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David Peskin
David’s
involvement with the Arts Alliance has been a good match for both. His role as President keeps the wheels
moving, finding new venues for artists to show in, setting meetings and
generally coordinating the organization with all their good events that foster
arts in the mountaintop.
His
talents are many, broadening the common misconception that the Arts are
exclusive only to paintings of fine art.
He is an accomplished pianist, bringing music as one of the many arts
that fall under that term.
He has been expressing his love of playing at various gallery openings
and presently appears at one of the best restaurants in the area, Vesuvio. You can hear him most Friday and
Saturday nights. Come for a meal
or a drink at the bar and listen to the jazz influenced renditions of standard
songs.
He
is also a writer of some note, another “art” that falls under the Alliance’s
purview, having had published articles as well as writing most of the
promotional material for the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s piano museum in
Hunter – The Steven Greenstein collection, where he is Assistant Director of
the museum; as well as other venues
This
museum is a wonderful destination for the visitor and is presently undergoing
substantial changes to its displays.
There are many new items to view and a focus that can certainly interest
the casual viewer.
Another
of his loves is to take the roads less taken around this beautiful area seeking
out scenic vistas and particularly, old barns exuding the charm of years in
impeccable settings, where he immortalizes them with his photography before man
or nature removes them permanently from our memories.
David
hopes that the arts on the mountaintop will continue developing, as he wants to
reach out to all people to display their talent, which every one of us
has. This world would not be a
congenial place without the arts; nor, as David believes, would any
civilization be worth living in without this valuable commodity.
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