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 ...
Mathis Picard: Magician of 88 keys
by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night The Stissing Center (in Pine Plains) featured pianist Mathis Picard (born in France and fluently bi-lingual), who now resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He opened with Blues artist Erroll Garner’s (1921-77) ...
Bard College: Música Mexicana Amazes
by Kevin T McEneaney This superb program of Mexican music opened with Ferial (Town Fair, 1940) by Manuel Maria Ponce, a close friend of Andrés Segovia who acclaimed Ponce as the greatest composer of guitar music in history; however, his ...