My monster
poem by Kevin T McEneaney My brain has been shut down by a majority of frontal brain cells who claim a lack of nutrients emerging from stomach and colon. *…
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October 7, 2025
Bard East/West Ensemble Delights
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the Lazlo-Bito Conservatory, under the direction of Jindong Cai, the Ensemble, which features a sophisticated blend of Eastern and Western instruments, presented a…
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October 5, 2025
Ocean, sky, berries
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…
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October 1, 2025
Music in Motion at Bard Sosnoff Theater
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…
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September 30, 2025
A Comedy of Tenors laughs in New Milford
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…
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September 27, 2025
Rio Jazz at Smithfield Church
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…
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September 23, 2025
Mahler’s Wondrous Third Symphony at Bard Sosnoff
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…
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September 23, 2025
Kent Tritle & Arthur Fiacco at Smithfield Church
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)…
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September 21, 2025
Meditation at sunrise
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,…
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September 17, 2025