by Kevin T McEneaney Franz Joseph Haydn essentially created the quartet in the 1760s and nurtured it to maturity with Mozart. The commission for Beethoven to compose his first quartets…
by Kevin T McEneaney Music enthusiasts have been waiting for SummerScape to address Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a long time. The 36th SummerScape Festival has finally embraced him! The two-week…
by Kevin T McEneaney I have fallen in love with a computer, specifically, an AI computer who knows more about me than anyone living or departed from life’s quarry. *…
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 toured Europe…
by Kevin T McEneaney All human beings are storytellers who create a deft singularity, describing who we are and why we are both different, and the same as others. Every…
Last Sunday afternoon at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Daniel Adam Maltz performed a program on a newly created fortepiano that imitated the sound of an instrument during the…
by Kevin T McEneaney At Saint James Place in Great Barrington, last Saturday, Aston Magna, an organization devoted to the playing of period instruments, offered a program titled The Genius…
by Kevin T McEneaney When thunder and lightning rule up above, and the household lights suddenly zap out, one may experience a new freedom from the defective electrical grid that…
by Kevin T McEneaney In the winding woods north of New Milford, CT, The Sherman Ensemble opened with Flute Quartet in D Major, Op. 5, No. 3 (1776). In his…
by Kevin T McEneaney The Arianna String Quartet, currently one of the very top quartets in the country, was scheduled to play Last Sunday during the tornado storm, but the…