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She Did It Her Way: Guitar Concert with Ken Lelenn
The concert, featuring vintage guitarist & singer Ken Lelen, honors the lives, careers and popular tunes of female composers, musicians, songwriters, vocalists and recording artists active in the fifties and sixties, including Peggy Lee, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others. Every song tells a story with Ken and his one-of-a-kind show is brim…
Westchester Symphonic Winds Begins New Year with “Monuments”
TARRYTOWN, NY – Westchester Symphonic Winds (WSW) presents the second performance of their 36th season with “Monuments” on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 2:00 pm at the Tarrytown Music Hall. The program includes works spanning the scope of repertoire from original compositions for wind ensemble to selections from opera and musical theater by many of…
FOREVER YOURS, OLIVE THOMAS – free screening
Studio Theater In Exile will be presenting a screening of a filmed live performance of John Arco’s one-woman play, Forever Yours, Olive Thomas, on Saturday, January 6 at 3:00 pm, at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, 480 North Bedford Road, Chappaqua, NY. Olive Thomas was a beautiful artists’ model, Ziegfeld Girl and silent film star…
Hoff-Barthelson Music School and White Plains Youth Bureau Join Forces to Bring Free Music Classes to Local Youth
Scarsdale, NY — [December 12, 2023] — Hoff-Barthelson Music School is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the White Plains Youth Bureau to offer music classes in guitar and percussion free-of-charge for White Plains students in grades 5 to 12. The two organizations are cooperating to restore group instrumental classes for youth that had…
Harpist Lisa Tannebaum in Concert
Acclaimed harpist Lisa Tannebaum in concert. Performing pieces from all genres of classical music including Granados’ Spanish Dances originally written for piano, and recently transcribed for harp by Lisa Tannebaum. Hailed for her “expressive musicality and creativity” by The New York Times, Lisa Tannebaum has performed solo, chamber and orchestral repertoire at major venues and…
Take Five: Kenyon College Jazz A Capella Group
The Kenyon College A Cappella Group will give an in-person performance at the Library. Founded in 2003, Take Five (orTake 5) is Kenyon College’s premiere jazz a capella group! They arrange and perform everything from jazz standards to funk and bossa nova–even in a variety of different languages. Every winter, Take Five embarks on a…
The World As I See It. A Photography Exhibition
“The World as I See It” A Photography Exhibition by the Color Camera Club of Westchester The Color Camera Club of Westchester is proud to present “The World as I See It,” a captivating photography exhibition featuring 44 stunning photographs captured by 16 talented members.The exhibition, a versatile interpretation of the world around us, will be hosted…
New Episodes of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts Podcast “All About the Arts”
New episodes of All About the Arts, the New Rochelle Council on the Arts podcast, are now available on Spotify. The latest episodes feature Christopher J. Farley, a journalist and writer who recently joined PBS as Senior Director, Arts Programming & Development, overseeing the development and production of a multiplatform strategy focused on arts, performance,…
Bubbles and Broadway: a special concert featuring Meghan Picerno
Join the Pound Ridge Library Foundation for an afternoon delight of Broadway songs & bubbly with Broadway star, Meghan Picerno, Saturday December 16th at 4pm. This performance will showcase the new acoustic panels recently funded by the Pound Ridge Library Foundation in the Schaffner Room. Come join in the holiday cheer with us and learn…
New Choral Society kicks off the holiday season with their 30th annual performances of “Messiah Part I” on December 1 and 3, 2023
The New Choral Society, under the direction of Dr. John T. King, kicks off the holiday season with their 30th annual performances of the beloved holiday favorite, Händel’s Messiah, Part I on Friday, December 1 at 8pm and Sunday, December 3 at 3pm. Both performances will take place at the acoustically beautiful sanctuary of Hitchcock…