Agate String Quartet at Trinity Pawling
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 ...
Bertolt Brecht Alive at Bard College
by Kevin T McEneaney This past weekend, the Theater and Performance Program at Bard College conducted a Mainstage production of Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man (1948) by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Rebecca Wright at the LUMA Theater. This excellent ...
Crescendo: Latin American Chamber Music
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, Christine Gevert showcased elements of Latin American music with indigenous origins. Gevert played a virginal keyboard and bombo (indigenous drum), accompanied by Gonzalo Cortés on flute, quena ...
Ukrainian Music Thunders at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Last weekend, under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, The Orchestra Now (TŌN) offered an unusual program of rarely performed music that focused on Ukrainian themes. They opened with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Overture on Russian Themes, Op.28 ...