In this episode, our hosts Mike Nelson and Derek Foster interview Morgan Pellitteri, the man behind TechSmart Inspections! While he worked white collar and with other employees in the past, Morgan rededicated himself to a new calling – running an entire home inspection operation himself! What made him make the change? How has he achieved success? Listen to this episode and find out!
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Welcome to Buying Local!
Saratoga, Warren, and Washington County have no shortage of fantastic goods and services to offer! In this podcast, our host Mike Nelson will clue you in on the amazing gems hidden in your very own community!
Episode 43
In this episode, our host Mike Nelson interviews Daniel Breeyear, the Director of Integrative Care at The Eden Care Center! They’ve expanded their offerings across the board, and some of their offerings are truly unique – their fully personalized therapy options ensure that no matter what your troubles, The Eden Center for Integrative Care can help!
00:21 – Introduction
01:12 – The Best Therapists…
03:18 – … And the Best Practitioners
05:44 – Hormones: Their Effects, and How Eden Supplements Them
09:30 – Lowering Testosterone Levels… Is Food to Blame?
13:52 – Going Beyond the Basic: Investigating Causes
15:38 – An Infusion for Every Ailment
17:07 – Mike’s Aching Feet
18:30 – Oh D, Oh My
19:57 – Pills vs. IVs
23:15 – Testosterone Risks… Are Overstated!
27:05 – Optimal for You
28:19 – Not Just for Men: Women can Benefit from HRT Too!
31:01 – Ketamine vs. Depression
33:27 – Bringing Down the Walls
36:13 – Wilderness Therapy
38:24 – Water Down the Stress
41:14 – Not So Alternative Anymore
43:13 – How to Get in Touch
44:14 – Community Education
45:26 – Closing Remarks
PRODUCTION NOTE: The opinions reflected in this podcast are not indicative of the views of Saratoga Business Report, SaratogaBride.com LLC, Saratoga TODAY, Glens Falls TODAY, Spa City Digital, or Five Towers Media.
Michael Nelson
Daniel Breeyear
46 min, 10 sec
October 16th, 2023
Fall is a great time to do some fishing! The staff at Warren County Fish Hatchery have begun their Fall trout stocking program, preparing allotments of rainbow trout for Schroon River and Glen Lake.
The hatchery is located on 38 acres along the Hudson River in Warrensburg. The grounds offer two sheltered picnic areas with restrooms, a children’s play area and canoe access site, as well as a large open area for other activities.
The Warren County Fish Hatchery is operated by the Parks, Recreation and Railroad division of the Warren County DPW. The Hatchery has been in operation since 1914; however Warren County obtained the facility from New York State in 1982. Since then, they have had great success in raising domestic brook trout, rainbow trout, landlocked Atlantic salmon, and heritage brook trout.
The fish raised here provide improved sport fishing throughout Warren County waters. Wild strains of brook trout, which are provided by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), are raised and stocked as fingerlings each fall… These fish are 3 to 4 inches long, and have been obtained as eggs from state and federal hatcheries. They are incubated, hatched and transferred to “grow out” in the hatcheries’ raceways – these are tanks that are relatively shallow and rely on a high water flow to sustain aquatic life.
In the summer months, these fish are moved to rearing ponds for future growth. The facility currently utilizes 10 rearing ponds and a Display Pond, which allows visitors a close-up view of mature trout. Their ages range from one to five years, and they may weigh upwards of five pounds. These fish are typically not stocked in area lakes and rivers, and are kept for display only.
For more information, please visit warrencountyny.gov/dpw/fishhatchery
Three-year-old Paco has been relaxing to the max since being rescued. Since his arrival, he has settled right in and made himself at home and soaks up every bit of attention he can get. Paco is an easy-going and affectionate guy who is quick to make friends, both human and feline. Excited for visitors, he is more than ready to find a new home where he will get the devotion he deserves.
If you are interested in learning more about Paco, please contact the Adoption Center at 518.409.8105 ext 101 or adoptadk@animalleague.org. You can also complete the adoption application using the link: www.animalleague.org/adkpreapproval
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On Friday, October 13th, 2023, The Warren County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting to begin the process to renew the county’s 0.25% tax on new mortgages.
