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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Dusk

by Bill Keller Beginning in May, we take feeders out  each morning, bring them in again at dusk; tall cylinders of sugar water,  some straight, some with a waist — …

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Footwork

by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of quantum physics and light, now baritone on the sport of soccer: of the stop-gap ball block before a pass that zips upfield…

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On the tongue

by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of love and chemistry, now sing the glories of strawberry jam without maligning other flavored jams. (I speak of only homemade jams, not…

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Cassatt String Quartet Paints at Music Mountain

Last Sunday under diamond blue skies at Music Mountain the all-female Cassatt Quartet closed out the season at Gordon Hall, yet Director Oskar Espina-Ruiz promised a new forthcoming music event…

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Kent Tritle, Arthur Fiacco Astonish Smithfield Church

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia, Kent Tritle, organist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oratorio Society of New York, along with…

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When Old is New

by Kevin T McEneaney I’ve heard folks make fun of Homer and his “rosy-fingered dawn” trope, but those who say such things have little appreciation of dawn: its pristine hope,…

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Smithfield Church: Kent Tritle, Organ & Arthur Fiacco on Cello

by Sharon Webb Preview The Smithfield Church announces the appearance of New York Philharmonic organist KentTritle at its historic tracker organ, in concert with acclaimed New York cellist Arthur Fiacco,Jr. on…

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Merz Trio Thrills at Music Mountain

Last Sunday afternoon at Music Mountain with small cumulus clouds puffing overhead under an autumnal blue sky, Merz Trio (the German word means “to mark” and here they are marking…

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