Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library I I OverlJULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER e2014 VOLUaME 50, NUMf BER 1 NEWS@HWPL Database Access from HWPL JobNow: Online Career Assistance Career Planning-Resume Assistance-Interview Preparation-Adult Learning Center JobNow helps navigate online job boards. Submit resumes to JobNow and receive expert analysis within 24 hours. Also live Interview Coaching and live online tutoring test preparation, writ - ing assistance,and other services designed to help adults acquire critical and marketable academic skills. Available remotely. Lynda.com: Lynda.com offers easy to follow video tutorials to help you learn soft - ware, business, creative skills, and Ì more. There are currently 2,422 video F STUART FISHMAN MEMORIAL CONCERT courses with expert teachers. Courses Sabor! Music of Spain to Latin America & Beyond are for all levels covering technical skills, creative techniques and business Alexander Wu & the ZigZag Quartet strategies. With Carolina Jaurena and Diego Blanco, flamenco/ballroom dancers I Available in the library only. Sunday, September 21, 1:30 & 4 pm Zinio: The World’s Largest This unique ensemble, with Alexander Wu (piano), Francisco Roldan (guitar), Newsstand Hilliard Greene (double bass), and Danny Mallon (percussion), zigzags through coun - Zinio is a distribution service for dig - tries, time periods, dance styles and musical genres; from flamenco to jazz, to ital magazines from a wide range of works written just for them, with originality, fine musicianship, a mix of solos, publishers. This database is available duos, and trios that showcases the artistry of each instrumentalist. The ZigZag through our website on your home Quartet made its Lincoln Center debut in the new David Rubenstein Atrium in computer or in the library. December 2009, receiving accolades for its attractive acoustic blend, versatility, and visually entertaining performance. They were also engaged to perform a series NoveList® Plus of six concerts with dancers as part of the “Meet the Artists” series of Lincoln The secret to finding great books Center’s public school educational outreach program. NoveList Plus is the premiere data - District residents and Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, base of reading recommendations, September 10, 10 am & 7pm. Only one ticket per library card and Friend’s membership card. available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books including What’s Inside expert recommendations, reviews, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OVER LEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT articles, lists, and more. Benjamin A. Eilbott, President Events & Performances Page 2 Mángo Languages Shari H. Braverman, Vice President Films Page 6 Remote access and free mobile apps David A. Adler Great Books Page 5 means that patrons can learn a Donald A. Davidson H-W PL Readers Page 7 Frank Zaret, Treasurer language at the library, at home, or on Lectures & Courses Pages 3 -5 their next adventure across the world. William Ferro, Director Special Author Visits Page 4 There are over 50 languages to choose Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs Teens Page 5 from. SPECIAL EVENTS & PERFORMANCES The Evolution of the Piano A LITTLE SUMMER NIGHT With Mark Valenti, MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD pianist and educator Chairs are provided. In case of inclement weather, we move indoors. I Thursday, July 24, 7 pm All evenings begin at 7 pm. No tickets Tonight’s performance will give an required. overview of the evolution of piano Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library styles from the elegant gracefulness of Classicism to the passionate lyricism of Romanticism, onto the atmospheric Impressionism of Debussy, concluding with the rhythmic percussiveness of Modernism. Plaza Theatrical Productions, Inc. Why Oh Why Can’t I? The Music of Judy Garland I Monday, July 28 & Tuesday, July 29, 7:30 pm Mark Valenti The music of the incomparable Judy Garland has entertained thousands of people over the years. A few of the Mark Valenti has performed all over songs to be performed will be Let Me Europe and for former First Lady LI Harmonizers Call You Sweetheart, By the Light of Barbara Bush in Washington, DC. He the Silvery Moon, For Me & My Gal, Nassau-Mid Island Chapter has also done extensive work in the The Trolley Song, and, of course, I Jazz field including performances with Thursday, July 10, 7 pm Somewhere Over the Rainbow! Heavenly voices come together in Gregory Hines, Frank Foster, and Al District residents and Friends of the Library Grey. He has appeared on television pick up tickets beginning Tuesday, July 15, 4-part harmony for an evening of song. with Joe Sudler’s Swing Machine. A 10 am & 7 pm. former Professor of Music at the Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Feinberg Brothers Xavier University in Chicago, and Loire Valley Music Institute in France, Mr. Valenti currently teaches privately in his hometown of Chicago. District residents and Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, July 9, 10 am & 7 pm. