Benjamin Hochman: Stunning Performance at Bard

by Kevin T McEneaney I have heard Benjamin Hochman play once or twice a year for eleven years. This past Thursday evening at Lazló Bitó Hall he performed the complete…

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Why satire

by Kevin T McEneaney Satire offers caustic, poetic soap cleansing tongue and cerebral cortex from the influence of boring cliché that accretes on watching television like gluttonous plaque clogging flow…

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Brooklyn Rider at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Brooklyn Rider takes its name from The Blue Rider, a surrealist European collective that published an almanac, essays, and music that offered a futuristic vision of…

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Anthony Trionfo & Albert Cano Smit at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Anthony Trionfo, flutist, and Albert Cano Smit, pianist, both first-prize winners of the Wadsworth Young Concert Artists Award (in different years), teamed up to deliver an…

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The Trump Commandments

Moses breaks the tablets of the law after coming down from Mount Sinai and finding the children of Israel worshipping the golden calf: 'Moses ' anger waxed hot, and he…

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Wood Burial to combat climate change?

by Bill Schlesinger Bringing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere down to preindustrial levels will be a daunting task, including reducing current emissions and removing the CO2 that has accumulated from…

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Hudson Pro Musica at Smithfield Church

by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Presbyterian Church in Amenia presented an autumn concert sponsored by the Bang Music Committee with Hudson Pro Musica Trio on November 2nd at 4 pm. This…

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Moonstruck

by Kevin T McEneaney If our moon was not up there shining light in the middle of the shadowy night, the earth would wobble and shake so much that humans…

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 Bruce Molsky Fiddling & Fingering @ The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney While Bruce Molsky was born in the southern Bronx, he is now one of the leading Old-Timey musicians in this country playing predominantly Southern Appalachian tunes.…

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