Director of Public Affairs Don Lehman said: “The way the calendar falls this year, beginning the process at the regular Board of Supervisors meeting on October 20th would not have gotten it done in time for when it expires at the end of 2023, so a special meeting was scheduled.”
This tax has been on the books since 2009. Annually, Warren County collects as much as $1.6-million through this tax. This tax is renewed every three years through this process.
The board set a public hearing regarding the local law that allows the tax. This public hearing will be held at the Board of Supervisors’ monthly meeting on Friday, October 20th. This meeting will start at 10:00 AM, at Warren County Municipal Center.
On Friday, October 20th, 2023, at 3:00 PM, the city of Glens Falls will be hosting a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the start of construction of the City’s $5-million event and market center. This is the signature project of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative.
The $4.55-million contract for this building project was awarded to Bunkoff General Contractors Inc. out of Latham, New York, winning the bid over five other contractors. The project – located between 51 and 63 South Street – will be a 6,000 square-foot farmers market and event space. The Market Center pavilion will be the year-round home of the farmers market and other community events.
“We’re pleased to now be able to show on-the-ground progress on South Street that reflects all of the work that City staff have done together with consultants, designers, and other professionals to bring this to fruition,” said Glens Falls Mayor Bill Collins.
This investment is expected to bring more shoppers and investment to what for decades has been a run-down commercial area: “The Event and Market Center is expected to be transformative – and not just to South Street,” Collins said. “It will no longer be the last corridor of the city untouched by economic progress.”
“It has been a marathon to bring this project to fruition,” said Glens Falls Economic Development Director Jeff Flagg. “Following the sudden passing of my long-time predecessor, Ed Bartholomew, and amid the 30-month disruption of the COVID pandemic the City staff, consultants, and advisors spent more than a year just getting the project back on track… And then, with the update in the project parameters, and the increasing costs of materials and labor, we had to ensure that the proposal was still economically viable and acceptable to the state,” Flagg said.
The groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 57 South Street in Glens Falls at 3:00 PM on Friday, October 20th, 2023.
Warren County
Bolton
Estate of Robert G. Delma sold property at 26 Shallow Beach Road to Andrew & Lindsay McMarrow for $625,000
The Gage Trust u/t/a dated May 13, 2016- Mesa, Arizona sold property at 43 Deer Creek Road to Marc Cameron Conner & Barbara Jo Reyes Conner-Saratoga Springs for $1,198,734.17
Chester
John J. & Kathy A Farman sold property at 117 Jones Rd to John C. & Debra A Marcinka for $272,000
Glens Falls
Donna M. Bombard sold property at 9 Grant Ave to Francis & Ann Dougherty for $169,000
Briscoe Property Ventures, LLC sold property at 44 Grove Ave to Kristine Diane Burchfield for $325,000
Estate of Richard Every sold property at 11 ½ & 13 First Street to New First St. LLC for $360,000
6 Bacon,LLC sold property at 6 Bacon Street to Kesson, LLC for $227,500
Hague
Hal Connolly sold property at 9236 Lakeshore Drive to William & Tara Lindheimer for $1.35-million
Horicon
Next Generation TS FBO Michael Infantino IRa 1854 sold property at 282 East Shore Drive to Shawn Berger & Lynne Catnar-Berger for $650,000
John P. & Donna M. Clark sold property at State Route 8 to Michael A. & Annika Prisco for $550,000
Johnsburg
