Terra String Quartet, winner of many international competitions, opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (June 1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work has recently been much-performed,…
by Bill Schlesinger Reposted from April 2016 due to the current controversy about fluorine in drinking water A few weeks ago, I read an article describing outrage among a group…
by Kevin T McEneaney Red, yellow, orange leaves fleeing in wind tumble on lawns, barren gardens, and roads, their colors turning to atrophied brown. The echoing sound of rattling buzz…
by Kevin T McEneaney At Trinity-Pawling School Chapel last Friday night, the Danish String Quartet offered an integrated, blended, multi-level soundscape. They opened with String Quartet, Op. 20, #3 in…
Around 100 thousand years ago, we modern humans began evolving. We began accumulating things, stuff, when agriculture became a success, yet that engendered arrogant warfare to accumulate the wealth of…
by Bill Schlesinger Ah, the smell of a new car. To get inside a new car for a drive with friends is part of the American experience. The “new car…
by Kevin T McEneaney I have heard Benjamin Hochman play once or twice a year for eleven years. This past Thursday evening at Lazló Bitó Hall he performed the complete…
by Kevin T McEneaney Satire offers caustic, poetic soap cleansing tongue and cerebral cortex from the influence of boring cliché that accretes on watching television like gluttonous plaque clogging flow…
by Kevin T McEneaney Brooklyn Rider takes its name from The Blue Rider, a surrealist European collective that published an almanac, essays, and music that offered a futuristic vision of…
by Kevin T McEneaney Anthony Trionfo, flutist, and Albert Cano Smit, pianist, both first-prize winners of the Wadsworth Young Concert Artists Award (in different years), teamed up to deliver an…