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SARANAC LAKE NY — The Adirondack holiday season begins with the Sparkle Village Craft Show in Saranac Lake on Friday and Saturday, December 7 & 8, 2012. It’s one of the largest handmade craft shows in the North Country, and over 1500 people are expected to attend!

“It’s a great way for people to get a start on their holiday shopping if they haven’t already done so,” said Sylvie Nelson, Executive Director at the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s a wonderful place to find quality, regionally-made items from artisans – and also a great opportunity to head to downtown Saranac Lake and visit all of the locally-owned shops and restaurants and just make a day of it!”

The Sparkle Village Craft Show is held at Harrietstown Town Hall Auditorium in Saranac Lake NY. The craft show is open Friday from 4pm to 8pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Admission is $1.

It’s the perfect place to find one-of-a-kind holiday giftsfor the special people in your life this season! Browse original paintings and photographs by regional artists and many other unique finds, including handcrafted jewelry, pottery, hats, candles and much more.

The Sparkle Village Craft Show is a juried show. All of the 40 participating vendors are hand-selected artisans with exemplary talent and craftmanship.

The Sparkle Village Craft Fair is sponsored by the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Contact them directly at 518-891-1990 for more information about this event.

Saranac Lake Holiday Art Stroll Dec 7-8-9

The weekend of December 7-8-9 will find Saranac Lake bustling with art activities, in addition to all the wonderful events planned for “Home for the Holidays”.

The first Holiday Art Stroll has been organized by Saranac Lake ArtWorks. Like the 3rd Thursday ArtWalks in the summer, the public is invited to stroll the festive, holiday decorated streets of Saranac Lake. Visit various art venues for special exhibits, demonstrations, opportunities to meet the artists, live music, and holiday refreshments.

The Adirondack Carousel will be open Friday from 6 – 9 and Saturday and Sunday from 11 – 4 and it’s reported that Santa will be stopping in for a ride!

The Adirondack Artists Guild at 52 Main St. will be open until 7 on Friday and Saturday, with regular 11 – 3 hours on Sunday. The featured artist of the month is Diane Leifheit, whose exhibit of pastels ‘In the Raw” will be on display. The works of the other 13 members of the Guild will also be on display and there will be free refreshments.

Up above the Artists Guild, Matt Paul and Maria DeAngelo will have their studio open with work on display and refreshments available.

Mark Kurtz Photography, also above the Artists Guild, will be open Friday until 8 pm, Saturday til 6 and Sunday from 12 – 4 with “hot, steaming holiday refreshments to warm the stroller between gallery visits”!

Friday from 4 – 8 and Saturday from 10 – 4 the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce “Sparkle Village Arts & Crafts Fair” will be going on in the Harrietstown Town Hall. 40 regional vendors will have their handicrafts on display for holiday shoppers.

Pendragon Theatre is hosting a Holiday Cabaret Fund Raiser on Friday evening with some holiday music and a “sprinkling of showtunes”! Art work by Artist Guild member Suzanne Langelier-Lebeda is on display in the theatre gallery.

The Small Fortune Studio will be open during the weekend with Tim Fortune at work, as usual, on his oils and watercolors of the Adirondacks. Stop in for a chat with the artist!

Sandra Hildreth, another painter of Adirondack landscapes, will have an Open House at her home Studio/Gallery at 182 Lake Street on Sunday, only, from 10 – 4.

The “Enchanted Christmas on Helen Hill” will be continuing with various artists studios open on Saturday from 11 – 3. More information is on their Facebook page.

Over at 36 Broadway, there will be live music at the Left Bank Cafe, where the “Rustic Riders” will be performing Saturday from 7 – 9. The NorthWind Fine Arts gallery is hosting a Holiday Reception on Friday from 6 – 8 pm.  New small works by all 10 gallery members will be on display as well as handmade ornaments. Refreshments available and the gallery will be open throughout the weekend. At Piece by Piece studio, Beth Gallagher will be open until 7 on Friday and Saturday and will conduct demonstrations on how to make fabric and wool ornaments.

