1827). Before then, balletswere set to danceable popular tunes thatwere unrelated in musical style.

Giselle (1841) was conceived by theinfluential French poet, author, critic andpossibly the greatest champion of theRomantic ballet, Théophile Gautier.Giselle was created to honor the ballerinaCarlotta Grisi, whom Gautier not onlyadmired for her dancing, but with whom he

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was in love. Gautier was inspired by apassage from Heinrich Heine's 1835 work,De l'Allemagne, which also was the sourceof Puccini’s first opera, Le Villi.

Giselle is a ballet in two acts with alibretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music byAdolphe Adam, and choreography by JeanCoralli and Jules Perrot. The ballet tells thestory of a peasant girl named Giselle whoseghost, after her premature death, protectsher lover from the vengeance of a group ofevil female spirits called the Wilis.

That is where the expression “it gives methe willies” supposedly comes from.

The Russian National Ballet will give usthe “one-L Wilis” BUT with grace andbeauty on March 10 at 8:00pm on LycianCentre’s main stage.

Call 845-469-2287 for tickets.

In February we had Camille Saint-Saensmasterpiece Carnival of the Animals at theGreater Newburgh Symphony Orchestraconcert, presented with the poetry of OgdenNash.

This month the Birds, Swan, Fossils,Elephants , Snails et al are on their wayback but this time to SUNY Orange inMiddletown and not with the Nash verses,but with a brand new poem by Liz Geyerof GAIA Dance Company.

The company is an ensemble of localdancers (and puppeteers): Lisa Albornoz,Claudia Soifer, Leah Giles, Liz Geyer,Pam Intveld, Rachel Wunder, DanaMarie Welch, Gloria Detore Mackie,Emily Silver and Elisabeth Stampfel.

Geyer’s original poem will be read

CCaarrnniivvaall ooff tthhee AAnniimmaallss MMaarrcchh 66 - FFOORR AALLLL AAGGEESSthroughout the program by herhusband/musician Joseph Karr. “Liz hasput her heart and soul into this production.She has created the costumes and puppetsand choreographed the dances,” statedCultural Affairs co-ordinator DorothySzefc. ”This is a dance performance thatwill delight children as well as adults.”

In addition, after the performance, Lizand her colleagues will be selling cupcakeswith animal themes, homemade by DancerLeah Giles, plus t-shirts–all to benefit thePet Med Fund. The fund will help keeppets in their homes and out of shelters orfrom being euthanized because of theirowner's inability to pay for medicaltreatment. The fund is part of Geyer's EGG& Dancers nonprofit dance company. It willgrant money to help pay partial medicalexpenses for adopted shelter and rescuepets.

The performance is in handicapped-accessible Orange Hall, Grandview andWaywayanda Aveues in Middletown onMarch 6 at 3:00pm.

Cultural Affairs phone: 845-341-4891.

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Helena Moore, Ph.D.Holistic Talk Therapy

Wildwood Way, Forestburgh845-796-1810

Patricia QuinnArt Therapy, Hypnosis & Healing

62 No. Main Street, Florida, NY 10921

845-649-0953

HOLISTIC & SPIRITUAL

The Crystals CenterRetail, Workshops, Events, Healing

116 Sullivan Street, WurtsboroRe-Opens Late March

ORGANIZATIONS

Orange County Citizens FoundationCitizens Building a Better Community

23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf845-469-9459

www.occitizensfoundation.org

Orange County Arts CouncilArt Leaves its Mark

23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf845-469-9168

www.ocartscouncil.org.

Unitarian Universalist Congregationof Rock Taven

Art Exhibits, Music Events, Discussions9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern

www.UUCRT.org

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acknowledging the winds that annouce themonth before the perennial lamb takes over.March Comes in Like a Lion: Where It WillGo From There, Who Knows? is BroadwayConcerts Direct’s theme for March.

Manhattan and local singers EmilyButtner, Rich Flanders, Joanna MortonGary, Janice Hall, Sue Matsuki, and“star” Sarah Rice will entertain the

audience on March 12, 8:00pm in theCommunity Church of Wurtsboro, 134Sullivan St. with breezy songs fromBroadway, Opera and Operetta. Forreservations: 845-888-2798

At press time, we learned that the singerswill be accompanied by the great pianist,TBA, brother (or sister) of that famousauthor (or composer) Anonymous.

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After a number of showings around theCounty, Kenneth Lipston’s Orange CountyRoots is being exhibited in the Class of1929 Gallery in West Point from March 13thru May 1.

