Photo by Dana Duke
Mark Rush, violinist and Tannis Gibson, pianist.

Editor's pick: Summer Chamber Music Festival

Music festival makes merry with Mozart

Sunday, July 9 through Saturday, July 22; information 845/932-8527.

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY - In the news from Salzburg to San Francisco, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th birthday celebration has gone global. Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) joins the international revelry with a Mozart festival of its own July 9 to 22.

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What's at the Movies
by Ian Pugh

‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Al Gore film presents environmental issues with gravitas, humor

At first glance, it’s rather difficult to judge Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth” on an aesthetic level, because it’s more interested in conveying an uncomplicated message to the public than anything else. As such, it simply sets up a few cameras to film a computer slideshow-aided lecture by Al Gore, who’s got a few things to say about the state of the environment.

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Comedy in Fallsburg

SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY - Nick is 29, single, and spends every Sunday having dinner with both sets of Italian grandparents in Hoboken, NJ. When his dream job threatens to take him to Seattle, his grandparents will stop at nothing to keep him close to the famiglia. This is the premise of Joe DiPietro’s hilarious comedy, “Over the River and Through the Woods,” being staged by the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop.

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