Root-swelling
by Kevin T McEneaney The syntax of spring has sprung its magic while tongue can sing its glad astonishment at bulbs bursting into varied color when slight showers bead yellow…
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April 9, 2024
Beethoven, Stravinsky & Spring Budding at Bard
by Kevin T McEneaney Daffodils, the common peoples’ tulip, were in full bloom on the lawn outside of Sosnoff Theater at Bard College this past Sunday afternoon with the sun…
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April 8, 2024
Shanghai Quartet: Lyrical Explosion at Hudson Hall
by Kevin T McEneaney The first time I heard the Shanghai Quartet, I was driving on Route 44 going west into Millbrook while listening to Robin Hood Radio playing cuts…
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April 7, 2024
Spring fever
by Kevin T McEneaney Gently trickling rain on the windowpane lulls one to sleep and dream of quirky things: like butterflies dancing in fickle breeze, bright sunny days on mountain-top…
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April 3, 2024
Good Friday
by Bill Keller I don't see a soul on this Good Friday run, though the trail's hospitable, trees in bud and birds softly twittering. Spring feels different with hate our…
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March 28, 2024
Crescendo: Performance of Carisimmi’s Jephte
by Kevin T McEneaney Last weekend at St. James Place, Great Barrington, MA, and at Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert’s Crescendo choir, and small orchestra of seven instruments, presented…
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March 25, 2024
Canellakis-Brown Duo Delivers Fun at Trinity School
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday night at the Trinity Pawling secondary school in Pawling cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown performed in Gardner Theater with an electric…
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March 23, 2024
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream”
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream” by Antonia Shoumatoff Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the High Priestess of the nineteen-twenties, practicing free love and breaking…
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March 20, 2024
Listen to the robin
by Kevin T McEneaney When a robin in spring sets up a nest, begins to sing at orange rays of dawn about musical genealogy, he may well attract another robin…
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March 20, 2024