This spot was used briefly in Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest: the bit where the train comes to a halt for an unscheduled stop and the Feds get on. It’s thought that the facility could possibly reopen as an active passenger station, if the idea of extending Metro-North’s Hudson Line commuter rail service farther north is ever realized.
Holiday “Sparkle!” at Boscobel, Tuba Christmas at SUNY-Ulster, Hanukkah Carnival in Kingston, Nativity display in Hyde Park, Create Your Own Ornament at Gardiner’s Sunflower Art Studios, Puppet People perform A Christmas Carol in Rhinebeck, Mindful Play Shop at Kingston’s Center for Creative Education, Candlelight tours of Mount Gulian in Beacon and more.
The Saugerties Farmers Market moves inside for a holiday market on Saturday, Dec. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Senior Center. Santa will be on hand for photo opps and to pass out sweet and healthy treats.
Director/writer Kenneth Lonergan has a fine ear for gritty working-class dialogue.
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…”
Our weekly roundup of family activities, including a printmaking fellowship, plenty of holiday festivities, origami and more.