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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.

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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.)

A Holiday Tea and Ornament Sale will be held at St. Eustace Church on Saturday, Dec 8^th From 3:30-5:00 PM. This is part of the Holiday Stroll Celebration just before activities in the Bandshell at 5 PM.

Hot Drinks, Refreshments, Music, Warmth and Fellowship are offered.

A Christmas Sale of lovely old ornaments is planned.

A spaghetti dinner for Lucille Richardson is being held on December 8, 2012 from 5-7pm. Members of the First United Church located at 63 Church Street in Saranac Lake will be hosting the dinner to help Lucille who suffered a fall resulting in serious injuries earlier this year and continues to incur expenses not covered by insurance. A donation of $8 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under is requested. Speghetti with meat sauce or a veggie marinara sauce, salad, garlic bread, beverage and a choice of dessert will be offered. Call 891-3474 for more information.

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.

The Adirondack Community Church will hold a FREE holiday dinner and silent auction to benefit youth traveling on a mission trip next summer, on December 9, 2012. For more information please visit the church’s website
(http://www.adkcomchurch.org/#/teens-young-adults/silent-auction) or contact Lee Kyler at (585) 281-2785.

All are invited to the second annual work-camp holiday dinner & silent auction. The 2011 Dinner and Silent Auction raised over $2500! Please come and support this awesome fundraiser!

Remember your bids are tax deductable!

When: Sunday, December 9, 2012 – 5PM-7PM
Where: Erdman Hall, Adirondack Community Church
Cost: FREE (Donations Accepted)

Silent Auction Items:
(TO BID, E-MAIL OR PHONE LEE KYLER)
lee.kyler4@gmail.com
(585) 281-2785

* ITEMS AND BIDS ARE ADDED DAILY *

Adirondack Outfitters, 1-Day Self Guided Paddle for Four with Equipment ($125 Value)
Starting Bid: $40 Current Bid: NONE

Applebee’s Restaurant Gift Certificate ($25 Value)
Starting Bid $15 Current Bid: NONE

Ashley’s Carpet Service, $100 Off Any Service ($100 Value)
Starting Bid: $25 Current Bid: NONE

The Bookstore Plus, Two Novels (“Horse Camp” & “Never Fall Down” ($34 Value)
Current Bid: $10

Breakfast Club Gift Certificate & 2-Person Goose Watch Winery Tasting ($46 Value)
Current Bid $15

Breakfast Club Gift Certificate & 2-Person Goose Watch Winery Tasting ($46 Value)
Current Bid: $20

Chair-6 Restaurant Gift Certificate & Two Swedish Hill Wine Tasting ($41 Value)
Current Bid: $20

Craig Wood Golf Course, 18-Hole With Cart for 2 (Two) ($100 Value)
Starting Bid: $50 Current Bid: NONE

Delta Blue Restaurant $25 Gift Certificate & Emma’s Creamery Cone Card ($35 Value)
Starting Bid: $15 Current Bid: NONE

Duncan’s Grill Lake Placid, Fish Fry Dinner for Two with Souvenir Glass & Two Palace Theatre Passes ($40Value)
Current Bid: $30

Duncan’s Grill Lake Placid German Dinner Platter for Two with Souvenir Glass ($36 Value)
Starting Bid: $18 Current Bid: NONE

The Fallen Arch, Gift Certificate ($25 Value)
Current Bid: $15

Fern Lake Vacation Rental, 3-Nights (Valid only Oct.-May) ($600 Value)
Current Bid: $150

Fitness Revolution 3-Month Membership ($200 Value)
Starting Bid: $50 Current Bid: NONE

High Peaks Cyclery, Ski or Bike Tune-Up ($45 Value)
Current Bid: $20

The Hungry Trout Gift Certificate ($100 Value)
Current Bid: $50

Lake Placid Center for the Arts $25 Gift Certificate, Postcard Book & $25 Price Chopper Gift Card ($65 Value)
Current Bid: $20

Lake Placid Center for the Arts $25 Gift Certificate, Postcard Book & 2-Person Goose Watch Winery Tasting ($56 Value)
Starting Bid: $20 Current Bid: NONE

Lake Placid Chocolatier Gift Package (Sea Salt, Almond Bark, Peppermint Bark, Truffles) ($55 Value)
Current Bid: $25

Lake Placid Christmas Company, Skiing Santa Figurine ($70 Value)
Starting Bid: $30 Current Bid: NONE

