Here's a sneak peek at WCM'S 2015 Season & Summer Music Festival: Persistence of Vision. WCM Artistic Co-Director Andrew Waggoner will offer a guided tour of the upcoming season, putting all of the music in context through demystifying analysis, discussion, and performance. Featuring excerpts from works by Gabriel Fauré and resident composer John Corigliano, along with a sampling of film (and film music), and in­ the ­moment improvisation, with live performance from the Artistic Co-Directors Waggoner on violin, and Caroline Stinson, cello. This event is free and open to the public. For advance reservations, contact us at info@catskillartsociety.org or call 845.­436.­4227 for reservations.

The Persistence of Vision WCM Festival begins with Bach, Harbison, Chopin, Mozart and improvisation with violinist Andrew Waggoner, cellist Caroline Stinson, and pianist Molly Morkoski. WCM is delighted to head back across the Delaware for a second season at the Cooperage, opening and closing the 2015 Festival with two concerts this year. Program July 11 Bach: Inventions; Improvisations John Harbison: Abu Ghraib (cello sonata) Andrew Waggoner: Nocturne (La nuit à Nouvelle Orléans, 1974) Chopin: Nocturne Op. 9, no. 3 Mozart: Piano Trio in G Major KV496 Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Call the Cooperage for tickets at 570-253-2020.

The Festival musicians bring the barn to the market ‐ the Farmer’s Market, that is ‐ for a few tempting tastes of music from the afternoon concert later on of Beethoven, Dylan (arranged by Waggoner), Ibert and Rosetti, with a dash of improv in the mix. Performing are the wind quintet with flutist Judith Pearce, oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Pascal Archer, French hornist Adam Schommer and bassoonist Gina Cuffari, and violinist Andrew Waggoner and cellist Caroline Stinson, WCM’s Artistic Co‐directors. Admission is free.

Beethoven, Dylan, Rosetti, Britten and Ibert performed by the WCM Wind Quintet, with flutist Judith Pearce, oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Pascal Archer, French hornist Adam Schommer and bassoonist Gina Cuffari. Program July 12 Rosetti: Quintet in E flat major 18th–20th Century Dances and Duos Britten: Prologue for solo French horn from Serenade, Opus 31 Beethoven: Adagio from Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor, Opus 2 Dylan: Three Songs - Girl From the North Country / Lay, Lady Lay / Highway 61 Revisited. Ibert: Trois Pièces Brèves Tickets $20, free for students 18 & under. GET TICKETS HERE.

A unique program of music & the movies, improvisation, screened film clips & dialogue with violinist Andy Waggoner and cellist Caroline Stinson, WCM Artistic Co-directors. The conversation continues next week with John Corigliano in person, on July 23. Cash bar and refreshments will be available. The limited seating for this event sells out quickly, so be sure to get your tickets today! Tickets are $25, free for students 18 and under. GET TICKETS HERE.

Sat July 18 / 7:00 pm Pre-Concert Talk; 8:00 pm Concert

After a long hiatus, WCM is pleased to return to the stage at the SUNY Sullivan concert hall for an afternoon program. Violinists Andrew Waggoner and Sunghae Anna Lim, violist Tawnya Popoff and cellist Caroline Stinson perform. PROGRAM July 19 Rebecca Clarke: Two Pieces for viola and cello JS Bach: Air from Goldberg Variations Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air Beethoven: String Trio op. 3 Tickets are $20, free for students 18 and under. Click GET TICKETS HERE

Photo: Tom Bushey Music, conversation and the movies, with screened excerpts from the films Altered States and The Red Violin, music by John Corigliano. Artistic co-director Andrew Waggoner welcomes WCM’s third composer-in-residence John Corigliano, in a discussion and performance of his award-winning film music. This program is generously sponsored by the SULLIVAN COUNTY CATSKILLS / SCVA. In performance are Festival violinists Nurit Pacht and Andy Waggoner, violist Lois Martin and cellist Caroline Stinson. PROGRAM July 23 Corigliano: Snapshot: Circa 1909 for String Quartet JS Bach: Air from Goldberg Variations Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air Tickets are $25, free for students 18 and under. Click HERE.

WCM’s Final Concert book-ends WCM’s 22nd Summer Festival with a return to Honesdale. Soprano Lindsay Kesselman, violinist Nurit Pacht, flutist Judith Pearce, cellist Caroline Stinson and pianist Tannis Gibson perform. PROGRAM July 26 Fauré: Piano Trio in d minor, op. 120 Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man (Seven Poems of Bob Dylan) for soprano and piano Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Call the Cooperage for tickets at 570-253-2020 for tickets.