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Catskill Cultural Center Saved, and Renewed, Thanks to a Fiddler’s Tune
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05.....kills.html

 

On a spring Sunday in the Catskill Mountains, Jay Ungar, a fiddler wearing a black vest and hiking boots, and his wife, Molly Mason, playing guitar, stood on a stage in a barnlike performance hall that did not exist a year ago. “Can you stand to hear this tune one more time?” he asked the audience.

 

Those gathered knew the tune — and the answer. With a quilt behind them on a wall wainscoted with locally cut pine, Mr. Ungar closed his eyes and pulled his bow to sound the three ascending notes — an A, a C-sharp and a D — that have moved him since the day he wrote them.

The tune is “<a title="The tune, by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band." href="

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