Aeolus Quartet at Olin Hall, Bard College
by Kevin T McEneaney The Aeolus Quartet opened with String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (1783) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This work is nicknamed "the second Haydn Quartet" (of six) written when Mozart studied under Haydn, who approved ...
The Parker Quartet at Olin Hall
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday, The Parker Quartet, currently in residence at Harvard University, performed an exciting program at Bard College, Olin Hall. They opened with String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op 95, called “Quartetto serioso,” written ...
Smithfield Church Pops Chamber Orchestra Swings
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday afternoon, the Bang Family Concert Series produced its 6th Annual Spring “Pops” Concert under the baton of Michelle Demko, who chose most of the program as well as the order of the program. The ...
Baldouret Quartet at Lyall Church
by Kevin T McEneaney The Baldouret Quartet became a Quintet on Friday afternoon in a free concert sponsored by The Millbrook Music Salon. Sophia Zhou, the Artistic Director of the Salon, welcomed the audience and described the renown of the ...
The Concert Truck at Bennett Park
Susan Zhang and Sophia Zhou by Kevin T McEneaney A Memorial Day celebration at Bennett Park opened with the roving Concert Truck at 1 pm. Krista Thorne delivered a short talk on the current renovation of The Thorne Center on ...
Spring Concert at Lyall Church
by Kevin T McEneaney To celebrate 100th anniversary of Lyall Church this past Sunday, The Millbrook Community Festival Choir presented Foundations, under Music and Choral Director Daniel Michael Koch who stressed the theme of building community in an era of ...
All-Strauss program at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Richard Strauss began composing at the age of nine. At the age of 21, he composed a Serenade and a Burleske in D minor (1886, revised in 1889), written for the conductor Hans Bülow, who rejected ...
Polonsky and Wiley at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at the Stissing House in Pine Plains, cellist Peter Wiley from Bard College teamed up with Russian-born pianist Anna Polonsky from Vassar College to provide an exciting duo program of Beethoven, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff ...
Green Room Ensemble at Millbrook Music Salon
by Kevin T McEneaneyLast Saturday evening in Chelsea Morrison Theater at Millbrook School, Green Room Ensemble delivered a delightful program with a wink at the past and a plunge into the present. The ensemble, founded by violinist Nathan Meltzer offered ...
Gustav Mahler’s Titan at Bard Sosnoff Theater
Last Saturday night at Sosnoff Theater, The Bard Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein opened with Hymne á la Justice, Op. 14 (1903) by Albert Magnard, a short symphony inspired by the infamous Dreyfus affair, an antisemitic ...