Brooklyn Rider at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Brooklyn Rider takes its name from The Blue Rider, a surrealist European collective that published an almanac, essays, and music that offered a futuristic vision of novel aesthetics. They are intensely influenced by the atonal compositions ...
Anthony Trionfo & Albert Cano Smit at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Anthony Trionfo, flutist, and Albert Cano Smit, pianist, both first-prize winners of the Wadsworth Young Concert Artists Award (in different years), teamed up to deliver an exciting, eclectic, varied program at The Stissing Center in Pine ...
Hudson Pro Musica at Smithfield Church
by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Presbyterian Church in Amenia presented an autumn concert sponsored by the Bang Music Committee with Hudson Pro Musica Trio on November 2nd at 4 pm. This concert inhabited the ambiguous borderland between the Baroque period ...
Bard Conservatory Soars at Sosnoff Theater
by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened with Don Juan (1888) by Richard Strauss. This symphonic poem arrived late in the history of this romantic mythology. In English, its apex was ...