A Double Triple Play for Skidmore

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Greetings. We begin the festivities by acknowledging the cultural giant in this region that Skidmore College has become. This is due to investment in infrastructure as well as the arts. And this weekend proves the point. While we are well past the “frost on the pumpkin” time of year, the fruit on Skidmore’s vines are robust and ripe for anyone’s taste. Consider: While they are advance promoting an appearance by the highly accomplished Triple Play (see page 31), Skidmore is hardly taking off the week before. In fact, they are pulling off another ‘triple play’ of sorts: • Skidmore College Winter Dance Concert – a program of dance with choreography by faculty and guest artists – is scheduled Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, in the Skidmore Dance Theater • The Canadian Guitar Quartet in concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, December 8, at the Arthur Zankel Music Center • A night in Vienna with the Skidmore College Orchestra at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, also in the Arthur Zankel Music Center. Harmonica virtuoso Jia-Yi He will be the featured performer. That’s on top of all the art exhibits and everything else. A double triple play. It says here it’s worth it for the town to visit the gown, as it were, and for the gown to head downtown – which leads us to…