Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library I I OverlAPRIL MAY JUNeE 2013 VOLaUME 48, NUMf BER 4 What’s Inside ÌF OVERLEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT SPECIAL AUTHOR VISIT Computer Classes Page 5 Events & Performances Pages 2-3 Randy Cohen Films Page 7 Be Good: How to Navigate the For Teens Page 5 H-W PL Readers Page 6 Ethics of Everything Lectures & Courses Pages 3 -5 former NY Times, The Ethicist Long Island Reads Page 3 News @ HWPL Page 6 columnist & comedy writer I Sunday, April 21, 2:30 pm HEWLETT-WOODMERE PUBLIC Randy Cohen is a writer, humorist, and also LIBRARY ANNUAL LIBRARY the first ethicist , between 1999-2011, of VOTE AND ELECTION The Ethicist column in The New York Times Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Magazine. He is the author of several books, a playwright, and the host of the public radio 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. show, Person Place Thing. Randy Cohen can also be heard answering listeners’ The Boehm Meeting Room questions on ethics for NPR news program All Things Considered . Mr. Cohen was a PROPOSITION 1: writer on Late Night with David Letterman for 950 episodes, from 1984 through Proposed 2013/2014 Library Budget 2012. He shared in three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for his PROPOSITION 2: work on the show. Perhaps his biggest contribution was the invention of Election of Library Trustee Letterman’s famous feature, the “ Top Ten List”. Mr. Cohen will discuss, among other topics, his latest book, Be Good: How to QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING Navigate the Ethics of Everything. Prepare yourself for a very entertaining after - Registration is required only if a resi - noon! dent has not voted in a Hewlett- District residents and Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Thursday, April 4, 10 am Woodmere Union Free School District & 7 pm. or Library referendum within the last 4 years or in a general referendum EDYTHE BRENNER within the last 4 years. In order to be eligible to register, you must be a MEMORIAL CONCERT U.S. citizen, 18 years of age or older Karkowska Sisters Duo by Tuesday, April 9, 2013 and you must have been a legal resident of Anna Karkowska, Violin the H-W UFSD for at least 30 days Katarzyna Karkowska, prior to the referendum. Registration Piano for voting takes place Tuesday, April 2, I 2013, 1 pm – 9 pm in the Library. Sunday, April 28, 2:30 pm For further information, please Karkowska Sisters Duo is an award telephone Library Director, Susan de winning, internationally acclaimed Sciora at 516-374-1967. duo that in addition to a recital and chamber music repertoire perform vituoso programs, full of fun and beautiful BOARD OF TRUSTEES music. Anna, violinist and Kasha, concert pianist graduated from The Juilliard Benjamin A. Eilbott, President School of Music and Chopin Academy (Warsaw, Poland),have recorded for Polish Shari H. Braverman, Vice President David A. Adler National, Mexican and American Television and Radio (including PBS) and per - Donald A. Davidson formed to rave reviews from prestigious venues such as : Carnegie Hall, Gusman Frank Zaret, Treasurer Center for Performing Arts (Miami, Florida), National Grand Theater (Warsaw, Susan O. de S ciora, Director Poland) and National Center for the Arts (Mexico City, Mexico) to name a few. Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs District residents may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, April 17, 10 am & 7 pm. FIND US ON THE WEB AT: www.hwpl.org SPECIAL EVENTS & PERFORMANCES NEW TALENT/NEW IDEAS FEELIN’ GROOVY Where Concert Going Begins! Music of the 60s and 70s - The Other American Songbook LaVell Thompson, Jr, Tenor Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library I Sunday, April 7, 2:30 pm LaVell Thompson is a winner of the Rave On! Leontyne Price Competition and won The music of first place in the 2008 National Buddy Holly, Association of Teachers of Singing com - Roy Orbison, and petition. Mr. Thompson has performed Other Legends of leading roles in musicals such as A Early Rock-n-Roll! Little Night Music and featured in I Thursday, April 11, operas such as Barber’s A Hand of the 7:30 pm Bridge. He has also been a featured This timeless music soloist on the concert stage in Handel’s will get you rocking! Messiah, Handel’s Ode to St. Cecilia, District residents & Friends Mozart’s Requiem , and many more. of the Library may pick up He is currently pursuing his Master of tickets beginning Tuesday, Music degree at the Manhattan School April 2, 10 am & 7 pm. of Music, studying with Prof. Neil Rosenshein. Erin Hill and Her Tickets may be picked up beginning Wednesday, March 27, 10 am & 7 pm. Psychedelic Harp With guest vocalist, Steve Williams, pedal steel guitar I Thursday, May 9, 7:30 pm Actress, multi-instrumentalist, harpist, and The Pretty