Crescendo: Latino Baroque at Trinity Church

From left: Job Salazar Fonesca, Christine Gevert, Carlos Boltes by Kevin T McEneaney This past Friday evening Christine Gevert performed a program on the interplay of South American indigenous folk…

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Drugs in your drinking water

by Bill Schlesinger In the developed world, humans enjoy the benefits of a wide variety of pharmaceuticals that can regulate almost any aspect of our physiology—blood pressure, blood sugar, blood…

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All Ears

All Ears My ear follows me wherever I go— they are my devoted pets at each end. There are times I fear they will overhear dim thoughts brewing inside my…

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Brahms: A German Requiem at Bard

From left: Alexis Seminario, Dr. Leon Botstein, Jonathan Lawlor by Kevin T McEneaney As appetizer for the great Requiem, Anna Polonsky performed Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which was written in…

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The Humor of Henry V at the Center

by Kevin T McEneaney None but William Shakespeare could take a script about patriotism and war and transform it into a wonderful comedy, as he does so marvelously in Henry…

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Music & Poetry

When numbers reach acute mega-zeros, they are surely incomprehensible, yet music can attain similar heights, with transcendent, numinous mystery beyond ordinary understanding— which is why music transmits art beyond poetic…

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The Village Cidiot at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Cidiot is the term local farmers employ to describe urban transplants to agricultural landscape. Idiot is a classical Greek word invented in Athens to describe a…

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Duke Ellington Tribute at Carnegie Hall

Dr. Leon Botstein and American Symphony Orchestra by Kevin T McEneaney Two years ago, Conductor Leon Botstein with the American Symphony Orchestra had set a March date for a Duke…

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The Extremists: They are in New Milford!

Reviewed by Kevin T McEneaney Are the books that you read subversively extreme? What about TV talk shows? News anchors? Do they get your attention by being extreme? Of course,…

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Metaphor, part 2

Being frames from the Sunday Comics without images by James Sherry The Noodle with a Knife in It And the neck flies Quick, get the magic marker What’s the surprise?…

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