Crescendo Exalts Christmas with Song

Crescendo Exalts Christmas with Song

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 ...
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At eight

At eight

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, ...
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Celtic Christmas Concert in Amenia

Celtic Christmas Concert in Amenia

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 ...
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Bard: Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich!

Bard: Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich!

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 ...
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Winborne Wassails Welcome at The Stissing Center

Winborne Wassails Welcome at The Stissing Center

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 ...
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Misty Blues Wails at Daryl's House

Misty Blues Wails at Daryl’s House

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 ...
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The Smithfield Church Orchestra Trumpets Christmas

The Smithfield Church Orchestra Trumpets Christmas

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 ...
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Smithfield Church Christmas Concert & Tea

Smithfield Church Christmas Concert & Tea

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 ...
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The Sherman Ensemble Jazzes up December

The Sherman Ensemble Jazzes up December

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 ...
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Terra String Quartet Delights at Wethersfield Estate

Terra String Quartet Delights at Wethersfield Estate

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 ...
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