Spanish Fiesta Concert at Smithfield Church
Preview by Susan Bang The Smithfield Church at 656 Smithfield Valley Road (Rte 83 in northwestern Amenia) will present Fiesta!, a performance of Spanish and Latin American Music in celebration of Cinco de Mayo by the wife and husband duo ...
The Sherman Ensemble: Baroque Dexterity
by Kevin T McEneaney The Sherman Ensemble performed their annual Baroque music concert last Sunday at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. Their selection of music from that period included rarely performed works. One of the pleasing aspects of Baroque ...
Chanticleer Soundscape at Trinity-Pawling
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday night the twelve-man choir Chanticleer performed to a capacity audience in Gardner Hall. Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto to showcase medieval and Renaissance music; their repertoire of over fifty CDs ...
William Grant Still at MET Museum of Art
by Kevin T McEneaney In connection wih the new Harlem Renaissance exhibit the New York City Metropolitan Museum featured in their auditorium a performance of the first Symphony (nicknamed the Afro-American Symphony) by William Grant Still. This performance was preceded ...
Beethoven, Stravinsky & Spring Budding at Bard
by Kevin T McEneaney Daffodils, the common peoples’ tulip, were in full bloom on the lawn outside of Sosnoff Theater at Bard College this past Sunday afternoon with the sun shining brightly as a prelude to this exciting Spring program ...
Shanghai Quartet: Lyrical Explosion at Hudson Hall
by Kevin T McEneaney The first time I heard the Shanghai Quartet, I was driving on Route 44 going west into Millbrook while listening to Robin Hood Radio playing cuts from their album Music for a Sunday Afternoon in the ...
Crescendo: Performance of Carisimmi’s Jephte
by Kevin T McEneaney Last weekend at St. James Place, Great Barrington, MA, and at Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert’s Crescendo choir, and small orchestra of seven instruments, presented the first known US production of Carisimmi’s oratorio Jephte (1648), ...
Canellakis-Brown Duo Delivers Fun at Trinity School
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday night at the Trinity Pawling secondary school in Pawling cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown performed in Gardner Theater with an electric sensibility. They opened with Capriccio (1948) by Lukas Foss (1922-2009) ...
Jan Lisiecki & Conrad Tao: Two concerts of note
by Stephen Kaye Jan Lisiecki, a Canadian pianist with a Polish background, has had a robust European career that preceded his U.S. tour which culminated in a debut recital at Carnegie Hall last Wednesday, March 13. His artful and demanding program ...
Offenbach Opera at Bard Sosnoff Theater
by Kevin T McEneaney Jacques Offenbach’s musical score with libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy, Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, revised 1874) was the smash-hit of Offenbach’s musical career. He was a renowned virtuoso cellist, writing over one hundred ...