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Augusts 05, 1993 - Magical Time of DayChamber Festival Cause for Celebration (Continued from Page 131) surroundings; and that comes out in the performances." The Festival's tenth anniversary off- ers a natural opportunity not only to take stock of the accomplishments of the past, but also to look to the future. "We've created a niche for chamber music here," Ms. Martin said in a re- cent interview at the house in Bridge - hampton she shares with her husband, Ken Davidson, chairman of the Festi- val board of directors. "We need to fig- ure out ways to satisfy the needs of our audience now," she said. Some possibilities for future pro- grams include what Ms. Martin refers to as "crossover things," like the some- times more accessible music of Claude 'Wheels' (Continued from Page BI) cessful screenwriter. And yet with all of these many rough - nesses, there are flashes of beauty. And, in the production in East Hampton, there are the constant flashes of the fire- works of virtuoso acting. Ken Wies- inger, who was brilliant last winter in a North Fork community theatre pro- duction of "A Few Good Men," is re- wardingly and logically at home in the company of professionals. His Josh is an anguished, groping, passionate young man Robert Salas, who bears an eerie re- semblance to Russell Means, creates the Indian activist with the force of sev- eral missile launches. And yet, he ma- nages, though the playwright hasn't really given him much information, to inform the role with sensitivity, humor and spiritual depth. Frances Alenikoff, as the dream fig- ure of Means' mother, is an ethereal but anchoring presence. When she moves from silence to eloquence in a late eve- ning outcry, she towers. Maria Pessino's direction is sure and lithe, except when she decides to place her characters behind the audience for long periods. But this is a fleeting pro- blem. Most importantly, she has drawn impassioned, riveting performances from her actors and brought a flawed work to life. "Wheels Over Indian Trails" conti- nues Wednesdays through Sundays at the LTV studios adjacent to the East Hampton Airport through August 15. Bolling played with amplification to a larger audience outdoors. Another idea —which lovers of chamber music will surely hope is more than a tease — is to play Bach's Brandenburg Concer- tos over a two-night period in a local church at Christmastime. "This year's whole Festival is a time to reflect," Ms. Martin says, "on where the Festival has got to." In choosing the celebration programs, she says, she wasn't opting for just what she wants to play or hear. "Every single program has a special meaning to me," the flu- tist says, and she hopes that her musi- cian colleagues and audiences will share her appreciation of the pieces selected. In the fist concert on August 7 at 8 p.m., "Opening Night," the selections are intended to bring home to audien- ces a sense of place, "celebrating that we started the Festival and made it in Bridgehampton," Ms. Martin says. After opening with a serenade from Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the program zeroes in on Bridgehampton with a piece composed by the hamlet's own Lukas Foss, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." For this piece, the instruments —with Mr. Foss playing the piano himself —will be joined by the soprano voice of Lucy Shelton. Mr. Foss will also join Ms. Martin to play Robert Beaser's "The Old Men Ad- miring Themselves in the Water," with Bridgehampton author James Salter reading the W.B. Yeats poem on which the piece is based before the musicians begin to play. In the second concert, "A Century of Chamber Music," on August 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the church, composer Roberto Sierra will be on hand to speak about his Trio Tropical, the second selection of the evening, which will be played by found- ing Festival members Am Kavafian, vi- olin; Fred Sherry, cello; and Andre-Michel Schuh, piano. Mr. Sierra's piece follows a theme and variations for flute and string quartet by American composer Amy Beach. The closing piece will be Dvorak's Quartet ta E flat Major, Op. 87. After the Wednesday, August 11 con- cert that's been tacked on to give Jean - Pierre Rampal a chance to play, the Festival will continue with the Thurs- day, August 12 "Tribute to Sasha" at 8 p.m. The program features three pie- ces by Johann Sebastian Bach, a fav- orite of Alexander Schneider, and a quartet in C minor by Faure. Where Do You Go for All the Gay Goings -On on the East End You Go to - - • • East End Gay Organization For information on upcoming social events, educational or political forums & cultural activities, call 324 -3699 or write: EEGO, Box 708, Bridgehampton N.Y. 11932 Flutist and founding member ofthe Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Marya