Lipston’s project has expanded from theoriginal photographic exhibits and nowincludes a book, funded by a second grantfrom Orange County Tourism.

A presentation and book signing will takeplace on March 5 from 2:00pm to 4:00pmat the Woodbury Historical Society WinterSocial in the Woodbury Senior Center onRoute 105 in Hghland Mills.

Phone 845-928-6770 or 845-928-9249.

Cornwall-Woodbury News Sponsored by Hudson Street Cafe, Cornwall-on-Hudson

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been observed since the early 1900s, a timeof great expansion and turbulence in theindustrialized world that saw boomingpopulation growth and the rise of radicalideologies.

In 1908, 15,000 women marched throughNew York City demanding shorter hours,better pay and voting rights.

In 1909 the first National Woman's Daywas observed across the United States.

In 1910 Clara Zetkin proposed the idea ofan International Women's Day (IWD).

In 1911 more than one million womenand men attended IWD rallies campaigningfor women's rights.

To celebrate IWD’s 100th anniversaryPotluck Concerts will offer music bywomen composers on March 25 at 7:30pmin the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222Hudson Street.

Crayons for the fidgety are provided.

Sullivan Music News sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

Janice Nimetz is wearing two hats inMarch. The chamber music series MusicIn Central Valley is her “baby”. She is theproducer and artistic director. However, thismonth, she will be a duo-pianist along withPotluck Concerts co-producer RuthanneSchempf. These two well-knownconcertizers are the hands-on part of FourHands-Four Voices.

The others are all performers withKairos, the Hudson Valley’s major consortof singers, which recently concertized at thelast Newburgh Chamber Music concert in

February: baritone Paul Frazer, sopranoCarol Lundergan, tenor EdwardLundergan and mezzo-soprano TriciaAgar. The six musicians will perform at thefree concert (donations requested) onMarch 27 at 3:00pm in the Central ValleyUnited Methodist Church, 12 Smith CloveRoad.

For info: 845-928-6570.

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Arguably the world’s greatest operaticactress, Natalie Dessay will (if we arelucky) perform the hell out of Donizetti’sLucia Di Lammermor.

Lucky, because a few times in the recentpast, Dessay has had to cancel herappearances. Though scheduled, she has notbeen seen in the fabulous Live from the Metin HD series since performing the heroinein Bellini’s La Sonnambula in March 2008.

Born Nathalie Dessaix in Lyon in 1965,she dropped the "h" in her first name inhonor of Natalie Wood when she was ingrade school and subsequently simplifiedthe spelling of her surname outside France.Famous in her earlier career for a very hightessitura, limpid intonation and superbcoloratura, Dessay became more recognizedin recent years for her dramatic and comedicflair as a singing actress.

In her youth, Dessay had intended to be a

ballet dancer, and then an actress. Shediscovered her talent for singing whiletaking acting classes, and shifted her artisticfocus to music.

Dessay was encouraged to study voice atthe Conservatoire national de région deBordeaux and gained experience as achorister in Toulouse. At the competitionLes Voix Nouvelles, run by FranceTélécom, she was awarded First Prize(Premier Prix de Concours) followed by ayear's study at Paris Opera's Ecole d'ArtLyrique, where she sang "Elisa" in Mozart'sIl Re Pastore.

Following in the footsteps of mid to late20th Century great soprano-actressesBeverly Sills, Teresa Stratas, LeonieRysanek and Inge Borkh, to name a few, ithas been predicted that Dessay’s acting willeventually become legend either equal to ora skosh behind Maria Callas’.

Lucia, famous for its Sextet and its MadScene, will be videocast on March 19 at1:00pm, with a brief pre-show talk at12:15pm, in the Seelig Auditorium atSullivan County Community College inLoch Sheldrake.

Reservations: 845-434-5750, ext. 4472.

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Enjoy three generations, three soloperformances, in a “jazz summit” withkeyboard marvels Cedar Walton, JackyTerrasson, and Hiromi. Each will take aturn offering selections from their personalstorehouses of distinctive music.

Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior (bornJanuary 17, 1934) is an American hard bopjazz pianist who was named the NationalEndowment for the Arts Jazz Master for2010, the nation’s highest honor in jazz.

Jacky Terrasson, winner of the distinctiveThelonious Monk International Jazz PianoCompetition and two-time Grammynominee, has been celebrated here and inhis native France. He says, “Music makesus smile. Music makes us laugh. Musicmakes us cry. It makes us think. Musicconnects souls. Music is greatness.”

