Notes from the Aisle Seat
AN OPERA HOUSE PODCAST ON THE ARTS
Join us every other Wednesday for a new episode of Notes From the Aisle Seat, the Opera House's podcast on the arts in northern Chautauqua County! Your host is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair Emeritus of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia Tom Loughlin. Each episode explores the rich landscape of the visual and performing arts that exists in northern Chautauqua County, from the many art galleries and exhibition spaces to performing arts organizations to the individual artists and performers that call this area home.
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Current Episode
Episode 5.02
Guests on this episode include: Broadway Star Nick Adams in advance of his Sept. 19 concert at the Opera House, The Movie Guys’ Paul Preston, and Dr. Cathy Ullman, whose illustrated talk, The Story of the Stone Cutters: Headstones and Beyond, is Sept. 11.
Past Episodes + -
Guests on this episode include: Rick Davis, Opera House Executive Director discussing the fall series of events; Cellist Jolyon Pegis talking about his Aug. 29 Opera House concert; and Artist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alberto Rey discussing his solo exhibition at the Marion Art Gallery.
Guests on this episode include: “The Movie Guy” Paul Preston discussing June movies in the Opera House Cinema Series, and Joseph Newton, director of the Main Street Studios’ production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Guests on this episode include: Steve Wendell, discussing the coming “And The Tony Goes To…” performance at the Opera House; Rick Mascaro, founder of the Lakeshore Center for the Arts; and Jefferson Westwood, retiring Director of SUNY Fredonia’s Rockefeller Arts Center, who discusses his 43-year career at the University.
Guests on this episode include: Jefferson Westwood, Director, SUNY Fredonia Rockefeller Arts Center, to discuss the coming Commencement Eve Pops Concert; Marcia Merrins president of the North Shore Arts Alliance to talk about the Memorial Day Weekend Art Trail; and Jeffrey Dietz, of Aspire of WNY, who discusses ARTFUL CONNECTIONS, the iXpress Art Exhibit.
Guests on this episode include: Dr. Robert Strauss, Artistic Director of the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus, to talk about the coming Live at the Met productions; Paul Preston aka “The Movie Guy,” to discuss the Opera House’s May movies; and Briana Kelly and Ava Sargente with the Fredonia Dance Ensemble, from SUNY Fredonia’s Dept. of Theatre and Dance.