Daniel Hope & Zurich Chamber Orchestra Soars at Hotchkiss

From left: Concertmaster Willi Zimmermann and Director Daniel Hope by Kevin T McEneaney Music Director Fabio Witkowski of Hotchkiss School somehow managed to book Daniel Hope, one of the greatest…

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The Sherman Ensemble Conjures Eternal Spring

Evan Shinners, Doori Na, Sarah Adams, Susan Rotholz, Eliot Bailen, Michael Roth by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday afternoon at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Kent, The Sherman Ensemble performed…

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The Play’s the Thing to make you laugh in Rhinebeck!

Final Bow P.G. Woodhouse’s 1926 adaptation of Ferenc Molnár’s 1924 comedy The Play at the Castle (an absurdist play possiblyly influenced by the uncompleted 1922 masterpiece novel The Castle by…

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Banks & Wang: Dynamic Young Duo at The Stissing Center

S by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at The Stissing Center’s Young Artists Showcase series saxophonist Steven Bank and accordionist Hanzhi Wang performed an idiosyncratic selection of Classical works. They…

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Vaughan Williams & Musical Redemption at Bard

by Kevin T McEneaney Robert Schumann was enthusiastic about the invention of the French horn; love of this new valve sound which was able to play every note of the…

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Iolanthe: Gilbert & Sullivan Visit Bard

Final bow Who says they died decades ago? Both of them were at the Bard Sosnoff Theater bar last night drinking a nightcap. They live on despite rumors of their…

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Aphrodite attacked by Euripides at Bard College!

Sophia Barbatsuly as Aphrodite by Kevin T McEneaney As a student, I had studied classical Greek, but gave it up due to my fifty-hour work schedule, yet I did acquire…

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Freud and Lewis debate at Theatreworks

Freud’s Last Session at Theatreworks in New Milford offers superb acting in a two-person heavyweight drama: an elderly Sigmund Freud, played with biting wit by Francis A. Daley, duels verbally…

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