BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RiverArts - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://riverarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for RiverArts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T220000 DTSTAMP:20260427T141039 CREATED:20220120T024746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T065440Z UID:8802-1646335800-1646344800@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Drink & Draw DESCRIPTION:Drink & Draw \n \n \n \n \n \n Thursday\, March 3Hastings Public LibraryOrr Room\, enter in the lower level7 Maple Avenue Hastings–on–Hudson \nAdmission: $20 per session; Register below. You must register and pay in advance below for each session. No payments will be accepted at the door.  \nDrink & Draw is a modern twist on the classic artistic practice of life drawing. Artists of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome\, especially those that have always wanted to try their hand.   \nIn this non-instructional event\, we aim to create a relaxing\, social and inclusive environment for the community to come together for a fun night of drawing.  After some mingling with fellow guests\, participants will have an opportunity to capture the human body in poses of different lengths\, with breaks for refreshments in between.   \nThere’s wine\, crackers\, cheese and cookies to enjoy\, and our host curates a playlist to keep your energy flowing.  The evening lasts about 2 ½ hours\, and participants leave with a collection of their new works… and maybe some new friends too. \nRiverArts is proud to be able to provide this unique opportunity right here in our Rivertowns\, an opportunity which is often only accessible to art students or by traveling into New York City\, with a significant investment of time and tuition.  Drink & Draw offers a perfect entry-level for the amateur artist\, and we have seen beginners improve significantly as their skills develop in subsequent sessions and they draw on their experience and learn from others.   \n*Model provided. Please bring your own art supplies and arrive on time. **Must be over 18 to attend. Wine for those 21+***Until COVID-19 numbers come back down\, proof of vaccination is required for attendance and we will ask everyone but the model to be masked. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: info@riverarts.org \n#DrinkAndDraw \n \n \n \n \n \n Fill out my Wufoo form! URL:https://riverarts.org/event/drink-and-draw-march/ LOCATION:Hastings Public Library\, Orr Room\, Lower Level\, 7 Maple Avenue\, Hastings-on-Hudson\, NY\, 10706\, United States CATEGORIES:Art,Figure Drawing,In-person ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Event-Graphic_DrinkDraw__March-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T173000 DTSTAMP:20260427T141039 CREATED:20220116T042647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T002047Z UID:8722-1646582400-1646587800@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Richard Strauss\, "Four Last Songs" | New arrangement for chamber ensemble\, world premiere DESCRIPTION:Richard Strauss\, arr. Paul Brantley\, Four Last Songs | New arrangement for chamber ensemble\, world premiere \nSunday\, March 6 at 4:00pm\nSt Barnabas Episcopal Church\, \n2 Revolutionary Road \nArdsley\, NY\nTickets: $40 \n \n \n Tickets for Concert\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts Chamber Music Series celebrates the 2022 season with a world premiere performance of a new adaptation for chamber ensemble of Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs. This work has been commissioned by RiverArts in association with PREformances Chamber Collaborative. \nEsteemed New York City composer Paul Brantley adapted Strauss’ original\, scored for soprano and full orchestra\, for a chamber octet. This new work is scored for soprano\, clarinet\, string quartet\, double bass\, and piano. More than a reduction or adaptation\, it is analogous to a translation into a new language while at the same time being note for note faithful to the original. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music\, “These autumnal\, luminescent late songs… are among Strauss’s finest works in any genre.” They were written in 1948 near the end of Strauss’ life and were not performed until 1950\, after his death. \nPaul Brantley is a contemporary composer much in demand. In addition to his own compositions\, he has made a specialty of these kinds of adaptations. “I relish the opportunity to have a creative encounter with such a great work — and with the extraordinary poetry of Hermann Hesse which Strauss sets. My modus operandi is not so much to (re-) arrange the work but to adapt it as faithfully and idiomatically as possible.” \nAlso on the program are Brahms’ Clarinet Trio and Stravinsky’s Suite from A Soldier’s Tale. \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Artists \n\nComposer Paul Brantley’s compositions have been performed or commissioned by\, among others\, The Knights (at Tanglewood\, BRIC\, Dumbarton Oaks and Naumburg Concerts)\, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet\, Horszowski Trio\, Flux Quartet\, New Esterházy Quartet\, Memphis Symphony Orchestra\, U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus (on tour)\, Monadnock Music Festival\, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival\, St. Bartholomew’s Summer Festival of Sacred Music\, The Young People’s Chorus of NYC\, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (NYC’s Town Hall). soundcloud.com/paul–brantley-music/sets \nSoprano Allison