After 12 years of studying ballet, Edgemont High School junior Sasha Zengin-Karaian made a competitive breakthrough earlier this year and qual…
The Scarsdale Business Alliance (SBA) will host its third annual Scarsdale Music Festival (SMF), Saturday, June 3, presented by Morgan Stanley. The event will take place rain or shine in Scarsdale Village from noon to 7 p.m. and proceeds will benefit the Center for Cancer Care at White Plain…
Caramoor has announced its summer season, featuring nine weeks of concerts by world-renowned artists, children’s programming and site-specific works and sound art installations in the Katonah performing art center’s unique setting.
Fifteen years after leaving teaching to raise her children and focus on writing and about to become an empty-nester this spring, Julie Gerstenblatt, 52, celebrated a milestone this week with the release of her debut novel, “The Daughters of Nantucket.”
For 72 years, the Westchester Chamber Music Society has brought to Westchester first-rate artists, such as the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma; the Amerigo Trio with the violinist Glenn Dicterow; the Emerson, Brentano, and Kalichstein ensembles; and award-winning young talent, including the Dover …
Where and how does Dr. John T. King, artistic director and conductor of The New Choral Society (NCS), find the talented musicians who eventually become part of The New Choral Society Orchestra? “Being in the business a long time,” might be a quick answer. But that’s too simplistic.
Whether you’re a local history buff or just an average Scarsdalian curious about the history that surrounds you, the Scarsdale Historical Society has created a film that will answer any questions you may have ever had about the village’s northernmost neighborhood.
A reunion of former co-workers who gathered for an early 2019 dinner put together by recently retired PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi may have sparked the beginning of a revolution. It certainly sparked some revelations during dinner conversation, led to the writing of a new workplace g…
Some 800 miles southeast of Mogadishu, Somalia, sits one of the most pristine and magnificent remaining island chains in the world. In April of 2022, Scarsdale-based artist Jill Krutick traveled for two weeks to the collection of islands and spent time scuba diving on the pure coral reefs on…
Twenty years ago, 1979 Scarsdale High School graduate Shaun Eli Breidbart, who performs as Shaun Eli, began doing stand-up comedy at night while he was working — quite successfully — in the banking industry. Six years later he quit his job to focus on comedy full time. The laugh is on anyone…
Romance takes on a spooky flavor at Tarrytown Music Hall with “The Spectre Bridegroom and Other Valentine’s Ghost Stories.” The hourlong show features the classic tale “The Spectre Bridegroom” and the poem-based “Death Rides Fast,” both centered around the relationship between a woman and he…
A COVID-19 alternative to performing turned a recording meant to keep young musicians connected to their craft into a historic Grammy Award for conductor Michael Repper and the 70 members of the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) who played on the album, including highly acclaimed pianist Emily-…
High school seniors from Scarsdale, Edgemont and beyond are once again featured in the annual Katonah Museum of Art’s Young Artists Exhibition.
Adam Segal’s life hasn’t changed all that much from his childhood. He started out making films with his friends in Edgewood, and now he’s helping new friends bring their art to the world.
The 2022-23 Hoff-Barthelson Artist Faculty Performance Series continues Friday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m. featuring pianists Eleonora Rotshteyn and Vered Reznik, violinists Lani King Chang and Eriko Sato, and cellist Michael Finckel. Works to be performed include Percy Grainger’s delightful Fant…
Scarsdale Congregational Church hosts one of the more intriguing local performances each year. Tanglewood Marionettes, a Massachusetts-based traveling show, will return to Scarsdale on Saturday, Feb. 4, for two performances of “The Dragon King,” a Chinese folktale.
A millennial parent with toddlers could easily go stir-crazy, in need of great support to get them through the COVID-19 pandemic. One Scarsdale mom coped by developing multiple personalities. Well, one in particular.
Despite its tragedies, the pandemic gave us plenty of time to cross things off our to-do lists that we otherwise wouldn’t have had a chance to do. For Rachel Arbeit Robertson, it was realizing a long-awaited opportunity to explore her grandfather Arnold Arbeit’s captivating artwork.
Preteens from Artistree Performing Arts will be dazzling audiences this weekend with performances of a junior version of “Newsies” at the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck.
The always entertaining SHS Drama Club takes the stage this weekend to perform in two one-act plays directed by seniors and designed entirely by students for the first time ever.
Appreciation for the arts has long attracted residents to the Scarsdale Public Library. Since its renovation was completed two years ago, the library has continuted to provide educational resources and accommodate community events, the latest of which is a winter exhibition of paintings by e…
When Candace Rechtschaffen graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1992, she was “arrogant enough” to believe she had enough life experience to write a book about herself. Years later she realized it wasn’t her story she needed to tell, but the story of her family, notably her father, Rudolp…
Max Verna has no regrets when it comes to his life choices. After spending nearly a decade writing and playing music around the country with the Ominous Seapods, a jam band he formed after transferring to SUNY Plattsburgh in 1988, lead singer, lead guitarist and lead writer Verna quit being …
A prominent local community member is also now a published author.
The winter holidays are known for celebrations with friends and family — celebrations that can take a variety of different forms. Most Americans set up Christmas trees or Hanukkah menorahs, but others take a different approach to the holiday season. Winter solstice, usually held on the short…
The 2022 Christmas season in Scarsdale has officially begun with a flourish. Hallelujah!