Bluseed Studios, at 32 Cedar St., welcomes visitors to stop in and see “Tsi Nón:we Tewèn:teron / Where our home is”, an exhibit of original, hand-made traditional prints by  Iroquois artists trained at the Atelier CIEM in Mirabel, QC.

“Home for the Holidays’ will be hosting a Marshamallow Roast Friday from 4 – 6; a Community Sing-Along with High School Carolers, and at 5 pm the official Tree Lighting in Berkeley Square with Mayor Clyde Rabideau.

Come celebrate both the Holiday season and the arts in Saranac Lake! To obtain more information, visit SaranacLakeArtWorks.com.

Sandra Hildreth, shildreth@roadrunner.com, 518-891-1388

Saranac Lake ArtWorks

PO Box 1274

Saranac Lake, NY

THE MET: LIVE IN HD

A New Production of

Verdi’s Romantic Drama

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

TRANSMITTED LIVE TO LPCA

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 at 12:55 p.m.

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND VIDEO
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THE MET: LIVE IN HD

Un Ballo in Maschera by Giuseppe Verdi

Host: Deborah Voigt

The Met presents a new production of Un Ballo in Maschera, Verdi’s classic drama of political intrigue and thwarted romance, staged by acclaimed opera director David Alden and led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. The performance will be available to North Country audiences to view live on the big screen at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts at 1pm on Saturday, December 8. Tickets are $18 for adults, $16 for LPCA Members, $12 for students 18 & under. Series tickets are also available for those wishing to attend 6 operas throughout the course of the season. Themed Box Lunches from Saranac Sourdough are available to order at the Box Office prior to the performance and will be delivered for intermission. Call LPCA at 523-2512 for more information and to purchase tickets.

Some of the Met’s leading Verdi stars take on the central roles in the opera’s love triangle: Marcelo Álvarez as the ill-fated King Gustavo III; Dmitri Hvorostovsky as his best friend and eventual rival, Count Anckarström; and Sondra Radvanovsky as Amelia, Anckarström’s wife and the object of the king’s secret passion. Kathleen Kim sings the coloratura role of Oscar, Gustavo’s page, and Stephanie Blythe is Mme. Ulrica Arvidsson, a fortune-teller with ominous news for the king. Soprano Deborah Voigt hosts the transmission and conducts backstage interviews with the stars. (Running time: approximately 204 minutes, including two intermissions.)

Holiday Concert at Saranac Village at Will Rogers

On Saturday, December 8th at 7:30 p.m., Saranac Village at Will Rogers will hold a winter concert made up of a variety of musicians from the Tri-Lakes area and will include a celebration of the first night of Chanukah, the performance of “Messiah” and caroling with audience participation.

Featured in the performance will be the Saranac Lake High School’s Jazz Band under the direction of Keith Kogut, The Saranac Lake Vocal Ensemble led by Andrew Benware, the Adirondack Saxes, the Backwater Recorder Consort, Adirondack String Quartet, the Baroque Chamber Group and the Tri-Lakes Community Orchestra.

This program is open to the public and food and monetary donations will be accepted for the Saranac Lake Food Pantry. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Debbie Kanze at (518) 891-7117.

CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY PARTY — The Story Time Holiday Party, sponsored by the Saranac Lake Free Library, 109 Main Street, will take place Thursday, December 13, at 10:30 a.m., in the Thomas B. Cantwell Community Room. The program will include seasonal stories and festive treats. All preschoolers are cordially invited to attend. Call 891-4190 for more information.

The Lake Placid Center for the Arts invites you to celebrate the holidays Adirondack style on Friday, December 14 at 7pm. The twelfth annual An Adirondack Christmas concert will feature Dan Duggan, Roy Hurd, Peggy Lynn and Frank Orsini. Tom Hodgson and Henry Jankiewicz return as special guests! These celebrated Adirondack musicians join together to delight audiences of all ages with a special program that has quickly become an Adirondack holiday tradition. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, and $6 for children under 12. Call 523-2512 for tickets or www.LakePlacidArts.org for more information.

