Kendal’s Saturday Opera continues.
Our program this week is Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio, in a presentation by the Vienna State Opera with Adrianne Pieczonka, Jonas Kaufmann, Tomasz Koneczny, Hans-Peter König, and Olga Bezsmertna. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Franz Welser-Möst at the 2015 Salzburg Festival.
It takes place on Saturday, March 26, at 1 pm in the Gathering Room.
COFFEE CHAT
On March 10 at 1:00 pm, you are invited to join Kendal’s Executive Director Pamela in the Private Dining Room to share with her your ideas, concerns and opinions.
Registration is required. To register call Jordan DiPaolo.
Want to talk to Power? This is the time. Have a cup of coffee while you’re doing it.
New Trip
Wednesday, April 6: The Guggenheim Museum in New York was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. New exhibitions are “Vassily Kandinsky: Around the Circle” and Jennie C. Jones’ “Dynamics.”
Kandinsky is known as a major artistic innovator and painting theorist, who did nonrepresentational paintings in the 20th century but with inner necessity and spiritual expressionism related to his environment. His was not a fixed path from representation to abstraction but a circular passage. Jennie C. Jones combines abstraction and sound through acoustic panels.
Upcoming Trips
Two Met Opera HD Live trips for Saturday matinees are at City Center Cinema in White Plains:
March 12 - Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos stars Lise Davidsen, a Norwegian soprano, as Ariadne, who has rave reviews from Europe;
May 21 - Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor stars Nadine Sierra, soprano, and Javier Camarena, tenor, who have mesmerized Met audiences.
The lists filled months ago but there is no or a minimal wait list for the trips. Tickets are $27 and transportation $10 each.
The Opera tab is at the back of the Trips Book, which is now at the Front Desk.
SATURDAY OPERA
On Saturday, March 12, you’ll enjoy lighter fare in the form of Franz Lehar’s operetta The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe)
The principal singers are Renée Fleming, Nathan Gunn, Kelli O’Hara, Alek Shrader, and Sir Thomas Allen.
Susan Stroman directs and Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus. In English with subtitles.
The operetta will be shown at 1:00 pm in the Gathering Room.
Some residents have received absentee ballots for the Sleepy Hollow Village elections on March 15. This is because you requested an absentee ballot in the past and marked your request “permanent.”
It is not necessary to mail this ballot.
The Village elections will be held right here in Kendal at a polling station in the Private Dining Room. Just remember that if you do mail your absentee ballot, you will not be able to vote here. One ballot per person.
Should you forget that you have voted, the second attempt will be rejected by the computer guarding the election and you will not be dragged away in chains.
Whew!
Martin Smolin & Annette Leyden
“Is There A New Normal in Education?” Find out on Monday, March 7 at 7:30 in the Gathering Room.
Dr. Frances Wills is just the right person to share her perspective on whether there’s a “New Normal in Education.” She’s a retired school superintendent who led the Briarcliff Manor school district for 16 years and the Putnam Valley school district for another six years. For three years she served as Coordinator of Professional Development for Pace University’s School of Education.
In 2020 she was chosen to represent the 9th Judicial District on the New York State Board of Regents. (The 17-member board makes statewide education policy; the 9th district includes Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess and Orange counties).
Dr. Wills, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has authored numerous articles on educational issues and co-authored a chapter on leading change in a text on district leadership, published by SUNY Press.
On Sunday, March 13, at 3:00 pm, violinists Emilie-Anne Gendron and Gabriel Schaff will present a program of “Hungarian Music for Two Violins” in the Gathering Room, featuring works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Bela Bartok and Miklos Rozsa.
Ms. Gendron performed at Kendal last December with pianist Anthony Newman. She holds a Master of Music degree and the Artist Diploma from Juilliard. Gabriel Schaff, who studied at the Manhattan School of Music, is an internationally recognized author of books and articles pertaining to the history of the violin family and the music written for it.
This should be a genuine top-flight double-header. All are invited.
On Thursday, March 3 at 10 am, the Contemporary Issues Discussion Group (CIDG) will host a Zoom program with international journalist and organization leader, Deidre Berger. She will be talking to the Group from Berlin and will focus on the situation in Ukraine.
Ms. Berger is Chair of the Executive Board of the Jewish Digital Recovery Project Foundation, which is establishing a central archival database of cultural objects looted by National Socialists and collaborators. Prior to this appointment, she spent two decades as Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, also serving as Senior European Affairs Advisor for AJC Europe.
Prior to joining the AJC in 1999, Ms. Berger worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent, reporting on German and European affairs for National Public Radio, Deutsche Welle international broadcast network, and other print and broadcast media.
In 2008, the German President’s Office awarded her the German Federal Cross of Merit for her service in German-Jewish relations.
If you are not as yet on the CIDG Zoom list, please speak to Eugene DuBow.
The Computer Committee announces a rescheduled Zoom on March 4, at 2 pm.
IPHONES: HOW TO SHARE PHOTOS IN EMAILS AND TEXT MESSAGES (taught by Art Brady). You will receive a Zoom invitation from Stan Amberg and a reminder on March 4. (If you do not receive the invitation, contact Stan.)
A future Zoom will cover ANDROIDS: HOW AND WHY TO ADD BOOKMARKS.
We encourage you to request Zoom sessions on other subjects. Just call Joe Bruno.
ZOOM NEIGHBORS 2022: If you are having one of those frustrating Zoom moments, a ZOOM NEIGHBOR is ready to help. Call Stan Amberg, Sheila Darnborough, Lailani Moody, Jeff O'Donnell (use his cell), Ann Marie Schneeman, or Roberta Poupon (see Resident list for phone numbers)
If you are already comfortable on Zoom and would like to add your name to the ZOOM NEIGHBOR 2022 list, contact Roberta P.
ANNUAL APPEAL 2022 closes on February 28 •
SINCERE THANKS TO THE MANY WHOSE GENEROSITY HAS MADE THIS YEAR’S DRIVE A SUCCESS!
The Appeal has ended on a high note! Your contributions are a valid measure of our strength as a community. Final results will be announced on March 14 at the Residents Council meeting.
Annual Appeal Committee: Suzanne Adel, Gretchen Engler, Muriel Fox, Mary Alice Walker
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