We listed some early-bird holiday events in our Nov. 11 print edition [see http://bit.ly/3VBvo8b]. Since then, notices about upcoming seasonal spectaculars keep rolling in with holiday performances, light shows, songs of the season, Santa visits, train shows and more. The following list, org…
The hottest ticket at Scarsdale Adult School (SAS) this term was to see Bonnie Garmus, author of the “it” book of 2022, “Lessons in Chemistry.” More than 200 people Zoomed in for her conversation with cultural historian Lori Rotskoff in the early afternoon Nov. 7.
One of the finest violin players in the world graced the stage in the Scott Room of the Scarsdale Library last weekend. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra violinist Yang Xu, accompanied by pianist and wife Huizhong Shen and cellist Qianci Liu, captivated a packed room of residents of all ages.
Though it’s been nearly three years since the start of the pandemic, the SHS Drama Club is still suffering through some of the pandemic’s lasting repercussions.
Longtime Scarsdale resident, violinist Ray Dotoratos, and Scarsdale Schools orchestral teacher, cellist Enrique Orengo, will be joined by pianist Noriko Suzuki to perform a concert of “A Variety of Inspirational Classical Music” at the Greenville Community Church in Scarsdale on Sunday, Nov.…
Westchester resident Albi Gorn takes on the role of legendary defense lawyer Clarence Darrow in “Never the Sinner,” John Logan’s 1985 play based on the case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. Leopold and Loeb became household names, and the mur…
We just left Halloween behind and started looking forward to Thanksgiving, when what pops into the events calendar? Winter wonderlands, Santas in sleighs, magical markets and more. Mark your calendar and make a date to visit some of the season’s best hits; many are listed below with more sur…
School Lane is mostly residential. But a large, white building near its intersection with Popham Road — No. 25, to be exact — doesn’t resemble the surrounding houses. It’s the home of Hoff-Barthelson Music School, which for a half century has turned out pianists, violinists and many other -i…
If your teenage daughter wants you out of the picture while she goes to the mall, runs to the village for an acai bowl, or, well, breathes, you’re hardly alone. But then there’s Sasha Forman, 16. “My mother is my best friend,” she says. (Kid swap, anyone?)
On the heels of a string of performances throughout the region, well-known New York City stand-up comedian Joe Matarese will be appearing at The Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck Saturday, Nov. 12, where he will be filming his third comedy special, “Mullets & Mixtapes.” The evening will inclu…
When the author Washington Irving declared that “never need an American look beyond [their] own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery,” he likely had in mind one corner of the nation more than the rest, his “first and last love,” the Hudson River and Valley. Irving’s best-…
New York artists/writers Elaine Sexton and João Nemi Neto will be the central characters in a virtual Saturday morning brunch featuring authors from New York and Paris Nov. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The program is hosted by the Scarsdale Salon and Salon de Bellville through the Scarsda…
Born Jan. 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, to a musical family, musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on Dec. 5, 1791, in Vienna, before he finished his masterpiece, the Requiem, which was performed Sunday, Oct. 23 by the New Choral Society (NSC). The concert marked the opening of the N…
Braid together absurdist humor centered around a slightly untethered writer on a book tour with serious social commentary on racial violence in the U.S. and you get one “Hell of a Book.” That also happens to be the title of the 2021 National Book Award winner by Jason Mott, the visiting auth…
The Armour-Stiner Octagon House, the historic eight-sided building in Irvington, lends itself to thoughts of the supernatural, especially at this time of year. With that in mind, the landmark is upping its game this month by offering visitors a chance to witness ghostly visions in person.
River’s Edge Theatre Co. is getting into the spirit of Halloween with “Riverside Haunts, Ep. II,” a performance of spine-tingling stories set in the Hudson Valley. The show, with all new material from last year’s debut, will be held outdoors on Oct. 21-22 at The Good Witch Coffee Bar in Hast…
During her run as Mrs. Rosie Brice in “Funny Girl,” Tovah Feldshuh will celebrate 50 years since her first role on Broadway. For nearly five decades she has graced stage and screen, and shows no sign of slowing down, having committed to play Fanny Brice’s mother from Sept. 6 through June of …
With Queen Elizabeth’s passing and Charles’s ascendance, our attention is currently fixed on England. But earlier this year, many of us were focused on a different royal title: “The Magnolia Palace,” a novel by Fiona Davis that debuted in January and rocketed to the bestseller list. Book gro…
The Clocktower Players will celebrate the start of the troupe’s 45th season with an original production, “Broadway-on-Hudson,” featuring Broadway and regional talent, on Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. at the Tarrytown Music Hall. The event is Clocktower’s first major fundraiser since 2019.
Anyone with a sweet tooth would do well to visit the new One Martine Gallery in White Plains starting Oct. 6.
Plays written by women over 40 are featured in “That’s (Not) All She Wrote,” a festival of staged readings this weekend, Oct. 1-2, presented by Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) in Ossining.
Ballet Hispánico’s performance of three works from its acclaimed repertoire at the Tarrytown Music Hall next Saturday, Oct. 1 comes in the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month. It also marks the launch of the 60th season for RiverArts, which, together with the theater, is co-presenting…
Caramoor’s longstanding tradition of adventurous programming continues this month, moving indoors year-round amid the authentic Renaissance furniture, paintings dating from the 16th century, and terracotta reliefs of the historic Rosen House Music Room. Upcoming programs include the Melissa …
On many levels, the Channel Music Fest at Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Park will be a departure from conventional concert fare.
Downtown Music at Grace will present a varied program of songs and music performed by Grammy Award-winning musician Tom Chapin on Sept. 28 at noon; free of charge.
