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Film: The Little Mermaid
(Rated PG, 2 hour, 15 minutes)
Friday, May 26 through Sunday, June 11
Friday Shows @ 7:00pm
Saturday Shows @ 4:00 & 7:00pm
Sunday Shows @ 4:00 & 7:00pm
Theater 1, Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.
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Film: Monica
(Rated R, 1 hour, 46 minutes)
Friday, June 9 through Sunday, June 18
Friday Shows @ 7:15pm
Saturday Shows @ 4:15 & 7:15pm
Sunday Shows @ 4:15 & 7:15pm
Theater 2, Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption. | Buy Tickets |
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Film: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(Rated PG, 2 hours, 20 minutes)
Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 18
Saturday Shows @ 4:30 & 7:30pm
Sunday Shows @ 4:30 & 7:30pm
Theater 3, Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero. | Buy Tickets |
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Labyrinth Baroque Ensemble: "Resistance is but Vain: Staging Charms and Perplexities of Love in Songs from Late 17th Century London Plays”
CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, June 17, 2023
@ 8:00pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
The Labyrinth Baroque Ensemble, founded in 2015 by director, lutenist and scholar Richard Kolb, performs music by Purcell, Eccles, and contemporaries, in a program created by Artistic Director Richard Kolb with staging by mezzosoprano Tracy Cowart.
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"Embraceable Gershwin"
Dr. Joanne Polk, piano
Dr. Jeffrey Langford, lecture
CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, June 24, 2023
@ 2:00pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
What is your favorite Gershwin song?
Embraceable You?
Fascinatin' Rhythm?
Someone to Watch Over Me?
The Man I Love?
Somebody Loves Me?
The great pianist Earl Wild transcribed all these alluring Gershwin tunes into virtuosic etudes and variations--all fun, passionate pieces for solo piano. Would there be anything sweeter than a Saturday matinee with pianist Joanne Polk performing these arrangements of Gershwin's songs while Jeffrey Langford walks us through the life and times of the composer?
You might even want to sing along.
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OMNY Taiko Drummers: Japanese Traditional Drumming
WORLD MUSIC
Sunday, July 2, 2023
@ 6:30pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
After a hiatus due to the pandemic, OMNY Taiko Drummers returns to the mountaintop to again present their eagerly anticipated performance at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY. OMNY Taiko’s mission is to foster a culture of community and support through the art of Japanese taiko drumming to impact and connect our global society. The sound of the taiko drum is as pure and as fundamental as the heartbeat and has the power to connect ourselves with those around us and with the universe at large. As such, we seek to develop our abilities as taiko players—rhythm, movement, teamwork, and spirit—and to promote taiko drumming through performances in the New York area and beyond.
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Bernie Williams Collective
2023 ANNUAL BENEFIT
Friday, July 7, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
Kick off the 2023 Benefit Weekend with a concert by the Bernie Williams Collective. Bernie Williams is a renowned jazz guitarist and former Yankee baseball star.
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Cécile McLorin-Salvant
JAZZ MUSIC
Saturday, July 8, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as“a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings”.
Salvant will be performing with her Quintet at the Orpheum Theater in Tannersville as part of the July weekend celebration of the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s 25th Anniversary. Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, theater, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor.
Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love, and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album WomanChild. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Nonesuch Records released Ghost Song in March 2022. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at 5, sang in a children’s choir at 8, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager.
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Dancers from New York City Ballet perform A Tribute to Jacques d'Amboise
DANCE
A PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM WITH WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM
Sunday, July 9, 2023
@ 2:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
At the young age of 15, Jacques d’Amboise joined New York City Ballet. As Balanchine’s protégé, Mr. d’Amboise had more works choreographed specifically for him by the Ballet Master than any other dancer. Mr. d’Amboise is most remembered for his portrayal of what critics called “the definitive Apollo.” While still a principal dancer, Jacques d’Amboise founded National Dance Institute (NDI) in 1976 in the belief that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate young people to strive for excellence Mr. d’Amboise traveled all over the world to promote dance education and his unique philosophy of teaching the magic of dance—from the extremes of Yakutsk, Siberia, to rainforests on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. NDI, has been in residence at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center for many summers teaching local children the joy of creative movement. This tribute to Jacques on Sunday, July 9 is performed by superb dancers from the New York City Ballet and will include signature works danced by Jacques d’Amboise in the past. Join the audience to celebrate the life of this extraordinary dancer and choreographer whose educational program contributes each summer to the lives of so many young people in our community.
