Music

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now by Kevin T McEneaney This past weekend Bard College’s Sosnoff Theater resounded with The Orchestra Now in a distinctively American/Russian program. Despite being a major orchestral work, William L. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony (1934, ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney If you spent Friday evening at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains, then you must have felt lucky because the performance of The Lucky 5 was hot, even intoxicating, as they blended, sang, and melded their ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney Misty weather from Ireland’s Wicklow Hills magically drifted over Falls Village, CT, last Sunday supplying atmospherics complimentary to Amy Marcy Cheney Beach’s romantic inclination. As prelude, pianist Ursula Oppens played two excerpts from Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s ...
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Susan Rotholz, Eliot Bailen, Paul Woodiel by Kevin T McEneaney The Sherman Ensemble at St. Andrews Church in Kent opened Friday evening with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Divertissement No. 2, Op. 100 for Flute, Violin and Cello (composed in the summer ...
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Christine Gevert with Crescendo members by Kevin T McEneaney On the afternoon of September 3 at Lion’s Pavilion, Veterans Field, Sharon, CT, with mild, nearly autumnal, sunshine, Director Christine Gevert’s choral group Crescendo offered “How Lovely are the Messengers: From ...
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Daniel Avshalomov, Wolfram Koessel, Peter Winograd, Laurie Carney, Oskar Espina-Ruiz Peter Winograd’s violin delivered authoritative gravity with a touch of severity in the first movement Allegretto of Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, no. 5, which, ...
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Nadia Boulanger conducting by Kevin T McEneaney Nadia Boulanger was the most influential music teacher of the twentieth century. Some of her pupils: Igor Stravinsky, Virgil Thompson, Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Walter Poston, Igor Markevitch, Dinu Lipatti, Graźyna Bacewicz, Astor ...
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Photo by The Stissing Center by Tonia Shoumatoff Benjamin Hochman, piano virtuoso extraordinaire, played to a packed house of over 135 masked and vaccinated listeners at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains on August 13, 2021. Having only performed in ...
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Tesla Quartet with Misha Dichter in rehearsal by Kevin T McEneaney Atop Music Mountain in Gordon Hall by Falls Village, CT, on Sunday, the Tesla Quartet provided an electric performance of the last quartet, String Quartet in G major, Op ...
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From left: Sasha Cooke, Norman Garrett, Mathew White by Kevin T McEneaney Bard’s Summerscape 2021 includes a forgotten masterpiece: Ernest Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus (1903), based upon the greatest of all medieval authors, Chrétien de Troyes, that master of deep ...
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