Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective in Hudson
This past Sunday at the Hudson Opera House, in the Clarion Concert Series, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective from England performed a program focused on Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and two English twentieth-century female composers. They opened with Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro ...
Pete Anderson Trio at Smithfield Church
by Kevin T McEneaney On a golden autumn afternoon surrounded by blue sky and leaves boasting red, orange, yellow, and brown, the Pete Anderson Trio performed a program of favorite Gershwin tunes. The Trio consisted of Pete Anderson on tenor ...
China Now: Chasing Dreams at Bard Sosnoff
by Kevin T McEneaney The China Now Music Festival, led by conductor Jindong Cai, is an annual production presented by the US-China Music Institute at Bard College Conservatory in collaboration with the Central Conservatory of Music, China (now in its ...
The Limeliters at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Have you ever been to The Grace Note? That’s the basement East Village-like nightclub/cabaret setting for intimate music that hosted the current incarnation of the long-lived folk song trio. While this performance was partly nostalgic, it ...
Pacifica Quartet Thrills in Hudson
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday under the umbrella of Clarion Concerts and cloudy skies, Grammy Award winners, Pacifica Quartet, performed at Christ Episcopal Church, an historic Gothic revival church, in Hudson. They are currently in residence at the Jacobs ...
Kent Tritle Mesmerizes at Smithfield Church
by Kevin T McEneaney This was the fourteenth appearance of Kent Tritle in the intimate setting of the historic Smithfield Church. In addition to his renown on the tracker organ and his position as organist for the New York Philharmonic, ...
Gernsheim Revival at Bard Sosnoff
Friday night at Sosnoff Theater time went backward. One can, of course, instruct and highlight by going backward or forward. The evening opened with a rarely performed gem by Friedrich Gersnheim (July 17, 1839 – September 11, 1916), Zueinem Drama, ...
Kent Tritle to play at Smithfield Church
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 ...
Penderecki Quartet Excites at Music Mountain
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 ...
The Sherman Ensemble Delivers Stunning Performance
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 ...