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…
This Crescendo concert at Trinity Church in Lime Rock Church was an all-Vivaldi concert with a special twist at the end. Antonio Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto No. 2 in G Minor,…
Last Sunday under diamond blue skies at Music Mountain the all-female Cassatt Quartet closed out the season at Gordon Hall, yet Director Oskar Espina-Ruiz promised a new forthcoming music event…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia, Kent Tritle, organist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oratorio Society of New York, along with…
by Sharon Webb Preview The Smithfield Church announces the appearance of New York Philharmonic organist KentTritle at its historic tracker organ, in concert with acclaimed New York cellist Arthur Fiacco,Jr. on…
Last Sunday afternoon at Music Mountain with small cumulus clouds puffing overhead under an autumnal blue sky, Merz Trio (the German word means “to mark” and here they are marking…
by Kevin T McEneaney Three musicians from the New York Philharmonic joined Sophia Zhou, Director of the Chamber Music Series at the Stissing Center, for a one-hour concert. (Sophia Zhou…
by Kevin T McEneaney An all-Fauré concert last Friday by the Sherman Ensemble in Kent at St. Andrew’s Church delivered an unusual program that was a special happening. The concert…