Given his reliance on the synthetic and man-made (a favorite place for scavenging materials is the Town of Rochester dump), Victor’s deep connection to nature is not immediately obvious.

Friday, Feb. 15: Farinacci has been recently credited the title Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center by Wynton Marsalis, working to further integrate jazz into communities around the world.

Thursday, Feb. 21: SUNY-New Paltz presents A Musical Refuge under the Stars: a special planetarium show featuring Music Department students performing Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel and Fratres under the direction of Department of Music professor Alex Peh, as well as improvised pieces inspired by the planetarium show.

Let us put to rest – before we even begin – all debates and squabbles regarding the rightful heirs and owners of the Woodstock Festival tradition, as its 50th anniversary approaches. Brand wars, it seems to me, are not exactly in the spirit of the original event, and in this case, both of the major festivals scheduled for that weekend in August 2019 have a compelling claim. One has the very field itself; the other has Michael Lang.

Friday, Feb. 8: Fronted by the irresistible singer/songwriter Nee Nee Rushie, the Big Takeover combines a deep reggae groove with a Motown-inspired pop sensibility and subtle and sophisticated horn-powered arrangements.

Thursday, Feb. 14: A love story for our times? Named in a factually-accurate-if-grammatically-inverted way, Me & My Ex are the legally divorced musical duo of Ginny Leitner and Rob Leitner, whose gigging life has really taken off since they got their priorities straight and bagged the whole traditional family thing.

Saturday, Feb. 9: New exhibition takes an unorthodox approach to curation. It’s “community-sourced” by local citizens instead of chosen exclusively by art experts.