The State Theatre boasts another impressive schedule of artists for the fall season, and while we can’t highlight them all (check the website!), here are some highlights that you will surely want to check out.
Fall is traditionally the time of year when a city’s galleries and museums come fully alive after the respites of late summer. Ithaca, with its compact but vital exhibitions scene, is no exception.
One of the area’s most prominent museums, the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, has a new leader as Jessica Levin Martinez arrived in July with goals of using the museum as a platform for community and relationship-building.
The fall theatre season is off to a quick start with the Kitchen Theatre, Cornell’s Dept of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), the Cherry Arts Collective and Opera Ithaca all opening shows this month.
The classical music season calendar is especially full this fall, and includes three extraordinary events. This weekend, on Sept. 6 and 7, the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards—instruments including organs and pianos of all ages—will be inaugurated at 8 p.m.. Lecture-demonstrations and…
This fall’s classical music season starts off with a great swell of sound. Mark your calendars for a major occasion, the dedication of a new French organ at St. Luke Lutheran Church on Oak Avenue in mid-Sept. (see Special Events below). The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s 40th anniversary season …
Sam Buggeln got the impulse to start Cherry Arts theater company while he was in Argentina. His partner, now husband Nick, was on sabbatical, and Buggeln took the opportunity to explore the theater community of Buenos Aires, which he found to be as large as that of New York City, but to run …
As summer draws to a close and autumn nears with the anticipation of changing leaves, a new semester means one thing to local art writers and enthusiasts alike: new shows at Ithaca College and Cornell. The Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College in particular has experienced a rapid evolution o…
On Sept. 6 Opus Ithaca will have opened the doors for its fifth season of music education and enjoyment. Located in the lower level of St Paul’s United Methodist Church, Opus is the brainchild of Andrea Merrill. Merrill is originally from Pennsylvania, and received her bachelor’s degree in m…
For those with a yen for the visual arts, the Greater Ithaca Art Trail is something of an autumn rite. As the weather turns cooler and the foliage changes color, the studios of numerous Tompkins County artists and craftspeople open to accept visitors. Taking place during two weekends in Octo…
The Kitchen Theatre hits the silver milestone this year: their 25th season.
The classical music scene this fall is bright with a varied array of modern music, and an inspiring number of collaborations in performance between our two leading academic institutions. Moreover, this season marks several anniversaries. Both the Ithaca Community Chorus and the Cayuga Vocal …
Walking through pre-show chaos as the Handwerker Gallery prepares for “Starting from Scratch,” its first show of the fall semester (now up in the gallery through the end of the month), the potential and newfound energy of the space is apparent. As an Ithaca College alum and former Handwerker…
For newcomers or any Ithacan wandering downtown, did you notice how new public artwork sprung up mid-summer? Maybe you were wandering near the Green Street parking garage and noticed a huge rock in a confoundingly familiar shape, or you checked out a new sculpture blooming in front of the To…
As a complement to its year-round schedule of exhibits, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell hosts numerous special events—particularly during the school year. Most of these are free and open to the general public, as is admission to the museum. (Unless otherwise mentioned, all events de…
Classical Music Treats for the Fall Season
If Civic Ensemble has a mantra, this is it: “ Theatre is everyone’s birthright.”
“I think practically everybody unconsciously registers things, but they don’t articulate them,” said Alison Lurie last month from her home in Ithaca. The novelist, critic, and professor emeritus at Cornell University has spent a long and varied career finding words to express what is often l…
The Handwerker Gallery, an art exhibition and teaching space at Ithaca College, endowed by Murray Handwerker, scion of the Nathan’s Famous chain, has an active schedule of exhibits and events scheduled for fall 2014. In addition to the oft-changing images on the walls, the gallery hosts a le…
For lovers of keyboard music of all kinds, here is a weekend feast catered just for you. Four concerts at Cornell will present widely varied music on totally different keyboard instruments. The “Cascade of Keys” starts on Friday, September 6, in Barnes Hall on Steinway pianos with popular lo…
Gathering material for fall classical music presentations is always an amazing process. As usual there is a wonderland of concerts out there. And we welcome two new leaders to our scene this fall—
According to their dossier, Wolf’s Mouth Theatre Collective (www.wolfsmouth.com) is an informal Ithaca-based meeting spot for theatre enthusiasts to gather, listen to readings of new plays and then produce them. They congregate and compare notes every second and fourth Monday of the month at…
The first show of the fall season at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery is the “Marcellus Shale Documentary Project,” which, because of its socio-political importance, is sure to attract the attention of a portion of the public not given to gallery visits. The show includes the work of six …
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