While my bailiwick is classical music, I enjoy multiple music styles: jazz, blues, and even pop music. Last Saturday the Millbrook Winery hosted a fundraiser for the NAMM Foundation which…
There is nothing that I, or anyone else can say, to enhance the reputation of the American String Quartet (which is legendary). They opened with String Quartet in B Flat…
by Kevin T McEneaney The Dior Quartet was formed in the Fall of 2018 at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University under the tutelage of the Pacifica Quartet. They…
by Kevin T McEneaney On Saturday evening at St. James Place in Great Barrington, Daniel Stepner of Aston Magna performed J.S. Bach’s three violin solo Partitas on baroque violin to…
by Kevin T McEneaney Antoinette Brim-Bell, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, began the Sunday program of Music Mountain by reading a selection of her poems. These poems featured subtle rhythmic use…
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…