Arts leaders who died in 2011
Carpinello, who lived in Rensselaer, started carving ice at the family business, Carpinello Ice Co. He began creating ice sculptures for customers, using a chain saw to fashion forms such as gargoyles and other fanciful creatures.
The fourth conductor and music director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra died Oct. 23 in Fall River, Mass.
A classical music reviewer for the Times Union and longtime advocate for local arts, Emery died July 5 in a nursing home in Oriskany, Oneida County.
A native of Saratoga Springs and trustee of the Saratoga County Arts Council, he retired as a critic in 2003 after contributing arts criticism as a freelancer to numerous publications, including the Saratogian, Daily Gazette and the Record in Troy.
Known to local baby boomers as "Uncle Jim Fisk" while hosting WRGB-TV's "Freihofer BreadTime Stories" (also known as "The Freddie Freihofer Show"), Fisk died Jan. 8 in Schenectady.
A resident of Burnt Hills, he became a celebrity while hosting the popular children's show from 1956 to 1966.
A Massachusetts state senator for seven years in the 1970s, Fitzpatrick and his wife Jane donated hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to institutions popular with Capital Region residents — from Tanglewood to the Norman Rockwell Museum.
With his wife, he owned the hugely successful Country Curtains business, which they started in their home, as well as the Red Lion Inn and Blantyre Mansion and other enterprises in the Berkshires.
In 1986 he formed Lethal Lipstick, and in recent years he played in the acoustic duo Without Reason.
Son of the novelist Oakley Hall, he co-founded a Catskills troupe called Lexington Conservatory Theatre, which later became Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany.
After falling from a bridge over Schoharie Creek in Lexington, Greene County, in 1978 and suffering brain...