As a venue, Opus 40 is the Red Rocks of Ulster County. Good thing that, under the stewardship of the writer, artist and self-taught musicologist Tad Richards, music at Opus 40 has been brilliantly curated for decades. Catch Cirkus Luna at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 22; Makbet on Sunday, June 23.
June 21-July 14: This is a story that has resonated for decades with youngsters and grownups alike. Lucy Simon (Carly’s sister) set it to music, with a book by Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prizewinner for ‘night, Mother. The original 1991 Broadway production of The Secret Garden won three Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards.
Half-hidden in the woods, the T-shaped gallery (configured so that a portion of the space is always hidden from view) is completely illuminated by natural light.
Saturday, June 22: The upcoming exhibit in the Art Gallery of Lockwood Architecture has been curated by Moseley’s longtime friend and champion, Barbara Redfield (an original trustee of Olana). She says, “His studio is a treasure-trove. I pestered him for 20 years to take his work out. After [being involved] in the Color Field movement in the late ’60s early ’70s, he felt that the people who were really worthy were not selling, and he said, ‘That’s it’ and just dropped out of the art world. But he’s painted every single day without any connections to anyone.”
Friday, June 21: The New Paltz-headquartered original acoustic roots band In the Kitchen is the kind of earthy ensemble who might justifiably decide to make a studio album gathered around one omnidirectional microphone in a nice-sounding, woody room and cut it directly to tape.
Saturday/Sunday, June 22/23: Led by Barbara Pickhardt, the 50-voice chorus and soloists capture the brilliance of six Baroque composers.
Saturday, June 29: The imperial nature of fusion usually starts with a modern world perspective and toolset trained on something old, something remote, something weird. When they broke onto the charts, the Gipsy Kings reversed the direction of cultural conquest and appropriation, scoring a massive hit with their fiery reworking of “Hotel California” and backing it with year after year of substantive, serious music.
The 40-acre estate created by Calvert Vaux (co-designer of Central Park) includes trails adorned with specimen trees and 25 sculptures.
Tuesday, June 25: Le Bon’s work has always evinced a strange balance of absolute “new quiet” do-it-yourself Minimalism and an experimental willingness regarding sonic elements and ensemble arrangements.
Author Salman Rushdie will appear in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue at Bard College Sept. 10. He’ll discuss his forthcoming novel Quichotte, a retelling of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.