MAY 2013 ARTSWNEWS www.artsw.org/artswnews ARTSW Photo by Roy Volkmann ArtsBash Cuisine Co-Chair John Crabtree, Crabtree's Kittle House Photo by Elena Pardo Elisa Monte Dance Company, Emelin Theater Lila Downs, Performing Arts Center at Purchase College So much to see and do in Westchester GE SERVICE REQUESTED an CH This issue is sponsored by ® the art of custom storage Also inside... Family ArtsBash, A12 ArtsWestchester 31 Mamaroneck Avenue Fl3 White Plains, NY 10601-3328 A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS MAY 2013 contents thisandthatbyjl.com news in brief Page A3 may highlights Page A5 IN DEFENSE OF artsbash Page A9 "HANGING OUT" calendar Page A13 exhibitions Page A18 I never ran the Boston Marathon, but when I moved there years ago to lead the Boston Center for the Arts, I went to every one of them. ArtsWNews (www.artsw.org/artswnews), your guide to Marathon Mondays, First Nights on New Years Eve and the concerts on the arts and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published by Commons. These events (and the Red Sox) were the Boston way of life. So ARTSWESTCHESTER, a private, not-for-profit organization when the news of the bombing came last week, I, like many others saw it established in 1965. The largest of its kind in New York not just as a tragedy, but as an assault on our way of life. Those of us who State, it serves more than 150 cultural organizations, work in the arts and recreation understand and appreciate "gathering" as a 43 school districts, hundreds of artists, and audiences human need. While sports and arts may provide a rationale for a festival, numbering more than one million. Our goal is to ensure outdoor concert, sports meet or street fair, the "getting together," the the availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts in "hanging out," and the socialization is the public benefit of these occasions. Westchester. Our current exhibition is about "placemaking," which is the trend for cities Janet Langsam, Chief Executive Officer and towns to use the arts and entertainment to make places more liveable, Salina Le Bris, Director of Communications more inviting, more conducive to blending life, work and play in one Mary Alice Franklin, ArtsWNews Editor location. According to the NEA, “creative placemaking” is when public, Clare Maker, Designer private, not-for-profit, and community sectors partner to strategically LisaMarie Desanto, Contributor shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, tribe, city, Alison Kattleman, News in Brief and Calendar Editor or region around arts and cultural activities. For more information about ArtsWestchester, please call 914.428.4220. This phenomenon has reclaimed many a city since the suburbanization of the 60s. A concerted effort on the part of downtown planners has given Our work is made possible with support from Westchester County Government. a whole new future to cities like Pittsburgh and San Antonio, which have Robert P. Astorino, County Executive created cultural districts offering an abundance of cultural venues and Kenneth W. Jenkins, Chair, Westchester County Board of Legislators activities. These are, in other words, places for people to gather. What I wonder about is whether the bombings in Boston can potentially put Westchester County Board of Legislators “creative placemaking” at risk. Are we as a society prepared to protect Catherine Borgia James Maisano MaryJane Shimsky and preserve “gathering”? Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte Michael J. Smith I began to think about all the trips I haven't taken since 9/11 and the sheer David B. Gelfarb Judith A. Myers Bernice Spreckman unpleasantness and exhaustion of airport security. What if more and more Peter Harckham Virginia Perez John G. Testa of the places we want to go require the same screening as in an airport? Michael Kaplowitz William J. Ryan Alfreda A. Williams As it is now, we open our bags and backpacks at museums and theaters. Lyndon Williams Why not at festivals and fairs? Will the hassle so outweigh the fun that we Thanks to our generous sponsors: won't want to go to a jazz fest or a crafts fair? And what does freedom in A&A Maintenance, Anchin Block & Anchin, Benerofe Properties, Clarfeld Financial Advisors, America mean if our choices become so narrow that we all have only the Con Edison, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, First Niagara, Gabelli Foundation, IBM, Jacob Burns freedom to stay home? I am prepared to stand up for "hanging out" until no Foundation, John Meyer Consulting PC, Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation, Journal News, one joins me. I, for one, will keep on planning cultural events until no one JP Morgan