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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
neurons in the brain by Kevin T McEneaney There are many varieties of rocks, so many kinds that I’m often confused. At times I think there are rocks in my…
Angela Bae, Justin Defilippis, Simone Dinnerstein, Russel Huston, Benjamin Zannoni by Kevin T McEneaney The Balourdet Quartet, currently in residence at New England Conservatory, takes its name from Antoine Balourdet,…
Susan Rotholz, Elizabeth Perry, Eliot Bailen, Dori Na, Richard Wolfe by Kevin T McEneaney The marvelous aspect of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble remains the way they transform themselves into various…
by Neil Donnelly Walking towards the Golf club, sun beating on the Old Head of Kinsale; at the Sentry Box, between a limp tricolor and a stars n’ stripes, a…