Degas-related events - 2009

Season Events in September

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September 3 @ 5:30 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Hyde After Dark. Socialize, network and experience the museum while enjoying jazz melodies and light appetizers.

September 12 @ 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Red Fox Books' Children's Story Time and Crafts. FREE

September 13 @ 2 p.m. - The Hyde Collection Degas Lecture Series, Degas & Opera. Peter Wynne will present a lecture with a particular focus on Degas and his love for opera. It will include images from the exhibition and beyond and will be accompanied by corresponding musical score. FREE

September 15 @ 12 p.m. - Red Fox Books Degas book group for adults: The Private Lives of the Impressionists.

September 16-October18 - Adirondack Region Textile Artists Alliance's Inspired by Degas exhibition at the ARTAA studio in The Shirt Factory. FREE

September 17 @ 5-8 p.m. - Third Thursday Art Walk. Discover established and up and coming local artists at various locations throughout Downtown Glens Falls. Maps of participating locations are available. Email glensfallsartwalk@yahoo.com for more information. FREE

September 17 @ 5:30 p.m. - Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council's Degas' Visit to New Orleans lecture by Sheldon Hurst in the Lapham Gallery. FREE

September 17 @ 6 p.m. - The Hyde Collection Degas Film Series, Ratatouille (G). Enjoy the entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of a rat and a 5-star gourmet restaurant come together for the ultimate fish-out-of-water tale. FREE

September 22 @ 6:30 p.m. - Crandall Public Library Film, The Impressionists: Degas. FREE

September 26 @ 3 p.m. - Saratoga Chamber Players' Degas & Music at The Hyde Collection.

September 27-October 3 - Artists and Dancers Open Studio. Artists are invited to sketch dancers from Hubbard Hall Dance & Movement Program at Beacon Feed Studio in Hubbard Hall. FREE

Season Events in August

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August 1-October 31 - Union College Visual Arts Department's Degas' Contemporaries Exhibition including 11 prints by the French artist's peers. Displayed in Schaffer Library's Lally Reading Room. FREE

August 1 & 2 @ 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - The Shirt Factory's Artists' Open House. Visit artists' studios to view Degas-inspired works. FREE

August 1 @ 8 p.m. - Seagle Music Colony's La Cenerentola. Gioachino Rossini's comic opera based on the fairy-tale of Cinderella will leave you laughing as well as humming one of the many beautiful melodies. Performance at the Oscar Seagle Memorial Theatre.

August 5 @ 6 p.m. - Art & Opera Open Studio. Artists invited to sketch during rehearsal at The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater. FREE

August 7 @ 5 p.m. - The Hyde Collection and Saratoga Performance Arts Center's Degas Among Friends. Pianist Jean-Frederic Neuberger, Chantal Juillet on the violin, and The Wister Quartet followed by a reception with the performers. Helen Froehlich Auditorium.

August 7 @ 7 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's Carmen Jones. A 1954 semi-experimental adaptation of Bizet's opera, Carmen, Starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Set on a Southern military base during WWII, this version features lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a dynamic African-American cast. Show at Freight Depot Theater. FREE

August 9 @ 2 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Lecture Series, Music and the Impressionists by Michael Cassin, Director of Education, Center for the Visual Arts, The Clark. To compliment the work of Edgar Degas, Michael Cassin will explore the subject of music as a muse to other artists associated with the Impressionist movement. Helen Froehlich Auditorium. FREE

August 10 @ 8 p.m. - Saratoga Performing Arts Center's Degas Among Friends. Pianist Jean-Frederic Neuberger, Chantal Juillet on the violin, and The Wister Quartet. Spa Little Theater.

August 14 @ 5-7 p.m. - Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council's In the Spirit of Degas Exhibit and Opening Reception. Exhibit runs through October 4 in Lapham Gallery. FREE

August 14 @ 8 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's La Tragedie de Carmen. This re-working of Bizet's masterpiece hones our focus on a more intimate and no-frills tale as the tragedy of seduction, jealousy, lost freedom and lost love unravels and delivers a spicy and compact punch. Hubbard Hall.

August 15 @ 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Children's Story Time and Crafts at Red Fox Books. FREE

August 15 @ 6:30 p.m. - Sembrich Opera Museum's Music for Winds and Piano. Luzerne Chamber Players at The Hyde Collection.

August 15 @ 8 p.m. - Saratoga Performing Arts Center's An Evening with Degas. The Philadelphia Orchestra performs at the SPAC Amphitheatre.

