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Category: Spotlight
Montreal Chamber Music Festival: Imagination, Dedication & Commemoration
Beautiful melodies will resound through some of the most elegant concert halls in Montreal this June. Talented artists from different parts of the world will meet on these grand stages to communicate with the universal language of music. The 28th Montreal Chamber Music Festival will connect young musicians with established performers and commemorate the careers…
Experience Music from Meadowmount!
New episodes Mondays at 9 PM Encore presentations Fridays at 1 PMSundays at 5 PM The weekly program features highlights from the summer concerts performed by the gifted young musicians studying at Meadowmount School of Music in Westport, New York. Each year about 200 string musicians get selected to study, perform and perfect their craft…
New arts hub may help brush up Malone
Malone has a new art center, filling a gap in the Franklin County town that’s had no large space dedicated to both the visual and performing arts for 33 years. It’s a building with an art gallery, and a vast area destined for music performances and other shows. The renovations of the turn-of the-20th century…
Symposium explores Rockwell Kent’s Alaskan adventure
Art and nature lovers have a very special opportunity to behold the majesty of Alaska this spring, through the eyes of 20th century artist Rockwell Kent. The painter, who spent much of his life at Asgaard, his farm in Au Sable Forks, New York, moved to a small island in Alaska in 1918. The artwork…
Book reveals Hollywood heroine’s origins in Plattsburgh
Secretive star, by the book Biographer John Oller of New York City faced a difficult task when writing a book about Hollywood actress Jean Arthur. The star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Shane kept her personal information, including the city in which she was born, very private all of her life. Through careful research and conversations with…
Fulton Fryar’s Closet: Racial Inequality in 1950s New York State
This special first aired on June 22, 2018. Guest-hosted by arts producer Paul Larson, this TV special and its webpage tell a relatively unknown story of racial inequality in 1950s Adirondack culture, and how memories of it resurfaced recently when a building at Seagle Music Colony (now Seagle Festival) in Schroon Lake, New York, faced…
Historian reacts to Fulton Fryar’s experience of racial inequality
This story first aired June 22, 2018. Looking Back on Racial Segregation North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association President Jackie Madison understands discrimination. She grew up in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, and fully comprehends the segregation Fulton Fryar experienced when he was growing up in the same state. Now a resident of…
Artists ponder the dangerous disappearance of winter
Painters and sculptors are combating climate change, armed with their artistic tools. They’ve covered the walls at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts with winter-themed pieces. Works of art show the sports, events and beauty of winter that people would miss if the cold season vanished. Some works show the current state of winter,…
Grand Adirondack mural features mosaic of stories
As the North Creek Mosaic Project nears completion, its volunteers say they’ve attached memories and stories to the wall, along with more than 200,000 glass and ceramic tiles. The 230 foot-long mural provides a source of pride for North Creek, a hamlet in the town of Johnsburg, New York. It depicts recreational opportunities, along with…
Guest Conductor Adds Gospel Spark to Candlelight Concert
Crane Candlelight 2022: Let it Shine!Mountain Lake PBS December 19 at 8 pmDecember 20 at 5 pmDecember 23 at 2 pmDecember 24 at 9 pmDecember 25 at 2:30 pm The Crane Candlelight Concert, an annual tradition at the State University of New York at Potsdam, features music composed and arranged by guest conductor Dr. Raymond…