by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday Music Mountain featured two of Franz Schubert’s late piano compositions. During his short lifetime of 31 years, Schubert composed about 1500 works, over 600…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday evening at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains pianist Sophia Zhou accompanied Tenor Daniel McGrew and Soprano Katherine Lerner Lee in a sophisticated program…
by Kevin T McEneaney The music program was preceded by the presentation of the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award to Ann M. McKinney who has been a decades-long backer of both…
by Kevin T McEneaney The quartet is named after the noted chef Antoine Baldourdet at the Taos Music School in New Mexico with whom they bonded over music and food.…
The Euclid Quartet bears the name of someone who underpins nearly everyone's life. Euclid's Elements (two volumes) is the third best-selling book in the history of the world. Almost every…
Last Saturday evening at Bard's Olin Hall the Isidore Quartet opened with one of Franz Joseph Haydn's "Sun" quartets, Op. 20, no.2 in C Major (1772), one of the six…
by Kevin T McEneaney With cumulus clouds scudding through blue skies at Music Mountain, the Baldouret Quartet created their own musical sunlight at Gordon Hall with a diversified menu. The…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday Espressivo! quartet at Bard College Olin Hall opened with Piano Quartet No.in C Minor (1821-22); written at the age of thirteen, this was Felix…
In Falls Village, CT, Music Mountain's Season Opening Benefit Concert was introduced by Director Oskar Espina Ruiz. This was an unusual program designed by pianist Benjamin Hochman, world-renowned Steinway Artist,…
by Kevin T McEneaneyLast Saturday at Smithfield Church in Amenia, thirteen musicians under the direction of Matt Finley performed a one-hour concert conducted by Milt Lee, Conductor of the Skidmore…