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Catskill Mountain Region February 2012 GUIDEwww.catskillregionguide.com WEDDING ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2 February 2012 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami Steve Friedman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jeff Senterman, Carol and David White ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Toni Perretti Laureen Priputen PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing On the cover: “After the Storm,” photo by Robert J. Near DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation 2 THE ARTS EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: February 6 8 DESTINATION WEDDINGS AT THE EMERSON The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. 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The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- graphic rights reside with the photographer. 16 BITTEN BY JACK FROST THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN By Carol and David White FOUNDATION 7970 MAIN STREET P.O. BOX 924 HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 19 FEBRUARY AT THE FAX: 518 263 2025 WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION February 2012 • guide 1 The ArTs The samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Opens Two New exhibitions on February 10 On Friday, February 10, from 5 to 7 pm, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions: The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Pan- zera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci and Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist. The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci features 65 drawings based on Leonardo da Vinci’s notes and drawings on the human figure contained in Leonardo’s original notebooks. Panzera’s drawings and related information sheets illustrate selected entries from Leonardo’s theories on the relative proportions of the head, torso, whole body, leg and foot, and arm and hand. These draw- ings exemplify the humanistic orientation and intellectual concerns of Leonardo da Vinci. The Leonardo Series is the product of Panzera’s 30-year study of Leonardo’s work as well as a lifetime spent teaching and drawing from the human figure. The exhibition is on display through April 15. Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist offers a retrospective view of the 70-year ca- reer of Eugene Ludins, a Woodstock painter of realist and fantastical landscapes, provocative “Family Portrait,” by Eugene Ludins. political allegories, and insightful portraits. Beginning with his residency at the Maverick 1934, oil on canvas. colony in Woodstock in 1929 until the time of his death in 1996, Ludins was a leading member of the Hudson Valley arts community. This exhibition’s sixty paintings, thirty-five drawings, twenty sketchbooks, archival photographs and memorabilia, and two works by Ludins’s wife, sculptor Hannah Small, animate the life of an artist who was an American original and also emblematic of his time. The exhibition will be on view from February 11 to July 15. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art is located on the campus of SUNY New Paltz. For more information, visit www.newpaltz.edu/mu- seum, or call 845 257 3844. 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com Live Nation and the Bardavon Present Brian regan at the Ulster Performing Arts Center Live Nation and the Bardavon are pleased to pres- ent comic Brian Regan on Sunday, February 12 at 7 pm at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston. Critics and peers agree that Brian Regan has distinguished himself as one of the premier comedians in the country. The perfect balance of sophisticated writing and physicality, Brian’s non- stop theater tour has visited more than 80 cities each year since 2005 and continues through 2012. In March 2010, Brian broke the record for the most consecutive shows by a comedian at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City with five sold-out performances. Jerry Seinfeld held the previous record of four show, which he set in 2005. With his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995, Brian solidified his place on the show and has now made more than 20 appearances. A dorm-room favorite, his 1997 CD, Brian Regan Live, has sold over 150,000 copies and consistently charts in iTunes Top Ten Comedy Albums. His 2000 Comedy Central Presents special continues to be a top viewer choice. And his inde- pendently released 2004 DVD, I Walked on the Moon, is available at www.BrianRegan.com. All seats for Brian Regan at UPAC are $38.50, and are on sale now at the Bardavon Box Office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie (845 473 2072); at the UPAC Box Office, 601 Broadway, Kingston (845 339 6088); or through Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com, 800 745 3000. February 2012 • guide 3 Left: Steven Zynszajn; Right: Maxim Pakhomov saugerties Pro Musica Presents a Duo Violin and Piano Concert this February On Sunday, February 26, at 3 pm Sau- gerties Pro Musica is thrilled to present Steven Zynszajn, violin, and Maxim Pakhomov, piano, in a classical music program to include works by Mozart, Grieg, Szymanovski and Sarasate. These are two world-class musicians at the height of their careers. It promises to be a great concert! Steven Zynszajn has received high praise for his expressive musicianship and beautiful sound on the violin. Described in American Record Guide as “a virtuoso” possessing “nearly infallible intonation and highly refined musicianship,” this award-winning chamber musician and orchestra soloist will be performing works from his classical repertoire. Maxim Pakhomov, as an award-win- ning piano virtuoso, is a founding mem- ber of the Bronx Chamber Players, and the principal pianist of the Bronx Opera Company. He has performed throughout Europe, Great Britain and Russia with numerous orchestras. The next concert is in the series will take place on March 18, with the Direc- tor of the Count Basie Orchestra, Dennis Mackrel, presenting his jazz percussion with special guests. All concerts take place at the Saugerties United Methodist Church on the corner of Washington Avenue and Post Street. Admis- sion is $12 for adults, seniors $10. Students are always FREE. For more information please call 845 679 5733 or 845 246 5021 or visit www.saugertiespromusica.org. 4 • www.catskillregionguide.com Food Glorious Food: Four Films About Food at the roxbury Arts Center On Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 7:00 pm, the Roxbury Arts Group invites the public to attend a screening of Like Water for Choco- late, the first in a series of films about food. Each screening will be followed by a selection of deliciously appropriate culinary treats served during a panel discussion with actress, director, and farmer, Dorothy Lyman. The final film in the series, Big Night, will be preceded by a family-style, Italian, fundraising dinner hosted by Cassie’s Café in Roxbury. Like Water for Chocolate (Saturday, February 4 at 7pm) takes place in a forgotten Mexico. The central characters, Tita and Pedro, fall in love, but are forbidden to marry. Pedro marries Tita’s sister instead, and now Tita must cook and live in the same house with her former lover. Mexican treats will be served by Mi Lupita, Fleischmanns, NY. (105 minutes, rated R, subtitled) Ratatouille (Saturday February 25 at 3 pm) star, Remy, is a young rat in the French countryside who travels to Paris to meet his cooking idol. Culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy’s family’s skepticism and the rat-hating world of humans. French themed ‘Box of Treats’ will be prepared by Bonnie Walker. (111 minutes, rated G) Please note that there will be no panel discussion following this film. Chocolat (Saturday, March 10 at 7 pm) is the story of a woman and her daughter who open a chocolate shop in a small French vil- lage that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.