Playing dice

by Kevin T McEneaney Does an infinity really exist? One runs into invisible quarks. One cannot divide space infinitely, yet space certainly can be quantified. * What happens if you…

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Finesse and Wit at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Three musicians from the New York Philharmonic joined Sophia Zhou, Director of the Chamber Music Series at the Stissing Center, for a one-hour concert. (Sophia Zhou…

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The Sherman Ensemble Delights with Fauré

by Kevin T McEneaney An all-Fauré concert last Friday by the Sherman Ensemble in Kent at St. Andrew’s Church delivered an unusual program that was a special happening. The concert…

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The Mellow Glow of Memory

LAPTOP by Desmond Egan. Goldsmith Press, 2024. Book Review. by Kevin T McEneaney Desmond Egan was the first post-modern poet in Ireland when he published his book, Midlands in 1972.…

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How can this be?

by Kevin T McEneaney How can a point with no volume at all contain the volume of infinite space? One second after the immense Big Bang the journey to infinity…

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The Ulysses Quartet offers surprises at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney Under the brilliant sunny skies of Music Mountain, The Ulysses Quartet opened with Plan & Elevation by Caroline Shaw, who became the youngest recipient of the…

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Hypnotic Violinist Geneva Lewis at Caramoor

by Stephen Kaye On Saturday, July 20, Geneva Lewis played a solo violin in the Sunken Garden at Caramoor in Katonah. We went because Geneva is playing in an ensemble…

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In praise of slugs

by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of astronomy and kindness, now sing manifold virtues of the slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod— a form of crawling, slouching mollusc, a polyphyletic…

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Lysander Piano Trio Excites at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney Under gray skies that relented to sunshine streaming over Gordon Hall, the Lysander Trio (formed by students at the Juilliard School and named after the character…

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