Keyboardist-composer Hiromi Ueharahas electrified audiences and critics on bothhemispheres. She has performed andrecorded with pianist and mentor, ChickCorea, as well as the Stanley Clarke Trio,and has released distinctive solo albums.

So, serious jazz fans, this one’s for you.

And for non-serious jazz fans, these arefor you.

“Look, you come in here tomorrow, andanything you do with your right hand I’ll dowith my left. [to Bud Powell]” – Art Tatum.

I can’t understand these guys who justhave to have your autograph. I asked one ofthem ‘What do you do when you get home,take it out and look at it?’” – Artie Shaw

“I never had much interest in the pianountil I realized that every time I played, agirl would appear on the piano bench to myleft and another to my right.” – DukeEllington

“By and large, jazz has always been likethe kind of a man you wouldn’t want yourdaughter to associate with.” – DukeEllington

“[Bebop is] Chinese music.” - LouisArmstrong

“Women and rhythm-section first!” –Jaco Pastorius

Enjoy this unique evening of solo pianotimes three at Lycian Centre on March 27at 7:00pm.

Call 845-469-2287 for tickets.

Cedar Walton, Jacky Terrason and Hiromi

Hurley Mountain Highway is a four-piece acoustic-electric group that calls thesongs they play Feel-Good Music, “becausewe guarantee you'll Feel-Good when youhear them and perhaps you'll be caughtdancing, laughing, smiling, and evensinging along with them, like you did backwhen you were a teen!”

It's the music of Firefall, MichaelMartin Murphy, Peter Frampton, KingHarvest, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, NeilYoung, Badfinger, The Band, The Beatles,Van Morrison, Hall & Oates, Elton John,The Doobie Brothers, The Youngbloods,and so many more all-time favorite artistsfrom the '60s and '70s...and beyond!

So, wine-taste at Palaia Vineyards inHighland Mills on March 19 after 7:00pmand feel good.

For info: 845-928-5384.

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Opera news Sponsored by New Windsor law office of Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd

A dramaturge, or dramaturg, is aprofessional position within a theatrecompany. Its modern-day function wasoriginated by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,an 18th-century German playwright,philosopher and theorist about theatre whoborrowed theoretic ideas from Artistotle.

Responsibilities can vary from one theatrecompany to another. In smaller companies,the dramturg delves into the historical andcultural research of the play and its setting.

If you have been attending the recentfundraising concerts for Opera Companyof the Highlands (OCH), you have “met”OCH’s dramaturg Cori Ellison.

Ellison was the dramaturg at New YorkCity Opera from 1997-2010, and wasresponsible for the company's supertitles, aswell as curating its pre-performance eventseries.

She is a frequentpanelist on the Met’sOpera Quiz radiobroadcasts and hasserved as dramaturg forWashington National

Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Boston,Chicago Humanities Festival, and wasdramaturg for a triple bill of Offenbachoperettas at the Bard Summerscape Festival.

Ms. Ellison's English singing translationof Hansel and Gretel was commissionedand premiered by New York City Opera,and performed in Newburgh by OCH. Shecontinues to serve New York City Opera asa consultant on selected productions andprojects.

We are lucky to have her in the HudsonValley.

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Celebrate allthings Irish at a freeconcert featuringpremier Irish-American fiddlerBrian Conway, onSun., March 20 at3:00pm at theNewburgh Free

Library.Conway has won numerous All-Ireland

fiddling competitions and performs with askill, grace and force that are steeped intradition but distinctively his own. He hasbeen called one of the best fiddlers of hisgeneration.

For information on programs, call theNewburgh Library, 563-3619 or go towww.newburghlibrary.org.

The Library’s main number is 563-3600and it is located at 124 Grand Street..

by Philip Ehrensaft

Since a credible history of great violinistsand great conductors from the earlytwentieth century onwards could be basedon the huge catalogue of recordings ofSibelius's now iconic Violin Concerto in DMinor, it is hard to imagine that worklanguished in relative obscurity for threedecades after its premier in 1905. Eventhough its premiere was conducted by noneother than Richard Strauss.

That all changed in a flash when JaschaHeifitz made the first full recording ofSibelius' “revised” Violin Concerto in 1937.Ears opened across the world to whatStrauss and then Heifitz seized right off thebat. This landmark composition bridged twomusical worlds, the Late Romantic era intowhich Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, and

a new, highly original -and accessible -twentieth centurymusical language thatSibelius continued todefine and refine overthe next three decades

before becoming disenchanted with his ownprogress, and foregoing further compositionuntil the end of his long life in 1957.

