Here is a call to all of Kendal’s green thumbs. If you like digging around in the dirt and delight in seeing things grow, you are invited to a meeting of the Horticulture Committee.
The get-together will take place on Friday, April 12 at 2:00 pm in the Administrative Conference Room (near the Robert Fulton Bridge).
The meeting will be overseen by two of Kendal’s most active gardeners, Anna Mae O’Leary and Peter Limburg.
If you have questions, either one will be glad to answer them.
If you enjoy watching documentary films, more than likely you have watched one or more produced by Chris White, one of America’s most profound producers of these screen gems.
Kendal will be fortunate to have Chis White, the Executive Producer at American Documentary, Inc., here to talk with us.
He is also responsible for producing the award-winning POV-TV series and its sister program, America ReFramed, plus a wide range of other documentary programs and projects.
Chris will talk about selected film clips he will be bringing with him.
Chris is the son of Kendal resident Anne White.
The lecture and presentation will take place on Monday April 8 at 7:30 pm in the Gathering Room.
A new Trip organized by the Trips Committee will take place on Wed., May 10.
Residents will visit the Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers. Designed in 1916 for Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy lawyer, the gardens were among the best in America in the 1920’s and 1930’s but were mainly in ruins by the 21st century.
The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy has been restoring the gardens to their former glory, which is a work in progress that will take years and millions of dollars. The trip will focus on the Walled Garden, based on Indo-Persian gardens of antiquity with lush plants and flowers, a Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge, recently restored canals, Grecian-style architecture, sculpture and mosaics including a Temple of the Sky and an amphitheater.
In addition there are short wait lists for the Wed. Apr. 10 trip to NYC (Do Your Own Thing) and the Apr. 24 trip to the NY Public Library, also in NYC.
Sign-up for all trips is in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove.
It’s not the Met or La Scala but Kendal’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera Program will present Pagliacci in our own Gathering Room on April 13.
The performance will take place on the screen at 2:15 pm. It will star Placido Domingo as Canio, Teresa Stratas as Nedda, and Sherrill Milnes as Tonio, under the baton of James Levine.
The opera performances (via disc) are from the collection of Muriel Fox. The series has been organized by Kendal’s answer to Rudolph Bing, namely Amy Augustus.
Sopranos Catherine Campbell Nesbit (director of the Kendal Chorus) and Julie Majchrzyk return for a special program of seasonal songs, interspersed with excerpts from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Joining them are pianist Mark Mitchell, assistant musical director of “Kiss Me, Kate” on Broadway; Carol Collins and Jane Parkhouse, violin; Kate Branch, viola; and Howard Cohen, cello.
Be sure to come at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 7, to the Gathering Room for a fabulous show that will bring back special memories of some of our favorite songs by Gershwin, Mercer, Barber, Arlen, Romberg, and Lerner & Loewe.
Everybody at Kendal knows and loves our main library; however, many may not know that Kendal has a small French library on the 2nd floor of the Robert Fulton Building.
It is located around the corner from the elevator (west side). There are lots of novels, both old and new, plus biography, poetry, drama, and history. One will also find several French/English dictionaries on the bottom shelf.
To borrow a book, all residents need to do is put their name, phone number and the book title in the notebook on the top shelf.
In addition there is an Oxford English Dictionary in the Fulton Building. It can be found across the hall from the French library.
There are other special collection spread throughout the Kendal buildings. We’ll be describing them in future editions of the website.
Steve J. Sherman (son of resident Ruth Sherman) is one of NYC’s premier performing arts photographers, widely recognized for his extensive long-term associations with Carnegie Hall and The New York Times, and his work with Maestro Leonard Bernstein.
His photographs regularly appear in newspapers and magazines, on CD and DVD covers, and in biographies, music appreciation books, textbooks, encyclopedias and educational journals.
On Monday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m., Steve will present “Leonard Bernstein in Photographs,” including works from his highly acclaimed books Leonard Bernstein at Work –His Final Years and Leonard Bernstein 100: The Masters Photograph the Maestro.
Steve will discuss what it was like to photograph Bernstein and offer observations and thoughts as to what made him the great legend he is – his constant need to learn, teach and share knowledge, his brilliant and restless mind, his deep devotion to justice and total love for music and all art forms.
Steve will also discuss Bernstein’s demons—the drinking and smoking that ultimately killed him at an early age.
Copies of Leonard Bernstein 100 will be available for purchase at $45 each ($60 for a copy pre-signed by Jamie Bernstein).
“MOSTLY BLUE AND WHITE”
Opening Reception
April 9, 2019: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
In the Rue des Artistes
All members of the Kendal Community are invited
TO THE EXHIBITORS OF OUR NEW ART SHOW
Please bring your work to the Art Room on Saturday April 6 between 1:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. or Sunday April 7, between 10:00 A.M. and noon. If you cannot do so, we will pick it up or make other arrangements and make sure that your work will be part of the exhibit. We also want you to know that we have received so much excellent work that we may not have the space to hang it all. We will hang as many as space allows.
Please make sure there is a wire on the back as our hanging system can only accommodate wires. Also put on the back of your submission:
(a) your name
(b) your apartment number
(c) your telephone number
(d) the title of your picture, etc.
(e) medium (oil, etc.)
If you have any questions please contact:
Lynn Brady or Barbara Gochman
The Trips Committee announced a new excursion scheduled for Wednesday, April 17.
The group will go by van to the Brooklyn Museum where the main exhibit is “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving,” focusing on the iconic legend’s style, identity and legacy. There is a timed-admission. There are 11 paintings, lots of drawings and photographs, and personal possessions from her Mexico City home, Casa Azul (Blue House). They are being shown in the U.S. for the first time. They will include clothing, jewelry and prosthetic devices.
Sign-up for the trip will, as usual, take place in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove.
Signing up for a trip is a commitment. It is expected that if you do so, you will show up at the appropriate time to participate. If for some reason that is not possible and you must cancel, you are required to draw a line through your name on the list of participants as early as possible so another resident can take your place in the van.
Questions? Please talk to Jan Myers.
TO WEBSITE NEWS EDITOR:
Thanks for posting details in the March 17 issue about my April 6 workshop, "Being Alone and Being Together." Your clever illustration shows a signpost with these two tendencies going in opposite directions. May I suggest rather that they operate mutually. Our next interactional meeting will reveal that your own unique autonomy colors interaction while your social behavior reflects much of what makes up your inner self.
Indeed, while this subject may be vexing for the illustrator, it will be personally clarifying for those who choose to enroll in the forthcoming group.
Myron Gordon
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