Charney’s operatic career includes singing major roles including Mimi\, Butterfly\, Traviata\, Pamina\, and tour-de-force portrayals of all three heroines in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman among many others in opera companies throughout the country including New York City Opera\, Atlanta Opera\, Florida Grand Opera\, Utah Opera\, and Nashville Opera.randsman.com/allison-charney \nSylvia Danburg Volpe [violin] is Associate Principal Second Violin of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. She plays with the MET Chamber Ensemble concert series at Carnegie Hall\, and has performed a wide variety of classical and cross-over music both here and abroad.metorchestramusicians.org/sylvia-volpe \nApril Johnson [violin] has performed throughout the US with the Oracle Trio and the New York Chamber Soloists. She is a member of the Hoff-Barthelson Music School who also teaches Suzuki Violin\, she earned a BM from Oberlin College and Advanced Studies at Brooklyn College Conservatory. hbms.org/faculty_bio/april-johnson \nSarah Adams [viola] performs widely in the New York area with ensembles including the New York Chamber Ensemble\, American Ballet Theatre\, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, the American Symphony Orchestra\, the New York City Opera Orchestra\, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She is principal violist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Riverside Symphony and the violist of the Roerich Quartet. Ms. Adams has been teaching viola and chamber music at Columbia University since 1993. \nPeter Seidenberg [cello and Artistic Director] has played in major halls throughout the US\, Europe and Asia\, and served as principal cellist with the Century Orchestra of Osaka. He was a founding member of the critically acclaimed Elements Quartet which created groundbreaking commissioning projects of 30 composers. He is the cellist for the Oracle Trio\, the Queen’s Chamber Band\, and the New York Chamber Soloists. peterseidenberg.com \nJoseph Bongiorno [double bass] served as principal bass for the Brooklyn Philharmonic\, American Composers Orchestra\, Westchester Philharmonic\, American Ballet Theater and was a member of the New York City Opera Orchestra and Mostly Mozart Festival. He recorded West Side Story under the baton of Leonard Bernstein and served as “house” bassist for Phillip Glass’ studio. A graduate of the Juilliard School\, Mr. Bongiorno joined the faculty of NYU in 2006 where he was Director of Orchestras for 10 years.  \nPascal Archer [clarinet]: Hailed by the New York Times as an “outstanding clarinetist”\, Pascal Archer is the founder and Artistic Director of the Exponential Ensemble and a member of the American Modern Ensemble\, Principal Clarinet of the Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and the NEPA Philharmonic. A former member of the New World Symphony\, he was Acting Principal Clarinet for the New Jersey Symphony from  2019 to 2021. Past chamber music collaborations include concerts with the JACK and St. Laurence string quartets\, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, Camerata Pacifica and tours with Musicians from Marlboro.  He has performed at renowned summer festivals such as Marlboro\, Mostly Mozart and Verbier. www.pascalarcher.com  \nCraig Ketter [piano] has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist as well as with international singers and chamber ensembles. Venues include NPR’s Performance Today series\, CBS Sunday Morning\, Carnegie Hall\, Avery Fisher Hall and Tanglewood Music Festival. He has collaborated with many esteemed musicians including violinists Kelly Hall-Tomkins and Paul Huang and singers Renee Fleming\, Debra Voigt and Samuel Ramey. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the Eastman School of Music. \nEdoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publishers Association’s Best Male Narrator Audie Award. He is the co-creator\, of the Audible Original The Angel of Rome. On screen\, he is best known for this work in The Sopranos\, and the film Dinner Rush. edoardoballerini.com \n  \n\n \n Tickets for Concert\n \n \n \n \n \n All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. Until further notice\, attendees will be required to wear masks at all indoor RiverArts events. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: info@riverarts.org \n \n \n \n \n \n #RiverArtsChamber Music #StraussBrantley #PREformancesChamberCollaborative URL:https://riverarts.org/event/strauss/ LOCATION:St. Barnabas Episcopal Church\, 2 Revolutionary Rd\, Ardsley\, NY\, 10503\, United States CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,In-person,Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Event-Graphic_Strauss_WebEvent.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T141039 CREATED:20220205T050845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220313T175741Z UID:9073-1647630000-1647630000@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Kindness Committee | An original play by Melanie Hoopes SOLD OUT DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 18th at 7:00pm – SOLD OUT\nSouth Church  343 Broadway\nDobbs Ferry\, NY 10522 \nTickets: $25 \n \n Tickets are still available for Saturday\, March 19th. Purchase here.