The Sherman Ensemble with Christmas Jazz
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 ...
Crescendo with Nicholas Tamagna
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 ...
Ulysses Quartet with Oskar Ruiz Excites Wonder at Wethersfield
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 ...
Film & Concert, Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland at The Stissing Center
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 ...