by Kevin T McEneaney Last weekend at St. James Place, Great Barrington, MA, and at Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert’s Crescendo choir, and small orchestra of seven instruments, presented…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday night at the Trinity Pawling secondary school in Pawling cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown performed in Gardner Theater with an electric…
by Stephen Kaye Jan Lisiecki, a Canadian pianist with a Polish background, has had a robust European career that preceded his U.S. tour which culminated in a debut recital at…
by Kevin T McEneaney Jacques Offenbach’s musical score with libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy, Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, revised 1874) was the smash-hit of Offenbach’s musical career.…
Veiled by a long curtain of rain posing as the herald of Spring, noted violinist Edson Scheid performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (c.…
by Kevin T McEneaney The opening program Saturday night with The Taconic String Quartet at the Millbrook Library (sponsored by the Millbrook Arts Group) featured String Quartet in C major,…
by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday night at The Stissing Center featured an upcoming blues star Lady Blackbird, aka Marley Munroe (b. 18 January 1985), who has worked principally in England…
by Kevin T McEneaney Chinese New Year and Spring Festival is governed by a lunar calendar based upon a twelve-year cycle of the Zodiac. This year’s festival began on February…
by Kevin T McEneaney This well-attended All-Brahms concert last weekend offered a combo of songs and music: the first half concentrating on vocal music, the second half featuring orchestral music,…
by Kevin T McEneaney At Trinity Episcopal Church in Lakeville under direction of the irrepressible Christine Gevert, the Crescendo choir of sixteen singers (closer to twenty when one hears the…