Seemingly impossible musical partnersare wedded to one another in Sibelius's nowiconic coupling of romanticism and his ownstern and demanding vision of modernmusic rooted in the modes and rhythms ofthe Finnish and folk music. A Finnishlanguage and music, one must note, thatstands in exception to the Indo-Europeanlanguages that surround it on all sides.

So, on the one hand, we have the newmusical language so deftly explained in

James Hepokoski's seminal article onSibelius in the New Grove Dictionary ofMusic: “startlingly original adaptations offamiliar elements plus unorthodoxtreatments of triadic harmony, orchestralcolor and musical process and structure.Couple this with moods ranging fromcelebratory nationalism and politicalstruggle to cold despair and desperateisolation. And then brooding contemplationsof neo-primitive musical ideas that slowlytransform sound textures to meditations onmysteries, grandeurs and occasional terrorsof archetypical folk myths and naturallandscapes.”

The voluptuous bride for this stern groomis the lush classical and romantic traditionof flamboyant virtuoso violin solos whichcould sometimes descend into flash andexhibitionism. As a violinist who discoveredthat his true calling was composition,Sibelius wedded this odd couple with a surehand.

It took over three decades for a widermusical world to recognize what Strausssaw in this odd couple marriage of music-thinking in 1905, and why Heifitz took thismusic to the new improved recordingtechnology of 1937, ironically, just asSibelius decided that it was time to putdown his pen for the next 20 years.

But the fire caught on, and burns still.Mid-Hudson Valley music enthusiasts

will have an opportunity to hear a liveperformance of this wondrous concerto onSaturday afternoon, March 12, at 3:00pm,when violinist Steven Zynszajn joins theGreater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra(GNSO) at the Newburgh Free AcademyHigh School Auditorium, South andFullerton Streets. GNSO: 845-913-7517.

Steven Zynszajn, born in Evanston,Illinois, grew up in France and hasperformed throughout Europe and theUnited States and appeared at musicalfestivals on both sides of the Atlantic.

He was showcased in the off-Broadwayplay Two, playing movements of theBeethoven Violin Concerto, and featuredwith the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus ina program of Gershwin songs. As thefounder and director of LautreamontConcerts, he has appeared at the FrenchConsulate, New York Historical Society andChelsea Art Museum. Mr. Zynszajn'sbroadcasts include WNYC in New York,Radio Classique in France, and "GoodMorning America" on ABC. He performson a Cremonese violin made in the 18thcentury in Cremona, Italy, by AegidiusBarzellini.

The March 12 concert will be held at theNewburgh Free Academy, Fullerton andSouth Streerts in Newburgh.

(The snow date is Saturday, March 19 at3:00 p.m.)

Talking at the movies? Well, almost.Downing Film Center is holding threepanel discussuions in March, following filmshowings.

Imogene Drummond, whose art work ison display at the Railroad Playhouse, willhave her short film Divine Sparks shown onMarch 6 at 1:00pm with a Q&A afterward,just before the reception at the Playhouse.

Divine Sparks is a whimsical story aboutthe origin of the world, a metaphor for thetransformative nature of creativity. Itexplores Divine Sparks, how they are born,and how they are manifested in each of usand in our universe.

As a father explained Divine Sparks to hisyoung daughter: “This is a story about the

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beginning of the world, and how before itwas created there was nothing, but in thatnothing was possibility. And, that’s whatyou are: Possibility.”

Vision - From the Life of Hildegard vonBingham will begiven specialscreenings fromMarch 11 thruMarch 14. Youcan hear a paneldiscussion onvon Bingham onMarch 14 after

the 7:30pm showing.For showtimes, check website

www.downingfilmcenter.com.

Woomyung Choe and the GreaterNewburgh Symphony Orchestra willhave the World Premiere of Rapid Fire byKorean-American composer Paul Yeon

Lee.The March 12,

3:00pm concert beginswith this piece ofmusic that its composerdescribes as “ferocious,wild and hypnotic, a

piece that will lead the listener to a fantasyworld of sound and energy.” Rapid Firewas commissioned by Dr. Choe and isdedicated to composer Paul Yeon Lee'sgood friend William A. Verdone.