Randall & Cheryl MacNeill sold property at 710 Harrington Road to Joseph Warren Dononvan Shapiro & Jane Shapiro for $271,000
Lake George
Noel & Bernadette Behan sold property at 3210 Lakeshore Drive (1/10 interest Lodge 41, Lodges at Cresthaven Three) to Voltec, Inc. for $55,000
Estate of Mary Beth Crocitto sold property off Hubbel Lane to MAAP Capital Partners LLC for $780,000
Mark E. & Idiko T. McPhilmy sold property at 3014 Lake Shore Drive Unit 20A to Jeffert & Kerstin Flanagan for $200,000
Lake Luzerne
Kurl H. & Annette M. Kilmer sold property at Bird Brook to Carl & Jaclyn Falotico to $69,000
Bonita L. Bennett sold property at Gage Hill Road to Joshua 7 Amy Beers for $33,000
Estate of John Thomas Toal sold property at 22 Katherine Drive to Richard Craig Nicholson & Sabrine E. Nicholson for $177,500
Queensbury
Daniel Mannix, referee sold property at 44 Willow Road to 20 Cap Fund 1, LLC for $80,000
Tina Arcul-DeMarsh sold property at 17 Evanna Drive to Janine & Scott Reuter for $445,000
Madalline Torress & Renee Branigan sold property at 446 Luzerne Road to Raymond Mound for $272,000
Anthony & Carole Ricciardell sold property at 27 Orchard Drive to Tom J. & Tetyana Denford for $799,900
JJ Merigan Properties, LLC sold property at 23 Sunset Lane to William David Sydlowski & Shannon Sydlowski for $995,000
Delores A. Carruthers sold property at 21 Meldon Cir to Kelly Heffernan for $462,000
Roger W. & Florence M Smith sold property at 27 Warren Lane to Matthew F. Poirier for $137,500
Albert & Lynn Zito sold property at 6 Nelson Road to Daniel P. & Lauren M. Morley for $450,000
Estate of Karl W. Hagadorn sold property at 960 West MOuntain Road to Leroy Reed Jr. & Kelly Reed for $365,000
Dale Michael Harris & Dale Marie Harris sold property at 30 Fox Hollow Road to Megha Sharma & Vishal Patil for $575,000
Roslyn M. Johnson sold property at 1144 Ridge Road to Donald L. & Lito L. Abrams for $375,000
William & Connie VanNess sold property at 9 Ohio Ave to James M. Huntly for $93,000
Lauren Christine Trippodo Valerie Ann Rompa & James F. & Shirley K. Salerno sold property at 11 Burnt Hills Drive to James Connoers & Josephine Massiminl for $465,000
George Benton Jr. & Lisa A. Benton sold property at 35 Essex Ct. to Ronald & Lois Sportiello for $630,000
Dean J. Beckos sold property at 26 Fox Hollow Lane to Nicolas C. & Kerry E. Giumarra for $585,000
Stony Creek
Dane E. Axen sold property at 125 Murray Road to Zayachek Properties LLC for $325,000
Warrensburg
Jorge Torres & Renee Branigan sold property at 29 C Balsam Crest Lane to Ralph J & Michelle M. Buonome for $350,000
Juan C. Landaverde & Robert E. Schwindt III sold property at 3 Hackensack Ave to Michael & Elsa Sukrhham for $265,000
Thomas F. Swan sold property at 6 Woodward Ave to Justine R. Brennan for $175,000
786 AZS Realty Inc sold property at 56 Grandview Lane to Kimberly Ann Barron for $280,000
Washington County
Argyle
Northwoods Land Development, LLC sold property at 0 Lick Springs Road 2 Lots to Christopher Richter & Stacy Akaka for $120,000
Gerald M. D’Angelico sold property at 147 Pleasant Valley Road to Winter M. & Kyle A. Sipowicz for $161,600
Cambridge
McNeice Family Farm, LLC sold property at 73 Edie Road to Lain & Danielle Holmes for $760,000
Hartford
A.Daniel Middleton sold property at County Route 19 to Ulices Hernesdez for $48,000
Hebron
Anthony J. Knettel, Sole Surviving Heir sold property at 3158 County Route 30 to Susan M. Sheldon for $500
Fort Ann
Matthew J. Eberlein sold property at 49 Lakewood Drive to Biernacki Property Management, LLC for $125,000
Robert L. & Judith Ann Schulz sold property at Constitution Way to Patrick & Karen McCarney for $85,000
Leroy Reed, Jr. & Kelly Reed sold property at 11 Wastina Way to Kevin P. & Lisa E. Truax, as Trustees of Truax Family Revocable Trust for $525,000
Fort Edward
