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 ...
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 ...