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library FEELIN’ GROOVY Derek Smith Music of the 60s and 70s The Feinberg Brothers Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library I Thursday, August 14, 7 pm ÌF Highlights in Jazz presents Klassic Rewind The Feinberg Brothers is an authen - Derek Smith, Living Jazz tic bluegrass band from Long Island, I Monday, July 21, 7:30 pm Piano Legend NY. The band features brothers Rourke (fiddle) and Patrick (mandolin) singing Great music from the 70s and I Thursday, July 31, 7:30 pm 80s, by the band members of lead and tenor, along with their father, Piano great Derek Smith brings an BonJourney! long time bluegrass musician, Ronnie all-star trio including Howard Alden, Feinberg, on guitar and baritone District residents and Friends of the Library pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, July 9, guitar, and Linc Milliman, bass for an vocals. Peter Elegant, an exciting 10 am & 7 pm. evening of swing and jazz classics. entertainer and no stranger to blue - District residents and Friends of the Library grass, rounds out the band on upright pick up tickets beginning Thursday, July 17, bass and vocals. 10 am & 7 pm. ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 2 SPECIAL EVENTS & LECTURES LECTURES ON FILM William Shakespeare is 450 years old this year! with Philip Harwood “I will not charm my tongue ” The Films of 1939 in Technicolor! Featuring The Perils of Speaking Out in director Michael Curtiz OTHELLO and THE WINTER’S TALE Michael Curtiz was one of Warner with Dr. Maureen Connolly McFeely Brothers most successful and busy film Adjunct Professor, English directors. He directed Errol Flynn in 12 Department, Hofstra University films; a stormy collaboration of artist Dramaturg, Hofstra Shakespeare and director. Films will each be viewed Festival first, with lecture and discussion to I follow, led by Mr. Harwood. Wednesday, September 17, 1 pm Beatrice is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters for her “merry war” with Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing . She correctly defends her cousin Hero against unjust accusations and, in so doing, forces Benedick to declare his true love for her. But not all of Shakespeare’s heroines are rewarded for their outspokenness. This talk will examine the perils associated with speaking out in an age when women were expected to be “chaste, obedient and silent.” Both Film: The Private Lives of Desdemona and Hermione speak out; both are accused of adultery; both are Elizabeth and Essex defended by their confidantes, Emilia and Paulina. Their very different fates are Starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia partly determined by how, when, and to what purpose they speak. Comparing the DeHavilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, heroines of Othello and The Winter’s Tale allows us to examine how Shakespeare Vincent Price refashions the same fabric—the wife falsely accused by an excessively jealous hus - I Tuesday, July 15, 1 pm band—weaving tragedy of one, comedy of the other. Adapted by Norman Reilly Raine and Maureen Connolly McFeely has been dramaturg for the Festival since 1993. She Aeneas McKenzie from Maxwell is the author of three Festival companion pieces that have also toured local high Anderson’s blank-verse play Elizabeth schools: “This Bud of Love: A One-Hour Romeo and Juliet” (2008, 2013), the Queen, the film concerns the tem - “Something Wicked: A One-Hour Macbeth” (2009, 2014), “The Ides of March: A One- pestuous relationship between the mid - Hour Julius Caesar” (2010), and “What Fools!: A One-Hour Midsummer Night’s dle-aged Elizabeth and the ambitious Dream” (2012). She has lectured at several venues on LI, and for close to 20 years, Essex. she conducted an off campus Shakespeare Seminar for retirees. Her articles have appeared in Subjects on the World’s Stage, Shakespeare Bulletin, and A Companion to 20th Century Poetry. She has a master’s degree from Brown and a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center. See below for a new film version of “Much Ado About Nothing”. Happy 450th Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare! The Celebration Continues Film: Dodge City Film: Much Ado About Nothing (2013) Starring Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Frank Starring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Franz Kranz McHugh, Alan Hale, Bruce Cabot Directed by Josh Whedon, PG-13, 109 min. I Tuesday, August 5, 1 pm I Monday, August 18, 2 pm This landmark western stars Errol The movie is a modern re-telling of Flynn as Wade Hatton, a cattle man Shakespeare’s classic comedy about two pairs of who arrives in the frontier community lovers with different takes on romance and a way of Dodge City, which is overrun by foot - with words. The setting is the current time. The loose cowboys and outlaws.