All-Strauss program at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Richard Strauss began composing at the age of nine. At the age of 21, he composed a Serenade and a Burleske in D minor (1886, revised in 1889), written for the conductor Hans Bülow, who rejected ...
Polonsky and Wiley at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at the Stissing House in Pine Plains, cellist Peter Wiley from Bard College teamed up with Russian-born pianist Anna Polonsky from Vassar College to provide an exciting duo program of Beethoven, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff ...
Green Room Ensemble at Millbrook Music Salon
by Kevin T McEneaneyLast Saturday evening in Chelsea Morrison Theater at Millbrook School, Green Room Ensemble delivered a delightful program with a wink at the past and a plunge into the present. The ensemble, founded by violinist Nathan Meltzer offered ...
Gustav Mahler’s Titan at Bard Sosnoff Theater
Last Saturday night at Sosnoff Theater, The Bard Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein opened with Hymne á la Justice, Op. 14 (1903) by Albert Magnard, a short symphony inspired by the infamous Dreyfus affair, an antisemitic ...