19 Parry Street, LLC sold property at 19 Parry Street to REO Home Services, LLC for $152,000
Kathleen A Mercurio sold property at 278 Broadway ro Ashley Wright & John Civitello sor $245,000
Newrez, LLC dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing DBA sold property at 40 Center Street to Robert Cherico for $145,000
Granville
Ann Peternell as Exec. of Last will of Frank R. Pekar & Catherine J. Page fka Pekar sold property at 69 Quaker Street to Roxanne Combs-Faxon for $117,000
Hebron
Frank & Leona Gartano sold property at Mountainside Meadows Way to Barry K. Linendoll III for $28,000
Jackson
Theresa Gambinno sold property at 13 Pine Knoll Way to 13 Pine Knoll, LLC for $120,000
Kingsbury
Erik Schill, Rebecca Epstien nka Shill sold property at 34 Pearl Street to Carl Skogsberg & Elizabeth Ashley Skogsberg for $235,000
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Trustee of Morgan Stanley ABS Capital Inc. Trust sold property at 5 Cherry Street tot REO Home Services, LLC for $75,000
Dennis Moyer sold property at 57 Coleman Avenue to Melody Anne Hall for $211,100
James Atherton-Ely sold property at 18 Elizabeth Street to Cadence Matthew Lasporte-Smith for $235,000
Putnam
Matilda Jane Kraemer as Trustee of Matilda Jane Kraener Revocable Trust sold property at754 County Route 2 ro Darlene Kerr for $170,000
Casey L. King sold property at 1071 County Route 2 to Lawrence Lewis Bryant, Jr. & Martha Yebra Bryant for $525,000
Claudia K. Braymar, Esq., Ref, Jason S. Bennett sold property at17462 State Route 22 to Amanda S. Benedict for $112,001
Salem
Daryl W. Winslow sold property at 95 east Broadway ro Mark Gilliam & Kimberly Jayne Gilliam for $269,900
White Creek
Richard Erik Feus, Frederick David Feus, & Jason Paul Feus as Sole heirs of estate of Richard Feus sold property at 0 South Union Street to Equity Trust Company Custodian FBO Jan Woodcock IRA for $7,500
Richard Erik Feus, Frederick David Feus, & Jason Paul Feus as Sole heirs of estate of Richard Feus sold property at 0 South Union Street to Equity Trust Company Custodian FBO Jan Woodcock IRA for $12,500
Judith S. Short sold property at 1 Second Street to Deborah Nelson for $270,000
Whitehall
Christopher Shambo, Esq.:ref, Donna R. Spoor & Roger Callonnec sold property at 13 1st Avenue to PHH Mortgage Corporation for $91,585.15
Justin Michael Millett sold property at 2700 County Route to Ryan W. & Kimberly Marviglio for $116,600
Dorothy H. Rich, Thomas R. Levasseur & Jason J. Rich FKA Clader sold property at 2067 Upper Turnpike Road to William Gerrit Gurner & Victoria Gail Gurner for $245,000
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. – This winter, Lake George, N.Y., will welcome a pair of magical celebrations to delight people of all ages:
In December, Lake George Winter’s Dream, a brand-new outdoor immersive multimedia experience, will unfold at the Fort William Henry historical fortress. Surrounding visitors in light, sound, original music, video projection and interactivity, the experience will recall the rich emotions, sensations and magic of the winter season. The attraction will unfold in the Fort’s outdoor courtyard and on its four bastions.
Next Door to Fort William Henry, at Festival Commons in Lake George, Winter Realms: The Wintertainment Destination will enchant visitors with ice skating, dazzling lights, larger-than-life motifs, a sculpture park, igloos, Santa’s Village, a Polar Ice Bar, and a variety of other winter attractions.
Winter Realms will open on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, coinciding with Lake George’s Lite Up the Village Holiday kickoff event. Tickets for Winter Realms will go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Winter’s Dream will open in early December. To join the waiting list for Winter’s Dream tickets, or receive updates, please visit LakeGeorgeWintersDream.com.
