Orchestral Romance at Bard

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday night, the program at Bard College Sosnoff Theater was entitled “An Evening with the Orchestra,” designed to exhibit a couple of the most popular…

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Romanticism & Song at Bard SummerScape

by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday afternoon in Olin Hall at Bard College song hovered sweetly in the concert hall, the theme being the Romantic movement and lyric song. Paris was…

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That Boob Tube

by Kevin T McEneaney How often do you worship your TV? Do you adore news, sports, or movies? How many stations do you find obnoxious? Do you watch wrestling, boxing,…

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Berlioz with Thunder at Bard Sosnoff

by Kevin T McEneaney This year SummerScape at Bard College has its focus on Hector Berlioz and the Romantic context of his period. The music of Berlioz may be characterized…

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Academic conferences

by Kevin T McEneaney It is hard to write poetry at a conference about poetry. The doctors have their scalpels, their comparisons, their theories, their illustrative computer slides, rhythms analyzed…

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Erinys Quartet Excites at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney Erinys (meaning Furies) Quartet derives its name from the Oresteia by Aeschylus. They were founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have…

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Bernie Williams & Band Pops at Millbrook Winery

While my bailiwick is classical music, I enjoy multiple music styles: jazz, blues, and even pop music. Last Saturday the Millbrook Winery hosted a fundraiser for the NAMM Foundation which…

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Schizophrenic

by Kevin T McEneaney When I was a confused ten-year-old, there were two dimensions in my life: I played football with multiple concussions and my elbow shattered into thirty shards;…

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American Quartet Delights audience at Music Mountain

There is nothing that I, or anyone else can say, to enhance the reputation of the American String Quartet (which is legendary). They opened with String Quartet in B Flat…

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Dior Quartet Delivers Amusement at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney The Dior Quartet was formed in the Fall of 2018 at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University under the tutelage of the Pacifica Quartet. They…

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