Chase, Key Bank, The Liman Foundation, Macy's, Macerich Cross County Shopping shows up. Center, MAXX Properties, Morgan Stanley, Nordstrom, Peckham Industries, Inc., Pepe Auto Group, PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard, 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 MAY 2013 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSWNEWS A3 news in brief Judith Schwartz through form, texture, familiar and Black Marble Duo at America’s first nuclear warheads. The Recognized by New York unfamiliar objects, and figurative and Downtown Music at Grace production renews Axial’s commitment abstract images to create a symphonic to producing new works that promote University gallery of colors. The show is on view a dialogue about serious and important now through September 16. For more issues. “We hope it will create an info, visit: www.uhgc.org. awareness of a real life environmental threat, thousands of miles away, for an Westchester Symphonic audience that lives in the shadow of Winds Celebrates 25th Indian Point,” said Meyer. The produc- Anniversary tion previews May 2, opens May 4, and runs through May 19. For tickets and Noonday Getaway Concert, 5/15 more info, visit: www.axialtheatre.org. The husband and wife team that make Siobhan McBride Wins the Black Marble Duo, violinists Jörg- Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Alexander Rutsch Award Marmer, join Downtown Music at Grace’s noonday concert series on May 15. Co-Directors of the internationally ArtsWestchester board member Judith acclaimed baroque ensemble, REBEL, Schwartz was recognized by New York Schwarz and Marmer play rare and vir- University (NYU) President John Sexton tuosic pieces, aiming to explore seldom for her more than 25 years of dedi- performed repertoires on instruments cated service at NYU, where she is a and bows appropriate to their respec- Professor of Art and Art Education and tive periods. The duo has performed also serves as head of the university’s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Sculpture: Craft Media Area. Award-winning Music Director Curt Ebersole the Kendal-on-Hudson Concert Series and in Midtown Concerts in New York Formed by two New Rochelle High Bufflehead and Coots, by Siobhan McBride The Visual Symphony City. Their Downtown Music perfor- School students with the help of their Art Exhibition at United mance will feature works by Mozart, former band director, James D. Wayne, Pelham Art Center has announced art- Emanuelle Barbella, Jean-Marie Leclair, Hebrew’s Lazarus Gallery the Westchester Symphonic Winds ist Siobhan McBride as the winner of Clair-Nicolas Roget, William Shield, and (WSW) is now celebrating its 25th the 2013 Alexander Rutsch Award and Georg Philipp Telemann. The concert anniversary with 60 wind and percus- Solo Exhibition for Painting. Selected begins at 12:10pm at Grace Church in sion players. The WSW will perform its from more than 650 applicants and White Plains. For more info, visit: www. gala concert at Tarrytown Music Hall on nine finalists, McBride will receive a dtmusic.org. Saturday, May 18, under the leadership solo exhibition among her prizes. The exhibition will be on view at the Pelham of their award-winning Music Director Axial Theatre Presents Curt Ebersole. Art Center, May 3–June 2. The art- Howard Meyer’s Radiance ist describes the scenes she paints Dr. Mallory Thompson, Director of Bands as, “descriptions of awkward experi- Blue Light Jazz by Michael Patterson at Northwestern University, and Dr. ences, passages from books and film Thomas McCauley, Director of Bands fragments, things caught in the corner Like an orchestra that combines a vari- at Montclair State University, will join of my eye, and an attempt to conjure ety of instruments, an array of media WSW as special guest conductors. slippery memories.” Collaged images come together through a common theme Selections include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in paint give the scenes she depicts a in The Visual Symphony, an art exhibi- in Blue and the stirring Finale, from surreal essence. McBride is the seventh tion inspired by music and movement Symphony No. 1 by Viasili Kalinnikov. winner of the biannual Rutsch Award, currently on view at The Lazarus Gallery For more info, visit: www.tarrytownmu- which honors the memory of Alexander of United Hebrew of New Rochelle. sichall.org. The cast of Radiance Rutsch (1916-1997), an artist and active Guest curated by Robin Zane with supporter of the Pelham Art Center for This month, Axial Theatre will present Lazarus Gallery Curator Jodi Moise, more than 25 years. For more info, visit: the premiere performance of Radiance, the show features over 25 artists from www.PelhamArtCenter.org.