Music

Areta Zhulla, Ronald Copes, Astrid Schween, Molly Carr by Kevin T McEneaney The Juilliard Quartet at the Howland Chamber Music Circle in Beacon, NY, in a program titled Extra Inspirations opened with String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op ...
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Concertmaster Eniko Samu and Dr. Leon Botstein with TON After Dr. Leon Botstein’s introductory remarks at the podium of a program of music in turn of the century Vienna, The Orchestra Now opened with The Merry Widow Overture by Franz ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney Saturday afternoon at Smithfield Church in Amenia Kent Tritle, organist of the New York Philharmonic and the Oratorio Society of New York City, and Music Director at Cathedral of St. John the Divine performed a benefit ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday night at The Stissing Center, the Verona Quartet, residing at Oberlin University, presented the first concert in the annual Clarion Concert series founded by Eugenia Zuckerman. This was an intriguing program of three string ...
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Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, Henry Kramer, Yeesun Kim, Melissa Reardon by Kevin T McEneaney It has been nearly a year since I heard the fabulous Borromeo quartet. Their quartet moniker alludes to the Borromean Islands at Italy’s Lake Maggiore, near ...
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Susan Rotholz, Margaret Kampmeier, Eliot Bailen, Peter Weitzner, Alan Kay, Sarah Adams by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night’s concert at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened with a composition by Chris Rogerson (b. 1988), A Fish Will Rise for flute, ...
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Daniel Khalikov, Pauline Kim, Michael Katz, Wendy Sutter William Hakim by Kevin T McEneaney Like Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in Lucca, named after the Celtic god Lugh, the light rays of the abstract Creator (Dagda, Great Father); ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney The Parker Quartet opened with String Quartet in B Flat Maor, Op. 18 # 6 (1800) by Ludwig van Beethoven completed in December (first performed on the 9th) as he turned thirty. This was the last ...
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Jannina Norpoth, Curtis Stewart, Hamilton Berry, Nick Revel by Kevin T McEneaney When a concert is organized by improvisations, albeit rehearsed improvisations, it remains difficult to describe what is happening. This is not exactly new, as the general concept goes ...
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William Hakim, Wendy Sutter, Deborah Buck, Stacey Shames, Beomjae Kim by Kevin T McEneaney As a New Yorker, I sometimes think that the best musicians blaze to prominence in New York City, and that about half of them are native ...
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