August 20 @ 5-8 p.m. - Third Thursday Art Walk. Discover established and up and coming local artists at various locations throughout Downtown Glens Falls. Maps of participating locations are available. Email glensfallsartwalk@yahoo.com for more information. FREE

August 20 @ 6 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's The Hydes, Degas, and Music, presented by The Hyde's Chief Curator and Deputy Director Erin Coe. The presentation will explore the history of the works by Edgar Degas that were collected by Museum founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde and the Hyde's musical associations with these works. FREE

August 20 & 21 @ 8 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's La Tragedie de Carmen. This version hones our focus on a more intimate and no-frills tale as the tragedy of seduction, jealousy, lost freedom and lost love unravels and delivers a spicy and compact punch which can serve as a warning to anyone who has ever wanted everything in life and risked it all.

August 22 @ 7:30 p.m. - Sembrich Opera Museum's From the Paris Opera. A program of arias and duets with Phoebe Fennell, soprano, Eric Fennell, tenor and Michael Fennelly, piano at The Hyde Collection.

August 23 @ 2 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's La Tragedie de Carmen.

August 26 @5 p.m. - Adirondack Community College's Degas and the Culture of His Day. A program of poetry and music featuring faculty of ACC. Four professors from the college will weave the work of four French poets with works of art by Degas and music by their composer friends.

August 28 @ 7:30 p.m. - Cradle to Crone Production's Degas: His Love, His Women, His Art. A cabaret about the light, the dark, the realist, the Impressionist.

August 29 @ 7:30 p.m. - Phantom of the Opera with organ music. Presented by Sembrich Opera Museum at The Hyde Collection.

August 30 @ 1-3 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Discovery Day: Degas & Music. Tour followed by children's art-making session.

Season Events in July

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July 1-31 - The Guild of Adirondack Artists' Degas, Music, The Hyde Exhibition in the Friends Gallery at the Crandall Public Library. Event is free. Contact the Guild for more information 518-677-2495. FREE

July 1-31 - Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater and North Country Arts Center's Impressions of Dance. NCAC member artists will draw & photograph ARDT dancers and display their Impressions of Dance exhibition at several locations during 2009. The exhibition will include nearly 30 pieces. FREE

July 1-14 - Crandall Public Library Children's book display. Bring the family to the library to see a collection of books about Degas, art, and music. FREE

July 1 @ 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. & July 2-3 @ 8 p.m.- Adirondack Theatre Festival's Ordinary Days. A musical written by Adam Gwon following the lives of four New Yorkers as their paths become unwittingly intertwined. Performances are at the Charles R. Wood Theater. For ticket information contact the theater 518-798-9663.

July 2 @ 5:30-8:00 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Hyde After Dark. Socialize, network and experience the museum while enjoying jazz melodies from John Seneta and light appetizers.

July 11 @ 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Degas & Music All-Day Opening reception and preview for Hyde members only.

July 13 @ 12 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Summer Luncheon at the Lake George Club.

July 14 @ 2-3 p.m. - Degas' Dancers Inspire Ballet Basics - a dance workshop at Crandall Public Library. FREE

July 15-October 15 - World Awareness Children's Museum's Young Artists Inspired by Dance exhibition at Glens Falls Hospital. 518-926-1000 for more information. FREE

July 16 @ 6 p.m. - The Hyde Collection Degas Film Series, An American in Paris (NR). One of the greatest, most elegant, and most celebrated of MGM's 50's musicals. Lavish sets and costumes, tremendous Technicolor cinematography, and a romantic love story set to music and dance. Shown in the Museum's Helen Froehlich Auditorium. FREE

July 16 @ 5-8 p.m. - Third Thursday Art Walk. Discover established and up and coming local artists at various locations throughout Downtown Glens Falls. Maps of participating locations are available. Email glensfallsartwalk@yahoo.com for more information. FREE

July 17 @ 6-9 p.m. - Tom Myott Gallery's Degas-inspired Exhibition opening. Exhibition open through September 30. FREE

July 17 @ 7 p.m. - Hubbard Hall Curiosity Forum and Music from Salem: Hearing is Seeing: Synesthesia and the Arts. Do you see sounds, taste words, or hear colors? Join a cross-disciplinary panel of artists to explore the ways that different sensory modalities affect the creative process. Beacon Feed Studio in Hubbard Hall, 518-677-2495. FREE

July 18 @ 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Red Fox Books' Children's Story Time and Crafts. FREE

July 18 @ 7:30 p.m. - Cradle to Crone Productions' Chanson Serenade at The Hyde Collection.

