Arboreal Dimensions of Biodiversity

by Bill Schlesinger (Coauthor of this guest blog, Charles Cannon is Director of the Center for Tree Science at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.) Ecologists and conservation biologists often characterize…

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Bard’s King Arthur: A Rare Diamond

From left: Sasha Cooke, Norman Garrett, Mathew White by Kevin T McEneaney Bard’s Summerscape 2021 includes a forgotten masterpiece: Ernest Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus (1903), based upon the greatest of…

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The Big C

by Kevin T McEneaney The lives of artists endure much clutter: painters with racks of completed canvas; poets with file cabinets of drafts; musicians, tattered open scores on chairs; sculptors…

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Crescendo: Motets in Exultation!

Christine Gevert on organ and and Christa Patton on Schawm with choir by Kevin T McEneaney Breaking out from pandemic silence, Crescendo, directed by choir wizard Christine Gevert appeared with…

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Floating

by Kevin T McEneaney In our mother’s womb we swam in liquid while being nourished by the womb’s water. Even our conception was liquid act. Like young frogs, we plunge…

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Demented by what we breathe

by Bill Schlesinger Each day we breathe more than 10 cubic meters of air—more if we are exercising—so it stands to reason that stuff in the air can enter our…

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A Glance in the Mirror

by Kevin T McEneaney While humans are fabulous achievers, we are gifted in how we make mistakes. Even our bodies often betray us with head colds, gastroenteritis, not to mention…

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Spirited Quartet Salonnières at Millbrook’s Music Barn

Quartet Salonnières by Antonia Shoumatoff This performance at the Music Barn on Deep Hollow Road in Millbrook, owned by Stephen and Belinda Kaye, featured the charming Quartet Salonnières, a group…

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When it’s Hotter than Hot

by Kevin T McEneaney When water beads on plumbing pipes, sweating profusely from humidity in air as thick, sticky air drip-drips with steady weary drizzle that seems to have heartbeat…

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