Saint Patrick’s Day
y Kevin T McEneaney Saint Patrick’s Day was placed on the RC universal church calendar as a feast day in the early 1600s. If Saint Patrick’s Day falls during Holy Week, it is moved for or aft, as it was ...
Bard Sosnoff: From Mozart to Perle
by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened its March 15th concert with Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56A (1873). These variations on a theme by Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831) ...
Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney The tango (a fight, a lewd dance, a celebration) was born between 1880 and 1900 in brothels and/or prisons on the South American continent. The most likely place was Buenos Aires, although many locales claim to ...
Crescendo: Renaissance Voice Painting
by Kevin T McEneaney This past Sunday at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, Crescendo offered a choral presentation, predominantly by female authors who are not well-known. The program, under the direction of Christine Gevert, was titled Revolutionary Renaissance: Motets ...