Conviction
Review by Kevin T McEneaney How do innocent people who are wrongfully sentenced to prison adjust to their confinement? Intelligent intellectuals, from Socrates to Boethius and Solzhenitsyn, have a long history of unjust incarceration. Here, we have the local memoir ...
Crescendo Exalts Christmas with Song
by Kevin T McEneaneyLast Saturday afternoon at Trinity Church in Lakeville, Christine Gevert directed a program of Baroque Christmas music and song that flowed more sonorously than your favorite woodland stream. The musical ensemble played with tight unity, and a ...
Celtic Christmas Concert in Amenia
by Kevin T McEneaney At the Amenia Town Hall Auditorium last Sunday, a quintet of musicians performed a Santa’s sack of Celtic tunes. Celtic folk music is dancing music that originated in early Europe. The Lombards (Germanic in origin) in ...
Bard: Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich!
By Kevin T McEneaney The concert opened with Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished,” D. 759 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein. Schubert began the work in October 1822 but put the work aside ...