“The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings’ greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.”
—Jacques d’Amboise
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
MAUDE ADAMS THEATER HUB
Thursday & Friday,
July 13-14, 2023
@ 7:00pm
Saturday, July 15, 2023
@ 2:00 & 7:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-paced, wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable experience.
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
A riotous ride, complete with audience participation, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a delightful den of comedic genius. It is a fast-paced crowd pleaser and an instant theatre patron favorite.
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National Dance Institute 2023 Mountaintop Residency Performance: Celebrating Dr. Maya Angelou
DANCE
Saturday, July 22, 2023
@ 7:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
National Dance Institute returns to the Catskill Region this summer to conduct a two-week dance intensive for local children. The residency will culminate in a joyful performance featuring local students, with special guest dancers from NDI's Celebration Team in New York City. Colorful banners created over the many years of our collaboration will provide a backdrop for the performance. This is a high energy event that draws large crowds every year!
This year, National Dance Institute honors the groundbreaking poet, activist, and scholar Dr. Maya Angelou.
“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
—Maya Angelou
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American String Quartet
CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
HUNTER INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Saturday, July 29, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
“…luxurious, beautifully sculpted performances”
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. For the upcoming season at the Doctorow Center, the Quartet will perform Schubert's String Quartet in A minor, D.804, Bartok's String Quartet No. 3, and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135.
The Quartet celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2019, and, in its years of touring, has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most important concert halls worldwide. The group’s presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim, and their MusicMasters Complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched quartet set of instruments by Stradivarius, are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire.
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Hunter International Music Festival Faculty Concert
CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
HUNTER INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Friday, August 4, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
Co-founders of the Hunter International Music Festival, pianist Ruiqi Fang and cellist Julian Langford, have poured tremendous talent and passion into this two week music intensive in the mountains of the Catskills, attracting superb teaching artists as well as students to perform and learn in this summer intensive.
"Decidedly personal," "intelligent playing," and "versatile." These are just a few examples of how critics have glowingly described pianist Ruiqi Fang’s solo recital at the Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís in Havana, Cuba. The recital “will be long remembered; a woman with unquestionable sensitivity, whom has performed works of Baroque and Impressionism with absolute thoroughness.” Ruiqi Fang is currently on the faculty of Long Island Conservatory and is a visiting lecturer at the Central Conservatory of Music Distance Learning Program.
In 2008, Julian was a winner of National Public Radio’s From the Top, and performed on the From the Top radio program. In the same year, Julian performed the Schubert Two Cello Quintet with cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, and was invited to be a guest artist with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center at Damrosch Park In the summer of 2018, Julian was invited to participate in a China tour sponsored by the online video platform Discover Melody. In May of 2019, Julian received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Colin Carr at Stony Brook University.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
DANCE
ORPHEUM DANCE PROGRAM
THREE SHOWS
Friday, August 11, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Saturday, August 12, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Sunday, August 13, 2023
@ 2:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
The magic continues this summer with CMF’s spectacular production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which premiered during the summer of 2019. This unique production, conceived by former Metropolitan Opera ballerina Victoria Rinaldi, transports the audience to an enchanted wood to witness what hilarity unfolds, when fairies meddle with the love lives of mortals. All ends well with a triple wedding and gala ballet. Dancers from the country’s most elite dance programs join with students of CMF’s Orpheum Dance Program and don gossamer fairy wings in this midsummer comedic ballet. Actors, under the direction of theater artist Zach Gibson, provide comedic scenes and narration from Shakespeare’s play. The acting melds beautifully with the charming choreography by Margo Sappington and Victoria Rinaldi, and the Mendelssohn score is sumptuous, creating an evening that is a perfect combination of spoken word and dance.
