From left: Jerzy Kaplanek, Jeremy Bell, Katie Schlaikjer, Victoria Schwartzman, Christine Vlajk by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday was the inauguration of Music Mountain’s signature summer series: Joseph Haydn’s Sun…
Curtain Bow by Kevin T McEneaney Really Rosie is a children’s musical with book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak, and music by Carol King, now playing in Rhinebeck at The…
From left: Laura Jeppesen, Peter Sykes, Andrea Leblanc, Daniel Stepner by Kevin T McEneaney While, during his lifetime, J. S. Bach was not as famous as Vivaldi, Lully, or Handel,…
From left: John McGrosso, Julia Sakharova, Ruth Gordon, Kurt Baldwin, Joanna Mendoza by Kevin T McEneaney Arianna String Quartet brought a smoothly textured program of intense energy to Gordon Hall…
From left: Daniel Stepner, Marcus Thompson, David Hyun-su Kim, Jacques Lee Wood by Kevin T McEneaney Attendees of the Chamber Music of Robert and Clara Schumann were treated to about…
by Kevin T McEneaney After a two-year pandemic suspension of Vassar College’s BACHFEST, its Artistic Music Director, Christine Howlett, raised her baton to conduct the Vassar Chorus & Orchestra presented…
The assembly As a contemporary Presbyterian, I find the Roman Catholic service to be so laden with mythological dogma that has it has no relevance to the present. In the…
From left: Daniel Stepner, tenor Frank Kelley, soprano Kristen Watson by Kevin T McEneaney This unusual Aston Magna concert featured a double bill: Naples-born Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Humanity and Lucifer” (1704)…
Daniel Stepner Preview by Kevin T McEneaney I spoke to virtuoso violinist Daniel Stepner, Artistic Director of Aston Magna for the past thirty years, about his upcoming series of concerts:…
by Jim Flaherty There are no perfect Fathers. Okay, okay, I apologize. That broad generalization is a personal reflection. And this essay is focused on earthbound 20th century fathers, not Heavenly…