Sunday, March 4, 2012

CELEBRATING OUR AREA'S MAGNIFICENT WATERWAYS.(MAIN)

Byline: RICHARD MATTOX

Why don't the four counties sharing the Hudson and Mohawk rivers and the Barge and Champlain canals join forces to design a four-day waterway arts and music festival around our July Fourth parades and fireworks?

Thursday, July 4 -- An Albany Symphony Pop Concert at the Corning Hudson River Preserve could open the Festival with ``Fanfare for Albany'' from Francis Thorne's new Symphony No. 7, along the Hudson, followed by fireworks at the Empire State Plaza.

Friday -- Tour boats from Albany and Troy could ply the Hudson River, through the Barge Canal locks, to the Mohawk River and Schenectady for a Broadway musical at Proctor's. …

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