Around 100 thousand years ago, we modern humans began evolving. We began accumulating things, stuff, when agriculture became a success, yet that engendered arrogant warfare to accumulate the wealth of…
by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened with Don Juan (1888) by Richard Strauss. This symphonic poem arrived late in the…
by Bill Schlesinger Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river Proud Mary by Credence Clearwater Revival, 1969 When the U.S. Supreme Court, now with a largely Trump-appointed conservative majority, overturned the Roe…
This Crescendo concert at Trinity Church in Lime Rock Church was an all-Vivaldi concert with a special twist at the end. Antonio Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto No. 2 in G Minor,…
by Kevin T McEneaney On Saturday evening at St. James Place in Great Barrington, Daniel Stepner of Aston Magna performed J.S. Bach’s three violin solo Partitas on baroque violin to…
by Clerk Kevin T McEneaney for the Millbrook Historical Society, 6/20/24 The first settler in this area was Richard Sackett, in about 1702; he settled along the Wassaic Creek, having…
by Kevin T McEneaney On a rainy afternoon last Sunday, there was much overflowing laughter in Great Barrington at St. James Place, as Crescendo, directed by Christine Gevert, put on…
by Kevin T McEneaney Forsythia, that banner flag of Spring, blooms by window and sharp-curving roadside with yellow prolixity and promise of warmer weather with low-cloud-cover, and constant threat of…
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…
by Bill Schlesinger Deep underfoot in most regions of the world is a zone where the fractures in bedrock are filled with water—known as groundwater–constituting the water table. Globally, the…