Elliot & Zhou: Transcendence at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney In a program titled Cello Americana! young cellist Sterling Elliot and pianist Sophia Zhou performed works by four noted American composers. They opened with Four Sketches,…

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Purple martins in flight

by Kevin T McEneaney Wintering down in South America, they make their first appearance in Houston. Males and females jointly decide on nests. A brooding pair will birth three to…

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Astonishing Giulio Cesare at Hudson Hall

by Kevin T McEneaney A new Giulio Cesare production by George Frideric Handel (1724) at Hudson Hall by R.B. Schlather with the early music ensemble Ruckus, sung in Italian with…

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The Orange Tide

by Bill Schlesinger There are always buyers and sellers, but the price of stocks is said to be determined by the best collective knowledge of the current and future value…

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Too many songs

by Kevin T McEneaney The Northern Mockingbird, famous for song, is the state bird of Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee. Not only can a male imitate birds, they can imitate…

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Greek myth

by Kevin T McEneaney All life that exists is cellular life. There is no other form of life at all. One might say cells are the “atoms” of life. Current…

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Post-Modern Turgenev

Diptych Before Dying by Thomas McGonigle. Tough Poets Press, 114 pages. Review by Kevin T. McEneaney. Diptych offers a family travelogue novella, one about an adventure in Newfoundland with the…

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What time do you have?

by Kevin T McEneaney Time still remains a puzzle to science because it seems that chance rules all atoms where strange particles bounce inside atoms in an unpredictable arrangement. Scientists…

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Clarion Concert: Sublime at The Stissing Center

Last Sunday, the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, in the Clarion Concert series, delivered a memorable performance at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains. They opened with String Quartet in…

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