NYCkayaker Banff Mountain Film Festival March 6-7

[John Huntington]

I go to this just about every year and it's always great.  Always at 
least one good paddling film as well.
http://www.chestnutmtnproductions.com/banff/nychome.htm

Banff Mountain Film Festival
New York City

Banff Mountain Film Festival - New York
Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday March 7, 2007 - 7:30 PM

Peter Norton Symphony Space
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
at
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York

Different films will be shown each night

Each attendee receives from Gore Mountain: a free lift ticket voucher
valid any Monday through Friday for the rest of the current 2007 season.

The alphorn, sometimes called the alpenhorn, is a trumpet- like musical
instrument made of wood used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and
elsewhere. It is thought to have the perfect form for a musical wind
instrument.

The alphorn has been around for nearly 500 years, first as a means of
communications in the high alps, and later as a musical instrument that
has been featured in works by composers like Brahms and Leopold Mozart.

Up in the high meadows the lone herdsmen would play melodies on their
alphorns to call the cows together, to calm them during milking or
storms, and to communicate with each other and with the village below.
The sound echo around the mountains and valleys and could be heard up to
six miles away.

Peter J. Gordon, 1st Horn of the New Philharmonic of New Jersey and a
Prof. of Music at NYU, will play the alphorn before our Banff Mountain
Film Festival in New York starting at 7:15 each night and during the
intermission.

Come early, get your Gore Mountain lift ticket voucher, visit the
sponsor tables, fill out the ballot to win some great prizes, buy some
raffle tickets to support the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, and
hear Peter Gordon play the alphorn.