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Common Ground on the Mountain: Professor Louie & the Crowmatix, Greg Dayton and Walt Michael & Company
BLUES, POP & FOLK MUSIC
Saturday, August 19, 2023
@ 8:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
Professor Louie & The Crowmatix repertoire is steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, blues, Gospel and American Roots music and features a compelling collection of original and traditional tunes.
“…a tasty mix of rhythm and blues and rock & roll. Americana at its best”
—Village Voice
Greg Dayton is a singer/songwriter with influences spanning electric and acoustic blues, funk, and rock. His special guest is the soulful vocalist, Towera Smith (New Zealand/ East Africa), former backup singer and session vocalist with the Australian rock group, Silverchair.
Walt Michael’s various incarnations, including Bottle Hill, Michael, McCreesh & Campbell and Walt Michael & Co. have spanned 40 years and taken him from the coal camps of Appalachia to the White House to the Closing Ceremonies of the 13th Olympic Winter Games.
Considered to be a virtuoso of tremendous influence in the revival of the hammered dulcimer, Walt’s wide repertoire ranges from old-time Southern Appalachian, to Celtic, to breathtaking original compositions.
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Hope Boykin Dance:
"...a STATE of love"
DANCE
A PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM WITH THE JOYCE THEATER
Saturday, September 16, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
This new production, with the working title “… a STATE of love." is a staged moment, centering on an extremely transparent excavation where the words and scripted text, serve as blueprint and balm. A complex mixture of movement and sound score, Hope Boykin, personalizes the arduous work of digging, self discovery, and reshaping a personal narrative; artists and performers move and speak as vocal bodies of this specific and particular state of love—on the brink of becoming, in every sense of the word, hope.
Hope Boykin was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, Hope was a three-time recipient of the American Dance Festival’s Young Tuition Scholarship. She attended Howard University in Washington, DC., when she felt a call to move to New York City to study at The Ailey School. Hope joined The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2000, where she continues to perform her duties as a dancer as well as her work as an educator, mentor, speaker, and choreographer.
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Olivier Tarpaga Dance:
"Once the dust settles, flowers bloom"
DANCE
A PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM WITH THE JOYCE THEATER
Saturday, September 23, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
"Once the dust settles, flowers bloom" is an original evening-length contemporary dance theater and live music work exploring conflicts between feminism and jihadism in Burkina Faso and the Sahel region, specifically the fragility of women's autonomy in the face of invasive religious extremism. This work looks beyond the horror and tragedy by channeling the strength and beauty of this displaced population.
Olivier Tarpaga is a dancer, choreographer, musician, composer, songwriter, performing arts consultant and storyteller originally from Burkina Faso. Tarpaga is the founder and artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Dafra Drum (traditional Manding music) since 1995 and Dafra Kura Band (Contemporary African acoustic music) since 2011 and a co-founder of Burkina Faso’s internationally acclaimed “Compagnie Ta.
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No Strings Marionette Company
"The Hobbit"
FAMILY PERFORMANCES
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
@ 3:45pm
Thursday, October 19, 2023
@ 3:45pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
Bilbo Baggins is a Hobbit who wants to be left alone in quiet comfort in his home in The Shire. But the Wizard Gandalf comes along with a band of Dwarves and draws Bilbo into their quest. Based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, in No Strings Marionette Company's adaptation of this stirring adventure fantasy, puppeteers adeptly animate marionettes, life-size body puppets and amazing puppet hybrids.
Puppeteers Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson have toured America together for over sixteen years. Their traveling stage transforms any space into an intimate theater, where the seamless blend of movement, music and masterful manipulation captivates young and old alike.
With puppeteers in full view, the audience sees how the puppets are brought to life. These Vermont artisans lovingly hand craft the marionettes, props and scenery, whether for an original tale or an adaptation of a classic. Shows begin with an interactive song featuring audience members, and finish with demonstrations sparked by the audiences' curious questions.
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Apollo's Fire:
The Road to Dublin
CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, October 21, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
“Superlative music-making...combining European stylishness and American can-do entrepreneurialism.”
