Complete Schedule Of Autograph Signers In This Week’s Newspapers …
OPERA REVIEWS: All 4 Productions Rolled Out At Glimmerglass Festival Cast of International Excellence In ‘Ariadne’ By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,” auf Upstate German humor? Supposedly, it doesn’t exist outside Klink’s Stalag on aging TV. An oddity of reputation is that Germany, after two murderous conflagrations, may even now be wrongly cast. Arecent book claims that most “higher things” in the U.S. came from France. Not so. Most of our higher musical culture came from…
American Tragedy, Operatic Triumph? By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Too many superlatives exist in this Glimmerglass production for reservations – yet a few exist. On the positive side, the staging is brilliant – with multiple levels originally seen in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” However, this staging far surpasses them. The horrible drowning – either by murder or accident – achieves a paradox of representative horror held within emotional bounds. So does the final electrocution, awful, but contained within…
Katz Plaint In Times: ‘Everyone Makes More Money Off Cooperstown Than The Village’ When the New York Times interview Mayor Jeff Katz in conjunction with the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary, he repeated a now-familiar plaint: “Everyone makes more money off Cooperstown than the village of Cooperstown does.” READ FULL NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE…
July 25, 2014 E-Edition The Freeman’s Journal Hometown Oneonta All Otsego…
The Sizzle Begins Today For Hall’s 75th Birthday …
Silent Auction Underway For Smithy Arts Center…
Democratic Primary Firms Up For Oneonta Town Board Seat ONEONTA – A contest is heating up for the Oneonta Town Board seat vacated when Republican Janet Hurley Quackenbush joined the county Board of Representatives Jan. 1. Democrat David Rowley, the retired school superintendent, submitted petitions to run on both the Democratic and Republican lines this fall. And Republican Patricia Riddell Kent, whom the town board appointed to fill Quackenbush’s seat, did the same. Both of Rowley’s petitions were challenged, however…