Winter’s Dream is created and produced by the award-winning multidisciplinary studio Moment Factory. Established in Montreal, Moment Factory is an international studio that has crafted more than 525 projects worldwide, including productions with Madonna, Billie Eilish, the Toronto Zoo, Sony, the Boston Museum of Science and the Lumina Night Walk series.
Winter Realms, created by the artists behind the famous Ice Castles, will debut a new, more weather-resistant winter experience. The unique blend of artistry and winter wonder will ensure unforgettable winter memories for visitors even when winter weather is scarce.
“Lake George is first with family fun all summer and fall. Now, we hope it will be the leading place for new and memorable wintertime family entertainment, too,” said Warren County Winter Coalition Chairman Vincent Crocitto II.
Lake George Winter’s Dream and Winter Realms received financial support from Warren County as part of the public-private effort to foster year-round tourism and local employment. Both events are supported by Warren County Tourism/Visit the Lake George Area of the Adirondacks and the Warren County Winter Coalition.
Tickets for these events will be sold separately to allow visitors to select the most convenient entry times for their groups. For more information, please visit LakeGeorgeWintersDream.com and www.winterrealms.com.
About the Warren County Winter Coalition: The Warren County Winter Coalition is a non-profit group of Lake George area business and community leaders working to expand wintertime employment opportunities for local people, generate new revenue for local businesses and sales and occupancy tax revenue for Warren County, and foster the development of year-round tourism in the region. Vincent Crocitto II is president of the Coalition.
Glens Falls Symphony will present a special performance of Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena by Evan Mack and Josh McGuire, American composers, librettists, pianists and friends.
The opera stars of Seagle Festival, in Schroon Lake, NY along with our fully professional symphony musicians will present this coming of age, Christmas opera based on the Mexican folktale of the poinsettia.
Students from Queensbury, Lake George, Warrensburg, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Keene Valley, homeschool associations, and more will be attending this school-day concert at the Warrensburg Middle School/ High School Auditorium on Friday, November 17 with three 48 min performances starting at 9:00am.
The Glens Falls Symphony takes great pride in the tradition of the children’s concert which shares music made on instruments with hundreds of years of history. Glens Falls is the smallest city in America to support a fully professional symphony, making this opportunity both unique, and important for the rural school districts it will be serving. “With an array of electronic devices and access to the internet, kids have so much at their fingertips” said Senator Betty Little. “However, there is nothing like the sound of a live symphony. The Glens Falls Symphony is phenomenal. These students are in for a very special and memorable treat.”
Executive Director Jennifer Brink says “Sharing the tremendous range of the orchestra sounds with young people who may never have heard these instruments before is a wondrous thing. We are delighted that after several years of planning, the children in our region can hear the talented musicians of the Glens Falls Symphony in a concert designed just for them. We hope to continue this program with new concerts each year so that the Glens Falls Symphony forms a critical piece of every local child’s cultural education. We feel we have a duty to share this great art with children, and to contribute to building the arts audiences of tomorrow.”
When asked about why he chose Lucinda for this program, Music Director Charles Peltz shares, everyone loves a unique Holiday gift and the Glens Falls Symphony is putting a bow on a special theatrical present for the children of our communities. Our colleague the eminently gifted composer Evan Mack has offered to co-produce with the Glens Falls Symphony his wildly successful children’s opera “Lucinda”. We love his tuneful tale of old Mexico and the legend of the poinsettia. The musicians of the orchestra are eager to make music- and magic! – with Evan and the Seagle Colony as we bring to life this charming musical miniature.
Each character in Lucinda will be represented in brilliant fusion of the opera with a traditional children’s Mexican story regarding the birth of the poinsettia flowers! This could be the first and only opera that many Adirondack Park students experience. This beautiful opera educates children, touches their hearts and illuminates the understanding, and true meaning behind the power of gift giving. One objective of presenting live music by professional musicians in this way is to inspire more young people to take up band and orchestra instruments when the opportunity comes.
The concert is supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. The Charles R. Wood Foundation, and the JM MacDonald Foundation.
The 2023-24 Glens Falls Symphony 40th Anniversary concert season is sponsored by Glens Falls National Bank.
About Glens Falls Symphony
Since Maestro Charles Peltz’ arrival in 2000, the fully professional Glens Falls Symphony has performed a dynamic repertoire, regularly including musical premieres and world-renowned guest artists while expanding musical offerings to include family concerts, summer pops programs and more. Cited as “one of the great orchestras of our country” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner, the orchestra comprises professional musicians who come from all over the Northeast to perform.
About Seagle Festival
Seagle Festival is the premiere opera and musical theater producing organization in the Adirondack Region of upstate New York, and the oldest and one of the most distinguished summer vocal training programs in the United States, founded in 1915 by renowned singer and voice teacher Oscar Seagle. Over our 100+ year history, Seagle Festival has transitioned from a successful family-run business to a well-established non-profit organization, run and staffed by leaders in the field of opera and musical theater performances and vocal training, and overseen by a committed and diverse board of directors.
The non-profit corporation Seagle Music Colony, Inc. doing business as Seagle Festival has deep roots in the town of Schroon Lake, New York but serves a much larger community of artists and staff that have participated or worked at Seagle Festival and now live and work across the country and around the world. The mission, vision and values of Seagle Festival include a commitment to the highest quality performances for our devoted audiences and top-notch vocal training for aspiring vocalists of all backgrounds and identities.
About Evan Mack
Believing that opera should be theater grounded in climatic expression that delivers larger-than-life stories and music that harnesses the full athletic thrill of singing, Evan Mack has devoted much of his compositional life to opera and song. His first major operatic composition, where he served as both composer and librettist, was Angel of the Amazon. “Angel” premiered in May of 2011 by Encompass New Opera Theatre at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City and was subsequently released on CD worldwide by Albany Records. Two years later, Fresno State Opera Theater premiered The Secret of Luca. This was the first of several collaborations with librettist Joshua McGuire. In August 2016, their American grand opera Roscoe premiered at Seagle Music Colony to rave reviews. Roscoe received its orchestral world premiere with the Albany Symphony starring Metropolitan Opera star Deborah Voigt. In between the two large scale projects, Mack & McGuire found time to write the first ever opera for Twitter #IsOperaDead – an opera in 5 acts lasting one minute and forty seconds.
Their Christmas opera for children, Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena is quickly becoming a holiday standard with yearly productions by San Francisco Opera, Opera in the Heights and Fresno State Opera, who commissioned the opera. The one-act opera The Ghosts of Gatsby premiered by Samford Opera in Birmingham, AL in 2019 and won the National Opera Association’s Argento Chamber Opera Competition. Mack & McGuire’s latest, Yeltsin in Texas! premiered in 2020 by TCU and Opera in the Heights. It’s now in development to become a musical comedy!
Evan Mack has proven as deft at song writing as he is in opera. His song A Little More Perfect is a setting of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s final paragraph of the Marriage Equality Decision by the Supreme Court in 2015. Premiering at Seagle Music Colony in 2015, it has quickly become a favorite of many baritones including Michael Mayes, Daniel Okulich and Michael Miller to name a few. The song had its professional premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2016 and the orchestral premiere at the Fort Worth Opera Festival in 2017. His new cycle If Only Lenny Were Here, which celebrates the life of Leonard Bernstein had its world premiere with the Schenectady Symphony in October of 2018.
Evan was named “2018 Professional of the Year” by Musical America, was a composing fellow at the John Duffy Composers Institute and a resident artist at Yaddo. He is currently published with Hal Leonard, Alfred, and Amazon. Evan is a Teaching Professor at Skidmore College. He lives in Ticonderoga, NY with his wife, Kristin and two sons, Carter and Henry.
About Joshua McGuire
Joshua has written librettos for The Secret of Luca, (based on the novel by Ignazio Silone) and Roscoe (based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy) with music by Evan Mack. In October 2016, Roscoe received a full performance by the Albany Symphony featuring soprano Deborah Voigt in the lead role of Veronica. His collaboration with Mack also produced Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena, a children’s opera commissioned by the Fresno State Opera Theatre. Since premiering in 2016, the opera has played for over 25,000 children, including annual performances by the San Francisco Opera Guild. Mack & McGuire’s one-act opera The Ghosts of Gatsby, based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, won the the National Opera Association’s 2019 Dominick Argento Prize for contemporary opera, with subsequent productions by Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory and Opera Las Vegas, among others.
Yeltsin in Texas! — a comedy about the fall of the U.S.S.R. commissioned and premiered by Opera in the Heights and Texas Christian University in February 2020 — is currently being expanded and developed into a full-length musical theatre piece with The Blueprint Project. McGuire is currently developing A Nearer Mother with Evan Mack (based on the life of AIDS activist Ruth Coker Burks), as well as a multimedia opera entitled Siddhartha (after the novel by Hermann Hesse) with composer Murray Hidary.
In 2015, McGuire was commissioned to write a libretto for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, and the resulting one-act opera, Alexandra, with music by David Clay Mettens, was premiered at the Kennedy Center. He is also the author of The Secret of Music: a look at the listening life, a book of essays on music and mindfulness. McGuire is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, Opera America, and the the American Center for New Works Development.
McGuire currently teaches at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. He studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he pursued Master’s work in both guitar and orchestral conducting, holding assistantships in both areas. As an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, he took the Bachelor of Music summa cum laude as well as High Honors in English Literature for his thesis on musical structures in the work of James Joyce. He currently resides in Nashville with his wife, pianist and conductor Jennifer McGuire, their son Thomas, and a basset hound.
Contact the symphony to reserve your seats for your school, organization, association, church group etc. Good seats still available. Transportation funding available by request.
CONCERT PROGRAM:
Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena by Evan Mack and Josh McGuire
9:00am / 10:30am / 12:15pm Friday November 17, 2023
Opera Singers Conducted by Richard Kagey, Seagle festival
Orchestra Conducted by Charles Peltz
Warrensburg Middle/High School Auditorium
Visit the Symphony website at www.theglensfallssymphony.org
Call the Symphony office at 518-793-1348
Mailing address: Glens Falls Symphony, PO Box 2036, Glens Falls NY 12801
Office Location: Upstairs in the LARAC Building, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls NY 12801
For the first time, students applying to up to five SUNY schools can save money between October 16th and October 29th, by either using the SUNY application or the Common Application. SUNY will waive the application fees across all 64 colleges and universities for these two weeks! During this two-week free application period, there is no special code needed; however, to apply via the common application, you need to apply campus by campus. On each of the State University of New York member pages, there will be a question that says, “It is free application weeks with The State University of New York through October 29th! Would you like SUNY to pay your application fee?” By clicking yes, the application fee will be waived. This option is available for up to five SUNY schools.
There is no refund available for students who applied prior to the free application period. This offer is only available between October 16th and October 29th. SUNY will not refund application fees for applications submitted before or after those dates.
In addition to Free App Week, SUNY offers ongoing fee waivers that apply to 60-percent of all high school students in New York State. Students who are in foster care, students who have military connections, low-income students, and students at 500-plus designated high schools can apply to up to seven campuses for free, saving up to $350 any time during the year.
“Education is the backbone of our society, and I am committed to providing opportunities that support every student’s journey to a higher education,” Governor Kathy Hochul said.
SUNY recommends that students apply by December 1st, 2023 – this maximizes financial aid, campus housing, and consideration for the major of choice. There may be certain application deadlines for certain programs of study! Applicants for an Early Decision Program or Early Action Programs should apply by December 1st, 2023.
SUNY is the largest comprehensive public university system in the United States. It was officially founded in 1948, with the consolidation of 29 unaffiliated colleges. This state university system currently includes research universities, liberal arts colleges, specialization and technical colleges, health science centers, land-grant colleges, and 30 community colleges.
93% of New Yorkers live within 15 miles of a SUNY campus! Right now, there are more than 370,000 students who are currently enrolled in The State University of New York, 88,000 faculty and staff, and 3-million alumni.
The State University of New York is committed to providing a quality education at an affordable price. For more information, please visit SUNY.edu