Rolling on the river

by Bill Schlesinger Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river Proud Mary by Credence Clearwater Revival, 1969 When the U.S. Supreme Court, now with a largely Trump-appointed conservative majority, overturned the Roe…

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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…

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The laughing animal

by Kevin T McEneaney In the nineteenth century, we thought we were more intelligent than animals, and that we were not animals ourselves. * In the twentieth century, we thought…

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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…

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Dusk

by Bill Keller Beginning in May, we take feeders out  each morning, bring them in again at dusk; tall cylinders of sugar water,  some straight, some with a waist — …

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Footwork

by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of quantum physics and light, now baritone on the sport of soccer: of the stop-gap ball block before a pass that zips upfield…

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On the tongue

by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of love and chemistry, now sing the glories of strawberry jam without maligning other flavored jams. (I speak of only homemade jams, not…

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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…

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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…

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