Martin, left, with the festival's new executive director, Jennifer Bilfield as they prepared for the festival's opening concert on Saturday, August 7. The late Mr. Schneider, or "Sasha" as he was affectionately known, was a vi- olinist, conductor and teacher who touched the lives and influenced the careers of a multitude of string players and other musicians —Ms. Martin and many of the performers in this year's Festival among them. Mr. Schneider conducted —in every sense —the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Christmastime for 25 years, and changed the way that hundreds of as- piring musicians looked at and felt and played classical music. "A lot of people might not know about him," Ms. Martin says, "because he de- voted himself to making sure that young people felt about music as he did." A former student, quoted in a program for a previous tribute to Sasha in New York, said that Mr. Schneider "inspired us to listen to our hearts and never play an empty note in music or in life." The finale concert, on Sunday, August 15, which was still in the process of be- ing readjusted at press time, is meant to be a pure celebration, Ms. Martin said —of the Festival's tenth anniver- sary, of Bridgehampton, of chamber music, of friendship and the love of play- ing music. While the pieces selected are, if anything, more demanding for the THE SOUTHAMPTON PRESS I AUGUST 5, 1993 musicians, Ms. Martin says that the concert should be "like a party." Tickets for the concerts are still $15 for each evening. Another constant is the open rehearsal policy on Saturday, August 7 and Saturday. August 14 from 11 a.m. to noon at the Presbyterian Church. The open rehearsals are offered to make the music more accessible for younger children in an informal setting, Ms. Martin says. New this year is executive director and full-time staffer Jennifer Bilfield, hired on to handle the burgeoning ad- ministrative workload associated with the Festival and to help guide the pop- ular series into its second decade. A pro- fessional with years of experience in the music business, Ms. Bilfield is currently set up in the Festival's temporary head- quarters at Ms. Martin's house and can be reached for further information about programming and tickets at 537- 3507. Food, Wine Tasting To Benefit Museum "Fresh from the Fork," a wine and food tasting benefit, will be held on the grounds of Hallockville Museum Farm on Saturday, August 7, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will showcase wines and foods from many fine vineyards and re- staurants of Long Island's North Fork and will be accompanied by live music followed by an old- fashioned barn dance of 19th century contra dancing. Tickets for the event are $25 per per- son in advance or $27 at the gate with all proceeds to benefit Halklckville's on- going restoration activities and educa- tional programs. Tickets may be pur- chased at participating vineyards or by calling or visiting the Hallockville Mus- eum Farm. Hallockville is listed on the national Register of Historic Places and is lo- cated on Sound Avenue in the Town of Riverhead. For further information and to reserve tickets, call 298 -5292. Celebrating Our 60th year! ♦N0 SM on: SINC, ,O) Garbage Hauling & Cesspool Cleaning portable Toilet RentalsI. Contairer Service 283 -0604 Focus on Nature Magical Time of Day By Paul Stoutenburgh The temperature's been in the 90s the past three days and the only thing that's made it bearable is the fact that we can get into the water and cool off. This morning the wind was offshore but by afternoon it had swung to its nor- mal quarter, the southwest. As I sit af- ter a swim and shower and relax in the cool afternoon breeze, I wonder what could be more perfect. A few speedboats still tow their water skiers or boogie boards, but generally by late afternoon the bay starts to lose its boaters. There'll be a few after dinner sailors, but by and large the bay —like my chick- ens back home —goes to bed as the sun sets. Too had, for that's a magical time of day. Around the cottage are the typical beach plants that seem to go on as if there was no drought or heat at all. The scalding sun is nothing new to them. All are equipped with deep tap roots that defy the dry burning top layer of the sand. Beach plum, that wonderful shrub that yields those marble -size fruits we gather in the tall to make jam, hasn't wilted a bit. Nor does the seaside gol- denrod that's started to show its char- acteristic rugged green growth. Almost at the foot of the dune, their late profu- sion of yellow will burst upon the scene right up to frost time. There are many others that have adapted to this harsh salt air environ- ment, but none are as important as the dune grass. It persists like no other be- cause its roots seek out the moisture in the sands deep below. Not only does it have the ability to tap