by Kevin T McEneaney The Euclid Quartet from Ohio opened with String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (1929) by Florence Beatrice Price under sunny skies with scudding cloud puffballs.…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center, pianist Sophia Zhou, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, and tenor Daniel McGrew presented a delightful program of George Gershswin favorites.…
by Kevin T McEneaney I love a field of blossoming clover, which belongs to the legume family. Clover fertilizes poor soil with nitrogen. Their tri-leaf foliage can grow in length…
by Kevin T McEneaney In co-operation with the Kovner Foundation, The Millbrook Music Salon, under Artistic Music Director Sophia Zhou, and The Thorne Center produced an eclectic concert of notable…
Last Sunday, the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle at Olin Hall offered an unusual concert program by Espressivo! The opener presented a once-in-a-lifetime experience of hearing an unpublished piano quartet…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert of Crescendo conducted a solo recital celebrating Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), the first modern musician-scholar…
by Kevin T McEneaney Slugs are peaceable creatures of the Earth. They are reported to move quite slowly. Never tell a child they are sluggish because they will take pride…
by Kevin T McEneaney The Aeolus Quartet opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work is nicknamed "the second Haydn Quartet"…
by Kevin T McEneaney Cicadas dwell in trees, eating their sap. There are well over 3,000 species and biologists are still counting them. They remain famous for their boasting songs,…