Feltsman’s dream realized
July 10-28: Now tuition-free, PianoSummer brings top emerging pianists from all over the world to SUNY-New Paltz. This year the Flier Competition carries a new first prize: a solo debut recital at Carnegie Hall.
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Sail to Bannerman’s Island, fly at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, and travel back in time at Stone House Day in Hurley.
Josh Radner’s Sacred Valley at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater
Friday-Sunday, July 7-9: Television star’s bittersweet comedy deals with the ramifications of a mushroom trip gone awry.
Pride & Prejudice & pratfalls
July-August: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival spins up a giddy Jane Austen classic. Amazingly, deliciously, it all works; but purists should consider themselves forewarned.
Sawyer Motors Car Show in Saugerties
Sunday, July 9: Expect more than 500 antique, hot rod and classic cars lining the village streets in all their gleaming glory.
Taiko drumming in the Widow Jane Mine
Sunday, July 9: Bring a folding chair and a light jacket, sweater or sweatshirt, even if it’s a 95-degree day up top, it will be refreshingly cool in the cave.
Bard Spiegeltent hosts John Waters, Sandra Bernhard
Friday-Saturday, July 7-8: You can see a pair of cultural icons on consecutive nights in the surreal environment of the traveling Weimar performance tent.
Dan Tepfer to play in Windham
Saturday, July 8: Tepfer alternates between performances of Bach’s famous variations (at one time the quarry of Glenn Gould and a few others with the technical facility to handle them) and modern improvisations on Bach’s themes by a truly liberated improvisor.
Steely Dan tribute this Saturday at the Falcon
Saturday, July 8: The visionary novelist and cyberpunk William Gibson famously wrote, “I have always maintained that Steely Dan’s music was, has been and remains among the most genuinely subversive oeuvres in late-20th-century pop.”
Ellenville’s Shadowland stages premiere run of The Jag
Through July 16: After opening the summer season with Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, Shadowland Stages in Ellenville now offer the New York premiere of The Jag, written years ago by Gino DiIorio but held up for practical reasons until now. Shadowland’s Brendan Burke explains that the acquisition of an actual Jaguar (the car, not the cat) was imperative to the production. There’s just no way this play could be done without the genuine article onstage.