Martha Gallagher concert on Saturday Dec. 15th at 7pm at the Amos and Julia Ward theatre in Jay,NY

EVENING STORY TIME PROGRAM – Join the fun at the evening children’s Story Time Program on Tuesday, December 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the Children’s Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library,109 Main Street. Terrie Perkins will present stories about the holidays. Call 891-4190 for more information.

The 5th & 6th Graders from Tupper Lake’s L. P. Quinn Elementary School will present their winter concert on Tuesday, December 18th at 6:30pm in the LP Quinn Cafeteria.

The 4th Graders from the LP Quinn Elementary School will present their winter concert in the LP Quinn Cafeteria in Tupper Lake at 6:30pm on Wednesday, December 19th.

The Tupper Lake Middle and High School will present their Winter Band and Chorus Concert on Thursday, December 20th from 6:30-8:30 pm in the Tupper Lake Middle High School Auditorium.

Conductor Andrew Benware

The Quintessential Sound of Christmas 
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble will give three performances of a Festival of Lessons
and Carols:
- Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm at Notre Dame Church in Malone
- Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh
- Sunday, December 23 at 3:00 pm at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), conducted by Andrew Benware, is a mixed chamber choir of professional and amateur singers: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A small and balanced ensemble to which each member brings extensive previous choral experience, NAVE performs a variety of periods and styles with harmonies of four-to-eight parts.
NAVE’s twenty members represent a cross-section of the Adirondacks, hailing from points in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Distinct from other choral groups in our region, NAVE is essentially an a cappella choir focusing on the rich and historical repertoire composed specifically for chamber choir unaccompanied by instruments.
NAVE’s Festival of Lessons and Carols follows the traditional model of those performed annually on Christmas Eve (since 1928) at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. The customary format is built around nine short Bible readings from the Old and New Testaments that trace the story of the fall of humanity and the promise of a Messiah to the birth of Jesus. Anthems, carols, and hymns are liberally interspersed throughout to illuminate the narrative musically.

NAVE’s special a cappella version features two early music masterpieces sung in Latin: the medieval carol dating from the 12th century, “Personent Hodie” (“On This Day Earth Shall Ring”) and the 16th-century renaissance antiphonal motet “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (“Today Christ is Born”) by Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Fast-forward to a pair of contemporary works that have won a place in the constellation of essential Christmas music: “O Magnum Mysterium” (“O Great Mystery) by Morten Lauridsen (1995) and “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott (2001).
The program includes the well-loved traditional carols “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” “Sans Day Carol,” and “Herefordshire Carol” (respectively Polish, Cornish, and English). Also of interest are Boris Ord’s setting of the 15th-century text “Adam Lay Ybounden” and Harold Darke’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (both were English composers active in the mid-20th century).
Of special note will be the folkish “A Virgin Unspotted” (1778) by the Colonial American composer William Billings and the juicy “Bogoroditsje Djevo” (“Hail Mary”) of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1915), so evocative of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Community members will read the texts, which include passages from Genesis and the Gospels, as well as a contemporary poem, “Annunciation,” by Denise Levertov. The audience is invited to join with the choir in congregational singing – accompanied by the mighty organ! – of familiar Advent and Christmas hymns: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “While Shepherd’s Watched Their Flocks by Night,” ”As With Gladness Men of Old,” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”

Admission is a suggested donation of $10. For more information please telephone 518-293-7613 or send a message by e-mail to hillholl@hughes.net

