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| Some of the great performers that have appeared at the Opera House include Jay Ungar and Molly Mason(left) and Merian Soto Dance and Performance(right). | |
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Colony Artists The Millay Colony for the Arts was founded in 1973 to honor the courageous life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The Colony offers one-month residencies to writers, visual artists and composers on the property the poet called home for more than thirty years in Austerlitz, New York. Our singular goal is to create a nurturing and inspiring space outside the pressures of daily life where artists can commit themselves fully to their work. Supporting the work of artists of all ages, cultures, communities, and in all stages of their artistic careers, the Colony offers comfortable rooms, private studios and ample time to work.
Paul
Sullivan As a soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort, he has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe, as well as Croatia, Israel, Costa Rica, and Japan. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert, in Leonard Bernstein's living room, and on the stages of many of the world's finest concert halls. He has also performed with some legendary orchestras, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, the Boston Pops under both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhardt, and several regional orchestras around the US. As a jazz player he has worked in some of New York's most prestigious clubs, including Sweet Basil, The Village Vanguard, and Bradley's. He has played with a wide variety of jazz masters from Benny Goodman to Tommy Flanagan, as well as Red Mitchell, Lou Donaldson, George Mraz, Gerry Hemingway, Marc Helias, Gene Bertoncini, Luciana Sousa, Cafe, Jane Ira Bloom, Pheeroan AkLaff, Eddie Daniels, Richard Stoltzman, Nana Vasconcelos, Glen Velez and many other luminaries. His 13 CDs have sold over 300 thousand copies and have won 3 Indie Awards. He His music has been broadcast internationally, as well as on all the major American networks, including National Public Radio. He received a Grammy Award for his work on the Paul Winter Consort CD, Silver Solstice. Most recently, he just completed a three-year engagement as the Music Teacher at the Brooklin Elementary School in Brooklin, Maine. In the theater he has worked as a musical director, pianist, and conductor for many Off-Broadway and Broadway shows. He played keyboards and shared the conducting duties for the original production of the musical Nine, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical. He has also worked
extensively in the dance world, playing piano for Merce Cunningham's
classes, and writing music for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
He has also enjoyed a long friendship with the Pilobolus Dance Theater,
for whom he has written over 15 scores. In performance, he creates a
relaxed and intimate feeling with his audience through his pleasant
and quirky observations about music and life. His warm and inviting
personality, coupled with his world-class musicianship, wins over new
listeners immediately and usually makes them life-long fans.
Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor, social science studies, and interviews with other divorcés-to provide a practical and very helpful guide to surviving the pain of any break-up. Focusing on the emotions most common in the dissolution of a relationship-anger, resentment, loss, and grief-Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky shows how thinking about these feelings in surprisingly different ways can lead to a radically better experience. This compulsively readable book offers sound advice and much-needed empathy for anyone dealing with a break-up. Gabriel Cohen has written for the New York Times and Time Out New York and has taught writing at NYU. The author of three novels, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Uncle Rock draws inspiration from Maurice Sendak, The Beatles, Woody Guthrie and Shel Silverstein, taking his acoustic “rock of all ages” to clubs, libraries, bookstores, schools, and theaters. Many of the catchy, rhythmically propulsive songs were born at his day job as a teacher’s assistant for preschoolers, where he landed after four years as a stay-at-home dad. Uncle Rock delivers plenty of celebratory, goofy singalongs, but the material doesn't shy away from shadowy elements of life, often showing how music can help one to face the dragon in the closet. Uncle Rock's CDs of family music have won critical praise from The L.A. Times, The New York Times, and Cookie Magazine, to name a few. As of 2008, he has spent over a year in the Top 10 of Sirius Satellite Radio's Kids Stuff. Before being dubbed
"Uncle Rock" by his nephew, he went by his given name of Robert
Burke Warren, playing bass in many rock and roll bands, including international
garage rock titans The Fleshtones. He also spent a year portraying Buddy
Holly in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story in London's West End, and soon
thereafter released an acclaimed debut CD ...to this day, cited by The
World Cafe’s David Dye as “a gem of an album.” This
led to co-writing with Rosanne Cash on her Grammy-nominated CD Rules
Of Travel. Yet Uncle Rock is far and away the most fun he’s ever
had.