the moisture, it also will continue to grow even though the shifting sands of the dunes try to bury it. Beach plum and others also have this ability and —with the dune grass —are responsible for the creation of the dune system that protects the land behind. Other plants and shrubs, like the dusty miller, bayberry and salt spray rose, all do their part in creating dunes but it's the beach grass that is the champion of all. In back of the cottage, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has taken one of the three young ospreys as part of a program in which East End ospreys are taken to western New York in an attempt to re- establish them there. Some might re- sent this taking of 'bur" ospreys, but I must side with the DEC in this case. I've often watched these fish hawks out on the bay in their daily pursuit of food. Once this week when there was barely a ripple on the water, I watched one hunting over a slick where bunkers had been feeding. Evidently bluefish had ripped into the school and the oily bunkers left an oil slick on the water. Ospreys are not the most perfect fish- ermen; I've often seen them miss their target as they dive from incredible heights into the water. After the dive there is a short period of recovery when this huge bird struggles to free itself from the water. Once aloft, it starts to gain altitude and then shakes furiously in flight, almost stopping in mid -air. Then it continues on until it starts cir- cling again, looking for that elusive prey below. This summer we have had to shuttle back and forth from our cottage by the bay to our inland home where we try to keep things watered down in this tre- mendously dry spell. On one visit out to the garden, we found a freshly-caught bunker on our lawn. How did it get there? Upon close examination we could see distinct claw marks on the fish's body. Evidently an osprey had good hunting and was carrying its prize back to the nest when it was attacked by another osprey, or more probably a gull. Black - backed gulls, our largest gulls, are real robbers and often chase other birds to secure their prize. Family Affair (Continued from Page B11 "People like my father," volunteered Karen Kluglein, who noted that he had been urging his wife to tackle more landscapes. Both June Kluglein and Ms. Baron have had their work exhibited locally in the past: Ms. Kluglein at Guild Hall, Ashawagh Hall, the Westhampton Cul- tural Consortium, the East End Arts Council, the Goat Alley Gallery and Gal- lery East; Ms. Baron at the Elaine Ben- son Gallery, the East End Arts Council, the Gallery at ARF and the Water Mill Museum. In 1989, photographs of women and children that Ms. Baron took during a 1985 trip to the former Soviet Union were displayed at the East End Arts Council in Riverhead. Under the title "Faces of Our Enemies," photographs from that same trip had been exhibited in 1986 at the Institute for Policy Stu- dies in Washington, D.C. As a traveling exhibit, titled "Russia's Ordinary Peo- ple," they were seen in many states, presented under the auspices of Peace - Links, an organization promoting world peace. All three artists have long lists of awards. Among the honors she has re- ceived, June Kluglein is particularly pleased to have been selected by Group for the South Fork to create an art work celebrating the Group's 20th anniver- sary. Her lithograph, "Promise," was executed especially for that purpose. For Karen Kluglein, the exhibition at the Water Mill Museum is her first on the East End. A 1980 graduate of the School of Visual Arts, she "never had to pound the pavement," according to her mother -in -law. In fact, not only has she been in demand as an illustrator prac- tically from the day she got out of school, she also has managed never to have lived in New York. "I use Federal Express and a FAX," she said. Before the FAX, the Jitney package service provided the necessary link, she noted, adding, "There was al- ways a way to figure out not to go there." Like her co-exhibitors, she is looking forward to Saturday's party, when all three are expected to be on hand. The celebrations continue from 4 to 8 p.m. The show runs through August 22. Hours at the Water Mill Museum are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Sunday, when the museum is open from 1 to 5 p.m. r I k r• for Peconic Fair REEVES AVE., RIVERHEAD Sept. 1 -69 1993 Arts, Crafts, Food and Other Creations A Complete Old- Fashioned Country Fair For information, call Bud Papish 727 -4609 Days • 298 -4572 Evenings SECOND ANNUAL ° CHILI � �� 11 i C OOKOFF EAST END HOSPICE YOU CAN BE A CHILI CHAMPION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1993 Please make checks payable lo: EAST END HOSPICE For additional information please call Hospice at 288 -8400 PO BOX 1048 or Dana :e 728 -0661 WESTHAMPTON REACH. 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