\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts presents Kindness Committee\, a new play written and directed by Melanie Hoopes on Friday\, March 18th and 19th at 7:00pm; This play is recommended for ages 13 and up. \nSet at a concert on a cold winter night\, Kindness Committee sneaks us into the minds of seven audience members connected by varying degrees to one another. As the musician performs\, each character’s inner world ignites. Some desire\, others despise. One mourns\, another commits to a life of living without a past. One warns of the limits of “kindness” while another embodies the act of forgiving. All of them peel away layers of their past as they reach for a sustainable present. \nKindness Committee delves deep into longings and forebodings\, and examines the increasing importance of strengthening our community as our social\, political and environmental problems mount. \nInspired by a concert by Bay Area-based singer/songwriter John Elliott\, Hoopes creates a fictitious world of characters interacting with one another\, the music and the afterglow it creates. Elliott generously lends his music to weave through Kindness Committee\, allowing the audience to be transported to the concert the characters attend. \nMelanie Hoopes\, a Hastings on Hudson resident\, brought us last season’s zoom performance of Six Feet\, a play about living in the age of Covid. With Kindness Committee\, Hoopes asks us to once again examine the present moment. As we accept our current reality\, we ask ourselves how we want to live moving forward. What must we fortifiy and what gets recycled? Like Six Feet\, Kindness Committee is darkly funny and sure to touch all hearts and souls. \n“John’s performance four years ago with Common Ground Concerts started it all. His breathtakingly honest and personal songwriting awed me. I was captivated by his descriptions of regrets and defenses\, exposing them all\, no matter how misshapen or how ugly. John treats his past with kindness and compassion and in doing this he invites the audience to do their own inventory with the same open-hearted approach. I began writing Kindness Committee to explore how others may have experienced John’s show but somewhere along the way it became a treatise on community. My conclusion is simple and needs to be screamed from the rooftops and tattooed on our arms: We are all we have. The survival of all beings and our beautiful planet depends on the strength of our relation to one another.” \nAbout Melanie Hoopes\, Writer and Director \nMelanie Hoopes is a writer whose credits include Six Feet: A Play About What’s Between Us (RiverArts)\, Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio\, EEP)\, One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (The New York Times) and  Bloodline (Netflix). She is the creator and writer of the long-running New York-based episodic stage show\, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet\, a dark\, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. Her public radio credits include This American Life\, Here’s the Thing and Unfictional. She is a producer and host of Yesteryear: Stories from Home\, a podcast about the history of living in a small village on the Hudson River. She lives in the Rivertowns with her family. \nAbout John Elliott\, Composer \nA native of Minnesota now living in California\, John Elliott has a worldwide following as a singer-songwriter. The Austin Chronicle writes John Elliott is “a legend among songwriters…bold and brave…his shows are not to be missed.” Cory Frye of the Corvallis Gazette-Times writes that Elliott has\, “an affection for the malleability of language\, the clever twists of phrase\, an appreciation for the liquid kinship between rhythm and sounds — how they collide in beautiful violence\, how they stand as ideas and images — even if they ordinarily wouldn’t deign to dance together or be seen in the same room.” \nWhile John has toured internationally since 2006 and his songs have been prominently heard on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy\, One Tree Hill\, and Californication\, he remains an independent\, unsigned\, and unaffiliated artist\, and he is proud of that fact. Calling himself a “songcyclist” for his eco-friendly propensity for pedaling his bike from one small venue to the next\, Elliott continues to build a dedicated following the old-fashioned way: one new believer at a time. \nChuck Schiele of The San Diego Troubadour says\, “John Elliott’s lyrics get in\, make their statement\, kick you in the teeth\, and get out before they start talking too much…And this lends to the urge of rolling any track to its beginning for another spin.” \nIn addition to contributing his music to Kindness Committee\, John will perform a live concert on March 26th at Common Ground Concerts. MORE INFO HERE. \n \n Tickets are still available for Saturday\, March 19th. Purchase here.\n \n \n \n \n \n All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. Until further notice\, attendees will be required to wear masks at all indoor RiverArts events. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: info@riverarts.org \n \n \n \n \n \n #RiverArtsTheater\n#KindnessCommittee\n \n \n \n \n \n —\nCAST URL:https://riverarts.org/event/kindness-committee-friday/ LOCATION:South Church\, 343 Broadway\, Dobbs Ferry\, NY\, 10522\, United States CATEGORIES:In-person,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Event-Graphic_KindnessCommitteeWeb_FRI-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T141039 CREATED:20220127T011327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220313T170527Z UID:9032-1647716400-1647716400@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Kindness Committee | An original play by Melanie Hoopes DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 18th at 7:00pmSouth Church  343 BroadwayDobbs Ferry\, NY 10522 \nTickets: $25 \n \n \n Tickets for Performance\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts presents Kindness Committee\, a new play written and directed by Melanie Hoopes on Friday\, March 18th and 19th at 7:00pm; This play is recommended for ages 13 and up. \nSet at a concert on a cold winter night\, Kindness Committee sneaks us into the minds of seven audience members connected by varying degrees to one another. As the musician performs\, each character’s inner world ignites. Some desire\, others despise. One mourns\, another commits to a life of living without a past. One warns of the limits of “kindness” while another embodies the act of forgiving. All of them peel away layers of their past as they reach for a sustainable present. \nKindness Committee delves deep into longings and forebodings\, and examines the increasing importance of strengthening our community as our social\, political and environmental problems mount. \nInspired by a concert by Bay Area-based singer/songwriter John Elliott\, Hoopes creates a fictitious world of characters interacting with one another\, the music and the afterglow it creates. Elliott generously lends his music to weave through Kindness Committee\, allowing the audience to be transported to the concert the characters attend. \nMelanie Hoopes\, a Hastings on Hudson resident\, brought us last season’s zoom performance of Six Feet\, a play about living in the age of Covid. With Kindness Committee\, Hoopes asks us to once again examine the present moment. As we accept our current reality\, we ask ourselves how we want to live moving forward. What must we fortifiy and what gets recycled? Like Six Feet\, Kindness Committee is darkly funny and sure to touch all hearts and souls. \n“John’s performance four years ago with Common Ground Concerts started it all. His breathtakingly honest and personal songwriting awed me. I was captivated by his descriptions of regrets and defenses\, exposing them all\, no matter how misshapen or how ugly. John treats his past with kindness and compassion and in doing this he invites the audience to do their own inventory with the same open-hearted approach. I began writing Kindness Committee to explore how others may have experienced John’s show but somewhere along the way it became a treatise on community. My conclusion is simple and needs to be screamed from the rooftops and tattooed on our arms: We are all we have. The survival of all beings and our beautiful planet depends on the strength of our relation to one another.” \nAbout Melanie Hoopes\, Writer and Director \nMelanie Hoopes is a writer whose credits include Six Feet: A Play About What’s Between Us (RiverArts)\, Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio\, EEP)\, One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (The New York Times) and  Bloodline (Netflix). She is the creator and writer of the long-running New York-based episodic stage show\, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet\, a dark\, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. Her public radio credits include This American Life\, Here’s the Thing and Unfictional. She is a producer and host of Yesteryear: Stories from Home\, a podcast about the history of living in a small village on the Hudson River. She lives in the Rivertowns with her family. \nAbout John Elliott\, Composer \nA native of Minnesota now living in California\, John Elliott has a worldwide following as a singer-songwriter. The Austin Chronicle writes John Elliott is “a legend among songwriters…bold and brave…his shows are not to be missed.” Cory Frye of the Corvallis Gazette-Times writes that Elliott has\, “an affection for the malleability of language\, the clever twists of phrase\, an appreciation for the liquid kinship between rhythm and sounds — how they collide in beautiful violence\, how they stand as ideas and images — even if they ordinarily wouldn’t deign to dance together or be seen in the same room.” \nWhile John has toured internationally since 2006 and his songs have been prominently heard on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy\, One Tree Hill\, and Californication\, he remains an independent\, unsigned\, and unaffiliated artist\, and he is proud of that fact. Calling himself a “songcyclist” for his eco-friendly propensity for pedaling his bike from one small venue to the next\, Elliott continues to build a dedicated following the old-fashioned way: one new believer at a time. \nChuck Schiele of The San Diego Troubadour says\, “John Elliott’s lyrics get in\, make their statement\, kick you in the teeth\, and get out before they start talking too much…And this lends to the urge of rolling any track to its beginning for another spin.” \nIn addition to contributing his music to Kindness Committee\, John will perform a live concert on March 26th at Common Ground Concerts. MORE INFO HERE. \n \n Tickets for Performance\n \n \n \n \n \n All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. Until further notice\, attendees will be required to wear masks at all indoor RiverArts events. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: info@riverarts.org \n \n \n \n \n \n #RiverArtsTheater#KindnessCommittee \n \n \n \n \n \n —\nCAST URL:https://riverarts.org/event/kindness-committee-saturday/ LOCATION:South Church\, 343 Broadway\, Dobbs Ferry\, NY\, 10522\, United States CATEGORIES:In-person,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Event-Graphic_KindnessCommitteeWeb_SAT.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR