Clifton Park, NY – Opera Saratoga artistic director and Clifton Park resident Curtis Tucker conducted the world premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opera a cappella in Memphis, Tennessee on January 21. The co-production by Opera Memphis and Playhouse on the Square sets Shakespeare’s play to an original musical score by composer Michael Ching, who’s Buoso’s Ghost was performed in Saratoga Springs in 2008. Featuring “voicestra” accompaniment by an a cappella vocal ensemble, rather than orchestra, this Midsummer is believed to be the world’s first ever full-length opera sung without instruments.

The production, which continues in Memphis through February 13, has already received numerous accolades, including a glowing review in The Wall Street Journal (“A Remarkably Inventive A Cappella Premiere,” Jan 25, 2011). [...]

Save a life. Be The Match®.

The new Chamilia Be The Match® collection is now available at Karalina’s. This beautiful collection of 9 new Chamilia beads will allow you to create a personalized bracelet that shows your support for the Be the Match® Foundation.

When you buy any of Chamilia’s beautiful Be The Match beads, you give life-saving support to the Be The Match® Foundation that helps patients to be able to afford marrow transplants, assist in find a matching bone marrow donor and to build a future.

Thousands of patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases depend on Be The Match Foundation to raise funds to help make bone marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants possible, and these new Chamilia beads are helping to support this worthwhile [...]

Saratoga Springs, NY- Responses to urban, natural, and economic environments by contemporary African artists will be on view in a thought-provoking exhibition at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

The show, titled Environment and Object— Recent African Art, opens Saturday, Feb. 5, and will run through July 31, 2011. The public is invited to a reception on the opening day, beginning at 6 p.m.

From appropriated waste materials turned into site-specific installations and sculptures, to eerily compelling photographs of ravaged and degraded environments, the exhibition will include works of art that scrutinize human-made environmental disasters, natural resource problems, deforestation, and other ecological issues. Other artists in the show take a less directly political approach regarding their environments, using [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — Saratoga Reads will offer a number of events in January and February, designed to appeal to both adult and young readers. All activities are free and open to the public.

The programs will revolve around the current Saratoga Reads book of choice, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. The novel, set in Japan, tells the story of a once-brilliant mathematics professor who has lost all but 80 minutes of short-term memory. He is tended by a housekeeper and her young son, with whom he forges a deep relationship, though he forgets them every day.

The events will kick off on Sunday, Jan. 23, when Saratoga Reads joins forces with SUNY Empire State College to offer a taste of Japanese culture and a movie at [...]

Saratoga Springs, New York, (January 5th, 2011): Saratoga Specialties Company is excited to announce they have just completed an important internal restructuring to better position the company for rapid expansion, development and growth. They specifically targeted new product ideas, brought in new resources and developed detailed growth plans that will greatly improve the company’s market presence, fortify the company’s on hand resources, advance product line expansion capabilities, and improve the overall customer service experience.

An integral part of the company’s restructuring was the addition of two partners to the organization. In November of 2010, Richard Sheldon and Joseph Stanislowsky both joined the company. Richard brings many years of business ownership, senior business management, and finance expertise. Joe brings more than 30 years of business ownership experience specializing in logistics, planning and transportation”, explained Dan Jameson, President of Saratoga Specialties Company. “As [...]