by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia Kent Tritle, organist of the New York Philharmonic and the Oratorio Society of New York City, and Music Director…
by Bill Schlesinger Most seed catalogs tell amateur gardeners what to plant each spring by including a map of plant hardiness zones. Developed by the USDA, these maps show where…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday night at The Stissing Center, the Verona Quartet, residing at Oberlin University, presented the first concert in the annual Clarion Concert series founded by…
by Kevin T McEneaney As a child I watched Looney Tunes cartoons, yet I didn’t know just what a loon was. Later on in life, I discovered loons: their peculiar,…
Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, Henry Kramer, Yeesun Kim, Melissa Reardon by Kevin T McEneaney It has been nearly a year since I heard the fabulous Borromeo quartet. Their quartet moniker…
Susan Rotholz, Margaret Kampmeier, Eliot Bailen, Peter Weitzner, Alan Kay, Sarah Adams by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night’s concert at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened with a composition by…
Daniel Khalikov, Pauline Kim, Michael Katz, Wendy Sutter William Hakim by Kevin T McEneaney Like Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in Lucca, named after the Celtic god Lugh,…
Historic Tales of the Harlem Valley: Life at the End of the Line. Tonia Shoumatoff. History Press, 2023, 202 pages. by Kevin T. McEneaney I admit I am not a…
by Bill Schlesinger Recycling remains the easiest way for the average citizen to help achieve a closed-loop economy, in which all waste is reused to generate new products. Recycled materials,…