Interview with Thaddeus Strassberger, Director of The Distant Sound
The American stage premiere of The Distant Sound (Der ferne Klang) opens Friday at Bard SummerScape. Franz Schreker’s twentieth century opera tells the tragic story ofFritz, a composer who forsakes his beloved, Grete, for the sound that is a distant echo of her presence. During a rehearsal break, internationally acclaimed director Thaddeus Strassberger shared his…
Shreker’s Opera The Distant Sound Opens July 30
Franz Schreker’s The Distant Sound, though familiar in Europe, has never yet – in the century since its composition – been fully staged in North America. With lush, sumptuous music, Schreker’s opera explores the complexities of love, eroticism, and art-for-art’s-sake idealism. It tells the tragic story of Fritz, a composer who forsakes Grete, his beloved,…
Bard SummerScape 2010: Judgement Day
Judgment Day (“Der jüngste Tag”), a gripping 1937 drama by Austro-Hungarian Ödön von Horváth, opened yesterday as part of Bard SummerScape 2010. A runaway hit of last fall’s theater season in London, the play implicitly investigates the roots of Nazism among Austria-Hungary’s ordinary working people. Endowed with topical themes and a compelling plot and characters,…
Underground Poets
The Subterranean Poetry Festival will take place August 28 at 1pm in the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale.
Bard SummerScape Festival
The Trisha Brown Dance Company kicks off the eighth annual Bard SummerScape festival this week with the trailblazing choreographer’s most recent piece – L’Amour au théâtre (2009), two of her legendary Rauschenberg collaborations – Foray Forêt (1990) and You can see us (1995), and a duet from her 1996 piece, Twelve Ton Rose, which is…
Local Luminary: Brendan Burke
The artistic director of Shadowland in Ellenville discusses the work being done at the theater and how regional theaters enrich lives, communities, and local economies.
Still from Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait
Philippe Parreno’s “Zidane” will be screened at CCS Bard in September.
While You Were Sleeping
New Yorkers scores lowest in the country on driver’s test; EPA cracking down on Amish farmers’ manure management; UN advocates for global switch to vegan diet.
Parting Shot: Richard Deon
“Weehawken 2” by Richard Deon is being exhibited at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers.
Horoscopes: July 2010
Eric Francis Coppolino directs you through the ins and outs of July.
Enviable Illusions/Desperate Expressionism
“A Snake That Sheds Its Skin is Still a Snake” by Steven Strauss and Phil Hennion exhibits at Surprenant Art and Design in Kingston.
Public Works
The 2010 Powerhouse Theater season is in action at Vassar College with John Patrick Shanley’s “Pirate” and Tracy Thorne’s “We Are Here” on the mainstage.
The Avant-Garde Invades Mount Tremper
The Mount Tremper Arts Festival kicks off on July 10.
The Circus Comes to Town
Spiegeltent returns for another season at Bard College on July 9.
Phase Me, Bro
Steve Reich, NEXUS, and So Percussion perform at Maverick Hall on July 31.
Help, I’m Stuck in Overwhelm
Lorrie Klosterman examines strategies to make the most of our time and our lives.
Eat Your Scenery
Karin Ursula Edmondson talks with the Warrens about dining at their farm.
The Way of the Cow
Carl Frankel asks Martin Ping about sustainability through change of consciousness.
River Town Rising
Rosendale resident Sari Botton illuminates the surprisingly happening, environmentally progressive small town known best for its many festivals and cement.
Short Takes: July 2010
Take one of these books to the ballgame, the beach, or wherever life takes you this summer.
Book Review: Leaving Rock Harbor
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews “Leaving Rock Harbor” by Rebecca Chace.
Book Review: A Fierce Radiance
Marx Dorrity reviews “A Fierce Radiance” by Lauren Belfer.
CD Review: Roswell Rudd
Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews “Keep Your Heart Right” by Roswell Rudd.
CD Review: David Malachowski
Robert Burke Warren reviews “The Secret Life of Colonel David.” by David Malachowski.
CD Review: Casket Architects
Jeremy Schwartz reviews “Future Wounds” by Casket Architects.
Rural Collaboration: Millerton and Amenia’s Transformation
Anne Pyburn Craig reports on Millerton and Amenia’s transformation as the population grows and their place in the region as a hub of political activism.
The Sacred Science of the Ancients
Jason Stern talks with John Anthony West, known internationally as a maverick Egyptologist.
Beinhart’s Body Politic
Larry Beinhart on how oil unbalances the politics of the entire world.
What the Frack?
Brian K. Mahoney reports on the debate over hydraulic fracturing, a new method of natural gas drilling and the subject of the documentary Gasland by Josh Fox.
