Music

by Kevin T McEneaney The Euclid Quartet from Ohio opened with String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (1929) by Florence Beatrice Price under sunny skies with scudding cloud puffballs. Florence was born in Little Rock to the only African ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center, pianist Sophia Zhou, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, and tenor Daniel McGrew presented a delightful program of George Gershswin favorites. Sophia opened with the second and third Gershwin Preludes for ...

by Kevin T McEneaney In co-operation with the Kovner Foundation, The Millbrook Music Salon, under Artistic Music Director Sophia Zhou, and The Thorne Center produced an eclectic concert of notable fragments, addressing a wide variety of styles. The Renaissance String ...

Last Sunday, the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle at Olin Hall offered an unusual concert program by Espressivo! The opener presented a once-in-a-lifetime experience of hearing an unpublished piano quartet by Beethoven. This was one of three piano quartets, written ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert of Crescendo conducted a solo recital celebrating Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), the first modern musician-scholar to pioneer the revival of harpsichord music and to discover ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...