Maverick’s 102nd season is filled with music for all
This year, the theme is “Americans in Paris,” seven concerts concentrating in part on the work of Ned Rorem, the American composer who turns 95 in October.
Entertainment
Trio con Brio Copenhagen at Maverick’s opening weekend
Sunday, July 1: One of the most accomplished piano trios in the world
Ed Sanders reads from his new RFK book in Kingston
Sunday, July 1: Locally, the pillar of Ed Sanders’ fame might well be his lead role in the band of rock ‘n’ roll subversives known as the Fugs, but internationally he will always be known principally as the best-selling author of The Family, the first great work on Charles Manson. Sanders is an unabashed fan of RFK and of what might have been.
World premiere of Scat!
Friday-Sunday, June 29-July 1: Lumberyard’s Under Construction Summer Festival begins with Urban Bush Women musical at Helsinki Hudson
A Woodstock parking lot becomes an art installation
Artist Jesse Lee Wilson and two assistants created The River, wheeling chalk dust over nearly an acre of parking lot in Woodstock. Wilson based his piece on a single line copied from a topographical map of Kaaterskill Falls, a site that inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painters.
Leonard Bernstein’s rarely performed Peter Pan opens Bard Summerscape
Bard SummerScape runs from June 29-August 19: Peter Smith and Erin Markey, who play Peter and Wendy respectively, are both trans performers, which should add an interesting metaphorical dimension to this beloved tale of magically extended prepubescence.
Bard plumbs the depths of “Rimsky-Korsakov and His World”
The 360-degree, cross-disciplinary nature of inquiry at SummerScape inclines the curators toward composers who lived in fractious and interesting times: more to work with, more meaning to tap. Fortunately, that includes most of them.
Free Wonder Woman screening & concert under the Walkway
Saturday, June 30: Gal Gadot is just about perfect in the title role, and Chris Pine as Steve Trevor holds up his end of the romantic angle with persuasively raffish charm.
Kids’ Almanac (6/28-7/5)
Climb the firetower at Ferncliff Forest | Family Fun Day at FDR | Young People’s Concert at Maverick | Independence Day celebrations
Local scenery stands in for dacha in The Seagull with Saoirse Ronin, Annette Bening & Elisabeth Moss
Most of The Seagull was shot at Arrow Park in Monroe. The lodge perched above the lake there, an Italianate villa with Arts and Crafts Movement touches, was built in 1909. Nowadays, more than half of the surrounding 600 undeveloped acres have become part of the permanently protected Sterling Forest preserve.