Music

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday evening, under Music Director Daniel Koch, The Millbrook Community Festival Choir performed its annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. They opened with “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” an English Carol from 1760, yet ...

By Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday, on December 6, the Smithfield Chamber Orchestra, under the musical direction and arrangement by trumpeter Matt Finley, performed its annual Christmas celebration, marking its 20th anniversary at Smithfield Church. Denise Jordan Finley greeted people ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday and Sunday, Crescendo, under the direction of Christine Gevert, provided an unusual choral program from the Baroque era, the Saturday concert being performed at St. James Place in Great Barrington and the Sunday concert ...

by Antonia Shoumatoff Last Sunday, the “Family Organ Experience,” as it was billed in the program, was attended by young and old alike, with scores of children sitting in chairs around the esteemed Grace Church organ to listen and learn ...

Preview by Susan Bang Smithfield Church in northwestern Amenia will conduct its annual (the twentieth) Christmas Concert & Tea, sponsored by the Bang Family Concert Series, this coming Saturday at 3 pm under the direction of Matt Finley. The Smithfield ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Kent, The Sherman Ensemble was transformed into a quintet with Julia Bailen adding vocals to a sophisticated program of jazz-inspired music, featuring creative new arrangements with excerpts from ...

by Kevin T McEneaney For one hour at Trinity Church in Lakeville, Countertenor Nicholas Tamagna held forth with a formidable menu of excerpts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with harpsichord keyboard backing by Christine Gevert. Tamagna has performed in ...

by Kevin T McEneaney This sold-out event in the carriage house opened with a recent composition by Seth Grosshandler, pianist, painter, lawyer, and composer. Seth was present at the event. Dances for string quartet (2024), structured in five movements with ...

Back in the 1970s, there was an Irish folk music revival with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (the man of a thousand songs), Clannad, The Chieftains, Planxty, and the Bothy Band. This was a scene that I followed because ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Agate String Quartet, four players from France, are currently on a tour of the Once-United States. They performed in the acoustically favorable All Saints Chapel in the Pawling Concert Series, opening with W.A. Mozart’s String Quartet ...