fbpx
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
    • Get Home Delivery
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
    • Advertise
    • Customer Support
    • Submit A News Tip
    • Where’s My Paper?
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial
  • Holiday Gift Subscription
Hudson Valley One
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
Hudson Valley One
No Result
View All Result

Hip in the hills: Mount Tremper Summer Arts Festival

by John Burdick
April 1, 2016
in Art & Music, Entertainment, Stage & Screen
0

[portfolio_slideshow id=16491]

 

Mount Tremper: Is there even a “there” there? Everyone I know from Mount Tremper (interesting folks, all) seems to live at least 15 miles from everyone else I know in Mount Tremper. But the schedule of events at the sprawling, multi-modal and indefatigably hip Mount Tremper Summer Arts Festival describes a radically different place: perhaps of a secret city hidden in the hollowed breast of a Catskill where people too cool for Brooklyn and even for Hudson hang out and live the life of the positively current urban mind.

The eighth annual Mount Tremper Summer Arts Festival stretches right across the heart of the summer, from July 11 to August 22. The Wall Street Journal has called it the “Fresh Air Fund for experimental artists,” The New York Times “a magnet for adventurous urban artists,” to which Almanac Weekly adds “yeah.” The lineup of challenging, transgressive and ultra-now dance, music, opera, theater and literature is just kinda bizarre, to be honest.

The festival kicks off with an Art-B-Q on Saturday, July 11 at 7 p.m. and at 8 with the opening of Camp, a weeklong experiment in choreography, art and collective living curated by the multi-art performance collective AUNTS.

On Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18 at 8 p.m., New Orleans theater artists Nat & Veronica present the world premiere of Clouds/Cows, a multimodal exploration of the pastoral timescale and the endangered art of zoning out. Part one, Clouds, combines live choral performance with large-scale living sculptures, immersing audiences in a collective daydream. Part two, Cows, presents a funny and tender portrayal of a year in the life of three domestic bovines.

On Friday and Saturday, July 24 at 25 at 8 p.m., audiences are treated to a special outdoor performance of composer David Malloy’s witty and weird song cycle about love, death and whiskey, Ghost Quartet. Seated amongst the audience, Brittain Ashford, Gelsey Bell, Brent Arnold and Malloy perform music for four voices, cello, guitars, dulcimer, Celtic harp, erhu, autoharp, accordion, keyboards and percussion, raising the spirits of murder ballads, doo-wop, angular bebop, Chinese folk, Islamic adhan and the music of Bernard Herrmann and George Crumb. Ghost Quartet is designed by Christopher Bowser and directed by Annie Tippe.

On Friday and Saturday, July 31 and August 1 at  8 p.m., the esteemed experimental music ensemble the Flux Quartet returns to Mount Tremper to perform the world premiere of Tom Chiu’s RETROCON, as well as iconic works by late-20th-century masters Conlon Nancarrow and John Cage and new music by composer/pianist Marc Neikrug and additional emerging composers.

The award-winning International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns for its fifth consecutive season with soprano Tony Arnold, performing composer David Lang’s Whisper Opera, a critically acclaimed chamber opera, written at Mount Tremper Arts and designed for an intimate audience of 35 people. Whisper Opera will be performed on Friday, August 7 at 8 p.m., Saturday, August 8 at 6 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, August 9 at 3 p.m.

On Friday and Saturday, August 14 and 15 at 8 p.m., MTA presents a preview of John Jahnke and his company Hotel Savant’s Alas, the Nymphs, the first section of Jahnke’s Men Go Down, a trilogy combining the construction of Greek drama with fairytale sensibility to examine the ramifications of antique guilt infesting our modern conscience.

The Festival concludes with another Art-B-Q, this one subtitled “Pork and Poetry,” featuring the experimental poetry of Tan Lin and Robert Fitterman on August 22 at 7 p.m. The reading begins at 8.

Ticket options to the eighth annual Summer Festival include a $95 season pass or $20 individual tickets, which are available online at https://mounttremperarts.org, by phone at (845) 688-9893 or in person at the Mount Tremper Arts box office, which opens one hour before events. There is no reserved seating. Mount Tremper Arts is located at 647 South Plank Road in Mount Tremper.

 

Mount Tremper Summer Arts Festival, July 11-August 22, https://mounttremperarts.org.

Join the family! Grab a free month of HV1 from the folks who have brought you substantive local news since 1972. We made it 50 years thanks to support from readers like you. Help us keep real journalism alive.
- Geddy Sveikauskas, Publisher
Previous Post

Action sequence: Locals seek support for movie

Next Post

Swanzey says his review of Steve Noble-written grants is finding flaws

John Burdick

Related Posts

Enormous collection of historic Woodstock art opens this Saturday in New Paltz
Art & Music

Enormous collection of historic Woodstock art opens this Saturday in New Paltz

February 2, 2023
To be young, gifted and brown: Hudson Hall screens new documentary Hudson, America this Saturday
Stage & Screen

To be young, gifted and brown: Hudson Hall screens new documentary Hudson, America this Saturday

February 2, 2023
All the music events in Ulster County, Feb. 1 – 7
Art & Music

All the music events in Ulster County, Feb. 1 – 7

February 1, 2023
Juliana Nash’s serendipitous musical journey from NYC to Kingston
Art & Music

Juliana Nash’s serendipitous musical journey from NYC to Kingston

January 26, 2023
Historical Society of Woodstock receives locally historic gift
Art & Music

Historical Society of Woodstock receives locally historic gift

January 29, 2023
Current art exhibitions in and around Ulster County: Jan. 25-31
Art & Music

Current art exhibitions in and around Ulster County: Jan. 25-31

January 25, 2023
Next Post

Swanzey says his review of Steve Noble-written grants is finding flaws

Trending News

  • Saugerties to host inaugural Snow Moon Festival February 3 to 5 2k views
  • Visit Kingston’s 12,240-square-foot squat, centrally located with wood-burning fireplace 1.8k views
  • Neighbors protest Ulster County Veterans’ Cemetery flagpole spotlights 765 views
  • Enormous collection of historic Woodstock art opens this Saturday in New Paltz 712 views
  • Dog rescued from Wallkill River’s icy grip 656 views
  • Controversy ensues as KCSD walks back Black History Month opt out language 581 views

Weather

Kingston
◉
21°
Sunny
7:01 am5:18 pm EST
Feels like: 21°F
Wind: 0mph SW
Humidity: 72%
Pressure: 30.39"Hg
UV index: 0
WedThuFri
48/27°F
39/37°F
55/30°F
Weather forecast Kingston, New York ▸

Subscribe

Independent. Local. Substantive. Subscribe now.

  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial
  • Holiday Gift Subscription

© 2022 Ulster Publishing

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Contact Us
    • Customer Support
    • Advertise
    • Submit A News Tip
  • Print Edition
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
    • Where’s My Paper
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Log In
  • Free HV1 Trial

© 2022 Ulster Publishing