Crescendo with Nicholas Tamagna
by Kevin T McEneaney For one hour at Trinity Church in Lakeville, Countertenor Nicholas Tamagna held forth with a formidable menu of excerpts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with harpsichord keyboard backing by Christine Gevert. Tamagna has performed in ...
Ulysses Quartet with Oskar Ruiz Excites Wonder at Wethersfield
by Kevin T McEneaney This sold-out event in the carriage house opened with a recent composition by Seth Grosshandler, pianist, painter, lawyer, and composer. Seth was present at the event. Dances for string quartet (2024), structured in five movements with ...
Film & Concert, Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland at The Stissing Center
Back in the 1970s, there was an Irish folk music revival with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (the man of a thousand songs), Clannad, The Chieftains, Planxty, and the Bothy Band. This was a scene that I followed because ...
Agate String Quartet at Trinity Pawling
by Kevin T McEneaney Agate String Quartet, four players from France, are currently on a tour of the Once-United States. They performed in the acoustically favorable All Saints Chapel in the Pawling Concert Series, opening with W.A. Mozart’s String Quartet ...
Crescendo: Latin American Chamber Music
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, Christine Gevert showcased elements of Latin American music with indigenous origins. Gevert played a virginal keyboard and bombo (indigenous drum), accompanied by Gonzalo Cortés on flute, quena ...
Ukrainian Music Thunders at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney Last weekend, under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, The Orchestra Now (TŌN) offered an unusual program of rarely performed music that focused on Ukrainian themes. They opened with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Overture on Russian Themes, Op.28 ...
Rio Jazz Excites & Surprises at Smithfield Church
Last Saturday afternoon, Smithfield Church in northwest Amenia hosted Bandleader Matt Finley’s Rio Jazz with the most accomplished jazz musicians in/or surrounding Dutchess County. This was a concert that often featured the original composers playing in their own compositions. I ...
Bard East/West Ensemble Delights
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the Lazlo-Bito Conservatory, under the direction of Jindong Cai, the Ensemble, which features a sophisticated blend of Eastern and Western instruments, presented a diverse three-part program of new contemporary music. The second part ...
Music in Motion at Bard Sosnoff Theater
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday, Jindong Cai led the annual China Now Music Festival at Bard Sosnoff Theater with The Orchestra Now. The broad focus of the program selected living composers from three generations. Under the baton of Jindong ...
Rio Jazz at Smithfield Church
Preview The Smithfield Church will present Rio JAZZ - Intimate Brazilian Jazz hosted by the Bang Family Concert Series. Saturday, 3 pm, October 11, 2025. Refreshments to follow in the Fellowship Room. Free parking. Elevator for the disabled at the ...