White Girl on the Dave Chappell Show, Erin Hill and her trio will delight you with an eclectic variety of music- Celtic songs , Feelin’ Groovy mor - phing into Bruce Springsteen, and Manfred Mann, and to classics like Skylark, Dolly Parton’s Love is like a Butterfly and much more! District residents & Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, April 24, 10 am & 7 pm. Amber Yiu-Hsuan Liao, I, Me, Mine Piano Music of George Harrison With Tom Cavanagh and his Band I Sunday, May 19, 2:30 pm I Thursday, June 6, 7:30 pm Pianist Amber Yiu-Hsuan Liao has A special evening celebrating the music of George given recitals and solo performances Harrison with Tom Cavanagh (Johnny Cash Show) and throughout the United States and his 7-piece band. Taiwan. Recent engagements include District residents & Friends of the Library may pick up tickets recitals at the Bruno Walter Auditorium beginning Wednesday, May 22, 10 am & 7 pm. at Lincoln Center in NYC, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She is currently on the faculty of the Horne School of Music at Snow College as Director of Piano/Theory. UNITED CHORAL SOCIETY Tickets may be picked up beginning I Sunday, June 9, 2 pm Wednesday, May 8, 10 am & 7 pm. The chorus returns with a spring concert of beautiful music and beautiful voices. These programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the Tickets may be picked up beginning Wednesday, May 29, 10 am & 7 pm. New York State Council on the Arts. In Nassau and Suffolk Counties the Long island Decentralization Grants for the Arts Program is administered by The Huntington Arts. Council, Inc. ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 2 MORE SPECIAL EVENTS LONG ISLAND READS 2013 5 TOWNS INDIAN Tax Forum: ASSOCIATION Superstorm Sandy: New Sutton by Children’s Day Deadlines for Exemptions J.R. I Sunday, April 14, 2 pm and Assessment Challenges Moehringer The choice for A wonderful afternoon of celebra - With Donald X. Clavin, Long Island Reads tion! Dance! Music! Plays! Beautiful Receiver of Taxes is Sutton by J.R. costumes! Performed and conceived by I Tuesday, April 16, 1 pm Moehringer. Sutton the children and their teachers to cele - In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, is the story of brate India’s rich cultural heritage. the County has extended the deadline Brooklyn born No tickets required. this year only, to file for Exemptions Willie Sutton, who and Challenging your Assessment. The ÌF both broke into HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ deadline for Exemptions is now April 1, banks and broke out of prisons,with presents 2013 instead of January 2, 2013. equal ease, during the Great Depression. Jazz: A New Generation The deadline for Challenging your The FBI put Willie “the Actor” Sutton on featuring Benny Benack III, Assessment is now May 1, 2013 instead its first-ever Most Wanted List. He never trumpet & vocals; of March 1, 2013. Mr. Clavin will also fired a shot; his victims were only, to Jonathan Russell, violin; explain tax exemptions and payment him, the ‘blood thirsty’ banks. The Dylan Meek, piano; options, and more. public rooted shamelessly for Willie, Ravlo Markowitz, bass; even after he was finally caught in Mark Whitfield, Jr, drums 1952. Mr. Moehringer was born in New I Thursday, April 25, 7:30 pm GREAT DECISIONS York City and raised by a single mother Jazz: A New Generation features a ÌF Foreign Policy in Manhasset, NY. He graduated from band of the brightest young stars on Association Yale in 1986. He began his journalism today’s jazz scene who are already career as a news assistant at The New “veteran” players at a young age, led With Prof. Stanislao G. Pugliese, York Times . He is also the author of the by winner of International Jazz Hofstra University memoir The Tender Bar and Open , I Trumpet Competition, Benny Benack. Wednesdays about and written with Andre Agassi. District residents & Friends of the Library may at 7:30 pm pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, April 10, 10 am & 7pm. Stanislao G. Pugliese is professor “Willie, the World, of history and the Queensboro UNICO and the Law”- Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra A Radio Drama University. He is a former research Adapted from SUTTON, and fellow at Columbia University, the Directed by David Houston United States Holocaust Memorial Mr. Houston as Narrator, Museum in Washington, D.C. Oxford Actor Ray Gobes as the University, and Harvard University. Voice of Willie I The topics that will be covered Thursday April 18, 1 pm are the following: In the reading style of radio drama, Piano, Bass & Dreams • April 24 Myanmar & Southeast Asia Actors Houston and Gobes tell the provocative, engrossing, delightful tale With Susan Winter, vocals, • May 8 Intervention Tedd Firth, & Tom Hubbard, bass of America’s most accomplished and • May 29 Iran admired bank robber.