Rosary O'Neill is the author of fourteen plays produced internationally by invitation of the American embassy in Paris, Bonn, Tibilisi, Georgia, Budapest, Hungary, London and Moscow. Her play Uncle Victor was chosen Best New American Drama by the Cort Theater, Hollywood, and celebrated in the Chekhove Now Festival in New York. Blackjack was selected for Alice's Fourth Floor Best New Play Series. She was founding artistic director at Southern Rep Theater from 1987 to 2002. she has been playwright-in-residence at the Sorbonne University, Paris; Tulane University, New Orleans; Defiance College, Ohio, the University of Bonn, Germany and Visiting Scholar at Cornell.
The
DownTown Ensemble
The
Spirit of the Place His new novel, and most ambitious work yet, The Spirit of the Place, tells the story of an expatriate doctor called home to Columbia, New York, in the early 1980s to face his own history and that of the place. It is a novel of love and death, mothers and sons, ghosts and bullies, doctors and patients, illness and healing. The Spirit of the Place is Shem at his finest—compassionate, capacious, funny, full of big ideas and memorable personalities. It offers an authentic, unvarnished portrait of the medical profession and underscores the crucial link between the health of individuals and the health of communities. His novels include The House of God, Fine, and Mount Misery. He is coauthor with his wife, Janet Surrey, of the hit Off-Broadway play Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), and We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues between Women and Men.
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By BILL CUNNINGHAM/THE
NEW YORK TIMES This
event has been sponsored by Walkers
Shortbread. Shortbread samples will be available at the event. Click
for a special offer from Walkers Shortbread... Jeffrey
Banks is a Coty award-winning designer of men’s and women’s
apparel. Banks has worked with a number of Scottish fabric mills designing
tartans of his own. Published by Rizzoli,
copies of the book will be available at HOH for purchase and signing.
Directions, Etc. Gallery Hours are Monday through Saturday, Noon to 5 pm. Building tours (offered anytime during open hours), readings and all exhibitions are always free of charge. Parking can generally be found on Warren Street, or in two municipal parking lots on the 300 block. An accessible entrance and accessible parking is located off City Hall Place. If you plan to attend an HOH event and need special assistance please dont hesitate to contact us. Large print programs are available for all events. Reservation
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As a multi-arts center, the Hudson Opera House seeks to provide a wide range of cultural opportunities for our community. Performances, exhibitions, and workshops are offered in music, theater, dance, and art throughout the year. Performers, artists, and instructors come from as near as our own neighborhood, and as far as the Netherlands and China. Past live performances
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Hudson Opera House welcomes submissions from artists of all disciplines.
Exhibits have included landscape painters, abstract art, group shows,
sculpture, works from our own Life Drawing class, and historical exhibitions. Clockwise from top left, Mount Merino and South Bay by Henry Ary was included in the South Bay Exhibit, Tulips by Edwina Sandys, 1999, and Paint By Number Exhibition at HOH, featured on Martha Stewart Living with Sarah Sterling, curator, and My Swell Buena Vista by Stephanie Brody Lederman which was later featured on the cover of The Paris Review #160 |
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children's programming includes offerings for ages 2 to 18 throughout
the year. Our workshops cover art, literature, world cultures,
holiday fare, theater, music, and dance. Clockwise from top left, Phantom of the Opera House Halloween Party, Kwanzaa Crafts at the annual Kwanzaa production co-sponsored with Operation Unite, and Art Around the World Afterschool program, and Kuumba Family Dance and Drum class. |
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Storms
Can’t Hurt the Sky:
Uncle
Rock
Beckett
at Greystones Bay
Tartan:
Romancing the Plaid
