How can this be?

by Kevin T McEneaney How can a point with no volume at all contain the volume of infinite space? One second after the immense Big Bang the journey to infinity…

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The Ulysses Quartet offers surprises at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney Under the brilliant sunny skies of Music Mountain, The Ulysses Quartet opened with Plan & Elevation by Caroline Shaw, who became the youngest recipient of the…

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Hypnotic Violinist Geneva Lewis at Caramoor

by Stephen Kaye On Saturday, July 20, Geneva Lewis played a solo violin in the Sunken Garden at Caramoor in Katonah. We went because Geneva is playing in an ensemble…

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In praise of slugs

by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of astronomy and kindness, now sing manifold virtues of the slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod— a form of crawling, slouching mollusc, a polyphyletic…

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Lysander Piano Trio Excites at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney Under gray skies that relented to sunshine streaming over Gordon Hall, the Lysander Trio (formed by students at the Juilliard School and named after the character…

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Orchestral Romance at Bard

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday night, the program at Bard College Sosnoff Theater was entitled “An Evening with the Orchestra,” designed to exhibit a couple of the most popular…

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Romanticism & Song at Bard SummerScape

by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday afternoon in Olin Hall at Bard College song hovered sweetly in the concert hall, the theme being the Romantic movement and lyric song. Paris was…

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That Boob Tube

by Kevin T McEneaney How often do you worship your TV? Do you adore news, sports, or movies? How many stations do you find obnoxious? Do you watch wrestling, boxing,…

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Berlioz with Thunder at Bard Sosnoff

by Kevin T McEneaney This year SummerScape at Bard College has its focus on Hector Berlioz and the Romantic context of his period. The music of Berlioz may be characterized…

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