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Articles by Sol Hurwitz
The Man Behind The Osborn’s New Direction
Matt Anderson has a lot of patience. With the Rye Planning Commission’s recent approval of The Osborn’s wide-ranging expansion plan, Anderson, president and CEO of the Rye senior living community, took a major step toward a goal he has pursued for nearly a decade. Witnessing the surge of the nation’s aging population, Anderson began talks with Rye officials in 2018 about changes he envisioned to meet the demand for additional services and amenities.
World-Class Chamber Music in Our Backyard
You don’t have to travel to Lincoln Center for world-class chamber music. The renowned Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is giving three concerts at the Purchase Performing Arts Center, a 15-minute drive from Rye. The opening concert was Oct. 25, and paired the composers Antonin Dvořák and his mentor and promoter Johannes Brahms, titans of the late 19th century Romantic era, in a faultless performance.
World’s Most Pressing Issue: Turf or Grass? - Rye Record
I was sitting at the bar at Ruby’s and my friend Rupert walked in and sat down beside me. Rupert works for one of those public opinion polling firms, so he begins every conver-sation with a question. “Do you know what issue is top-of-mind for U.S. voters in 2024?” Rupert asked. “That’s a no-brainer,” I replied. “It’s the presidential election. Biden versus Trump.” “Nope,” said Rupert.
District Opens Mental Health Clinic
Rye schools have opened a mental health clinic on the campus of Midland School to help address a national mental health crisis affecting school children, including those in Rye. “Rye is not immune from the increasing mental health challenges facing young people nationwide,” School Superintendent Eric Byrne said in an interview.
A Triumphant Homecoming
Fresh from a cross-country book tour for “August Wilson: A Life,” her acclaimed biography of the black playwright, Patti Hartigan breezed into the Rye Free Reading Room where she was the featured speaker and greeted a cluster of her classmates from the Rye High School class of 1978 with ecstatic hugs. Hartigan, who grew up in Rye and attended its public schools, recalled with nostalgia spending hours in the library as a student. “The building looks exactly as it was,” she remarked.
An Extraordinary Biography of Playwright August Wilson by an Author Schooled in Rye - Rye Record
Patti Hartigan’s “August Wilson: A Life”, the first major biography of America’s preeminent black playwright, is a masterpiece. Wilson was one of the most successful playwrights of the late 20th century, and Hartigan’s book, published on August 15 by Simon & Schuster, vastly expands our understanding of the complex forces that shaped his life and his illuminating plays. In Hartigan’s view, Wilson’s plays, in their incisive portrayal of the black experience, have transformed the American theater.
The Harvard Band: a celebratory centennial history in brief
When the Harvard University Band parades through Harvard Square for the football game against Cornell this Saturday, onlookers may do a double-take. To celebrate the band’s hundredth anniversary, the usual contingent of 60 student musicians will likely swell to more than six times that number, thanks to the masses of band alumni and alumnae expected to join them for the march and a weekend of reunion festivities.
Jazz club poised to open in Tarrytown
There’s welcome news for jazz lovers. Jazz Forum, Westchester's newest jazz club, is slated to open in Tarrytown in March. The brainchild of impresario Mark Morganelli, the club will present top names in jazz and Brazilian music, along with fine food and drinks, every weekend. Morganelli recently toured Jazz Forum’s still unfinished space with a reporter, while an electrician was installing wiring, and wallboard was yet to be painted.
Rye's John Parsons helped Gilded Age moguls thrive
Books about the Gilded Age are filled with the exploits of millionaires like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan. But we rarely read of the lawyers who helped these moguls make their millions and, in turn, became millionaires themselves. In “John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in the Gilded Age,” Rye author Paul DeForest Hicks has written an absorbing biography of a man who at the turn of the 20th century was considered the wealthiest and most successful lawyer of his time.
How Cyrille Aimée, Jazz Singer, Spends Her Sundays
A rising star in the galaxy of jazz singers, Cyrille Aimée won first place in the Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012. The radio host Jonathan Schwartz has described her as “electrifying” and as a singer “in Ella Fitzgerald’s territory.” Born in France to a French father and a Dominican mother, Ms. Aimée, 31, came to the United States to study at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music.
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