About these birds

by Kevin T McEneaney As a child I watched Looney Tunes cartoons, yet I didn’t know just what a loon was. Later on in life, I discovered loons: their peculiar,…

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Borromeo String Quartet Amazes at Music Mountain

Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, Henry Kramer, Yeesun Kim, Melissa Reardon by Kevin T McEneaney It has been nearly a year since I heard the fabulous Borromeo quartet. Their quartet moniker…

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Sherman Chamber Ensemble Baits a Hook

Susan Rotholz, Margaret Kampmeier, Eliot Bailen, Peter Weitzner, Alan Kay, Sarah Adams by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night’s concert at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened with a composition by…

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Laughing with Boccherini in Washington

Daniel Khalikov, Pauline Kim, Michael Katz, Wendy Sutter William Hakim by Kevin T McEneaney Like Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in Lucca, named after the Celtic god Lugh,…

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Local History: What a Read!

Historic Tales of the Harlem Valley: Life at the End of the Line. Tonia Shoumatoff. History Press, 2023, 202 pages. by Kevin T. McEneaney I admit I am not a…

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Rethinking Recycling

by Bill Schlesinger Recycling remains the easiest way for the average citizen to help achieve a closed-loop economy, in which all waste is reused to generate new products. Recycled materials,…

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Webb pond

Webb Pond, Maine by Kevin T McEneaney Ducks puddle on pond, loons dive in water, curling flock of frothing clouds overhead, shoreline landscaped with angular gray rocks, hawk circling high,…

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Parker Quartet & Orion Weiss at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney The Parker Quartet opened with String Quartet in B Flat Maor, Op. 18 # 6 (1800) by Ludwig van Beethoven completed in December (first performed on…

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PubliQuartet Prophesizes the Future at The Stissing Center

Jannina Norpoth, Curtis Stewart, Hamilton Berry, Nick Revel by Kevin T McEneaney When a concert is organized by improvisations, albeit rehearsed improvisations, it remains difficult to describe what is happening.…

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Early Music Hinges in the Twentieth Century

William Hakim, Wendy Sutter, Deborah Buck, Stacey Shames, Beomjae Kim by Kevin T McEneaney As a New Yorker, I sometimes think that the best musicians blaze to prominence in New…

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