Mishka Rushdie Momen at Grace Church
After receiving enthusiastic reviews on her tour of England, Momen is currently touring the U.S. Sophia Zhou, the Artistic Director of the Millbrook Music Salon, introduced Momen. With long, graceful arms and thin fingers, her keyboard work flourishes crisply and ...
Elliot & Zhou: Transcendence at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney In a program titled Cello Americana! young cellist Sterling Elliot and pianist Sophia Zhou performed works by four noted American composers. They opened with Four Sketches, Op. 15: In Autumn (1892) by Amy Beach. This short, ...
Astonishing Giulio Cesare at Hudson Hall
by Kevin T McEneaney A new Giulio Cesare production by George Frideric Handel (1724) at Hudson Hall by R.B. Schlather with the early music ensemble Ruckus, sung in Italian with period libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym (his first libretto for ...
Post-Modern Turgenev
Diptych Before Dying by Thomas McGonigle. Tough Poets Press, 114 pages. Review by Kevin T. McEneaney. Diptych offers a family travelogue novella, one about an adventure in Newfoundland with the author’s father and another about an earlier, happier period with ...