Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to perform at Bard
Saturday, July 29: This ensemble comprises 15 of the finest jazz players today.
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Blondie & Garbage play Bethel Woods
Saturday, July 29: They call it the Rage and Rapture Tour, and it is sure to pack the big shed.
Kingston arts celebration puts spotlight on Midtown
Less than three years after Kingston’s Midtown Arts District initiative was launched in October 2014, the City’s Broadway corridor is pulsing with new energy.
Peter Wetzler, the MAD maestro
Thursday, August 3: The composer prepares for Kingston’s Celebration of the Arts concert, which will take place in a large tent called the Collective, on the site formerly occupied by the Kings Inn motel.
As a river city with a strong arts presence, Kingston could be ideal home port for orchestra boat
A private collector has made an offer on Louis Kahn’s Point Counterpoint II, but the owner turned him down, wanting to keep the boat in the public domain, where it can continue its mission of exposing youth in cities and towns along the nation’s navigable waterways to classical music. An upcoming concert in Kingston is the perfect vehicle showcasing Kingston’s commitment to do just that.
Piano’s promise: Russian wunderkind to perform at PianoSummer in New Paltz
Saturday, July 22: Vladimir Feltsman met Ilya Rashkovskiy two years ago at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and is lavish in his praise for the young Russian, whom he considers among the most promising pianists of his generation.
Bash the Trash concert & workshop at Widow Jane Mine
Sunday, July 23: This benefit for the Snyder Estate’s Century House features the ensemble Bash the Trash, the members of which will show the audience how to make musical instruments out of trash.
Ronnie Spector & the Ronettes play the Bardavon
Friday, July 21: Embraced by hipsters as much as by oldsters, the girl-pop of the ’50 and ’60s represented a high point both in pop fun and in savvy writing and top-shelf arrangement.
Rod Stewart & Cyndi Lauper perform together at Bethel Woods
Friday, July 21: Legends from different places and different times collide when the British superstar teams up with the great American pop eccentric.
“Six Strings, Six Stories” in Tannersville church
Sunday, July 23: In a kind of musical history lesson, jazz guitarist Alex Wintz traces the lineage and progression of the art of the jazz guitar by focusing on the work of six pivotal innovators (nine, actually, as Wintz gets a little clever with his math). Wintz will examine legends Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, the “Big Three” of the modern jazz guitar (Metheny, Scofield and Frisell) and, in a curious inclusion, the Brazilian nylon-string jazz guitarist and singer Toninho Horta.