Saturday, August 12: From the podium and in his capacity as artistic director, longtime Hudson Valley Philharmonic conductor Randall Craig Fleisher has been a highly visible bridge-builder between the Big Show wing of classical music and the world of pop – especially rock – music.
The festival runs from August 11-20, and includes 16 musical programs and discussion panels. Pieces range from solo piano to opera, and include not just the eponymous composer, but others from the 19th century.
Sometimes a book — especially a funny one — grabs you right from the get-go. That happened on page two.
Part fundraiser, part community ritual, a Yoga Mala will be held by Catskills Yoga House in Chichester on Saturday, August 12, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The intention of festival organizers is to bring awareness to the growing heroin and opiate epidemic in the Hudson Valley.
The Bell’s collection is extraordinary, culled from 40 extensive trips to over 70 nations around the globe. “We found such beauty in the things that people were making for everyday use, and how much of themselves and their culture went into such simple work.”
Friday, August 11: I have long contended that the Belew/Levin-era King Crimson of the early ‘80s into the ‘90s reenergized the prog/rock tradition and may well have saved it from its own excesses and misguided middle brow pretentions, providing an alternative, lean and funky model of what prog could be that the genre continues to invoke to this day.
Saturday, August 5: Carlos returns to the site of one of his most historic performances.
Friday, August 11: No two-hit wonder, she: Suzanne Vega has put together a long and distinguished career as an agreeably eccentric modern songwriter with a New York artsy lean and a hushed voice that commands with its quiet intensity and with the strange things it has to say.
Saturday, August 5: To say that the accomplished singer/songwriter is a local favorite is a bit redundant. Tireless in the studio as on the road, Sexton is pretty much a local favorite everywhere.