Drew M. Benware is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Saranac Lake High School, where he conducts the Festival Chorus, Concert Choir, Men’s Ensemble, Women’s Ensemble, and teaches small group vocal instruction. He also serves as the Music Director for the annual musical theater production and maintains a small private piano studio. Benware is also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), a highly selective chamber choir which operates under the umbrella of Hill and Hollow Music in Saranac, NY.
Additionally, Benware serves as Lecturer in the field of Music Education at the Ithaca College School of Music in Ithaca, NY, where he teaches summer graduate courses in Band Methods and conducts the Summer Graduate Choir and Band. He previously held full-term employment as Assistant Professor of Music Education at the College, instructing wind instrument pedagogy, instrumental conducting, and secondary instrument methods. Additionally, he has supervised student teachers, conducted the Brass Choir and served as a sabbatical leave replacement as conductor of the Concert Band. He also served as accompanist and guest conductor for the Campus Chorale and accompanist and collaborative instructor for the Musical Theater Workshop.
Benware has been a member of the inaugural and subsequent faculties of the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy, an intensive college-preparatory music program at the School of Music where he has held various instructional roles in the fields of conducting, musical theater preparation, music fundamentals, and conducted the selective choral ensemble.
He is a native of Northern New York State where he has served several years as a public school music educator, both as Director of Instrumental Music at Saranac Lake High School and as Director of Choral Activities at the Peru Middle/High School.
Benware is active as a lecturer and clinician, having recently presented at the NYSSMA Winter Conference in Rochester, NY, and is in frequent demand as a guest conductor for honors ensembles (both instrumental and choral) throughout New York State. He is also active as a performer, taking part in the Upstate New York Chorus (UNYC) under the direction of Dr. Janet Galvan, and as a church musician, holding positions at both St. Bernard’s and St. Agnes Catholic Churches in Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, respectively. He holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education with a concentration on the Trumpet and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Ithaca College School of Music.

The Quintessential Sound of Christmas
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble will give three performances of a Festival of Lessons
and Carols:
- Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm at Notre Dame Church in Malone
- Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh
- Sunday, December 23 at 3:00 pm at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), conducted by Andrew Benware, is a mixed chamber choir of professional and amateur singers: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A small and balanced ensemble to which each member brings extensive previous choral experience, NAVE performs a variety of periods and styles with harmonies of four-to-eight parts.
NAVE’s twenty members represent a cross-section of the Adirondacks, hailing from points in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Distinct from other choral groups in our region, NAVE is essentially an a cappella choir focusing on the rich and historical repertoire composed specifically for chamber choir unaccompanied by instruments.
NAVE’s Festival of Lessons and Carols follows the traditional model of those performed annually on Christmas Eve (since 1928) at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. The customary format is built around nine short Bible readings from the Old and New Testaments that trace the story of the fall of humanity and the promise of a Messiah to the birth of Jesus. Anthems, carols, and hymns are liberally interspersed throughout to illuminate the narrative musically.
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NAVE’s special a cappella version features two early music masterpieces sung in Latin: the medieval carol dating from the 12th century, “Personent Hodie” (“On This Day Earth Shall Ring”) and the 16th-century renaissance antiphonal motet “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (“Today Christ is Born”) by Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Fast-forward to a pair of contemporary works that have won a place in the constellation of essential Christmas music: “O Magnum Mysterium” (“O Great Mystery) by Morten Lauridsen (1995) and “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott (2001).
The program includes the well-loved traditional carols “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” “Sans Day Carol,” and “Herefordshire Carol” (respectively Polish, Cornish, and English). Also of interest are Boris Ord’s setting of the 15th-century text “Adam Lay Ybounden” and Harold Darke’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (both were English composers active in the mid-20th century).
Of special note will be the folkish “A Virgin Unspotted” (1778) by the Colonial American composer William Billings and the juicy “Bogoroditsje Djevo” (“Hail Mary”) of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1915), so evocative of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Community members will read the texts, which include passages from Genesis and the Gospels, as well as a contemporary poem, “Annunciation,” by Denise Levertov. The audience is invited to join with the choir in congregational singing – accompanied by the mighty organ! – of familiar Advent and Christmas hymns: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “While Shepherd’s Watched Their Flocks by Night,” ”As With Gladness Men of Old,” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
Admission is a suggested donation of $10. For more information please telephone 518-293-7613 or send a message by e-mail to hillholl@hughes.net

Conductor Andrew Benware

The Quintessential Sound of Christmas 
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble will give three performances of a Festival of Lessons
and Carols:
- Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm at Notre Dame Church in Malone
- Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh
- Sunday, December 23 at 3:00 pm at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), conducted by Andrew Benware, is a mixed chamber choir of professional and amateur singers: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A small and balanced ensemble to which each member brings extensive previous choral experience, NAVE performs a variety of periods and styles with harmonies of four-to-eight parts.
NAVE’s twenty members represent a cross-section of the Adirondacks, hailing from points in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Distinct from other choral groups in our region, NAVE is essentially an a cappella choir focusing on the rich and historical repertoire composed specifically for chamber choir unaccompanied by instruments.
NAVE’s Festival of Lessons and Carols follows the traditional model of those performed annually on Christmas Eve (since 1928) at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. The customary format is built around nine short Bible readings from the Old and New Testaments that trace the story of the fall of humanity and the promise of a Messiah to the birth of Jesus. Anthems, carols, and hymns are liberally interspersed throughout to illuminate the narrative musically.

