Saturday, Dec. 15: Though George Frideric Handel wrote his most famous oratorio in 1741 with the intent that it be performed with “modest” instrumentation, including a harpsichord, and only a few dozen voices, Messiah’s subsequent growth in both popularity and orchestral/choral scale is a juggernaut scarcely to be resisted.
Ralph Breaks the Internet; Sinterklaas comes to Rhinebeck; Winter Walk in Hudson; Celebration of Lights in Poughkeepsie; A Christmas Carol ballet in Kingston; WoodstockLand.
Sunday, Dec. 2: He was a self-taught guitarist, fiddler, square dance caller, amateur historian and songwriter who made up tall tales about the Catskills and set them to music – among them “The Legend of Slide Mountain.”
Friday, November 30: The Party is a special night of Gothic celebration, featuring a full live set from Weeknight, deejay sets from Mon Amie and a special guest appearance by your host Amanda Palmer: singer/songwriter, Dresden Doll, playwright, filmmaker, music-business theorist and author.
Saturday, Dec. 1: The stellar picker of all things stringed relocated to Wilmington, Delaware in 2002 to open a violin shop. He got involved with saving and restoring a historic opera house that became a keystone in the revitalization of the city’s blighted downtown, started sitting in on local jam sessions and was eventually coaxed out of retirement.
Saturday, Dec. 1: Bassist and producer Scott Petito leads an all-star ensemble tribute featuring Gail Ann Dorsey, Jules Shear, Jane Scarpantoni, Adrien Reju and many more, tackling the ambitious scope of the Beatles’ classic double album.
Saturday, Dec. 1: Friends of Historic Saugerties presents “Native American Women of the Eastern Woodlands,” a talk by writer and Brooklyn College Political Science professor Sally Bermanzohn.
Wednesday, Dec. 5: The unsolved case of this most catastrophic library fire in American history became an obsession for this longtime New Yorker staff writer and best-selling author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin. ”
Thursday, Dec. 6: The yield of a unique British/Russian scholarly collaboration, The Kremlin Letters examines and makes sense of more than 600 messages exchanged between Joseph Stalin and the Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War.
All kinds of fun happening like steroids, my own addled-ness, with things like “How do I dial this number correctly, unlike the first seven times?” and resorting to asking the phone “When are you opening, Crazy Bowlz?