Areta Zhulla, Ronald Copes, Astrid Schween, Molly Carr by Kevin T McEneaney The Juilliard Quartet at the Howland Chamber Music Circle in Beacon, NY, in a program titled Extra Inspirations…
Concertmaster Eniko Samu and Dr. Leon Botstein with TON After Dr. Leon Botstein’s introductory remarks at the podium of a program of music in turn of the century Vienna, The…
The Poetry of Sex: From Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy by Brian Arkins. Peter Lang, 133 pages, 2023. Reviewed by Kevin T McEneaney The bibliography of this book has more…
by Neil Donnelly On Dublin’s Grafton Street I pass an old man, vainly trying to squeeze notes from a harmonica, an upturned empty hat as his feet. Something of that…
by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia Kent Tritle, organist of the New York Philharmonic and the Oratorio Society of New York City, and Music Director…
by Bill Schlesinger Most seed catalogs tell amateur gardeners what to plant each spring by including a map of plant hardiness zones. Developed by the USDA, these maps show where…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday night at The Stissing Center, the Verona Quartet, residing at Oberlin University, presented the first concert in the annual Clarion Concert series founded by…
by Kevin T McEneaney As a child I watched Looney Tunes cartoons, yet I didn’t know just what a loon was. Later on in life, I discovered loons: their peculiar,…
Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, Henry Kramer, Yeesun Kim, Melissa Reardon by Kevin T McEneaney It has been nearly a year since I heard the fabulous Borromeo quartet. Their quartet moniker…
Susan Rotholz, Margaret Kampmeier, Eliot Bailen, Peter Weitzner, Alan Kay, Sarah Adams by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night’s concert at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened with a composition by…