Music

Preview by Sharon Webb The Smithfield Church in Amenia, New York, is proud to welcome organ virtuoso Kent Tritle to its historic 1893 Johnson tracker organ for his annual performance in benefit of the Oratorio Society of New York, on ...

by Kevin T McEneaney String Quartets, Op. 59 # 1,2,3 (1806) by Ludwig van Beethoven are nicknamed “Razumovsky” after the Russian Count, who commissioned three quartets from Beethoven. Beethoven began working on the first of the three compositions on the ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday night at Saint Andrews Episcopal Church, The Sherman Ensemble outdid themselves in a remarkable, historic performance. The program theme, American Genius, was the honoring of immigrant composers who contributed great classical compositions to the ...

The 2 pm pre-concert talk by Fred Baumgarten was on the American composer Anthony Philip Heinrich (March 11, 1781 – May 3, 1861), the first "full-time" America composer who is remembered for his operatic style song recitations. He was inspired ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday, under a bright blue sky and towering cumulous clouds slowly scudding above, The Lysander Trio performed an unusual musical program. They opened with Andante Con Moto (1878) by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Grieg completed his ...

Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Windborne, a group with several noted CDs, entertained those with a sense of the current political situation. They are four casual masters of polyphony: Jeremy Carter-Gordon (baritone); Lynn Mahoney Rowan ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, a program of Family, Friends, and Students headlined the SummerScape Mozart Festival. The first half of the concert focused on the program title, while the second half focused ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Franz Joseph Haydn essentially created the quartet in the 1760s and nurtured it to maturity with Mozart. The commission for Beethoven to compose his first quartets arrived in the autumn of 1798 from Prince Lobkowitz, who ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Music enthusiasts have been waiting for SummerScape  to address Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a long time. The 36th SummerScape Festival has finally embraced him! The two-week festival opened with the theme The Many Faces of Mozart ...

by Kevin T McEneaney Erinys (meaning Furies) Quartet derives its name from the Oresteia by Aeschylus. They were founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have toured Europe and the United States. Now they are the ...