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Catskill Mountain Region MAY 2018 COMPLIMENTARY GUIDE catskillregionguide.com SPECIAL SECTION VISIT CATSKILL AN IDYLLIC VILLAGE FILLED WITH ART! May 2018 • GUIDE 1 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 33, NUMBER 5 May 2018 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami, Barbara Cobb Steve Friedman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rick Remsnyder, Heather Rolland & Jeff Senterman ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Justin McGowan & Isabel Cunha PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing Services DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation On the cover: View from Orchard Point, on the Devil’s Path Trail near Hunter. Photo by Heather Rolland EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: May 10 The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year 4 THE ARTS by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you would like to have covered, please send them by e-mail to tafts@ 6 VISIT CATSKILL: An Idyllic Village Filled with Art! catskillmtn.org. Please be sure to furnish a contact name and in- clude your address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information on all correspondence. For editorial and photo submission guidelines CATSKILL MOUNTAINS & CREEKS, send a request via e-mail to [email protected]. 10 The liability of the publisher for any error for which it may be ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS & LAKES: held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for Paintings & Drawings by Robert Selkowitz errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. 12 EXPLORE THE POWER OF THE PAST The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly AT HANFORD MILLS MUSEUM to www.catskillregionguide.com 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are distributed each month. It is distributed free of charge at the 16 POETRY Curated by Robert Tomlinson Plattekill, Sloatsburg and New Baltimore rest stops on the New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. 18 COLDWELL BANKER Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain TIMBERLAND PROPERTIES CONTINUES GROWTH Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without 20 WILTWYCK GOLF CLUB: written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- Play the Hudson Valley’s Favorite Championship graphic rights reside with the photographer. Golf Course, Now Open to the Public By Rick Remsnyder 22 WILDERNESS FIRST AID AND SAFE HIKING IN THE CATSKILLS By Heather Rolland THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 7971 MAIN STREET, P.O. BOX 924 26 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS By Jeff Senterman HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 • FAX: 518 263 2025 WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG 31 MAY AT THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION May 2018 • GUIDE 3 THE ARTS THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION SUMMER PERFORMANCE SERIES KICKS OFF IN MAY The Catskill Mountain Foundation summer performing arts season kicks off Memorial Day weekend, with two classical music concerts and the Academy of Fortepiano Performance, a week-long workshop with masterclasses, lectures, and performances. Richard Kolb Secret Music With Richard Kolb and The Labyrinth Baroque Ensemble Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 8:00 pm Doctorow Center for the Arts • 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter Tickets Purchased Ahead: $25; $20 seniors; $7 students • At the Door: $30; $25 seniors; $7 students At the court of Ferrara in the 1580s, Duke Alfonso II sponsored a regular series of chamber music concerts performed for an exclusive audience, including his inner circle of courtiers and very special guests. The Laby- rinth Baroque Ensemble, directed by Richard Kolb, will re-create one of these “Secret Music” concerts, featur- ing rarely heard works for three sopranos by Luzzaschi, Rossi, and Strozzi, and 3-violin sonatas by Fontana and Castello, with a richly varied continuo section of theorbo, archlute, harpsichord, and violone. Romance and Glamour: A 19th-Century Piano Soirée Academy of Fortepiano Performance Faculty Concert, featuring guest artist Pierre Goy and faculty members Audrey Axinn, Cynthia Roberts, Maria Rose, and Yiheng Yang Sunday, May 27, 2018 @ 8:00 pm Doctorow Center for the Arts • 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter Tickets Purchased Ahead: $25; $20 seniors; $7 students Pierre Goy At the Door: $30; $25 seniors; $7 students This concert will feature different pianos, from a late-18th century Viennese piano to French and English pianos from the Romantic era. Works by Frederic Chopin will be performed by Pierre Goy, a specialist in 19th-century performance practice, invoking the inti- macy of the Paris salon of Chopin’s time. Also included are works by Mozart, Hélène de Montgeroult and Fanny Mendelssohn. The concert opens a week-long workshop with masterclasses, lectures, and performances on piano performance practice. Pierre Goy has become known as one of the most versatile and thoughtful performers on historical instruments. He is equally at home playing Romantic virtuoso repertoire as 18th-century music for the harpsichord and clavichord. Audrey Axinn is a faculty member at The Juilliard School and The Mannes School of Music. She has played solo and collaborative recitals and taught master classes throughout North America and Europe. Cynthia Roberts is one of America’s leading baroque violinists. She is a faculty member of the Juilliard School and the University of North Texas and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. Maria Rose is a specialist in historical pianos, both as a musicologist and performer. She has performed throughout Europe and North America, and holds a PhD in Musicology from New York University. Yi-heng Yang is a dynamic and versatile collaborator and soloist on modern and historical keyboards. Ms. Yang holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School, where she is on the piano faculty of the Pre-College and Evening Divisions. Academy of Fortepiano Performance Lectures All lectures, except where noted, are $10 general, $7 students when purchased in advance; $12/$7 at the door. “Rubato, Element of Musical Discourse” with Pierre Goy Monday, May 28, 2018 Originating in Italian aria singing in the 17th century, rubato is an essential technique for the interpretation of vocally-inspired piano music in the 18th and 19th centuries. This lecture will discuss the history and application of rubato on period pianos. “Applying Violin Bowing Expression on the Clavichord” with Masayuki Maki—FREE! Tuesday, May 29, 2018 This lecture-workshop will explore how keyboardists can execute and express group of notes (figures) by applying violin bowing patterns. 4 • www.catskillregionguide.com What If Lecture and Masterclass with Malcolm Bilson your ad were here? Wednesday, May 30, 2018 A pioneer in the period of instrument Your Potential movement, Malcolm Bilson has been a key contributor to the restoration of Customers the fortepiano to the concert stage. He would be seeing it! recently received the James Smithson Bi- centennial Medal at the Smithsonian In- stitution as a pioneer in the performance Get the scoop of period instruments and chamber music in general. on advertising. “Viennese Fortepianos: Call 518-263-2072 Keeping Up with Technical Needs” with Richard Hester Thursday, May 31, 2018 This is a practical workshop on under- standing and taking care of Viennese fortepianos, and also addresses the need to include the use of one’s listening ear in the process of tuning and regulating an instrument. The significant factors of durability of materials and humidity will also be discussed. “Character and Topic as Avenues to Interpreting Classic and Early Romantic Music” with Raymond Erickson Friday, June 1, 2018 Raymond Erickson is an internation- ally recognized scholar and keyboard performer and is one of America’s most experienced teachers of historical perfor- mance practices. Masterclass with Andrew Willis Sunday, June 3, 2018 A professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, An- drew Willis is committed to the study, performance, and teaching of the widest possible range of keyboard repertoire on historically appropriate instruments. Please visit www.catskillmtn.org or call 518 263 2063 for times and locations for lectures, and to purchase tickets for all events. May 2018 • GUIDE 5 VISIT CATSKILL An Idyllic Village Filled with Art! Photo by Robert Tomlinson n many ways, the idyllic village of Catskill, New York is a Greene County Council on the Arts I quintessential upstate New York town: quaint shops and res- 398 Main Street, Catskill taurants, a deep and rich history, and, of course, those gorgeous 518 943 3400 • www.greenearts.org Catskill Mountain and Hudson River views. Catskill has also County-wide not-for-profit arts service and programming orga- been a home for artists of all different kinds for many decades.