Anura (Greek)
means those without tail, the genre of frogs who are mostly carnivores like us: who also have no tails because we sit on our butt to ponder our dilemma. Like…
means those without tail, the genre of frogs who are mostly carnivores like us: who also have no tails because we sit on our butt to ponder our dilemma. Like…
From left: Abigel Kralik, Julia Hamos, Sterling Elliott by Kevin T McEneaney The excitement at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains consisted of three young classical musicians performing something they…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…