by Kevin T McEneaney In connection wih the new Harlem Renaissance exhibit the New York City Metropolitan Museum featured in their auditorium a performance of the first Symphony (nicknamed the…
by Kevin T McEneaney Daffodils, the common peoples’ tulip, were in full bloom on the lawn outside of Sosnoff Theater at Bard College this past Sunday afternoon with the sun…
by Kevin T McEneaney The first time I heard the Shanghai Quartet, I was driving on Route 44 going west into Millbrook while listening to Robin Hood Radio playing cuts…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last weekend at St. James Place, Great Barrington, MA, and at Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT, Christine Gevert’s Crescendo choir, and small orchestra of seven instruments, presented…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday night at the Trinity Pawling secondary school in Pawling cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown performed in Gardner Theater with an electric…
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream” by Antonia Shoumatoff Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the High Priestess of the nineteen-twenties, practicing free love and breaking…
by Stephen Kaye Jan Lisiecki, a Canadian pianist with a Polish background, has had a robust European career that preceded his U.S. tour which culminated in a debut recital at…
by Kevin T McEneaney Saint Patrick’s Day was placed on the RC universal church calendar as a feast day in the early 1600’s. If Saint Patrick’s Day falls during Holy…
by Kevin T McEneaney You may have seen Hamlet by William Shakespeare; you may have studied it in school. You are aware that Hamlet is considered one of the greatest…
by Kevin T McEneaney Jacques Offenbach’s musical score with libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy, Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, revised 1874) was the smash-hit of Offenbach’s musical career.…