by Kevin T McEneaney In a program titled Cello Americana! young cellist Sterling Elliot and pianist Sophia Zhou performed works by four noted American composers. They opened with Four Sketches,…
by Kevin T McEneaney A new Giulio Cesare production by George Frideric Handel (1724) at Hudson Hall by R.B. Schlather with the early music ensemble Ruckus, sung in Italian with…
Diptych Before Dying by Thomas McGonigle. Tough Poets Press, 114 pages. Review by Kevin T. McEneaney. Diptych offers a family travelogue novella, one about an adventure in Newfoundland with the…
Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet were William Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime. For perhaps misogynist ambiance, The Taming of the Shrew was his most often performed play in…
Last Sunday, the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, in the Clarion Concert series, delivered a memorable performance at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains. They opened with String Quartet in…
by Kevin T McEneaney Violinist Leonard Fu and pianist Baron Fenwick provided the second concert at Grace Church in the newly formed Millbrook Music Salon series. Introduced by Artistic Director…
by Kevin T McEneaney Emilia Bassano Lanier was the first English woman to publish a book of poems in England. The poems were devoutly religious and genteel, politely criticizing male…
by Kevin T McEneaney The performance of TAKE3 in the Gardiner Theater on Friday night in the Pawling Concert Series at Trinity-Pawling High School was, by turns, ecstatic and electric.…
y Kevin T McEneaney Saint Patrick’s Day was placed on the RC universal church calendar as a feast day in the early 1600s. If Saint Patrick’s Day falls during Holy…
by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened its March 15th concert with Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56A (1873).…