Freedom & Fate at Bard

by Kevin T McEneaney Over this weekend Dr. Leon Botstein with The Orchestra Now conducted a concert titled Before & After Soviet Communism. The Before was Karol Szymanski’s late Songs…

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Crescendo Chorale: Beyond Fabulous

From left: Jermaine Otis Woodard, Jr. and Igor Ferreira by Kevin T McEneaney Under superb direction of Christine Gevert, Crescendo Chorale at Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT. delivered choral astonishment! The…

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Reunion

Photo by Bill Keller by Bill Keller At the end of a long winter I watch snow slip from a tree, sluggish at first as if stiff  from inactivity but then  plummeting, eager to  reconnect,…

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Fabio Witkowski & The Hotchkiss Orchestra

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening amid the superior acoustics of Elfers Hall, Fabio Witkowski conducted The Hotchkiss Orchestra with an imaginative musical program of Bedřich Smetana, Aram Khachaturian,…

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Neil Gaiman at Bard College

Photo from Wikipedia/commons by Tonia Shoumatoff The Fisher Performing Arts Center at Bard was filled with a panoply of young people, some with Tolkien elf ears, who came to hear…

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Traveler

by Kevin T McEneaney While packing for my final vacation, it occurred to me that I need not pack anything at all except humor to deal with everlasting darkness where…

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What’s in a Road Name?

Close up image of a young skunk walking toward the camera. Summer in Wisconsin by Bill Schlesinger When I see a road sign for Quail Run Lane in a new…

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Sarah Bernhardt’s Resurrection of Hamlet in Rhinebeck

Rebecca Brown Adelman as Hamlet by Kevin T McEneaney Perhaps the title above should read Rebecca Brown Adelman resurrects Theresa Rebek’s excellent play Bernhardt/Hamlet (2018) in Rhinebeck at the Center…

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Bees in Peril

by Kevin T McEneaney Welcome to the microscopic venue! Bumblebees remain in massive decline. Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont no longer have bumblebees……

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Plants weeping all around the world

by Kevin T McEneaney Plants and flowers do not possess a mouth, yet they complain and cry with snaping noise at a frequency beyond our hearing, resembling the popping of…

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