Three Great Piano Sonatas

Date: Saturday, July 24, 8:00 pm
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, Rte. 23A, Village of Hunter, NY 12442
Tickets: $18/$15 seniors and students
Reservations: 518 263 2063
This concert is supported, in part, by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.

"Three great piano sonatas" of 1784, 1794 and 1817 written by three masters of the evolving piano styles: Fantasy and Sonata in C minor (K.475 and 457), Mozart's most forward-looking sonata; Sonata in D, Rust's last work, prophetic of styles a decade later; and "Hammerklavier" Sonata , Op.106, Beethoven's celebratory gift to his patron, Archduke Rudolph on the occasion of his birthday, and the composer's most majestic and innovative work for the piano.

with Evan T. Pritchard, author of Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York

Date: Saturday, July 24, 1:00 pm
Location: Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center, 7950 Main St, Rte 23A, Village of Hunter, NY
Hours: Wednesday and Thursday 10 am - 5 pm, Friday 10 am - 6 pm, Saturday 10 am - 7 pm, Sunday 11 am - 4 pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Information: 518 263 2050
Free admission

Algonquin historian Evan T. Pritchard, author of Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York, chronicles the Henry Hudson’s September 1609 discovery of Manhattan Island from the perspective of the people who met Hudson’s boat, which they at first thought was surely a great waterfowl, floating. Using all available sources (including oral history passed down to today's Algonquins) Pritchard tells the story from various perspectives... that of Hudson's body guard, scribe, and personal Judas, Robert Juet, that of Hudson himself, and that of the Eastern Algonquins who greeted Hudson as the fulfillment of ancient prophecies.Evan Pritchard, a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations), is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and is currently Professor of Native American history  at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he also teaches philosophy and ethics. He is also the author of Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People in New York and No Word for Time, the Way of the Algonquin People.

Solo Show

Date: July 24-August 29
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Hours: Thursday 10 am - 5 pm, Friday 10 am – 6 pm, Saturday 10 am – 7 pm, Sunday 11 am – 4 pm. Closed Monday through Wednesday.
Information: 518 263 2060
Email: gallery@catskillmtn.org

Image: "Mind the Gap," by Kulvinder Kaur Dhew

This accomplished young artist was born and raised in England, has taught in universities in New Zealand, Borneo and the U.S.  Her work is in private collections worldwide.  She is also on the faculty of the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts.  Currently using various media to explore notions of ‘witness’ and ‘melancholia,’ Kulvinder is drawn to examining near-to-almost-epic events from an emotive point of view, rather than a simply descriptive one.  Interested in the distance[s] between landscape, personal context, drawing, painting and response, Ms. Kaur Dhew attempts to engage the viewer through memories of their own paths into or out of the natural environment.