by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Presbyterian Church in Amenia presented an autumn concert sponsored by the Bang Music Committee with Hudson Pro Musica Trio on November 2nd at 4 pm. This…
by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened with Don Juan (1888) by Richard Strauss. This symphonic poem arrived late in the…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…