NAVE’s special a cappella version features two early music masterpieces sung in Latin: the medieval carol dating from the 12th century, “Personent Hodie” (“On This Day Earth Shall Ring”) and the 16th-century renaissance antiphonal motet “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (“Today Christ is Born”) by Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Fast-forward to a pair of contemporary works that have won a place in the constellation of essential Christmas music: “O Magnum Mysterium” (“O Great Mystery) by Morten Lauridsen (1995) and “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott (2001).
The program includes the well-loved traditional carols “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” “Sans Day Carol,” and “Herefordshire Carol” (respectively Polish, Cornish, and English). Also of interest are Boris Ord’s setting of the 15th-century text “Adam Lay Ybounden” and Harold Darke’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (both were English composers active in the mid-20th century).
Of special note will be the folkish “A Virgin Unspotted” (1778) by the Colonial American composer William Billings and the juicy “Bogoroditsje Djevo” (“Hail Mary”) of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1915), so evocative of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Community members will read the texts, which include passages from Genesis and the Gospels, as well as a contemporary poem, “Annunciation,” by Denise Levertov. The audience is invited to join with the choir in congregational singing – accompanied by the mighty organ! – of familiar Advent and Christmas hymns: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “While Shepherd’s Watched Their Flocks by Night,” ”As With Gladness Men of Old,” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”

Admission is a suggested donation of $10. For more information please telephone 518-293-7613 or send a message by e-mail to hillholl@hughes.net

Drew M. Benware is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Saranac Lake High School, where he conducts the Festival Chorus, Concert Choir, Men’s Ensemble, Women’s Ensemble, and teaches small group vocal instruction. He also serves as the Music Director for the annual musical theater production and maintains a small private piano studio. Benware is also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), a highly selective chamber choir which operates under the umbrella of Hill and Hollow Music in Saranac, NY.
Additionally, Benware serves as Lecturer in the field of Music Education at the Ithaca College School of Music in Ithaca, NY, where he teaches summer graduate courses in Band Methods and conducts the Summer Graduate Choir and Band. He previously held full-term employment as Assistant Professor of Music Education at the College, instructing wind instrument pedagogy, instrumental conducting, and secondary instrument methods. Additionally, he has supervised student teachers, conducted the Brass Choir and served as a sabbatical leave replacement as conductor of the Concert Band. He also served as accompanist and guest conductor for the Campus Chorale and accompanist and collaborative instructor for the Musical Theater Workshop.
Benware has been a member of the inaugural and subsequent faculties of the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy, an intensive college-preparatory music program at the School of Music where he has held various instructional roles in the fields of conducting, musical theater preparation, music fundamentals, and conducted the selective choral ensemble.
He is a native of Northern New York State where he has served several years as a public school music educator, both as Director of Instrumental Music at Saranac Lake High School and as Director of Choral Activities at the Peru Middle/High School.
Benware is active as a lecturer and clinician, having recently presented at the NYSSMA Winter Conference in Rochester, NY, and is in frequent demand as a guest conductor for honors ensembles (both instrumental and choral) throughout New York State. He is also active as a performer, taking part in the Upstate New York Chorus (UNYC) under the direction of Dr. Janet Galvan, and as a church musician, holding positions at both St. Bernard’s and St. Agnes Catholic Churches in Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, respectively. He holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education with a concentration on the Trumpet and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Ithaca College School of Music.

