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 ...
Crescendo & Antonio Vivaldi: Entertaining Naturalism
This Crescendo concert at Trinity Church in Lime Rock Church was an all-Vivaldi concert with a special twist at the end. Antonio Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV439, nicknamed “La Notte” (The Night) remains a fabulous flute ...
Cassatt String Quartet Paints at Music Mountain
Last Sunday under diamond blue skies at Music Mountain the all-female Cassatt Quartet closed out the season at Gordon Hall, yet Director Oskar Espina-Ruiz promised a new forthcoming music event in November. There was a wonderful pre-concert talk by biographer ...
Kent Tritle, Arthur Fiacco Astonish Smithfield Church
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia, Kent Tritle, organist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oratorio Society of New York, along with cellist Arthur Fiacco performed an annual benefit concert for the ...