Paul Cohen, a collector of rare saxophones, will bring some of his collection to the Christmas concert at Arlington High School for a “show-and-tell,” including some unusual examples that Brellochs describes as looking “like they’re right out of a Dr. Seuss book.” Cohen’s collection is so good, he adds, “When the Metropolitan Museum of Art had a special exhibit on the saxophone a few years ago, they borrowed instruments from him.”
When composer George Frideric Handel debuted this oratorio in 1742, the reception was modest. But in the years the followed, it grew into one of the best-loved and most-performed choral works in Western music.
According to the tradition that has evolved, any musician can play in a TubaChristmas concert as long as he or she plays an instrument in the tuba family. It’s a sort of collective catharsis of the simmering frustration of always being the poor stepchildren of the orchestra’s wind section
Woodstock Tradition has it that the Winter Solstice won’t happen unless Happy Traum and his Friends get together to perform a concert celebrating its arrival.
About this time each year, singer/songwriter Tom Pacheco designates a local appearance as a “Peace Concert…”
Everett Bradley of the E Street Band brings his funkified holiday classics to Hudson
Nellie McKay, with special guest Timothy Dark, performs at the Towne Crier Café in Beacon on Friday, December 9 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30. The Towne Crier is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon. For tickets and additional information, visit www.townecrier.com.
Includes: Nellie McKay at Town Crier, Holidelic at Helsinki Hudson, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams play Bearsville, New Paltz candlelight concert on Huguenot Street, Guitar Junior Johnson plays Beacon’s Towne Crier, Listen to Bridge Music all winter at Marlboro’s Falcon.
The New Paltz artist’s oversized garments evoke memories of childhood, when you were small and adults were tall.
Julia Santos Solomon looks back — with paint and gold leaf — at her Dominican Republic childhood. “You see the world from those eyes – where you’re from,” says the Woodstock artist whose work has been collected by the Smithsonian.