Lee is committed to writing the mostpoignant, eloquent and passionate musicthat he can imagine and, in this case,challenged himself to compose a concertopener similar to a fanfare but without theheavy brass instruments you would expect.

The program will also include AntoninDvorák's Symphony No. 8 in G Major.

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

Children under 7 are admitted free ofcharge. Tickets may be purchased at thedoor or reserved viawww.newburghsymphony.org.

Phone: 845- 913-7157

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Newburgh Free Academy graduate KelliO’Connor (center of photo) will return onMarch 6 at 3:00pm when the RadianceWoodwind Quintet will take us Around theWorld in 80 Minutes with composers Ravel,Piazzolla, Hindemith, Judith Weir and LeeHoiby, a resident of Long Eddy.

"I graduated from NFA in 1988 and hadthe opportunity to work with Mr. Sickinger,Mary Dietrich, Cal Parent, GraceBowles, Mrs. Giles, Darryl Winslow, LouAulogia, Frank Maraday, and ElaineSimpson," O’Connor stated.

Joining the quintet are guest artists bassistBob Weirath, percussionist Kuljit Rehney,pianist Laura Hibbard and GaryChapman, the pianist for Hoiby’s Sextet forWinds, at St. George’s Church, 105 GrandStreet, across from the Newburgh Libraryparking lot.

For more information: 845-562-1861.


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Art & Photography ExhibitsDona McPhillips Couch:

"Portraits in American History"Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Mar 31

Eileen MacAvery Kane“East End Stories”

Ritz Theater Lobby, thru Apr 30

Imogene DrummondRailroad Playhouse, Mar 6

Reception Mar 6 , approx. 3pm

“In Rare Form” contemporary sculptureAnn Street Gallery, Mar 12-Apr 24

Reception Mar 12, 6pm-9pm

Book DiscussionsMystery Books Mar 21, 7pm

Great Books Mar 23, 7pm & Mar 25, 11:30amNerwburgh Free Library

Cinema Specials“Divine Sparks” Mar 6, 1pm

“Vision - From the Life of Hildegard VonBingham” Mar 11-14

“12th and Delaware” Mar 21, 7:30pm“The Yankles” Mar 25-28

Downing Film Center

Hot Movies for a Cold DayNFL Mar 14, 6pm

ComedyTom Briscoe Mar 19, 8pm & Mar 20, 3pm

Railroad Playhouse

LecturesCeltic Tea Tradition NFL Mar 3, 2pm

“Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and 1984”SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall 101, Mar 10, 7pm

Museum Exhibits“The History of Medicine”

Karpeles Manuscript Museum, thru Mar 31

“The General’s Lady” Exhibit & LectureMartha Washington Tribute

"From Petticoats to Breeches: Unveiling 18th Century Clothing."

Washington’s Headquarters, Mar 26, 2pm

MusicThe Mighty Paul Brothers Band Mar 5, 8pm

Devin Daversa acoustic Mar 10, 8pmThe Reddan Brothers Mar 11. 8pm

Sly Fox and the Hustlers Mar 12, 8pmDan Brother acoustic Mar 13, 2:30pm

Alpha Male Gorillas Mar 18. 8pmThe Greyhounds Mar 19, 8pm

March Madness Matinee: 3 Bands: Mar 20, 2:30pm

5 Punk Alternative Bands Mar 25, 8pmDeep Chemistry Mar 26, 8pm

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Music - CelticBrian Conway fiddle NFL Mar 20, 3pm

Music - ClassicalRadiance Woodwind Quintet & Guests

Newburgh Chamber MusicSt. George’s Church, Mar 6, 3pm

Greater Newburgh Symphony OrchestraSteven Zynszajn, violin

Newburgh Free Academy, Mar 12, 3pm

Poetry ReadingHudson River Poets, Mar 3, 7pm

Newburgh Free Library

Theatre“Experience India” Mar 8, 7pm-9pm

Music, Dance, Lecture, CulinarySUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall 101

Air Pirates Live Radio Theater““It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Swings"

Railroad Playhouse, Mar 11, 8pm"Not All Fortunes are Found in Cookies"

Railroad Playhouse, Mar 12, 8pm,

“A Tribute to Langston Hughes”Teen Theatre Ensemble,

Newburgh Performing Arts AcademyNewburgh Free Library Mar 13, 3pm

One-Act Pinter PlaysRailroad Playhouse, Mar 26, 8pm

Washington's Headquarters StateHistoric Site pays tribute to a great woman,Martha Washington, during Women's

History Month withtheir presentation FromPetticoats to Breeches:Unveiling 18th CenturyClothing and a FirstLadies Trivia game.

