Author: Neil Donnelly

This author has written 637 articles
Poetry / Sections

First Funeral

by Neil Donnelly Uncle Eddie, large head, black hair, who until that moment, in an open box in a house on Cider Avenue, Belfast, looking healthy on that cold black…

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October 17, 2023
Music / Sections

Clarion: Young Artists Deliver Astonishing Performances

by Kevin T. McEneaney Last Sunday the Clarion Concert directed by Eugenia Zuckerman presented an extraordinary concert at Saint James Place in Great Barrington. Tenor Daniel McGrew, who possesses an…

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October 16, 2023
Music / Sections

Matt Finley & Rio Jazz Swings at Smithfield Church

Matt Finley, Lou Pappas, Larry Ham, and Jeff Siegel by Kevin T McEneaney Cool jazz had its roots in saxophone Prez Lester Young and especially trumpeter Miles Davis’ short-lived nonet…

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October 9, 2023
Poetry / Sections

Knowing

photo by Bill Keller by Bill Keller I can’t get lost — this trail runs straight. I go a few miles out and back.No intersections, choosing routes,just the Yes of gravel underfoot. I sometimes dream another…

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October 9, 2023
Environment / Sections

A Requiem for Roundup?

by Bill Schlesinger Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the United States with applications ranging between 250 and 300 million pounds per year during the past 10 years,…

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October 9, 2023
Music / Sections

Sybarite5 Electrifies the air at The Stissing Center

Suliman Tekalli, Sami Merdinian, Louis Levitt, Laura Andrade, Caeli Smith by Kevin T. McEneaney Five young talented musicians lit up the stage last Sunday at The Stissing Center. This tightly…

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October 9, 2023
Music / Sections

Rio Jazz Quartet at Smithfield Church

Preview by Kevin T McEneaney Next Saturday at 4 pm there is the opportunity to hear a marvelous jazz quartet with Matt Finley on trumpet, Larry Ham on piano, Lou…

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October 3, 2023
Poetry / Sections

Lift your glass!

by Kevin T McEneaney When you raise a glass of wine to toast with friend, that wine would not exist, except that wasps provide the brewing yeast for all the…

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October 3, 2023
Music / Sections

Alejandro Brittes Quartet Dresses in Many Sounds

Charlise Bandeira, André Ely, Alejandro Brittes, Carlos de Césaro At the Stissing Center in Pine Plains last Saturday with a full moon promising drier weather, the Alejandro Brittes Quartet from South…

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October 1, 2023