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JULY 2015 artsw.org/artsnews ARTSNEWS A publication of ArtsWestchester Hudson River Museum – Katonah Museum of Art – City of White Plains – Crystal Monee Hall (photo credit: Mayumi Ando) Caramoor @ KMA: The Swingaroos (photo credit: Seth Cashman) Magic Mario (photo credit: K.C. Bailey) So much to see and do in Westchester! MUSIC This issue is sponsored by: IN THEA IR IS BACK! Page A8 A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS JULY 2015 contents ThisAndThatByJL.com news in brief Page A3 Seeding a Generation highlights Page A4 of Music Lovers golf tournament photos Page A6 artsee festival Page A7 by Janet Langsam music in the air Page A8 ArtsWestchester CEO (photo credit: Cathy Pinsky) arts calendar Page A12 exhibitions Page A14 Celebrating the Westchester ARTSWESTCHESTER | 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains | 914.428.4220 Philharmonic one night, I found ArtsNews (artsw.org/artsnews), your guide to arts myself breaking bread with and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published Jamie Bernstein, daughter of by ARTSWESTCHESTER, a private, not-for-profit the late and great composer and organization established in 1965. The largest of its kind conductor Leonard Bernstein. in New York State, it serves more than 150 cultural Jamie is a narrator, writer and organizations, numerous school districts, hundreds of broadcaster, all of which reflect artists and audiences numbering more than one million. The goal of ArtsWestchester her lifetime devotion to music and her family legacy. We remi- is to ensure the availability, accessibility and diversity of the arts in Westchester. nisced about the Young People’s Froma Benerofe, Board President concerts led by Bernstein and John R. Peckham, Board Chairman the New York Philharmonic in Janet Langsam, Chief Executive Officer the Sixties and Seventies. Jamie Debbie Scates, Director, Marketing and Communications attended all of them…even Mary Alice Franklin, ArtsNews Editor and Communications Manager rollicked backstage. I told her Alison Kattleman, Designer and Calendar Editor how when I was a kid, we took the Long Island Railroad from The work of ArtsWestchester is made possible with support from Westchester the Rockaway’s to Penn Station, Leonard Bernstein (photo credit: Allan Warren) County Government. then hopped on a subway up to Robert P. Astorino, County Executive Carnegie Hall … almost an hour and a half trek to get an injection of classi- Michael Kaplowitz, Chairman, Westchester Board of Legislators cal music that my mother had made a part of our cultural regimen. Although we twisted and turned a lot in our seats, we did get a lasting appreciation of Westchester Board of Legislators music. Catherine Borgia Kenneth W. Jenkins MaryJane Shimsky Benjamin Boykin James Maisano Michael J. Smith Although to his credit Leonard Bernstein made the Young People’s concerts Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte Bernice Spreckman a household name, they officially began as far back as 1914. These were David B. Gelfarb Catherine Parker John G. Testa expanded exponentially in 1924 under the baton of Ernest Schelling. It was Peter Harckham Virginia Perez Alfreda A. Williams Bernstein, however, who grew the concerts to an audience of millions by Lyndon Williams having them televised from Lincoln Center and syndicated to 40 countries. Bernstein’s love of music, his theatrical style, his skill at translating the Thanks to our generous supporters: music into words, inspired a generation of music lovers. Remembering Joseph and Sophia Abeles Foundation, Aetna Foundation, Anchin Block & Anchin, Benerofe the Young People’s concerts made me think that the world needs another Properties, The Bristal, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, CBRE, Clarfeld Financial Bernstein and another generation of music lovers. Perhaps that’s Jamie Advisors, Con Edison, Curtis Instruments, Empire City Casino, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, The Examiner, First Niagara Foundation, Inspiria Media, Jacob Burns Foundation, JMC Consulting, Bernstein. P.C., The Journal News, The Liman Foundation, Macerich Co. Cross County Shopping Center, Macy's, MAXX Properties, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Peckham Industries, Inc., Pernod Ricard USA, Reckson, A Division of SL Green Realty, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Smart Family Foundation, VENU Magazine, Wells Fargo Foundation, Westchester Family, Westchester Magazine, Westchester Medical Center, Westfair Communications, White Plains Hospital, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman and Dicker, LLP, and WTP Advisors. RD OF L A EG Don't miss Janet's weekly blog posts at: O I B S Y L T A UNT T N CO Y O U R O S C 1683 W O . D Y E R E . S G A I Z N T N , Y C T HE N STER COU thisandthatbyjl.com Read a digital version of ArtsNews every /ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester /ArtsWestchester month: artsw.org/artsnews JULY 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS A3 news in brief New Executive Director at will present Through the Decades: Irvington Town Hall Theater Full STEAM Ahead: An Arts The Rye Arts Center Picturing 50 