Christmas is the Season for Gratitude

You were given gratitude at your birth. Does your daily life brim with gratitude? Do you recall moments with your parents? What about those people who have helped you? Have…

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Crescendo Exalts Christmas with Song

by Kevin T McEneaneyLast Saturday afternoon at Trinity Church in Lakeville, Christine Gevert directed a program of Baroque Christmas music and song that flowed more sonorously than your favorite woodland…

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At eight

by Kevin T McEneaney Winter, the season of introspection, sweaters, stews, oatmeal, and snow shoveling. Sled grooves on a hill, squirrel prints on lawns, a cardinal high up on a…

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The known unknown

by Kevin T McEneaney Behavior is the product of forces that surround all living-breathing species. Luck in love is the most important “thing” which allows any species to survive. *…

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Celtic Christmas Concert in Amenia

by Kevin T McEneaney At the Amenia Town Hall Auditorium last Sunday, a quintet of musicians performed a Santa’s sack of Celtic tunes. Celtic folk music is dancing music that…

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Bard: Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich!

By Kevin T McEneaney The concert opened with Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished,” D. 759 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein. Schubert began…

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Winborne Wassails Welcome at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Windborne, a group with four noted CDs, entertained those with a rising Christmas spirit. They are…

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Misty Blues Wails at Daryl’s House

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Thursday, at Daryl’s House in Pawling, Misty Blues soaked the wooden rafters with words and music that reverberated with down-home honesty and riffing pleasure. Gina…

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What about us?

by Kevin T McEneaney Just who are we? We are singing stardust! The chances of life evolving remain staggering—about six trillion to one and that may be too low a…

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The Smithfield Church Orchestra Trumpets Christmas

by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Church in northwestern Amenia conducted its annual (the nineteenth) Christmas Concert & Tea, sponsored by the Bang Family Concert Series. This year the concert was…

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