Outside Looking In

Book cover: The Subway, painting by José Clemente Orozco (1928) This is the first installment of reviews of lesser-known books which mainstream publications are likely to overlook. The Bulgarian Psychiatrist…

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Tchaikovsky at The Stissing Center

From left: Abigel Kralik, Julia Hamos, Sterling Elliott by Kevin T McEneaney The excitement at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains consisted of three young classical musicians performing something they…

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Crescendo: Latino Baroque at Trinity Church

From left: Job Salazar Fonesca, Christine Gevert, Carlos Boltes by Kevin T McEneaney This past Friday evening Christine Gevert performed a program on the interplay of South American indigenous folk…

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Brahms: A German Requiem at Bard

From left: Alexis Seminario, Dr. Leon Botstein, Jonathan Lawlor by Kevin T McEneaney As appetizer for the great Requiem, Anna Polonsky performed Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which was written in…

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The Humor of Henry V at the Center

by Kevin T McEneaney None but William Shakespeare could take a script about patriotism and war and transform it into a wonderful comedy, as he does so marvelously in Henry…

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The Village Cidiot at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Cidiot is the term local farmers employ to describe urban transplants to agricultural landscape. Idiot is a classical Greek word invented in Athens to describe a…

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Duke Ellington Tribute at Carnegie Hall

Dr. Leon Botstein and American Symphony Orchestra by Kevin T McEneaney Two years ago, Conductor Leon Botstein with the American Symphony Orchestra had set a March date for a Duke…

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The Extremists: They are in New Milford!

Reviewed by Kevin T McEneaney Are the books that you read subversively extreme? What about TV talk shows? News anchors? Do they get your attention by being extreme? Of course,…

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Metaphor, part 2

Being frames from the Sunday Comics without images by James Sherry The Noodle with a Knife in It And the neck flies Quick, get the magic marker What’s the surprise?…

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Ironic Last Gasp at The Stissing Center

Catherine Howard, Anne Undeland, Zelda Kosofsky, Dean Temple, Paula McGonagle, Tristan Latino, Jim Petrie, Martine King (stage Director) by Kevin T McEneaney As part of the Local Produce series of…

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