The Quintessential Sound of Christmas
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble will give three performances of a Festival of Lessons
and Carols:
- Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm at Notre Dame Church in Malone
- Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh
- Sunday, December 23 at 3:00 pm at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), conducted by Andrew Benware, is a mixed chamber choir of professional and amateur singers: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A small and balanced ensemble to which each member brings extensive previous choral experience, NAVE performs a variety of periods and styles with harmonies of four-to-eight parts.
NAVE’s twenty members represent a cross-section of the Adirondacks, hailing from points in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Distinct from other choral groups in our region, NAVE is essentially an a cappella choir focusing on the rich and historical repertoire composed specifically for chamber choir unaccompanied by instruments.
NAVE’s Festival of Lessons and Carols follows the traditional model of those performed annually on Christmas Eve (since 1928) at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. The customary format is built around nine short Bible readings from the Old and New Testaments that trace the story of the fall of humanity and the promise of a Messiah to the birth of Jesus. Anthems, carols, and hymns are liberally interspersed throughout to illuminate the narrative musically.
more …..
Weatherwatch Farm • 550 Number 37 Road • Saranac NY 12981
518-293-7613 • hillholl@hughes.net • www.hillandhollowmusic.org
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ill and Hollow Music
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NAVE’s special a cappella version features two early music masterpieces sung in Latin: the medieval carol dating from the 12th century, “Personent Hodie” (“On This Day Earth Shall Ring”) and the 16th-century renaissance antiphonal motet “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (“Today Christ is Born”) by Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Fast-forward to a pair of contemporary works that have won a place in the constellation of essential Christmas music: “O Magnum Mysterium” (“O Great Mystery) by Morten Lauridsen (1995) and “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott (2001).
The program includes the well-loved traditional carols “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” “Sans Day Carol,” and “Herefordshire Carol” (respectively Polish, Cornish, and English). Also of interest are Boris Ord’s setting of the 15th-century text “Adam Lay Ybounden” and Harold Darke’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (both were English composers active in the mid-20th century).
Of special note will be the folkish “A Virgin Unspotted” (1778) by the Colonial American composer William Billings and the juicy “Bogoroditsje Djevo” (“Hail Mary”) of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1915), so evocative of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Community members will read the texts, which include passages from Genesis and the Gospels, as well as a contemporary poem, “Annunciation,” by Denise Levertov. The audience is invited to join with the choir in congregational singing – accompanied by the mighty organ! – of familiar Advent and Christmas hymns: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “While Shepherd’s Watched Their Flocks by Night,” ”As With Gladness Men of Old,” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
Admission is a suggested donation of $10. For more information please telephone 518-293-7613 or send a message by e-mail to hillholl@hughes.net

Conductor Andrew Benware

The Quintessential Sound of Christmas 
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble will give three performances of a Festival of Lessons
and Carols:
- Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm at Notre Dame Church in Malone
- Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh
- Sunday, December 23 at 3:00 pm at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), conducted by Andrew Benware, is a mixed chamber choir of professional and amateur singers: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A small and balanced ensemble to which each member brings extensive previous choral experience, NAVE performs a variety of periods and styles with harmonies of four-to-eight parts.
NAVE’s twenty members represent a cross-section of the Adirondacks, hailing from points in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Distinct from other choral groups in our region, NAVE is essentially an a cappella choir focusing on the rich and historical repertoire composed specifically for chamber choir unaccompanied by instruments.
NAVE’s Festival of Lessons and Carols follows the traditional model of those performed annually on Christmas Eve (since 1928) at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. The customary format is built around nine short Bible readings from the Old and New Testaments that trace the story of the fall of humanity and the promise of a Messiah to the birth of Jesus. Anthems, carols, and hymns are liberally interspersed throughout to illuminate the narrative musically.