Years in Westchester, Commissions Second and Business Partnership an exhibition of photographs that capture Westchester’s most Season of Reading Series Continues memorable events since 1965. The Irvington Town Hall Theater will Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is in ArtsWestchester is asking for commission a second season of its the business of creative science; both professional and hobbyist “Stage Door” reading series which, ArtsWestchester is in the business photographers to submit pictures this year, will focus on works from of creative arts. Their partnership on that record memorable moments to Westchester and Rockland County the 2014 exhibition STEAM: STEM + be considered for inclusion in the residents. The organization is cur- Arts explored both the arts and sci- exhibition. The extended deadline rently calling for submissions to be ences as pathways to creativity and for submissions is July 24. For considered in the series. This season innovation. Continuing to strengthen guidelines, and to submit photos, will include three plays, beginning in this partnership, the two have joined visit: artsw.org/decades. October. Interested playwrights are forces once again: ArtsWestchester Meg Rodriguez (photo courtesy of The Rye Arts encouraged to submit works with is installing artwork in Regeneron’s Center) small casts that can be read in 90 newly built Genetic Center, which is The Rye Arts Center (RAC) has New Director Appointed minutes on stage. The chosen writers inspired by science and technology. appointed Meg Rodriguez as its new at Hudson Valley Writers will have the opportunity to cast their Work by Westchester-area artists Executive Director. Rodriguez was Center works, hear them read aloud in front will be positioned in key locations most recently Director of Outreach of an audience and get feedback in a in the lobby of the state-of-the-art and Custom Marketing Programs at Q&A after the reading. For more info, facility and will remain on exhibit BFFL, Co., but she is not new to RAC visit: www.irvingtontheater.com. until 2016. – she has served on its board for a decade, including time on its execu- tive and gallery committees and as First Niagara Supports Chair of its Membership Committee. ArtsWestchester with As a Rye resident, she is also active in her local community. Rodriguez $50K Donation Robert Cerminaro, Senior Vice succeeds Helen Gates, who an- President Market Executive nounced her retirement in February. for the Tri-State Region of First Niagara recently helped to Call for Photos Extended: celebrate ArtsWestchester’s Westchester Through the 50th anniversary with its Board President Froma Benerofe, to Decades Jewel Kinch-Thomas (photo credit: Richard Conde) whom he presented a $50,000 The Hudson Valley Writers Center contribution to support the has announced the appointment organization’s cultural programs of Jewel Kinch-Thomas as its and services. Cerminaro new Executive Director. Kinch- recently was elected to the Thomas brings to the Center ArtsWestchester board. years of experience as a nonprofit administrator. She structured and operated the Riverside Theatre at the historic Riverside Church in New Through the Decades photo: Ardsley Middle York City, acted as Interim Executive School students join Pete Seeger and his Director at Harlem Arts Alliance and grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger at the Clear- as an arts consultant and producer CLAY FUN IN THE SUN water Festival in June 2002 (photo credit: Mark Vergari/ The Journal News) for many local Westchester Half-day and full-day clay camps organizations. She says: “I am On its 50th anniversary, for ages 6-14 thrilled to be joining an organization ArtsWestchester readies itself for that nurtures writers of all levels and Sculpture, pottery and mixed the next half-century by planning backgrounds, as it brings power and to commemorate milestones and media camps inspiration of the written word to memorable moments from the past Westchester and beyond.” Drop-In family classes five decades. Partnering with The Journal News, the organization A4 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS JULY 2015 highlights Susan Manspeizer at Hammond Museum Study the Understudy at Lyndhurst The Hammond Museum All the world’s a stage and Japanese Stroll this month when the Garden presents a solo M&M Performing Arts exhibition of the work of Company, Inc. pres- Pound Ridge artist Susan ents The Understudy Manspeizer from July in the Carriage House 24 through September Theatre at Lyndhurst. 12. The colorful bent- The witty comedy wood sculptures in by Theresa Rebeck Facets center on the casts the spotlight on stages of growth and a theater production’s maturation in the lives of hidden gem: the under- women. With childhood, study. The play takes motherhood, aging and a fictional behind- loss among the stages of the-scenes look at the Cast of The Understudy (left to right): Michael Muldoon, Carly life explored in the show, Family by Susan Manspeizer (photo credit: Sal Cordaro) Broadway premiere for Jayne Lillo and Peter Lillo (photo courtesy of M&M Performing Manspeizer captures an undiscovered Kafka Arts Company, Inc.) fleeting, sorrowful and joyous moments all in perfect balance with one masterpiece.