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Creative Music Studio releases 3 CD set from its archive
David Izenson, rarely recorded outside his role as bass player for Ornette Coleman, and Ismet Siral, known as the “Turkish Coltrane,” are among the musicians appearing on the about-to-be-released...
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Artist Couples of Woodstock at Historical Society
Eva van Rijn (photo by Dion Ogust) The Historical Society of Woodstock will open its 2014 season 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 18 at its lower Comeau Drive location in Woodstock (directly across from the...
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Books: Creek, Spaces, Clouds
Three books, three different takes on the shape of literature these days. And, as should always be the case with things cultural and/or cultured, they provide a whole host of glimpses into the ways...
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Lowell Miller’s double life
(Photo by Dion Ogust) As a local I was long ago acquainted with a) struggling artists, b) cottage industry artists, c) weekend artists, and d) “the ruination of Woodstock” as represented by families...
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Woodstock Playhouse repertory back for summer season
Above, Rehearsal for Spamalot. Below, Randy Conti gives direction. (photos by Dion Ogust) It’s been two days since these 19 theater enthusiasts have gathered at the New York Conservatory for the Arts...
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Hochman opens the Maverick’s 99th year
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Benjamin Hochman (photo by Juergen Frank) Benjamin Hochman became a musician almost by chance. As a five-year-old, growing up in Jerusalem, he had a caregiver in the afternoon who...
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Songs of life
Colette Ruoff (photo by Dion Ogust) Imagine you’re living in a nursing home or hospice, and a singer-songwriter comes to you and asks you who you really are. Together, over time, you write a song about...
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Feasts for the ears
Vladimir Feltsman Pianist Benjamin Hochman made an impressive impact on his first landing in our area. Saturday evening, June 28, he performed the three Brahms Violin Sonatas with his wife, Jennifer...
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Calvin Grimm solo show at WAAM opens July 19
Clearing out the Stories by Calvin Grimm. If you don’t love something, you won’t be moved to do something about it, in relation to personal relationships and the world around you…I’m an artist, and...
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Phoenicia Festival of the Voice returns
At the 2013 Festival of the Voice. (photo by Dion Ogust) The logistics are daunting. In the five days from July 30 to August 3, roughly 5000 people are expected to flow through the hamlet of Phoenicia...
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5000 attend Festival of the Voice’s fifth year
Maria Todaro in The Barber of Seville. (photo by Violet Snow) At opening night of the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, before flamenco musicians and dancers took the stage, Assemblyman...
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PAW celebrates on its 50th anniversary
Edie LeFever (photo by Dion Ogust) In 1963, two young women, Edie LeFever and Eda Crist, noticed that theater productions in Woodstock always involved professionals playing the leads. They decided to...
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Grimm, Bisson get Pollock-Krasner awards
Calvin Grimm (photo by Dion Ogust) A few weeks back it was the abstract painter Calvin Grimm who was all smiles. Yes, his solo show at the Woodstock Arts Association & Museum was going well and...
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A time to laugh: Woodstock Comedy Fest’s second year
Colin Quinn The Hudson Valley abounds in festivals, on topics as widespread as film, writers, vocal music, guitar music, folk music, luthiers, sheep and wool, arts and crafts, short plays, Shakespeare,...
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Marshall Baer – The Legacy of an Artist
Sculpture by Marshall Baer. Marshall Baer, who knew by the age of six he was an artist, died at age 84 in December 2011. From April to July 2011, though his body was breaking down in many ways and his...
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Woodstock Airwaves tested by Birds of A Feather
Randi Steele (photo by Felicia Kacsik) Did you hear that? If you thought you heard new voices in the air on September 11 it may have been a Low Power FM radio station preparing to start full-time...
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15th Film Fest lineup fires the imagination
(Photo by Dion Ogust) The 15th Woodstock Film Festival announced its full line-up of films for its 15th annual outing last week; already quite a few hot ticket film screenings, panel discussions and...
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Local films fill Woodstock Film Festival
Shooting The Sisterhood of Night in Kingston. It’s never easy to discern how a film festival film’s going to play, especially from what one reads in a catalogue. Take a flick like the new WildLike,...
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Bach on the streets
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Hearing musicians outdoors in Woodstock is not a surprise. But it was a big surprise —startling, actually — to walk out of CVS on a Sunday afternoon and see someone playing...
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WAAM offers Georges Malkine retrospective
Aux Iles Sanguinaires (The Sanguinaires Islands), 1966, Oil on canvas, Private collection The heat is unusual for April. Past a lake, briskly, all is flat but the curved backdrop of low mountains. The...
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