Lake Placid D.J. Services, 1-Hour Free ($150 Value)
Starting Bid: $50 Current Bid: NONE

Lake Placid Horseshow Package (Luggage Bag, Tickets, Fleece Vest) ($200 Value)
Starting Bid: $75 Current Bid: NONE

Lake Placid Olympic Museum Tour for Four ($40 Value)
Starting Bid: $10 Current Bid: NONE

Lake Placid Tobaggan Ride for 2 (Two) ($20 Value)
Starting Bid: $10 Current Bid: NONE

Lake Placid Winter Bobsled Experience Ride (2) Two ($160 Value)
Starting Bid: $65 Current Bid: NONE

ORDA Passports (2) Two ($70 Value)
Starting Bid: $30 Current Bid: NONE

Palace Theatre Passes (4) and Two Emma’s Creamery Cone Cards ($30 Value)
Current Bid: $30

Picnic Set (4-Person Setting) & 2-Person Swedish Hill Winery Tasting ($50 Value)
Starting Bid: $10 Current Bid: NONE

Placid Planet, Free Ski/Snowboard Tune-Up ($45 Value)
Current Bid: $20

Placid Solutions, Now (30-Min. Life Coaching & 30-Min. Massage) ($60 Value)
Starting Bid: $30 Current Bid: NONE

Placid Solutions, Now (30-Min. Life Coaching & 30-Min. Massage) ($60 Value)
Starting Bid: $30 Current Bid: NONE

Rite-Aid Lake Placid Gift Card ($25 Value)
Current Bid: $25

Whiteface Club & Resort, 18-Holes of Golf with Cart for Two ($200 Value)
Current Bid: $80

Whiteface Mountain Lift Tickets (2) Two ($118 Value)
Current Bid: $45

The Wild Center, 4-Adult Passes ($68 Value)
Current Bid: $25

Zumba with Kaysie, 1-Free Registration for 8-Week Kids Class ($40 Value)
Current Bid: $5

COMING SOON!
Blue Moon Cafe
Cuppa Joe
Lake Champlain Ferries
Jimmy’s 21 Restaurant
Bazzi’s Pizzeria
Starbucks
& MORE

CURRENT BIDDING TOTAL: $605 (19.07% OF DONATIONS)

* Special Thanks to Lake Placid Hannaford for donating Bread & Desserts for the Dinner *

The Lake Placid High School JV Girls Basketball Team, Kiwanis Builder’s Club and Key Club are sponsoring a benefit dinner to support Nick Kulina and his family on Tuesday, December 11, 2012. A 2009 graduate of LPM/HS, Nick is undergoing extensive treatment to combat an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Dinner will be served at the Lake Placid Middle/High School Cafeteria from 4:00 – 7:00 PM. The dinner will include baked ziti, salad, bread and desert for a suggested donation of $8. Take out will be available.
All proceeds will help to defray medical bills and related expenses.

You’re Invited Saranac Lake Area Chamber Holiday Mixer

Saranac Lake, New York- Dec 2012- Come one, come all, everyone is welcome to the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce annual Holiday Mixer. This year December 12, from 6-8p at the Adirondack Carousel, Saranac Lake.

$20 admission includes music, food, 2 drink coupons, carousel rides and more! 25% of admissions will be donated to a local children’s holiday fund. Additional drinks available with a cash bar.

This year we will host a wine pull and a silent auction. Join us also in welcoming our new Executive Director, Katy VanAnden.

A delicious sampling of foods prepared by Alegria Garden Cafe cannot be missed. Special Thank You to our event sponsors Cape Air, Gauthier’s Saranac Lake Inn, Community Bank and Adirondack Health/ AMC.

Please RSVP to info@saranaclake.com or call us 1-518-891-1990

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.

The Saranac Lake Fish and Game Club will sponsor its Annual Christmas Pie Sale on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at the Blue Line Sports Shop on Main Street in Saranac Lake.

The sale stars at 9am and runs through 1pm. All pies and other baked goods are homemade by memeber of the club, which includes some of the finest bakers in town.

Event Chairperson, Bob Brown has been running the event for over 30 years and expects a great turnout. “We will have over 50 pies at the sale to include a variety of fruit and berry pies. I also expect some homemade breads, cakes and cookies.

Brown indicated that customers should come to the sale first hour or two in order to have the biggest selection. “Our baked goods make great gifts for holiday dinner parties and excellent deserts to grace your own table.”

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

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
H
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!