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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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