Sherman Chamber Ensemble Baits a Hook

Susan Rotholz, Margaret Kampmeier, Eliot Bailen, Peter Weitzner, Alan Kay, Sarah Adams by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night’s concert at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened with a composition by…

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Laughing with Boccherini in Washington

Daniel Khalikov, Pauline Kim, Michael Katz, Wendy Sutter William Hakim by Kevin T McEneaney Like Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in Lucca, named after the Celtic god Lugh,…

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Parker Quartet & Orion Weiss at Music Mountain

by Kevin T McEneaney The Parker Quartet opened with String Quartet in B Flat Maor, Op. 18 # 6 (1800) by Ludwig van Beethoven completed in December (first performed on…

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PubliQuartet Prophesizes the Future at The Stissing Center

Jannina Norpoth, Curtis Stewart, Hamilton Berry, Nick Revel by Kevin T McEneaney When a concert is organized by improvisations, albeit rehearsed improvisations, it remains difficult to describe what is happening.…

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Early Music Hinges in the Twentieth Century

William Hakim, Wendy Sutter, Deborah Buck, Stacey Shames, Beomjae Kim by Kevin T McEneaney As a New Yorker, I sometimes think that the best musicians blaze to prominence in New…

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Balourdet Quartet Astonishes with Dinnerstein at Music Mountain

Angela Bae, Justin Defilippis, Simone Dinnerstein, Russel Huston, Benjamin Zannoni by Kevin T McEneaney The Balourdet Quartet, currently in residence at New England Conservatory, takes its name from Antoine Balourdet,…

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The Sherman Chamber Ensemble Thrills with Hierophantic Notes

Susan Rotholz, Elizabeth Perry, Eliot Bailen, Dori Na, Richard Wolfe by Kevin T McEneaney The marvelous aspect of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble remains the way they transform themselves into various…

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Ulysses Quartet Sails onward at Music Mountain

Christina Bouey, Rhiannon Banerdt, Oskar Espina Ruiz, Grace Ho, Georgina Isabel Rossi by Kevin T McEneaney Sunday’s afternoon event at Music Mountain was preceded by a talk by Darlene Kascak,…

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Vaughan Williams Swells Sosnoff Hall at Bard

James Bagwell and Chorale by Kevin T McEneaney Summerscape, the annual musical festival at Bard College, has its focus on Vaughan Williams, an important composer whose works are not often…

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Hans Pålsson: Haydn and Beethoven in Ireland

Hans Pålsson at the Steinway in Newbridge, Ireland by Kevin T McEneaney Hans Pålsson, Sweden’s most famous and beloved pianist, is one of this globe’s most accomplished and famous pianists…

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