NAVE’s special a cappella version features two early music masterpieces sung in Latin: the medieval carol dating from the 12th century, “Personent Hodie” (“On This Day Earth Shall Ring”) and the 16th-century renaissance antiphonal motet “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (“Today Christ is Born”) by Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Fast-forward to a pair of contemporary works that have won a place in the constellation of essential Christmas music: “O Magnum Mysterium” (“O Great Mystery) by Morten Lauridsen (1995) and “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott (2001).
The program includes the well-loved traditional carols “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” “Sans Day Carol,” and “Herefordshire Carol” (respectively Polish, Cornish, and English). Also of interest are Boris Ord’s setting of the 15th-century text “Adam Lay Ybounden” and Harold Darke’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (both were English composers active in the mid-20th century).
Of special note will be the folkish “A Virgin Unspotted” (1778) by the Colonial American composer William Billings and the juicy “Bogoroditsje Djevo” (“Hail Mary”) of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1915), so evocative of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Community members will read the texts, which include passages from Genesis and the Gospels, as well as a contemporary poem, “Annunciation,” by Denise Levertov. The audience is invited to join with the choir in congregational singing – accompanied by the mighty organ! – of familiar Advent and Christmas hymns: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “While Shepherd’s Watched Their Flocks by Night,” ”As With Gladness Men of Old,” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”

Admission is a suggested donation of $10. For more information please telephone 518-293-7613 or send a message by e-mail to hillholl@hughes.net

Drew M. Benware is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Saranac Lake High School, where he conducts the Festival Chorus, Concert Choir, Men’s Ensemble, Women’s Ensemble, and teaches small group vocal instruction. He also serves as the Music Director for the annual musical theater production and maintains a small private piano studio. Benware is also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), a highly selective chamber choir which operates under the umbrella of Hill and Hollow Music in Saranac, NY.
Additionally, Benware serves as Lecturer in the field of Music Education at the Ithaca College School of Music in Ithaca, NY, where he teaches summer graduate courses in Band Methods and conducts the Summer Graduate Choir and Band. He previously held full-term employment as Assistant Professor of Music Education at the College, instructing wind instrument pedagogy, instrumental conducting, and secondary instrument methods. Additionally, he has supervised student teachers, conducted the Brass Choir and served as a sabbatical leave replacement as conductor of the Concert Band. He also served as accompanist and guest conductor for the Campus Chorale and accompanist and collaborative instructor for the Musical Theater Workshop.
Benware has been a member of the inaugural and subsequent faculties of the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy, an intensive college-preparatory music program at the School of Music where he has held various instructional roles in the fields of conducting, musical theater preparation, music fundamentals, and conducted the selective choral ensemble.
He is a native of Northern New York State where he has served several years as a public school music educator, both as Director of Instrumental Music at Saranac Lake High School and as Director of Choral Activities at the Peru Middle/High School.
Benware is active as a lecturer and clinician, having recently presented at the NYSSMA Winter Conference in Rochester, NY, and is in frequent demand as a guest conductor for honors ensembles (both instrumental and choral) throughout New York State. He is also active as a performer, taking part in the Upstate New York Chorus (UNYC) under the direction of Dr. Janet Galvan, and as a church musician, holding positions at both St. Bernard’s and St. Agnes Catholic Churches in Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, respectively. He holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education with a concentration on the Trumpet and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Ithaca College School of Music.

The Quintessential Sound of Christmas
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble will give three performances of a Festival of Lessons
and Carols:
- Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm at Notre Dame Church in Malone
- Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm at St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh
- Sunday, December 23 at 3:00 pm at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid
The Northern Adirondack Vocal Ensemble (NAVE), conducted by Andrew Benware, is a mixed chamber choir of professional and amateur singers: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A small and balanced ensemble to which each member brings extensive previous choral experience, NAVE performs a variety of periods and styles with harmonies of four-to-eight parts.
NAVE’s twenty members represent a cross-section of the Adirondacks, hailing from points in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Distinct from other choral groups in our region, NAVE is essentially an a cappella choir focusing on the rich and historical repertoire composed specifically for chamber choir unaccompanied by instruments.
NAVE’s Festival of Lessons and Carols follows the traditional model of those performed annually on Christmas Eve (since 1928) at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. The customary format is built around nine short Bible readings from the Old and New Testaments that trace the story of the fall of humanity and the promise of a Messiah to the birth of Jesus. Anthems, carols, and hymns are liberally interspersed throughout to illuminate the narrative musically.
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NAVE’s special a cappella version features two early music masterpieces sung in Latin: the medieval carol dating from the 12th century, “Personent Hodie” (“On This Day Earth Shall Ring”) and the 16th-century renaissance antiphonal motet “Hodie Christus Natus Est” (“Today Christ is Born”) by Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Fast-forward to a pair of contemporary works that have won a place in the constellation of essential Christmas music: “O Magnum Mysterium” (“O Great Mystery) by Morten Lauridsen (1995) and “The Shepherd’s Carol” by Bob Chilcott (2001).
The program includes the well-loved traditional carols “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” “Sans Day Carol,” and “Herefordshire Carol” (respectively Polish, Cornish, and English). Also of interest are Boris Ord’s setting of the 15th-century text “Adam Lay Ybounden” and Harold Darke’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (both were English composers active in the mid-20th century).
Of special note will be the folkish “A Virgin Unspotted” (1778) by the Colonial American composer William Billings and the juicy “Bogoroditsje Djevo” (“Hail Mary”) of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1915), so evocative of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Community members will read the texts, which include passages from Genesis and the Gospels, as well as a contemporary poem, “Annunciation,” by Denise Levertov. The audience is invited to join with the choir in congregational singing – accompanied by the mighty organ! – of familiar Advent and Christmas hymns: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Silent Night,” “While Shepherd’s Watched Their Flocks by Night,” ”As With Gladness Men of Old,” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
Admission is a suggested donation of $10. For more information please telephone 518-293-7613 or send a message by e-mail to hillholl@hughes.net

