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Arts & Culture

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 set to music by Anton Webern. The performances at the Bard SummerScape festival form a highlight of the company’s 40th anniversary season.

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New Landscapes

New exhibits at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville.

The Avant-Garde Invades Mount Tremper

The Mount Tremper Arts Festival kicks off on July 10.

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 Bilking Ilk

“Imagining Madoff” is at Stageworks/Hudson starting July 21.

The Circus Comes to Town

Spiegeltent returns for another season at Bard College on July 9.

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.

Underground Poets

The Subterranean Poetry Festival will take place August 28 at 1pm in the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale.

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, Judgment Day is the story of an unhappily married stationmaster in a small town who causes a fatal train crash when he allows a flirtatious young woman to distract him from his duties. The girl perjures herself to defend him, and support for her lie poisons the town, drawing everyone deeper into a moral abyss.

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, for the sound that is a distant echo of her presence. But the opera is only partly about Fritz and the elusive ideal that shimmers, mirage-like, beyond his grasp. It is also about how Grete, the composer’s beloved, is exploited by the society she lives in, and how she survives by retreating into her dreams.

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 thoughts about the staging and design of The Distant Sound.

Books

Book Review: A Fierce Radiance

Marx Dorrity reviews “A Fierce Radiance” by Lauren Belfer.

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Book Review: Leaving Rock Harbor

Anne Pyburn Craig reviews “Leaving Rock Harbor” by Rebecca Chace.

Short Takes: July 2010

Take one of these books to the ballgame, the beach, or wherever life takes you this summer.

Worlds Without End

Nina Shengold profiles author Robert Kelly.

Poetry

Poem: Compulsive Repetition Ghazal

Poetry is edited by Philip Levine.

Poem: Lines

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: At the Gate

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Bracelet

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Untitled

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: A Word From a Place Other Than Your Face*

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Simplicity

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Navigating Through a Broken City

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Frustration

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Crossing the Interstate

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: Volcano

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: ABC Poem

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

News & Politics

Beinhart’s Body Politic

Larry Beinhart on how oil unbalances the politics of the entire world.

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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.

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.

Whole Living

Flowers Fall Spring: A Love Poem

A poem by Bethany Saltman.

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Help, I'm Stuck in Overwhelm

Lorrie Klosterman examines strategies to make the most of our time and our lives.

View From the Top

Editor's Note

An introduction to Chronogram’s “Throwback” issue.

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Esteemed Reader: July 2010

Jason Stern on beginning again.

Still from Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait

Philippe Parreno’s “Zidane” will be screened at CCS Bard in September.

Community Notebook

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.

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The Sacred Science of the Ancients

Jason Stern talks with John Anthony West, known internationally as a maverick Egyptologist.

Music

Home, Again

Peter Aaron’s look at Club Helsinki’s new home in Hudson.

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Nightlife Highlights

Peter Aaron’s nightlife highlights for July.

CD Review: Casket Architects

Jeremy Schwartz reviews “Future Wounds” by Casket Architects.

CD Review: David Malachowski

Robert Burke Warren reviews “The Secret Life of Colonel David.” by David Malachowski.

CD Review: Roswell Rudd

Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews “Keep Your Heart Right” by Roswell Rudd.

Phase Me, Bro

Steve Reich, NEXUS, and So Percussion perform at Maverick Hall on July 31.

Food & Drink

Food & Drink Events for July

Food and drink events for July.

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Labor of Love

Peter Barrett talks vinegar with Brother Victor-Antoine.

Horoscopes

The Element: Water

Eric Francis Coppolino on the emotional element and the Gulf.

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Horoscopes: July 2010

Eric Francis Coppolino directs you through the ins and outs of July.

Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Richard Deon

“Weehawken 2” by Richard Deon is being exhibited at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers.

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Culinary Adventures

Eat Your Scenery

Karin Ursula Edmondson talks with the Warrens about dining at their farm.

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Green Living

The Way of the Cow

Carl Frankel asks Martin Ping about sustainability through change of consciousness.

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Community Pages

Rural Collaboration

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.

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River Town Rising

Rosendale resident Sari Botton illuminates the surprisingly happening, environmentally progressive small town known best for its many festivals and cement.