Music

by Kevin T McEneaneyLast Saturday afternoon at Trinity Church in Lakeville, Christine Gevert directed a program of Baroque Christmas music and song that flowed more sonorously than your favorite woodland stream. The musical ensemble played with tight unity, and a ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Winter, the season of introspection, sweaters, stews, oatmeal, and snow shoveling. Sled grooves on a hill, squirrel prints on lawns, a cardinal high up on a tree branch, the soft voice of my mother calling me, ...

by Kevin T McEneaney At the Amenia Town Hall Auditorium last Sunday, a quintet of musicians performed a Santa’s sack of Celtic tunes. Celtic folk music is dancing music that originated in early Europe. The Lombards (Germanic in origin) in ...

By Kevin T McEneaney The concert opened with Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished,” D. 759 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein. Schubert began the work in October 1822 but put the work aside ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Windborne, a group with four noted CDs, entertained those with a rising Christmas spirit. They are four casual masters of polyphony: Jeremy Carter-Gordon (baritone); Lynn Rowan ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Thursday, at Daryl’s House in Pawling, Misty Blues soaked the wooden rafters with words and music that reverberated with down-home honesty and riffing pleasure. Gina Coleman's clear contralto voice was in top form as were ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Church in northwestern Amenia conducted its annual (the nineteenth) Christmas Concert & Tea, sponsored by the Bang Family Concert Series. This year the concert was dedicated to former church organist Will Carter, who recently passed ...

Preview by Kevin T McEneaney Smithfield Church in northwest Amenia on Rte 83 will conduct its annual Christmas Concert & Tea sponsored by the Bang Family Concert Series this coming Saturday at 3 pm. This year the concert is dedicated ...

by Kevin T McEneaney The Sherman Chamber Ensemble is not your ordinary ensemble: while it specializes in classical music, it is equally adept at various jazz genres, as well as pop music. The Ensemble septet that performed at St. Andrews ...

Terra String Quartet, winner of many international competitions, opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (June 1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work has recently been much-performed, nicknamed the “Second Haydn Quartet,” written when Mozart briefly studied ...