SKATING ICON DOROTHY HAMILL JOINS

EMMY AWARD-WINNING STARS ON ICE

Olympic Gold Medalist, World Champion and Three-Time U.S. National Champion Dorothy Hamill Returns to America’s Most Beloved Figure Skating Tour,

Joining Fans in Lake Placid as They Honor Figure Skating Legend Kurt Browning in One of His Final U.S. Performances at the Olympic Center on December 30^th at 7:30 PM

TICKETS FOR LAKE PLACID ARE ON SALE NOW

 (Lake Placid, NY) – The country’s premier figure skating production, Stars on Ice, is proud to announce the return of one of the sport’s most cherished athletes, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Champion and Three-Time U.S. National Champion, Dorothy Hamill. One of the most beloved American sports icons, Hamill won the hearts of skating fans around the world with her dominant performance in taking Gold at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. Hamill is credited with developing a new skating move; a camel spin that turns into a sit spin, which became known as the “Hamill Camel.” The bobbed hairstyle that she wore during her Olympic performance started a fad, and she quickly became “America’s Sweetheart.”

Joining a cast of Olympic, World and National Champion skaters on the 2012-13 Tour, Hamill will help bid a fond farewell to longtime cast member Kurt Browning, who will be giving his final U.S. tour performances. The Stars on Ice “Now & Then” Tour will kick-off with a special performance at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, NY on Sunday, December 30, 2012, at 7:30 PM.

Stars on Ice continues to be a pioneer in figure skating by offering fans the rare opportunity to witness some of the world’s most creative and cherished champions performing together in both individual and ensemble routines. Joining Dorothy Hamill on this year’s tour is a stellar cast of world-renowned athletes, including Four-Time World Champion & Four-Time Canadian National Champion Kurt Browning; Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva (Russia); 1998 Olympic Gold Medalist Ilia Kulik (Russia);2010 Olympic Bronze Medalist Joannie Rochette (Canada); U.S. National Champion Ryan Bradley; Two-Time European Bronze Medalists and Seven-Time British National Dance ChampionsSinead & John Kerr; and Canadian National Silver Medalist Shawn Sawyer.

Stars on Ice, founded by Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton, is one of the premier touring entertainment events in the world. Tickets for the Stars on Ice “Now & Then” Tour in Lake Placidare on sale now. Special on-ice seating is available upon request. Group discounts are available for parties of 10 or more. Tickets start at $25 and are available via www.starsonice.com, by phone at 518-523-3330 and the Olympic Center Box Office. Please visit www.starsonice.com for more information as well as exciting show announcements.

The Emmy Award-winning production will be made into a one-hour syndicated televisionspecial, recording in Japan during a brief January tour. The special will be shown on network affiliates across the country this winter. Visit www.starsonice.com or check your local listings for more details on when you can see the highlights of the 2012-2013 show!