VIDEO CONFIRMING HOW DANGEROUS W HARTSDALE IS FOR CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS (NOTICE HOW UNEVEN THE ROAD/SHOULDER IS AND HOW MUCH TRAFFIC THERE IS)--NEED FOR STATE TO BUILD SIDEWALK OR EXPAND SHOULDER AREA
http://westchester.news12.com/story/38544887/greenburgh-supervisor-dares-ny-officials-to-walk-dangerous-roadway I hope that NYS either builds a sidewalk on W Hartsdale Ave or widens the shoulders and makes the shoulder even with the road pavement. This is a pedestrian or bicycle fatality waiting to happen if nothing is done. Very pleased that NYS DOT has agreed to study the road conditions.
Thousands of people (cyclists and pedestrians) would benefit and would not need their cars to get to the Hartsdale train station and downtown Hartsdale
I am trying to arrange for a walk with NYS DOT officials on site.
https://www.caramoor.org/events/inuksuit/---FREE MUSICAL EVENT TOMORROW AT CARAMOOR
Tickets to Caramoor are usually not free. Tomorrow's event is an opportunity to visit beautiful caramoor in northern Westchester and to have a fantastic time. Enjoy!
PAUL FEINER
Overview
Caramoor throws open its gates and invites you to discover John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit, an epic outdoor piece performed by more than 60 percussionists and other instrumentalists, directed by Doug Perkins. Inuksuit calls for the audience to wander outside among musicians playing an incredible array of instruments including conch shells, sirens, gongs, bells, drums, cymbals, and glockenspiels, dispersed throughout the landscape. In addition to exploring Caramoor’s alluring gardens and grounds, take the opportunity to hear more about our sound art exhibition in a panel discussion at 1:00pm with the artists, moderated by curator Stephan Moore. Bring the kids for an interactive percussion activity at 2:00pm. Hear more about Inuksuitin a pre-concert talk at 3:00pm. It’s a day-long listening adventure for all ages and tickets are FREE!
“One of the most rapturous experiences of my listening life” — Alex Ross,
The New Yorker
Please note:
Certified service animals to assist the disabled are always welcome at Caramoor. Non-certified service dogs and other pets are not allowed at Caramoor.
Schedule
1:00pm Sonic Innovations panel discussion with Walter Kitundu, Paula Matthusen, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Taylor Deupree, Melanie Armer, and Stephan Moore
2:00pm Rhythm Rumpus — interactive percussion family fun!
3:00pm Pre-concert conversation with Doug Perkins and Steve Smith
4:00pm Inuksuit
About the Music.
A Note from the Composer
My music has always been rooted in the earth. Over the past thirty-five years I’ve composed many works inspired by the outdoors, but heard indoors. Recently, after hearing Strange and Sacred Noise performed in the Anza-Borrego desert, the New England woods, and the tundra of the Alaska Range, I’ve wanted to create a large-scale work conceived specifically to be performed outside.
Inuksuit is inspired by the stone sentinels constructed over the centuries by the Inuit in the windswept expanses of the Arctic. The word “Inuksuit” translates literally: “to act in the capacity of the human.” This work is haunted by the vision of the melting of the polar ice, the rising of the seas, and what may remain of humanity’s presence after the waters recede.
Inuksuit is a concert-length work for percussion, in which the performers are widely dispersed and move throughout a large, open area. The listeners, too, may move around freely and discover their own individual listening points. This work is intended to expand our awareness of the never-ending music of the world in which we live, transforming seemingly empty space into more fully experienced place.
Each performance of Inuksuit is different, determined by the size of the ensemble, the specific instruments chosen, and by the topology and vegetation of the site. There is no master score. Rather, this folio contains a collection of musical materials and possibilities for musicians to use in creating a unique realisation of the work.
Inuksuit invites exploration and discovery of the relationship between the music and the site, as well as the musicians’ interactions with both. The musicians are encouraged to consider carefully the selection of instruments, the distribution of performers, and the acoustical properties of the performance site.
The experience of preparing, performing and hearing Inuksuit may raise larger questions: What does it mean to act creatively with and within our environment? Can we listen and hear more deeply the field of sound all around us? How does where we are define what we do and, ultimately, who we are? And how do we understand the brevity of our human presence in the immensity of geologic time?
— John Luther Adams
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Join us for this FREE day at Caramoor. Over 60 percussionists will perform throughout Caramoor's grounds
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