Thanks to a new youth initiative by the Westchester Chamber Music Society (WCMS), select local teens will now have the rare opportunity to display their budding musical talents alongside world-famous classical musicians. At the group’s concert this Sunday, a student
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Westchester-based writer Susan Berliner has just published her latest book, “Crash Effect and Other Weird Stories.” A London native who has called Yorktown home for the past 50 years, Berliner previews her latest work and explains her evolution from journalism
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The organ may not generally be associated with jazz music, although it’s hardly an uncommon sight or sound in the genre. But whatever the public’s perception is, New York City organist Brian Charette has fashioned quite a career sitting at
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By Ed Perratore She’s been a professional knitter, a beader and a caregiver for her own grandchildren and others. Now, at age 93, the former longtime Mount Kisco resident Rosemary “Romy” Brooks has added another passion to a life well-lived
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In 1968, White Plains resident Ellen Holly debuted on ABC’s new soap opera, “One Life to Live.” An accomplished theater actress with Broadway roles under her belt, Holly portrayed Carla Benari, an Italian-American woman who had just moved to the
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Armonk’s Whippoorwill Theater will have a new professional company in residence starting this spring. Katonah Classic Stage is moving into the theater space that is part of the North Castle Public Library and has scheduled a spring production for its
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By Brian Kluepfel Rich Hanlon learned to draw as a small boy in Ohio, painting the flames on toy cars for orphans that he spent part of his childhood with. But if you’re expecting a Dickensian coming-of-age tale, Hanlon is
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An earlier version of this piece stated how Yorktown Stage is the only municipal-owned theater in Westchester County. That is not correct. It’s one of the few. One of the others in Westchester is in The Examiner’s direct coverage area
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Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators recently joined with ArtsWestchester to announce that 102 Westchester arts organizations are the recipients of matching funds from the Art$WChallenge grant program. Participating arts organizations raised $786,541 in new private funds from 1,320 donors through the program which ended in
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It’s hard to believe outstanding music and art could have been created out of the ashes of the Holocaust, by people who would be murdered in the death camps. Arguably, Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann’s most prolific period was his final
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