Mishka Rushdie Momen Astonishes at The Stissing Center

Mishka Rushdie Momen by Kevin T McEneaney Champions of Salon Music offered a taste of mid-18th century salon music from Berlin, played by Mishka Rushdie Momen from England. Momen was…

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Time-Traveling Trio with Crescendo

Juan A. Mesa, Hideki Yamaya, Christine Gevert Claudio Merulo by Kevin T McEneaney Trinity Church in Lime Rock, CT, hosted a Baroque concert, “The Art of Improvisation” by Crescendo last…

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Next Chamber Ensembles at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney The Next Festival of Emerging Artists, a program for composers and young performers in their mid-twenties, opened their Stissing Center chamber music concert with Paris Skies…

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Smithfield Orchestral Concert

Preview by Kevin T McEneaney Last May, the Smithfield Church Chamber Orchestra in northwestern Amenia was the first group of musicians to offer a Spring in-person concert Memorial Day weekend…

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Keyan Ivy Wu: Piano Recital at Bard

by Kevin T McEneaney On the afternoon of May 20th at Láslo Z. Bitό Conservatory Building Keyan Ivy Wu delivered her post-graduate Degree Recital. She opened with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata…

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Ukrainian Themes at Bard Sosnoff

Andrés Rivas and orchestra by Kevin T McEneaney The Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened its semester-end concert with Mazeppa (1853) by Franz Liszt. Byron published an epic biographical poem (now only…

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Music Mountain Becomes More Innovative

Gordon Hall at Music Mountain by Kevin T McEneaney I had a chat with Oskar Espina-Ruiz, Director of the Music Mountain Festival, and discovered that there are interesting new program…

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Rarely Performed Opus at Bard Sosnoff Theater

Pianist Frank Corliss in mask with TON by Kevin T McEneaney William Grant Still’s Dismal Swamp (1935) opened last Sunday’s afternoon concert by The Orchestra Now at Sosnoff Theater conducted…

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