—The Daily Telegraph
(Best 5 Classical Concerts of the Year)
Baroque Orchestra with
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Amanda Powell, soprano
Amanda Crider, mezzo-soprano
Dublin – the ancient city of pubs, pints, and castles. Wandering bards and musicians have traveled the road to Dublin for centuries. In this new program from Jeannette Sorrell, haunting ballads and legends give way to driving reels, as Celtic fiddlers set sparks flying. Irish singer Fiona Gillespie joins the merry instrumentalists on fiddles, flute, cello, hammered dulcimer, plucked instruments, and harpsichord.
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Once Upon a Time
Darcy Dunn, mezzo-soprano
Julia Mendelsohn, pianist
Mark Singer, baritone
JAZZ MUSIC
Saturday, November 11, 2023
@ 8:00pm
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
Once upon a time, a musical trio called The Funny Valentines took the stage in the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Red Barn for the CMF’s first ever musical performance. That night The Valentines' imaginative mix of Broadway standards, cabaret chestnuts and masterpieces from opera and classical song thrilled its Mountaintop audience, and in the years to come they returned to the CMF stage to packed houses and standing ovations. This November marks the 25th anniversary of that premiere performance, and The Valentines - Darcy Dunn, Julia Mendelsohn and Mark Singer – are back with a program of musical favorites both old and new. Once Upon a Time. Don’t miss it. Some things only improve with age.
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Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra
Robert Manno,
Music Director & Conductor
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, November 25, 2023
@ 7:30pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
This Thanksgiving, the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Manno, returns with a holiday program featuring acclaimed piano soloist Simone Dinnerstein.
The evening’s program includes:
Bach: E Major Concerto BWV1053
Bach: F Major Concerto BWV1057
Handel: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Copland: Quiet City
Bach: Orchestral Suite #3
Since 2000 the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of composer/conductor Robert Manno has earned accolades and national attention through the many broadcasts of its live performances from the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Catskill Mountain Foundation over American Public Media’s Performance Today.
Simone Dinnerstein has a distinctive musical voice. The Washington Post has called her “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity.” She first came to wider public attention in 2007 through her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, reflecting an aesthetic that was both deeply rooted in the score and profoundly idiosyncratic. She is, wrote The New York Times, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.”
Robert Manno is Co-Director of the Windham Chamber Music Festival, an award-winning composer, and an acclaimed conductor whose many performances from the Windham Festival and the Catskill Mountain Foundation have been featured nationally on “Performance Today.” The Atlanta Audio Society has described him as “a composer of serious music of considerable depth and spiritual beauty.”
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The Nutcracker
DANCE
ORPHEUM DANCE PROGRAM
SIX SHOWS
Saturday, December 2, 2023
@ 2:00 & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 3, 2023
@ 2:00pm
Saturday, December 9, 2023
@ 2:00 & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 10, 2023
@ 2:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
The Catskill Mountain Foundation, in cooperation with former Metropolitan Opera ballerina Victoria Rinaldi and choreographer Margo Sappington, presents the world’s favorite ballet, The Nutcracker, a holiday favorite of residents of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley. The CMF Nutcracker, now in its eighth year, has become a holiday favorite of residents of the surrounding Catskills and Hudson Valley. Featuring ballet stars of the future, this spectacular production has become one of the finest Nutcrackers in upstate New York.
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The Hot Sardines: "Holiday Stomp"
JAZZ MUSIC
Saturday, December 16, 2023
@ 8:00pm
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
“Not many bands have seized the postmillennial early-jazz spotlight with as much gusto as The Hot Sardines.”
– Nate Chinen WBGO
“These are times that need live music. And I don’t know of anything that brings people together like the joy of hearing traditional jazz live,” says Elizabeth Bougerol, co-leader of The Hot Sardines, with pianist and bandleader, Evan Palazzo. These mischief-makers of hot jazz have been described as “potent and assured” (The New York Times) and “simply phenomenal” (The Times, London). “Everything in our DNA is about connecting with the audience. That’s where we feel most at home,” says Elizabeth, of playing live with the eight-piece band (including one wildly percussive tap dancer). The Sardines have gone from speakeasies and underground parties in Brooklyn, to festival crowds of 25,000 and a TV debut on Later… with Jools Holland. “That’s where jazz lives,” adds Evan. “In the playing, in sharing that experience, in coming together to create a moment that won’t happen again.”
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