Kendal’s Contemporary Issues Discussion Group (CIDG) will be taking a brief end-of-summer vacation.
Lead discussant Gene DuBow announced that CIDG, which normally meets on Zoom each Thursday morning at 10:00 am, will be taking time off on August 25 and September 1.
It resumes on Thursday, September 8.
Questions? Get in touch with Gene.
As of Monday, August 22, pool hours are changing on weekdays. The pool will be open from 9:00 am to noon and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
Saturday pool hours remain the same: 9:00 am -to noon and 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Guest swim time also remains the same: Monday – Saturday, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
The presentation of opera on video at Kendal continues with Oedipus Rex.
Oedipus Rex was composed by Igor Stravinsky as an opera-oratorio with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, based on the Sophocles tragedy.
The version presented on August 27 is a production directed by Julie Taymor, in which puppets portray the characters and Philip Langridge (speaker), Jessye Norman, Min Tanaka, and Bryn Terfel sing the roles. Seiji Ozawa conducts.
It was performed at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in Japan in 1992, and filmed by Taymor for television.
Enjoy this unique work in the Gathering Room at 1:00 pm.
On August 22, at 7:30, in the Gathering Room, Suzanne Clary of The Jay Heritage Center will present a program about the boyhood home of Founding Father John Jay. His 23-acre estate is located in Rye, NY.
Dedicated to protecting, preserving, and interpreting the estate’s landscape, gardens, and buildings, the Jay Heritage Center (JHC) hosts programs in American History, Architecture, Social Justice, Landscape Conservation and Environmental Stewardship, as well as concerts, plays, children's architecture camps, archaeological digs, and art exhibits.
Board President Suzanne Clary, JHC’s Executive Director from 2007 to 2019, spearheaded the nomination of the Jay Estate to the Congressionally-funded Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area in recognition of its historic significance, and advocated that the site be added to New York State’s “Path Through History” in the Mid-Hudson region.
Ms. Clary holds a BA in Art History from Yale.
There will be a special program on Nutrition Needs for Adults 65+ on Thursday, August 18, at 3 pm, in the Gathering Room.
Dining Services will present Victoria Burgess to speak about MyPlate, the USDA’s guide to helping seniors make healthy food choices.
Victoria Burgess, Ph.D., is a certified sports nutritionist and a champion stand-up paddleboard competitor.
Singalong! Thursday, August 18, 4:30 pm-5:30 pm.
Join us Thursday afternoon in the Residents Lounge for folk songs, mainly from Pete Seeger and the Weavers. Deb Wood will be playing the guitar, and Bill Rakower will have his bongos.
And you will do the singing.
The Tuesday Morning Club invites all Adirondack Residents to its meetings every TUESDAY at 10:00 am in the Gathering Room, for a morning of socialization, exercise, singing, games, puzzles and crafts.
Coffee and cake too!!!
Independent Living Residents are also welcome.
Saturday Opera continues at Kendal.
Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns will be shown Saturday, August 20. The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and
Delilah, Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament . The principal roles are sung by John Vickers and Shirley Verrett in a Royal Opera Covent Garden production by Elijah Moshinsky, designed by Sidney Nolan and conducted by Colin Davis.
The showing will take place in the Gathering Room at 1:00 pm.
As always, all are invited.
A trip to the Ukrainian Museum is planned for Wednesday, September 14.
The Ukrainian Museum and Library in Stamford, CT is the oldest cultural institution created by Ukrainians in North America. Established in 1935, it is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of artifacts and literature of Ukrainian culture and history.
Housed in an elegant former mansion, the collections include fine arts, folk arts, religious arts, and rare books. Paintings and sculptures by Ukrainian artists or of Ukrainian themes are on exhibit. The folk art collection consists of embroideries, textiles, kilims, pysanky (Easter eggs), ceramics, and folk musical instruments.
Religious icons from the 17th to 20th centuries, photo collections, dolls in traditional dress, and more are on exhibit.
A docent tour is included.
On August 15, at 7:30 pm, in the Gathering Room, Kendal will present a program on “The Hudson River School of Painting” by art historian, Cynthia Andersen.
In this lecture, we will discover a large, loosely knit group of artists including Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederick Church, and John Kensett, who painted landscapes in New York State, New England, and the far West between 1825 and 1875.
Their compositions often followed European formulas derived from the peaceful, balanced landscapes of Claude Lorrain or the more dramatic ones by Salvator Rosa. The Hudson River School artists responded to the rising sense of American nationhood and patriotism by painting America’s wilderness as if it were a new Eden from which a glorious civilization would arise.
Cynthia Andersen earned her B.A. from Hunter College and her Master’s in Education and Art History from Queens College. She currently teaches art history at Westchester Community College.
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