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APRIL 2013 ARTSWNEWS www.artsw.org/artswnews Irvington Town Hall Res Molly Photo by CaravagliaTom Photo credit: Opus 3 Artists Performing Arts Center at Purchase College Gossamer Gallants Westchester Philharmonic Jacob Burns Film Center Cho Liang Lin Yossi So much to see and do in Westchester E REQUESTED C GE SERVI an H C Our LIVE Spring This issue is Season Continues in sponsored by LIVE@ April with Jazz And ARTSWESTCHESTER Folk Arts concerts ArtsWestchester 31 Mamaroneck Avenue Fl3 White Plains, NY 10601-3328 A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS APRIL 2013 contents thisandthatbyjl.com news in brief Page A3 film in westchester Page A6 LITERACY GONE VISUAL april highlights Page A7 calendar Page A10 exhibitions Page A15 As a child, I remember being so inconsolable watching the wicked queen poison Snow White, that I actually ran out of the movie theater. Steve ArtsWNews (www.artsw.org/artswnews), your guide to Apkon would no doubt say: "It was the power of the image." Apkon, arts and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published by Founder of the Jacob Burns Film Center, explores visual literacy in his ARTSWESTCHESTER, a private, not-for-profit organization book, The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens. In established in 1965. The largest of its kind in New York State, Apkon's view, mere words, sounds or signals are less pungent as com- it serves more than 150 cultural organizations, 43 school pared to images that have a more direct, immediate, intimate and fluid districts, hundreds of artists, and audiences numbering path to the brain. There, images can be received, processed, appropriated, more than one million. Our goal is to ensure the availability, reformulated and expressed. It's all in the mirror neurons. Populated as accessibility, and diversity of the arts in Westchester. we are with images, or as Apkon calls them – visual stories – in our total environment, we listen, absorb, download, replay and express ourselves Janet Langsam, Chief Executive Officer differently than we did in a pre-technological era. With new tools of com- Salina Le Bris, Director of Communications munication available to everyone, we all have the access to record, edit and distribute our own visual stories. Apkon’s book is a call to “embrace Mary Alice Franklin, ArtsWNews Editor technology and use it as a doorway to greater enrichment.” As a regular Vanessa Reitz & Clare Maker, Designers user of electronic devices, I tend to agree. LisaMarie Desanto, Contributor Alison Kattleman, News in Brief Editor, Calendar Editor Today, everyone is a producer/director and the world is a stage. What we see on the screen is real in Tahrir Square, Aleppo, Damascus, and Gaza. For more information about ArtsWestchester, please call 914.428.4220. True, it is easier for everyone to be part of the conversation. But, can we process millions of unmediated images Our work is made possible with support from Westchester County Government. without blurring those we wish to Robert P. Astorino, County Executive retain? With a camera in every hand, Kenneth W. Jenkins, Chair, Westchester County Board of Legislators will we become numb and number? Or will we learn to be more discerning? Westchester County Board of Legislators Will our visual literacy change the way Catherine Borgia James Maisano MaryJane Shimsky we celebrate Holy Week? Will we retell Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte Michael J. Smith the story of Passover online or at vir- David B. Gelfarb Judith A. Myers Bernice Spreckman tual seders? And, if we could turn back the hands of time, would YouTube vid- Peter Harckham Virginia Perez John G. Testa eos have changed the outcome of the Michael Kaplowitz William J. Ryan Alfreda A. Williams Easter story? I’m just thinking. Lyndon Williams Thanks to our generous sponsors: A&A Maintenance, Anchin Block & Anchin, Benerofe Properties, Con Edison, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, First Niagara, IBM, Jacob Burns Foundation, John Meyer Consulting PC, Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation, Journal News, JP Morgan Chase, Key Bank, The Liman Foundation, Macy's, The Margaret Cargill Foundation, MAXX Properties, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, New York Power Authority, Nordstrom, Peckham Industries, Inc., Pepe Auto Group, PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard, Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., Reckson, A Division of SL Green Realty, Ronald McDonald House Charities, RPW Group, Swiss Re, TD Charitable Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Westchester Community Foundation, Westchester Magazine, White Plains Hospital. Don't miss Janet's weekly blog posts at D OF L AR EG O I B S Y L T A UNT T N CO Y O U R O S C 1683 W O . D Y R . E G E S A I Z N www.thisandthatbyjl.com T N , Y C T HE N STER COU Read a digital version of ArtsWNews every month: /ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester /ArtsWestchester www.artsw.org/artsnews APRIL 2013 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS A3 news in brief Rye Art Center Promotes which is based in Garrison, NY, was Broadway Star Christine American String Quartet “Nature’s Art” one of three groups that answered Andreas to Perform Comes to Westchester an RFP from Peekskill seeking a new operator for the landmark theater. Red House founder Kurt Heitmann has stated that his team plans to hold live music events at the Paramount on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as partner with local businesses to hold indoor and outdoor festivals, movie nights, camps for children, and high Nature and art come together at the definition simulcasts from events all Rye Arts Center on April 20, in an over the world to help keep the the- exquisite exhibit entitled Nature’s ater’s doors open year-round. If all American String Quartet (Photo by Peter Schaaf) Art: Geodes from the private collec- goes according to plan, the theater tion of Robert R. Wiener curated by will reopen this summer. The Westchester Chamber Music Dr. Gail Harrison Roman. Geodes Society's (WCMS) season finale are colorful crystalline structures Multi-Grammy Winner presents the American String Quartet that form inside a hollow rock. This Paquito D’Rivera Comes to Christine Andreas on April 21 at 4pm at Congregation exhibition, on view through May 24, Emanu-El of Westchester. The quar- is inspired by the natural beauty, Westchester tet in residence at the Manhattan prismatic color, and environmental Christine Andreas is a Westchester School of Music, as well as the Aspen context of these extraordinary pieces. “Fair Lady" having appeared in Music Festival, the Westchester Years ago, artists made their own many Broadway revivals,w includ- Chamber Music Society will per- pigments from soil and geodes, as ing My Fair Lady, On Your Toes and form works by Haydn, Dvorak and can be found in paintings by da Vinci, Oklahoma. As a sought-after sopra- Beethoven. Following the concert, a Michelangelo, Raphael, and Vermeer, no and Tony-awardee, she will be reception will be held to meet the art- among countless others. bringing her newly arranged cabaret show Bemused to a Westchester ists. Dr. Caroline Bauman, President The exhibition will also present paint- Community College soiree on April of The Westchester Chamber Music ings and sculptures that help visitors 17 at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill in Society, is the winner of a 2013 Arts reflect on and learn about how nature her. “To-be-mused”, she says, “is Award for her contribution to the and art interact. It is evident that the magical spark that ignites when arts in Westchester. For more info: nature has not only inspired, but has just the right singer and just the www.americanstringquartet.com. also encouraged the creation of art Paquito Rivera right songwriter(s) collide,” as when for centuries past. For more info, visit: Judy Garland and Harold Arlen www.ryeartscenter.org. The Westchester Jazz Orchestra sparked together in Get Happy, and (WJO) joins forces with eleven-time when Frank Sinatra, Sammy Kahn Red House Entertainment Grammy winner Paquito D’Rivera to Operate Paramount and when Edith Piaf and Marguerite for an April 27 concert of Afro- Mommot became the first female Cuban and South American jazz, songwriting team in France, col- including three newly commissioned laborating on such memorables as arrangements. A native of Cuba, La Vie En Rose. With Kenny Ascher D’Rivera is an extraordinary at the piano and Dick Sarpola on clarinetist, saxophonist and bass, Andreas will sing the songs composer. He won his first Grammy she loves to sing, especially those award in 1996, was named an “bemused” ones that amaze, Paramount Theater NEA Jazz Master in 2005, and has astound, surprise and ignite. It’s received numerous additional awards Peekskill officials have authorized all about chemistry. For more info, Tuesday, April 2, marks the release of White acting City Manager Brian Havranek and honors. This highly anticipated contact Patrick Hennessey, 914- Plains native Matt Markey’s film Ricky (PG-13), to begin negotiations with Red House performance – the final concert of 606-6716. inspired by Rocky, to “Video On Demand,” Entertainment to lease and manage WJO’s 10th season – will take place “Video on Demand Holmes Blockbuster,” and the city-owned Paramount Theater, at Tarrytown Music Hall at 8pm. For “Family Video.” This award-winning comedy was written and produced by Markey, who also which closed in October after failure more info, visit: westjazzorch.org. plays the title character. Netflix, Redbox and to meet fundraising goals. Red House, other releases to follow. sww APRIL 2013 A4 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS APRIL 2013 artsw briefs Hurricane Sandy: Through the Lens of Local Photographers The entire tri-state area felt Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. photographer at 15 years of age. The Journal News/LoHud.