Hudson Pro Musica at Smithfield Church
Preview by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Presbyterian Church in Amenia announces an autumn concert with Hudson Pro Musica Trio on November 2nd at 4 pm. This concert will inhabit the ambiguous borderland between the Baroque period and the Romantic 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 ...
Bruce Molsky Fiddling & Fingering @ The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney While Bruce Molsky was born in the southern Bronx, he is now one of the leading Old-Timey musicians in this country playing predominantly Southern Appalachian tunes. These tunes are of Celtic origin going back hundreds of ...
Greenroom Ensemble: Awe at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Virgil Thomson’s essay “On Being American” (New York Herald Tribune, 25 January 1948) pointed out that World War II destroyed provincial attitudes while simultaneously allowing the United States to be at least equal to Europe's classical ...