July 19 @ 2 p.m. - Hyde Collection Degas Lecture Series, In the Phantom's Lair: The Architecture and Decoration of the Paris Opera. Independent journalist and scholar Barrymore Scherer will unlock the secrets and drama of the Paris Opera House, which has been the center of silent film to Andrew Lloyd-Webber's immensely popular musical, Phantom of the Opera. FREE

July 21 & 22 @ 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Degas Summer Art Studio. Classes for children. Session I.

July 23 & 24 @ 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Degas Summer Art Studio. Classes for children. Session II.

July 23 @ 7 p.m. - Chapman Historical Museum and Crandall Public Library's Music of the North Country. Ice cream social and fun family activities starting at 1 p.m. in City Park followed by Adirondack music by David Ruch. FREE

July 26 @ 3 p.m. - Music from Salem's French Feminine, Concert at Hubbard Hall.

July 28 & 29 @ 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Degas Summer Art Studio. Classes for children. Session III.

July 30 & 31 @ 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Degas Summer Art Studio. Classes for children. Session IV.

July 29-31 @ 8 p.m. - Seagle Music Colony's La Ceneratola, Opera at Oscar Seagle Memorial Theatre.

Season events in June

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June 1-30 - North Country Arts Center and Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater's Impressions of Dance. NCAC member artists will draw & photograph ARDT dancers and display their Impressions of Dance exhibition at several locations during 2009. The exhibition will include nearly 30 pieces.

June 6 @ 5:30 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Degas & Music Gala. The Gala marks a return of the event to The Hyde's grounds and serves as the formal kick-off event to the Season of Degas. Expect a night of dinner, dancing and cabaret.

June 18, 6-8 p.m. - Third Thursday Art Walk. Discover established and up and coming local artists at various locations throughout Downtown Glens Falls. Maps of participating locations are available. Email glensfallsartwalk@yahoo.com for more information.

June 18 @ 6 p.m. - The Hyde Collection Degas Film Series, Madeline (PG). Based on Ludwig Bemelman's classic children's books, follow the young and adventurous Madeline as she gets herself into trouble at every turn but manages to escape danger and save the day!

June 18, 6-8 p.m. - North Country Arts Center's Impressions of Dance, Exhibition Reception at the Crandall Public Library.

June 21 @ 2 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Musical Moments in Time: A Tribute to Degas. A concert performed by the Adirondack Recorder Band. Contact the band for more details 518-623-2867.

June 24-27 @ 8 p.m. - Adirondack Theatre Festival's Ordinary Days. A musical written by Adam Gwon following the lives of four New Yorkers as their paths become unwittingly intertwined. Performances are at the Charles R. Wood Theater. For ticket information contact the theater 518-798-9663.

Season events in May

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'Though The Hyde's Degas & Music exhibition is several weeks away from opening, several of our partners have begun their Season of Degas events. Check this spot regularly for updates on all things Degas!! For more info on any of the Season listings, see contact details on the right of this page.

This month...

Cowboy minstrels, Keefe’s Hall, Glens Falls,1906”

The Chapman Historical Museum's All Cordially Invited: Entertainment in the North Country, 1850-1920 - Exhibition extends through October 18, 2009.

What did people in Glens Falls and other communities in the North Country do for entertainment before TV?

The Chapman Historical Museum's summer exhibit, All Cordially Invited, explores forms of entertainment from 1850, when most North Country communities were quite isolated, through 1920 when the automobile and the radio radically changed how people socialized.

Included are such popular forms as the 19th century ball, concerts, lectures, picnics, revival meetings, clam roasts, excursions and ice cream socials. Also available were circus and vaudeville performances, fairs, baseball games and horse races. Admission is free.

May 17 @ 4 p.m. - Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater and North Country Arts Center's Dances Inspired by Degas and Impressions of Dance - Spring Concert and exhibition at Hudson Falls High School. Degas inspired dances and music will be performed during ARDT’s spring concert. NCAC will display its exhibition, which features member artists’ pieces inspired by Degas. Contact ARDT for pricing info.

May 18 - 22 - Adirondack Community College's Woodwind Ensemble tours - Elementary schools - contact the college at 518-743-2200, ext. 2468 to schedule a performance at your location.