SCHEDULE
This Week: Thu 5/17 – Sun 5/20

Open House: TSL Kid's Create -Instruments and Improv Performance

Under the direction of Shelly Ley, students play xylophones, glockenspiels, drums, and small percussion to accompany songs. Singing and creative movement help express the words and music.

Movie: Marley

Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. "Marley" is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. From Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald ("One Day In September," "The Last King of Scotland") comes the story of a towering figure of musical history, whose music and message has transcended different cultures, languages and creeds to resonate around the world today as powerfully as when he was alive.

Met Opera: Wagner's Dream

For perhaps the most ambitious project in its famed history, the Metropolitan Opera commissioned visionary director Robert Lepage to stage a new production of opera's most formidable masterpiece: Richard Wagner's four-part Ring Cycle. Shot over five years, Susan Froemke's documentary captures the unprecedented challenges of bringing Lepage's electrifying production to life. Featuring such opera luminaries as Deborah Voigt, the film is a rare and engrossing look at the artistic process.

Met Opera: Siegfried (Wagner's Ring Cycle)

Fabio Luisi;Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Bryn Terfel (Wanderer), Eric Owens (Alberich)

In part three of the Ring, Wagner's cosmic vision focuses on his hero's early conquests, while Robert Lepage's revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt's Brünnhilde is his prize. Fabio Luisi directs, Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. 2 intermissions

Community Theatre: HRC Showcase Theatre

HRC Showcase Theatre is the premiere not for profit professional theatre organization of the Hudson Valley dedicated exclusively to concert, staged readings of new plays, the top five winners in a national contest sponsored annually by HRC Showcase Theatre.

The next production, on May 19th, is a staged reading of "Mango Dreams" by Laura Edmondson. In this play, a conflict between a white professor and a black student spirals out of control in this exploration of race, cultural identity and the meaning of love.

Met Opera: Gotterdammerung (Wagner's Ring Cycle)

Fabio Luisi; Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Gutrune), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute), Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Iain Paterson (Gunther), Eric Owens (Alberich), Hans-Peter König (Hagen)

With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris is Siegfried-the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. Fabio Luisi conducts..Running time: 6 hrs, 25 mins, 2 intermissions

UPCOMING EVENTS

Art Exhibit: M..M..M.....OIL

The gallery opens with a new installation by Linda Mussmann, "M… M… M…… OIL," inspired by "Moby Dick," Melville's novel written in 1851. Linda's fascination, which began in 1995, has led her to construct a visual space where she continues to think about oil and the obsession for oil. "Oil to light the lamp so that we can see. Light and the desire for oil."

Even 161 years after the book was written, the desire for oil grows. We have gone beyond harpoons and are now obsessed with drilling for oil in some of the most precarious and precious places on earth. The installation includes windows, light bulbs, a 19th-century photo of a woman, a figure of Melville, a pile of sand, a harpoon, a rope, nine nooses, a map of America, images of the Pequod, an image of Ken Saro-wiwa, a list of the 135 chapters of the novel, and a few logos of oil companies.

In addition to the installation, Mussmann will read about how she came to make this installation. She has also asked a group of artists to perform music and spoken words including Maria Boxill, Claudia Bruce, Ifetayo Cobbins, Ryder Cooley, and Sleep. Beverages will be served.

Movie: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Margaret Atwood's visionary work "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on "debt" in its various forms-societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal ("Manufactured Landscapes") strikingly interweaves these, sometimes surprising, debtor/creditor relationships: two families in a years-long Albanian blood feud; the BP oil spill vs. the Earth; mistreated Florida tomato farm workers and their bosses; imprisoned media mogul Conrad Black and the U.S. justice system. With stunning cinematography and insightful commentary from renowned thinkers Raj Patel, Louise Arbour, and Atwood herself, "Payback" is a brilliant, game-changing rumination on the subject. "Payback" had its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Theatre: Cowgirls

A Mussmann/ Bruce Production in collaboration with Ryder Cooley. Thursday - Saturday May 31, June 1, June 2, at 7:30pm.

Youth Programs: Rhythm. Instruments. Movement. Improv.

Students delve deeper into creating rhythmic pieces based on their own ideas, using instruments they build and instruments we have. All range of experience is welcome. Everyone will have a part to play that meets his/her level of ability. One free private music lesson is included. Signing Up: Registration is REQUIRED, and program size is limited. To register or ask questions, email Shelly Ley, at shelly.ley@gmail.com; or call 505-401-8882 More info: shellyley.com Workshop is FREE; participants are strongly encouraged to make a donation to TSL to keep our workshops going and open to all. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street, Hudson NY 12534 518.822.8448