The sudden passing at age 84 on Thanksgiving Day of Pauline Oliveros, an internationally known and celebrated electronic music composer and performer who resided in a rambling Victorian house in Kingston’s Rondout neighborhood with her long-time partner and collaborator Ione, shocked the many people who knew and loved her, locally and around the globe.
Matt Pond PA in Kingston, Joey Alexander in Hudson, Miki Orihara with Senri Oe in Tivoli, Ars Choralis in Kingston, Woodstock, Foodstock at the Chance, America plays Bardavon, bossa nova in Kingston, Rock ’n’ Roll Flea Market in Kingston, Darol Anger holiday concert in Hudson, Tuba Christmas, Irish Christmas in Beacon, Joan Osborne in Hudson
Tsontakis, who lives in a home overlooking the Ashokan Reservoir, won the two biggest prizes in classical music composing: the Grawemeyer Award and the Charles Ives Living Award. Three of his concertos will soon come out on a recording by Naxos, the world’s best-selling classical label.
Pauline Oliveros died in her home in Kingston on Thanksgiving Day, at the age of 84. If many of the big names of musical experimentalism preferred a contentious, noisy, heterogenous and randomized sound, most of Oliveros’ best-known work embodies the other approach: meditative, dwelling, concordant and, in its own earthy way, lush. She was every bit as revolutionary as Cage in her efforts to strip serious music of its elitism, its many centuries of accumulated manners and expressive devices and its deeply ingrained gender inequality.
A call for participation in an April event has been attracting diverse local talents
Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market in Hudson, Unison Art, Craft & Design Fair in New Paltz, and two in Poughkeepsie: the Craft Fair at Dutchess Community College and Hudson Valley Art Market at Locust Grove
The owner describes the (P)optimism Shoppe as a “pop-up experiment: part gallery, part studio and part laboratory.”
The Golden Notebook presents Whispering Pines: The Band, Woodstock, and the 40th Anniversary of the Last Waltz, an event celebrating the Hudson Valley’s most famous musical sons.
Supporting the brand-new, overtly jazzy outing Day Breaks, Norah Jones makes a trip upstate to perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston on Monday, November 28 at 8 p.m.
The Brothers are still touring in support of their poignant and elegiac 2016 release “Life in the Dark.” A concise collection of surreal Americana, the record finds the band assured and in complete command of their idiom, waltzing, swinging, boogieing and stumbling with the lyrical grace of some serious road dogs. The Catskills’ leading musical export of the last decade will be accompanied by singer/songwriter Wyndham at Grossman’s venerable barn theater.