Capital Region NY
Show Detective. Friday, August 18th Earth: An HD Odyssey, SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 7:30pm This night features two films shown on large LED screens and accompanied by The Philadelphia Orchestra. Philharmonia Fantastique is set to an original score by Mason Bates. The animated film follows a musical sprite that explores the different instruments of the orchestra and the […]
We don’t often interview someone more than once. It’s not a policy; we just have a lot of people out there doing fun things. We don’t have to talk to the same people. So, when we do, there’s a reason. And so, there is with our next guest. Mike Valente is a cornerstone of the […]
I was incredibly lucky to have played music in the 1980s and early 90s with a wide variety of fine musicians, so I thought I would write about some of them. During our time with the band, Paul and I worked with four different drummers. Charles Ross, who was going by Chuck then, was the […]
We had done a lot of work over the summer trying to make the trailer livable, but there was still a long way to go when Paul moved out. I was also facing being a single mom of two for the first time. Although, I had done most of the caretaking for our children, I was […]
When you relocate often, you learn to set roots quickly and those roots are deep. The strongest ones are the ones grown during hard times or just big changes. When I lived in California. I was in my early 20s. I had arrived by hitchhiking across the country, gotten married and had my first child, […]