by Kevin T McEneaney The Sherman Chamber Ensemble is not your ordinary ensemble: while it specializes in classical music, it is equally adept at various jazz genres, as well as…
by Kevin T McEneaney Centuries ago, turkeys filled the sky, and all one had to do was shoot upward. Ah, the poor turkey plump on the table, rich with symbolism…
Terra String Quartet, winner of many international competitions, opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (June 1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work has recently been much-performed,…
by Bill Schlesinger Reposted from April 2016 due to the current controversy about fluorine in drinking water A few weeks ago, I read an article describing outrage among a group…
by Kevin T McEneaney Red, yellow, orange leaves fleeing in wind tumble on lawns, barren gardens, and roads, their colors turning to atrophied brown. The echoing sound of rattling buzz…
by Kevin T McEneaney At Trinity-Pawling School Chapel last Friday night, the Danish String Quartet offered an integrated, blended, multi-level soundscape. They opened with String Quartet, Op. 20, #3 in…
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 Bill Schlesinger Ah, the smell of a new car. To get inside a new car for a drive with friends is part of the American experience. The “new car…
by Kevin T McEneaney I have heard Benjamin Hochman play once or twice a year for eleven years. This past Thursday evening at Lazló Bitó Hall he performed the complete…
by Kevin T McEneaney Satire offers caustic, poetic soap cleansing tongue and cerebral cortex from the influence of boring cliché that accretes on watching television like gluttonous plaque clogging flow…