Picking raspberries is my favorite childhood memory with the sun shining at my back with a gentle, tickling breeze on my nose as drifting clouds scud above, aerial messengers of…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday, Jindong Cai led the annual China Now Music Festival at Bard Sosnoff Theater with The Orchestra Now. The broad focus of the program selected…
by Kevin T McEneaney PlaywrightKen Ludwig has written two dozen plays plus a few musicals. A Comedy of Tenorsoffers behind-the-curtain satire on hyperventilating tenors more immersed in their private lives…
Preview The Smithfield Church will present Rio JAZZ - Intimate Brazilian Jazz hosted by the Bang Family Concert Series. Saturday, 3 pm, October 11, 2025. Refreshments to follow in the…
by Kevin T McEneaney Twenty-six years ago, Bard opened the acoustically marvelous Sosnoff Theater with Gustave Mahler’s Third Symphony (1896, only the first two movements were performed), one of the…
The concert opened with Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), which is thought to have been composed during Bach’s later years at Wiemar (1708-1717)…
by Kevin T McEneaney Transcendence was a secular ideal with humanists in the last century, but currently it appears to be folly. Today, transcendence is limited to religious meditation, poetry,…
by Bill Schlesinger A few years ago, while buying some fish for dinner, I shied away from wild salmon in favor of farm-raised. It sounded like a good way to…
by Kevin T McEneaney Terrence Wilson, an acclaimed pianist of great vigor and sound who has toured the globe’s great musical halls, made his debut at The Stissing Center last…