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…
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 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…
by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Presbyterian Church in Amenia presented an autumn concert sponsored by the Bang Music Committee with Hudson Pro Musica Trio on November 2nd at 4 pm. This…
by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened with Don Juan (1888) by Richard Strauss. This symphonic poem arrived late in the…
by Kevin T McEneaney While Bruce Molsky was born in the southern Bronx, he is now one of the leading Old-Timey musicians in this country playing predominantly Southern Appalachian tunes.…
by Kevin T McEneaney Virgil Thomson’s essay “On Being American” (New York Herald Tribune, 25 January 1948) pointed out that World War II destroyed provincial attitudes while simultaneously allowing the…
by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night The Stissing Center (in Pine Plains) featured pianist Mathis Picard (born in France and fluently bi-lingual), who now resides on the Upper West Side…
by Kevin T McEneaney This superb program of Mexican music opened with Ferial (Town Fair, 1940) by Manuel Maria Ponce, a close friend of Andrés Segovia who acclaimed Ponce as…