Mozart and others at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, a program of Family, Friends, and Students headlined the SummerScape Mozart Festival. The first half of the concert focused on the program title, while the second half focused ...
The Harlem Quartet: Memorable at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney Franz Joseph Haydn essentially created the quartet in the 1760s and nurtured it to maturity with Mozart. The commission for Beethoven to compose his first quartets arrived in the autumn of 1798 from Prince Lobkowitz, who ...
Mozart SummerScape Excites at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Music enthusiasts have been waiting for SummerScape to address Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a long time. The 36th SummerScape Festival has finally embraced him! The two-week festival opened with the theme The Many Faces of Mozart ...
Erinys Quartet Soars with Oskar at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney Erinys (meaning Furies) Quartet derives its name from the Oresteia by Aeschylus. They were founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have toured Europe and the United States. Now they are the ...
Beethoven’s Piano at the Stissing Center
Last Sunday afternoon at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Daniel Adam Maltz performed a program on a newly created fortepiano that imitated the sound of an instrument during the lifetime of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. The sound was closer ...
Aston Magna Performs the Genius of French Baroque
by Kevin T McEneaney At Saint James Place in Great Barrington, last Saturday, Aston Magna, an organization devoted to the playing of period instruments, offered a program titled The Genius of the French Baroque. They opened with the most important ...
The Sherman Ensemble at The Merryall Center
by Kevin T McEneaney In the winding woods north of New Milford, CT, The Sherman Ensemble opened with Flute Quartet in D Major, Op. 5, No. 3 (1776). In his introduction, Eliot Bailen noted that some scholars question whether Haydn ...
Arianna String Quartet Incandescent at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney The Arianna String Quartet, currently one of the very top quartets in the country, was scheduled to play Last Sunday during the tornado storm, but the concert was cancelled. Since they were spending the week at ...
Baldouret Quartet and Misha Dichter at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney Under fluffy blue skies that provided an afternoon shower, the Baldouret Quartet opened with Maurice Ravel’s first composition, String Quartet in F Major (1903), dedicated to his teacher, Claude Debussy. At this point in time, Germans ...
The Euclid Quartet at Music Mountain
by Kevin T McEneaney The Euclid Quartet from Ohio opened with String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (1929) by Florence Beatrice Price under sunny skies with scudding cloud puffballs. Florence was born in Little Rock to the only African ...