Snowstorm pic
by Kevin T McEneaney That snowflake on your eyelash welcomes you to view a new world sculpted with wonder generating the emotion of awe, which is the gateway to transcendent…
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January 28, 2025
Remembrance
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…
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November 14, 2024
Bard Conservatory Soars at Sosnoff Theater
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…
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October 28, 2024
Rolling on the river
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…
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October 12, 2024
Crescendo & Antonio Vivaldi: Entertaining Naturalism
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,…
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October 6, 2024
Daniel Stepner Dazzles with Bach Violin Solos
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…
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July 14, 2024
A Short History of Smithfield Church
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…
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July 5, 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan Put on Trial!
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…
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May 6, 2024
Spring dalliance
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…
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April 16, 2024
Listen to the robin
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…
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March 20, 2024