Crescendo: Performance of Carisimmi’s Jephte
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 the first known US production of Carisimmi’s oratorio Jephte (1648), ...
Canellakis-Brown Duo Delivers Fun at Trinity School
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 sensibility. They opened with Capriccio (1948) by Lukas Foss (1922-2009) ...
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream”
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream” by Antonia Shoumatoff Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the High Priestess of the nineteen-twenties, practicing free love and breaking the rules. I was a child of the nineteen-sixties, I ...
Jan Lisiecki & Conrad Tao: Two concerts of note
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 Carnegie Hall last Wednesday, March 13. His artful and demanding program ...