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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October 22, 2024
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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October 21, 2024
Foreign Languages
by Kevin T McEneaney Did you know flowers speak to bumblebees by way of electrical impulses? When a flower has not attracted bees, it gives off static electricity which pulls…
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October 15, 2024
Greenroom Ensemble: Awe at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Virgil Thomson’s essay “On Being American” (New York Herald Tribune, 25 January 1948) pointed out that World War II destroyed provincial attitudes while simultaneously allowing the…
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October 14, 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
Mathis Picard: Magician of 88 keys
by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night The Stissing Center (in Pine Plains) featured pianist Mathis Picard (born in France and fluently bi-lingual), who now resides on the Upper West Side…
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October 12, 2024
The laughing animal
by Kevin T McEneaney In the nineteenth century, we thought we were more intelligent than animals, and that we were not animals ourselves. * In the twentieth century, we thought…
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October 8, 2024
Bard College: Música Mexicana Amazes
by Kevin T McEneaney This superb program of Mexican music opened with Ferial (Town Fair, 1940) by Manuel Maria Ponce, a close friend of Andrés Segovia who acclaimed Ponce as…
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October 7, 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
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