Music

by Kevin T McEneaney If you hear static on the radio, you are hearing the Big Bang afterglow, which resonates throughout the universe. * We are still attempting to understand the actual size of the universe, as well as how ...

by Kevin T McEneaney At Grace Church in Millbrook this past Sunday, the dynamic duo of Kristin Lee on violin and John Novacek on piano thrilled the audience with a dynamic presentation of both little-known and well-known musical offerings. They ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Kudos to The Millbrook Library for hosting Lost Radio Rounders in a free concert in the library last Saturday. Based in Albany, they are a folk music quartet with a repertoire spanning 250 years of American ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday, Sosnoff Hall at Bard College featured The Annual Lunar Chinese Festival, where The Orchestre Now exploded with marvelous panache under the energetic baton of Jindong Cai. (The program was repeated on Sunday at Lincoln ...

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 ...