The Downing FilmCenter and RailroadPlayhouse will host aspecial combinationDivine Sparks previewfilm screening and artexhibit on Sunday,

March 6th at 1:00pm. Garrison filmmaker and artist Imogene

Drummond's Divine Sparks 30 minutemulti-media film, a 21st century myth ofcreativity for children of all ages, celebratesthe transformative power of creativity. As afather explained “Divine Sparks” to his

daughter, “This is a story about thebeginning of the world, and how before itwas created there was nothing, but in thatnothing was possibility. And, that’s whatyou are: Possibility.”

The event includes Divine Sparks filmscreening and Q & A with the filmmaker,followed by a reception and art exhibit. Thisunique film-and-art event allows viewers toexperience art in diverse media, includingdigitally in the film and "live" on the gallerywalls.

Filmed in beautiful places around theplanet, Divine Sparks presents a story ofharmony as an alternative to violence inthese troubled times. The luminous filmcelebrates a wide array of art, animation andaccents. Members of the Limón DanceCompany stretch and sway like paper cut-out pieces, eyeball puppets cavort, whalessing, and Native American dancers in fullregalia celebrate!

This fun family event is appropriate forall ages, ergo children and families arewelcome. A donation to benefit theDowning Film Center and the RailroadPlayhouse is requested. The reception ofDrummond’s Art Exhibit follows the Q&Aat Railroad Playhouse.

The Downing Film Center is located at 19Front Street in Newburgh. The RailroadPlayhouse is located within walkingdistance at 27 South Water Street inNewburgh.

For information, call 646-295-6254.

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Washington Woman Of History Award" willbe given to community activist MaraFarrell.

The event will take place March 26, at2:00pm in the Museum, 84 Liberty Street,in Newburgh. The program is free, however,donations are appreciated.

For information, call 845-562-1195.

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Nicole Shea, the new Cultural AffairsCo-ordinator of SUNY Orange, NewburghCampus, has arranged for an evening ofIndian Culture, co-sponsored by GobalInitiative.

A lecture by Dr. Elizabeth White, APassage to India, will be followed by a

music and dancepresentation withAnindita AnaNanda (see photos).

“We will alsohave some Indianculinary delights foryou to sample”,reads Shea’s flyerpromoting the eventwhich will take

place on March 8 at 7:00pm in the GreatRoom, Kaplan Hall 101, corner Grand andFirst Streets.

For more information: 845-341-9386


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On Novenmber 10, 2010 EdmarCastenada, as the expression goes, stole theshow. In this case, the “show” was the JazzFestival at SUNY Orange in Middletown.

Those in attendance at the OCCC JazzFestival, a tribute to Marvin Feman,witnessed a unique performer, jazz harpistCastenada. This world class intrumentalistwas accompanied by a most expressive andattentive drummer, Dave Silliman.

(Editor’s note:They were outstanding!)Exactly four months later on March 10,

2011, Edmar Castaneda will perform again,Live at the the Falcon.

Since his move from Bogotá, Colombiato the United States in 1994, Castaneda hastaken New York and the world stage bystorm with the sheer force of his virtuosiccommand of the harp, revolutionizing theway audiences and critics consider theinstrument. He is a master at beautifulcomplexities.

The legendary Paquito D'Rivera,Edmar's frequent collaborator, hasremarked: "Edmar is…an enormous talent;he has the versatility and the enchantingcharisma of a musician who has taken hisharp out of the shadow to become one of the

most original musicians from the BigApple." (Into classical music? Try THIS!)

Area vocalist favorite, and local resident,Judi Silvano is versatile enough to presentjazz standards or the more unique work ofThelonious Monk, American womencomposers or her own originals about the“dance of life.”

Silvano shares her joy, bringinginspiration to every collaborative effortthrough her skilled improvisationaltechniques and sensitive listening.

Michael Abene is an intuitive andunusually imaginative composer, arranger,keyboardist and producer whose work hasresulted in scores of awards and accolades,including several Grammy nominations forarranging and in Grammy wins for TheDuke Ellington Orchestra's Digital Duke,The GRP All-Star Big Band's All Bluesand, most recently, Patti Austin's AvantGershwin.

Judi and Michael will appear Live at theFalcon on March 19 at 7:00pm.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9Win Marlboro. Reservations for dinner arerequested: 845-236-7970.

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